AA News September 1971

The September issue contested the argument that ‘constructive engagement’ could lead to peaceful change in South Africa. It reported on the show trial of Gonville Ffrench-Beytagh, Dean of Johannesburg, and carried a special feature exposing the built-in racial discrimination in South Africa’s legal system. A feature article argued that white rule in Rhodesia was as discriminatory as apartheid in South Africa. Special correspondent Antonio de Figueredo examined the economic impact of Portugal’s colonial wars. The issue’s back page reproduced the ANC leaflet distributed in major cities all over South Africa.