.,,;' ." YOU NEW AGE FACES A them have been responsible As things stand now , WE needed, it is now. We need under, the libera tion move­ CRISIS. for a very large part of the WILL NOT BE ABLE TO your money, we need your ment will be like a man The placing of a num­ donations collected by New PA Y OUR BILLS AT THE voluntary assistance in a blinde d, sightless in the desert of . Ne ver was the ber of members of our Age over the past years . Now l~ND OF THIS MONTH. We tho usand ways. Sonia has been knocked out mus t have help from our sup­ need for New Age, the Let democratic Sout h people 's paper, as great as staff under house-arrest, altogether an d Rica's work port ers if we are to keep Africa reply to Vorster 's vi­ together with the continual has been crip pled. going. today. cious below -the-belt attack Here are some things you with a flood of suppor t for attacks to which New Age The remaining members of We need at least R l, 400 by can do : staff members and sellers the staff are ba ttling as best the end of the month to covel' New Age which will assure are subjected, bas made they can to co pe with this o ur current conunitments. We the paper's futur e. • Send money yourself; crisis, but at the moment they wilI have no hope of obt ain­ Let every anti-Na tionalist • Collect mone y from our task infinitely more are simply not able to man ­ ing this sum by ourselv es. realise that now is the time your friends; 'difficult than before. age. We issue an appeal to all to stand firm, now is the time Help out with REG U­ The 24-hour house-arrest of Some mon ths ago we were our fr iends and supporters, to to hit back, now is the time LAR voluntary work in Sonia Buntin g has had a cata­ forced by our financial diffi­ nil who believe in freedom , to for each man to make his the various New Age strop hic effect on our Ca pe culties to give notice to a nil who value the work we maximum effort. The drive to offices. Town collections. The house­ numbe r of members of our have been doing as spearh ead dictatorship must be ha lted HE LP SAVE NE W AG E! arrest of R ica Hodgson in staff. Those who are now left of the liberation movement: and the countr y cleansed of IfELP US RAISE THA 'f. Johanne sburg has been equal­ to hold the for t are carrying DON'T HANG BACK the Nat ionalist slime. Rt,400. TOMORROW WIL L ly serious. a burden which is provin g NOW! If ever there were a Th ere is no substi tute for LITE RALLY BE T OO The se two women between too big for them. time when your help was New Age. If the paper goes LATE !

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~ Vol. 9, No.6. Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspape r 6d. § SOUTHERN EDITION Thursday, November 22, 1962 5e. ~ ::iI111I1I1I1I1I1I1I11111II 11I11I1II111II11II1I11111I111I1I1I111I111I1I11I111I11111I1I1I 11111111 11111 111111111111 1111 111 11111111111111111E I South West African Befugees I

JOHANNESBURG. Alrea dy Nation alist polit icians arc using the press-English and THE British Government- Afrikaans-to set the term s the and the British people- arc South African Dep artment of Fo - to be put to the test in the reign Affairs will try to get Britain Protectorates over the Nation­ to agree to. alist demand that Britain act The Nats are furious that while Welensky's government is depor t­ as accomplice in sealing all ing South Africans found in th e escape routes from the apart­ th ree Federa tion countries, the heid police state. British High Commis sioner used the letter of the law and the time­ honoured principl es of politic al asylum to order the release of the three South West Africans who were being brought under escort through Bechu analand on thei r way back to . Said Sir John Maud: the th ree were in illegal detention in Bechu­ analand, so he ordered their re­ lease. Since then the three South West Africans have been given temporary asylum while they arrange to resume their journey She hopes to study law. northwards to take up overseas scholarships. The three young South West Africans, Messrs . Brian Basslngwa ite, Fer dinand Mororo and Peter Katjavivi, who were released from custod y (Continued 011 page 3) by order of the British author ities in Becbuanaland . c.P.c.MEMB ERSWARNED ON SABOTAGE . This was the second time that ing. a teleph one cable was cut. Two The detective who was investi­ F OUR members of the Col- weeks ago a teleph one cable was gating the case warned the men Three young women students are oured People's Congress cut ncar Langa. that if they knew anything about among the large batch of South were called in to Caledon The four men, H oward Law­ the case they should tell the African students who were de­ rence, William Bock, Rudy Ludski police "otherwise you will be ported to Becbuan aland by the Square on Monday morning and Abr aham August ine, were charg ed as accomplices." He also Southern Rh odesian government, for questioning about tbe re­ question ed about their movements said : "As you kno w, under this after ser ving a term of imprison­ ceut acts of sabotage in the on Wednesd ay, Thursday and very good act (Sabotage Act) you can get the death penalty so you ment for anteting Rho desia with­ Cape. Frid ay nights , out documents. The y have been Mr. Bock was quest ioned at people musn't think you know camp ing in the open at Gaberones, On Wednesday evening , accord­ hom e on Saturday mornin g. The everythi ng when you know f •.• other men were not in at the time all. The Security Polic e know Thi s young woma n a Fort Ha re where they were gran ted tempo­ ing to news rep orts in the daily is and were asked to report to more about you than you know graduate and wants to study rary asylum, waiting for a plane press, a telephone cable was cut in Caledon Square on Monday morn- about yourselves." medi cine. to By them out to Tanganyika. the Ga rdens. NEW AGE. TH URSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962 LET ALLNATIONS EDITORIAL DISARM May I acquaint the reader s ANTI-CO UNISM - of New Age with the follow­ ing words Earl Russell wrote on Jul y 26. 