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Please i uth Africa has received an enormous pile of lettersa sending messages of support and sympathy, and ui mother of bavid Moise, one of six young freedom 'ongress currently on death row in Pretoria Prison. the brink of execution, held back by the weight a The brains drain ... orn pr be to the is Six Ri mnesages and telegrams strong esnough to counter tott- . --A David NMoise, Johannes Sisal on 19 August 1981 for 1) ircus Motaug nearly a year tivities. All had previously I ie achievemnents so far of the! , Tele I- AcinNtoa &I, In ase ua boycott apaftheidprp Uits present the ambassador wihaltter BrdtvdandtoSig.tilepetiticontothleloeat urging his~ governm ent to 'elease BrdfrdauthoiY. Mandelaadallpoliticallprisoners. the week finished in the City THE nwly frmedBradfrd ~ Sqar with a 24-hourpickeich, THE wy- Brnf r eAA dspite torrential rain, attracte n- Ojouphelda Ir sucetfulpiket,siderableattention. OntheSaturday ofacitycentrebranch ofBarclays afternoontherewasarallyaddressed Bankon 5Maarch. by Erie Ross MP, and freedom songs TYNESIB AA Group is oegan a As well as distributinginformation were 'sung' by something resembling busy programme of events tirou about the boycott of Barclays and a choir made up oflocal group a em- to the autumn, including fringe meeturging eaptonlers and passesa-byto bers. ingsattheregionalTUCandLabtour join arti-aprtheid work locally, the The week was a success bot in Party conferences, a public meeting picketers cOilected over 150 signa- terms of publiciy ansupport.Apart on the war against the, frot line lures for thte Free Netsun Mdandela from tre more than 2,000 pettion states, a 24-hour vigil fr Nelson petition, signatures, the varsa actions got Mandela on 18 July (isa65th birthBradford AA is planning to hold into the local news four times and day), a Sow to Walk in Iune and a regular pickets of Barclays as well as £110 was collected in material aid series of other fund-raisingactiviies other street activities to focus atten- forSWAPO. I Thegroupisalsotryingtowork tion on the apartheid system and the Contact: Steve Reicier, 28 Patons more closely with local trade unionsupport it receives from Britain. The Lane, Dundee. istsandhasformedaTradeUnion Grouphasalso,beenorgunsinga Committee.NewcastleTradesCouncil publicmeeting,on28April,forthewww.nuance.com hasalready adopted two South Sothern Africa Tine to Act cam- r h African political prisoners and several palgn. .otherunionbrancheshaveaffiliated Contact: Bradford AiA, eo Starry _to the local group. PloughPDF Bookshop, 6 Edmund Create! Street, TEA AND CAKES with the Tory5 Trial Meanwhile, students in the NewBradford 5, West Yorks. - Lord Provost of Ed inbrgh " - sond castle Uijversity AA Goap are setting genteel but it turned into somethl-i up a sponlsorship fundfor African D quite different forthe South Afrcan National Congress medical students ambassador to Britai when he found to enable them to study at the uni he had to ran the gauntlet of anti- versity medical school. There is over apartheid demonstrators. £6,000 in the fund already but thisis OVER 2,000 people in Dundee signed Labour councillors charged Lord mainly for academic fees. If the ANC a petition calling on the Tayside Provost Tom Morgan with bringing students are to comn ence their Regional Council to declare itself an disgrace to their city by invitin , cousses without delay, the group apatheid-free zone, doting a week f Marais Stayn to Edinburgh. Biefore needs to raise- at least part of the action organisell by the Dundee Anti- joining South Africa's diplomatic necessary maintenance costs very Apartheid Group from 11-19 March. corps, Steyn used to be in charge of rapidly. Donations- f-rom AA New Dundee AA - relaunched in Feb- foread removals and the destruction readers will, be most welcome; alterruary at a meeting of 40 people - ofblackpeople's homes. ntively, if you knowof any organisastarted off the week with a meeting Edinburgh AA quickly mobilised tion that might be able to contribute, addressed by Bob Hughes MP, AAM . 40 supporters when they learned 'f please contact Jeremy She~pherd, AA chairperson, who also participated in the previously unpublicised visit. The GroupNewcastle University Students a phone-in at Radio Tay off the theme protestors lined the corridor of the Union, Tel Newcastle (0632) 812144 of the'consumer boycott. city chambers, ochanting "Free - or 811911. Shops selling South African goods Mandela! Free Mandela!' Tyneside Local AA Group can wire picketed every day during the Labour councillor Richard Kerley also be contacted through Jeremy week of action, with shopers being was able to get into the tea-party' to, Shepherd. jazz afrika BarENays END LOANS to. South Africa athelO0Club (ELTSA)arepublishinganother S r 2M ShadowReportonBuclaysBank. aiss,- chsy &MsiCoveting thebnk', latest operations100OxfordStreet,LondonWI inSouth Africal ani Namibia, it is Samtlam icketE3 vailablefor75p(flincludinpusSpinoha Ticlst3anttpeaejing,specinl rates tor I TI,--- f Liking Up hI London's boroughs -more groups Ineeded MORE Anti-Apartheid Grouter in London boroughs had sent reisresesiLondon is the aim of the London AA tatives to the conference. Committee following its successful SWAPO's deputy representative, conference on 19 March. Jacob Hannai, and Ait Pahad of the Al out 70 people at tse Africa ANC of South -Africa set ona the Centre watched-Last Grave at Dim- Iosition ijf the liberation moveents. - and Forward to a Pep 's Foectfithve information on -he Rpublic, andtookpartinworkshops ILondon AA Committee, conact on sanctions, Nanibia and support Christabel Gurney, 2 1 Ladbroke [og'the front ine states. Othersspent Grove, London -O1, Tel 01-969 pat of the, afternoonn ollecting 091.. signatures to the Free Mandela petition at City AA's 24-hour picket out- enefit side South Africa House. The meeting was held as part of thelaunchoftheAAM'sSouthern n rtAfrica:TimetoActcampaign.Every- Stephen Baron, piano one, agreed that the Anti-Apartheid e Movement needed to extend its playing Beethoven hopindand organisation at thegrass tootsand Schubert that formingnew groups shouldwww.nuance.com be a Sunday15 May priority in the campaign. Some of .3Oa.a ' those present were already members Lauderdale Hoiee,.Waterlo, Park of incal groups - others said they HighgateHill,LondonN6wantedtojoin. Admaissionbypqrgamm1.50 TheworkshopPDF onsanctionsheard Create! avalable from 5 Trial about the Tower Hamlets Council's 7 New End, HampsteadNW3 decision not to place a contract with Tel 794 3546 Plessey because it sells equipsment to the SADF. It agreed to follow up, i Organised by Camden the Lond n boroughs, the Sheffield Anti-Apartheid anti-apartheid conference for local Proceeds for SWAPO medical authorities most of the inner & kits cmpalgn Festival of alrican sounds '83 iSundiy l7July llam to llpm . AlexandraPalace,lorh London featusring DOLLARBRAND (Abdllahl Ibrahim) anid the Dollar Brand Quartet Juliam Ilahula's JAZZ AFRIKA GONZALEZ KABBALA du Pukwaa's ZILA ORCHESTRE JAZIRA HILJFE IN4TEkNAT1ONAL SP RITACUS EntranmcetS, £3 unwaged, £1 children Further lformation 10-232 0829 IS YOUR TOWNd HERE., fihe Anta-Apartheid MIovemlent has local groupIs ill the follo~rllsg centres: Aberdeen Dundee Oxford Banstead Edinburgh Peterborough Barnet Enfield Plymouth Bath Epsom Rigate Birmingham Exeter Riehmeond Borders Glasgow Scarborough tirasntre Hackney Sheffield

