AA News May 1978

This issue again highlighted the Zimbabwe’s Patriotic Front’s rejection of the ‘internal settlement’ promoted by the Smith regime. It publicised the AAM’s new Teacher Network and Medical Committee. It recorded the life sentences passed on six defendants in the trial of the Pretoria 12 and reported on the secret trial of 18 alleged PAC members. It reproduced a statement by British Foreign Secretary David Owen saying that the UK should scale down its investment in South Africa on economic grounds. A feature on the South African economy argued that it was facing further recession.