African Activist Archive

The newsletter reports on the International Court of Justice advice to the United Nations in June that South Africa held Namibia illegally. Namibian church, student, and political protest against South African rule increased, culminating with a general strike of Ovambo workers. A nationwide African protest was organized in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) to reject a settlement between Britain and the illegal minority regime. Massive aid from the U.S. through the Azores Pact strengthens Portugal's military. The secure hold of PAIGC (the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde Islands) in the countryside in Guinea-Bissau was illustrated in April 1972, when a United Nations delegation spent seven days in liberated territory. FRELIMO is pressing into new territory in Tete province where the Cabora Bassa dam is under construction, despite Portuguese claims that several offensives have destroyed FRELIMO. MPLA, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, continues to be the largest and most effective of the Angolan liberation movements. Last June GRAE lost its governmental status with the O.A.U. but the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), on which it is based, retains of its status as a recognized liberation movement. The National Union for Total Independence of Angola, UNITA, has never been recognized. A wave of sabotage and arrests began in metropolitan Portugal last June. In South Africa's second- longest security trial. 13 members of the Unity Movement of South Africa and its affiliate APDUSA received five-to-eight-year sentences. African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress continue propaganda and training of cadres abroad and organizing and local actions of the underground inside South Africa. • Namibia • Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) • Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands • Mozambique • Angola • Fourth Front • South Africa • The United States and the Liberation Struggle • The American Committee on Africa

African Activist Archive

STATUS OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN AFRICA A Midyear Report from the American Committee on Africa

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