AA News October 1988

This issue led on South Africa’s failure to implement its commitment to withdraw its armed forces from Angola. It exposed secret talks that would safeguard South Africa’s nuclear capacity. It announced plans for the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid ‘89’ campaign and reported on the award of the TUC’s Congress gold badge to Nelson Mandela. In a special report from the Cape, AA News revealed how the apartheid authorities were evicting residents from informal settlements and pulling down their homes. AA News again called for action to save the lives of 60 political prisoners awaiting execution on death row.