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D Mr. Thumba PilIay, President of DURBAN. the Students' Representative Coun A RESOLUTION pro~ cil, said that the people must not arrest of be intim idated by such legislation against the Nel as the Sabotage Act. son Mandela and Walter "The Go vernment must not be Sisulu and demanding their allowe d to silence the people . Hit· immediate release was unani ler tried to do this in Germany § Vol. 8, No. 44. Registered at the G.P .O. as a Newspaper 6d. mously adopted at a mass ~ ~~ i.~e tl:i~j,o~~geD~~~ojl:k~i §NORTHERN EDITI ON Thursday. August 16, 1962 5c. ~ meeting organised by the S.A. activit y goes on. The arrest of that 1i11111111111111111111J1111111111 11111 1111 1111 1I1111111111J11111J11111 1111111111111111111 11111111111 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJlIIIJllIIlll lliffi Women's Federation and held great son of Africa Nelson -Man at the Bantu Social Centre dela was followed by a spate of last week. slogan s demanding his relea se," he said amidst applause. AlJllQst 1,000 people jam Stati ng that the people were un packed the Centre and what daunted and fully behind their leaders, Mr. Pillay said : 'T he appeared to be the entirestaff Government must not be mistaken of the Special Branch were -Once they silence our leaders, present. OutsIde the hall four many more will take their places. van loads of anned police The spirit of Mandela and Chief Lutuli is in the hearts of millions stood by. of people." In front of the mullti-racial Spea kers representing the Con gress of Democra ts, the Natal In platfonn was a calico banner dian Congress and the South Afri which read: "Women Demand can Congress of Trade Unions the Release of Mandela!" also spoke.
Speaking with obvio us emotion, Miss. Alzina Zond i, an executive member of the Feder ation, remind Mandela Slogans Mr s. Winnie Ma ndela, wife of ing those present of the role ot women in the great women's re In Jo'burg Nelson Mandela, has asked New volt in Natal in 1959, said that Age to appeal to people to repu there was no going back. JOHANNESBURG diate any person starting wild Slogans in black pal ''have ap "We fight on again st the Dom peared .thro ughout the length and rumou rs abo ut the arr est of her Pass and the oppressors," she said breadth of the south western com husband , and not to be influenced plex of townships in Johannesburg. amidst applause. by wild press reports about the The slogans read : "Release Nel arrest. Mrs. Mand ela asks people son Mandela," "Fre e Mande la and Calli ng on the women and the Sisulu," "Nelson Mande la and to rally round and support their men to be ready she said: "Whe n Walter Sisulu are our leaders," arrested leaders. the call comes you must respond," "We sta nd by our leader s."
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JOHANNESBURG. after evading the most intensive police networ k spread over the HOURS after he was last two years. brought handcuffed to The police cars that encircled court here, undergroundleader him had lain in wait for three days. Colonel Spengler said the Nelson Mandela was whipped police acted 'on inform ation.' No off, under heavy armed police oth er details had been revealed by guard, to Pretoria where he is time of publi cation. being held in the Central NEWS LEAKED OUT Both Mandela and Cecil Wil Gael. liams were arre sted and driven Mandela was cornered and to Pietermaritz burg. Williams was surrounded by three car-loads released on Tuesday morning. of police on the Durban Mandela was brought before a magistrate on Mond ay morning in Members of the Special Branch take down the name s of those takin g part in a multi-ncial demo n Johannesburg highway, just Pietermaritzburg and then whisked stration held at the Durban City Hall steps following the arrest of Nelson M andeIa, und erground leader of outside Bowick, on the after off to Joh annesburg. Only then did the African people . noon of Sunday August S. He the news of his arrest leak out. The same afternoon, their forces 2l0w n to fifty and many of their placards now in Zulu, the demon was dressedas a chauffenr and strators moved to Durban's mammoth Non·White bus terminal. a n ~ a~~e l ~ o~~ d ei na J~~~~n~;~~~: The stream of thousands of workers hurrying home after work stopped to join the demonstrat ors who was in the company of Mr. hand cuffed as he was brought in sang Congres s soa gs intersperse d with slogan shouting, Cecil Williams, the well and taken from the courtroom. He Backdrop for the bus-rank demonstra tion was a new foo tbridge on wbic h the followint· Slog-clOS had known stage prodncer. did not plead . The charge was one been painted the mlilt before: "Free Mandel al"- ''F oUow "Mandelal" Mandela was taken into custody (Continued on page 3) NEW AGE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 Unemployment In Witbank I~l)I 'rO RIAL Unemployment in Witbank has risen sky-h igh. People queue for months during which time they have to pay all their own expenses. MR. NEL- ALWAYS GREEN Th e women queue for even kit chen work which is offered for less THE famine in Sekhukhuneland has become..so serious that than R4.00. But in spite of the scarcity of work the government the Government has decided to supply food to the starving Great Storm Brewing In still dem ands its taxes. people. At Schoonoord last week, according to a report in "Die If South Afr ican firms do not get Burger," the RA.D. Minister de Wet Nel announced that the overseas markets for their goods, Government was donating R45,OOO and 1,000 bags of mealie The Transkei it is because foreign countries have seen the necessity of boycot meal as a portion of the Government's contribution to the A great storm is ahead. The lie does this high tax apply? Ex ting their goods. And whilst this Bapedi. At Sibedlela, on the same day, the Minister handed Transkei is seethin g and boiling cept in the Tra nskei where the is hard on the Afr icans as well, over 300 bags of mealie-meal. like a volca no, it ca n explode any chie fs, headm en, hom e-bodyguard s the Afric ans. nevertheless are The Government, which refuses to subsidise school-feeding day. The chie fs have been lionised and the lot have had their wages used to har dship and poverty. by the Gove rnment to create a increased to enormous proporti ons . A. T. J. BUTANE for undernourished children, is certainly not dishing