AA News June 1976

AA News headlined the campaign to save the lives of SWAPO leaders Aaron Mushimba and Hendrik Shikongo, sentenced to death under the Terrorism Act. It reported that a new trial was due to open in Pietermaritzburg of alleged ANC members. It recorded the successes of Zimbabwean freedom fighters, now fighting on three fronts, and called for the prosecution of British newspapers carrying advertisements for mercenaries to join the Rhodesian army. It published a report of the AAM’s first women’s conference. A special supplement revealed how Western countries were violating the UN arms embargo.