AA News May 1979

The May issue mourned Solomon Mahlangu, a young ANC activist hanged by the apartheid government on 6 April 1979. It announced the formation of the World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa, launched in March. It exposed the Muldergate scandal and how the South African Government had spent millions of Rand on secret overseas projects. A centrespread looked at South Africa’s segregated education system. Margaret Ling reported on her visit to Zambia, where she had seen at first hand the result of South African napalm attacks against a Zimbabwean refugee camp.