out charity tens e and un easy atm osphere. The Government bas built the Witbank. for nothing. The starvation, of which New Age first warned the Mr. De wet Nel was shouting at rich man's kraa l at Umtata with country six weeks ago, must be very widespread to have induced the top of his voice about the 10% enorm ous sums of money amid the the Government to take action at all. of the trouble-makers in Pondo utmo st pover ty of the people . UNEMPLOYMENT land who had already been Ho w can there be peace in the Yet the same "Burger" report , after describing the terrible roun ded-up, but up to this day the T ranskei when man y of our pa IN BASUTOLAND drought conditions in Sekhukhuneland, adds: "Yet there is no Eme rgency Regulations are still on triots have been brutally murdered starvation. A merc hant said there was plenty of money in circu with disastro us effects upon the in their glorious shades hovering There are a number of firms in lation, although it was earned outside Sekhukhuneland. 'You hab itants of the cou ntryside. Does around us and whispering "Av enge Basutol and belonging to foreign this mean that that 10% is still us." nations. Yet tho usands and thou would be surprised to see how many ten rand notes I change,' playing hide and seek with Mr. The Government must hold talks sands of Basotho are being de he said." Nel ? with the people not with the Chiefs po rted fro m the Republ ic of "Die Burger's" own claim defeats itself, for it proves that the Th e waves of popular anger rise and other stuffy lot. T he Govern South Africa, where they were people of Sekhukhuneland are unable to live off the land and ment must stop this illusion of dismissed by these foreign busi high er and high er and dash only survive on the money tha t their menfolk earn in the White against the mud palaces, sha king thinkin g that he is going to "civi nessmen. the chieftaincy to its very Iounda lise" the people by bullets , bayo Recentl v a nu mber of workers man's mines and farms and factories. tion s, The people no longer re nets, banishments to Frenchdale , were dismissed from one of these Point is added to this by De Wet Nel's remark that the spec t these leopa rd-skinned -attired hangings and ra ping of our women for eign firms in Maseru. We child Bapedi were not getting their present of food for nothing. barb arians, thes e so-ca lled leaders and the lot. ren of the late Moshesh, where sha ll we go for a job? "There is one pr inciple in which I always believe," he said. ,- . of the people. Th eir att ire is proof LEONARD MDI NGE that Chieftaincy is still resting in DAVID DAMANE a man does not work he must not eat. Therefore we must '<, a primitive and backward shell, Durban. Maseru, Basut oland. work together so that we can eat well." unfit to ru le an enlight ened people. Bantustans , in other words, are now exposed to be merely Th e grieva nces of the people gigantic labour reserves from which a hungry people are driven have conte mptuously been ignored . nite And Fight For Sigcau, Ma tanzima and Co., have out to work for the White man by a combinatio n of taxes and dismally faile d to look into and starvation. What sort of independence can be exercised by settle the peop le's grievances by S.W.A. Freedom peoples who are always living on the borderline of famine? employing democ ratic methods in Meanwhile, the true extent of the famine in Sekhukhunelancl stea d of emplo ying coercive high The South Africa n governm ent heid and all her racia l policies in han ded methods, which have also has not only faile d to fulfil the Sou th-West Afr ica which deprive is still not known. It is still impossible for the press to enter fail ed to cow the people. Th e peo obligat ions entrus ted to her by the the Afric an peop le of adequate the area, reporters and cameramen alike being denied access to ple rightly say that only the grave League of Na tions, but also vio education and deny them the right see for themselves. Thousands may perish and the world not can stra ighten the hun chback. lated the Ch art er of the Unite d to partici pate in the government The tax in the Tr anskei is R5.50 Nations and the Declaration of of their countr y. . know. per year . Where else in the Repub- Hum an Righ ts by applying ap ar t- The South -West Africa People's But despite the misery which prevails amongst his people, the Organisation is fully aware of the stooge chief who beads the regional authority told De Wet Nel: fact that the fascist regime of D r. "A dog which gets food wags its tail out of gratitu de and Verwoerd is trying to create a Bantustan in South- West Africa satisfaction . That is how we feel now. The Minister helps the against the wishes of the majority Bapedi and therefore we have given him the nickname 'Always PACE BAS 1'0 BE Afric ans. T his Bantustan scheme Green'." is similar to conc entration camps It's enough to make even a dog sick. which were set up by the Nazis during the Second World War as PAID rOB a labour reservoir from where men, women and children will be THE news of the latest ad- Cairo. The y say, "It is with recruited for slave labour. MR. NEL- ALWAYS BLUE vent ure in space should great pleasure that we re Time and agai n SWAPO has excite even tbe most jaded of ceived news of you r activity demanded the end of the raci st "ALWAYS act with tact, dignity and respect," the B.A.-. us. The thou ght of two men which indeed deserves all en regime and the creation of a de Minister de Wet Nel told a conference of Bantu Affairs in space, each in his own courag ement and support for mocratic government in South it is toward s the indepen Commissioners in Maritzburg last week. "It is so true that when cap sule, talking to one West Afric a fou nded upon the the dignity of a person, no matter how insignificant and unde an oth er, eatin g, drin king, dence cause, for which we will and full participation of all sleeping, read ing newspap ers are all working in one way th e people irrespective of their veloped, is affected, good relationships cannot exist. -in fa ct carr ying out all tbe or anothe r. May we congra colour, creed or place of origin. "Today there is no scope for out-of-date, regimenting conduct normal activities of living tu late vou on the 25th anni SWAPO is calling upon you, sons must have some impact on us versary of the esta blishment --conduct which must of necessity offend the Bantu." and