AA News July–August 1987

AA News listed all those under sentence of death in South Africa for their opposition to apartheid and called for their release, as well as that of Nelson Mandela. It reported on ANC President Oliver Tambo’s Canon Collins Memorial Lecture in London, in which he said anti-apartheid boycotts must take account of the emerging people’s culture in South Africa. In an analysis of the British general election result, it reported that 130 newly elected MPs had signed the AAM’s Manifesto for Sanctions. The ten days of anti-apartheid action by British local authorities in June had included events focused on the Southern African frontline states.