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The Star Monday May 6 1985 · 7 Government pushes ahead with its removal The people of Mathopestad, one of said that further negotiations would take tad. the two :tJiack spots left in the West place with the resistant section of the com- "Tbe Government's doing another Mogopa ern Transvaal, are to be moved de munity. . on us," said one of the workers in a refer "if we move from this place, that's the ence to last year's removal at gunpoint of spite a Government promise to sus end of us,'' said acting Chief John Mathope the people of Mogopa. pend .forced removals. ARLENE (70). According to Dr Viljoen the move would GETZ reports. ''This Government was not there when the . only take place after consultation with the Sakubung (Mr Mathope's tribe) bought this residents of the settlement. Eleven days ago the Nkomo family piled land. How can they take it away now?" Yet Mr Mathope, who has acted as chief their meagre belongings on to a trailer and As lor Onderstepoort, the place in Bo since the death of his nephew Arthur in 1982, were towed by a tractor to the peaceful set· phuthatswana earmarked lor the Bakubung, said that he had not beard from the Minister · tlement of Mathopestad. the place was '1oo horrible", said Mr Math· - about Mathopestad's exclusion from the sus As they perched on their mattresses and ope. . . ~nsioo on removals. chairs, radio listeners were being told that . "We are the ·Highvelders. That place Is in "Why didn't he come to us before he wrote deputy Co-operation and Development Min· the Bushveld. Sickness and aeath will follow our name in the papers?" he asked. ister Mr Ben Wilkens had coofrrmed that the us if we move." · Mr Mathope said he still bad heard noth· people of Mathopestad were to be moved. When The Sunda11 St(lr visited Matho ing from tbe Governmeol "But this is home. Two days later, Mathopestad was ·the site pestad; Mr Mathope was confident the sche- · The people won't go," he said. of a mass protest meeting demonstrating duleil removal would not take place. . Th.e authorities no longer accept Mr support for Chief Solomon Mathope, an op In spite of the fact that the Government Mathope's position as the representative of ponent of plans lor the removal. · first hinted at their removal as far hack as Chief Solomon Malhope, a Soweto resident The same day, 153 Mathopestad residents 1967, in spite of their being told live years and cousin of the former chief. boarded Government-supplied buses to see ago they would be moved to Onderstepoort, Both Solomon and John Mathope oppose the site set aside for them at Onderstepoort and in spite of a statement by Dr Viljoen the move, but Gov~rnment officials are now near Sun City. that Math!)pestad would be moved because . claiming that the son of the late chiefs wife According to the Government, tbe resi "It was in tbe interest of all people con is the rightful heir. dents who visited the site market.~ by rows of cerr.~d", Mr Matbope still believed be would . According tc the vHl~gers, this !QD was tin toilets - mostly tenants rather than not have to leave his home. born from a previous marriage, hut the Gov landowners - are prepared to move there. Other Matbopestad residents shared his ernment favours him because his mother, However, more than 290 adult residents of confidence and are continuing !o plant their Dorothy Mathope, is said to be willing to the I 500 community have signed a peti crops. . move. Chief John Mathope . .. "If we move tion opposing tbe move. ' However, field workers from the Trans "We aren't going to be moved by a wile from this place that's the end of us. In Parliament, the Minister of Co-opera vaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) were who lives in Soweto," said Mr John Math How can they take it away now?" . tion and Development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, less certain about the security of Mathopes- ope.
THE STAR Johannesburg 22 April 1985
