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AA News reported that more Zimbabwean freedom fighters had been sentenced to hang by the white minority regime. It exposed British Government approval for a big new investment by the government-owned British Steel Corporation in South Africa. It reported on the recruitment of foreign mercenaries for the white Rhodesian army and on French arms exports to South Africa used in the war in Namibia. Ethel de Keyser reviewed the Labour Government’s failure to implement its 1973 Programme on Southern Africa. Basil Davidson explained the background to the civil war in Angola.