AA News September 1977

South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha was met with protests from AAM campaigners and representatives of the Southern African liberation movements on his visit to London in August. AA News reported on Terrorism Act trials in Pietermaritzburg and Pretoria. It revealed that the Smith regime in Zimbabwe had hanged 125 political prisoners since April 1975. A centrespread focused on the South African union movement  and AA News outlined plans for a new AAM campaign among British  trade unionists. Mac Maharaj and Indres Naidoo described their lives as political prisoners on Robben Island.