1962. in his letter to me: WEAPON OF FASCISM " I was pleased to hear of ._II "13·IlL....- S OFF your concern for the estab­ I. .U. lishment of a peaceful AFTER the softening-up barr age>of radio and press propa- world. While T am not a ganda. the Na tionalist assault on the "Communists" has complete pacifist, T agree been launched. Men and women against whom no charge has A Ie with you that a war with been proved or even alleged are subjected to the vicious punish­ nuclear weapons would be Since the end of the Second They are now tur ning their at­ a terrible catastrophe, ment of house arrest. Banned people are slandered on the radio World War organ isations operat­ tent ion to South Africa. If their which we must do all in and forbidden by law to reply. A list of named "Communists" ing under various cloaks and leader Irving Brown of the AF L· our power to avoid." has been published in the Government Gazette. representing imperialism have Cia is so keen on hiinging Ver­ I believe that these words These are the slimy tactics of the fascist, who dirties every­ directed their tent acles towards wotrd 10 his knees, why docs he of Earl Russell. whom Com­ the devel oping coun t)ies of Asia. not even trv to persuade his own rade Khruschov called "a thing he touches. All that is noblest and most progressive in Africa and Latin America . members not to handle anything coura geous fighter for peace, our country is being dragged in the mud, while the perverters One of these is the Interna­ South African? for the proh ibition of nuclear of truth, the apostles of the vile creed of racialism, the adm irers tional Co nfederation of Free In spite of their dollars and weapons tests and the proh i­ of Hitler and the Nazi doctr ine of the herrenvolk, sit in high Tra de Union s, better known as the ir underhand tactics the ICFTU bition of the use of these ICFTU. It represen ts nothing but will fail in South Africa just as it weapons" are wort h universal places and exercise power. monopoly interests in Africa and has failed in other part s of attention. Let common sense The "Communis ts" are being attack ed and subjected to doe, its work under the guise of Africa. prevail! Mv sincere hope is to penalties, not because of the crimes they have committed, but "international working-class soli­ The time for nco-colonialism see the disarmame nt of all because they have been in the forefront of the resistance to the dar ity." has pawed. Africa has it, own the countries and to see all Having been thwarted at the pro blems. desires and solutions the nations friends, Na tionalist policy of apartheid, because they have pleaded and conference in Casa blanca it has and will make its own decisions With very best wishes to worked for the achievement of equal rights for all, irrespective now called an all-Af rican trade and never take its orders from the younger generation of of race, creed and colour; also beca use the Nationalists, like Africa, whose letters I love! union conference in Dakar in the ICFTU. their Eur opean colleagues the Naz is a ~ d the fascists, need a January. Some of their organ isers HANDS OFF AFRI CA! IGOR MIKHA ILUSENKO have links with the notorious TUNGURU HUARAKA 24 Gorky Street, scapegoat who can be blamed for all the evils that are befalling American CIA. Th ey arc trying to SWAN U Representat ive Flat 10. the apa rtheid re public, from bomb explosions in Cab inet counteract the AATU F, (the All Accra. G~1ana . Moscow, USSR. Ministers' offices to sanctions resolutions at the United Nati ons. African Tra de Union Federa tion) bv settin g up a rival organi sation, Just how evil is the Nationalist mentality is revealed by the Although up to now their efforts publica tion of the list of the 437 "C ommunists" in the Govern­ have failed, true sons and daugh­ ment Gazette. T his list was drawn up in 1950, after the Suppres­ ters of Africa should not under­ U.S. IMP RIALISM AND siori of Communism Act was passed, and purp orted to contain estimate the malicio us works of imperialism and colonialism. the names of peop le who had belonged to or actively support ed the Communist Pa rty when it was perfectly legal to do so. N CLEAR WAR Most of the 437 are no longer active in politics, but did not app ly to get their names off the list because they had done Tribal Ambassador is It was with inter est we read the imperialisms. nothing to be ashamed of and refused to turn informer in artic le on Cuba in the New Age. The misery. fam ine and fear order to buy themselves securit y. For this they are being Very Touchy It is difficult to account for the that rules and is the everyday life lack of world opini on against the of most of the world's people punished, their names broadcast to the wide world so that they What is it that is so embarras­ dangerous U.S.A. mo ves, Could it would fade away like a bad dream can be ostracised and penalised by the -community as a whole. sing about being a tr ibal ambas­ he that the prugrcs vive movement an d be forgotten foreve r. Yet in the very midst of their crusade against the "Co mmu­ sador? throu ghout the wor ld were half ­ Kh ruschov diplomacy won honinu for a conflict? peace for the world and yet it nists," the Nats are reaching out for new victims. The Minister It is trulv perturbing to note Th~rc that "Di zarnahlcbo." one of the is no doubt of the ou t­ might seem that Castro and of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr. Hertzog. told a R andfontein audi- tribal ambassadors we have here co me in a clash between USA Chi na would have preferre d a _ence recently that the sabotage in the Republic was the work, in East London. is so violently and U\"oiI)R It would he the end of showdown . Onl v the future can not of the "Commun ists," but of " liberalist agitators." Liberal­ the roud for UI) imncrial ism and tell who was right . opposed to being addressed as an ism, which was the