AA News December 1983

Black workers in the Ciskei Bantustan were being subjected to arbitrary detentions and arrests, reported this issue. The newspaper highlighted the eviction of residents from Cape Town’s Crossroads informal settlement and township resistance to so-called community councils. It accused the British Government of using South Africa as a staging post for the building of a new airforce base in the Falklands. The AAM’s annual general meeting heard a first-hand report of the setting up of the United Democratic Front in South Africa. A Newcastle upon Tyne local councillor told AA News how the council was implementing its commitment to make the city an apartheid free zone.