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The November issue carried a message from the six UDF leaders seeking refuge inside Britain’s consulate in Durban. It examined the City of London’s collusion with apartheid and reported on the campaign by End Loans to Southern Africa (ELTSA) to stop British bank loans to South Africa. The centrespread highlighted the new wave of protests by South African school students. A special correspondent described the mushrooming growth of the South African National Union of Mineworkers. This issue also reported on the campaign by the university teachers union AUT to end British funding for South Africa’s Astronomical Observatory.