..... ;quatton from tho Ea•t Rand town•hip of Katlohong propat'o 10< tho Katlohong prot"t, which tool< place on Saturday, remained "" of scene of large tcale anti-tquaHer action in post yean. More recent'y >ea SA f.~faiiy 'USe ApBfitain . . ~ '· " . . Disinvestment 'can achieve ).f.J ,.. "\ as EEC doorway justice without violence' f·" The executive committee of the South ecutive, in_the full awareness of the emo Malcolm Fothergill South African moves in the they think u President Rea purchasers of South African United States by adding value gan's Achilles heel. goods for generations." African Council of Churches has approved tional tensions, as well as the diVision SOUTH AFRICAN companies to South African goods in the "Their campaign u begin Besides shuttling back and a recommendation that a growing per aroused by the issue of disinvestment, are being offered a British EEC, then exporting thl! ning to build up, and this forth between Britall and centage of individual blacks, organisations nevertheless believes that a growing per doorway into the European goods from there to the US. South Africa for tbe ·past dec- could be a problem for South 1 and trade unions support disinvestment as centage of blacks, including organisations · Economic Community mar ade, Mr Muirhead has made a 1 Mr Muirhead will operate African companies with high kel mark on the world of athletics 1 "one of the few remaining methods to and trade unions with great influence, in from WeUord-on-Avon, 20 mi profile products. U they can Doing the offering u Mr send me a part-finished prod - be was the man retained by achieve justice without violence". creasingly support the call for disinvest nutes from the Birmingham the Budd family to negotiate Bill Muirhead, former manag city centre. uct that I can get finished in ment as one of the few remaining meth ing director of Table Top and Europe, preferably in the UK, on Zola's bebaU before she BEYERS NAUDE left South Africa. His negotia ods to achieve justice without violence. · director of Defy, who left for He believes dulnvestment I will be able to export it to The recommendation was one of six Britain during the week. The moves in the US will gather the US without problems." tions resulted In Zola's deal "Recognising the urgency of the situ export operation he is setting strength In coming months. with the London Daily Mail. put forward by SA THE STAR Johannesburg 19 April 1985 Workers campaign fora May Day holiday ..s~cr l'i-~ t- r -- . By Mike Slluma Its direct Involvement In the celebrations have glvet ~;'%==~~---..· --· The growth of the trade union movement has brought the day new signilicance. a revival of the campaign for recognition In Soutli Last year trade unions Including the 12~ ooo-mem- Afrlca of May Day as a paid holiday. ber Federation of South African Trade Unions, the May I is celebrated throughout the world to honour Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union and the labour movement and worker rights. the General Workers' Union took up the campaign to It has been observed In countrlesideologlcally as have May Day proclaimed a paid holiday. far apart as the capitalist US, Socialist Russia and Many unions, Including the Chemical Workers' In- Islamic Iran. dustrlal Union and the Metal and Allied Workers' May Day celebrations were originally held In the Union, have Included this demand In wage negotia late 1880s to support International demands for an tlons with employers. eight-hour working day. Some employers have for the first time In decades In I!IOi South African workers first observed the given In to this demand, with others declining to pay day by holding rallies and marching. The.~e demon- workers for time taken off. strations were often multiracial. But May Day came to mirror the racial division in - UDF BACKING South African society, with white and black workers Employers who have agreed to give.workers time celebrating separately. off on May I include Anglo American Property Ser Today none of the white t!ade unions Is known vices, BTR Sarmcol and Pilkington Glass In the East to celebrate it. ern Cape. The most notable May Day demonstrations In Workers' leaders see these agreements with the South Africa came In 19~0 when for the first time companies as a lirst but Important step In what Is workers chose t~e day to agitate on political issues. . likely to be a long battle for offlclal .~ecognltion of , A mass stayaway was called to protest against May Day as a p d holiday. ·; apartheid laws and the Impending Suppression of With all emerging unions expected •to take part, , ·.rl 'J • Communism Act. _ Including the 150 0-strong Council of Unions of -.., Ooy 1950. A mounted policeman disperses a group at Newfonds, near Johannesburg, after all May Day Eighteen people died In disturbances which fol ·South Africa and unions affiliated to the United Dem -..allons were banned by the Government. On that day WOflceu stayed away from their tobs to protest lowed a Government ban on May Day celebrations. ocratic Front, Ibis year's celebrations could be the against pan laws and the introduction of the Supprenion !