ECC opens campaign — The End Conscription Campaign has launched a month-long “War is No Solution” campaign againat and minority rule. Activities planned include meetings, lectures, a film festival, a concert, a pavement art exhibition and a walk. The ECC is calling for the removal of troops from the townships and the dismantling of apartheid. The ECC hopes the campaign will pro­ vide forums for debate around these issues. - Sapa. Q (H f

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Anditw a Kholi of Nyanga In front of an ECC potter. poi CP Corretpondent the sprawling yard and;,' day-u THE normally tranquil kite-flying followed, while’; Shortly” before lunch, white suburb of Bishops- ECC marshalls regulated ^ Archbishop *Tutu -arrived court was abuzz on Sunday the “influx” at the swim-. and blessed the Jood. "when more than 500 chil­ ming pool. In an interview he told, dren attended the End The swimming pool •-» City Press that he could , Conscription Campaign’s the main attraction of the not be expected to live in . Peace Picnic. day - was filled with laugh-V 17-acre residence alone. ;, ! r The picnic - part of ing children throughout “Let the people come ECC’s War is no solution the day. „ and share these facilities. campaign - was held at the Under the watchful eye , Those who do not like this residence of Cape Town’s of the marshalls, groups of 1 should lump itf’?- he said; Anglican Archbishop Des­ children were allowed into • Another, CP Correspon- mond Tutu. ,, the enclosure for 10 min- , dent reports that anony- The suburb started to utes’ swimming time. mous pamphlets discredit- “The car park was packed to •• v, ■ L capacity. We’re not sure if the I massive response was public support for the ECC or related ! ■v. •- -VS to the art works,” he said. He added: “The crowd may have turned up anticipating sim­ ilar action to the teargassing of . the Jodac “Emerge’n See" con­ cert at the Market last year.” £XRI£ITION p jfg n m Before the exhibition all work had to be vetted by lawyers to • U i ve ferfo rm afias in the- Rehearsal f^<>oiY\ prevent contraventions of the emergency regulations, accord- | * * _ ing to an ECC spokesman. jflV - ^ r fu>

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Anti-violence__ . but not violent. sT, £ enough This photographic ex­ PHOTOGRAPHY ... by JOHN VAN ZYL >, izfaiL powerful images m hibition, together EXHIBITION: POW (Market Photo Gallery) ' I their own right and with the painting and worth seeing. But one sculpture exhibition ships as much as action In the end, however, misses a coherent vi­ next door, is part of a on the border. Similar­ the exhibition is unsa­ sual argument. . larger anti-war state­ ly, there are pictures of tisfactory. It feels in­ A nagging question: ment. young children being complete. Whether this Why are all the photo­ This means that the taught to use weapons is due to the State of graphs anonymous? photographs must at and to admire military Emergency that dic­ one and the ^ame time hardware. tates what may be show specific examples Parallel to these gen­ shown or a shortage of of military violence and eral pictures are specif­ photographers brave also hint at the origins ic ones like Zwide cem­ enough to be associated of this violence. etery with its with a show like this, So we have photos of headstones like grotest- one will never know. AWB rallies and por­ que flowers flanked by traits of stern matri­ four Casspirs. Or of fu­ As a statem ent the archs that provide a nerals in Alexandra and exhibition is too muted, clue to the oppressive a forlorn ECC office­ not savage enough. A and racist system that bearer staring at her few pictures, like that underlies military de- shattered and burnt-out of Zwide cemetery or ployment in the town­ lounge. the EEC member, are A e g i o z z f i l a Smear campaign against us, Posters bid to says ECC ‘undermine and THE End Conscription children. Campaign yesterday ac­ “Six months ago the cused the Government unanimous finding of the and several Right-wing Media Council was that discredit’ ECC groups of launching a this edition of the news­ “systematic smear, cam­ letter was grossly inaccu­ Staff Reporter paign "against it with the rate and had violated the THE End Conscription Campaign denied issuing intention of “setting a cli­ council’s code of con­ posters bearing its name which appeared through­ mate to justify a crack­ duct,” Mr Evans said. out central Cape Town today, saying it was a