AA News June 1979

AA News warned of Conservative Government plans to agree a ‘sell-out’ deal with the Smith regime in Zimbabwe. It examined the Wiehahn Commission’s proposals for the reform of apartheid labour law. It announced the formation of a new AAM Teachers Network and plans for the annual NUS-AAM student conference. British observers of Rhodesia’s ‘internal elections’ described them as a ‘gigantic confidence trick’. AA News accused South Africa of ‘torpedoeing’ the UN peace plan for Namibia. It reported on a British Council of Churches report calling for economic disengagement from South Africa.