_f Com!!!!T~~ Now the strength of the trade union movement and largest since the 1950s. .S~ ·African LahO~ ·. nrawn. : iO Activi~~·- ...... ,i • . . ~ ., ~ ~ , ', '~C.~~ ~teps ~~~n_st ::r::~:::::pt::: _:~~~eon~ ,l% ' ;- · · ·. s!! ~:~-=~ : of blaclc.laboi:leaders. · and its guerrilla wing, Umkhonto ure , ~, _ · Evidence.of .this change appeared · Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in ·::f.'\ .· JOHANNESBURG, May· 16-A at the funeral ·Tuesday of a union Tsakane's packed Methodist 0 ! ::;._, :series of actions by security forces official, whd died shortly after being , church, where the funeral service ; {~ :of the white minority South African arrested by the police in a trouble- was held. · i - ~ ·government .against members of. tom township called Tsakane, 50 . A huge banner on a wall behind .. l -4~ :the . newly emergent black labor miles east of Johannesburg... · the pulpit proclaimed Raditsela a ~ ~;.~ mo~em~nt has caused !abo: leaders The official, Andreas Raditsela, political martyr with the epitaph: t ~{f to tdentify more closely wtth· black 29, belonged to one of the most "His blood has watered the tree of r j :~~~' political activists. · determinedly nonpolitical union our stniggle;" . ·." ; 2 :•.: ~ Un~ . a few _months ago; the ma- groups, but the funeral it organized . . FOSATU's president, Chris Dla .-~ : ~ _; · JOr - ~ons reststed eff~rts by black for him turned into a political mass mini, said in an.· .interview that 0• -. 4 a· political movements to mvolve them rally attended by more than 25;000 Raditsela 's death was a watershed · -·: , ~ ·in their campaigns against apart- people~ . ~.~- _ __ . eventfor the union federation.' . , ~ ~~i -beid. They reailoned ·that building - Leaders of :the union 'federation, · ·.. "'think we have reached a new .:~~ ' ~ : up their shop-floor<·strength was a ~ known by . i~ acronym, FOSATJJ, · stage now; he said, adding· that un- _;}. :~ ·. priority.task. · , ·.~ · · delivered impassioned .speeches·in ~ rest and bloody clashes with the~ ~ '~~ :• .% : But attempts by the government support of the black demand for. . lice that have resulted in more than -~ 1·~ - -~ td _ que~ unrest in segregate9 town- . · pOlitical rights. Their union songs . · 300 deaths and 10,000 arrests in · .. ·: \ ~ ~-··-ships smce . the trouble began last mingled with thos~. of the under~ · .eight months are •pushing eveeyone. ~ i '·: ...;. - > - -· ·w : pf A MAAWU demonstrator struggles with the police as he is loaded into one of several vans .used to remove those arrested. ;}; ...... t:,..; .r'.; ~ ~.r ·~ Left: Alone In a violent city. When the ehopping was over it was. ti.me to return to work, and not even the threat of a con frontation could stop this calm, unidentified man. Ignoring the guns that surrounded him, he walked past the contigent of riot police back to his office in De Vil liers Street, Braamfontein, a sign of sanity In a city that on Wed Part of the crowd of Metal and Allied Workers' Union marchers on their way to Johannesburg City . nesday threatened to explode in Hall on Tuesday. About 50 were arrested. ' · violence. At one stage black leaders begged police " to down your guns and let the people go home." Above: " Amandla, Fifty workers -held at City. Hall demo Amandla." Workers raise their By Mlcbael Sllama As they were leaving the City Hall through the fists and join union leaders In About 50 members of the Metal and A11led Workers' President Street exit, they were confronted by police. .-::- :·;,. _ the chanting slogans In Wednes Union (MAA WU) were arrested on Tuesday outside It Is believed that Mr Moses Mayekiso, a MAAWU day's May Day celebration held the Johannesburg City Hall, where Industrial Council regional organiser, was among those arrested but this at Johannesburg's Khotso House negotiations for the metal Industry were being re- could not be confirmed. · In De Villiers Street. · sumed. - · No comment was available from the Seifsa repre ~:72~ ~Y;f~ili~ - ~:~-~-:~--~· -~-~·f(~J~~~~~ u e Pictures by Alf Khumalo. The workers, including union leaders, were arrest sentatives. ed after accompanying union negotiators to the talks, Those arrested were driven to John Vorster Square which were being held with the Steel