October, 1989 164-04 Goethals Avenue. Jamaica, NY 11432 VICTORY! PEt~SION FUND TO DIVEST $200 MILLION

In an act of solidarity with the liberation struggles in and Namibia, The Teachers Retirement System Board of Trustees in New York City voted on September 21, 1989 to divest $200 million from corporations doing business with South Africa and Namibia. The $200 million will be transferred into an account with no South African investments starting October 1. Educators Against reported that the TRS had $300 million invested. However, a number of corporations divested recently, involving $70 million of TRS funds·. The TRS board pledged to remove the remaining $30 million.

This major victory comes after a nearly four year effort by E.A.A. members. The campaign included letter-writing, a post-card campaign, leafletting at the United Federation of Teachers Delegates Assembly, and sending speakers to each monthly TRS board meeting during the 4 year period.

This act of solidarity comes in the midst of a great Defiance campaign in South Africa. Namibia is on the brink of independence. E.A.A. members are very happy to see our efforts turn into a concrete step in the path to end apartheid. A special salute to everyone who participated in this effort! -G)Lpart~eid----, This is a first grader's V1Slon -Gfl1ttt of apartheid. It was published Vid..~<1s~ by Terri Ann Keith's class at the ..{ Brooklyn New School, housed in These vidoes are available free P.S.27. Copies of End Apartheid of charge(just send $5 for post­ Now may be purchased for $3 + $2 age) to educators in ~he New York postage and handling, Make checks City area: to Bklyn New School. Send to Bklyn * §Q~?!~-.2f~-.tll~. N.?!1.ion_; __ p~i_?_to:rY __ .()t New School,Hicks and Nelson Streets, the_Af:ri-_c an_. ~L~_ti ~!:!_C!.I__ ~_()B.9.r es? Brooklyn, NY 11231 or call (718) * South__ Aj:rica Be;L9~g~_.J~.Q._"Cs 330-9345. * Destr~ctive Enga~~e~t (impact .1tJ-L on the Front Line States) ~ * The_Cry of Rea?q!:! (about Rev. Naude, anti-apartheid leader) * : ..Brea)

Protest Manufacturers Hanover's Support for Apartheid and Union-busting Manufacturers Hanover Invests In Apartheid South Africa. Apartheid South Africa has a huge foreign debt and the bill is corning due next June. If international banks like MHT stand tough and demand repayment of outstanding loans on schedule, the white-minority government can be forced to end apartheid, a system which has oppressed generations of Black people. MHT, with $210 million in outstanding loans, is now the largest U.s. member of South Africa's creditor committee. Mill has already undennined international bank negotiations with South Africa by giving the government another 10 years to pay back $25 million of its existing loans. Manufacturers Hanover Invests In Union-Busting In the U.SA. MHT has granted The Pittston Company a $100 million revolving line of credit to help the company bust the United Mine Workers of America and destroy coal-mining communities throughout Appalachia. Over 1800 Pittston coal miners have been on strike since last April over the company's slashing of pension and medical benefits to thousands of retired and disabled miners and their families. But, Manufacturers Hanover Won't Invest In Our Communities. Last spring, Brooklyn residents and the United Mine Workers of America found that, though MHT had col­ lected $2 billion from Brooklyn depositors, it had only reinvested $3 million in loans to Brook- lyn residents. TArvvn'te or ca 11 MHT's Ch'Ief Execut'lve Off'lcer: For more m . fonnahon, . contact: J.F. McGillicuddy (212) 870-2928 Manufacturers Hanover Trust (212) 265-7000 ext. 221 270 Park Avenue '------New York, NY 10017 (212) 286-6000 The Defiance Campaign-1989

6 ~~~"""-~~ ~ F~om Selection 01 Anti-apa~theid C~toons. United Nations This is a time of major new developments in South Africa. Educators Against Apartheid encourages YOU to get involved in the international struggle to end apartheid, the "crime against humanity". You can teach your subject area skills while you teach about apartheid. Use the articles in the insert.

RESEARCH: Read the articles about the Defiance Campaign in South Africa. Research the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Compare and contrast the two struggles.

MATH/ Read the article about the Defiance Campaign efforts by South RESEARCH: African miners. Students can use the data to create their own math problems. For example, what % of the miners in the stayaway were coal miners, diamond miners, gold miners, refinery workers? Make a bar graph. Why did the miners stay away from work? Black and white miners have separate bathrooms, living quarters, and even travel down to the mine in separate cages. Learn more about the laws which require Black miners to be migrant workers, living away from their families. Find out about the hostels where Black miners are forced to live.

