AA News November 1982

Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the latest British city to declare itself an apartheid-free zone, reported this issue of AA News. The newspaper initiated a discussion of the cultural boycott of South Africa and attitudes to visits by South African cultural groups opposed to apartheid. It reported on the trial of two men charged with breaking in to London offices of the ANC and SWAPO. In an interview, SWAPO Women’s leader Frieda Williams described the movement’s initiatives to support refugee women and children. The newspaper also carried extracts from an interview recorded in South Africa with Winnie Mandela.