-The ewly elected AZAI' exreeutive - pledgcd to Sortit Afejeart government bodien and plans Sciuth Af rica S- ot[ Africa ,,,e ited 1or lte sond Natioal Detatnees' Day on 1Fetteay tlii tr Aflerwards, , pettlo as sen lt to tite stat, preside, callang fo, iter for lte, AN( Sis. Anmvet fali ,byDtanees ParntsSoppo1t ~Coiifean d more, titn a see o1 assoaut urtortur,-ot dties ANATNALfo gptjonnen in Son.tit Attita to rntisoppositin to titt regime's comtLit tsonal prp,,it'" beig elsdbyLsio D--mon Tuitu, 9eer1- ere,1yotihe Sntl Atrra oncI of Chureises amongosay ottrs nd is tila;ning to mee i''mno ra, nortitr Tronsvast, on 1 1-12 1 one thi, ,e,,.Tidis Cente nec f THEL Azanian Stuýden.t, i Orrnoarn iiI vr gi 11r11eaI wii, Glasgov di of Greenwi,'cht anti-apaerthseid mtratlte Eiendom .f tirrm reedom, of [snn Mandeta ta planned f or Nelson sand 5th itItteayon nIteta; Camndet -- disinv p .d-erbo'ycottl; tIug.. .p on tie ooftin flir cityfor Manidea, Liged. to malte Marela.ter rd, ti eid-free. one Hnekney - bt9ldt, n flat, otlers seb s after Mand eta; tlnelow >,, deided on býoycott, aparthrid-free zone re of ~illaarty rod to be rnnr1after iaaing a report- tslingté1n -aceftont Witiitra Sliefielt 1-a1 Ba,,lays roor boyeott; -. Barclays anronn] ,vith,],ra,www.nuance.com aetions atready -Pahle gard, enjxamned a rities and repor- dla, Nolti,,ghamsthe adie Aberdeen ltoy cott, ftae failities f tnon sviti all- of loenli .overPDF 20 ya a etnec Create! 5 Trial , sr nr ,n o~ apathteidt .,mpaigo, , Ariti-AtotthiidNews Ma y1983 Pene3 &Aberdeen ltrou,.ga Lanti-aparthitd astorty, Tosver hr City H ametsa apartlsi-fe .oe, alisinWinnte vettmrent front Ri, TL.to-Zinr; restmenmt, Wrekin-, Barclays aront wietdrawo; Prelm and Shefficl d itsetf lthe fIrst to GrenSer dtclart an npatheid-ts'r one, in lboycntt' Ortober 1981., ~eamen ______produ,, dn1aed,,, Mbandela. 'on fromt Læ.nbtetit n; Leltds prodrara Afian National Comngress in]emrbes $ravelled hieesalong theýBerksIfjrQ roads on 11 6o Friday. aedemtonstration against the depiloymtrel (ar Britain ansd for nuelear disarnntent Lýypeopie lin thr tlree nul~r installations of toef1 RIP"""-~ Burgitltld, AjdermasQn and (-,teen.Id AA N'e- ,,hamtCommot5',dnuanynie' ,'Webejngtot[hose,hoartfigittoreTithai n,i nrer'n, Rdtit Stat ,,rasl t. ,opatad. 'The A\NCeto Stat A oriaigComnfrre on' w/tlah repeaeiedhosbe n arin ZLondo t, explrd titt nro-l to Fer' Nlso Mdnr'S, Dratt ro Southern (sA- TIf), ,i , M 13 Sei~,s Streer, LondoStN w] 01>4W 1. L I----- t"" ane, ftght tor national liberation ts s,ttnfale a n , atsoastrgeforprare,TIseUnite

Miti-ApartheidNew& May1983 Page5 Where, theres brass, ther6s muck FORTY b-d-~me fron, thewww.nuance.com South Afncaa army will meet ýo me deterimmed opposttion If Jersty bu tomss,na Stutart Weaving tries tg toaple.eta teit tr arraoge a tour of W foles f., thru. ThePDF Cape Corpa Band jojurdCreate! up with Stuart W'aving's own "Jones Choir'5 OgrlierTrial this year for a tour of South African tow~s and diti6spon soed by the Springhok Foundftlon - also part of the Wevioing empire. OUr Stuart thioks .th Cape Corps have the tinesf show band ho's ever seen, and li wa ts to 'use his influenc wlith ti South Afrifan Defeise Force to bring them to Britain. Tho Jooes Chioir to-alled scause ery une of is 24 me~,ers to the pseud'onym o,' to try and outwit eritical pdiblicity back home in Wat1s tas pol togcttr by Stuart Weaving af tor two Weteh choirs tned down invitations to tak, part in an international eisteddfod at Rood.poott in South Afica.. Tjse Jonesoured South A1fn8c. fot' te firat liin ln l98t. Mytmi te, ET, give us time ,n[ c make m stakes. aA 64-,,, p-~~, i nfThcifsrmanofBritishTelecom *Iö Ac 64yeah°öo Pensioner, Mrs1 Inte atanosat has admnstted Ilhát -his FtaneRikhlso,. laisaed and lmtanf 00t a , songwh td Ihop biq' dindwIl,tquingtrISmothly å tg;itei f1Yor pfoed pension ~ntSoweto. _e ad"ertset destied for Blok etes h', suomberofntialnewspapersand the sdypiing flogs of the world Namibia the "ystlfl, wh-ibyhundrédsof . .. ouhAran" olderty and aitiop people have to was illustrated by the South Aftican qu fx. r 0 endt am thir flag, rather than that of the United ,]uene fo, hoor, on end to claim thea Natioss ,neagre ipayut,, The p-ai,eha,e In a letter to tho Anti-Apartheid tosadoUt of duoe withoutoslorHvm ,1to sthd ju fdo,,ot shefte, Mö'cemnt, ,Britishà T7,1onr 'hav,, and it was partictlarly old- onthe npirithT co ae m mgor,gs Rikhotsootlapsed hatthearadverlsingagency osed a bock ~ntliled 4 Guidt r te m M .i .oisa Mareme, , 20'year-old t1oWorldby Mouro.Ta7o1ci diabetic, diod at :Ba ågwårat Hos- sa soarce of refereace. This told pilat an Johaneubarg on 18 March thSmthat 'Sooth iWest Aricaicconthisya - 10 dayafcer beng aIes- ar d exat tabthappa' lod under the pass lawa, i1ttly failed pla attht tti, Uty Shedidnothavethemoñeyto i whef,- uthorty. pay th, fine lo get ou of prson, nd it was lever nu inteition to dfi not receie the elsential niedcines cnve' I t impression thot British fr lan couditon, Tel:,ecirto :coglisna South Aftrican so gcigy..verth Toraitotyofc l ae isewich got alotmoen tnutflao ays BT'av cairan,'Ond f cverage in Ihe press than the above regret tht il may have apcared as if two, a 1lack commoaity leadeft, 49 South Africa' yur-oldS1Mkhlz,anosshotda IA4GEO.d " bysouthAfioanP1,~c bil,tatsiig eraipgd totyCt part in a metlmj egai.1 ft t'cndevictionof6,000villagen .the:010 27 tatstais "- ,' "s.sov Tii home, Drinålemb., bin e 21H Jlnburs African gevenenet. AJifomhthie WOSOil 5 ~5ltw rossa 21 ',Toavq esideastad alilved thenn'foraas,1554m 422 nikd yo-ai bandld legal lithetothisIstidt, ~t ~ ~ O Dr kttati Mpakati SOMIthWest Africa THEchairanoftheeiledSocialistLeagucofMalawi,DrAttatiMpàkati, | 1tst: f wsaasinuodi Zuiabbw on 90 24 ,28 Mgch.Hewasf1undthotinth,h,databsycrossroadsinklarare 1 ab 1i D Mpakati, ihose hands wesefl millateldpl in F6bruaY 1979 wha0 r assnttousin _ _ Maputo, ws eagucs latenthat yeár at a coaflernnccon17itntb"worgasad P trN ne b dra theLancasterHousetalksby P Nan Ie . tie Anta-ApartheidMovementand TIIEDefeaceSnctaryofSWAPOothes, ofNamibia, Pelter Nanynmba, was www.nuance.com Speak'ing on behalf of Ziiiabwc's killed in a ear crasfh in Ano ,uje _nigojaatthe rulig party, ti ZANU-PF Deputy beginsaig of April. 