dau ghters of the soil, to unite Coming from Mr. de Wet Net these views could almost be earth -bound mortals. of the progressive press . '. . and fight hand in hand against the We hop e the impact will Wishing you further success South African white fascist reo described as enlightened and progressive. Yet in fact they are resu lt in somethin g favour in your endeavour s ..." from gime. meaningless. able fo r New Age. And what the Secretary-Genera l. SWAPO demands immediate Mr. Nel is not asking for the abolition of the mountain of could be more favourable for So we kn ow that we enjoy general elections to be held New Age than a nice big do mora l supp ort throu ghout the throughout the territory on the regimenting legislation which offends the Africans- the pass nation to keep us going? length and breadth of Africa . system of one man one vote. That laws, for example. Nor is he contemplating the reversal of Ou r donations for this We need a bit more ma terial would be the only solution to free policies such as the Eiselen Line, in terms of which 100,000 supp ort from our own coun week are not good enou gh if the Africa n people of South-West Africans are to be expelled from the Western Cape. And what we are to collect our R2.000 trym en and then ou r life will Africa fro m the bondage of the by the end of the month. We be assured. South Afri can government. about the deport ations, banishments and exilings- are they not were qu ite serious when we DON 'T DO VORSTE R'S SAM NUJOMA, offensive to the Africans? said that if th is money is not WORK FOR HIM! President, SWAPO The laws which most grievously affect the dignity of the collected dur ing August we DO CELEBRATE THE Cairo , Egypt. shall be forced to cease pub SAF E LAUNCHING OF African people and turn them into second-class citizens are to lication at the end of it. We T HE SPACE TWINS! remain on the statute book. All that Mr. Nel is asking for is shall then have to collect DO SEN D US YO UR DO· , that bad laws should be administered with a good grace. mon ey to pay off our debts N ATION RIGHT N OW!! and tha t will be the end of Last Week's Don ations: THE MEANING OF The African people will thank him for no1liing. It is only more than twen ty-five years Johannesburg: when the out-of-date, offensive apartheid laws have been swept of the progressive press. Mo nthly R20, Fri end R40, "AFRICAN" ont of existence, only when the African enjoys equal status We are sure tha t the majo N . R20, An on RI , A. R I, with all other citizens in this country, that it will be possible to Chinese art R30, F. R20. We would like to point out to rity of Sou th Af ricans wou ld Mr . J. van der Merwe of Wind not want to see this. When Durban: establish good relations between the administration and the Jenn y RI , Paddy RIO. hoek that the word "African" does we think of all the stirring not mean those who brought civi public. letters of congratulati on we Cape Town: lisation to this continent but it .:.------ receive d on the 25th Anniver Ships R20, Legal R IO, means all th ose who were born in Continued from previous column sa ry, we feel sure that our C.O.D. (dinner) R5.30, Jewels U.S. Demonstration R4, An on R2, Che ms R40, Africa. If 'Af rican' is an honorary up and go back to the Congo. supporters will rally around Police in Albany, Georgi a, Bob R2, H & J R lO, Bubat title, as Mr. van der Merwe claims. That is the poli cy of those who us and make our continued ~ broke up a demonstration by appe aran ce possible. In fact R4 , Mica R2, Wat ches R2 , then the people enti tled to such are supposed to ha ve brough t civi Egg R2, Coolth R40, Eye title are the Natives of Africa not severa l hundred Negroes who de th ese letter s have still not lisation to this lan d. fied a Federal Court injunction and ended. Th e lat est (in both brows R IO, No rb as R IO, the Europeans who keep that title Long live the Af rican !We shall marched on the city hall for a senses of the word) is from F otos RIO, Scra p R IO, Egg for themsel ves. live and die for our motherland . praye r meeting against racial dis the Organisat ion for Afr o R4, Sed R2, COD ca ll. R2.21. Mr. van der Merwe says that if HITJITEVI K ATJAVIVI crimi nation. Abou t a hundred Asian Peopl e's Solidarity in Grand Total: R3 34.51. we are not satisfied with the Ver woerd Government we can pack NGARIKUTUKE TJIRIANGE dem onstrator s were arrested and Continued in next column S.W.A . gaoled. NEW AGE. THURSDAY. AUGUST 16, 1962 SISULU ARRESTE D FOR COPS WAITED 3 DAYS TO ARREST MANDELA (Continued from page 1) claimed after Sharpeville. UMPTE ENTH TI ME of incitement. A certificate from His banning orders expired at the Attorney-General was presen the beginning of 1961. It is typical ted which blocked baiL of the man that as soon as he found himself free of restrictions "No Valid Charge", Says Defence Council NEW MEmODS he threw himself into the struggle Nelson Mandela, who Went un- again. He delivered the keynote . derground after leading the May speechat the Pietermaritzburg An JOHANNESBURG. was nebulous and vague so that he ~--- _ 29 strike against the Verwoerd Re did not know what the accused in Conference when a policy ot Walter Sisulu, former public last year, announced that non-co-operation with the Govern MR. had to meet. 'new methods' would have to be ment was declared. He was elected used in political struggles in South secretary-general of tbe Mr. Soggot said that he bad not secretary of the National Action banned AfricanNational Con had a chance to consult his client Africa. He has been the hero of Council, and when the May 1961 gress, who has been detained who had been brought forward the African political movement, general strike was decided upon, especially of the youth, and his Mandela immediately went under at least a dozen times in the hurriedly for purposes of a re arrest was the talk of the town mand. ground to organise from there. past year, was again arrested and the townships all last week. His name popped up throughout by the Special Branch last WHAT OFFENCE? Political fervour reached new those weeks of the strike and week as he was walking in heights as the news of the arrest afterwards, as he issued calls from The 12-day-no-bail law was a reached the people. hiding and kept the strike in the Commissioner Street. considerable incursion on the liber Nelson Mandela, an impressive news. He