DRAMA/ Students can turn these articles about the Defiance Campaign Art: into skits. Make scenery, such as a scene of a beach, a bus, a hospital restaurant, or school which people will try to integrate. Present the skits to other classes. Video the skits. Send a copy to SOMAFCO, c/o E.A.A.

RESEARCH: Read about the End Conscription Campaign. Interview parents about the Draft Resistance movement in the United States during the Viet Nam War. Compare and contrast.

HEALTH Read about the campaign to defy tribal levies for water. EDUCATION: Consider the fact that often more than 200 African families use a single well, which is sometimes no more than a hole dug by hand and is shared with animals. How could this affect the health of the people? (Read The South African __.p.:!-J3e,!se ,-by Cedric de Beer to find out more about health in South Africa,available from Africa World Press. P.O. Box 1892. Trenton,NJ 08607)

SOCIAL/ Discuss the concept of "One person, one vote." Research United STUDIES: States history to learn more about efforts to enable women and African-Americans to vote. Read the article about the Cape Town March in which people demanded the right of Africans to vote in elections in South Africa. Compare these struggles. DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN - 1989 Defiance Camp~ign MASS DEFIANCE protesters sprayed with purple die Comment on Mass Defiance Cape Town March Now that the restricted have 'unbanned' Burg Street in Cape Town ran purple as a themselves in a spirit of 'peace and non­ water-cannon doctored with dye was violence', the question being asked is what turned on thousands of Mass Democratic next, and, more pertinently, what does the Movement supporters who had poured into unbanning mean in real terms? ;the 'mass the city in an attempt to march on parliament. democratic movement' this week said all The prote:;t against this week's general elec­ restricted organisations considered tions exploded in violent confrontation, themselves unrestricted and would speak out leading to the arrest of at least 500 people, openly under their names. In a statement, the including 52 local and foreign journalists. anti-apartheid coalition said: 'The MDM r Sunday Star 3.9.89 through the defiance campaign has unleash­ e Clerics and youth activists will be leading the ed the creativity and imagination ofour peo­ s ple. In many parts ofthe country, in various defiance campaign against segregation in ways, our people are building the defiance restaurants in Barberton on Saturday. a campaign into their daily programmes.' Spearheaded by the Emjidini Youth For the moment, the MDM claims to have .U Organisation, the highlight of the peaceful r scored the following points: the desegrega­ protest will be the occupation of the Kofkor tion of hospitals, the opening of beaches to a restaurant near the town's Checkers shopping all people, the unbanning ofthe UDF and all n complex. New Nation 8.9.89 other restricted organisations, selective de­ t -s fiance by restrictees, singing on trains by CARLETONVILLE BOYCOTT workers, and the desegregation of separate facilities in the mines and other workplaces. Whites Only Signs The success of the defiance campaign is Workers removed Whites Only signs from undeniabley in certain areas, especially the parks in a South African town this weekend Western Cape. Thousands ofpeople converg­ after a landmark court case ruled them illegal. ed on the Strand and Blouberg beaches for Legal experts say the decision marks the start the'All God's beaches for all God's people' of the end for the Separate Amenities Act, a campaign ... pillar of apartheid. The next area targeted is the 'all schools The signs came down ahead of a deadline for all races' campaign which was launched imposed by the Pretoria Supreme Court on in Johannesburg last week. This campaign is ' Carletonville Council, controlled by the ex­ not spearheaded by the MDM, but includes treme.rightist Conservative Party (CP). The :;ome organisations within the MDM. A court had ruled council duties extended not representative ofthe National" Co-ordinating to whites only, but to the entire community. Committee ofTeachers, an ad hoc structure Carletonville was thus negligent in its trustee­ which represents over 15000 teachers, an­ ship ofthe public interest by excluding blacks nounced a campaign to unban the Congress from the park.Financial Times (UK) 4.9,89 ofSouth African Students (Cosa). The MDM 'WHITE PERSONS-ONLY '/ AM(H"'(~ earlier this week announced an international THIS ,(,,," , rlt[ THO'!for I HAV( '(IN _tsUV(O 'OR .-HIT( ,£ASOHS Ol'ClY'. campaign to 'isolate' SA. .rollM. 'ROVI"OAL UCIIOAU Weekly Mail 25.8.89 NET BLANK£S '~II Cod's b Gd' eaches ~ o s peopl " or all e Campaign I• II conscripts• ! a choice Canl0aian ! J