bid down” on the organisa­ to discredit the organisation. He added that earlier tion. last month an anonymous , At a Press conference A spokesman for the company which is purport­ group calling itself Vete- j in Johannesburg the ed to have printed the posters also denied involve­ rans for Victory released ment. o ECC’s publicity officer, a six-page “diatribe, full Mr Gavin Evans, said from beginning to end The posters call for the observance tomorrow of much of the information with defamatory state­ a national day of mourning for dead ‘‘national ser­ in four Aida Parker news­ ments,” calling for the vicemen, civilians murdered by the African Na­ letters against the ECC tional Congress, and victims of terrorism”. banning of the ECC. and distributed widely was drawn from docu­ During the past year They bear the logo and address of the ECC and ments seized from the. or­ the ECC had received the small print says they were issued by the ECC ganisation by the Security copies of at least 13 and printed by Esquire Press (Pty) Limited, of Athlone. Police. anonymous anti-ECC Mr Evans said that dur­ publications distributed HAMMER AND SICKLE ing the past three months within the South African The posters depict a man, armed with an AK-47 the ECC had received re­ Defence Force and else­ rifle, with a red hammer and sickle on his head, ports that the Aida Par­ where, while several standing above a man with a burning tyre around ker newsletter of April 8 Right-wing groups had re- his neck. 1986 had been distributed/ ' printed the discredited Esquire Press spokesman Mr B Patel denied to national servicemen April 8 1986 Aida Parker that his company printed the posters. and to White newsletter. — Sapa. ECC spokesman Tracy Clayton said the organi­ sation was again the victim of a smear campaign. “The posters are not ours and will not fool any­ one. The ECC is appalled by this blatant attempt to discredit and undermine the work it does.” , She said the ECC had called on its supporters to Fake observe tomorrow as a national day of concern in an attempt to draw together all South Africans to ECC reflect on the cost of the “apartheid war”. “DEVIOUS, UNDERHAND” “Such devious and underhand methods used posters against us are disturbing but not unnerving. SMEAR posters pur­ “The ECC is an organisation working openly porting to be published with public events. Why can’t these people chal­ by the End Conscription lenge us openly in debate instead of using such tac­ Campaign (ECC) have, tics?” been pasted over authen­ She called on all South Africans to join the ECC tic ECC National Day of in its “Fast against Apartheid War” between 8pm Concern posters. today and 8pm tomorrow. The fake posters which carry the ECC logo and “The fast is a non-violent action that demon­ the words: published by strates our commitment to constructive and the ECC and printed by peaceful alternatives in ,” she said. . S o u p / i h l i f l n Esquire Press have been The day of concern will start at 8 tonight with a condemned by the ECC commemoration in St George’s Cathedral featur­ as a "blatant attempt to ( ing choral singers, drama and poetry. discredit and undermine" its work. A spokesperson for Es­ quire Press said they "definitly" did not print the posters. One poster carries a picture of a soldier hold­ ing a rifle and says: Posters ‘appal’ ECC "National Day of Mourning for deceased THE End Conscription Campaign said yesterday it was “appalled” at the two bogus posters which servicemen". The other, I had been pasted next to ECC posters advertising which has a picture of a today’s Day of Concern and fast against the gorilla which looks like a “apartheid war”. The bogus pamphlets entitled human and a baby with a “National Day of Mourning” for “Victims of Ter­ tyre around its neck, rorism” and for “Civilians Murdered by the says: "National Day of ANC” appear on a black-and-red poster depict­ Mourning for civilians ing an armed guerilla with a hammer and sickle < murclc'rcfl hv itv> A KC" InPn and a "nppHaoo" Cathedral service i ■ <11 ,~f> SOUTH, APRIL 23 TO 28 1987 £ \ ECC service X'W AN emotional service for the victims of civil war was held at the Grahamstown : \ THE Grahamstown branch of the End _ Cathedral last night, under the auspices of > Conscription Campaign will hold a service the local End Conscription Campaign today in the Cathedral o ’t Michael and St branch. Fake 1 George In High Street. About 50 people attended the two-hour In the pipeline for April 29, is a public service. A one-minute candlelight vigil j meeting at St George’s Chambers. Mrs was held outside afterwards. Earlier • Sheena Duncan, past-president of the people lit candles for relatives and friends ECC • Black Sash and the Rev Torquil Paterson in exile, or those doing their national ser- ' are expected to address this meeting. vice' : 6 P H - 2 M-*?