appeared briefly in the ty of the individual. The accused six-footer, with a magnetic person Few foreign correspondents who Magistrate's Court two days later was entitled to know on what ality and a reputation for being a came to South Africa did not ask and was ordered to be held with charge he had been arrested. But dynamic political organiser, has for an interview with the under out bail for 12 days. since the wording on the charge occupied the centre of the politi ground leader. He was interviewed sheet did not describe a proper cal stage since he was national on several occasions and was tele Mr. D. Soggott, appearing for allegation, one could not even say volunteer-in-chief of the historic vised for the B.B.C. while in Sisulu, said that although the cer whether the accused had commit Defiance Campaign of 1952. He hiding. tificate was in order and he was ted an offence 20 years ago or not. led the first batch of volunteers In February this year, Mandela not in a position to attack it. the If the accused was to be detained, into action, clad in the khaki uni was reported to have turned up section of the law which was rele there had to be a properly formu form of the freedom volunteer. unexpectedly at the P.A.F.M. vant in this case and which he lated charge viable by law. No Piet Beyleveld Not long afterwards he was E.C.A. conference held in Addis wanted to seriously question con such charge had been formulated banned from all gatherings, con Ababa.He was described by at tained the words "... on a charge in this case. fined to the magisterial district of least one overseas correspondentas of committing an offence." This In addition, argued Mr. Soggot, Johannesburg, and muzzled from the "most dynamic and well in -sumed that the Attorney there should be proper compliance Arrested speaking to the people. formed delegate" attending the neral could produce the certi with formalities. An accused But the restrictions did not stop conference. Another correspon 'ncate only if a charge was properly should be properly charged within Mr. Pieter Beyleveld, president him. His prestige continued to dent said that if Mandela was an framed. In this case, the charge 48 hours.Since the charge before of the Congress of Democrats, was grow among all sections of the example of the leadership against ______-, the court was unclear, it would be arrested on Monday morning in liberatory movement. When the which apartheid was aimed, then improper to detain Sisulu. He his officeby Special Branch police. police swoopedat dawn on Decem there was no doubt that the Na therefore was applying for bail on It is understood the charge is one ber 6, 1956, Mandela was among tionalist Government was doomed. behalf of his client. of degrading the dignity of the the 156 arrested for treason and The Magistrate, Mr. H. C. Bos State President.The arrest follows he sat through the four years of MATANZIMA'S COUSIN MORE POLICE man, said that his reading of the on the distribution of leaflets the trial, through the 1960 Emer Although he originally came Act was that the word "charge" several months ago protesting gency period, until the case from the Tembu Royal House, BAlDS ' in this section meant "allegation." at 'the proposal that the City against the last 28 was finally Mandela is implacably opposed to Council of Johannesburg confer thrown out. . JOHANNESBURG. Hence Sisulu had not yet been the policy of co-operation with the charged and therefore the Attor the freedom of the city on the Mandela was in jail throughout Government pursued by his cousin, The day after the arrest in President. Natal of Nelson Mandela the ney-General was fully entitled to the Emergency that was pro- Chief Kaiser Matanzima. Special Branch swooped on grant the order. The magistrate the home of Mrs. Mandela was bound by this certificate. and combed through book The case was remanded to shelves and cupboards and August 18. Classroom Composition looked under mattresses and in bread tins. The raid lasted about three hours. The Special Branch also raided the home of Mr. BOMB Duma Nokwe twice last "You Are Head Of The week; and visited the homes of several persons on Vors ter's banned list. Special EXPLOSION Branch detectives kept an Security ran h .. ." d~rr :t~~.r C~~ ~fh willia:;:~ and then searched it from top IN EVATON DURBAN. Education contained in a foreign countries. to bottom. report fabled at the recent "It is fortunate that the The warrant authorised a JOHANNESBURG JNACCURACIFS and NUSAS Congress by its average citizen is unaware of The post office in Wilberforce, distortions in various the plots and counterplots search for material connected Evaton, the African township be President and Vice-Presi that are hatched daily .. . with three organisajions: the tween Johannesburg and Vereenig school.textbooks were ex dent. African National Congress, ins, was blown up on SUnday night. posed in a scathingattack "ORAL COMPOSI- the Congress of Democrats Dealing wit h English and the Communist Party The extent of damage is as yet against Christian National TION: e (i) You are head unknown, but first reports indicate readers used in Afrikaans of the SecurityBranch of that it is extensive. medium schools, some ex tracts from the Standard 8 the S.A. Police.In a secret textbook:"English the Easy interview with the Minis Way," are quoted as an ex ample: ter of Justice,teUhim why "The special branch of the you are so alarmed." MANDELA SLOGANS IN South African Police is re The report points out that DURBAN II sponsible for the internal se in reply to a resolution of curity of the country. Al protest from NUSAS, the though these men receive no Transvaal Director of Educa publicity, they have the most tion replied stating: difficulttask of all the police. ''. .. As far as the Trans It is common knowledge that vaal Education Department is spies from other countries are concerned We are convinced even at this moment trying that the books in use are to obtain vital information suitable." about South Africa. Every In reply to a further com hour of the day secret trans plaint concerning political milters transmit messages in appointment of members on code to various parts of the the Transvaal Boards the re world. ply was: ". . . Political ap "In an era of phone tap pointments are as old as ping and bidden microphones, school boards in the Trans of riots and sabotage, the se