ECC's 'Yellow Ribbons' Astonished people on their way to work in central Durban this week watched about 20 : Bus Protests heavily armed policemen follow a trail of Makhanya, yellow ribbons round the city hall. Wielding who has been released on bail, was one of 13 shotguns, the police followed the track of rib­ people - fieldworkers ofthe Pretoria Council bons tied on lamp-posts and palm trees lin­ of Churches and Koinonia, as well as students ing the road. They had received information - arrested after attempting to board whites­ these were no ordinary ribbons. They were only buses in the capital. symbols of the End Conscription Campaign Some have been charged with 'conspiracy', and constituted a threat to law and order. and others with conspiracy and contravention At the end of the trail the police, by now ofthe Separate Amenities Act. The bus action clutching dozens of yellow ribbons, found a formed part ofone ofthe nationwide defiance number of people, some wearing yellow campaign's most innovative initiatives, tur­ clothing, allegedly handing out pamphlets and ning the time-honoured bus boycott tactic on tying more ribbons. As they were being ar­ its head; blacks demanded access to white rested and put into a police van, two cyclists buses with the aim of having them eventually sped past, cheekily weaving through the early desegregated. Most were unsuccessful, but morning traffic, displaying the placards worn the point was made dramatically. This week, on their backs - 'Give conscripts a choice'. in response to groups ofblack people gather­ ?olice immediately realised they were faced ing at bus stops, municipal buses went empty, with another serious threat to law and order. leaving white commuters puzzled, stranded With the last of the ribbon-tying protesters - and late for work. Empty buses did not stop securely in the van they roared off into the where black people were seen to be waiting traffic after the cyclists. to board for rides to the city centre. After a two-block chase the cyclists and Pretoria, with a policeman on virtually their bikes joined the haul of arrested every corner, was seemingly unable to cope demonstrators. Members of the group were with the small number of campaigners. In­ later released on bail of R250 each and they spectors, too, were at a loss as to how to deal are due to appear in court today ... The with the black, ticket-holding commuters, previous day students at the University of who asked for nothing more than a seat on Natal Durban campus had declared the ECC the bus... Weekly Mail 1.9.89 and others organisations 'unbanned' ... Weekly Mail 25.8.89