precursor of Communism, was the greatest ambassador. He is so touchy that that would mean the end of all Above all looms the A-bomb vou might think it's an insult to an d yet time and again the human danger threate ning South Africa, even more dangerous than be called such. mind has proved to have no great Comm unism for its methods were much subtler, he said. In the past few weeks he has spread of imagination. Only after Freedom Fighters, he has been actuated by experi­ Clearly the ta ctic of the witch-hunt will not be restricted to Quarrelled with Mr. Douglas the "Communists" but will be extended to "li beralists," pro­ Sparks and Mr. Mtshiza na for Know Your Allies ence and fear docs man react faithfully addressing him as am­ aga inst evils he cou ld easily have gressives and all who stand in the way of the Na tionalist forese en. hassador. Let those in South Africa and juggernau t. The whole country will be dra gged ever deeper into Can it be that to accept such a Typical is the attitude. "Like other countries who strueclc for gas in the last war the bomb is a the Nationalist slime. post is to agree te and to accept freedom and iust ice for all the ir The time has come when those South Africans who have not apartheid, white do mination and two-edged weapon and will never people, recognise who their true be used." yet done so must get down off the fence and devote themselves the avowed purpose of the Na ­ friends arc. It was the Socialist tionalist Governmen t to deny the OBSERVER heart and soul to the struggle for freedom. Just as the resistance countries and Afro -Asian neutra­ Durba n. Afr ican people the right to liberty. li~t, who voted at UNO for a movements in Na zi-occupied Europe durin g the last war became justice and a decent life? Docs hi, strun g line agains t Vcrwoerd, Tn (There would be no victors in a symbol of the unconquerable spirit of free peoples, so the touchiness imply that his con­ a nuclear war: the who le of hu­ like manner thev have and are manity might be wiped out.-Ed.) fight for liberty and justice in South Africa can now be clearly science is at war with his present standing on the side of the opp rcs­ unn rincinled stand?

11 Savage Sentences"

'THE South African Congress now been added the sadistic re­ finement of house arrest. of Trade Unions in a state­ ment asks what the Minister "And the Governm ent has achieved only a stultified economy of J ustice thinks he will with the mass of the people living In a state of either semi- or com­ achieve by his savage sen­ plete starvation. It has ended the tences of house arrest on his rule of law and has made our courts impotent, It has violated most outspoken potitical op­ every tenet of democratic rule and ponents. has brought upon us the condem­ natio n of the entire world.

"D oes he believe that by sealing "Yet, despite these restrictive off these people in their homes or practices, more non-white workers flats he will make Apartheid work­ arc organised into active trade able and just? Does he think that unions than at any other period in the non-white workers will now our history and these unions have abandon their struggle for living won de facto recognition from wages and their opposition to job employers; more non-white people reservation and all discriminatory are politically conscious and are laws? striv ing for the end to 'Apartheid' and more whites come out daily in ROLEY ADENSTEIN "Does he think that if these open opposition to the Govern­ few courageous voices are no ment. UNDER HOUSE longer heard, the non-white peo­ ple will abandon their struggle for ARREST a truly democratic South Africa "Mr. Vorster has yet to with equal rights for all? Does DURBAN. he thmk that Bantustans will learn that not even gas cham­ MR. Roley Arenstein, a well- come into existence with no voice bers or concentration camps known Durban attorne y, is to say 'No '? the first Nat alian to be placed can kill ideas. Nor can they "And when he has turned South Old Mrs. Alice Sisulu, mother of former African National Congress under house-arrest by Mr. Yorster. defeat the will of an oppressed secretary Walter Sisulu, was laid to rest at Naneefield Cemetery last He has been confined to his home African life into one vast unfunny week. Our picture shows Walter Sisulu at his mother's graveside-he for 12 hours a day and for bidden game of Rugby with every non­ people to freedom." had to get Vorster's permission! Nationalist Citizen 'marked' by a to leave the Durban magisterial member of the Security Branch, I------district. what then? 'Apartheid' will be as Long a target for Nationalist unworkab le and as unjust. persecution, Mr. Arenstein played a leading role in exposing the kid­ napping of Anderson Ganyile and SADISTIC 24-Hour House Arrest for in securing his release. a prime factor in the close co­ Twenty-eight demonstrators who "In the fourtee n years of its operatio n the two organisations protested against Yorster's order existence, the Nationalist Govern­ built when they launched a strug­ outside Mr. Arenstein's home last ment has ruled by bannings, Moses Kotane gle against a common threat, the Saturday were arrested. They ap­ arrests for high treason and incite­ Suppression of Communism Act of JOHANNES BURG. His order made him the fourth 1950. peared in Court on Monday, when ment, deportation and banishment person to be placed under 24-hour their case was remanded to De­ without trial, outlawing of orga­ MR. Moses Kotane, former This same Act has been used house arrest and the 12th under ruthlessly to attack first Comrnu­ cember 1. All were released on nisations, confinement of indivi­ secretary of the banned general house arrest orders. bail. duals, censorship. To these has nist Party opposition, then the Communlst Party, and a for­ Mr. Kotane is probably the best African National Congress. and mer member of the national: known veteran of South African now threatens all outspoken op­ executive of the banned Afri­ political