AA News November 1971

Under the headline ‘The Final Solution’, Joe Slovo exposed the contradictions in the apartheid government’s Bantustan policy. The November issue reported on advances by FRELIMO guerrillas in Mozambique and condemned the UN Security Council’s failure to condemn South Africa for its incursion into Zambia. Judy Todd accused the British Government of selling out to the Smith regime in its new proposals for a settlement on Zimbabwe and Kees Maxey exposed the brutality of white Rhodesia’s prison regime. A feature article showed how Portugal’s conscript army was crumbling because young men were leaving the country rather than serve in its colonial wars.