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ANTI -APARTHEID NEWS' The newspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Support M ajority~10 - - .- , In this issue: rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia'swite rule ~n Z~mbaikeminority- up S THE Sth~l regime has once more refused to accept majority ruleandi negotiations Afican ioal Council delegainld yJsu Nkomo I vso~taotaprofound crssfr thwitbe myiawity., aeffeeie respose is requiredinl <ein and inn~aiontally from Foallosuort of malornt rule Already sympthisers with the white I mipritY hvspare no efforts in hatt toevokeracial nsentlref to seure British intervefiton on the side of theSmith I,111D S latecrsis for the white mino. rity in Rhodesia is more profound than anything it has previously experienced. On all fronts it faces isolation and a new determination by the Zimbabwean people to assume power and start the difficulit tatk of building a non-racial and democratic Zimbabwe. The closure of the border with Morambique must inevitably inten sify the economic problems which have ben particularly sharp since the border closure with Zambia in January 1973. Now, with the failure of the negotiations between Ian Smith and an African National Council delegation led by Joshua Nkomso. the liberation struggle will also intensify. The people of Africa are united behindIhe liberation movement and recent reports reaching London indicate that a new basis for unity is developing within the guerrilla camp. Recent statements by prominent Western spokesmen including Kissinger and Callaghan also indicate that Smith has little chanceo ningopen aid *vr, there are powerful interests Britain and in other Western countries who are attempt, sstoevoke racial wntiments in their attempts to secure f reegn int rvention on the side of the hite minority. The Anti-Apartheid Movement believes that every effort must be made by its members and supporters of majority rule for Zimbabwe to prevent such developments. We believe thattlhere must e: NO MILITARY INTERVENTIONThe security forces of the white minosrity alone are inapable of holding back the libeiatisn. frm; as isrevealed i.nthis issue ofANTI-APARTHFID NEWS, regime. The Anti-Apartheid Movement has launched a campaign to win even greater support for the Zimbabwe people and to counter the 'kith and kin' argument A special leaflet - 'Crisis in Rhodesia'. which provides factual' information en vvell as dealing with the issues at stake, has been produced for mass circulation. All local Anti-Apartheid groups have been urged to organise mass distributions on April 3. The leaflet is also being circulated by the National Peace Council,. Liberation, the World Development Movement, ThirdWeid Firt, the Womens Internaional League for Peace & Freedom, and the Hljemare Gtoup. they are relying mo e and more on recruits from Britain, the US and Australia, as well as covert support from the South Africanregime. The Labour Government must stop mercenaries going now EFFECTIVE SANCTIONSWith the closure ofthe Mozegbique/RhGdeeia border, the British Government has two particular responsibilities. It must provide all pneessary aid bilaterally and thrpoughthe Commonwealth and Jnited Nations to assist Momrnbique Above all, it must now take ffective international action to for"e South Africa which alone stads between the Smith regime and total economic isolation and collapse - to impose mandatory sanctions. It must request the United Nations to consider action including, if necessary, economic sanctions to end South African collaboration with the Smith regime. SUPPORT FOR THE STRUGGLE OF THE ZIMBABWE PEOPLEThe Zimbabwe people have clled for international assistance in their liberation struggle. The British people have a particular respomibility in providing every possible support and aid The situation in Southern Africa is now developing rapidly. The defeat of South Africa's aggression ,n Angola has crested a ne- atorl amongst tne olack majority. The crisis for white power requires an even greater intensification of campaigna to isolate the white B ilorit'y regimes asapositive solidarity wit , all tho i struggling for ftebilom ii Southern Africa. " . Student aetivists have received the leaflet through the NUS/AAM network and through the 'Broad Left students. Youth groups distributing the leaflet inclqde the, Young Liberals. The Movement is preparing special mailings for all Labour and Liberal Party constituencles and to Communist Party district committees. The Federation of Conservative Studentts and the Tory Reform Group are considerng circulations. In addition, theMovement is contacting all Community Relations Committees and the national offices of the Church denominations at stake to the attention of the public. ACT NOW! " Lobby your MP and ask for hIs commitment to majority rule now. 0 Counter the 'kith and kin' argament by letters to the prem, phone-inprogrmmes " Demand British Governsent action now to stop illegal axecetions by the Smith regime. * Raise the Rhodesian issue in any orlesisetion you ae active in - your political party, trade union, student organisation, UN Association, church - and ask them to act. Behind this anonymous office facade are the headquarters of BOSS -South Africa's notorious secret service 'Expel BOSS'- AAM THE Anti-Apartheid Movement has United Kingdom demanded immediate action by the "* the immediate deportation of Labour Government to curtail the all known BOSS agents activities of BOSS and other South o the termination of all liaison African intelligence agents otierating betweenBritishandSouthinBritain. Africanintelligence. In a letter to the Prime Minister, The Movement states that recent the Movement has asked that urgent revelations of alleged BOSS actvconsideration be given to three ties have highli hfed the need for proposals. effectiveGovernment action. * the establishment of an so. ...alshetoa HowBOSSoperatesinBritain, enquiry into South African intelligence activity within the page 5 Remember Sharpeville! - The Anti-Apartheid Movement demanded th relase of all political prisoners and detainees in South Africa and Namibia, in a cable to Prime Minister IVorster sevit to mark the M~h anniversary sfthe -Sharpeville miassacre on Malrch 21. , U,555tall a. niasux THE SMITH regime has once again wrecked talks about the acldlevemest of majority rutle in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). In an exclusive interview with AA NEWS, TOM McCARTHY, who fought fto eigh months with the whe security force, exposes South Africa's continuing military presence and reveals the atrocities being committed by Smith's army. Pages 6 and 7. ANC underground -strikes in Jo'burg SOUTH Africa's underground freedom fighters struck again on March 18 with the explotlon of a leaflet 'bomb' in Johannesbrg. AA NEWS has received an eyewitness report of the incident and of the 2 000-strong demonstratio outside the trial of 8 people under the Terrorism Act which took place just before it. Report and text of leaflet, page 3. How BOSS spies operate in UK RECENTevents have thrown a spot light onto the activities of BOSS South Africa's secret security service - in Britain. AA NEWS shows how BOS spies are at work in Britain, page 5. Vorster on the run ANC leader IS the collapsecof Portuguese colonialism the beginning of the end of white supremacy in the rest of Southern Africa? ALFRED NZO. Secretary General of the African Nationtal Congress of South Africa, talks toAA NEWS page 8. Women under apartheid- AAM conference THE Anti Apartheid Movement is holding a conference on 'Women Under Apartheid'on April24. HI LDA BERNSTEIN wrltes about the oppression of women in South Africa and the responsibilitis of the international women's movement, page 9. SA Ballet beats the boycott BALLET international isaI heavilv financed attempt to bring world classartists back to South Africa. JOHN MATSHIKIZA shows how cutural spaithaid wsorks i practievpjq, 10, h !/;4 r Aump partheid News April 1976 Page 2 ACTION NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Lo a m ptonnn "meetingof the Friends of the Spring- oppressiye apartneid regime. National Party, a splinter from the that the University sel its shares in Sot ham pon okAssociationheldattheAlbany AAMLocalGroupsSecretary, National Front, after a public Midland Bank was to be discussed. Hotel, and handed out 'don't emi- CathyMason, held an evening meeting held on February28. The OVER 80 people took part in a grate' leaflets. A few days later, meeting with the group and dis meeting - onAngolaandNamibia C ity l v 'Southern Africa Day' organised by they held a public meeting on Angola cussed new campaigns and ways of - was addressed by Peter Katjavivi, Southampton Anti Apartheid Group and Namibia. The film 'Angola in increasing local interest and member- West European representative of THE CiTY of London Polytechnic on Saturday March 6. An excellent Straggle' was shown and speakers ship of the Anti- Apartheid Move- SWAPO, and Polly Gaster from the held a meeting on Southern Africa programme of speakerandfilms werePeterKatjaviviofSWAPOand ment. AngolaSolidarity Committee. in March at which the'speaker was was backed up by fine local pertici- Polly Gaster of the Angola Solidarity As a result the Group is now Earlier a National Party leaflet PalJoseph. twas organiaedby pation,andtherewasmuchlocal Committee, tryingtoincreasesales ofAA Newes accusing SWAPO "ewbers of being the Afr .. c.ety 'hich newspapercoverage. ContactJohnNelson,3Rosevale andhoiesto'adopt'aSouth 'sadists'who committed 'atrocities w At the morning session, chaired Crescent, Hamilton ML3 8NX, Tel African political prisoner, against innocent( women and child a rds donated £5 to the Anti by Ken Lanc, AUEW-TASS Dial- Hamilton26781. Contact:JayneFoter,23Elgar en' and describing Rhodesia and Apartheid. sional Qrganiser, the film 'Vukani- Path,Luton,Beds, SouthAfricaas'the two countries Southern Africa campaigns are Awoe' m sownandRonPres ~ ,,, whch r alsobeingplanned at University Awake' was sh-wn..ndRonPrss whichcanhaveaclaimto being of Bristol,formerorganiserofthe G ospoit Suttofnn civilised',wassentto a member of Colege, London, where students Textile Workers Union inSouth -aGOSPOR d u~"t- &1UtL+PJ5 Ediburgh UniersitySRC. bavedecidedtoboycotttheGape Africa,speke onthe work of Apartheid roup ed a'What Nex 'oVER 5Os pporters of Suton Anti- After the meeting, a car driven Frft stril b ng sold i vtheir , a SACTU - the South African Con- conference on March 6in Alverstoke Apartheid Group picketed a National by a National Party Vembertried Queen's Uniyrsity, Belfast, at grsso TreedesUnions andcalledaFront grss of Trade Unions - ar d cale d following its well-supported meeting Fron meetingduring the Carshalton to run over the chairmanas he left, Exeter University, at the University on the Britishlabour movement to- in Goysport Town Hall in January. by-election hustings, Earlier, Sutton and later the car in which the Collegeof Aberystwth, end at take pISitire actions in support of Over 30 people attended and there AA had attempted to secure a Coun- speakers travelled to Edinburgh had Heo black South African workers, was a lively discussion on future cil promise that public premises its bonnet ripped i~pen, its distribo- Harlot Watt University. Asecondsession,chairedbyLes campaigns, wouldnotbeallowedforusebythe torcap andplugstornoutandwas V n Howey,CommunistPartyward TheGrouphassentapetition racialistFront, plastered withraciststickers. Kent secretary, was devoted to Angola, spporting the actionoftheQovern Membersof the AA Group held a KENT University Students Union Agoa adtdrsbyFomittee) F auct went in pledging aid to Mozambique a-well-supported picket of-a meeting have 'adopted' South Africa's JAngolaSolidarityCommittee)and tocompensateitforlossesfromthe ofthepro- white South African longest-serving woman political the film 'Angola in Struggle' Zim- implementation of sanctions against BIRMINGHAM Anti-Apartheid Springbok Association in the prisoner, Dorothy Nyembe, and babwewas next on the agenda, this Rhodesia to the Foreign Secretary. Committee held a meeting on Grosvenor Centre Hotel on February are planning to campaign for her sessionbeing chairedbyJohn It has alsoagreedto pubiicise Angola at Kingsmead College, 23. On March 2, the Group release. The decision wasoverArnold, Chairman of Southampton 'Operation Namibia', a project which Birmingham, on February 11. held its annual general meeting in whelmingly carried at a meeting of abou tive,Jhn rofliedinplanstosaila40-foot vessel to About 100 people heard Father Edinburgh's International Centre: - over 700 students. AAM Executive, wholivedin Namibia witha car of benned Adrian Hastings trace the develop everyone interested is welcome. Dorothy Nyembe was sentenced Rhodesiafortmanycyearsfspokeed go about current events and the need books and a crew pledged to non- ment of the war there and demon- More information: Edinburgh to 15 years' imprisonment in 1968 afo soliarrt evts the eran violent action. The ship will he strate how the US and South Africa University AA Group, c/o lnterna- and has recently been reported to be ovem s li na y -Namhe ibeia, leaving from Portsmouth. had totallymiscalculated on the tional Centre, 44 Lauriston Place, in poor health. movements. Finally-Namibia, Contact: MargaretJeavons, Angolansituation. Edinbogh. with a showing of the film 'The 85 Harbour Tower, Trinity Green, Father Hastings showed how Schools Liberation Struggle of Namibia, Gooport, Hants P12 HE, MPLA wee the partymnat suited to i toer depicting the people's campaign -H2w e ot A NEW interact by school students againsttheillegal..uptionof S yformthenewAngolanGovernment. EXETER University Liberal Society and teachers in Southern Africa has theirlandbySouthAfrica. Surr V Hitaddresswasfollowedbyalively hasinitiated the forming of a broad- been sparked off by recent news thi adb ot fia wdiscussion.,adgopt apini oten aaw vnstee A srciAliterature stall did brisk TWO new Anti-Apartheidgroupsin bused goupto caiqnain Southern about events-here. AAM vs rehee businessand.acollectionraised Srreyareeachorganisingpublic AfricainExeter, It includes the ing a large number of requests for be a -up meeting activities to attract new supporters. university's Anti- Apartheid Society, more information from students ho aob pl30 Afolrow-Ap meeting a nd fil sow mInternational Socialists, Third World have opted to study Southern Africa wasFirst, Labour lb, as wells some as part of certificated eoArls or for discussfurtheraction, onAngolaandNamibia was held in NFist bo other i Cterested groups, general study. Southamptonmembershave GuildfordinMarch,andonApril6 othe group s th e r edt beenactiveonanotherfronttoo therwillbeeapublicmneetingat N E SThegroup's first~activitywasthe Foreducationalmaterialabout be acitigever nlanthers too th e mocal Ruskill Housembe a c m in distribution of 2 200 leaflets in Southern Africa, write to Yvonne pwritig several letters to the local Ruskin House, Cmbe Road junc- Exeter High Street urging shoppers Strachan, AAM Student Officer, prings et res nde tiprowthParkLa)CroydoathTo toboycottSouthAfrican goods and 89 Charlotte Street London WlP supporting the Smith regime and 8pm-. Speaker will be Tony E'avetiinntnhoinunun'tfraelDQ our 'so-calledkithandkin'. GilbertofLiberation,andhis C onference advertisinga showing of Lasr Grare 200, Anohe lttr hs ls benat DirmbzainthesCity Library. It T a e i n + Another letter has also been subject 'Connections-Apartheid THENUS-AAM Student Network has also orgeanised two lunch-time T published - calling on shareholders andRadialism', Conferencewilltakeplaceat showings of the film in-the univerto vote against Midland Bank loans Regular 4A Neas sales are taking Sheffield City College of Education, sity. These wre attended by oner RESPONSE to the recent local toSouthAfrica,sigedbylocalLaboupplaceinCroydon,Epsomand Julyg11. 