_ posters SMEAR posters pur­ porting to be published by the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) have been pasted over authen­ tic ECC National Day of Concern posters. The fake posters which carry the ECC logo and the words: published by the ECC and printed by Esquire Press have been condemned by the ECC as a "blatant attempt to discredit and undermine" its work. A spokesperson for Es­ quire Press said they . "definitly" did not print , the posters. Cathedral defaced One poster carries a picture of a soldier hold- ! GRAHAMSTOWN residents awoke on Thursday to find several I ing a rifle and says: j buildings, including the Cathedral in Church Square and further "National Day of •.afield, defaced with slogans spray-painted in red and black. Mourning for deceased Slogans were painted on the east and south side of the Cathedral, a , servicemen". The other, commercial bank, supermarket and clothing store, in Fitzroy Street which has a picture of a and the Queen Street area as well as Dundas Street. gorilla which looks like a The' Dean of the Cathedral, the Very Rev Roy Barker, said it was human and a baby with a 'sad to see the Cathedral defaced. lyre around its neck, The slogans would be scrubbed off the stonework, but the plaster says: "National Day of Mourning for civilians surface on the South side would probably have to be repainted, the 1 murdered by the ANC". dean said.• . ' The management of business premises defaced declined to ^comment. (rYQcblbMoJ7 SO '#-17 " "

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* The campaign, aimed to highlight “the choice v - ( jf i between peace and war”, will also focus on two Campaign for -•'jj other^events — International Conscientious Objec ! tors' Day on May 15 and the start of the trial of a Port Elizabeth conscientious objector, Mr Philip a just peace Wilkinson, who faces,chr 'os of refusing to do m ilitary service. CAPE TOWN — The End Conscription Campaign " ,• Vi • (ECC) will launch a nationw ide cam paign next (K ep o rt by A. D onaldson, 122 S t Gi 's S tree t, C ape Tow n.) week under the banner, War is not Compulsory — - • t ■ ■ ‘ • Let's Choose a Ju st Peace. Beginning with a day-long fast on Thursday, April 23, dubbed A Day of Concern, the campaign is set to run to the end of May and will feature an m m m - anti-wnr film festival, a fair and a rally, among • / Raced away Dr Toms said the men, who were all in their Anti-ECC men early 20s, “looked suspi­ ciously like off-duty policemen or members of the Defence Force. The men demanded to know my name and escape police in asked me why I was do­ ing the police’s work. I don’t think they expect­ ed to be caught”, he said. The men, who had “strangely-cut short , high-speed chase hair”, were asked by police to drive to the to give newspapers a de­ police station — but By CHRIS STEYN scription of the bakkie. when the bakkie But the ECC said it was a reached the intersection, POLICE yesterday white Isuzu with the reg­ of Durban and Main1 “lost” four unidenti­ is tr a tio n n u m b e r CY roads, it raced away in fied men in the early 137437. the opposite direction hours of the morning The ECC yesterday and the police and Dr after questioning condemned the attack as Toms eventually gave up them in a Mowbray “crude and underhand . the chase. , street where they The drama started The ECC’s press ofn-| cer, Ms Tracey Clayton, were putting up post­ when a member of the ECC spotted the four said yesterday the orga­ ers which opposed nization was pleased the End Conscription men putting up posters in Claremont and Mow­ some headway was being , Campaign (ECC). bray which said: “ECC made in finding the per­ A Peninsula police members are yellow , petrators. spokeswoman, Lieuten­ “ECC does it from be­ “We hope sincerely ant Denise Benson, said hind” and “ECC believes the SAP finds these the men droye off at high in fairy tales". people so that we can lay speed aft^r being asked Dr Ivan Toms of the charges against them. to accompany the police The ECC feels that it is to the MoWbray police ECC told the Cape Times he had