AA News February 1972

The February issue led on the campaign to stop the British government granting independence to Zimbabwe without any guarantee of majority rule. It advertised a demonstration in London organised by the Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee. It reported on a strike by Ovambo workers in Namibia and carried an interview by SWAPO Secretary Moses Garoeb. The centrespread celebrated the 60th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. A feature on the US campaign to persuade Polaroid to discontinue sales of ID equipment to the apartheid government exposed the poverty wages paid by its South African distributor.