AA News August 1970

One of the first acts of the Conservative government after its victory in Britain’s June 1970 general election was to lift the South African arms embargo. AA News featured the arrest of protesters at South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller’s visit to the British Foreign Office and carried a map showing the location of British arms suppliers. It reported on the trial of ANC supporters, including Winnie Mandela, under South Africa’s Terrorism Act, and on the apartheid government’s refusal to issue an exit permit to PAC leader Robert Sobukwe. It featured the conference in Rome organised by the liberation movements in Portugal’s African colonies, exposing NATO support for the fascist Portuguese government.