AA News November 1987

The November issue again headlined the call for sanctions against South Africa, with statements from liberation movement leaders in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique. It reported on the tour of Britain by SWAPO President Sam Nujoma and on UN legal action to stop the enrichment of illegally mined Namibian uranium in the Netherlands. Gavin Cawthra described the build-up of South Africa’s armed forces. A feature on the joint AAM/National Union of Mineworkers conference held in Sheffield exposed the growth in British imports of South African coal during the 1984–85 miners strike.