AA News April 1988

The banning of the UDF and other anti-apartheid organisations within South Africa made a nonsense of the British Government’s policy of encouraging the reform of apartheid, argued AA News. The newspaper announced plans for the ‘Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70’ campaign, to be launched at a concert at Wembley Stadium on 11 June. It featured the growing resistance to apartheid from students in Namibia and again accused Western governments of supporting South Africa’s illegal occupation. It exposed the apartheid government’s increasing use of the death penalty, revealing that 50 political prisoners were now facing execution.