AA News April 1976

AA News headlined the collapse of negotiations between the Smith regime and Zimbabwe’s African National Council. It reported on the explosion of ANC leaflet bombs in Johannesburg and on a mass meeting there calling for majority rule. It exposed a smear campaign against Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe by the South African security services. It carried an eyewitness account of a massacre by the white Rhodesian army. ANC Secretary General Alfred Nzo analysed the new situation in Southern Africa following the liberation of Portugal’s African colonies. Hilda Bernstein looked forward to the AAM’s first women’s conference.