been told at very important these station. They disap­ Mr Richard Griffiths people be made to state peared and have not 1.45am that the posters of Exclusive Books in were being put up in the reasons for their at­ been traced. the city centre re­ Claremont, and he spot­ tack in an open court,” Police were continu­ moves anti-ECC post­ ted the men at the Wyn- Ms Clayton said. ing efforts to find the ers. berg end of Claremont s “The latest rash of men, but the hunt, said Main Road and informed smear posters is crude Lt Benson, had been the police patrol net­ and underhand, and the works, which last night the police. hampered by the fact While driving around ECC views very seriously that the getaway vehicle were still on the lookout any attempt to discredit for the vehicle. She said to remove some of the had false number plates. posters about 2.15am, Dr it. Such sneak attacks “We had the registration a docket had been cannot obscure the le­ opened and charges of Toms again saw their number, but we have al­ vehicle. . ^ 1U gitimate and important ready established that it malicious damage to work that the ECC does property were being in­ He then went to the was false," she said. Claremont police station and we remain commit­ A description of the vestigated. ted to our campaign.” Lt Benson was unable► in i l l Lansdowne Road bakkie has been given to -> where two police vans I were radioed about the incident. On D r T o m s’s w ay home, he saw the bakkie again in Durban Road,; Mowbray, and immedi­ ately drove to Mowbray police station. Two policemen accom­ panied him to the scene where they found two men in the cab of the bakkie and two on the back. Two red buckets of glue were on the back of the bakkie and piles of I pamphlets could be seen in the front. £CC -U-f-iB

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A MEETING on militarisation will be held in St George’s Hall tomorrow night at 7 JO pm. Organised by the Grahamstown branch of the End Conscription Campaign as part of a national campaign around the theme “War is not compulsory: Let’s choose a just peace”, the meeting will be addressed by former president of the Black Sash, Mrs Shecna Duncan and a local Anglican theologian, the Rev Torquil

Pa,erson- • 2 S - 4 ’ '3 7 . SOUTH Africa was crying out for Speaking on the (iovei 1» mriX 1 a moral principled stand from a smear campaigns. Mrs political platform, Mrs Shecna cited the Chris Hall affair Duncan, former National “Here was a private in I-- - ..I . President of Black Sash, said in raising an overdraft for a 1 I Grahamstown last week at a legal advertisement paid I meeting organised by the End perfectly legal organisation ECC puts welfare Conscription Campaign. no business of the State", > Asked to comment on the war The government’s respoi beyond South Africa’s borders, been a promulgation pn of SA before she said “the recent visit to any further advertisement Livingstone” made her speechless nature and an invesliguiim with rage. private and legal transacti She said it was clearly part of the To repeat a lie often that of the Nats Nationalist Party’s election caused it to become the campaign to go into another * some people’s mind 1 WAS appalled to read of Magnus Malan's unjustified attack on the country and kill its people. indicator of iheall-pervasi' End Conscription Campaign during his election meeting in “I am also angry that thei* secret control by the Stau Grahamstown. Opposition political parties seeing' There were good thing The Black Sash has always supported-the principles of the ECCand to have swallowed “hook line and the reform process but th feels that the public should know that sinker" the government line", she introduced for the pui| 1. The ECC seeks to serve South Africa by working for a just peace said- ^ creating another aspect oft through negotiation rather than a shaky security through military She called for a moral.' of control the State was 1 action; . . principled stand "even if it cost exercise. some votes”. 