struggles for five decades. position. can National Congress, was There has not been a political Mr. Kotane went to prison for struggle or campaign, from his made the victim of house defying one of the first orders VURSTER REFUSES TO earliest days in the young Com­ banning any South African from arr est in the only restriction munist Party of the twenties. to participation in gatherings or the order served in this city last the most recent struggles, that he work of certain prescribed organi­ week. has not been a part of. sations; received a suspended sen­ IV E SONS Mr. Kotane lives with his wife His leadership in both the Com­ tence for his participation in the and sons in a small two-roomed munist Party and in the African Defiance Campaign. was one of JOHA NNESBURG. Honourable the Minister of National Congress, where, in his the accused in the Treason Trial; Justice to advise you as home in a yard in Alexandra f~~r_ Min~~~;tel~ f Jt~~~~~ Township. own right as an experienced leader, and represented the African Na­ follows: he was elected year after year to tional Congress at the Afro-Asian down a challenge, and then, 1. The Honourabl e the the top Congress committee, was conference in Bandung in 1955. when taken up on it, funks it. Minister is satisfied that you This is the only conclusion are engaged in activities that can be drawn from his which are furtheri ng or may leiter to house arrestee Mr. further the achievement of Ahmed ('Kathy') Kath rada the objects of communism. CRISIS this week. 2. Information. None of the information the midst of negotiations on future Ta lking on Radio South (Continued fro m page 1) relationships between the Republic Africa on the 'facts' of sub­ which induced the Honour ­ able the Minister to issue the The case of the large party of and the High Commission terri­ vervive activities. the Minis­ tor ies. South Africa can turn nasty ter told journalists that he above-mentioned notice can, South African students waiting ill in his opinion, be disclosed Bechuanaland to fly out to scho­ and try exerting all kinds of pres­ was required to give reasons, sures, for the economies of the if asked. for banning confine­ without detriment to public larships i" the next big stick the policy. Nats will use to try to beat Britain three little countries are depen­ ment orders. dent on South Africa. So Mr. Kathrada asked for It is pointed out that the into an agreement that "he Will reasons. Honourable the Minister is close the Protectorates' bord ers PRI NC'IPLE This i" the full text of the not by law required (our em­ and hospiality within the three phasis) to furnish you with small countries to South Africans But the principle at stake is the letter from the Department of right of the three countries to re­ Justice: the reasons and with a state­ who have been refused passports ment of the information and cannot leave except by slip­ tain their political independence "REASONS FOR NOTICES which induced him to issue ping out through the Prot ecto­ and to continue to honour the SERVED UPON YOU: rates; and to politicals forced by right of members of a politiral the notices in ter ms of sec­ opposition to apply for-and be With further reference to tions SO)e and 10 quat." persecution by Verwoerd and your letter of the 31st Octo­ This letter is signed by the Yorster to seek political asylum. granted-asylum, 0 r passage ber -I962 I am directed by the Secretary for Justice. through the territory out of the South Africa's Department of reach of the South African Gov­ Foreign Affairs is said to be in ernment. NEWAGE, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1962 NEWAGE, THURSOAY.--NOVEMBE---R 22, ------1962 ------Disgusted I By House Arrests u.s.EYES ON ALGE A ~ II IIIIIII II II I I I III III I III I IIIIII II III IIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIII III I II I IIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!: difficult for the US to emphasise the salutary charac­ ~ ~ ter of their mission and simultaneously to create a The U.S. is planning to 'take over' basis of "mutual obligation" which any future regime YCOTT PRESSURE GROWS ~ from the French in Algeria just as it did E may have to take into account. These tactics can be § in South Viet-nam, but until now the ~ explained by the American desire to influence the spiritually indefensible'?" (a re­ ING ILLEGALLY AS WELL ~ ~ creation of a regime which would suit them most. ference to the characterisation of AS IMMORALLY, AND AS Ben Bella Government has blocked their ~ ~ First of all, the US tried to prevent the creation Apartheid made by the British MR. WALL TOLD THE TRUS­ way, says a leading article in AFRICA of a "national front" a~ this would harden Algeria's delegate, Mr. Patrick Wall, in :rEESHIP COMMITTEE '1'1' s TRAD E AND DEVELOPMENT, an § nationalist aspirations and raise its resistance to out­ IN ENGLA putting the British case before the SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN § informative monthly review published in § side influences. In view of this, the US fears especi­ United Nations Trusteeship Com­ ANY ORDE RED SOCIETY.' But ~ London. We print the article in full. § ally a closer alliance between Algerian leaders and From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo an export market worth £150 mittee on the South West African Britain continues to help to keep leftist elements which would be dangerous to western million a year, and investments issue). it in place." ffillll l ll l lllllllll llllllllllllllllll llll lll l l lll ll lll l ll l ll ll ll ll llll lllllllllllll l lll I I IIIIII I II~ interests. . LONDON. worth £1,000 million would be Countering Mr. Wall's conten­ The united stand of the Afro­ ~E news of the wave of jeopardised.' tion that the thirty Buccaneer Asian States on sanctions against WASHINGTON HAD, TFIEREFORE, SET house arrests now taking Then it goes on to ask the ques­ marine bombers purchased by South Africa has caused a flutter A