AA News December 1972–January 1973

This issue highlighted the strike by thousands of Durban dockworkers and the poverty wages paid to black workers in South Africa. An article by John Sprack analysed ‘Apartheid – Rhodesian Style’ and Ruth First reported on the talks held by UN special envoy Dr Albert Escher with Prime Minister Vorster on Namibia. Pam Logie told of her conversations with women in the liberated areas of Mozambique when she visited Tete province. AA News special correspondent Antonio de Figueiredo reported on Portugese war crimes in its African colonies exposed by Portuguese priest Father Luiz Afonso da Costa.