2 groups questionnaire on links with church leaders, the local Labour Sutton, and -two Co-op community The programme includes sessions .It is rw planning to raise money trade unions was not particularly MP and Community Relations groups have recently had speakers on apartheid. Zimbabwe, Namibia, for the travel costs of two Southern high - but sufficient to show that Officer, onSouthAfrica,withemphasison SouthAfricanforeignpolicyand African students to enable them to Anti-Apartheid Movement contacts Contact: David Hoadley, theboycott. anti-apartheid work in the student take up scholarship places offered by with local trades councils are clearly 82 CharIton Road, Southampton Croydon AAM has cajled on the movement, as well as discussion the Guild of Students - so'far £50 a good basis for action. SO1SEW. HomeOfficetowithdrawthepass- groups on women under apartheid, has beenraised, Severalgroups-have members who C am den Edwardsw ykeshandJimmyenter tradeuni Afrlegisatonemgration, Future activitywillincludea areeeryactiveonlocaltradescoounCamdenEd,.wr S n snt movement, meeting on Namibia with Roger cils and this has meant several resolutaming Smith regime forces. Bantustens.plitical prisoners, Murrayand action to stop the uni- clans on Southern African isues CAMDEN Anti-Apartheid Group Aetion from the Foreign Office, to Namibiea a Zimbabe. It aims to netraycar ocefromathis bingd ndpasse is planning a fund-raising jumble stop similar acts of aid and encourage- provideafficlaclgronl " in5j areers offce from advertis- being debated a n passed.i sale on Saturday March 27. The went to the illegal regime in the campaigns on te issues, persuade the university administra- trade unionists amongtheir group is hoping to place itself on a future, has also been demanded. Registration forms are available tion to sell shares in firms with South membership, and these have been sound financial footing for future Despite the wide range of activi- from the AAM Office and as many African investments. able successfully to introduce work. tiesbeingcarriedoutinSurreyat activistsaspossibleareurgedto Southern African questions within lthas been holding small regular present there is an urgent need for attend. Registration fee: E12 per their branches. Southampton,for meetingsbutmanymoreactive newmbnhers.,SurreyAAM delegate, H ull. outhapElectr supporters are needed. Contact: operates in the county of Surrey and instance, through an Electrical Les Scheinman, Tel 01-794 1567. those parts of South London that N T AA HULL University's Anti-Apartheid Powers Engineers Association merwere formerly in Surrey. Offers of l U S - Group now has over 100 members her, was able to secure a promise GJlasgoiv help(particularlyfromsupporters THENUS-AAMStudentNetwork andhas initiated an impressive n.w from the EPEA journal that no intheEpsom,BansteadandReigate held a meeting on Saturday Febru- her of meetings by involving other further South African advertiseA successful initiative by Glasgow areas to Chris Godbold, 8 Tirlmont ary 28 at which Billy Nannar of the societies and clubs in sponsoring ments would be carried. Anti-Apartheid Group has resulted Road, South Croydon CR2 6DS African National Congress Youth meetings on Southern Africa - Nevertheless, the questionnaire in Hamilton and Clydebank District (Tel 01-681 0832). and Student Section introduced a perhaps this is an initiative worth response also pointed to tta fact Countcils taking decisions to boycott T discussion on recent developments pursuing elsewhere. that many groups have asall goodsfromSouthAfricaand Luton inSouthernAfrica. TheGroupis presently sustaining working basis and find it difficult, Namibia; and ot to invest any funds It was agreed to mount a basic a fight to have the student union for a variety of reasons, to make LUTON Anti-Apartheid Group has educational -ogramme on the building named after Namibian poll- approaches to trade unioos. A Mnthesecouitriets. o has receivedwidespreadpublicityin natureofartia onS ticalprisoner Herman Toivo ja Toivo. couple of groups reported that their Motherwell District Council has natur of apartheid and on Soutnh ' ""' a to 'promote activities local newspapers over its protests Africa's role in the rest of the The Vice- Chancellor's reaction was: localtrades councilsmadenoteaei"sa"gen ...... =- orI against the recent Luton Chamber Southern African sub-contnent 'The University couldn't possibly ponse to the offer ofani-apartheid r which would support apartheid' orSotenArcnsbotin. to invest money in South Africa or of Commerce trade mission to South -_'uau u agreeto such athing, you might just spaakers; others had little trade union Namibia. Africa, Ei niuurnh aswllhavecalleditIdiAmin Contact anyway MeNrebia , + *...... Ink kbhtitiinxsdsate of. . .l '=. House.' , Growlpaiw lhish onlonsaeten reidrlp" r I...... letters, the &fddj4'Afta$ryitfaijti,'EDIN8kRgW'the .... orotb"era o ad/a loe dm,* ttrade "as Inl lI~otrfd ~~ .M isay iApa41fidd'GI'flhtriek§6sqv - ' - picketed a'mi,4ins'a 'oumn-srlk'pleefteearlfl rall .si'Al'.ttaickW4-byrmnevv Mro-d lei.'s 'k''Court'on tIarch'1diit a'14405a1al 'Trade.Union Secsetary

2000-strongdemo shouts'Amandla' ANC leaflet bomb explodes in Jo'burg 'AT THE Terrorism Act trial where 8 people were appearing, the police ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS has received the following eyeclashed with members of the public witness report of the explosion of a bomb containing African who staged a big protest outside the National Congress leaflets inside the Johannesburg office of court immediately after the trial, the Rand Daily Mail on Thurday March 18. About 2 000 people were involved. The explosion came pa our after a 2 000 strong demonatra(This was the trial of 8 peopie tion outside a court where 8 people were appearlng on charges connected with an organisatin under the Terrorism Act. When police ordered the demoncalled the National Youth Orgahi- strators to disperse, they stood their ground - shouting We sation, who were originally charged are sick bf intimidation'. last November.) Nearly all the leaflets were picked up by people who ran in 'When the police tried to take from the street, before the police arrived 15 minutes later. the accused back to prison, the The leaflet was headed 'PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA demonstrators formed a guard of SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE SOIL - THE AFRICAN honour at the exit where the van NATIONAL CONGRESS BRINGS YOU THIS MESSAGE!' carrying them was supposed to come out. 'They sang liberation songs and 'People came in fromthe view ofthe fact that it happened as soon as the van came out they streets to pick up copies and in less shortly after the confrontation all shouted "Amandla Ngawethu" than two minutes about 100 leaflets between the police and members (PowertothePeople).They were picked up. Nearly all the of the public outside the court. almost brought the van to a halt, leaflets were taken away. 'The African National Congress swarming around it. and the 'From the reaction of the people, has not lostthe following that it policewerecalledintodisperse ithascreatedalotofinterest.It had.'them, hascreated a lot of enthusiasm, in 'They st rted'fighig the police, refusing to move off, and Everyone must be a freedom fighter shouted"Ve are sick of intimida- THE leaflet says that the conditions men, our woten, our youth - the tion". fordevelopingtheliberation toilersinthetownsandcountry'Fivepeople were arrested, two struggle in South Africa are now tide - the scholars and the of them students and one the 'greater then ever before', professional groups.' sister of one of the accused. It goes on: 'The opportunities It is within the power of the 'Just after that- about an hour for developing the armed struggle South African people to prevent - a pamphlet bomb exploded in right inside South Africa are Vorster's aggression in Angola, front of the offices of the Rand becoming more possible. Through Namibia or anywahere else, the Daily Mail and scattered posters of armed force, with Umkhonto We leaflet continues, the South African African National Sizwe - the ANC's military wing 'By intensifying our struggle, we Congress. - as the armed spearhead, we to will tie Vorster's army down and 'People in the building heard a will smish the brute forc of the make it impoasible for him to sang in the foyer and went down Oewhfwr launch his war machine across the and found that anplets were But it says that this cannot borders.' scatteredallover, comeaboutunlessthemassofthe Itends:'WE,THEANC,WARN 'More People rushed to pick up people are involved in all forms of VORSTER - IZAK'UNYATHELI copies and the police arrived after struggle. 'The ANC calls on every- AFRIKAI AFRICA WILL SMASH about 16 minutes. ,, ., s *eaf m.f.ht.r! Our -v e -, -- Chelmsford, Essex. 'No morality in foreign investment '-Buthelezi THE following is the full text of the statement on 'Foreign Investment in South Africa' by Chief. Gtsha Buthelezi and Dr Beyers Naude, dated March 4 1976. A RADICAL redistribution of wealth, land and political power is essential for the establishment of a stable and moral society in South Aftic, In South Africa for over a century capitalistic paternalism has produced the conclusgive evidence which makes us reject government by minority elite. Men have been conaistenty dehumanised, the many blatantiy rshed to Produce wealth for the few, end the whlse of society designed to protest and intensify this naked exploitation of mn by man. dieveloment of the homelanils cannot be carried out at a pace which would have a detrimental effect on the economy of the country.',.., If the Homelands exist to make labour available to maintain the deaeonomy and s'ndard of 1eg of the elite (Blac. White or bath) and to establish an economic buffer zone of homeland economies to protect the central economy and provide benefits for the favoured few, we can come to only one conelusion. Foreign investment in the central economy is devoid of all morality. It is equally evident that attempts to increase the responsi'bility of employers and Investors within this system will do nothing to produce the radical redistribu- pitalistic endeavour is doomed. ar essential prerequisiteas of 4h wil fail because the selfishness justice and peace . of South Africa's White is No; can profeasionel eoncmOVER 12 000 Africans packed into ties cannot prevail forever.' who opposed it as being out of touch already unrealistic an ideaoit ser list in theoretical debate poduc a Johannesburg stadium on March Although he came out more and working against the best inter-- viva in today's world. a relevant solution. Progress 14 to hear demands for majorityrule dearlythen before against the eats of South African blacks. It will fail because the needy depends on relising the priorities inSbuthAfrica. Bantustanpolicy,Buthelezihas Thestatementisunclearonthe miinsof South Africa require and power locked in the wisdom They shouted 'Amandla given no indication that he will important question of foreign in- for themselves the liberation they of the Black mn who has uffered Ngawethu' (Power to the People) and relinquish his positiorlas an official vestment in the Bantustans in witness amongst their brothers in end will srvive to make the real 'Sonquopba Simunye' (We shall con- of ohe of the institutions which he projects which could be argued to ellshouring states. cteributon to the new society quer as one) - expressinganew isdenouncing. beoutsidethecentraleconomy. Itwillfail because no'con- Whitesin South'Africa have -mood amongst the people inspired He made it clear that he was not But byrejecting the 'refprm cessions' can relax the grip of denied Blacks acess to the central by the liberation of Angola and advocating violence. 