On 22 March 1961, the Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah called on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa.
Nkrumah stated; “Now that South Africa has decided to continue her apartheid system and has elected to withdraw from the Commonwealth, it is incumbent on all members of the Commonwealth and the duty of all nations in the world to bring pressure to bear on South Africa to abandon apartheid, by imposing total economic and political sanctions on her.”
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Trevor Lock, hero of Iranian embassy siege, dies aged 85
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PC Lock was awarded for his bravery after it emerged he had tackled a
gunman and saved the life of an SAS soldier.
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