MERICANS have not concealed their dis- GREAT HOPES ON A CERTAIN TENDENCY place in South Arica is causing tion, "Why should South Africa South Africa from Britain were in the dovecotes of the capitals of appointment in Mr. Ben Bella. It is true OF SOME ALGERIAN LEADERS TOWARDS AN be made an exception?" "One an­ designed to protect South Atlantic the Western world and their gov­ that the Algerian Premier carefully avoided AUTHORITARIA N REGIME WHICH WOULD such widespreadindignation in swer given," the "Economist" sea routes and were unsuitable for ernments are beginning to feel the NOT BE ABLE TO RESIST WESTERN PRES­ Britain that support for the states, "is that its particular measures of internal repression, cold blast of the charge levelled any references to Berlin, Cuba or any other SURE. American representatives in North Africa­ UN resolution on sanctions offence of racial oppression is now the editorial states that although against them that their non­ direct cold war topics in his address to the UN the prominent US trade union envoy Irwin Brown against South Africa is appre­ almost universally condemned as the Buccaneers would be highly support for sanctions is an act of General Assembly. is named in this connection-have been known for ciably growing among sec­ no political system is. sophisticated aircraft to use in hypocrisy which belies all their But in his speech he made some time to investigate which of the Algerian an REVOLUTION putting down an uprising, they protestations of being the up­ it clear tbat the credo of his leaders would be most suitable for these purposes tions of the British people. "Ultimately, the decision must could be so used. holders of freedom and democra­ country's diplomatic and poli­ and on whom they could count, The Anti-Apartheid Movement take account of a revolution in RACIALIST CITADEL cy. The Western countries find tical action will be the "elimi­ has called upon the British Gov­ South Africa in which the black "The sale of the Buccaneers in­ themselves in a predicament whe­ nation of colonialism in its HALF-OWN ED OIL ernment to stop immediately all insurgents might be armed and creases the power of the South ther to implement the UN resolu­ classic or disguised form arms shipment to South Africa backed by the communist powers, African Government to defend its tion and lose economic benefits as throughout the world." Worse Possibilities to exert US influence in Algeria are and to co-operate with other UN the whites by the West. Sales of racialist citadel against ideas of South Africa's major customers, or A demonstration of the Durban workers who marched from their offices to the factory-a distance of four still, his first action upon members in examining how effec­ arms to South Africa might well equality from the North and on flout it and incur the displeasure being searched for in the economic field as well. miles-to demand the re-instatement of their leaders who were dismissed. Soon after this demonstration a arriving in New York was to Some Algerian leaders are known to place their tive sanctions can be imposed. be tbe first link that will have to that ground it must be condemned of the whole of the Afro-Asian settlement was reached. show his affection for Cuba The "Economist" in its issue of be cut; it is a link tbat tbe United . . . There has been further evi­ world (excluding only Japan). great hopes for their country's prosperity in oil and by a well-publicised embrace gas development. November 10, 1962, commenting States has already cut." dence this week of the South SERIOUS of President Dorticos, and on the boycott resolution, states: The "Guardian" in its editorial African Government's suppression As the Observer (November II, after having had lunch with But this i<; the very point on which they may "Britain's position in regard to a of November 14, 1962 poses the of the individual rights even of 1962) put it: "The question of the President Kennedy, on which occasion no embraces experience more disappointment and trouble from boycott of South Africa is ob­ question: "Should offensive wea­ people of its own race. Western role is serious, If the were recorded, he flew to Havana for talks with the United States than France could ever have viously unique, if only in that a pons be supplied to a Government "BY ANY ABSOLUTE STAN­ Western countries are genuinely Premier Fidel Castro. caused them. boycott would cost Britain more whose policy is 'morally abomin­ VICTORYF DARD THE SOUTH AFRICAN opposed to apartheid and can pro­ than any other participating state; able, intellectually grotesque, and GOVERNMENT ISNOW RUL- duce a better way of applying Companies half-owned by Americans have drawn ------, pressures on South Africa than SOURNESS up a plan of Algerian oil production calculated to sanctions, they should disclose serve European needs only and also meant to secure These facts have led to some sourness in Washing­ a second strategic resource of fuel in case an unex­ their hand. If they have no alter­ ton where the political atmosphere is at present thick native, it is irresponsible and dam­ pected situation in other oil areas especially in the STRIK with anti-Cuban hysteria. But they must also have Middle East, would occur. aging to Western interests to op­ sobered up some policy planners who are behind a pose sanctions. And it is particu­ DURBAN. on Thursday, after 400Indian have been victimised. new attitude to be taken by America in North The US project would follow the principle that KERINA RETURNING TO larly irresponsible that Britain Africa. Algerian oil production should not impede the busi­ should continue to sell arms to THE Durban Confectionery workers walked out of the fac­ Armed police, members of the the rulers of the apartheid coun­ On their advice, WASHINGTON INTEN DS TO ness of the ARAMCO oil concern and would thus Works at Mobeni, Durban, tory in sympathy with 32 Special Branch and a Saracen sur­ FOCUS ITS AFRICAN POLICY ON