1c was involved General Secrietay Don Muvuli said atPDF in a collision nar Lubango Create! in the Dr Mpakati's f n1ral that lo brad5 south ofTrial the untry. been killed by tbc enenmaes of social- Peter Nanymbo was the commanism in Malawi. A statement deploring, detr of the People's Liberation Army his msade was vent by Joan Lestor > of Namibia (PLAN), SWAPO's miliMP, President of tle Malawi Support lacy wing. Consattee in Bitain. _NÅl IBIA IN CHAINS HORRIFIC revelations in a Windtoek courtromn have confimed that the infamous åpartheid prisón labour system - recently documented by the Intemational Defence and Aid Fund in a new Fact Paper* - is flourishing in illegally-occupied Nanibia. Thomas Kate, a lightjy-built fctant saally ~and for c.ttf. H. oÖ, mor, accurately, half-sta fed was forced to pose for photographs blick Namibian eenager, wasput to for Van Rooyen's album, h andde ath in th st gru,omc manner clinche1in a feblo satate. ilagisabie by a hite faron~e toer - Ahe tree days, darigwlich ejagheadandshoulders above blm. 3emaun," chåined to variolts poles Thom ar.yaisten, t . Yeanold nid and posts, Thomas died in agony. His wioghing omotie 45kg, was sering a body' was bisied in a shalloSw grave. p.ison sen tece for an ordinary .Althis happened i n 1981. Althoi Iriminal offencein Namibia. As is end of March this year, Van Royen usual ider South Atfie's prisp was fountl gouity of crlpabl a homilabour system,fhe washaaded over by cide. by the WÄandhcek supre~ ,oa"t the prison authpri is to Andrics Van .and set .l ist years' amprisonl ytoyen, a farer in Tsalieb, nortlhern ment. Ho was sranted hall of R00 Namiia, to work for blm. The sys- .äd ]eae to appal against both tm" is euphnmisticUlly kown as judgsent and sentenco, 'paol ' and it gi-s tho farmer fiit" flos case was brought to orIt reSa to least th, prisle-inwhäte'r l oyreasonweitleoutsidewayhofeelsinclined, worldknow a~ythiug abort it. How, Van Rooyen and his ristos dcci- many other Nainbians. have befn 0ld ro have what they p-resuably muded bohind the sLnistcr sceens peggdd arsofs sport'with iThoms of South, African iedig easorshi , JKasire. le, was chained to a polc by their names unkolnow to lb,,t thuir rh neck and accued ofÅ being ' 2nsiSes d frindat '1ero-ist'.Me ,sas hit on the. head . And what about tho Kassanga with a broom, kicket in ihä snomach d 'tee still i nsonerf a conand fast, slapped on thIleace and hit rentration camtp near MarieOtal, with an e~lptyidrur. asouther Namilbia, fave yeäs aier Fa, wo, was to follow. Van theywere taken prisonor in Angola? Royeo ktokta knife and iashed off The case of Thomas Kasire s a g pat of-Tomas's e,, 'to slsow the reastndr of the kind of dangrs they worIt that you ar a SWAPO'.- H and other Namibian det oecs may was then stabbed in the nose. stomach be facing. lage 6 Anti-Apartiteid Nes May 1983 Whfjte Nuse - a bargain! HOW DOES the emigration of white nurses from Britain ielp-to :maintain apartheid in South Afria? The AAM HEALTH COMMITTEE explains. lotPorted white nurses are a bargin majrity of the people. bcause they hring in the,.equired techical an protessional skills wtli- White South Africa ffaces a nursing out the ~ost of traning. The fart that Shortage, even thoug.h many fylly they are white has implications for the qualified blacknnes are unemployed growth of the white population a, , This apparent anomaly is in fact a whole, something to which the Soutlth direct conseqiunce of apartheid idenAfricain goveramont attaches high ogy, ahich propts South Afica's p ir.it. Thei re ruit nt also meas heath admiistrators, erever that traing opportunities for black, possible, to take stetps to prevent the tpeople ..as be kept to a msoimum, nursing professin froro heing ltherebv making it easier to deny theu ,smiped' hy 'non-white nuses, political righs and perpetuating a sys- A new nursing salary scale was tem that ceates ilt-health for the introdticed last year, to try to RESOURCESm Um MM i M- -M, The emigrarion of skilled persoreelwww.nuance.com to South Africa, by Chris Child, paper prepared for a United Nations symposium, organisedjointly in cooperation with Sheffield( City Council, on the role of transnational corporations in South Africa and Namibia, November 1982. Full of farts, figures and useful argumeots' I5pp. ArePDF yo tiing f'cor-king iiCreate! unnj South Africa? Stop' Think again' 5 Trial Four-page teaflet published by ithe AAM Health Committee for the farspaign to stopetiigeatton by nurses und other medical personnel. For further detais of campain, resources and what you can do, contact Mick Gavan orBeverley Howe at the AAM headquaters. Smmmm mm ammmmnm AGTAEEDCAEO evrour ate mrore white w;omoss to> bcome nurses. Relatively low pay and pori working conditsus for white nurses had led to a dop of une thitd in the nursing intake to ''oote Schuar hospital, for example. For black nurses, pay is very much lower' and working eonditions are apptlling But nursing is one of the fet' professions that a black woman who has ben lucky enough to get some education can enter. So nursing jons are sought after, Black nurses are lowerless to camipaign "for miore pay a gc at students' anti ecruitment campaign THE 'kwteent anti-recerlitimt ,The Nwrastle University AA group servativ Student mebern and 1asciots campagn-itiuniveraitiesa nd poly- is organising a long -termt campaigo calted an.Erxtraotdirary General Miettecnics is beingativelV suppor- based ,neducating,6uid-be,pplicants "ing and managed to overttris this led by stu nitpath-L :teid as t. tei eal situation in South Africa, policy, An African National Congress ted bDy stu st LIlobby lg uceemn. and enlsting tho speaker was racially abised and pro groups. support of the local authority (already South African and fascist slogans At Neweastle University, where the an apartheid-freeon), appraredinthe kunion.AAgroup AA group was instrumentalin organis- Trhe group has faced a voniferous membets teceived anonymous threats. ing pr.te-týdemotraiis w oe hld opposition, which Jeremy Shepherd, A econd Extraurdinacy General fgaint Ilie eser nd ° iPst atvestt- organiser of the group, attiniatet ut Meeting overmeiiringly reaffirmed tfrom eoaiwitnd RandMu-g attetpt- part to the xisten ce of a targe nining supPort for the antiaparthnid South ingto icrtul while ininng and meal dnament which has manv links with Africa policy with over 500 students lurgygraditatesforjobsinSouthAfrný.SotAf"ra. attnding.Yetanother attespt was -f t edin""- tetInse nctivity by the AA group made to ovdertatur mti-apartheid policy pruo 'edtoaStudentUncionGeneralMveet- hot tt farled dimaly. Protestors -tood outsid, the aeet ing pasning a resolution to eud the sate Cain Clurk i, the full-thte worktr i 9ffic,. and a. format protest 'as made of South Aftian Ai rways tickets the ,AAMV. headqiruairters esponsihle, ro the .niversity atfitirities. Attho tIhrough the Union and to name part 3mi0ogt other things, for student tho SRC at Newcastle Ufniversity has of it fter Nlson Mandela. work. Se told AA News that there are policy againsti'ty fnms reeruittng ti ;A efo oalition of-rederation of Con- at prescnt snro1 6Q student AA groaps South Africat iitgahowedonåcampus, - ia ~IÖlle e1. Student work within the this~annotbiifolcéd.Acåmpáignis Almhåsbeensosmewhat limited and beingruntogettheuaniversitytohan mostefforthasbeenpurtintotheantitach recruiimntiinlinewiththeåo ' reritmetcanspaig.Despitethis taken' at Sheffield University. s.a newgroupshavesprung'upsrontancouslvatBrunel and Sussex universities. .u. and the e.lity fot the black maj.rity women queueing for wuter in a resettlement camp in the wester Transvaal Winning the arguents agaimst going Action is also needed to end the to South Africa or Numibia with lavish, promotion of jobs. Unions im potential emigrants is