AA News June 1970

An editorial welcomed the cancellation of the all-white Springbok cricket tour but argued that the crux of British backing for apartheid was Britain’s huge investment and trade with South Africa. AA News exposed how British aircraft manufacturer Hawker Siddeley was evading the South African arms embargo. A centrespread set out the basic facts of apartheid. Peter Sinclair reported on the closing of the last mixed race jazz venues in South Africa and how musicians like Dudu Pukwana had been forced into exile. A back page feature called for a stepping up of the campaign against British economic links with South Africa.