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anti apartheid newi anti apartheid newi 6d. JUNE 1970, "South African trade and industry is just as much based on apartheid as cricket is." Reginald Maudling, How the cricket tour was, stopped and what we do next: See back page. UK attache visits Guine The visit of a UK naval attache, nornally stationed in Lisbon, to GueBissau and the Cape Verde IslandS, has been confirmed by a Ministry of Defence spokesman. According to the spokesman the visit was "part of his normal duties" When asked What the attache's normal duties were the spokes- guerrilla who is detected, there are several who are still working inside the country. Ina series of Smith regime trials guerrillas have been accused of bringing guns into the country and arming and training the local population. I In a recent trial ten menwete sentenced to 18 years hard labour for entering the country armed. "Even if,"' said one "the Europeans employ these laws which are like Hitler's laws, I maintain they will never defeat us." Another defended himself: "I have seen guns in this country from time immemorial." In a second trial six men were convicted of "giving comfbrt tb, R U S K I harbouring or assisting" a guerrilla. One of them described RALLY RE his village's first meeting with a freedom fighter. "The visitor was made to stand at one meeting, and ED IT told to go and get his weapon so that the rest of the people could see it. The visitor did so and went We welcome to get the gun where he had buried the Home Se it. He brought'the gun to them and Cricket Counc (one of the accused) took the gun white South A in his hands and showed it. All Of The cricket to us cheered at this and said we British col were satisfied as we had seen the racialism. Its gunandwenowbelievedhewasa gestureofafreedomfighter." greatbody At the end of last March two country which intelligence agents were gaoled for held. 10 years for trying to recruit men But more to leave Zimbabwe for guerrilla gestures are training. They hadmade several effective is to stops inside the country and had people in Sout stayed with relatives.- struggling for Meanwhile Clifford Dupont, crux of Britis white Rhodesia's President, has apartheid is announced a .step'up in Rhodesia's the apartheid military build-up to meet the capital. This guerrilla threat. He said the to £1,600,000. I government would continue to £40 million ev assist the security forces to protct substantial rol Rhodesia against "the Communist ploitation of threat from the North." withdrawal wi I VERSUS PORT. PAGE 2 ORIAL the pressure which cretary put on the il to call off the allAfrican cricket tour. ur was a symbol of laboration with cancellation was a ppeasement to the of opinion in this is opposed to apart than symbols and needed, if anything be done to help the hern Africa who are their freedom. The h collaboration with the under-pinning of economy with British capital now amounts t is growing by over 'ery year It plays a e in the continued exblack by white. Its old hasten the over- throw of apartheid. Linked with investment is trade. Britain supples one third of South Africa's imports: she takes one third of South Africa's exports. And Britain's trade with South Africa is growing. For this the Labour government must take its full share of blame. It has done nothing to discourage investment in South Africa. It has actively promoted UK-South African trade. Through the British National Export Council, the Board of Trade has sponsored trade missions to the Republic. Through its own departments it has given advice and help to firms wishing to exhibit at South African trade exhibitions. Much has been said about the arms embargo. When Labour came to power in 1964 the Prime Minister announced that Britain Would observe the UN embargo and ban all sales of 'arms to the Republic. The government has kept this promise. In the winter of 1967 and again in 1968 when South Africa asked for a lifting of the Africa asked for a lifting of the ban, she was refused.. The Tories would resume the sale of arms to South Africa. According to Conservative Party Chairman Anthony Barber "South Africa is our ally and we would treat her as such." It will be a severe blow to the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa if South Africa is once again allowed to purchase its arms requirements from Britain. But even under Labour the arms ban has been far from complete. Britain still supplies patents, 'kills and capital to South Africa's armaments industry. , More fundamentally the import of any British capital into South Africa strengthens