esse~tiat. Many the prin; indnstry have already pur have gott with it]e ksowledge of presunr ton the Newspaper Pubhisbers' wha t South Afri n aciuta like. Association to refse South Africfn That's why AAM is Irying o getwww.nuance.com the advertisements. and action by civi agmnen is acoss at tle grass roots and service unions has stopped South istirging union branches to invite as to Atrican jobs being advertised in job address their aenbers -as weil as open centres. Thtsugh elearly racist, tho theirjoumals to this campaiga. courts have .ruled nach ts] to be outOnt union :which has taken firm side the scope of Btitain'sPDF existing action toCreate! discourage their members anti-racist legislation5 Trial pressure must. from going is the M sicins Union. bo ipplied to lose this loophole. They have banned m nicians from working i South Africa Smias tands South Africa's recruitment drive is by other untons cukld cut the numbot ra from their abaoasy and six other of workers going to. South Africa on centrs in Birminghar, Manchester, short- termcontsacit, Glasgow,1-verpool. , Sheffield and. dnuloetterconlUlUollsýlllttlersare ., anemployed nuresinthe bantustans T c d for skilledwhite immigrants aitched a year or' foritog a labour poil. .They have no off,- in 1981 South Africa overtook the Middie East as the fourth"m Rather than dip int this labour emigrants, a trend which has since been sustained. pool, the regime endeavours- to till The managers and executives, scientists, tchnicians and" other skil nursing vacancies by rceruiting from Africa from abroad are etnployed in some of the most strategically ovorseas As South African industry continues to expand, ai tditgger, more económy.'White Soutl Afria needs them to ensure that there is modern hospitals ute built for whht, and politicaly intpotemt black labour, to remove the need to educak South Africa is looking increåsiagy to and to develop the sophisticated industrial and military complex whichBritainasitssdurce ofmedical and freedom struggle. otherskilled workes The spiralling unenployien rate in Britain, not surpriingly,,hasp African ehuployers. MICK GAVAN, the Anti-Apartheid Moveent'0 where the campaign against enigration to South Africa has to start~ars South Africa's desperite push to Iecrast British personnel is driven hy an glrlts e,6tmated that th , are about acute shortage of white skilled Lahour. thre miltion uraenployed in South Resources are being poured into a Africa - ont of a total population of campaign to ehtice wotkers to leave les, than 30 million, The vst majority for Soith Africa. Et1atagant cla,,s of.houe without ork are black, of the becftits to-eome, apighpresurte" advertising campaign nd a renl unemmAntofficial-stdy gro ap et pby tht ployment lovet of five illion has South Af-an gornmenti rcmnman- made Britain prie Sorce of white dd e ,licr this year[Ilat immigration imsmigrants. t, Snutth Afrc b, 'unintoeruptedly This growmg trade in human tompròmtd iwd that fti ftort be not forcemnts for apartheid needn to be r in tm o u csack.' halted andthereare signs that trade Th o group was commissioned unions are stepping up their activities in, h977 ud has bee t eaed by Dr in th diretion, Trades "Union Båsi, Klei, h . f South Africas Congress has alerted unions to South B dou f Tsdea sl ndutoes. Africa's efforts to recrit skilles' ..workers and many are tokirng to pubhcise the rulities of apartheid and to eGpos the glossy pturé presented by

Anti-ApartheidNows May1983 Page7 Britah Africa RestofEurope 1 980 10, 117 (3 2%,) 13,o9-2(45%,) 5,194(17) 19.81' .19,446(47') 15,281(35%) 4,294(I%) UlJan-Apri)98 7,403<(47%) s 5175 33%;) 2,436(15% Soåece: Souath African gövern ment statms-a th,,, do not tally exactly al l destination.In1951,however,whienemigrationfromSouthAfricadrop -Emigranta from South Afnicnduring 1980.total 11,363, of wlom4, overtook Britain as thfr mitn destmation, accoUnting for 2,299 compare or more ago by SouthAfrica has p There arre quite satåantial discrepancies between these figures frol S ffrom British soorces of SoUth Anrians settling in Britain. This is partly -th:nmost popualar destintnfr Brtsh nacau'errss cn ealtt attl9ttiseydonottitendtorett !ntoiforBritish sia aeet o= n ef Durig tte ohol, of 1982, Southwww.nuance.com Afria achlrve a net gain of 35,skiled personnel who settle in South com, fro Zmhbwc an o of h rest fro Britain and the rest ically erucial sectors of the apar eid $radcasfs 31 NMarch 1983) is always a large pool of unenployed scate, iram and prolnote black wo Irkers, vhich is its ultimate weaponagainst.I Flr the last tmo years, one in ten e hasprovedaweicomebonnsforSouthPDF Create! S 5 Atstralia Trial feol'sTradeUnionOfficer,pointsto"M*198 35,700(16%)13 - i rthe British trade unionmoVement. *tQsi anctrt 5 Prcture by Betrin Geblrt/ID,4f Urban South Africa as the white imamigrant ees it - bustling, iidefn and go-ahead Newcstle. krom thre they lave launched special- efforts to recruit groups like redundan ateel ,worklrs. Thse, offices als- interiv: all ruoldbe imiigrdnts to ensure they are puce whiite'. ' Demanst for the closure of these reccaiting offces are gowing and this mest bereinfotrd ,ith actioe unio, aupport. Thi, .ti b.,on ~ at [ast ntonth's Scottish TUC the neod to hlunt South .Africa's reruitnm at caopaga maytaised ,focefutly t th, mneeting adeessed by Moss Evans to laomch the trade uion side nfI the Southern AJra -»Time to Act campaign. Many trade anion conferences will be looktng to attack the emigration is-a i. the coming months. Immigration mot just intportant to South Africa econoically- immigrants e expected'1to fight for apart. heid as elt. Plans ar wel advanced to make miltary service cumpulaory aftnr ome year's residence - sa-ether or not South African citizenahil is adopted. That means two yearýuervice in the defence force and cight 30- day camp, in the nent ten years. Trade anions have started naking moves that can cat emigration to South Africa but the _ampaign pakst b. puhed much bardter forthe ftls o skilled labour to be halted. For that the backig of trade union activists is vital. Soldee of Fortse med to ~reit penly for 'the" Smith regime. t-ork ,fogr the South Aficans seem, a little w b a u-to u -mou, ercenait sort of eployment cadn d al s tum to its sa a £3,000 bonu afte six moñth. bizatre-small ads coamns. 