AA News February 1990

AA News warned that the unbanning of the ANC and PAC, and imminent release of Nelson Mandela, did not guarantee the end of apartheid. The AAM launched its South Africa: Freedom Now! campaign, calling for the maintenance of international pressure for the establishment of a united, non-racial democracy. COSATU General Secretary Jay Naidoo told of increasing repression of South African trade unionists. AA News reported on the constitution drafted by Namibia’s newly elected Constituent Assembly and on prospects for peace in Mozambique. A special report highlighted apartheid’s environmental impact.