AA News April 1987

The April issue denounced South Africa’s plans to install a puppet government in Namibia and reported on a visit to London by a delegation from the recently formed Mineworkers Union of Namibia. Mike Terry reported on the British Government’s veto of a sanctions resolution at the UN Security Council and on the endorsement by British MPs of the AAM’s Sanctions Manifesto. Imports of South African textiles had fallen as a result of the AAM’s people’s sanctions campaign. On a visit to Britain in March, Archbishop Desmond Tutu warned that the alternative to sanctions was low level civil war.