AA News May 1975

The May issue led on a report of an OAU summit which asked member states to step up support for the Southern African liberation movements. It carried extracts from ANC President Oliver Tambo’s speech to the meeting. It featured the trial in Pretoria of 13 black consciousness activists under the Terrorism Act. David Davis reported on the doubling of South Africa’s defence budget and Paul Fauvet reviewed the latest developments in Angola. SWAPO women’s leader Magdalena Shamena told how SWAPO was working to change the lives of women in Namibia.