'I am offering- through investment' argument both capitalistic control enough to parliamentary decialon-mking Mozambique and echoing the mass /a black hand of .friendship to the Naude and Buthelezi have signifi- enable the opproad masses to process. They have imposed on anti-apartheid campaigns which whites of South Africa,' he said, cantly changed their outlook - disaver their own dignity and Blacks a divide and rule policy as took place in the 1950s before the 'probably for the last time.' again in response to the rising tide self- respect in ourland. though theBlacks of the country banning of the South African libera- The rally came just five days of political consciousness among Within this framework we must have no right to speak on issues of tionmovementI afterButhelezi,togetherWiththe South Africap blacks, who feel in- respond to te following ststemelt national importance. The question The rallyhad been called by Read Beyers Naude of the South creasinglyconfident that change bythe Ho. M C Bote, Minister of investment in South Africa is Chief Gatsha Buthelezi - Chief African Christian Institute, issued a can come through the mass -of BantuAdministration ons'sichIssue. Minister of the KweZulu Bantustan statement attacking foreign Invest- struggle ofthepeople. '.Iln the econoc Viamework We call for e National Conven- and his denunciation of the ment in the South African 'central These developments highlight the of the country, the economy of tion in which the Blacks in South Vorster Government's attempt to economy' as 'devoid of all morality', need for even greater efforts to he the homelands is interwoven Africa can speak for themselves retribaise Africans by herding Previously Buthelezi has travelled made to oppose foreign investment with that of the Republic and it on the matter of foreign iveastthem into the Bantustans showed overseas spearing in support of over- in South Africa andto exposethe standstoreason that the ment. that he had little choice but to seas investmen't and ricising those frau4 of the Bantustans. respond to his audience. SathSouthAfrca Methodist churchmen call forendto overseasinvestment vies one ountry, had one destiny ando neconomy. CHRISTIANSmustaskforthe inow?SurelytheWhiteManof men eainst British firms with to bring South African whites to weruatempin sa diidea the lan withdrawal of overseas investment South Africa, who enjoys the high- invevstents in South Africa. their senses' were 'oettaswe e iisend in Sosuth Africa as pert of a 'desper- eat standard of living in the world He asked that people oiverseas I 'I know personalliy,'hls went orrt ino hoelnd' er 'lttia ate attensipt' to bring aboujt non- and the Brtish investors whoesamake should instead prey that black 'ohtstich "grs-ot por'5P0t foregaist ste force of hsistory that violentl eheege, according to a their hungo profits will ber the first South Africans might prosper not the blacks.,' began marching across Africa in-else coprreqpolat writing inarecant tosuffer., onlyspiritually'butinotherways Writingainspportoftheprct1960s and which had at I but reched issue osf the V$ isecorer TheRevdStubie'sletterwas aswall thtrousgh the opportu~nities investmntt point of view, si field Ssuth Africa'asborders by 197' Thse Revd C W Bolie, a black, pert of a lengthy correspodence nwoffered thogh developing morktr for the South African Thle crowd cheered a etwat on: Soul Afian msisterestsdying in sparked off byanothser eaSouth ~ re" hisit eJetc~~t 'iisor sil tiusps veaprtted. 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SWAPO rejects sham constitution AMID rumours that South Africa's constitutional talksin Namibia were about to chtapse, members of the ne 'tsilb a ' delegations - among them that well known tribe the white South African Nationalist Party - gathered it Windhoek on March 2 for round three of their deliberations. Delegates found the political climate less cheery than it had been on September 1, when the talks opened. Then most of tht SWAPO leadership was in gaol, South Africa's 'detentei with Africa was in full swing, and South African forces seemed, one way or another, to be 'holding the situation' in Angola, By March 2 everything had changed. The MPLA was victorious in Angola, and the Government of the People's Republic had promised every assistance to SVPO's armed struggle. Sout1 Africa's massie invasion of Angola had failed, and 'detente' lay in ruins. SWAPO guerrillas had struck fifty miles north of Windhoek. Rumours persisted of continning disagreement between 'enlightened' whitg nationalist Dirk Mudga, anxious for some kind of quick settlement that would safeguard South Africa's interests, and A H du Plessis, former South African Cabinet Minister, brought in to replace Mudge as head of the white delegation and a hardline white supremacist. By March 2 there was a feeling that things had to be speeded up. At the end of the first session, deleWitnesses gates had approved a declaration (circulated at the UN before many of them had seen it) statingthat Nam bia would have a constitution for 'independence' within three yea rs. Now, it looked as if three years wou ld give SWAPO time and to spare to force South Africa's withdrawal from Namibia. Urgent steps needed to be taken if the puppet delegates and their South African westers were not to be bundled out of power. Chief Kapuo's proposal appeered to fit the bill, Together with his American constitutional lawyer, the one- time opposition leader had devised a constitutional plan for Namibia that proposed a unitary state: no damaging talk of 'tribal homelands' there. Just one thing though - the legislature would be bi-cameral: ie there was to be one legislative assembly for the north - for the Ovambos, the Kavangoes, and the Caprivians - and one for the south. The 'north' would therefore stop approximately at Grootfontein, 250 km south of the NamibiaAngola border. Something like 420 000flamibians would occupy about one-eighth of the territory, while the rest of the country incorporating all Namibia's mines. rich farmland, karakul farms and fishing areas - would be occupied by the whites, 'coloureds', Chief Kapuuo's Hereros, and so on, approximately 276 000 people in all. The intentions behind the proposals were clear. By talking in terms of a 'unitary consfjtution', 'one mat, one vote', and a 'bicameral legislature', the Chief and his supporters hoped to avoid the charge of having produced a 'bantustan' solution. Nevertheless, adoption of the proposal would mean that the numerous Onambe, with their nasty tendency be support SWAPO, would be tucked away in oneassembly, with only their barred buffer-strip of territory between the rich south and MPLAruled Angola to meddle with. ,The plan was a Mudge ream. It is unlikely though that Mudge and his colleagues will see their dream - of a Namibia perpetually under South African influence reatised. SWAPO's information secretary in Windhoek has rejected the proposal, and SWAPO continues to inveigh against the whole principle of the talks, calling them a 'plot to perpetuate South Africa's occupation'. The international community is unified behind January's UN Security Council resolution which calls for free national elections to be organised immediately in Namibia, under United Nations supervision and control. SWAPO's guerrilla ranks are reportedly better armed and well motivated, and they have already scored considerable successes against South African troops. The Turnhalle delegates, meeting in their converted gympasium in Windhoek, seem in every sense to be riding for a fall, refuse to testify in Namibia Terrorism Act trial A NURSE called as a prosecution with it and had torn it up, After her cooperated. 'I gave them a statewitness in the trial of six SWAPO ordeal, she made another statement, ment because I was afraid and was (South West African People's Twoblackmarksonherwrist toldthattheywouldhangmeup if Organisatnonl members has given were noted by the court, and the I didn't speak,' he said. evidence of brutal torture by the judge ordered that the allegations Despitewhat hehad been SouthAfricansecuritypolice, should be investigated, through, Victor Nkandirefusedto Other SWAPOleaders have Another nurse, Eva Maundengi, give evidence onthe grounds that he refused to give evidence - again in also maintained that her original did not know who to testify against. spite of severe and sadistic torture, statement to the police had been He was sentenced to 12 months ima The trial - inwhichthesix tornup. prisonrnentforcontemptofpourt accused are charged under the Victor Nkandi, who was alleged - and was warned by the judge that he Terrorism Act with planning 'terro- to have received a sum of R380 and could be sentenced to a further 12 rist activities' - opened in Swakop- a radio from Aaron Muchimba, months if he continued to refuse. wundonFebruary16. intendedforusebySWAPO,has AxelJohannes,aleadingSWAPO The accused include three nurses, also given evidence of torture, member, was also gaoled for 12 Rauna Nambinga, Naimi Nombowo He said that after his arrest by months for refusing to act as a state andAnnaNgailoniwa,SWAPO twopolice sergeants in September witness. National Organiser Aaron Muchimba he was chained up, taunted with Those who have so far beep and SWAPO leaders Andreas Nan being a 'terrorist' and beaten un- brought to court are dnly afew of gol andHendrikShikongo. conscious.Hewasthenket thehundredsofSWAPOsupporters Kauna Malua, a colleague of the awake for four days And nights by who were rounded up by security three women accused at Engela having water thrown on his face. police after the assassination of Hospital, Ovamboland, told the He eventually made a statement to Chief Filemon Elifas Chief Minister court that she was strung from the * the police in desperation to 'get of the Ovambo Bantustan, in ceiling ofaroomfortenhoursby free'. Augustlastyear. the police, who used a chain attached He told thecourt that he was On March 4 thetrial was adto her right wrist. She said she had taken to a place where he heard journed for 10 days after defence made a statement after her arrest, people screaming, and was told he counsel had been granted permission but the police had not been satisfied would scream like them unless he for an inspeition in locol UN Human Rights group says 'Isolate SA' THEUN Commission on .Human 0 Bringabout atotal embargo with South Africaand,together Rights hascondemnedall trade and on thesaleofarms andall with Canad5 France, West Germany, other contacts with South Africa otherkinds of military Italyand the US, abstained onthe and Rhodesia as complicity in apart- supplies to South Africa whole resolution. heid. S Implernent the Council for The British delegate, Sir Keith Its resolution called on UN mem- Namihia's decree on the pro- Unwin, said that to trade with berstatesto tectionofNamibia'smineral South Africa did pot imply any i Srupiscsly obsere srnc- resources. approvalorsupportforapartheid. trons lifaitst jclifei,, Britaln blltbsedilfhe hdtiolsbf Britinhe said, had thoselt'a Aid the Squthern,'Afficap ' 'Mtie enuitiaiul wich daJl ter6n end , prage atic approach' to 'the realities liberatlion movements to diplomatic relations and trade of life'. as the new Chairman of British LeylandJs unlikely to produce an improvement in the company's relations with the African workers in its South African subsidiary, (British Leyland South Africa has refused to recognise the African union which represents the majority of workers at its Durban plant.) Sir Richard went on record in The Times, February 24 1976, as saying that we should offer Rhodesia and South Africa at least moral support at this time. 'On a more material plane,' he wrote, 'it would not suit the West to see the natural resources of the two countries - chrome, gold and uranium, not to mention the South African ports - falling into unfriendly hands.' Lonrho backs both sides LONRHO Chairman, Duncan Sandys, took the opportunity of the company's AGM on March 1 to address a few carefully chosen words to Ian Smith. Recent developments in Rhodesia were the 'last chance' for the white regime, he told shareholders, and Smith should be reminded that 'last chances do not last forever'. True to its policy of so-Called renolutionary capitalism', Lonrho has shown an interest in building good relationships with black political groups in Rhodesia. An African newspaper, to be financed by Lonrho, was mooted recently, and the company has established a connection with the current constitutional talks through Robert Wright, a lawyer who acts for Lonrho's Chief Executive, Tiny Rowland, Although they are played down by company spokesmen, Lonrho has very substantial interests in both Rhodesia and South Africa. The Group's gold and copper mines in Rhodesia underwent considerable expansioin ilre years following UDI and earned spectacular profits during the 1973-74 boom in world commodity prices. It also has big interests in Rhodesian cattleranching, motor cars and coach ' fransport, timber and tentiles, and has a stake in the Beira-Umtali oil pipeline. In 1973 the possibility that the firm had biloken UN santtions against Rhodesia wid raised in the British press, Asked by a shareholder at this year's AGM to explain Lonrho's attitude towards international la Sandys replied that if anyone could explain its ambiguities and obscurities to him he would be grateful. 'All we can do is operate according to the laws of the countries con, cerned,' he went on, leaving, as usual, a very large question mark - hanhij'oier th akfitieoifi s' SLonrh&s Rhodesiafnsudlreaies. 'End loans' C of E tell Midland THE Church Commissioners - the Church of England's financial trustees - have joined the campaign coordinated by ELTSA (End Lo ans To Southern Africa) to stop the Midland Bank from making any further loans to the South African Government. The Commissioners have decided to support a resolution which will come before the bank's annual shareholders' meeting on April 7, requiring its Directors 'to cause the Midland Bank to make no further loans to the South African Government or its departments, agencies, or state corporations, and not to, renew or extend any such existing loans'. They say that their disquiet about the Midland's loan policy stems from an abhorrence of the system of apartheid which is clearly felt by church people generally: The Commissioners have explained that their general policy is 'not to invest directly in cpmpanies operating wholly or mainly in Southern Africa' and that although the Midland Bank does not come into this category, a substantial body of those on whose behalf they invest their funds would prefer not to be involved in giving direct support to a racialist regime. This is a matter, they say, of Christian conscience and not of politics. The resolution was submitted with the signatures of 120 shareholders and over 1 000 000 votes are now pledged in its favour. Other church bodies which are backing it include the Methodist Church's Central Finance Board, the Central Board of Finance of the Church of England, the United Reformed Church the Northern Baptist College and three Roman Catholic monasteries and convents. The Methodist Finance Board says that the racialist nature of the apartheid regime in South Africa is so clearly definable, and so widely and unequivocally criticised, that it falls into a special category. The resolution is also being supported by the London Borough of Camden, the Labour Party's Pension Fund, Aberdeen University, War on Want and the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust - as well as by many individual shareholders. A week of action was mounted by ELTSA, March 14-19, to win more public support for its demands. The week included pickets of local Midland branches and a letterwriting drive to Midland bank -managers Shareholders were invited to a seminar on March 18 to explain the background to the campaign and the conduct of the shareholders' meeting. The seminar was chaired by the Methodist Finance Board's Secretary, Derek Farrow, and the speakers were Pauline Webb and a company lawyer. Literature detailing the Midland Banks involvement in the EuropeanAmerican Banking Corporation iEABC) which has made loans totalling E90 million to the South African Government and state corporations is anailable from ELTSA. Leaflets 'Vb Midland out of South Africa' are available from ELTSA, 134 Wrottesley Road, - London NW0 f0-TvB5 7454, price 50pper 100.