0 O V E RME N T Fn,somepeople,thismightsrema The magazine's cirulation irn tempting alternativa to Lnemplonymet. Britain is såld to be riong and currently There are also South Africanlinksstandsat2,000amosth.Someofll I II withthemercenaries' owt magazine thesemaybecranksorjustrdviduals s pal m Sol4r- of Ften a with peliatast l ieaoe-a emigrant AfricDEYhenbherel ~enc a-no eomsgo.tag e are aeiuyiteså teint e ju monthlyedited in thfeUnited States. one must assume tiat a gond percenTE MIS nesorh . .. . hinrgrn to Sot Afic ...enh There could be nomore promisingpool. tag, ar, serinusly iterested in the THE MOST newsworthy Britsh emgatto South Ana-we . .. gets himself killed tilat is - is the mercenary. But despite some maniaca than the readenshin of a dec ti in h te t sensational exposés bi the press, the British governiment prefers to. magaie which euphemistically des- All of which raises the question is lurir a blind eye -and the recruiting networks 4ontlnue to hum witli ctibesitself as the journal of protes- the Btitish government doing anything activity. PAUL FAUVET asks how and why? osional adventurer'. A regular sariter to stop British catizens enlisting in the for Soldier of Fortune is Al Ventet apartheid army or otherwse takinc 0-or might have thoaught that a northern Namrbiaand soutbern Angola, whlo ä, also a South'African TV hack, part in military operations against the career a at merenry ,in Southern ts fart, Gingtes dted on the ther side )Pacialising io. PR exercises for the independent states o Southen Africa? Africa would t!o lungor hold any of the sub- ontinenl, leadingan opera- apartheid army. (Venter has ben At the moment Whitehall's attitude ,tractiora Afer Aall, sa t",tercna- tion in a cladestine war olf which around a long time --the Portuguese could be charitably desefrib-d as passive. ries (s Britih and one Irsli) whowww.nuance.com got South Africa denied all knowledge. Ila colonial arasy-could asays cont on Those of us le,, inbinesf to charity caught in Angola in 6 are still ser- bad been based at Phalaborwa en the his pen for a good write.up.) might fint] 'complicit'å better word. visg lengthy priso s, atencet in a Transvaal, whee-South Africa has a Luanda jail. If tey , e ,fortrtaátt, large traning camp for the bandit, of clerony.PDF may by enorcised Create! on their the self-styled 'Mozambique National5 hechalfaTrial by Angolan p5resident Jelse Resantanice'. Ednaedodoslantos.Butnoamoat 5..D" b. uz.. ie ,. - - Gingles career ts pernaps a 1assic 1 thecir fou ....lleaguesewhoin thle Angela ot a ln, If S mmär i n-rsn.B,....ti.Lalm, e l 2.Å, of cleloncy saIII .do much good for of ..ndee miltarsm Boi in Lan tfr ot. 1h,,the Ag in Northern ireland, hr-as till e, he courrtsentenmedtodeath. sit. oms-e rste h Ulster sixth formn when lic joioed th cU,, Unfortunately, these grin esamples Defence Regiment. He aent on to do not scens to deter sould-be adven- .train at Sandhunt, and got a c6mint'irers i Britain from selling tiheir sio sith the Royal trish Rangers in services to the Soth African arsed 1977. Hr was stationed in Germany, fo s. T o of the are knowo to hut lhr seems to have foand a lite 'W ; ' havediedinrecy ntheaparåthoatany realsa-atdll.8oho , . ieid regime's aggrestion against resigned his commission, and sigred -up r Mozambique. Onewas killed during the with tan Smith's illegat regime, where vl - ..' commando raid against the Mapdto he fouglht against the librrat:ons morve- ' c 1 suburlb of Matola in January 1981, in ment as a member of the notorions -: whieh 13 South African ref.gees (ANC Seloas Scouts. " - r 5a ' " " " andSACTUmilitanta)orrehrutalty WiththeindependenceofZimbabae '. ' - Li na -Alan Giingtrc and many other Seloas Scmats Thle tecond, Lieutanart Alan slipped avay southlards und sold tio.-les,w.asIattIedl¥ythedozambican theirurderoustalentstoPretoria. . , t' 6', .. armd for.e. s hr. ateted to salan ..Other ...... s .nd...bteclly go 4 '._-, °" '«~ tage the Berra-Zirmbawerailwaytn direttlyfromBritaintoSouthAfrica.' 4. ". hde e oftntrlyt eSouthAfricanembassyhasiIs jt , dad saboter's identrty sa-asunionn gageoti,actingunder y'hueI'' oO' Blirpages from 1 novel lie a-s rn'rtm iplomat c oöer. t Almost ,,et..ly c.',, , roundamonghisequipmeit,and WaerantOfficerJoseph l' ai, ,. theOe ...... par was...... atthecentreoftheaSouthAfelran " '- . aåbte t. denti(y hnm frroma t,e flan- .... o

~8 Aiti-ApartheidtNews May 1983 - =, Book -review Rtak Trade Unions in South Africa, by Martin Plant and David Ward. Spolesman pamplet No 82. with fo.eword by Joan Lestor MP. 3lpp, 85 pencte THIS is a big and important subject, atuch_,hscussed and with an important pIositionl on the solidarty r activists' agenda. It is also one which has not given rise to the psublicatien of the sort of campaigning or background Literatuce that it shoutd. So this booklet will be welcomed by many antiapatheid activists, It is cheap, celatively widely available and it contains some useful information o what its authors amubieoesily describe as 'the independent black tradte union h versfsrst' in Siuthwww.nuance.com I Afric and te clege it presentt t~ te aarteidregime, Oth ... of the black and -non-racial trade atsjon movement over the last few years. Asnd they pay' too little attention tothe complexiLes of lir subject. Clarity and depth of understanding on the reader's part does not alwaysPDFresult from the authors'Create! avoiding such an effort. 5 Trial This, would not matter so much subject gives rte. most crucially the question of the, n'aturr -and signifi-U ance of the 'contribution which black wckefs notjusttheir uons -are making to -the widriee national liberafion struiggle. -The , authors say that 'black workers in Soul Africa are challenging the apartheid system at its roots' But they attempt no anlysis of the -nature of those Toots, the character of the, challenge, or the imp.cal . for it ,rising from the herrogeneity the reader there and ar of the black -end'non-radsa trade motad. tnion iaovement. -The whol, booklet What we have instead are state- ~ he-o ist , ,,_ a, --yea u traie smon traneann asn a g aetme,-"'a issupper- fei ts the Cape Town uapereme enct, His trial under SouthAfrica's st, cesnosied on 8 February -it's now in its third y-ar i.s tot and 'deported' to the bantustans for ba jnt o - supporting te GWU. SATS wiltl not ern "g w recognisetheunionand'itishoped uni s gear thatITFinterventioncanchangethis. ho Peacefol protetBr by 1ockers in -0 Ci Councitgot ashock West Germany,-Holland and Belgium bought a tranit.,van on werefolledbya delegationof dis aotostariyorganisation in Southampton dockers presenting the firs . master of a South African container ccil riced that the invoice, shsip the .,OOO-on Waterg. act of Letcester Ltd, was with a document deploring the Sortli ai Pool South Africa, and African government's refusal to nego- to .no nertain terms that tiate with the GWU, which theyhope the had purchsed 'remains will be passed on toSATS.. spi of Fond Spounl Africa the Iandpaidfor'. life hduwtingy is e~i: Th shimesinsnbrtetndtrein,wailinfamuous under bmad of pick-up truckl, assemobled m n g m n a lbtSuhArchtmanagement h Britainthroughthe sti no that they are 'based LT GET; Charles Sebe, the Ciskei des ttorde aboI which carry no Sounth Afrn ive in Britain in ilockm wee me anwhile telling a' passing-out Sir.., plese, you, must know that my name is always spelled like this ... Cartoonbe MPLA Labour calls for sanctions FA We are toasly opposed tn aparthseid and will unequivocally support its opponents, giving finaneial and material asaistance to the liberation move. ments in South Afria and SWAPO of Naimibia. Labour will also work with ou trade union colleagues to assist tse noan-racis trade unions it South Africa. ] We will carry through a systematic programme of economic disengagement foni South Africa by supposrtingeomprehenive mandntorysanctions at the UN and curtailing our economic relations with the regime. The details of our policy towards Southern Africa are set out in Labour's Programme 1982. Paragraphs 218 and 219 SLabour Party 1983 Campaign Document The New Hop or BrirasinI ~.o7 her is tol ad haveI docke.: We.e s,