vaal." curity forces have to combat Still later when NUSAS ex espionage tactfully and effi pressed its "vehement con ciently without causing inter demnation" of a statement national incidents. This ex made by the Transvaal Admi tremely difficult task is fur nistrator that "the battle ther complicated by the fact against the Non-Europeans Dozens of slogans have appeared all over Durban including Cato Manor, tbe central businessareas, Chester that unscrupulous agents use must be won in the class ville, the markets and certain factory areas: "Free Mandela!" "Stand by Mandelal" ''Long Live Mandelal" embassies of their country rooms," no acknowledgement and "Follow Mandela!" The Congress of Democrats,due to hold a mass meeting in Durban this week, have and ab-use the immunity ac or reply was received from changed it into a "Free Mandela" Meeting. The Youth Action Committee, a multi-racial youth organisation, corded to diplomats in the Administrator. is also organisiD& a mass mectin& around the demand: "Free Mandela!" NEW AGE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 NEW AGE,,TltURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 Leader of The New Algeria e Will Fig t
The Algerian Provisional Executive has announced that elections for the first Algerian National Assembly will be held For Our ig ts' on September 2. OUfpicturesshow: - Mrs. Mandela Left: The nucleus of the Political Bureau which is governing JOHANNESBUkG. Secretary of the Federation, The conference called upon the the country until after the elections. From left to right, Rabab speaking for the first time in Jo women of South Africa to bring Bitat, Belkacem Krim, Ben Youssef Ben Khedda, Mohammed FIVE hundred womenof aU hannesburg after the expiration of women of all races together in Ben Bella and Colonel Si Hassan of the Willaya IV military races attended a meeting ber S-year ban and confinement effective protest and to demand of the Federation of Sooth to Johannesburg, said that the the return of their leaders. zone,photographed insidethe Prefecture in Algiersshortlyafter spirit in the other regions she the announcement that the Ben Bella and Ben Khedda groups African women, Transvaal visited after the expiration of her r------ had reached agreement. region, at the Gandhi HaU, ban was very high. She stressed last S1D1day. the need to organise the women into clubs which must affiliate to As the women were singing the Federation and assist in the Students Won't Congress songs, before the meet drafting of the women's BTI! of Right: Mohammed Ben Bella was given a hero's welcome ing started, members of the Spe Rights which must incorporate when he returned to Algiers after an absence of six years. Here cial Branch came in and marched the demands of the women. Fight or he is seen, his arm held aloft by admirers,as he makeshis way up to the platform, and at the conclusion of "Nkosi Sikelela i LEADERS' WIVES from the car to the Prefecture. Afrika" they produced a warrant Apartheid authorising them to search and be At the end of her address she present at the meeting. They took called on Mrs. Mandela and Mrs. notes and sat at the platform until Sisulu to join her at the platform DURBAN and as they were walking up to Below: A section of the huge crowd (complete with picture the meeting was over. A resolution similar in content of their hero) which gathered to welcome Ben Bella on his the platform the people shouted BUILDING UNITY "We stand by our leaders." to the "Manifesto of lnsubmission" return to Algiers. Mrs. Joseph, holding up the which was enunciated byJean Paul Mrs. V. Weinberg, welcoming hand of Mrs. Mandela and Mrs. Sartre calling on the French Youth \ - the delegates, said that it was the Sisulu, said that there should be not to participate in France's dirty authorities who were guilty of no tears for Mr. Mandela or Mr war against the Algerians was making South Africa a nation Sisulu, "Our message to them is adopted at the recent NUSAS divided against itself and they of that we will carry on the fight." Congress. the Congress movement were Mrs. Mandela told the meeting The resolution, drawing atten building for a future multi-racial that the women of South Africa society. tion to the huge Defence vote of who love democracy and freedom R120 million and noting that "it Mrs. Helen Joseph, National would fight for their rights until freedom was won, and would not is only persons classified as 'white' r------, stand idly by when freedom was who are receiving military train being raped and violated by the ing," states: "Being of the opinion ANC LEA ES GET Nationalist Government. . that individuals have a moral right to refuse to submit to military "Let us &0 tc, the battIe, even ~~isi~g n~l::~ ;~do~hi :h c~ ~~rd eb~ if it means loss of our blood, for NEW STOOGE BODY construed to be designed, inter alia, our beloved motherland," she 18 MT to defend apartheid, urges the re said. RESOLUTIONS cognition of such right both offi cially and by the public. Pamphlets Found in Boot of Car BAC S APARTHEID The conference resolved that JOHANNESBURG. Mr. Makhene claims a member man destruction. The Government women should intensify their "Instructs the executive to can CAPE TOWN. should be prepa-red to sacrifice ship of the new Bantu National must be practical with its policy of struggle for justice so that the vass support from eminent South their lives like Castro, Lumurnba, Union, into which these other two separate development. It is the prosecuted leaders should know Africans who are prepared to lend FOUR alleged members of Kenyatta and others in other parts G OVERNMENTmen are at that their sacrifice had not been their names to a document which in bodies have merged, of 50,000. pledge of our organisation that the the banned African Na of the world. work Johannesburg's "We merged on July 29," he urban areas should have African in vain and that one day their defends the moral right of South tional Congress-Archie Sibe "The Nationalists are challen Africantownships. Last week said. "We have ministers of dif administrators in their own areas." voices would be heard again and Africans not to allow themselves ging us to fight, so let us take this the Bantu National Union ferent churches affiliated to us," Mr. Makhene said it was his they would walk freely in the to be used to further the protection ko, Martin Hani, JamesTyeku challenge and