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March 1995

AA Around the World

How It All Began: AA in South Africa"--From the October 1993 Regmaker, the bimonthly magazine of AA in South Africa

In 1946, two men in Johannesburg were on a tear. Each one, independently of the other, happened to get hold of a copy of the Reader's Digest in which there was an article on Alcoholics Anonymous and each wrote to the Alcoholic Foundation in New York for further information. The two men were Arthur S. and Solomon M.

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