and Engineering In two large pollee vans. Some were forcibly loaded 55 held in Jo'burg protest incidents Industries Federation of South Africa (Selfsa). into the vans by large contingents of Riot Squad poli· The chanting workers had marched peacefully cemen carrying batons. But, according to witnesses, By Mike Slluma and Cbrls Steyu Fift~ students were. arrested by police outside from their union offices in Harrison Street carrying no batons were used during the arrests. Fifty-five people were arrested In separate "protest" the Umted States Consulate-General in Commission placards, some of which read: "Stop retrenchments" Multiracial crowds gathered on the pavement op incidents in central J?hannesburg on Wednesday. er Street where they were staging a protest calling and "MAA WU demands a Jiving wage". posite the City Hall to watch the arrests. About 40 trade umonlsts marched chanting from for disinvestment. . . the magistrates' courts after being released on ball At the scene of a May Day rally, attended -by about pending charges against them under the Internal Se 800 workers, police caine out in foree. As workers curity Acl Some 30 policemen followed them to the left Khotsu House in De Villlers Street after the Central Uhrary where they were stopped and told meeting · they found the street teeming with armed they constituted an illegal gathering. The unionists riot police. were then arrested and taken away. A police spokesman said the men had been arrest Tension reigned for about 90 minutes as the police ed after ignoring a request to disperse. A total of 40 lined up opposite the De Vllliers Street entrance to people was arrested. The unionists were initially ar Kbot.so House. Union leaders used a loudspeaker to rested on Tuesday after a demonstration outside the plead wjth police to allow the workers to leave. City Hall where metal Industry wage negotiations The police spokesman said no arrests were made were taking place. · at the gathering. · South Africa A~ts Troo~ ,- it WASi!mGTON pOst . Hav~ Remailled in Angola } '\. ------..4-.-'- ...J .. . .s,, Alliiter 'Sparb - Re still' would not .confimi 'that 'A20 FRIDAY, MAY 24. t985 - ...-to new...,.._,.. . ~ troops had beell enpged in a iflash with the Aagolaas, saying only JOHANNESBURG, May 23- . :that there . was concern because , . ZAIRE South Africa admitted today that it ~tact ·with them bad been brdcen. ilu troops secretly stationed in t~ In his statement, issued from mil oorthem Angola. . Jtary ht;adqtwters in·Pretoria, Vii- . ·' The adrnissiO{l, by Defense Force ~ said: :'The Def~ F:orce )8 alief Gen. Constand Viijoen, came J!_Volved ia gathering .bd0111Jation .tter .Angola announced that it had ~t hostile elemen~ which killed two South Africans and ca~ eaten the ¢ety of South-West tured 1 ·third who were trying to rica (Namibia) aad South Africa." 'labotage an oil refmery in the en-· ·He ~id the Defense Force bad ejJave of Cabinda, north of Luanda, ~yed small goups of Boldiers yesterday. The refmery, near ~~ of South Afriq's border to Malongo, belongs to an Americ¥1 (;; · infonaation .. tile South People's company' Cabinda Gulf Oil. r Africa Oi'gaaization The development could cause APO). ~ is fiellti:RB to Namibia from Pretoria's con political embarrassment both for the Africa& Natioaal Congress, the South African government and \ · Jthich is the maio black South Af dle~ Reagan administration, in t1iJ; undergroaad JaOV'eRlellt, and view of political analysts here. :-- ussian surrogate forces. • . The analysts also ~id the discJo.; 1; '!A small element was ga~ring sure held serious implications . for 'PiP!onnation aboUt ANC and SWAPO prolonged and delicate pe~ ~.as weD as Cuban iRvottement aegotiations in the region, and wa8 :tnth them, in the acea bth ~ likely to prejudice Washington~s .~ of Luanda," Viljoen said.. . role as bonest broker in these ne. • : Both SWAPO and the.ANC have gotiations. : _. ~r main ·guenjlla trainiag bases , This was because it meant Soutfi ~ Angola, and the Luaada govem Angola bas prote8telf .... it 1 -needs the Cubans to protect it from . Africa had violated the Lusaka .iP;!pt has ~ .estima~ed 25.