fight. We are calling land of their birth. of apartheid by force." C3l"' - to light, with the aim of he added. "Our motto is race pride, personal opinion that the African and Faldeni Mzonke- were all Africans, men and women, race purity and race peace." people were not opposed to the workers, the youth and students, gil foil support to the Na sentenced in the Cape Town UHURU government policy of separate de Magistrate's Court last week to come and fight the vicious laws tiolurusts and apartheid. velopment. "I am very opposed to of the Nationalists by attending The Bantu National Union to 18 months imprisonment Mr. Peter Makhene, the presi boasts that it has influenced the multi-racialism," he said. meetings and in many other Mr.Makbene admitted, and each for taking part in the methods that may be directed to dent of the Bantu National Union, Government "for the establish told New Age that the organisation ment of 'uhuru' in the Tran skei." boasted, tbat his organisation affairs of a banned organisa you." wished the 1961 strike to fail "and The pamphlet concluded: "Let had for three months been having ("self-rule" Mr. Makhene called tion. secret meetings with the Zulu it.) "It is our wish to see more with the belp of the Sons of Zulu the enemy be destroyed-forward land we succeeded." Evidence was given that Tyeku, to freedom. Let the people govern Royal Guards, an organisation led ~aa~t~h~~~li~f~:f~~~~~ti~:i~l o~~ Hani and Sibeko were travelling in -strength is ours." by Mr. 1. Kumalo of Mofolo THEm AIMS South; and also with Mr. Augistin a car, driven and owned by Tyeku, STILL ACTIVE people can easily be met. No man Mr. Makhene explained the aims on the evening of June 7. Police Sikosana, the president of the Ban does not want to be free in this of his pro-Verwoerd organisation: manning a road block at the en Lt. S. E. Sauerrnann, of the Se tu National Council. The latter world," said Mr. Makhene. "By the 1. to give full support to the Gov trance to Nyanga East ordered the curity Branch, said that in spite of body, said Mi. Makhene, has a establishment of Bantustans the ernment policy of separate de car to stop, but it drove on. The the ban the A.N.C. was still active. large membership among Zulus so-called South African race pro velopment. police followed and eventually Meetings were held in Ca~e and Swazis in South Africa. blems will be settled without hu- 2. to promote the speedy intro brought the car to a halt. Tyeku, ~~;n~ ~ e~i~~ ~il~nsb e~~d g~~~~r~ duction of Urban Bantu Coun Hani and Sibeko were in the car. of cils. On searching the car they found the ANC attended those meetings. 3. to make representations to the 8,SOO pamphlets issued by the The A.N.C. stood for equal government to have 'Bantu' banned African National Congress rights with the Whites and votes (Mr. Makhene's word) com in the boot. for all. mercial travellers in the town A fingerprint expert said he Mr. A. L. Sachs, for the defence, Beerhalls Condemned By omen's Conference ships. applied for the discharge of the found the prints of Hani and CAPE TOWN. time has passed for turning back. and eventually draw up a Women's day were living in fear and uncer must stand outside the beerballs on Mr. Makhene said Chiefs' re accused at the end of the Crown presentatives have been co-opted ~~~~~ ~ f:e b~~f~~etth :~~r.w r ap- "VORSTER is bringing US We are nea~ to freedom ~o~. Bill of Rights. tainty. No one could question August IS and see that none of ~:~ i s~a~~~ cr~:e~eft~s:dd~le~~ Government policy. Mother tongue our menfolk enter." as members of the Bantu National TRANSLATION hh:s wit ~ St:~~t ercti~g ° ::ffe :o t~~ J~g~~~ AC~; eM~~ g B~~n c~ee 1~~~a~~fJ Union's executive committee. case. the, beerhall the education was hampering the pro "People at Nyanga are being A Security Branch African de It. wom~,n marched to Pretoria 10 there wasn't a road, a bridge, a gress of the children. He told us: "We are in close tective read to the court a transla SENTENCE hangman s rope next to We chased out of their pondokkies and touch With the Department of tion of one of the pamphlets found Sentencing the four men, the are not afraid of that rope. 1956. park or a building in Cape Town The wages of the workers were forced to live in houses, but they Bantu Administration." in the car. magistrate, Mr. A. J. van Wyk, Vorster can do what he likes, Refe rr~T~C~?N ~es trict i o n which had not been put. up by scandalous, said Mrs. Lizz Abra can't afford the rent. Yet if they do Other members of the executive said: "These organisations have hams. "Why must we live in pon not go they are endorsed out of The pamplet said that the Sabo ~ ~ot turn orders imposed on Federation lead- ~hoew s~~~ ~~r~h~or~IY~~dt~ Ir~~ committee are the Reverend tage Bill gave Vorster the power been banned because they are agi we going to dokkies and our children have TB town." Joshua Tserema of the Public to ban people, organisations and tators who would not stop short back, said Mrs. Mkhonto at ers Mrs. Lilian Ngoyi, Mrs. Flo- together with the Whites in the while the Whites live in luxury? "We make demands to the Gov Apostolic Church of South Africa newspapers which opposed him. of bloodshed. a conference calledby the S.A. renee Matomela and Mrs. Flo- city and were driven to the out- There is only one solution-we ernment and they give us a bullet." who is treasurer; and Mr. Bennet must all 80 and organise in every "We of the African National "The whole trend today 'is to Federation of Women in the ~~k~ :M. ~~,y ~~~. ~~tt~~~~~~~ skirts where transport costs were "We all know what is wrong with Nxumalo, a businessman and for Congress clearly understand that oppose the laws made by the Gov comer of the country to back up mer member of the Mofolo advi ernment and, it would appear, any MowbrayTown Hall on Sun- silenced our women? It is because high, the demand for £1 a
