AA News May 1976

The May issue revealed plans for South African-Israeli nuclear collaboration after Prime Minister Vorster’s visit to Israel. It recorded the decision of the British entertainment unions ACTT and Equity to impose a more stringent boycott of South Africa. It reported on the funeral in Durban of Joseph Mdluli, murdered by the South African security police after his detention under the Terrorism Act. Abdul Minty exposed the loopholes in the British arms embargo against South Africa. A report by Swedish journalists showed how black South Africans with severe mental health problems were being used as slave labour.