AA News July–August 1990

Nelson Mandela’s appeal to the European Parliament not to lift European Community sanctions was this issue’s front page story. AA News highlighted Mandela’s call for a democratically elected assembly to draw up a new constitution for South Africa. The AAM announced a September month of action against tourism in South Africa. A centre spread featured the 1990 Glasgow Sechaba Festival of Cultural Resistance to Apartheid, to be held in September, and the Zabalaza festival planned in London’s ICA. AA News warned about far-right white groups in South Africa and of SADF complicity in Inkatha violence in Natal.