~000 Agreement which the United States ~baa troops m itS lerritory, osten:. tSoutb African attacks, to wbicll tile · ·1 negotiated 15 months ago betwe$i "'bly to protect it ·from attacks by 1united States has responded that Pretoria and Luanda, and which th Africa and insurgents of · t South Africa's ~thdrawal uader the Washington regarded as a basis fat Savimbi's Unioo for tQe Total ~ Agreement has ~ building mutual ~rust 'between tJie beration of Angola (UNITA), 1this threat. Assistaat Sec:retar, ot two chief antagonists in the lang ~ South Africa supports. State Cbester A. Crocker ri1c:eat1J , ' regional dispute. - - · 1:. P61itical .analysts and opposifion proposed a comproraiae baled QD South Aitica completed what pur~ I ~iciaos were abarply critical of this proposition to Aagola .. ported to be th~ withdrawal of tlie ~t OQe de8cribed as a ·"'reckless ~ Africa • aad ia ~ -h · $em to respond. . I • • - st of itS troops-from Angola-uDder · ~ture" in sending trOops more I than 1,000 miJes..into Aagola. . · : -rbere is no doubt that' tllil pi1ta • .this agreement just five weeks ago. Crecker in 1 very clifficull ..._. 1 f .· "This will be an embarrassment · Yrederik van Zyl Slabbert, leader . W.1he main oppositioll party' . the liaR,. Barratt Slid. ' . - . ffor' the U.S. administration," said -!. .Progressive Party, l· ·~. . ' .... !labn Barratt, director of the South !tiberal Federal 1 fAjrican lastitute of International aaicl the incident · ~must of aeceasity ,Affairs in Johannesbutg~ · on Soutlt ·Africa's iatezna.: • "Either they'll have to say that tiooal credibility." . :they didn't kaow anythiag about it, Others aoted that "'information or that they did know and didn't do gathering" was aonnally done by ·iftjthing," Barratt said. . intelligence services, not soldiers. . ~ .. The South African Defense Force Barratt, the _institute dir:ector, initially deRied any involvement iri , suggested that the disclosure would ihe Cabinda incident, but .a few · undermine U.S. demands tltat An- lours later Viljoen issued his state-· gob must withdraw all. or .OSt, of IJlelll admitting that South Africa ' the Cuban troops from its territory .Us troops ia tRe area. : before there can be a setUemeot in !:neighboring Namibia. ..' •J· THE CITIZEN Johannesburg 17 May 1985 ·'· Activists expect lead from US New disinvestment. I S2!1 thrust ~not two decades, but they - ~s~~~: -J·ust symbolic' l -!lolls OD Solllb Africa. - W~ Europe's vere- iries line t<m som~ ..,. ~ to Sou1b The Swedish Cemnl na lll:l:ivisll are llopiDJ rion. Atrica.. Bw says tbere bas beea Bardays bas ~ IN. I· DisiiiYesbnent dnoda ot iiCCDIIIItl< as a re fDr aew impetus from a Like - British IIIIi- Swedn, in 1979 tbe DO Swedisb capiW ill sult tbllt of die fnlll - o{ a.ati-aput· venUies, c:bun:lJes a.ad 11m WCSienl COIIDirJ' to vested in Soutb AlrU:a indudiaJ beid ~tioas in trade unioas, tbe Q)Uncils impose a lrHzlc oa invest- siDce I'T19. but trade is oa GCC aad tbale at eislrt necessary ..;;. --. other major Britisb local die Uaited Scates a.ad have swircbcd baW and mans in Sooth Airic:a. die iDc:reue. I..ast year' IPimr tbe Republic. sold Soum Atrica-linbd this yuz outlawed some Swedisb aport3 to Soutb JOVCnlllleDt aatborities. Soutb Atnca's arms ~,~,. a :lUI' aco we SUlCb. laliDc arnoaemena. by ~ ~ at R272-millioa, IIZICOVCI'ed wn .r a low ebb." says SlOck sales by disinves. wllicb Swedisb !irm:s hired 0,6 percent of toW a smuglen are periodically ill the West, Mr Mike Tmy, secmary ron .,_. tbe yean row. equipmeut tor their South ports, were 45 pe=at up at BritaiD's mti-apartlleid Mr Tary estimates, be- Atncu faaories. oa 1983, aad imports rose aad no oae admia to sup ~ Bt17en llad op~ ,.r dle diaD ..... leaf pld' eoiD. m.tead of the J[rQer d. At oae of the nbjeda a eampatp agatut apart. d, the KrilprraDd't Amert eu sales lane beea pll'tleu- 11 deet... . - ~ j Tbe Sagee lau beea a· maJor faeter Ia populutalag _ Jim Jones In JohMnesburc lttuprraad ' aa1es Ia 8eath· . ay Afrtea aad elabbl to lilaYe 80UTB AftiCA'S Jupst .about 20 per eeat .el t1ae •mestle Miler of krqer- .• lith Afrteaa 1llarbt Ia raads, the South Alrtean •rdlDU7 Knaserruu18 ud Gold Coin Exchange (Sqce),: · abcnat 70 per ceat of the ._. been placed UDder Yolan 'lli.arket Ia " proof " ltruaer·: bry judicial maaqement tallds. llftause It Is unable to honour· · It •• . aow seeklag proteC: ,repurchase guarantees. Uoa from a poulble llZ2m The move follows the an UabiUty under parantees to UDcement lty Interplcl, the. l'e)nlrc:haale 'ro.f Kr-Qer-} serrand marketing arm of nada lletwen - ._.. e Chamber of Mines, that ...... w Jlnqerrmd 'lalet fell rldwtde fa ApriL Sou.th Africa sees no tmiracles' By CLARK T. ffiWIN JR. Statf Writer ''The v o tin~ of the blacks will come