AnT,-AParteiifl'CeWU April IWO rag 0 BOSS strikes ON March 9 Harold Wilson informed the House of Commons that agents, financed by South African funds, had been involved in events that led to personal allegations against Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party. Hereferred to the 'very strong and heavily financed private master-minding of certain political operations'. He maintained that these werfinanced by South African business interests and that there was no evidence that South African security services were involved. This is a questionable distinction. Headlines greeted this quite 'unexpected revelation' and these continued for some days. But the fact is that the intervention of the South African security services: in the work of anti-apartheid organisations and in the lives of South African exiles has been known for some time. Now it seems that this intervention is openly directed at the British political process. A detailed dossier prepared bythe Liberal Party outlining the plans for discrediting individuals in the Party was given to Harold Wilson. The dossier was baed on information volunteered by Kenneth Wyatt, who claijmed that documents obtained from the security offices of the Anglo Amserican Corporation of South Africa set out plans to destroy the Liberals via a smear campaign against its leading members. The Sunday Telegraph reported on March 14 that MIS had undertaken a world-wide investigation and reported that 'South African business interests employing secret agents' had 'mounted aeents' had mounted 'an operation to discredit the Liberal Party'. The Liberal Party's anti-apartheid policy was cqnsidered to be the reason for this exercise. if the Liberal Party were discredited its supporters, it was thought, would vote for the Conservatives, whose policy is certainly more sympathetic to apartheid South Africa and its business community. A series of breakins has recently taken place into the homes of members of the African National Congress of South Africa, of John Gaetsewe, General Secretary of SACTU, and into the hotefroom of Moses Garoeb, Administrative Secretary of SWAPO. In all cases docaments were rifled and in the case of Moses Garoeb two 'sensitive and confidential letters' had disappeared, but money and other valuables were left untouched. The South African Bureau of State Security, established in 1969, dossiers and presented these to the At the trial in 1971 of the Dean is generally heldto be the responsible Government. Yet this activity con- of Johannesburg, the Very Reed agency.Nationalboundariesdonot tinues. GonvjlleffrenchBeytagh,photoappearto inhibit theworkofthis The caseof AlexandreMourn- graphs of him taken some years agency, which is central to the I bars, one of the accused in the trial earlier in Ireland, of which he had apartheid state's battle against those of the Pretoria Six in 1973, is of had no knowledge, were used by who are opposed to its racist poll- particular significance. His flat in the prosecution as part of the ales, Its functions are not only to London was entered towards the end evidence against him. This clearly search out and report, but also to of 1972 by a man claiming to be a indicated that he had been under intervene, confuseari undermine friend of his who had obtained the observation for some time. all opposition to racism and key from his mothe--in-lawwho ATimeOutinvestigationhasalso repression, livesinParis.Documentsandphoto- revealed BOSS links with institutions There have been repeated out graphs thus obtained were used as in Britain. cries against its activities in Britain. evidence by the prosecution. The Throughout these years the press In 1971, the Sunday Observer ran a man had said that Moumbaris had has reported links between BOSS number of reports !about the activi- offered him the use of the flat - it and individual British agents. A ties of South Africa's security ser- was subsequently established that Government inquiry into.this and vices in Britain...' This occurred in Moumbaris was in detention at that other aspects of BOSS intervention 1972, 1973 and 1974, and in all time, held incommunicado under in Britain's domestic situation is cases MPscompiledinformation thenotoriousTerrorism Act. longoverdue British students back victimnised SASO leaders THE NUS has sent a massage of solidarity to five SASO (South African Students Organisatios) members who have been refused readmission to university. The five - all students at the segregated.Uniyersity of the North at Turfloop in, the northern Transseal - were told that the reason for the ben was academic. But all of them have good academic records and were supposed to - bebopletng'ehelr degree courses this year. They include the SASO branch chairman, Radichaba Matime, and the others were all active in the branch. The ban came even before Mr Justice Snyman - the one-man commission appointed by the Vorster Government - had stated that protests at theaunieefsty in 1974 were the result of the 'deepseated and alarming anti-white feelinq' of the ajcirty of students and black staft-t. The Snyman'eport said that the situa to1 atth tt ivocsrty rfeqted' th,prpprposlem ofthe-psoition of black and white in the world outside. No dancing for blacks in 'multi-racial' hotels TWENTY South African hotels are to admit black guests - a departure whichthe Johannesburg Star says hoteliers see as 'a big breakthrough for the trade'. Surely not quite what Vorster meant when he said 'Give us six months...'. In any case, those defenders of the white way of life whose sleep is troubled by the nightmare of black hands besmirching white womanhood haye no case for alarm. If tfheititel'ifi hi white aiae blaks rhl hbt dance- eer in a foet booked for a private function, And only 10 par cent of the hotel's total number of beds may be let to blacks at any one time. Taiwan visit TAIWAN'S Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr H.K Yang, paid an official visit to South Africa at the beginning of March. During his week long trip he held talls sith Prime Minster, Vrstei' ano_ Foreigr Affqirs Minister Hilgard ,Myljqr. Demand for equal rights a crime' THE following are someof the activities cited by the prosecution in its indictment of five South African student leaders, who appeared in court is Pretoria on February 2: * that they agreed to launch a campaign for the release of political prisoners in South Africa " that they demanded the rebase of all political prisoners, depicting them as the true leaders of the black population " that they told the black population that they are the oppressed and that the whites are the oppressors " that theyheld marches and pickets in support of their campaign for the release of political prisoners * that theysent latters to people overseas to ask for support for their-campaign " that theyorganised a meting at which 'a former convicted saboteur'; Gerson Veil, was invited as guest speaker to call for the release of all political prisoners " that they published a student newspaper which quoted Nelson Mandela " that they encouraged research into government restrictions on universities " that they suggested to students that they should analyse the qualifications of university staff " that they set up study groups for school pupils to discuss subjects not covered by school syllabuses-for exampie 'Human Relations' " that they organised a meeting at which a speaker -Sonny Leon, a leader of the Coloured Labour Partystated that South Africa was a police state Crimes* Heinous crimes? Even in South Africa none of this (except quoting ltson Mandela - a banned person) is a crime in itself. But what the prosecution is trying to argie is that by doing these things the fie - Glenn Moss, Charles Nupen, Eddie Webster, Paul de Beer and Karel Tip - and by implication all other students who are involved in such campaigns - are conspiring to promote the aims of the banned African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. It is not sene suggesting that the five had any contact with the ANC orthe Communist Party merely that by acting in the way they did they were attempting to further the aims of these organisetions. Among these aims, according to the indictment, is the establishment of 'so-called equal rights and opportunities for all people of the Republic in a multi-racial ass qiisialec society:

Eyewitness report of massacre by Security Forces I fought with every hut TOM MCCARTHY spent eight months fighting for the seconds. Smith regime after being recruited in London by the moved in v South African Embas. In this exclusive interview upanyrem With ANTI-APARTHEIDNEWSheexposesSouth Inthes Africa's continuing military presence in Rhodesia and operations describes how he took part in raids againstindependent byanoffitMozambique. freedomfi DURING his eight months in Rhodesia on active service with the Rhodesian Light Infantry, British citizen Tom McCarthy crossed into Mozambique five times on intelligence and 'hot pursuit' missions.. Smith's security forces are not going to wait for an initiative from the Mozambique side of the border, he told AA News, 'they're going to go in and get them'. In September 1975, McCarthy went into Tete province in nor' thern Mozambique in a party of six, on an 'oblique mission' to observe and take photographs of a guerrilla camp. On another occasion he was involved in a rocket attack on a camp of about 400 freedom fighters, women and children, 40 miles inside Mozambique, in which two members of the Rhodesian security forces were killed. He maintains that these violations'of Mozambican territory are common practice. Tom McCarthy joined the ist Battalion of the Rhodesian Light Infantry with the assistance of the South African Embassy in London, who put him in touch with Salisbury. He flew out to Rhodesia in June 1975 and after five and a half weeks trainiig was sent up to the north eastern operational area, based on Mount Derwin. Guerrilla groups were active in the area, despite official assurances from the regime that at this time the autumn of 1975 - they had been virtually eliminated from inside Rhodesia. Guerrilla attacks in the south east of the country, towards the border with South Africa, began, according to McCarthy, as early as September. He himself took part in a number of engagements with freedom fighters, using helicopters which covered troops fighting on the ground with machine gun fire. Napalm was usedto flush guerrillas out into the open. In interviews with the Daily Mirror (reported on February 271, the BBCs World at One programme ( March 12) and with Anti-Apartheid News, Tom McCarthy has told of his involvement in the massacre by Rhodesian security fortes of 60 African villagers in the north east of Rhodesia. The purpose of the slaughter was ostensui5y to ambush a group of freedom fighters due to collect supplies and as a punishment for the villagers for assisting them. In the summer of 1975, an African member of the Rhodesian Special Branch infiltrated a liberation movement cell in Salisbury. He was successful enough to be used by them as a messenger to deliver a radio and 2 000 Rhodesian dollars to the village in question for collection by guerrillaes. On the evening of Friday October 19, McCarthy's unit, equipped with rations, flares and grenades, were moved up from their Mount Darwin base to positions around the village, which was situated aou't 5 miles east of St Albert's Mission and south of the Mavuradqnha escarpment 30 miles from Mount Darwin. On the following day, Saturdey, the village headman was seen to leave the village. He returned about four hours later, carrying a container which, McCarthy assumed, he had collected from the Special Branch contact. The attack began after dark that evening, when 17 guerrillas were sighted coming towards the village from the direction of the Mavuradonha mountains. Five entered the village, while the remaining 12 stayed on guard outside. McCarthy's troop first of all sent up1parachute flares to illuminate the village and then blasted it with anti-tank rockets and machine gun fire. Nearly SmIth 's was ht in the first 30 The security forces then with grenades to blow talning. ubsequent 'mopping-up' , McCarthy was ordered ar to shoot a teenage ghter at point blank eriatna who vnild hv find was shot, including small children, and the bodies burned in a pit. Therewere no casualtes among the security forces, and when the killingwasover their officer in chnarge shored the 2 000 dollars betwee them. A German Roman Catholic missionary from St Albert's hes also derie knowledge of the slaughter. St Albert's is the only mission that has been permitted by the regime to remain open in this part of Rhodesia. McCarthy maintains that a certain number of South African Police have remained on active service in Rhodesia ever since their widely Publicised 'withdrawal' last summer. Arm, and ammunition are being supplied to the Smith regime in large qantities through South Africa At the end of November, he told AA News, four squadrons of Mirages, complete with South African pilots and air tchnicians, were delivered up to Saliseury. Such consignments are put down by the South African authorities as 'crashed in the operatio al area' and wiped off the books, Once in Rhodesia, any South African markings are painted out. Armaments manufactured in Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Germany, and NATO ammuniti n, find their way into the hands of Smith's army, While McCarthy was in Rhodesia explanatory leaflets on the mechanism and use of Israeli-made machine guns were distributed to the troops, presumably in anticipation of a new arms delivery. Amphibious vehicles, built to As She Smith regime moves Africans into so-called 'protected) villa contact with guerrillas, it is razing the ground villages like this on British press leaps to defence of Rhodesia[ AS the tebles turn against the white minority in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) the right-wing in Britain - aided and abetted by sections of the press - is coming out with statements so viciously racist that they remind one of Nazi Germany. The worst offender has been The Times which on March 17 printed a letter which asserted that 'no European in his senses would wish to live permanently and bring up his children in s country governed by blackl'. One of the most unpleasant aspects of the letter was that it attributed this opinion to Britain's emissary to Rhodesia, Lord Greenhill,to many of The Times's readers and - without any disclaimer from the paper - to The Times itself. itwanto.noassu.enlsa , wlriteswlnsee~nnZlease under majority rule would inevitably meet with 'political and economic suicide'. On March 16 The Times opened its columns to Brigadier Lord Ballantrae, who considered that 'whatever the follies and intransigence of the present Government of Rhodesia' it was 'intolerable even to contemplate financing activities of their enemies against our own kith and kin'. On the same day Colonel J R Hall wrote - saying that he did not expect his letter to be printed - advocating support for Rhodesia and South Africa 'against further savagery and possible destruction', Some of these assertions would be actionable under a Race Relations Act which had real teeth. At* hame Ji T he, Times. 