po139. The South African Bomb

In April 1981 the South African’s Energy Minister F W de Klerk announced that the country could manufacture uranium fuel elements. A UN report concluded that South Africa was now a nuclear power. This meeting, organised by Hackney AA Group and Hackney Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, featured the 1980 World in Action film ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’, which exposed Britain’s illegal imports of uranium from Namibia.