AA News March 1980

The AAM accused the British government of allowing white Rhodesian police to intimidate voters in Zimbabwe. This issue also featured protests against the British Lions rugby team’s plans to tour South Africa. It showed how the Thatcher government was using the settlement in Zimbabwe as an excuse for strengthening its ties with the apartheid government and warned against the threat posed by South Africa’s armed forces to the front-line states.  It reported on a conference on Southern African political prisoners  and carried an appeal by SWAPO women’s leader Lucia Hamutenya for action to secure the release of gaoled activists in Namibia.