'ha noten filto prit letters ,. putting the different point of view - surely held by many millions of British people - that it is wrong to deny to Africans in Rhodesia rights which we in Britain take for granted. Even The Times's reporting has been heavily biased. On March 15 for example, the paper published a news story written entirely from a white Rhodesian point of view, which recorded the 'characteristic imperturbability' of the mhinority who are 'scathingly critical of what they regard as the exaggerated impresfion of their predicament presented in the international press'. In an unpublished interview Julian Anery MP, former Minister of State in the Foreign Office, predicts a 'movemnist of thou- sands' who will go out to fight side by side with Rhodesian whites if guerrilla war escalated 'which no new legislation would stop'. According to his spurious calculation there are 8 or 9 million people in Britain with white relations in Rhodesia and South Africa and he assumes that they would automatically want to fight on the side of the whites in what is 'sometimes mockingly celled a kiss and kin reaction'. The nearest parallel, he says, to a aituation where armed struggle spread in Rhodesia, is 'when General Gordon was murdered in" Khartoum, and there were explosions all over the country agiinst Mr Gladstone's Government for letting it happen'. He also advocates an alliance of staes in .Central and Southern Africa backed by Ebiope and army withnstand landmines and designed for 14 men, are being built from the ground up inside the country McCarthy found security to be intense. The entire Rhodesian border with Mozambique was finally closed off during his time there by two parallel barbed-wire topped security fences, running all the way from Zambieto South Africa. The fences are electronically wired to alarms in the nearest outposts, and the whole border area is extensively mined by the security forces to prevent guerrilla incursions. Special Branch men, informers and infiltrators, penetrate every THE new Rhoded I area of African life, particularly the townships around Salisbury Justice and Law se C In McCarthy's opinion, the sworn in . he toldes a white minorityis fullyequipped as far as he was cdee for a bitter and protracted war - a praservion sf law ss view which is borne out bya recent coes fimt, last ad in announcement from Smith that Rhodesian defence spending has been increased to 6per cent of Who a the total national budget. the real -terrorisl THE real terrorists in R not the African freodor They are fighting foe th of their country frm t ert. The real terrorlts Smith regime, andthes uphold its apperats of They are responsiblshfo * the illegal esati 60 Africanviiisge 9t thesentenciagito further 250 Alic "- * tihe detentigntwit W -of some 8aplil opponents __110i atheimprisomemen furthar5001)aliti,be activists a s - the hebrdinge c trationcampsecallytermed"prol*A~ villages')ofsme Africans. I r, (All these fillams e estimates.) 6, Theterrorists whoinW s white sumpremacyei R havean arsenalofkges estostopthem making disposal. UnderthUr e. Organisatioos Act, thy banned successiveAric parties. SS IThe Law and Orar I once) Act is used o America and the lifting of sanc- meetin and publiti tions even without any settlement restrictpeopletodoffgnwithSmith. Italsocoversof a In none of this propaganda is 'intimidation', 'trrorisr there any suggestion that black 'sabotage', providieg x Zimbalweans are denied basic wide definitions ofeach human rights, that Britain also is based upon the l A a multi-racial country or that legislative model. people's attitudes might be deter- been under a state RIsi n mined by any criteria other than a supposed common interest based which enables the aqim on the colour of their skin. trol the activities af em If there is no peaceful settle- named industries, and p meet in Rhodesia propaganda of closure of inforiaen athis kindwill almost certainly sanctionsbreakingrwincrease, supplementingthetrepre It is uptoto to counterit by %:-'.' mentioned above. putting other points of view at The Ministry oflnter every opportunity - and in Affairs prohibits Ause particular by writing to The Tires the Tribal Trust La , deploring the publicity it is giving ie under the contrf to racist views and putting the i cde fisr majorityr ule in Zimbabwive. chefs, who are pea d c ir m fired by the regmnnerChristabel Gurney A Africns ovethe heere to carry apa.

150tI153#FIVI Se, te. - 'a age , How th grabbei A FEW key statistics point out the way in which the white rulers of Rhodesia have grabbed its wealth - and condemned the Africans to poverty in the process. The African population is 5,9 million (95.5 per cent of the total); and there are 274 000whites The African majority and the white minority each own 46.5 per cent of the land. But thisworks out at 7 acres per African, and 166 acrs Per white. tn addition,,the land allocated to whites includes all the towns, the main road and rail links, and the areas with the mineral resources and the most favourable climatic conditions for agriculture. School is compulsory for all white children, but not for white minority has Zimbabw's wealth African children. Whilst the parents of white children pay little or no school fees, African parents have to pay for stationery, most text books, and contribute to school funds. The regime spends £22 a year on each African school pupil, and £249 a year on each white school pupil. In 1971, the last-year for which statistics are avilabl; out of 2 181 apprentices, only 59 were Africans. The Masters and-Servants Acts (1901) denies to domestic servants and agricultural workers (53 per cent of the total African workforce) the right to form or join trade unions. Under this Act, workers who are disobedient or neglectful can be tried with a criminal offence. Other workers are governed by the Industrial Conciliation Act. Trade Unions have to be registered, and the Registrar can refuse to do this. It is a criminal offence for anyone to be involved in 'essential services', which are defined so broadly that few areas are not affected. The Law and Order (Maintenence) Act makes it illegal to picket, and lays down a penalty of up to ten years' imprisonment for 'booing-.anybody who has not joined a strike with you', So, whereas the average white wage of £57 68 a week, the average African wage in the urban areas is £5 30, and an African farm labourer can expect only £2 03. This should be seen in conjunction with the estimate of the poverty datum line unit at the University of Rhodesia, that the average family of six in Salisbury has a minimum subsistence level of lI a week. ome of the facts contained in this article are included in a new leaf let issued by the Anti-Apartheid Movement- 'Rhodea in Crisis More detailed informaton can be found in 'Zimbabwe Quiz*, pub/]shed by the International Defence and Aid Fund (20p), and in 'Rhodesia: South Africa's Sixth Province'by John Sprack 35pJ. All are available from AAM 89 Charlotte Street London WIP 2D0. Who are Rhodesia's 'kith and kin'? THE media in this country have tried to portray Vorster as an 'honest broker', attempting to influence the Rhodesian settlers towards a settlement. But, ever since UDI, the South Africang have been responsible for enabling the Smith regime to survive. Perhaps the best known form which this help hs'taken is by means of sanctions'busting. When sanctions were first introdpced by the United Nations in 1965, they ware rejected by the then South African Prime Minister, H F Vefwoerd. He stated that South Africa would carry on 'business as usual', and a policy of 'normal trade'. Furthermore, 'normal trade' meant selling as much as possible. 'Selling more is not abnormal trade,' he said, 'but better trade'. It was this policy, and the sanctions-breaking operations to -which it gave rise, that ensured the 'I have maintained closer association with the South *African Government than any Prime Minister previously in our history.' Ian Smith, June 1969. economic lifeline which the regime needed. Increasingly since UDI, South Africa has become responsible for Rhodesia's trade, either on her own account or acting as a middleman for somethird party. With the closure of the Mlzambican border, all Rhodesian imports and exports will have to be routed via South Africa. In this situation, the recently developed rail link from Rutenge to Beit Bridge will become vital, And Rhodesia's economy will be even more obviously propped up by South Africa. Despite South African protestationaof withdrawal, military support given to the white Rhodesians is crucial. In 1970, The Guardian estimated that between three and four thousand South African troops were in Rhodesia. As part of the Lusaka Declare'Rhodesia is my friend, and friends never emba'rass me.' B J Vorstet, May 1970, tion in December 1974, South Africa agreed towithdraw these troops. But as late as December 1975, conclusive proof was offered that South Africans wery still active in Rhodesia. Ahelicopter crashed south of the eastern Rhodesian town of Umtali. The Chief of Staff of the Rhodesian Army was killed, as was the Commander of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. The helicopter was a South African one, as was the crew. Quite apart from this evidence, that the South Africans have not withdrawn, their conscripts are encouraged to join the Rhodesian army. Officers of the Rhodesian Light Infantry have been actively recruiting in South African military camps. There have been reports that volunteers have been offered complete or partial substitution for their own (South African) military service. dei 'Minister of iw sd Order', . being mcsldssaimen that is csem'ned 'the f law asd order it and in the middle. ruts? risteio Rhodesia are i fredom fighters. ng fdtthe liberation V fresm the exploit' ernofsts are the end these who iratJs of repression., nsibl for: I exedution of ins, ivce UDI nciloto death of a 50 Aaticans , rtiowltbourt trial l0 plitical IS . isernt of a 00 Plitical ng imib conCan impis eupsemistinead Votected of sme 175,00 a figuses are i.) s who maiain sacyti Rhodesia of lows at their er thalUnlawful kct, dy have iedtfican political d Or (Maintensd tolsohibit ubliairions, and to to dflgnated areas, ffences such as 'terrerism', and riclie extremely a of isech, usually Soutf African -1. Ufft, Rhodesia has ate d emergency, he vaime to con' es Oemployees in es, and prevent diemissio about inga well as the pressive I abe.L r of Internal s alf meetings in t Lands, except is tibel system', 'trdtf the pailmad can be oveithe ageof 1past by agents of white su 'LES Aspin, one of those involved Phone calls over the previous week in recruiting British mercenaries from men whso said they had been to fight for the FNLA in Angola, mercenaries and wanted to fight claimed recently to be in contact in Rhodesia. One told the with 3 000 men willing to fight in Bureau that he could mobilise at SouthernAfrica. least50otherrecruits. Aspin, a former business asso- The Smith regime has frequently ciate of John Banks, of Security denied that it uses mercenaries Advisory Services, Camberley, from abroad. However, it is Surrey, has split off and set Up his only too happy to recruit expatri. own organisation, Bab Ltd. He aces into its regular army and air claims to have already arranged for force. Tom McCarthy (interup to 100 British, American, viewed elsewhere in AA News) Is Australian and expatriate South one of those hundreds of former African 'security guafds' to be British soldiers who have been flown out to Namibia to protect attracted to the Rhodesian sun white farms on the border with and good life, and relatively high Angola. regular army salaries - a basic pay They are being hired on six- of £50 per week, rising to E80-E100 month contracts and being paid with allowances and front-line L80 a week. Other recruits are bonuses. being sent out to Rhodesia - McCarthy reckons that out of some ofthem, asin Namibia,to all the menin the1st Battalion protect whitefarms onthe of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Mozambiqueborder towhichhebelonged,asmanyas It is clear, from radio phone-in two-thirds ware expatriates, end programmes and the correspon- included American Vietnam dence columns of local newspapers, veterans, Canadians, West Germans that many people in Britain are and New Zealanders, as well as fully prepared to fight on the side British. of 'ith and kin' in Rhodesia The Smith r gn tow againsethe African liberation move- steppingupitsowndirec,ment. recruitingcampaigns abroad. On March 9, the London Bureau Enlistment forms sld propaganda ,.of Rhodesia'smain'deily newspaper, from RhodesianArmy HOin, the RhodesiaHeiald,ripdrtidhliat Salisbury-andfrom addt sses in, thiey hfiddiecgived a least 1 2"tefe- central London and Cale Town' 'premacy are being sent, unsolicited, to former British army officers and men. Rhodesian agents are said to be aenive in London and, according to the Rhodesia Herald, recruiting is also going on openly in Australia. Bab Ltd. which operates out of a converted terrace house in Norwich, are also reported to have been sending out application forms to possible recruits. Under paragrapo 14(b) of the Southern Rhodesia UNI(No 2) Order 1968, it is an offence subject to a prison term of up to two years to do any act 'calculated to solicit or encourage members of the public generally or members of any particular class of the public to take up...employment or residence' in Rhodesia. Speaking in the House of Commor recently, the Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, warned that anyonewho recruited mercenaries for Rhodesia would be liable to prosecution under British sanctions law. Foreign Office Minister David Ennals has also, in a written reply, stated that 'if evidence is obtained that offences against our law may have been committed I shall ce't.inly bring it to the notice of,' the kppro~piate autssrLfies'.. No action has apparently been taken to stopBab Ltd. however. On the contrary, Aspin's solicitors have issued writs against the BBC ind at feast three newspapers for uggesting that he is acting illegally. L11 I LL 12-sided leaflet setring.out facts and figures on Zimbabwie and AA M's demands in the current situation. Available free from 1. Donations iowards printing andcosts12-sided leaflet setting out .facts and figures on Zimbabwe and AAM's demands in ther eurren, .sirtsatii/n. A sq\iftle fref fton AA N, $9 .Cltqrltlte 'Street, London. WI. Donations towards printing costs welcome. Machel supports the 'just fight' MOZAMBIQUE's President Samora Machel announced on March 3 that Mozambique would close all its frontiers with Rhodesia, would prohibit any form of communication with the territory and would ban the passage of any traffic to or from Rhodesia through its territory or air space. He said that Mozambique's Government would confiscate all assets belonging to the Illegal Smith regime, to firms with headquarters in Rhodesia, and to citizens living in Mozambique who recognised the illegal regime. At the same time he pledged moral, political and material support for the 'just fight' of 'our Zimbabwe brothers'. 