Brother Jack DR. ROBERT SOBLEN, who hit tile world headlines after cut \.. . ting his wrists to prevent his being flown back to serve a life sentence in a US . prison, is referred to in every newspaper report as the 'convicted Red spy.' Yet an ex amination of the evidence against GATH RI G INBAROTSELAN him does not speak very highly of American justice today. The 'star' and only really material witness ES WE E· F E D BY KING IN 1906" against him was his brother Jack, who a few months earlier bad THE settler-government in which they value so much won't dience of well over 100 were pre been sentenced to a seven-year Northern Rhodesia bas al be abrogated, it will continue even sent, including nearly all the white term of imprisonment after plead in an independent Zambia. administrators and white traders in No Prize Is Offered ing guilty to spying during the last ways boasted of the political and around Mongti:-UNIP's to..ihe..reader. who guesses whether war. .Brother Jack, it appeared unconsciousness of the Lori "Chiefs are our natural rulers, tional Band was in attendance. the picture below is of Nikolayiv from the prosecution's own psy therefore even if we take over to speaking to Popov or Glenn chiatrists. suffers from the severe people of the Barotseland Pro day we won't cease to give them speaking to Carpenter. tectorate, but a shock for them From the reports coming in, Ba mental disorder known as psycho the respect we are giving them rotseland is definitely a stronghold sis. The offence was alleged to came recently when President now; we are not respecting our of UNIP. A local political party, have taken place no less than 19 Kenneth Kaunda addressed noble chiefs now because the rather society, the self-styled Ba years ago, i.e. at a time when the over 10,000 enthusiastic Lozi whites tell us to do so but because rotse National Party, an off-spring Soviet Union was still 'our glori it is our old tradition that we want of Sir Roy's United Federal Party, ous ally.' Nevertheless, Dr. Sob to carry forward which is em len. who is dying of leukemia, braced in the African personality," ~ ffic~l~~~~y~~ i~ r ~~ ; ~'l di~~~~t~ was sentenced to a term of life Mr. Kaunda told the audience. led, illiterate conservatives. Sir imprisonment by the Judge, wlio SPECIALTONEWAGE Later he told them of a House of Roy's party donated three Land declared that Soblen's crime was Chiefs embodied in the UNlP po rovers and £5,000 to this secession 'akin to mass murder.' policy, "that will allow our noble ist group in order to spread con from VICTOR ZAZA rulers to play a vital role in our fusion in the Northern Rhodesian * * affairs." elections. Dirt on de Alva To prove that he meant what he Lusaka, N. Rhodesia really said, Mr. Kaunda went to Nkumbula, leader of the ANC so MANY WORDS have been Limulunga, the Paramount Chief's (now known as an association of spoken by and about Mr. Carpio cousins and nephews) tried to go that it comes as a bit of a change there and address a public meet to find some dirt about his quieter people at Mongo, the Admini ing, but not a single soul turned colleague, the reserved Dr. Marti strative capital of this 'protec up. nez de Alva. A New Yorker with torate within a protectorate.' a long memory recently wrote to an American paper concerning de In a jubilant crowd one old U.N.I.P.'s Strength Alva's Pretoria statement: Martinez's behaviour comes Lozi man declared, "The last as no surprise to me. Some UNIP's strength is growing Belsky In the London DaUy Herald hugegathering of this type was minute by minute, the future for years ago when I sat in on a seen in Barotseland when the this mammoth party is unquestion "Here are my snaps of th e bal Mexico City college course in slaves were freed in 1906 by ably bright. The party stands un loon, the fireflies, thr ee daWDs political science,I heard Marti opposed in three of N. Rhodesia's and three sunsets - and this is nez assert that the Nuremberg King Lewanika." provinces. viz.: Northern and Lua Brigitte Bardo! on th e beach at war-crime trials should not have The Barotse Native Authority pula provinces and Barotseland. In Cannes." been held since there was DO has always been the victim of the the Copperbelt UNIP enjoys al legal precedent for them. When settler district commissioners and most a 98% support, in the Cen a Jewish student differed with resident commissioners, but at last tral and the Eastern provinces it's The Church In him. he turned to the class and UNIP broke the ice. After two roughly 95%, and in the Southern asserted suavely that the stu months of solid negotiations with Province, which apparently seems E. Germany dent's position obviously re to be the stronghold of the ANC, flected a religious or racial basis. the two Wina brothers (who are During an interview with the top officials of the United Na UNIP has 75% support. .. Czechoslovakian news agencyCfK tional Independence Party) the centering around questions of the Barotse Native Government gave The insignificant white-led Libe For Fleeing Physicians ral Party, very much on the way church in a socialist state the in. The feudal ruler, Sir Mwana Bishop of Thuringia, D. Mitzen wina Lewanika. gave his consent to decay. is understood to have a THE UNIVERSITY of Alberta membership of only 600 followers heim, declared: Progressive club plans to build a and allowed UNIP to operate "What I can say on this subject freely in his 49,000 square miles in the whole territory. UN IP mem small-scale replica of the Berlin bership is approximately \,000,000. is based on my own experience wall on the Alberta-Saskatchewan kingdom. He allowed them to hold UNIP Publicity Secretary Sikota since 1945 as Bishop of the Evan public meetings throughout the border to "keep socialism inside Wina. Of late Mr. Kaunda has taken a gelical-Lutherian Church in Thu Saskatchewan.' Dave Jenkins, pre protectorate. Thus UNIP became long tour of addressing exclusively ringia, in the German Democratic sident of ithe student council and the first political party ever to hold Republic. Our Church is indepen a public meeting in Barotseland. capital, and paid his respects in a white audiences right along the 600 a member of the Conservative typical LOZI fashion (clapping miles railway line- the urban area. dent. It runs its own affairs. Any club, said the group will construct Therefore the UNIP Cabinet sort of a State Church is rejected found it imperative to send Presi hands and bending down on his His impact on these whites Ms a symbolic refugee camp, com knees). been so great that he has been by official quarters, too. plete with barbed wire, which- in dent Kaunda to address this histo "We know that the Lord's will rical mass rally, the first of its kind flooded with invitations to address his words-"will provide a stop: After the mass rally, a reception practically all white groups rang is peace among the people, that ping