2. The ECC is neither naive nor cranky in striving to save the country Mrs Duncan said: “ Per The second speaker. Rev from a waste of time, money, talents and above all, lives; and to gain not cease to demand one 1 Torquil Paterson, said the recognition of every man’s right, according to conscience, to choose one local government..one presence of cadets, at Church non-combatant community service in place of military national the Whites do not. cannoi schools seemed to indicate that the service. not see this". Far from being “Mommy’s boys”, members of the ECC have Church’s influence was not that revealed courage and integrity in standing up for their principles of great. While Church schools were . She said the ECC was non-violence and putting the welfare of South Africa before that of the increasing the number of black people a better way: that t National Party. _ , „ pupils there seemed to be no the right to choose, that ' serious attempt to change the R Smith C_5>€>C<£>'t]S lU jsC l I , not compulsory. Co-chair, Albany Black Sash political and social outlook of the pupils. ■ “We must never be trapi 319 High Street - I 4 & / "Parents, of course, may say thinking or behaving as tl they don’t wish their children to were", Mrs Duncan said. join the cadet corps, but their children will get the-flack”, Mr (Report by Jill Joubert, 49 / Paterson said:'/; Street Grahamstown) —t 1— —1

.A^LAt . -----11 T l i 1 Gr&coifs (\xxaJ 3c?-'4^7 ' C A p f T n w j C»rre«pondeoi Smoking BraaaTrv'cvfwc U|i‘r loc** Tt> trip "on (ho roa'd".f\ K Botha speaks in PE •er?of!Tne,ESVcU'n* , d'b“‘ 1 HE State enulncoulo tcmnnror.i,,temporarily _ ...... - relorm. We will foster the spirit of w ■ „ i Including crTw^ ihZ/Sff4'!,mon* 'even suspend freedom in order to negotiation and cooperation National Congress. Mr Botha sak ! * ^ ; r i l : ; : protect the freedom of the State, between the different peoples of the government would have t<; SKS** Cif wUh.» the State President, Mr P. W.' . South Africa, because we want seriously consider, after thi i, ti.« .ctu.t e c c * Botha, said jn Port Elizabeth last peace and stability”. election, the adequacy of existin, .*c£hUi „ t e P„'e,-;? night. legislation regarding oversea P*lr»‘Un*neaVby.l*w>*t*nding two s a d i Addressing about 2000 people at But the government would not funding of extra-parliamentar; '. a National Party election rally in surrender the rights of white South oppisition groups. ihe city, Mr Botha said he was the R30oflo b*nd'' minlbu. Africans to any of the programmes He said the government wouli ' PLraent’ including a hired PA? one man in South Africa who knew for help^lt- proposed to it. have to examine whether or nc MX'' “ Um*nid-P what the onslaught was facing the further steps would have to b .ioT^ lhq.u.‘,pdT*?!hw.Voh.s:,ll/ b*“ d »“* country “because I have the Mr Botha said the government taken. machinery to inform me". would enter into negotiations with He said the government was not any South African group which Responding to a questio ...... in favour of a fourth chamber for renounced violence. government’s attitude towards th blacks because “we cannot End Conscription Campaign, M In a statement read out at the accommodate all the black Botha said he had "no time for th start of his address and responding minority groups in the country". ECC , but that as long as til to the Munnik Commission's The government will move organisation operated within th investigation into the funding of towards economic and social law, no action would be take W on.*??! * rep‘lr «he‘ d, the ban advertisements on the African Th.,» w m .ln.1T^ 81ehd«•>> some pavement art in Cape Town______^>*7 ______Picture: ’ADIL. BRADLOW, Afrapix WOMEN TODAY

1 By P at Devereaux Wpmen artists, photogra­ Artists phers and performers have focused on war psy­ chosis and militarisation align in an exhibition entitled “Prisoners of War” which opened at the Market themselves Theatre at the weekend. I More than 800 people with aims packed the theatre com­ plex to attend the open­ ing on Sunday evening of of ECC this project, which began a year ago when a group of concerned artists, , many of whom had been involved in the 1985 Womens’ Festival, ap­ proached the ECC (End Conscription Campaign). 1 The initial idea snow­ balled into a mini-festi- val including perfor­ mances and an “installa- tion” — the reconstruc­ tion of a suburban lounge. »f‘War psychosis and if® militarisation?,«It’s af­ wsM fecting us all,’* said artist arid organiser Ms Karen Harber. IMPOTENCE ‘ Explaining the link the exhibition. other countries. The vio­ With the ECC, the organi­ (TOP) SO FAR SO GOOD: Artist Michelle “If you are a true artist lence comes out in our sers said: “We aligned Raubenheimer adds the finishing touches to one of living in this environment subconscious even if we ourselves to an organisa­ of escalating violence her works entitled "So far so good" which is suppress it,” she