ALGERIA not cause instability of oil prices in the traditional try, which, happily, the United looked like a besieged garri­ leading members of their trade States now refuses to do." rounded the factory and inside the RATHER THAN ON THE UAR OR THE CONGO. markets. More tha n that, the Western son last Wednesday night and union who were alleged to factory the police took charge of The new trend ot a step-by-step "replacement" of Therefore, it is natural that SOUTH WEST AFRICA France in her former dependencies in Africa-similar Washington would like to see governments are called upon to - --- -, all departments. to what has happened in Indo-China-is to be pur­ a regime in Algeria which face the rising tide of indignation would give preference to fo­ negotiations between SWAPO and of the labou r and trade union sued With particular energy in Algeria. JOHANNESBURG. Ward 6 By- Election The Union alleges that the vic­ Tlus country seems to provide good chances for reign investors' interests and SWANU. Kerina, acting alone, movements and the democratic would not embark on indus­ II,"E former SWAPO Presi- advocated a new party, the Namib forces within their own countries. tirnisation arises as a result of a the rapid enhancement of US influence on the same ,...._------_. _---, memorandum of demands for pattern as has recently happened with such success trial development projects dent, Dr. Mburumba Ke­ Independence People's Party, this The feeling of the common people in Libya. ba sed on the country's reve­ rina, whose credentials as without consulting his SWAPO has been appropriately voiced by higher wages and better working nues from the oil industry. Thefabulou~ United Nations petitioner for colleagues. Kerina'sexpulsion from the "Daily Worker" editorial Overwhel ing Su port For conditions submitted by the Union And the very first stage of Algerian indepen­ In fact, they would like ! SWAPO and his resignation fol­ (November 14, 1962) which states dence is considered to be the most appropriate the Herero people were recent­ recently. Algeria to follow the line lowed fast on one another. in categorical terms that the re­ moment for American interests to fill the taken by King Saud in this ly withdrawn by Chief Hosea UNITY TALKS fusal of the British representative After three days all the workers vacuum left by France. matter. The Sahara oil com­ Kutako, has decided to come Unity talks between SWAPO in the United Nations to support Barney Desai panies could then he relied upon to influence per­ and SWANU on a formal organi­ sanctions against South Africa is were reinstated without any loss manently and effectively any future Algerian Gov­ home and has applied to the sational basis are still on the South "both mora lly abominable and of benefits and the management South African Government (or CAPE TOWN. voters of Ward Six were not pre­ PREVENT "FRONT" ernment. !~IlU I RI West African agenda but reported hypocritical behaviour, and it is pared to be steam-rollered by has promised to discuss their to be proceeding slowly and en­ time the Go vernment was forced a re-entry permit. WITH one week to go for these tactics into supporting a grievances shortly. Overtime pay It is true that the distribution of tents among the IT SEEMS THAT, FOR THE TIME BEING AT The letter to the Government countering many local obstacles. to change its' attit ude." homeless and of American bread among the starving polling day, canvassers candidate of who se poli tical poli­ which in the past had been paid LEAST, MR. BEN BELLA HAS UPSET THE :'EVEN-FlO' says Kenna WIshes to return to r------­ cies they disapprove. children was a very humanitarian act. It was ~ot APPLE CART FOR THESE PLANNERS. South West Afnca WIth his wife of Barney Desai, Congress­ The Desai Election Committee at the rate of time and a third on and three children in January backed candidate in the Ward is aware of the sugges tion that basic salary new includes cost of : JOUNTAIN PEN 1963. He recalls in his letter that Six municipal by-election, are Mr. Essop IS being used "to split living as well. I..- _.•_._- -- his South African passport was the Non-White vote so that Mr. cancelled by the Government on LEBALLO REPUDIATED BY working practically round the Phillips could win with a White The spirit of the workers Simple account of his oppo sition at the * clock to finish off their second majority vote. This could be throughout the strike was magnifi­ non-perishable United Nations to the South Afri­ achieved if polling is weak, which Ylcuumflllerwith can administration of his country. SOBUKWE canvas of the voters in the it generally is in a by-election. cent. Indian women syrnpathisers 'Iee-st-a-glance' A copy of the letter to Soutb Afri­ ward. Leaflets warning the voters joined the strikers and organised Ink reservoir. ca requesting a re-entry permit has JOHANNESBURG. Polling day is on Wednesday, about this danger will he distri­ their own placard demonstration been circulated by the UN Fourth buted this week. outside the factory. Seventeen of * Sturdy Committee. This was done on ALLEGATIONS by Potlako LebalJo of bad treatment November 28. from R a.m, to constructIon. November 7. 7 p.m, at the Lieberman Institute, OVERWHELMING them were arrested but later re­ in jail have been denied in a press interview by PAC Muir Street; Drill Hall. Darling leased. Modern OPEN LETTER * Kerina says in an open letter leader Robert Sobukwe. Street; St. Luke's Church, Albert So far. suppor t for Barney ·ellSy-wrlt.· The allegations were made by Leballo in an article in the Road, and Wood-tock Town Desai has been overwhelming and stylingfor circulated to "friends" that his decision to return arises from "our British press. He said both he and Sobuk we were brutally Hall. his

TROOPS Go to their graves Like beds; fight for a plot/Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,/Which is not ON THE tomb enough and continent / To hide the slaui" MARCH Hamlet. Act IV, Scene IV.