place for doctors fleeing on Lozi soil. in honour of Mr. Kaunda and his ing from professional men to the is why we Christians are also from socialism." Mr. Kaunda assured the Lozt colIeagues was held in the Mongo lower strata. He has put to them ready to do our share that peace -The Dally Colonist, people that their chieftainship High Court at which a mixed au- straight the party policy. may be among the nations." Victoria, B.C., Canada. NEW AGE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 BRIT SH ASCISM'S LI K WITH UTH AFRIC Moseley's Agent isits Johannesburg LONDON. INa series of skirmishes, Britain's three fascistorganisations-the Moseley Union Movement, the British National Party and the British National Socialist Movement- have received a bad beating at the hands of the British public. Pressure is growing for Parliament to pass a law which would outlaw the dissemination of racial propaganda. The recrudescence of fascism is not the work only of a few British crackpots. Each of these fascist or KISSED MOSELEY'S HAND ganisations has links with other fascist and white supremacy organi It is important to realise that an essential ingredient of the sations throughout the Western Moseleymovement is its vicious racism.Here is a vividaccount, world. WEBSTE R'S HI STO RY written by Anne Sharpley in a London evening paper, of a THIS IS THEIR POISON It was announced recently that recent Moseley meeting: Leaflets like th is are being handed out today in Britain by one one William Webster (Bill Webster) of the ne. o-Nazl groups. No wonder anti-fascists have been roused was in South Africa to collect Qoiv eringly, the falr-halr ed young follower to rave on, un· to smash the Mosel eyit e meetings . funds for the Union Movement young man kissed th e band of Sir checked and rather too revealingly. Oswa'd Moseley. Everyone in that "It's a nice thing if an Englishman ~~i:d i~w a lt~ M ~~ ~l e Yjoh:~~~~~~~ sweatin g, crowded upper-room in has to employ strong arm men to I the- Shoreditcb pub had spelled protect him against those Jewish the interbreeding with those Ne black shirt, yes, I was very proud , "Sunday Times," he had already groes." He had nothing against Ne met Moseley's local lieutenant out, yelEn2 and tau t, "M-O-S-E thugs." of it And I still have one, Mean Derrick Alexander. L-E-Y" when their leader ap The burly follower, physically groes, he added. to put it on on The Day." The history of Mr. Bill Webster peared, just before closing time , splendid with great red new bruises They were an amazing group. There was the easy magnetism of will not be without interest to to announce: on his face to match the red weal There was sparkling little Mrs. bigotry and certainty about these South Africans. on Sir Oswald's own chin where Florence Elliot, 56. "I thrive on people. They had a SImple idea and "We're going to get stronger and he had been fiung to the ground the movement," she said. And she were sticking to it- their own In March 1961, at the time of stronger because you have got the the protest march and meeting .in Ridley Road, stumbled on-an looked as though she did. superiority, based on goodness guts." ~~~~Ihi~a~y . "I joined in 1934. I wore a knows what logic. timed to coincide with Verwoerd's "Up the white man," was man determined to 1 _ arrival in London to attend the shouted-and received no contra Commonwealth Prime Ministers' diction, for all faces were white, "LIK E WOLVES " Conference, the office of the Anti drawn, bright-eyed, strange. "The mere fact that you are Apartheid movement at 200 Gower The little hand-kisser caressed telling the truth. They don't want Street, London, was set on fire by Sir Oswald's back, reverently. "It's to hear the impartial Englishman. a group of fascists. unbelievable. I don't know, just The Jews of today have lived off In the criminal case that fol AR OL D'S XM AS fantastic," he kept repeating the story of Belsen and Buchen lowed Bill Webster was a Crown dazedly, 'He's great. He's the wald for the past 20 years . . . the witness- much against his will, no truth." moment you criticise them . . . doubt, His van had been used by they wanted to lynch me when I the accused to get to the office. A COMEBA CK ? mentioned Palestine . .. they was HAMP ERS Although the accused were dis like a pack of wolves at a stag's charged, Webster did not deny that Sir Oswald should, one would they used his van. have thought, to a 24·year-old, ~~tO~~c~t~~Ogae t~~7 iI;: ~~l~ s ~:u~;.? In 1959 Webster stood as a can have seemed as remote as the Sticking With him were some of his ALL CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE didate for St. Pancras North con dinosaur. And yet there Were • mates, as burly and blond as he stituency in the general elections many young men in the room was. for the 'National Labour' Party the majority, in fact. THAT PARCELS THIS YEAR WILL BE a fascist party. But he lost his de Only a hundred or so in an "We're navvies," they said when posit. Later he left this party to upper room of a pub in Shoreditch I asked tbem what they did. "We join Moseley's Union Movement. to get the matter into proportion, dig up the roads with four dark THE BEST EVER. BANKRUPTCY and they could yell themselves men and two Jews. Ha, Ha ," they A few years ago Webster hoarse, as they threatened to, and laughed, with clumsy humour. REMEMBER THE CLOSING DATE IS managed a pub in North London yet . ' .' what IS happening? "I was attacked by a pack of and there was an outcry in the Sir Oswald, that odd and awful Jewish thugs because I had the press because he refused to serve proof that we are a free people, audacity to say let an Englishman 1st NOVEMBER. Non-Whites. Recently he appeared was pleased with the night's work. have his say. That has incensed in the Bankruptcy Court in con At 65 here was perhaps the be me and I shall support Sir Oswald nection with an alleged deficiency ginning of a comeback? until the blood runs out of my of £8,OOO-odd. The perplexing Jewishness that bones," said the burly one. * ______Curzon marked in his face in 1923 There was no ouestion but Sir THERE WILL DEFINITELY BENOLATE DELI ("Very young, tall, slim, dark Oswald had his admirers-in that VERY. ANY LATE PAYERS WILL HAVE TO Wolfson & De Wet,E N.A.O. rather a big nose, little black upper room. "He deserves to be COLLECT IN TOWN. 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