said. currently being exhibited as part of the POW tion whose aims are close you can only reflect what Ms Orlin discussed to all of us.” (prisoners of war) mini-festiva) at the Market is ‘happening in society,” politics and the contro­ Theatre. IjThe theme raises ques­ said dancer and choreog­ versy surrounding South tions of public and pri­ rapher Ms Robyn Orlin African art. “We are iso­ (ABOVE) ART AND REALITY: Living in an environment vate violence and pres­ Artist Ms Lulu Davis lated from the interna­ of escalating violence, dancer and choreographer ents the possibility for a agreed and said her col­ tional community. Dance Robyn Orlin and artist Lulu Dayis believe they reflect what is happening in this society. They are currently whole range ofy artistic lage currently being ex­ teachers have been boy­ expression. hibited dealt with night­ cotting this country for performing at the POW (prisoners of war) *' (Two women involved mares in an apparently the past 15 years. It • ’ ,f mini-festival. ini the project, Ms serene environment. makes me feel out of Robyn Orlin and Ms INVADED “I think South Africans touch,” she said. Closer inspection re­ Lulu Davis, spoke about have a lot more night­ Her performance deals veals that it has been in­ tljeir feelings concerning m ares than people in with the concepts of pes­ vaded with militaristic simism, loss of control nuance. and loss. i On the banning of cul- Both women said there had been a recent up­ tuf\al events, Ms Davis said: Bannings indicate surge in political art and that cultural activities that the issue of violence and art must be succeed­ could not be avoided — even in suburbia. ing in conscientising peo­ ple — otherwise it woulij One exhibit which re­ ------^ not be seen as such a lates to this theme 'TstKrfeat.” “The Installation” a rep­ .m i . No stranger to the cul. lica of what appears to | tural arena, the ECC has be a.normal lounge in a suburban home. organised many events relating to escalating militarisation and the prospect of an intensified civil war. Their “Art for P eace” exhibition in March last year at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the more re-i cent “Noise, and Smoke” cabaret were popular. The Books Page £ J - j ; S 2 * - cs ^ : a, T *1* fju - C « U w5 -* 'p V.v .is ^i2r^s a - o - S2 ^ c ? 2 T- -1 * 3 -e * o >- C75 i "'■t *-■ '• * . 5 1 l L , ' A u <3 t C « - . ^ £ T 3 to ^ to-s o. a .O -C C v> C •ZL 'A — Z 8 ^5 c a «."• t. o s « a. b o o s c o 5 .a rj ii! T3 ?

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(ecc crossword^ I SOLUTION AND WINNING t ENTRIES loHja. First prize of R50 plus an ECC T shirt goes to C Manning of Windsor, Second prize of R20 plus an ECC shirt goes to M Sassy of Marshalltown, Third prize of RIO p lu s an ECC shirt goes to Frank Strugess of Ermelo, Other entrants will get t-shirts. Answers to the crossword clues ACROSS are: DOWN 1. Current misnomer for conscription 2. Offensive operation (6) Across Down (8,7) 4. Common to both SADF and parliament (2) 2. Attack, 1. National ser­ 5. Short-sighted leadership (6) vice 2. Marches on its stomach (4) 4. MP, 2. Army 3. Seldom punished in wartime (5) 8. Oppose fighting (6) 5. Myopic, 3. Crime 6. Subject of controversial campaign (10) 10. With evil intent (10) 8. Combat, 4. Peace 7. Alarming sound before dawn (5) 11. Must be obeyed they say (6) (missing clue 13. Lustful corporal punishment (6) no-one was pe­ 9. Left, right action (5) nalized for in­ 12. Mum's the word (6) 14. Conscientious objector (2) correct answer) 16. Come together after the war (7) 15. Tough centre (8) 10. Malevolent, 18. State creates it, soldiers must fight it 17. Imprisoned children are not this (4) 11. Orders, 6. Conscripts 20. Woody police it sounds like (5) 13. Sadism, 7. Knock (5) . 14. CO, 9. M arch 19. Next step after 22 across (3) 21. One who shoots at the moon (7) 15. Hardcore, 12. Secret 20. Reptilian weapon (5) 22. People packing for Perth apply here (7) • 17. Free, 16. Reunite 23. A mother has it, a general wants it(3) 24. Government says (5) 20. Copse, 18. Enemy 26. Instrument used to kill, maim and murder (6) 21 Lunatic, 19. Fly 25. Propaganda box (2) ...... 22. Embassy, 20. Cobra t i l 24. State, 23. Son THE END CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN X-word 26. W eapon, 25.TV CLOSING DATE; 20/6/87

PRIZES: 1st Prize: R50 plus ECC T-shirt 3rd Prize: RJ0 plus__ECC T-shirt 2nd Prize: R20 plus ECC T-shirt 4th • 10th Prizes ECC T-shirt.

