AA News June 1973

This issue reported on the hanging of Zimbabwean freedom fighters by the Smith regime. It reviewed the talks between South Africa and the UN on Namibia and the campaign against Portuguese dictator Marcello Caetano’s visit to Britain. IDAF President Canon John Collins recalled the campaign to save the lives of the Rivonia trialists in 1964. A feature on UK companies' evidence to a parliamentary enquiry showed their South African subsidiaries were paying wages below the poverty  line. Jean Middleton revealed the conditions endured by women political prisoners in Barberton Gaol.