'We shall support them morally and polit cally,' he said, 'by organisingourselves ieour activist groups to study and to draw a lesson from the Zimbabwe struggle,' and to absorb that struggle into our body and soul.' 'We shall support it materially" by producing; by producing to feed and clothe our people; by producing to feed and clothe the fighters who are defending our frontiers; by producing to feed and clothe our brother Zimbabwe guerrillas.' 'We shall support it materially by making a monthly contribution to the solidarity fund which we set up on February 3, Mozambique Heroes Day.' President Machel cited a long list of acts of aggression by the Smith regime against independent Mozambique. The latest of these was an attack in the Pafuri area where Mozambique borders on Rhodesia and South Africa, in which two men and a woman and an eighteen month old baby were killed. Britain is to provide £1 5 million in aid to Mozambique to help it overcome the adverseeconomic effects it will suffer fromret full enforcement of sanctions against Rhodesia. On March 5 a meeting of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London urged all Commonwealth Governments to 'react urgently' to help Mozambique and agreed to consult Mozambique about the form of aid it will most need. Among African countries, Zambia and Tanzania both welcomed President Machel's announcement and promised Mozambique their full support. President Kaunda said that Zambia and Mfozambique would work together for justice in the 'rebel British colony', and that any attack by the Smith regime on Mozambique would be regarded as an attack on Zambia itself. The Tanzanian Government said that it was shocked by the Smith regime's violations of Mozambique's territory and air space: The statement added that the cause of Mozambique was the cause of Africa and 'all the people and nations who value human rights'. The OAU praised Mozambique's decision and said that it iwould invive 'immense sacrifices which ..ill have sePioisy Ctns1eqrtnn cys op its economy a ndsecuttv Mercenary recruitment stepped up abroad asno-Asparineta News " April 15t/1 '--age 8 ANC identifies key issues in Southern Africa L iberation: the future HOW will the liberation of Angola and Mozambique affect the situation in the rest of Southern Africa? On a recent visit to London the General Secretary of the African National Congress of South Africa, ALFRED NZO, talked to ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS about the defeat of Portuguese colonialism and the new tasks which face the solidarity movemrent in Britain. What is the significance of the liberation of Angola and Mozambique for the pleople of South Africa? The coilapse of Portuguese coloni alism and the emergence of progressive states like the People's Republic of Mozambique and the Angola People's Republic is of histoni importance to all people striving for independence on the African conti nent. In the first place, it hasdemonstrated that a determined people fighting for national liberation is invincible and that their struggles must be crowned with ultimate success. On the other hand, the situation puts the racist regimes in South Africa and Zimbabwento a serious political dilemma. With the removal of Portugal one important flank of the Unholy Alliance df Vorster, Smith and Ceetano has been eliminated for good. This has weakened the raci'st and colonial fortress of South AfriCa and opened up Wide possibilities for further advances by the liberation movement. What is the special role played by Souts Africa in the Southern African region? The Dar s Salaam Declaration adopted by the OAU last year describes how South Africa is propping up the illegal Smith regime in Zimbabwe. For a long time South African troops were stationed in Soviet-Cuban support for PRA IN reply to the letter of Mr Harold mSith which appeared in the last issue of AA News our judgment regarding foreign intervention in any situation must depend upon our analysis. If we accept that-the MPLA is a genuine liberation movement while the others were serving the interests of those seeking to uphold the old order in Southern Africa, we are bound to welcome the Soviet and Cuban involvement. Who can doubt that if this had not occurred South Africa's m litary might would have crushed Dr Neto's forces, imposed a South African puppet state in Angola and set back the anti-apartheid cause by at least a decade? I am by no means an uncritical admirer of the Soviet Government. I deplore its persecution of political dissidents within its borders and its no-colonial relationship with the states of Eastern Europe. If, however. the Soviet Union - from whatever motives -supports the right side in Southern Africa, then I wholeheartedly applaud, Peter Jones A44itEWSareade, Hafold Smith l estfint eigh-of Russian, and Chubars to support the M"PRL hi i,1hir struggle to liberate the people Rhodesia to help the Smith regime resist the developing liberation strugg there. One of the reasons for this is to consolidate South Africa's own interests - it hoped for as long as possible to have a buffer zone to insulate it against the forces of the nationa liberation movement coming from the north. In spite of UN resolutions, the South African regime has defied world public opinion and instead intensified its stranglehold on Namibia and persecuted its libera. tion movement led by SWAPO (South West African People's Organisation). One of the regime's main weapors-in its attempt to divert people is the policy of Setting up Bantustans, which is being stepped up also in Namibia. Do the Barrtustans offer any real hope of progress for the African people in South Africa? For over a decade - from the beginning of the 1960s - genuine independence for the peoples of Africa has been on the agenda. Faced inside South Africa with the growing impact of the national liberation movement led by the African National Congress, the Vorster regime tried to put before the country as a so-called solutioi) the Bantustan programme, through which it tried to revert back to old tribal divisions. It was also trying to ensure a constant supply of cheap labour from the 'homelands'. The policy was pushed as a form of decolonisetion and an attempt to fall in step with the rest of the African continent, which had come out since the setting up of the OAU in 1963 for the total independence of the African peoples of Southern Africa. But the real-life experience of the people in the tribal enclaves has been one of detefioration of their material conditions, of-gross overcrowding and ]endlessness. Resistance in these areas has never stopped, in spite of the impression given by stooge 'leaders' that the people have acquiesced in the Bantustans. This has forced the Chiefs to demand more land from the Government -their demands are a reflection of the growing mopd of resistance. Vill the granting of 'independence' which the Vorster rebime has promsed for the Transkei in September this year he any real advance? The announcement of the Transkei's 'independence' in September will be nothing miore than a showpiece gesture that has no real connection with the actual situation. It is just one of the steps by which the regime is intensifying its separate development policy. The Bantustan administrations do not have the right to conduct inde- pendent economic activity. They are only allowed to do what is in the interest of capitalist circles in South Africa which benefitfrom the cruel expioitation of-black labour. The Transkel will have a facade of free political expression, but in fact political expression is illegal. From 1960 the area has been under a continuous State of Emergency which outlaws demands for real independence. The liberation movement in South Africa has asked sympathisers overseas to boycott white South Africa. Why is this? The task of the solidarity movement overseas has grown tremendously in the recent past. In the first place the events in Angola have shown that we are faced by a regime ready to commit aggression outside its borders. This has deepened the crisis - and shown that it can affect not just the African continent but the international community as s whole. So the role of solidarity movements has become more important The African National Coigress has consisternly called for action especially in Western Europe - to build, up a movement against continued investment in South Africa. The UK in particular has continued to play a leading role in flouting resolutions passed by the UN and other international bodies calling for an economic boycott. British invaestment in South Africa now stands at over £2 000 million. Is there any difference between inveafing in the central South African economy and in the Bantustans? It is naive for people to think that if they invest in the Bantustans then they have no dealings with the apartheid regime. It is quite clear that one of the objects of the Bantu- stan scheme is to set up a middle stratum which the reginesytrying to use to gain respectability abroad -whereas in fact the Bantustans are part of the overall apartheid strategy. It follows that the economic boycott should be extended to all sectors of the South African economy. How useful is the boycott of South African sports teams and cultural 'institution;? The Vorster regime has bean vry sensitive to the sports boycott even to the extent of sayin that they will change apartheid provisions which segregate sport. It is absolutely necessary for this form of boycott to be intensified. It is capable of increasing the political crisis inside South Africa as protests from sportsmen of all races against this type of apartheid grow. Wha t do you think of the record of the present Labour Government on South Africa? What demands should we make of it? In spite of Labour Party resolutions which seek to extend contact withr the liberation movements, the present British Government has been no different from the Tory Government in the way in which it has continued economic contact with whiteSouth Africa. In fact, there has been an increase in contacts between British business circles and the apartheid regime, which has led to increased investment. British public opinion must raise the call for the British Government to fall into line with resolutions of the international community which seek the isolation of South Africa's racist regime. WSKADR WIT of Angola. Surely itis obvious that their right to participate derives quite simply from the fact that the MPLA invited them to do so? By the same token I hope none of us would question the 'right' of the Cubans to enter Namibia if SWAP0 should decide to ask them for this particular form of support, The fact that our own British Government is still not offering SWAPO its unequivocal backing should not lead us to criticise those other governments which are showing the people of Namibia more concrete solidarity, *Vorster and his allies in Britain would have us believe that all intervention is automatically wrong. Isn't it time for us to recognise that there is a crucial moral difference between intervention on the side of the oppressed and intervention orf' the side of their oppressors? Between right and wrong? in the words of Labour's Programme: 'there can be no neutral ground.' Which side am we on? Francis Prideaux Sykes repays a debt COMEDIAN Eric Sykes, who is currently on a morale-boosting tour of twhite Rhodesian, tr6dii ahf been reported les satidg aMy chhiilnce I isciear' The librente6l many bf these lads fought for Britain during ...... as the war. I feel I would like to -repay the debt in whatever small way I can.' It might interest Mr Sykes to know that he will have to cross the lines if his debt payment is to be complete and honest. In fact, the Rhodesian forces who fought in the Second World War consisted of approximately 6 000 white, and 14 000 black volunteers. It is conceivable that the fathers of the lads that white Rhodesia is now preparing to meet in the battlefield fought for Britai'in the last war. The process of debt-paying after the war has a tragic history. The white volunteers who survived were set up in ranches With hefty lowinterest loans, while tltiIsaws-of blac jreol!v were moved to virgin landS'withoclt'such infrastnuLture as roads and railways. For the black volunteers a bicycle and a small sum of money was considered enough In contrast, any white people from Germany and Italy were given favourable settlement grants if they chose to go to Rhodesia after the war. Some, of their sons are now fighting with the white army which Eris Sykes now fees obliged to repay. Yours sincerely, Edgar MaOy Terrorist Acts by Smith Regime IT is appalling to read (February AA News) that the Smith regime is still tentncir African Ifreed o fuhte teat n g nI t di ToPliare British srbfectt , And surely they are fighting againist an lljngal regime, which is totally' hostile to the. British Government? The Government ought to make the position clear to Smith and his cronies. If they hang people without legal authority, then they are committing murder. When the rebellion is brought to an end, then the regime ought to be tried for their crimes, including murder. To get the British Government to act, pressure is needed from every supporter of AntiApartheid. The Smith regime can't be won over with kid gloves - threats are needed to brirg home what will eventually happen to them. R T Simpson No British hired killers WE have already seen British mercenaries going to Angola to fight in a civil war. There have also been instances of British citizens being recruited to fight in Rhodesia. Is it not time for AAM and its supporters to bring pressure on the Government to declare cc".ao cally that anyone goingfrom this country to fight in Rhodesia would be breaking a UK sanctions order and will be prosecuted? It could make a worthwhile camJames Grace