SEND COMPLETED ENTRIES TO: ECC Crossword Competition, P O Box 9348, Yeoville 2198 Janet Cherry released from T wo Cape students' freed detention CAPE TOWN - Two students, one of whom has JOHANNESBURG. - Miss Ja­ been in detention for more than a year, have been re­ net Cherry, the End Conscrip­ leased. University of Western Cape student Mr tion Campaign (ECC) office­ sell MacGregor, who has been in detention ranee bearer, has been released after June 12 last year, was released on Thursday after­ nearly a year in detention. noon. ,Ms Janet Cherry, a student at the Univer­ Miss Cherry, the ECC’s Port sity of Cape Town and Eastern Cape chairman of the Elizabeth leader, was released End Conscription Campaign (ECC), was released in last night. She had been held Port Elizabeth late on Thursday night. — Saturday under emergency regulations. Star Correspondent. She was immediately served with an order preventing her from taking part in ECC activi­ ties or those of the Eastern Cape Adult Learning Project, where she has worked as a lit­ eracy co-ordinator since 1984. Miss Cherry, 26, was de­ tained while visiting Cape Town last August. For the last 10 months of her detention she was held in Port Elizabeth’s North End Prison. She was not allowed visitors other than her immediate fam­ ily and until last month could not receive letters from ■peoide other than her family#* iv&t The ECC’s publicity secri£ , tary, Mr Gavin Evans, weP corned her release, but asked why she had been detained in the first place and why she had not been tried.— Sapa. |

ECC's Apartheid Out campaign THE End Conscription Campaign (ECC) this week launched an "Apartheid Out — SADF Out" campaign. "Young men are forced to participate in a war without being given a choice," said ECC member Gary Cullen at the launch in Durban. - "They are told that they will fight a frontier war against outside communist forces, but the truth is that they will be sent to Namibia to'defend'South Africa against a guerrilla force" which represents the majority of the population. "They will be sent to patrol the townships. They will be fighting against the citizens of South Africa." United Democratic Front president Archie Gumede said the future belonged to the youth. "White youths should make up their minds whether they want to kill to further the ambitions of certain individuals who happen to be in positions of power or whether they want to be part ... ,, of the forces striving to find a solution to the JANET CHERRY: Released. Kl problems which beset our nation," he said. daily from 8am to 8pm. 1 ' ECC member Michael Graaf will fast for 23 A placard demonstration will also form part of days as part of the campaign. the campaign. "A public fast is a message to others," he said. Messages of support were read at the Durban "It enables us to identify with conscripts who launch from Black Sash, Diakonia, National are denied the option of community service, and Union of South African Students and Natal to identify with the oppressed and suffering people University's SRC. of South Africa." • The ECC's Port Elizabeth chairman, Janet Several people will fast for one-week periods in Cherry, was released from detention after 11 a relay fast at Durban's Central Methodist Church months last Thursday. Political StafT THE successes of the End Conscription posi,i.ve suPPort enjoyed by the Campaign (ECCJ should nol be undercsti- ECC activities l u ... The organization existed to channel mated, the President’s Council Committee some of the frustrations young people on social AtTairs said yesterday. experienced, especially those faced with But it said, discouraging young people conscription, she said. trom doing national service was ‘-a form of ‘undennining The ECC was successful becausc it at­ undermining of authority". tempted to replace blind obedience to an In its report on (he youth of South Africa unjust society with constructive and viable which was debated yesterday, the commit- authority’ v alternative forms of service. tee said