Church Apartheid Defied Water Campaign A group ofblack Christians issued a challenge c to 'church apartheid' when they joined a Defiance .Spreads h white congregation during a church service The Bushbuckridge Youth Congress (Byco) in King Williams Town last Sunday. The has launched a campaign to defy tribal levies u group marched from the Roman Catholic in Eastern Transvaal villages. According to r church to the whites-only Dutch Reform~d Byco leaders, the tribal levies include a water Church where they occupied seats at the back levy. Villagers had been paying the water c of the church. Dominee Hannes Pretorius levy for more than 25 years. But the villages h then invited the chairperson of the Border still had no water supply and· people had to e Council of Churches, Reverend Bonaani use water from wells. New Nation 8.9.89 t:> s Gcina, to read a statement from the Council. The statement called on white Christians to renounce apartheid as sinful and to join the anti-apartheid struggle... South 24.8.89 Miners' Defiance Campaign IiOrganize. mobilize. and .The NUM said that 12 {)()() workers at Winkel Haak gold mine near Secunda were fight for a democratic conducting a sit-in underground. Fifteen of ll those involved in the sit-in were arrested by future Campaign mine security. At Saaiplaas gold mine in the , four workers were injured The Food and Allied Workers' Union hopes in a baton charge on a hostel. The NUM's to reach its target of 100 {)()() members this offices were also damaged by vigilantes. year and get deeper into the trenches of Interdicts were granted to management at struggle alongside all progressi~e organisa­ President Brand, President Steyn and Kriel tions while promoting greater democracy mines in a bid to get miners back to work. within the union. And all this despite the Approximately 68 000 mineworkers took Labour Relations Amendment Act, threats of part in the first day of protest action. being sued for loss of production and Stayaways involved 22 {)()() workers at 17 numerous interdicts, r:hiara Charter coal mines, 11 000 workers at four diamond discovered in an interview with Fawu presi­ mines, 31 590 miners at five gold mines and dent Chris Dlamini; 4 100 workers at four refineries... On Wednesday, 4 950 more coal miners joined Question: The sloganfor this year's congress the stayaway. And at Black Mountain, is 'Organise, Mobilise and Fight for a another 800 gold miners combined their wage Democratic Future '. Could you explain what protests with the stayaway. . this means? Three chrome mines - Winterveld, CMI Dlamini: Our members as South Africans and Ferrachrome - also added their weight have suffered exploitation as a class and to the stayaway , bringing in another 5 250 oppression as a nation. They see no difference workers. Most Witwatersrand mines and between these two struggles. As workers we mining concerns alsojoined the stayaway on are part of the Mass Democratic Movement Wednesday... Also on Wednesday, a sports and are engaged in the national liberation day planned by NUM's Rustenburg branch struggle. Apartheid has allowed capital to and community organisations on a 'whites make gigantic profits by suppressing any only' soccer and rugby field in the town was struggle waged against the state and disrupted. Some 50 workers were detained, employers. Ministers have dubbed the Liv­ and the NUM's offices were raided. ing Wage campaign a 'communist plot' and New Nation 8.9.89 used state machinery in attempts to destroy Hospital &Factory the campaign. Our members feel it is impor­ Workers Protest tant to play a key role in the struggle for Police action did not deter thousands of democracy in South Africa. We understand workers countrywide from protesting against democracy to mean a government ruling by the hated Labour Relations Amendment Act the will of the majority so that we can begin (LRAA) on its first anniversary last Friday... to work towards setting up a socio-economic In the Cape alone the protests involved over order that satisfies the needs and aspirations 20000 workers at 54 factorie~. Workers at of all. Groote Schuur, Somerset and Woodstock hospitals also held demonstrations and work stoppages. These included the. demand for recognition for their union, the National Education, Health and Alliance Workers' Union (Nehawu), a living wage and an end WeEK ENDING 27/8/89 to privatisation. Municipal workers in WEEK ENDING 3/9/89 Maitland also took action while Cape Town's VOLUME THIRTEEN WEEK ENDING 10/9/89 Civic Centre and nine municipal depots were hit by a two-hour stoppage. ANC NEWSBRIEFING .New Nation 3.9.89 The Roads to South African Freedom by Flaxman Qoopane

There are variable ways of fighting I take the academic road You take the politicaL road He takes the armed struggle road

They take the sanction road We take the cultural-boycott road All our roads lead to victory.

Flaxman Qoopane is a member of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) Poetry Group. The SOMAFCO poetry group is an~ious to receive poetry from your students, from day care to high school. Please send poems c/o Educators Against Apartheid. Call Paula Bower for more information. (201) 836-6633.

FREE NAMIBIA

The assassination of SWAPO official Anton Lubowski in front of his home on Sept. 12 has stirred an international outpouring of condemnation and outrage. But his murder is only the latest of violent attacks against SWAPO activists and supporters. Whenever international pressure has forced Pretoria into compliance with some provisions of the independence plan, the regime has found other way to delay and subvert the process. Many observers fear that unless quick and effective action is taken to end the violence and curb South African violations, the November poll could trigger a new round of bloodshed and repression in Namibia.

YOUR ACTIONS NOW CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN NOVEMBER

*Condemn the escalating political violence against SWAPO by South African sponsored security forces and vigilantes.

*Demand U.S. support for an increase in the number of United Nations military and police forces, and for strict enforcement of all provisions I of the Namibian independence plan. I Write: IJavier Perez de Cuellar I IJa~es Baker I IF.W. de Klerk IISecretary General ISecretary of State IIState President ~ IThe United Nations IU.S. Dept. of Statel Private Bagx213 ~ INew York, NY 10017 Washington,DC 205201 Pretoria,SA0001 II i IL.....- .

/I From American Committee on Africa. (212) 962-1210

Women, War, Stephanie Urdang is available AND for speaking engagements on and the women In Mozambique and STILL Struggle for women In South AfrIca. She Stephanie can be reached through THEY Change in Urdang American Committee on Af­ Mozambique rica, 198 Broadway, New York, DANCE N.Y. 10038, (212) 962-1210. .t-BOYCOTT KELLOGG'S! ~ DIVEST NOW! COUPON COUPON REDEEM YOURSELF! HELP END APARTHEID! REDEEM- YOURSELF! HELP END APARTHEID! MAIL THIS COUPON TO: MAIL THIS COUPON TO: president, Kellogg's Co. 1 Kellogg square Educators Against Apartheid Battle Creek, Michigan 49016-3599 164·04 Goethals Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432

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