the South African economy and releases South African resources for South Africa's arms 'build-up. To allow British capital to flow freely into South Africa while maintaining a ban on the sale of arms is to give with one hand what we are takg away with the other. Anti-Apartheid News June 1970 page 2 ACTION - NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL San ns: Busting out all over Whito tettler living tt Mooambtqur nea alm Rhtodasian bordne hae found oaa may Of tlhn an ensy living The, have oponad ap petrol stotions, andi are mlbvg petrol t. Rhodaianv al 20tnaagullo certh atbRodin poro. In Umtali, Mr. Robert Donald has alo found way of tuninag sanctioas to his advantage. Fora amall lee be takes mall which the Rhodnsiaos wanI to send abroad, across the Mozambique border. itaa of beaang Ritodaian dtampa, whioh ae nt nteeaatiaaally, "the ltets and p . d aaeqlöá talmpa, which are. Emsb.s Cigartts, whica enjoy a qaartrr of IlieBrti .arth bnlanachedtn Rhesila by the local ubsdary of Brtish Amec0 Tobaco, the worlds largest tobaco manuaoetar. Tha promotional came"gn es tb biggrst in Sothm Africa siance earn and Hedges was elanoekd in South Africa hiva yaar ago. Eloquent waxing Solling twel in South Aft recoad ahopm reconaly hat horn 'Molnag Pol' by the Biae Mink pop group tarlier thia yaeart reached the top ten in Bntatn, with it mearaga that poople of differat Idtra ahotld "ger togetber la a ratbg melting pol" aad pendace e moold of dathy pople living in harmony. Not a mtssage to endear itrelf to the baradoattiag rotkorities in South Affic and Moambique, whore radio ataton hnvo daeided not le play the rseord. "The rcord hoo def'mitaly not been baed by the hoath Afri3an Broedcatting Coapoanhon," a annan told the Johannesburg Snday arasrercenty, "although they are ear playing Smoke signals Twioe kaab, custom Ofllcias talc ~ank of bannad books and recorda to the Kaseme Ralay Dopot in Iohebanoburg and toas thm into a grant hfuaoe. "ln ane mark," o aya n official, "hundreds of ragda worth of 0okt om destroyed. In ona rxmat thonands. In one yar-ampoaablo to say." Tc dettryed matorial oamet meal frm paroalt omr ang tto the amna, ,mhi the cootoasn paopla a gn Bot, an the official "vs t wonld be ni- n rle toCe pnevery=ngýp.eagf 0o ostr pobliontloan m end your South Africat riends, ho maybe ha anta diffionltv ttfan hold of them. (And doe't orget to send the LP. of 'Har' Whil you're nbeut it. Playhay Geeaamayby : Stor (the.German neavsweekly)S anny Hill Lady raaterly'n Lover Loblte Det Kapial Revolhuon and NatalI Liberation Camtparg (byHo arý Minl) AnythngbyHery Maller of the Marquis dr Sade lacideatol erlligana: Tho Saliabury, Rhodesia, ofhic. of Baruaya Bgnk DCO, on th anrne of First St t a inley Anera, hop on ts ooaater larga qouaatiiea of pro-Smithjro-. .gnde, incdang tha moathly 'Rhmasnta ge. o far, tt oppoara, thor as eter no protant from Sar Hnmpbry (1bb, a meanber of Brclays' Rhodesian Board. Big moth Ben South Afican Minister of Tranaport Bo Sch~man has been in London holding official talks with the British Governent. Hr is the man who told the Nationalist Party C,,grea in Bloemfantoa o lovember 5 1940: "The wholr fEr of Afrtikardom ra depoadrnt upon a <learaan vitory. If Gemany mine the war we thall be abl to argoniato mt ber, and ra that way eau te .taalimoat of an fadopodent rpoblio in South Africa." It is diffi t to detde wIth isa more faightaniag: tbe fnct that he held such views, or the fact that it dbnt seem to hava made any diffearer to bis iams that Gennany lest. Come again? "The Mtnister of Imtigoation, Dr. .Connie Mulder, tald atKokatod, ane Raadfontein, let night that be could give an asutranno that no atbists er anti-C an people 'ere.beingallowed t South Africa at rmmr rnts."JohanaesburLg Sunday Epras;, Apil A wise drion: th. r ere coarly qnrto w oug antChristians in Sonth Afrca alroady 11at8pm.attheSusseHall,H ath. BihpArnbro Reeves Will sp..k and the filma 'tMy Pcople Go'and 'Vukai Awake' Will be ahow-. The purimse is to form a Mid-SussexAAGr.oup Allemqires.ndficruofhelpt.M-s n 1mc M2r27, Blcombé Road, låywrd Hah, Susis. Phore: Haiywards Heath 3821.__ COLOUR SECTION Ft-wa hal jahilmar aromr nd 3100 parpl endad tter march frm Ronhia College, Dagord in Trafagnr lquar on Bank Hibday Moaday aftemoott. Jined hy mary anIi-aaat grenps they all took para la rellyto mark the ad of the match, and, a it tmed ot, to eeinbrate the oasellatron of the cricket our. The mn theme of the match, howver, was thr cornnad holing af potitcal prisonrs in South Africa, of whrm aenot Dava Ktsomn, sntenced to twenty yrarn impataotannt for allegad tebetage.