AA News June 1988

‘I will return’, declared Nelson Mandela in a message read by his daughter Zinzi at a rally in Soweto, reported AA News. The newspaper exposed military collaboration with South Africa by the governments of Israel, Chile and Taiwan in contravention of the UN mandatory arms embargo. In an interview, AAM President Trevor Huddleston explained the importance of the movement’s ‘Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70’ campaign. AA News featured the Commission of Inquiry set up inside South Africa into the detention and torture of children by the security forces and the explosion in the number of anti-apartheid activists detained without trial.