FURTHER VIEWS BOR T ON THE INDIA· CHINA - Call by World Peace Council BORDER DISPUTE Til e [ollowlnv statement has SUPPORTERS of peace everywhere are deeply concerned been releoscd by Plol. I. D. with the tragic conflict involving the two great Asian coun­ Bernal, chairman, 011 he/ICIII of the NEHRU REPLIES TO World Council of Peace: tries, India and China. Both peoples arc by tradition devoted to the cause of peace and national liberation from colonialism. The hostilitiesarising from the imprecisefrontier demarcation KHRUSHCHOV'S 1111II1;::";:":':::~1II1 111 1 are now verging on open war. Their continuance can give aid and comfort only to the CBASEFIRE PLEA enemies of peace. If prolonged, they may tend to spread to the :: "It is well known to us and :§ ~ the whole world that you and § extent of endangering world peace. § your country arc devoted to § § peace and to the principle of § SPIRIT OF BANDUNG § solving problems among § § people and nations in a § Offers of negotiation have been made. The first necessity is § peaceful way which would § an immediate ceasefire, after which negotiations should be :: lead to an honourable solu- § taken up on a mutually satisfactory basis, as urged by the heads ~ tion of this problem to your § § country . . . I firmly believe § of certain non-aligned States in Asia and Africa. :: that well-intentioned Inltla- ~ § tive of some of our mutual § These should lead to a settlement in the spirit of Bandung, § friends from non-aligned § which would be in the interests of the peoples of both coun­ ~ countries could contribute in § tries, .• § findin!: out a solution of this ~ § problem," § We urge all peaceluvers throughout the world to further such illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll~ an outcome. PALMEDUTT: U.S. un Brituinare Fanning

the Flumes IN MOSCOW T HE United States and Bri­ all friends of both countries was pR~Y Dp~~ t:h~e~~~:~e~Oi~m~~ tain are trying to fan the that the proposals of the Afro­ Asian powers and of the Soviet editorial yesterday, said: "The conflict between India and Union for a ceasefireand negotia­ thing to do is to cease fire and China, Mr. R.Palme Dutt, tions should bring peace to the without advancing any terms sit veteran left­ border. down at the round table of nego­ wing cam­ "In this situation, the massive tiations." pouring of arms into India by tbe p a i g n e r for Relations between India and the Indian inde­ U.S. and Britain is not helpful to Soviet Union are "a good example pendence and peace," he said. ''These are not • Pro-imperialist reaction­ of the successful application of the today editor' arms for the defence of India." aries in India, with lavish principle of peaceful co-existence,' of La b ou r CHINESE OFFER U.S. finance, were seeking to Soviet President Brezhnev said in Month ly, Mr. Dutt pointed out that China Moscow. warned his " ad continuously offered a cease­ work up war hysteria. but we audience at a fire and negotiations without prior could be confident tbat the He was speaking after Mr. Tri­ recent meet­ conditions, suggesting that both masses of the Indian people. koli Nath Kaul, for mer Indian ing in Britain. armies should retire to 12 mites with their deep anti-imperialist High Commissioner in London, Du t~ had presented his credentials as Mr. behind the 1959 frontiers. tradit ions, would quickly re­ WIFE: "And you keep telling ~~~ ~ish e~f "Nkrumah has protested against me there's no life on MaTs!!l..." new Indian Ambassador to Mos­ R. Palme Dutt the imperialist supply of armsand cognise the present alignment. cow. 8 NEW AGE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962 IIUIIIIICAND,'DA'TESIIIIII/NIIIORLANDO"IIELECTION'i"lllllllli HANI AND MPEIBA FLEE TO BASUTOLAND CAPE TOWN. M'1;~~ ~~b~~a , ~~n~ :~~~ ordered by the State President to leave Cape Town and exile them­ selves in me area controlIed by their enemy Kaiser Matanzima in the Transkei (see New Age last week) have fled the country and soyght asylum in Basutoland. Tbe two men were due to leave by train from Cape Town last Thursday night and to report in DEATH OF LOUIS Cofimvaba by Monday of this week. On Thursda y night a large JOFFE number of their friends gathered JOHANNESBURG at Cape Town station to bid them farewell, and sang freedom songs MR~ f ~~~i~ e~ o ~~a~~ ~o ~~ ~~~~ The Residents' Committee candidates working to oust Mpanza in the Orlando Advisory Board elections. while they waited for