Searching for Influence: The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee and the National Liberation Movements in Southern Africa, 1967-1975 Advisors: Victoria De Grazia (Columbia), Odd Arne Westad (LSE) Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC; behind him is Stanley Mabizela (left) and Thabo Mbeki (right), at a meeting of Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO) in the late 1970s. Source: African National Congress (ANC).