the trend, towards reducing au­ C The ECC said yesterday that the num ­ thoritative guidance and the overemphasis CT If / i ^ ber of people detained for reasons relating on freedom could promote lack of disci­ importance that the image of the South to their participation in the organization pline and lead to permissiveness. African security forces should be ‘•project­ was almost SO, and not 23 as stated by the The discouraging of national service in- ■ ed in a highly positive manner”. Deputy Minister of Law and Order, Mr creased with the advent of ECC in 1984. The Ministry' of Defence had stated in a Koeir Meyer, in Parliament this week. ‘ The aim of the ECC is to bring an end to written submission to the committee that A spokesperson for the ECC said: “In fact compulsory military service and it is con­ young people arc being exploited in an the number of ECC members who have ducting a propaganda campaign against the attempt to create a revolutionary climate been detained is closer to 80. Nearly half of SA 'Defence Force and the SA Police. :- in South A frica”. those detained were issued with restric- tion orders on their release. ..‘.‘This organization with its well-planned □ The President’s Council should ad- programme operates throughout the coun- • dress the problems of young people rather “Two ECC members are still in deten­ try with young people as its primary target than attack an organization which offered , tion: Janet Cherry, who has been in deten­ and the successes achieved should not be:- some help, an ECC spokesperson said last tion for almost 11 months, and Sue Lund. ' underestimated,1^ the committee said.'- ,.' night. , •• . v ;• These ECC members were detained for being part of a legal organization which • It was “utterly ridiculous” to blame a •In this•• connection^;it’-referredr lo 'aV legitimately campaigns around the issue of AIemorandum;on lEnd Conscription Cam-r- ant* popular campaign like the ' conscription. - y-;V •! . t-CC for the lack of direction experienced pajgn’,'’ whose author was “unknown”.’., :v ' by young people in South Africa.- . “On the other hand, attackers of the ECC .l - * . . s°.,s,aid. y it was of the utmost’ have broken several laws and still remain - There, was nothing sinister about the:. free.” . ... . ECC leader for talks Cherry detention P' End Conscription Campaign (ECC) national secretary is a ‘moral and Co Miss Adele Kirsten and two other women left for Ireland yesterday to address a War Resisters Inter­ national conference in Dublin. Miss Kirsten, Miss Anita Kromberg, of the Fellow­ outrage’T ship of Reconciliation, and a representative of the Federation of Transvaal Women were among 100 From PETER G MOLL (Rosebank): 1 ' delegates invited;to the week-long conference. JANET CHERRY has been in detention for ten The ECC leader will talk on the role played by months in a Port Elizabeth prisou, and last week her 4 women in opposing conscription and militarism in application for release was dismissed with costs. i/i South Africa, and subsequent repression. According to the Cape Times report on the judg­ She will also call for support for two detained ECC ment (June 18), the major accusations against her by the police were that she “taught Marxist doctrines" 4 members, Miss Janet Cherry and Miss Sue Lund. and was in “constant contact" with the ANC. The judge ruled that to these “factual allegations” (a contradiction in terms!) Cherry had merely offered denials, and so dismissed the application.

Constant contact 1 31.8 emergency In any case, teaching Marxism is not illegal. Marx­ ist thought forms an integral part of economics, sociology, politics and history courses in all univer­ sities in the Western world — as it must, because it detainees named is part ot'our intellectual heritage. One might equal­ By BARRY STREEK ly lock up anyone who dares teach Adam Smith or Political Staff CT , - Malthus! So why the hullaballoo? THE names of 1318 emergency detai(i

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