ASolidarfity vs A WOMEN'S Conferenceto demandson them: adjustingthe discuss solidarity with South wording of the new law on women's African women is being held rights;or arguing about thc appliesby the Anti-Apartheid Move- tion of equal payand job opportuniment onApril 24. HILDA ties, These are vitallyimportant, of BERNSTEINexplainsthe course,buttheydoobscure the importanceof the conference basic structures ofwomen's exploitsand arges that women's cion. In South Africa, it is the basic movements everywhere are a structure that reveals itself with part of the struggles of their utmost clarity. ownsocieties. Forthesereasons,thewomen's conference, 'Women Under ApartTHE women's-movementina heid'onApril24,willbemorethan country such as South Africa must a valuable but simple expression of take an essentially different form solidarity with the struggles of from those that have so deeply women in South Africa. By impressed themselves in recent examining the nature and basis of years on the Western world, the oppression of South African Thisdoesnotimplyadifference I in utimte bjetivwomen, it will be possible for in ultimate objvetives; women's British women to learn a3 reat deal movements everywhere want the more about their own disabilities same things. But the differences in and the action that must be taken the nature of our societies lead to towards true liberation. differences in organisation, in Any conference of women that propaganda, and in immediate tries to isolate women's problems aims. The interesting thing is from the context of the intense that in the advanced countries of struggles in their own society is the West the women's movements nothing more than a sham. Like have been to a largeextent self- the convention in Grahamstown at limiting and inward-turning; some- the end of last year, when 700 women times too self-indulgent; probably delegates from South Africa and because in a ountry like Britain overseas met for a week to discuss women wanted first to examine 'Peace, Goodwill and Equality' themselves; their emotions, their as though these high-sounding sexuality, before relating all their principles could be discussed in problems more directly to structures South Africa while excluding alI of society, delegates,organisationsordisTheproblemisoneofpower. cussionsthatwould touch on the 'The mechanism of women's pass laws, Bantustans, familylife and alienation is identical to the mechan- all the rest. ism of the colonised man in colonial Tini Vorster, wife of the Prime society, pr of the worker in capital- Minister, stated that the role of ist society' (Samora Machel). housewife is still one of the most In Britain this tends to be over- honourable professions in the world looked as women wrestle with day for women. The delegates were to day issues that make immediate delighted, and more so, no doubt, th women The women of South'Ifric have a long history of oppression-and of struggle against it. These mothers with their children in their arms took part in the campaign of defiance against unjust laws in the 1950s when Maggie Owies, described ass same shackles, the same widowhood, work and study, through collective Coloured organiser of the Domestic the same orphanhood, the same internal struggle.... (Machel Workers' Union, pointed out that tears caused by colonialism and The Women's Conference could domestic servants are the 'key exploitation. We are united through well prove one of the most imporpeopleinsociety', thediscoveryofcommonwounds tant actions ofthewomen's moveYes,onemaylaugh,But andscars,but above all unity is ment in Britain, for the women of Margaret Mead was there, and realised through common effort, this country, as well -as of South Britain's Sheila Scott OBE, and links are forgethrough collective Africa. Dame Mary Cartwright from Girton College. April 24 must telp right this wrong. At this moment of treiisendous historical change in Southern Africa, women everywhere must find ways of struggling and working together, 'All bear the same scars, all have known the same hunger, the same poverty, the same suffering, the Jamaican women against apartheid JAMAICA'S High Commission in It said that Jamaica had never London has protested against the contemplated any association with inclusion of Jamaica in a list of the event - which was dominated by countries to be represented at last South Africa's white establishment December's World Convention of - and that representation would Eminent Women held in South have been a negation of Jamaica's Africa, policy of opposition to apartheid. Supportgrowsforwomen'smeeting Wanderers'visitbreaks APPLICATIONS are now steadily Institutes and the Co-operative with speakers including ex-political international boycott coming into the AAM office for the Women's Guild, are undertaking prisoners Stephanie Sachs and first ever 'Womed Under Apartheid' national mailings of their members Shanti Naidoo. ENGLAND'S Mike Denness is one of New Zealanders Glenn To conference, whichis being held on Thefa'ct that such abroad In theafternoon, apanel of ateamof Test star cricketers who John Morrison, and John Saturday April 24 at the Central spectrum of interests and activities women, experienced in a variety of are to tour South Africa in an of the West Indies. London Polytechnic lecture theatre. will be represented at the conference fields, will lead the debate on the attempt to break its'virtual isolation The Guyana Governm, Representntives from organisations will make the event amost meaning- campaigning work that can be from world class cricket, announced that Australia as diverse as the Mothers Union, the ful one. The situation of women undertaken in Britain. They The team - the International who tour South Africa w Commonwealth Countries League, living under apartheid will be include: Margaret Jackson MP, Wanderers - will be captained by refused entry to Guyana Women for World Disarmament and presentelto a gathering which is Under Secretary of State for Australia's Greg Chappell, and Australia's tour of the W Women's Liberation are among those capable of translating basic support Education; Pauline Webb, General includes Australians Gary Gilmour, scheduled for 1978-79. requesting credentials. Several and sympathy intoypositive cam- Secretary, Methodist Church Max Walker and Ashley Mallett, trade unionists - including delegates paigning action. (Overseas Division); Judith Hunt, from Trades Councils-- havealso Themorningsessionof National Women'sOfficer, given indicated they will be attending conference will take the form of AUEW-TASS;'Penny.Cooper, Squash team g en the l Many organisations, including an historical and descriptive'analysis National Union of Students. SOUTH Africa's Springbok squash Racial Olympic Council) Regional Labour Parties, the of women under apartheid and the Conference registration forms team has been forced to withdraw organisers fear that they National Federation of Women's women's campaign for freedom, appear on the back page of this from the team event infr e t Itrw nheir E13 000 grant fro issue ofAA NewS, New Zealand Government shoulders the cost of collaboration with apartheid SOUTH Africa's softball tour of nament protesters at the ground ships, New Zealand bad confirmed New Zealand was reduced to a farce easily-outnumbered paying specta- its position as 'the world's leading by anti-apartheid groups who tors. Several hundred police were collaborator with apartheid sport!. mounted demonstrations at all the deployed in a massive operation It pointed out that the New apartheid team's matches, involving special command posts, a m Zealand Government had spent The team vfsited New Zealand to mobile police station for processing hundreds of'thousands of dollars on take part in the World Softball arrests on the spot, electronic equip- a p9lice operation to enforce a tour Tournament, which was held there ment and police dog units. condemned bythe UN. at the beginning of February. This pattern was repeated in the Countries from Africa, Asia and Only12 of the 46 member ten days following the champion- Latin America, it pointed out, had countries of the International Soft- ships when the South Africans boycotted New Zealand for the first ball Federation accepted invitations played a series of matches through- time as a result of the tour, to the Tournament, and five of outNewZealand. We bans these later withdrew in response ta The South African team went est Germany ea appe* the UN Special into hiding and Weremoved secretly Springbok wrestlers Committee Agoinst Apartheid for a around the country under massive WEST.Germany has cancelled an inboycott of the ehampionshipa. - police protection. Whenever they vitation to South Africa's Springbok Two further teams - from Japan were located vigils were mounted wrestling team, after being warned and Canada - were disowned by outsidetheir billets, bythe International Wrestling their governments. Only the USA, In a statement issued after the Federation that it risked suspension Taiwan, Guam, South Africa and tour, CARE (Citizens Association from the 1976 Olympis if the tour New Zealand hadrefusedi disown forRcial fuarit, o c .w -btd . theirsides, thabyivitingSogthAfrietl t ,South- Aricaehas been escedled .Onthe opening day of the tour-. take parfip,t qSftuag Clamponl- from the iternational body.. urner and Shepherd ent has n cricketers ill be during st Indies )ush made the would lose the Sports tional Squash Championshipsto be Council.heldin Britainin May. Butthe South Africans will still They were dropped after protests compete at Wembley in the indivifrom SANROC (South African Non- dual events. SA sports propaganda exposed NINETY-TWO per cent of parti- 6 917 participants, 6 393 were cipants in sporting events put on as white, 331 were African, 135 were part of South- Africa's much- vaunted Coloured, and B8 were Asian. 'multi-nationil' sports policy were The figures relate to special white, according to South Africa's 'multi-national' events which South Minister of Sport, Dr Koornhof. Africa has staged in an attempt to In reply to a parliamentary offset its growing isolation from question, the Minister said that of world sport. Football team disowned ARGENTINA'S Football Association tion (FIFA) visits South Africa to has disowned an Argentinian team report on Whether it should be which is currently touring South readmitted to the world body Africa. It has told the team's membersthattheywillbebanned Canadian ban from matches held under its auspi- SOUTHAfricahasbeenbannedces. fromthe Paraplegic Olympiad, The team is scheduled to play a which is to take place in Canada in South Afican 'raulti,'mciel'side at August. Thebanni-hearsuItof thesme time asa coenissio n from " ,action taken by the Canadian, Gov ,the International.Foatbalt Federa- ement. - .. ,.. ,....:_.. t I ; *

Blacks kept out of white shows THE performing arts in South Africa are as strictly segrepted as any other aspect of South African life. JOHN MATSHI KIZA explains how cultural apartheid works and reaffirms the call for a b0ooott of white South African theatre and concert halls. THE few 6~ack people~who attended the 'mixed audienct'mcocerts Tom Jones gave on his February tour of South Africa looked not only strangely out of place in the predominantly white audience, but embarrassed to be there at all. The promoters anI orgarlisers of his tour, 'puzzle ' should be reminded that thiswas due to the fact that the cost of tickets for the performances was so high that only a select (possibly selected?) few were able to take advantage of the special permission which was given by the South African Government for these special performances to be opened to 'other races'. But at least other races were present, an event which, because it was inconceivable only a few years ago, is given great significance. Indeed, as promised by the South African Government at the UN, within South Africa, and elsewhere, signs are proliferating of barriers being lifted and black faces emerging among the white at selected cultural events. Or, where it is not possible actually to mix the races on the same night Me live in a complicated country,' explains one South African minister), at least some facilities, such as a few theatres, are finally being opened on certain nights to black audiences (only). Following the precedent of the Nico Malan Theatre in Cape Town, .e administrations of theatres in other major centres in South Africa have also decided to permit the entry of black citizens to their theatres. This has happened in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durhan, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, and other cities. These are put forward as tremendous concessions on the pert. of white South Africa. With a beckcloth of the opening of the Witwatersrad Agricultural Show to blacks (admittedly only on five of the thirteen days of the Sho'w's duration); the admission of 'Coloured and Indian persona' to the Municipal Reference Library in East London (admittedly with the result that the Government withdrew its subsidy to the library); and the removal of some other aspects of 'petty apart- heid', the people of South Africa and the world at large are expected to believe that there have been real changes. But for South Africa it sems that such liberalisation msust not go to far. UJnderapartheid law, itis still necessary for government permits to be given beore any s mixed audience can be allowed, as is the case where a black or mixed cast performs before a white or m ixed audience, And among the black People who attend such performances, Afrias whocaniafford to spend an evening at thetheatre face the possibiflity of arrest as they leae unless they have previously obtained special 'pass' permitfin them to be in White areas during curfew hours The moves to allow limited lntegration of this kind, then, do little Zon) are in several ates based on alfegations tttey expressed revolutionary sentients in drarnatic or peticform, outihAfrica's institutions by definition restrict cultural freedom. Very recently, it has been reported thetthe Natioal Drtana Library in Bloemafontein hasvrefused to allow a black thetre group to use scripts pvailabe in thatlibrry because a conditionof itsgrant from the Govemnt statesIhat the loan of script should be for the benefit of' whit% only, Above allI, ils~mcessary to see cultural suppresslon i the light of the general suppresion which operates agaist the human rights of all thePeople of South Africa, and which is used to justify the intinidetion, imprisonment and killing of *ECIAL