the train to From left to right: Mr. J. B.Hashe, Mr. P. J. Matthews, Mr. D. J. Hlongwane, Mr. T. H. Mathiso. depart. A number of Special f~l/I~ o~~~s A~~}~~e d~~ ~ Ir~~~ ~VC~~ ~ Branch men were also present. peared on the list of named Neither of the two men turned Communists. Special Branch Man up, and the train eventually pulled Louis Joffe is perhaps best re­ THE J Z SCENE out without them. One of their membered for his sterling service Is Matanzima's colleagues then an nounced to the for the African Mine Workers' From Howard Lawrence Parker and Monk. To Chris too, crowd that they had decided not Union and for the African Mine goes the distinction of being "The to comply with the State Presi­ workers' Union Organising Fund CAPE TOWN. only group leader who takes an Ambassador dent's order that they return to Committee which bore the brunt active promotional interest in the Transkei. of providing defence to the miners, '''THE Jazz Scene" at the QUEENSTOWN. workers, trade unionists and demo­ Weizmann Hall, Sea other musicians' compositions." BEST NUMBERS AN African Special Branch de- At 3 a.m, the following morning crats who were prosecuted after Point, last week, was another tective Mr. Mabunu, told an the homes of the two men ill ~~~ 6~ is to ri c mine strike of August The " Blue Notes" rendition of Langa were raided by the Special magnificent example of what Dollar Brand's powerful, but audience at Queenstown that he racial co-operation on the had been appointed Kaiser Matan­ Branch, but by this time it was He rallied to every financial heart-rending "K ippie" was, in my too late. Messrs Ha ni and Mpern­ crisis of New Age. and, before basis of merit can achieve. opinion, the best number of the zirna's ambassador to this town. The meeting had been convened, ba had arrived safely in Mafeteng, that of the Guardian and Advance There was no doubt left in any­ evening after Charlie Mingu's where friends were providing them and was a valued and highly efli- "Shuffle." and was presided over, by Mr. body's mind that this concert was Mabunu himself. with temporary accommodation. cicnt fund raiser. . the best thing that has happened Because of the difficulty of to South African jazz since Dollar space ] have singled out Dudu The hall was surrounded by Brand and Kippie Moeketsi and Chris but congratulations go armed police while the meeting smashed the cosmos in December to every member of the group. was III progress. Mabunu took POLICE BREAK UP CAPE notes and wrote down the names 1961 at the Rondebosch Town They were outstanding. All of them. of opposition speakers while sit­ Hall. The other two groups "The Jazz ting as chairman. The artistry and creativity of Ambassadors" and the "Ronnie One of his supporters, Mr. B. TOWN DEMO STRATION Chri-, McGregor's group which Beer Quintet" were B[G surprises. Myataza, claimed that the meeting amalgamated with the sensational Only two months ago word leaked had received blessings from Man­ Dudu Pukwana "Jazz Giants" out that Chris McGregor was run­ CAPETOWN. after the Johannesburg jazz festi­ dela, Sisulu and Lutu li. "They RACING AT ning a workshop at the " Mer­ a llow us to carryon in this way," pLACARD S protesting val last month, was undoubtedly ma id." Most peo ple brushed it off he said. "as they arc still busy­ the nearest thing to international as a "wasre of time." They ate attending tu other matters." against house-arrest and KENILWORTH class that South Africa has pro' the ir words at the Weizmann­ deportations were displayed by 1 he following arc Damon ­ duced since Dollar Brand's " J .IZZ This was too much for the those who were there. To under­ a udience. They walked out. demonstrators who lined a selections for Satu i dav: Epistles." stand the tremendous improvement Wynberg Open Handicap: FULL.TIMER in men like Ronnie.Goodwin, portion of Adderley Street, I. AFLOAT Chiis. a young former Univer­ Ternba (both piano), Sammy Ma­ Cape Town, last Saturday 2. Kingswell sity of Cape Town music student ritz (b,I\S) and Danyila Dlova morning. 3. Involved. who gave up his studies of the (alto) listen to Freddie Gardner W ynbcrg Handicap (H) : QUAR­ classics to become a full-time before you listen to Charlie Par­ SOMANA FINED Among the slogans were the TERDECK. Danger, PIince (starving) jazz musician, has suf­ ker. There's no other way to ex­ following: " House Arrest i ~ Living Alfred. fered many financial and domestic plain it. Death"; "The P