In time.' a South African dip lomat said Monday, but "we cannot have miracles." As members of a Portland-based group called the Maine Project demonstrated outside, Deputy Consul Ulrich Ruch told a World Atfaln Council of Maine session at Flnt Parish Church that the Re public of South Africa ls slowly re· laxJng Its system of "apartheid." At a press conference following the talk, protest coordinator Ivan Suzman said "the facts speak for themselves" that South Africa con tinues to restrict and repress blacks. . Suzman, who said he Uved ln South Africa for slx years ln the 19701, aald detention without com· IDunlcation or trial, pollee beatings and ahootings, forcible relocation: IDalnutrltlon and high Infant death rate• · ahow "the brutality of cur rent . and recent South African : policy" toward blacks. Apartheid - "apart-ness" In the · Dutch-based Afrikaans dialect - refer• to the network or laws and : rules that restrict the jobs, voting 1· rights, residence, movement and 1; pubUc activities or the country's • black m~ority . The white-controlled govern ment Ia removing bans on Interra cial · sex and mixed marriages, Ruch said, and blacks might have "eventually, also, the right to open a business In certain areas" now closed to them. Blacks comprise about 70 per· cent or the country's 32 million . . people. The rest are whites, Asians '• · See SOUTII AFRICA Protesters demonstrate outside the First Par:lsh Church Monday Back page thla aeetion while South Atr:lcan Deputy Consul Ulrich Ruch spoke Inside. South Africa FROMPAGEI---- or mixed-blood "coloreds." Only Before ceding power to a black passage of a bill in the Maine Leg whites can vote or run In elections majority, "We need guarantees in Islature that would require state to the national parliament, though our country'' like the system of treasury and pension funds to sell the country has added two sepa· checks and balances In the U.S. off the securities of any corpora· rate assemblies that can originate Constitution, Ruch said. lions that financl' or do business bills affecting the Asian and "col· When asked what guarantees with South Africa. ored" groups. the whites would want. Ruch said The group said it was "suspl· When skep "a guarantee of the rights of each clous that Mr. Ruch's visit Is care· tical listeners group" - leaving open the ques· fully timed" to coincide with asked when tion whether the "groups" would consideration of the bill. blacks would have the common ri~;hts or any in Ruch said ''The threat of disin be allowed to dividual citizen or different rights vestment Is something we take se· vote , Ruch according to their racial composi riously," but argued pressuring said "It Is tion. firms to withdraw would harm the being talked Apart from the American-style blacks they employ, eliminate ex about," adding concern .for safeguards against a amples of mixed-race workplaces blacks can "tyranny of the majority," Ruch and fail to cripple the South Afri· vote In their sald domestic politics affect the can economy. segregated pace or permissible change. Previous sanctions and boycotts municipalities "A prettr, large 5egment among led to the creation of a domestic and In their the whites, ' Including some news· synthetic fuels industry and a tribal "home paper editorial writers, opposes weapons Industry that has made lands" assign· apartheid, he said. But "changes In South Africa one of the world's 10 ed by the South Africa have the backlash of leading arms exporters, he said. government. Ruch an ultra·riRht, white conservative If more investments are with· "We have envisioned a black group" whose reactions cannot be drawn, Ruch said, South Africa forum," Ruch sald, "a discussion Ignored. "will just have to adapt." forum" as another step toward "We are not the perfect society," giving blacks a national role. Ruch said, "but there is much that But the legal codes that assIgn has changed." rights and restrictions by race have When an audience member read been In place ever since the con parts of a United Nations resolu servative National Part;,: victory of tion criticizing South African poli· I 948, Ruch added, and 'We cannot cles, Ruch dismissed it. change everything with the stroke If the U.N. ensured that Its mem· or a pen." bers all ran open governments that For one thing, he said, "Africa protected citizens' rights, South has a· very sorry legacy or 'One Africa would take note or Its reso- 1 man. one vote' - once." Most