AA News November 1979

The November issue led on South African attacks against Zambia and Mozambique. It recorded the standing ovation for ANC President Oliver Tambo at the Labour Party Conference in September. It again alleged that Western governments were backtracking on the UN peace plan for Namibia. It exposed South African ‘reforms’ on trade unions, the pass laws, housing and education as ‘a new mask’ for apartheid. ZAPU women’s leader Jane Ngwenya told of the intimidation of women in Zimbabwe. South African lawyer Shun Chetty described South Africa’s rigged legal system.