Anti-Apaetheid News May1983 Page 9 Angolam~expioding the Savimbi myth WHATS THE TRUTH aout onasSavimbiadUntaThe h survt ea massae pres and otlte media often like to tell us tiat he 'controls' one Auwww.nuance.com-t 981 in whtici third, oe half, even two thirds of Angola, incuding the capial, Aee fust d i Avaro JLuanda,,tself. They conveniently forget to mention that the South younste, of about 11, 1 from amo.g the nuivos wisl g to talk. Ont of thle FAPLA officert with ut ininmediatty noted that is siogte t,PDF tt~rs,] et nd bo-ts weo, altCreate! South Afriean aroy genta. This mao. 5 Trial LucitnoManuel,atfisttriedtom ke, IIt,à, - :a Tiilf --i- b. somne flest-hand information to ol to 9 March I flew joto Hunbo from uands with Paulette Pierso mathy, Seretary-Generat of the hIteroatioolt Commission of tnqtiry ioo the Cimes o he Apartheid Regio. We wesv tie to gather direet evidencc of thbe mastacres :aeried out by Unita iii th region, a legion presented isn pro-lista propaganda in Britain and othter western coattieS as a stronghotd of the South Af... n -ha, ked grouping. The situation i saw tere ws very differ,etideed. From Huambo we travelled in Aloette li heiclopters4 tioted by youog Angolan soldiers tö the Goe da m on the upper reachet of tihe way to G-,e When we totti the gathering of out ItOkn, fro su6-or that it twa ctåamd 'n aorne i on to Catchiung western press reports that the region's ta), oeer the border Ovimbundu people (koown in Angola and Bie provocs. at Mbuodu) support Unita, there was e met survivors of a tpontancos re9rtOo of anger' 'tf iainly peasants who .Unita teated ts weil, we wouldn't ges aod sought the have'corne here,' sald one mao. Othets ,ngotan authoaitis spoke of the atrocities, of wtves of id simila stories to FAPLA soldiers captured and kigled s whmnåo ed their littratty by cuttiog pinces off them. trle, food and other (Later in Luanda a friend of mine ben tiied to force from Huambo totd oe of someone off intf the bush she knew who bad been skinned ali-e he vittagem refused by Unita when he tied to retieve his mary res hacked wife who bad been captured and ,et - frced to become the mittrant f (54) and Augusto Unita commarider.) pjaants ,, o 1ha- At Catohiungo a mant stepped out moisioo Lt (7.t-Ernesto JoSantos ', Litrdade' sai't fltht Afrite's ocrupaioo of part fCi proioce since August 1981 made it easier for the aartteitd to inf'ltrate Uoita elemeoits it ctontry and proyidt tistical tu for them. They attacked re villages bot the situation in Hu was uder the control of the La ti-s, This we saw .for ouees were abl, to wande, f-y th, the streetst visiting' atso mt whic were full of vagetabtes fruit. Produrtion bad inereasef pit, th inSecurity and the fan1 Coitrary to pr propaganda, Angolans can boy pleaty af fresh trot and vegetables in their markets this one ininHuambo PtorebyAngo7anformton Western distortions AT THE mleeting of the AfricamAmerican In l itute, held in pip"O tda and the toot of their stofics soose olater starts to reflir Januaryin Harare, Zinbabwe, this. JoseLtiCabaco,Ministerof S-nCaba cthngavtthe Information Of the People's folosinlg exaepte to thow howthe, Republic of Mozambique, spoke Pretireime usast the full iis about the western meda's mri- position as a e-s c~tt,' t representation of the situation 'gince the indep-eodece of in SouthernAfrica. Mozambique',ht said,'Pretoriaha Ht exptaimed that South Africa contsaly apread the story that the has beto abte to pr-mgte itttIf as a port of Mputo kapt op-ratitg 'sewa cetre' thanks to is possession thauks to the presenice of South of the ommuoicstions facilities African techrcianst Thes myth has needed by joumrnaits adhavinga ben repeatedty publislad in the waV of fife and standard of liing western press as though it sere an familiar tt, white correspöndants. establisbed fact. If ti ecorrespondents I The Pretoria regime, he cotmued, wer based in Mozambique ihey tbss used this situation lo provide 1o~1d Lt abte to veify that sita the wtein correspondet, with asases day of ou independeore there has of propagasda against the indepen, nevtr beon a sia gle South Afii" deit states o tihfregio. T he ageocies ineotyed in the r-tnig of the port. and nevspapers conce -.ed may not to a lh way hqcontaded.Pretoria at'ays me this inaterial in 'spot tries aodsucc- to acrtain degre st o t it is fied awayfor future in wnning eredibiit amid western refre- e. The cosPondent them- pablieýpioion. LuianoManiel,adeserter ftom Unst st~hegintobeinfluencedbythis :, :. . . ges lta tiseresson in 19I/', using tialismwww.nuance.com to io suppot, the situation ]ad radicatty changed over the past fewv years. The matsacrat, pillage and rape we acts of despair, part of a strugg-to survive in a situation where Pretoria's puppeta are not accepted by the p eople the viians who.are the .argets of their cmitinal violence. supply lines THEPDF Angolan government Create! hasreveaed at teast tsght South African battations5 Trial have been stationed at vatiou locations inside souther Angota, .loding the beleaguered towos of Ngiva and Xangoigo., These battalions have enabled the South Afeican army not only to build up its own streogth in the areat It iltgatly occupies, but also to givë geater Suppor to th, Unta puppet g=ogs. South African army helicopfly deep into Angola to supply them with everything they ned. ,, .... ,-,I ...... N ew* i , 198 åte PcDPc shoulå 3et -oethcrand5ÄhI Cc h /'/~ ,P , STORIES ~an this page were the winninrn entries if upetitioss organjaed earlier this year d Fund fog Southern Africa. For r le of Bronset Junior Nlixed School, iur Thoko's Christmas, by Cieran Bell, tion, which include pictures and nid -Natuibia as weil s poersa andho .n up to the'äe of 12, will be on n" a the University of London Insti- fot Vay, London WC1, front Thirsday tui tobeopenedat6pinmonthatday wiuteandAidFund. : ans Only s ' b, agel 1t go out in thl garden andbuld a ail campinu veyiege bush at thebottomof mygar en.We W-d four large oti pi, ec fboard. We put thteup an rosnid theoretside (s tid not el d tenfou r be-sewe bada fen- e for ene we ,,all) , and weput thie fourtb on top. thie T.o get in y-u lift the top plank oif not Ondelmbio.Bill 'tre 9ol a. jdea,' said Dorr l ,W an, coUld get room spades und t.ol and Thi dig da-', 'y.s, thats a gpod.idnu. not ,'B get the spader now.' So i an off aga to- the shed und brought out t-i sa,, spades MYa c, dad,hen e Ii,. s fhome for a moliday, d-s a lot of digging ute and gver the bottor part of ftie tsrygarden to me . and lcamreKarkandseandDo Pa stasrted d igging. Onr hour lter We o hud dog do-n about fire feet. The tbc toP of our hads re jtbyth, top Bill of the ltle,. t was abort fo., feet wide bot1, ways adwas wide e-oug, andfortwop pletogrtin. foo Inside th, tosse Billy had ome rn to cull fQr me. Asa said wheo she was nwcrerd the dor, 'Mphael and ad D-re are r'ound the back playing,' So und 1 he bck.M-~nwilt - Peoplt are not alloevvd iii a hospital Dorfi hud to go o1, lle1kd f.r Billy t got anuther board t0gether,'fresaid. todwederidedtoplayerirketWhite oi top of the bott co Wc weren't in hospital for long was in hat i woidered why black lde we ctil get in because we fourd ut hat wedu mad white pepe are nt alloed to fl the botar on top not hee nything broken and went mix. Then l heard a shout from Billy erting in t yitöut hone ft Iw oos. The next day Oh drt, 'm .it. Ie in the garden I rblyý Billy dd not > Dori, 'Here omes Pcoý out of,tý ThOko's Chr$Stmas at-Billy was1 get trg ,.fed my 1-ad out herbedoutandDomrtde :'LyilsxàsÅ h å; ted HeyBillydBilly byv C ieran e ,a e 1 id said1wonded . 