of lutlons, he said. In the meantime, , the continent's SO nations either 'We reject double stsndards" that 1 are one-party states or run by mill· condemn one country while keep tary dictators. Ruch pointed to Ing silence about others' defects. Robert Mugabe's rule In Zimbabwe Meanwhile, Suzman and a panel (formerly Southern Rl)odesia) u or protesters that included former another example of the drift from Maine National Association for the restricted democracy to authorlta· Advancement of Colored People ria.nism. ' preslder.t Gerald Talbot called for THE STAR Johannesburg 14 Ap ril 1 9 85 Wake up, South ~ -~I j SOUTH .AFRICA is ripe for heightened terrorist I activity that could 'Urban terrorism wilt~-- ~ I cause bloodshed and 'I mayhem. /' The horror of bomb blasts . could become part of daily increase'-:- expert ::• life as we leave children at school, while we go to the 5:vN'tJIY STIJR. ..::Jil~- )fAJ!t:./ /9R.fSvr.~l( cSM-l"'f. lf f- ' - supermarket, post office or hospital. Public safety will be the subject~7 at a major conference ~ · To prevent this terrifyirrg and exhibition on terrorism to be held on April 1 7 and picture large organisations 18 at Modderfontein • .CARRIE CURZON reports.-c-- ._ must increase their concern for security - that's the message · .. """' .,,,, '':'1,'0 > ' .,; , ·;;;. ·;,._"; ·r:·-zgzi;,. .-...... _, of troubleshooter John Brett. .:~:;c.=t ~ .. :. ~. • Mr Brett, chairman of the American Society of Industrial world, says Mr Brett. rest, be is still optimistic. time of 198$ and go about pro prospect of a loss of busiiless or Security (ASIS), is one of sever- He maintains that, so far, at- ~ · we are going to survive and tecting their assets." assets and concern lor the per· · al experts who will speak at tacks have been far better con- the country that comes out of The safeguards are available sonal safety of the direetors the two-day conference on tained than in most other coun- thU moment of truth will be a in terms of guards, sopbisti· and management. urban terrorism. tries. better place. than the one we cated computer systems and "And where security systems "The potential for increased He believes saboteurs in this live in now." effective defensive measures. are installed they are often terrorist activity is here," be country are not bent on attack- As someone whose life is But Mr Brett fears cost is done on the cheap and are not -says. " No matter what the ing crowded premises and spent defusing explosive situa- usually tbe inhibiting factor as efficient as they should be. State President does now, some causing bloodshed. But there is tions all over the world, this se- and guards, because of their " Commerce and industry ·section of the community will never any accounting for the curity expert believes safe- low pay and the stigma of an have to sit down and look to the be critical of the course of ac· "crazy element" in any attack. guards against terrorism in unpleasant job, are not of a safety of their assets, working ·tion and it will develop into Targets for attack this country are as good as high calibre. on the assumption that the mil· protest. those anywhere. . itary and police cannot do it. . "Unless we prepare, prevent, "In the event of terrorism, "We have tbe experts, al· Safety measures "Having resolved to do it and train there will be blood on possible targets would be Gov- though in llmited numbers. and Often staff are working in they m~t arrange for the right· .the ground. Unless the captains ernment installations - wher· our special organisations- the high-riSe buildings where there kind of people to be selected, of industry and the decision- ever it would have the most bomb squads, special branch, are no fire drills and where trained and educated for the makers are prepared to take cripplin~ effect - symbols of sharpshooters and dog- they have no idea bow to get task. U we do the right things protection and preventive mea- apartlletd, and symbols of pres- handlen - are the best." . out of the building. now we can avoid tragedies." sures now, while there is time, ti~~ · like major hotels. . But the problem is simply . "Regrettably, by and large, The Chamber of Commerce things could go terribly ·wroog-. -- ~ 7 ~ A-tar~~ not.