AA News March 1970

The AAM marked the tenth anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a re-enactment in Trafalgar Square and a programme of music and drama at the Lyceum Theatre. This issue publicised anniversary events in London and other centres. It reported on the Terrorism Act trial of Winnie Mandela and 21 others in Pretoria and on the campaign to force Barclays Bank to withdraw from South Africa. A centrespread exposed Prime Minister’s Vorster drive to suborn independent African states. Under the slogan ‘It’s not cricket’ the newspaper launched the AAM’s campaign for the cancellation of the all-white Springbok cricket tour scheduled for the summer of 1970.