SIKWWS P NXT WEEK . ASIANS & COLOUREDS 7.30 PM - NEXT TUESDAY BLACKONLY 7,10 PM INEXT THUA * YOUR OWN SPECIAL * OPPORTUNITY TQ SEE * * "THE GREATEST MUSICAL "*. * PLAY YET, .YEN IN JHB" ...... i '. ws"V . cdi.. oN.SU1. : = W AT . to clarify the complexity of the South African situation, or to bring any real changes in the oppression which denies black South Africans any true rights in their own country. n the field of culture alone, such moves affect only a tiny pert of the cultural life of South Africa. A vat majority of performances in the field of music, drama and so on take place in segregated conditions. Zind even in these conditions South Africa's extraordinary and paranoid censorship laws restrict what artists may perform, no matter what the composition of the audience. It, is important to remember that 'artistic forms have played amajor pert in the liberation struggle in South Africa, To look only at events currently taking place in South Africa, indict. ments against militants of SASO (South African Students Organise. people in the interests of the maintenance of apartheid. I In March, the South African Government gave permission for Wilson Pickett to perform in South Afri - txcusively black audiences. At the same time, The Three Degrees have been refused Permission to perform because they insisted chat no such racial restrictions should be applied Under such conditions co selfresliocting artist can allow himself or herself to be an agnt of the South African regime. We must all accept that a complete cultural boycott, as called for by the UN, the OAU and the istemational community, by the South African liberation movement and by the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain is a vital part of the struggle for freedom in South Africa. Total isolation for SA sportsmen A NEW coordinated attack on every i World Squash Championships CARE is planning to act as a ovseas visitmiebyeparheisid inUK,April-May resourcecentreforthecampaign, South African teams las been calfed * World Youth Sailing Cheem- , -It appeals to anti-apartheid groups for by the New Zealand Anti-Apart. pionships in Canada, July everywhere to heldMovement. WorldOKDinghyYachting iSendadvanceinformation The Movemnent ints out that Chempionships in Denmark, abotat anyoverseastripe the number of countries still pro- -July plannedbyanyracist pared to host such vidits is now very is World Trampoline Chem- South frican team srel. . pionship in Oklahoma, USA, *MonltPit li at airports Thlistofknowneventsinswhich July andsporgros andsend Slth Africa has beens-inwitedto Astatementfro CARE(Citi- letters end cablsroteting taePtin 1976is: zes Association for Racial Equality) aelrt overealsit% byracist I . ..0 * 1fancellsattentiontotheUNGenerld SmuthAfrcan t es ships New Zealand, AssemsblyreselationofNovember against othew~ams PA Feray 1975,whichcagledforaworld nationswhicharelast-ditch tems seeiiii 6. ~ rtt" I Tennis ~Ia in Plm'lh U prhi Anti-Apartheid Movement supporters gase out leaflets asing ballet dncem not to perform in South Africa outside auditions held by Ballet Intersiationel in London in March. SA Ballet touts for stars in London BALLET International, South newproductionof The Sleeping Africa's latest attempt at breaking Beauty. the cultural boycott, met with a Outside the first auditions held decidedly cool reception at its press by the Ballet at Covent Gardens launch in London in February. Dance Centre, anti-apartheid In reply to questions about the supporters gave out leaflets exconditions under which the Ballet plaining how South African would perform in South Africa, interests were financing the new its Director Max Martin admitted: company in an attempt to buy 'There is a prospect of our dancing themselves back into the interbefore segregated audiences.' national arts arena. He refused to say whether black The Anti-Apartheid Movement artists would be allowed to appear has pointedouthowtheOrangeonstage. FreeStaterigidlyenfresapa Asked if the Ballet haped to held in the field of the-arts. engageMargot Fonteyn and Its onlyrecent concession has Rudolf Nureyev, ashad been been to allow onetheatrein epeculated in the press, Max Bloemfontain to pat on occasional Mortin laid: 'We can make no performances for a segregated comment on the guests' nanmes at Coloured audience. 'Thus: saysthispoint.' theAAM statenent, 'a white cast The company has financial performs occasionally to a black backing from the Performing Arts audince in a white theatre.' Council of the Oranga Free State The Movement also reminds (PACOFS) which has contracted to ballet lovers that esevre young pay It £200 000 a year focjive yearn, black artists involved in the antiIn return it will epend two six. apartheid Theatre Council of Natal week periods touring South Africa and the People's Experimental each year. Its first performance Theatre wave detained in the rbeant there will be in Johannesburg in wave of arrests in South Africa and October when it will preaent a that some of them are still being held in pol. t is pernicious, says AAM, that ata time when black dncen e making a growing contribution to -Aberdeen ourcl fe,racilPhilosophies ~should be allowedto enetate fth -A be~dde .41 British ballet community. ABERDEEN Anti-Apartheid Move- The Movement therefore asks ment has asked Aberdeen District all opponents of apartheid to stand Council to reconsider its grant to the firm in suppot of the cultural International Festival of Youth boycott. Orchestras and Performin Arts unless the Festival's organiers agree M iller says 5nottoinviteperformersfromSouthAfrica. rpe .pl y South Africa was strongiy rePrL seanted at last year's Festival and South African financial interests AMERICAN playwright Arthur were prominent among advertisers Miller has refused permission for his in the Festical brochure, play 'The Crucible- to be staged in Last year's Festival was also South Africa after the authorities attended by the South African refused to allow a black woman to ambassador, playaleadlngblackrole. Aberdeen AAsays that the Theplaywas to hlebeen staged Festiv is being used a part of an . bya Statetsuheidlsed body, the attenrpt to gain respectabillity for Performing Arts Council for th South Africa in the field of the Transval (PACT). arta and to break the csulturfal PACT's Chairman said thatteperboycott mainatained by writers, mnsson forea black actress to playactorsandmusiciansbyr akinguse therolewagrefusedbecause*ofyongeope. 'PC1.IuI t :'~~ Jmi~~lnfmr Furter ifration: Lndy wts . ;:.r;Z~r; -o. Te e i

Anti-ApartheidNews April1976 Page11 " 'Trut WI HOW did the Br report recent ev I n this special fe exposes its bias it failed in its ta the British publ 'ANGOLA'S Agon to Chaos', and 'Wi Congo' were some that filled the Brit November and De fight for Angola 55 Intense. The repo headlines were sel mative. All was fusion. Now that sone settled it is possibl dispassionately at the Angolan war b and television and by and large the m their task of infor At first sight it as the situation wa was the reporting. the situation waso those i whose int worked. Ali thee twelve months - t outmanoeuvre MP tional government lwtions to FNLA, Luanda, the suppil material and merce and UNITA and th invasion and curre so uthern Angola re large-scale effort b to prevent MPLA at all costs. -The Western pr Sspeaking, reflected elm. t did this fi tently misrepresen nature of the coan a a squabble for warring factions, wine MPLA, the 2 h was an early casualty errors of omission were many 4at the papers aid itih Pstory featvred in The Guardian only ents irs Angola? after FNLA had finally collapfed. sature, J S Marsh In the earlyautumn, when MPLA and argues that was in control of 12 out of the 16 ask of informing provinces and preparingforindepenic. denceday, the press continued to write about 'war-torn' Angola, sy', 'Countdown piinting all sorts of rumours about orse than the violence and anguish. The plight of 'of the headlines the 'refugees' was treated as a senuine tish papers in sob story. camber when the Earlyon, MPLA recognised the ?as at its most dangers of such unsubstantiated irts below the reporting and issued warnings to dom more infor- newsmen about false reports and arnage and con distortions, eventually taking control of the communications media of the dust has to checkthe dispatches leaving leto look back Luanda. Even so the message took the handling of some time to get through to the y the British press sub-editors at home: one Guardian to conclude that report had best 'bloodbath contiedia failed in nues' headlines over a sober on-thesuing the public, spot report of how life in Luanda might appear that was returning to normal under is confused, so MPLA's directipo. But in essence Prevetted from filing the stories aly confused by they liked from Luanda, the print erest confusion a d agency correspondents decam pn events of the past to UNITA territory, datelining their MP.A, and the earliest prest credit M :he attempts to reports from Huambo and Lusaka, reports confirm this. - tactics. LA in the transi- At this point the onlysure wayof Then oddlyenough all men with Ma t the CIA contri- Then odl enuh al meto with 'M,the Cal fonr working out- what was happening m of South African troops was 'p roCo tiye of for Luanda was to confine oneself to dopped from Angola reports, The abounds naries to FNLA reading only those reports that came force was referred to asa joint rose by I h South African from Luanda. Other, particularly FNLA-UNITA force, As late as soldiers in ochuAicn o those emanating from FNLA HO in November 17, The Times headlined troops re st occupation of Kinshasa, were wild in the extr-me, its front page report 'WhiteTroops cold war spresented a From UNITA territory the media among forces edvancing on Luanda' y Western powers concentrated on promoting Jonas By this time the south Africans had gnuielc coming topower Savimbi,whohadbeen selectedby teee Sow ns adentheyWesterninterests asthe moderate, taken several keyowns andwere they wr ess, generally hope for peace and stability in indeed threatening the capital. Daily d and assisted this Angola, despite what was known of But South African involvement rstly by consis- his past collaboration with Porto. could not be kept secret - both ting the basic hise coloaion ITN and The Observer produced li~, peeti g u it guav colonialism, flint,presentingit clear-evidence - and this was a powerbetween Bymid-OctoberMPLAhad cevee a th a s a in order to under- almost succeeded in defeating both ,vere blow to the anti-MPLA A wo other groups FNLA and UNITA militarilyand cause. (By this time FNLA and Sote gu t t, , thatt,,he, vk. UNITA had shown their real func- determined attempt to dis- 'sharp-eyed and bearded Marxists' is PLA with all kinds of smear MPLA is hard tjudge. Every mention was prefaced All in all the conduct of the rxist' or 'Russian-backed' or press over Angola left much to be munist'. Scare stories desired. Truth was an early casualty. d. The number of Cubens Errors of omission were as great as taps and bounds, Soviet those committed, as-we see now, cere seen, and FRELIMO when Angola has ceased to be news ported captured, The and all the correspondents have was reactivated with a moved on. By implication the conand many people became tinuing South African occupation of confused - though what southern Angola and the troop expected to make of the build-up there is both justified and ?egraph's description of the acceptable. Lnnie Goldberg werebuiltupinpressreportsand po"It'c"y. wa** byf.ri.anA..t widespread support attributed to final attempt to defeat MPLA on the tion by forming an alliance At ALL her adult life Annie Goldberg together with the other women hmwnts nelthyasss n ground was launched, with the once a new diplomatic offensive , ws a fighter. She lived in South arrested, a few of whom remained South African-led invasion from was launched at the OAU, whose Africa for 35 years and from the her closest friends. Prison stories events showed, they had no exis- Namibiaon October 23. purposewastoraisethe'RedBogy'. time she landed in Table Bay in tell of Annie's verve and spirit, and tenewithoutforeignsupport. Thepressimmediatelyfollowed January1930her devotion to the her animated rendering of 'Oh, to The extentofthissupr TheSouthAfricanpresencein rs ort A a this force- togetherwithanFNLA causeofafreeandequallifefor bein England now that Apri's here'. from hemeS Zire, oth Ara detachment led by DanielChipenda 10f allSouthAfricans never wavered. Annie was 61 years old. She was and elements in Portugal - was (whohserIoleinthewholeconflict AnnieFineberg was borninthe interrogated but refused to answer wallbowatlargelyignorednvestigatebythe LondonHospital,Stepney, on questions. Theywerenever kno twa nae otherer niehe Spinolist ELP com February 11 1899, and for the next charged and after two months were gnoredtoootherevide meial andPortugteP 24yearsshelivedwithinthe sound released. FNLA in Luanda which, sigenicant- army in why had fled Mozam- of Bow Bells. She died in Hendon Rivonia came three years later. ly, did not appear in the press until bique and been recruited in SANITY, the paper of the Campaign Cottage Hospital on February 21 Dennis was arrested and sentenced sixmonthslater. The RhodesiaandSouthAfrica(again, forNuclearDisarmament(CND) 1976. tolife imprisonmeitein July 1964. hatrocity evidence of which was not followed keeps you in touch with the arms Immediately on their arrivlin After t0 years of persistent nagging, ...... race,thethreatofwarandhopes SouthAfricaAnnieand her husband, Annie was given permission finally NEW PUBLICATIONS forpeace.£1ayearfromCND, SamuelGoldberg,became involved to visit him in March 1974, for the Eastbourne House,-Bullards Place, in the trade union movement at a first and only time. 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Women's role in th fight for freedom " Campaigning work among British wome n Spekers will include: former South African political prisoners; Margaret Jackson P, Ornder S;ecretay of State for Education; JU dith Hunt, National Women's Officer AUEW-TASS; Pauline Webb, General S.Cretary, Methodist ,Church (Overseas Division); Penny Cooper, National' Unio)n of Student natonl executive. Chairprson: Janey Buchan (Glasgow Councillor and prospective Parliamentary Labour Cadidae), Readings and poetry by South Afican cultural group' New photographs from South Africa A creche will be available REGISTRATIO)N FORM - WOMEN UNDER APARTHEID Please send conference papers and details to: N am e ...... A dd ress ...... O rganisatio n ...... I...... Number attending...... Enelosedirgst rdttnofle ofl,.+ .+. (5010pqr pierson' .. . r m++)+' - '+ :\/,+...... nt AA8Calots - L...... VlR..... 1 11