AA News December 1988–January 1989

AA News headlined SWAPO’s call for mass resistance inside Namibia to force South Africa to honour its commitments in independence talks. Abdul Minty accused Israel, Chile and Taiwan of breaking the UN arms embargo. AA News showed how South African companies were planning to increase coal exports to Britain. The ANC’s representative in Britain, Mendi Msimang, warned against attempts to separate Nelson Mandela from the liberation struggle. AA News highlighted the role of South African church leaders in resistance to apartheid and analysed the devastating effect that disinvestment by British and US companies was having on the South African economy.