'Weniadethiscanp IT WAS \maset andThokowas beenbackbynow .She startedto r inter.upte, ri ,w rorry. watn't lik, Siplio to bh ate you tht aigoing '.ItwasthenightbeftreC(hit forhisupper.Arshesalthet"ety sometig and I a udall trughte hu notawww.nuance.com chilrendown foreoitop,slh -ony tO gie to you -r eatu r a s o i_ ng, not een a ought ofth e dr ni toh i p who BeC.'Oh.lsIl,,'sald rh.k,stie wrldsilf 1orasionglerudurthit ~l 11 dt ,t,- Co t o f l,, alall faity She glanred rictin' pockets The -trp was wak önd tieoal btore. in th soalnt]PDF , aapeI room where Create! und aoltv, The chldr se-d s-rik Asa,' 1 sud.5 No,' Trial her familylit arodthe slll, pin- thing was m I-g. Thev te in siluere dhefr toreI ,e dly table. Her lmother was sitting Aftr supprI- s ph them t bed, -at orr nd - uirtl1ty 1ewi1g a patch onl hlr but taayed upl herseif, -wr tired, ont o'nan w ere brother's worn mcon shorts, ler and ss se s at the 4abl, fatigne th,, neit wraäbs sisters nd brothers rot, eowded - wp over 1,- andsh slepi.Shearoundaboo,(inghomew'ork, wk i a .fotstep lethbus ~me anrd ad hr ele bthe, Siph., vas Siph0! She pan'frr1tihe mAt dp rfeind's, h. fell come tf to to the d offthe une u- part, she fi-r,Wheal upatthe5. the oge all 'We'lf here to phone the polire,' he sad Tholt. 'Ha/be 'se' gol blmuself i trouble. You go to Mr Gatà ad phoinf 11 stay her,.' go 'Maybe t has~~.' said ber mothepr jd III sl ad pione ro be on he sat - side.., lo When she came backshe looked n aep 1kntwthipoBrewe ,ldotIhnp"s sai.'lheyjustyelIand M ay all -f 11 get dirmk and killed at iii Xmas. They outIdnt help al all.!ty Whroen orningran ad Sipho still didisitrelt,, Uroko kgew it was aer i aorsutterFäist tb phnl-,alls to the ro-ce thef to the hospitals 10 ~an d, finally, the -rlu tan t risi tst tie mrges. te. Thokt's mother bad to give up her jb to seac f., Slphoi and, at it the end of rh, w ek, t reyfound hir, in . anorgot. his body rered in stab om Thcilobudtogiv,upsrbool. mar -sk aoney for fondi, hu the n-h ted after a fw years, to strape up d enouigs to go to Swazin-d and oner time hfleurc tion thre. She is t ot the lorkyoe-sthissftmagedyd lppn tomanyblackpeopl in1 South Afica erery yar at Xmas in r'm towniiplike Soweto

Everyday life in Nam ibia NAVEUYE MUNASHIMUE wsbor in Ongenga village, Namibia, the oldest in a family of I Ichildren. Her father was a Lutheran pastor and teacher. As a refugee in the United States, Munashimue gained university degrees in social work and health administration - skills which she is now puttlng. to use in working with other Namibian refugees in settlements in Southern Africa. She has also wrtten a story, extracts of which follow, describing what life is like for a young black girl living in Nanibia.. I AM II yearsold and go toOngenga to hate the sound because it meana Primary School. I walk more than have to get uip and start the day's two miles to my school everyf'week- vork. day. I have been going to this school At dawn we am finished grinding fior five years now. Nearmy schoolis the millet. Very soon everybody will another primary school for whites be up and awaiting breakfast. While only. Everything in Namibia is segre- Aunt Naiong makes the fire so we gated - schools, hospitals, parks, can cook breakfast (we collected firebuses, restrooms, wood the day before), Aunt NdateeBlacks do not usefacilities reserved leta puts the freshly ground flour for whites, and whites do not use away and I get mugs and plates ready facilities reserved for blacks. Every for breakfast, day when my friends and I walkto Since the onlytable my'"amily school, a blue bus full of white child- owns is used as my, father's deskt ten passes by. They call us all sorts of usually put the atensila on a mat names. Sometimes we call back, bu sprad on the floor. Oh, no, not most of the time we justigoretherm. again' My brother Natangwesseglected In my country, blacksmustaddress to clean the mat last night after white men. and boys as 'bass', an dinner as he was supposed to. He Afrikaanswww.nuance.com word meaning boss; and always leaves the mat dirty, and as white women and girls are called always, today I have to clean it for 'inissus', a word meaning bos's wife him. Whers I complain Meme or daughter. I hate calling these chil- (Milther) says that boys are naturally dren 'bass' because I do not work for untidy, that it is up' to girls to clean them or their father, and I do not up afterPDF them. Wait until I haveCreate! my understand why I should be forced 5 own suns. Trial They will do the cleaning! to use the words buas' and 'missus'. When everybody has had breakAside from collecting firewood fast, it's time to go to the field to son and drawing water, I do not do many the weeding. We have to finish before chores on school days. I do not like the end of March because April's rains Saturdays, though, because my are too heavyfor anyone- to work in parents make me work hard then. On the field. MY two oldest brothers rush a typical Saturday morning, I must to milk the rows an then take both wake up when the cock crows. cattle and goats to graze. I peep through the tiny hole in Tate (Father) will not be joining the wall of our thatched hut, which I us in the field today. He is a pastor al share with my two aunts, and realise the local Lutheran church'and has to that it isstill very dark outside. When prepare for his Sunday church service. I was younger I loved that beautiful After lunch he will atternd a political sound of Mwlenga, our rooster, but meeting. now that I am 11 old enough to do The political meeting will bhe eld household chores I am beginning .in a secret place. If the Boecs (while South Africans) find out, they will go there and beat up the people attending the meeting. Tate and his friends ae not doing anything wong , they Illy want to fr1e.oor country to that we can rule orucrlves likether people I] eer the world. I Wish t could go with Tate today. The things he tells us .when he comes from these meetings are so interesting and exitig When Tate comes b-'afrothe meeting, the family is stttia around the fire, Meme is .prepig inner, and we all listen to Tate tell us what they talked about at the meeting. He telIs us how good freedom is. When we get it, both blacks and whites wilt have the same schools, the meiospitala and 'doctors. Anybody who works hard will become what he-or she wants to be. My uncle Haufikr will be with his family all year round. You see, my Uncle Hafiku does not stay with his family most of the time. He is not the only one. Many Namibian men stay away from their families for long periods of time. The government takes strong young men away from their familles and sends them to work in mines in other parts of the country. They stay sway for 12 monthaor more. While they are away, they live in what are called compounds, Theycat poor food, are forced to work too hard and get very little money foe their hard work. Their families em not allowed to visit them, and since - most of them do not know how to read or write, they cannot write to their families and let them know they are all right. My cousin Ndahafa often cries becas she anise, her father very much. I guess I am lucky because my father is a pastor. He does not have to go awayand work in the mines or as a white family's servant, ,bltI still feel sorry for my friends whose fathers are taken away from them for such long periods of time. Whent freedom comes, Tate says, all these things will change Blacks and whites will live together in peace as God wants them to. As Tate likes reminding my brothers and me, 'God helps those who help themselves!' I am going to help not only myself but.my country as a whole. Who knows? I might become its president some day. With acknoueledgmsent to Lutheuse World Information, Classified PEACE NEWS, foitnghtly paper covering the growing peace movement from a -radical vieshptrnts News-, views and- analysis about militarism, the arns race, economic oppessionrt nexual violence, racism, and devastat imn of the environment. 13 tc Ira y -a, s tsbscription (Britain and, Ireland); t.50 for six months; £2 for fice tial ilsuls; 1-0 per cet di,count for non-wage carners (except for the trial sub). Details of rest of the world crtes-from Peace News. 8 Elm. Avenue,Nuttrgham 3. RESISTER, bulletin of the-Committee on South African War Resistance. Up-to-lte sews on apartheid inita is and resistancetoit.£30.00p)r from COSAWR, Bi Box 2190, London WCIN 3XX. PHOTO CRAFT, 4 Heath Street London NW3 Photographic dealer adld photographersACADEMIC TYPING 01-2496177 !isuding a new life in exile - Namibianwww.nuance.com refugees in Angola My Cosin Comes to o'buer (1981) much to be desired and they often and The Chilen of So$wer (1992), compareu avourably witlh their broth by Mhelsdo Mzajamse (Long- male conrterparts. manlDrumibeat,PDF pbk). - TheCreate! Chidren of $oweto presents an altogether 5 different Trial perspective UNTIL recently British puablishers the Johannesburg townships. Alpaid little attention to literary though some of the-characters, such developments in Southeir Africa. as the two dissolute teachers Phakoc However, with the overthrow of the and Pakade, share many similarities Portuguese colonial regimes in Angola with those found in the short stories, and Mozambique, the success of the the author has invested them with a Zimbabwean liberation stiuggle and significant element of political awarethe continuing oppression of the ness, a quality rarely found in the South African apartheid regime, a previous book. newinterest has developed inswriters IThistrilogyissetaroundthetimeofthisregion. of the student uprisings that swept The works of Mbuluo Mzamane, Soweto and othel African townships along with other young South in June 1976. In Book One we are African writers, such as Mtutuzehi introduced to the student's dissatis- Matshoba and Ltauretta Ngobo, rep- faction with the system of haitu resent a part of this growing aware- educatio throughthelivesofaness. group of students attending school in My Cousin Coines to Jn'burg is a Soweto. The school pupils set up collection of short stories about Student Representative Councils to township life in South Africa. The coordinate opposition to bantt central character of the first five education and -i particular to the stories-is Mzal ulola, a shrewd rogue enforcement of Afrikaans as a jit who has left Transkei to joinsome of medium of instruction. his relatives in Johannesburg. -His Book Two serves ilost as a protea natute is perfectly suited to tragi-comic intelude and largely tre twilight world of township deals with a wite traveling salesman shebeen and petty crimrals, and he trapped in Soweto at the outbreak of is always quick to manipulate those the student uprising. He is saved from around him for the benefit of his almost certain death at the hands of own pocket and an insatiable desim the angry students by his fowetan for alcohol. He indulges in a number colleague who shelters him in his of dsbiuns activities such as setting house and eventually denver him to hiisself up as a herbal doctor and safety in the boot of the company posng as a priest, at times aided by car, the local police sergeant with whom Book Three concentrates on the he has an 'arrangement'. evis following the initial demonThese stories, along with the strations as the students try to others in this collection, are full of coordinate their organisation and lively humour but are not without involve all sections of the community their darker side. Although the in opposition to the policies of the author does not thrust the question government. Despite the eonfusion,5 of apartheid upon the reader, prefer- boycotts are organlsed, with varying ring to concentrate more upon the deges of success, while they set up internal relationships within the funds to aid the families of students township community, this aspect is killed in the demonstrations and set still inescapably present. For example, about closing down the alcohol shops - it is clear in a number of the stories and shebeems throughout the townthat uJola is frequently deported' to ships. Soweto is soon under siege as Transke, wlule at the end of The the government forces mov against PToneer'r Daughter Lyilfan suddenly the students and their leaders, many finds that after a lifetime in Johannes- of whom, such as the narrator, are burg she now 'belongs' to KwaZulu foeced to flee into exile. - because the house permit,inthe TheChildrenofSowto presentsa nasse of her deceased lather, was view of the events of 1976 from the. only valid white he remaied a live. ,point of view of the students involved Mbunlo llzaman clearly sets 0ot and is an interesting and well- vrittcn to champion the 'resilience, resource- complement to other more straightfulness, vitality, hIsmour and positive forwardly political and historhal thfirking of the South Atnan people Works which bhave appeared in recent and yet I feel that he misses the mark years. * on a number of ocasions. It's diffi- - My Cousin Comes to Jo'bAurg, n cult to see the 'positive thinking the other hand, is probably of more behind much of uJola's attitude as he interest to those who wish to broaden often preys upon the weaknesses of their reading of African werters. others and as such is an exploiter in hisownright.Likewisethetreatment DavidGrenville of women in these stories leaves Inter The need o R4 U Pu 0 So ElM+ Cont reted in health ses in Southernwww.nuance.com Africa? Health Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement s new members for pesarch blicity rpporting the boycott atesial aid actPDF Mick Gavan, AAM Headquarters,Create! 13 Selouw Street, ion NWI, Tel5 01- 387Trial 7966 U, AI

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