·II8C&!San• ., '·one· of. manpower. within the-- .. mos~rganisatioos are not con- and· ASIS are staging the con- ' ''When pressures build up ly have to be heavtly populat· military and police. And it is cerned about the safety of their ference and. exhibition · .and tens ~ons increase the num- ed: JUSt _In a suttable geog:a· when disasten occur simultao- most important asset - their which there will be ber of incidents grow and the ph>c postt;on where destruction ~~ly in different areas that staff - whether tbev are at different aspects nature of attacks becomes will be pictorial." be fears for the outcome. work, or on thetr way to or and safeguarding measures,, 'more determined." But "wholesale slaughter" is It is for thU reason that he from work, let alone when they panel discussions, and the ap-t' Until now the number of suc· always a terrifying possibility. urges industry and commerce are at borne." palling effect of explosions wilf.. cessful attacks in the whole of Despite the current crisis in to act now. Instead, motivating factors be demonstrated live by the: South Africa has been less than South Africa where daily head- "Large organisations must for installing security are in- detonation of a variety of let.; in many single cities of the lines deal with killings and un- realise they live in thU terrible surance requirements, the ter, parcel and car bombs. l ·.'You're our storm troops' businessmen are told i SunStar Reporter much of wbat Is be.iDg recommended can the campaign is not a coincideDC:e, th»l •' _ not be executed. ll bas been launched during_ one of tilt', SoUTH. African businessmen are taking '- "Tbe dlsinformalion campaign is ill· most severe economic recessions on ree on tbe role--of fronll.iDe storm troops ill tended to have a demoralising effect on ord, and when II will burt the most should an economic war being mounted by South the average wbite South African - and it be effective. · ·t Africa's political opponuts worldwide. So the bus.iDessman in particular - as what "There is a desperate need in Soadl ~ says Alan Lindner, a Pretoria marketing be sees and reads Is often regarded as a Africa: today for a aalionaJ campaign tDt COIISuitant. direct threat to his existence. maintaill morale and keep up the OghtiaC ~ "T!ais Ia partlcslariy so ill the spirit of those determined to see the ei~Ull- t Ill line with tried and tested guerilla small-business community wbich is fac.iDg try through evolutionary change and OD 10 i warfare pr.iDciples, the disinvestment Jiqaidatioa at an ever·illcreasing rate. a stablf futuret he said. j campaign is based on a well-orchestrated ' · "What is DOt appreciated is that this Sou" African businessmen, as the bat· ·~ information campaign to persuade the disillformalion is designed to cause coafu tie commanders, bad to take the illlttalive ' West to apply sanctions aga.iDst South sion and doubt about the Government and ill this war of words and implement . Africa, be says. But the campaign is es the economical capabilities of Sontb Afri· meiUlingful morale-building programmes sentially a deceptioa operation because ca. There Is little doubt that the timing of in tbelr own organisatiollS. Professor Boshoff said many people had already THE STAR Johannesburg shown an interest in the V.olkswag event. People had rea 17 April 1985 lised tha~ Afrikaner self determination was in to ..-resist 'US L The Conservative mortal danger, causing a Party and the Herstigte crisis of survival for the liberalism' Nasionale Party have ex- . Afrikaner. ~ p:.l. "The role of American \'1-- '1 l.Pretoria Bureau pressed their support for the Afrikaner-"Volkswag liberalism in the crisis Rigbtwing Afrika~ers organised congress on cannot be denied. For will gather here at the May 30 and 31. this reason we must end:; ·of May to discuss A V leader Professor ascertain how far it has what they have dubbed Carel Boshoff will chair already penetrated our "the--onslaught of Ameri the congress and a pum national"life and a plan of c~n::liberalism on Afri ber of speakers wal give resistance must be decid kaner culture". talks. ed upon," the professor said. ·· . The Herald, W ednescby May 8 1985 ' ,_, Harare, Zi mba bwe 7 May 1985 ItctJ llrl'tl m1J ilet:ltt;yzjl I: ~ o Ambas~ador The of the United States of Amer ica H-'<1 BePaftw A. GROUP ot 36 Amerl· can dtlzeDS reatdent, In Bring sanctions Zlmbebwe ha!o eoodam!led the Req'an admln18tra· ''~United States' citizens living in Zimbabwe, we strongly condemn the Uan's Imposition Of .ane Reagan Administration's recent imposition of economic sanctions against tloos againSt N1eara«Ua Ni car.il..<::tJa, . . ~.' :- ""; J..,\ . , ·~ . ,r ' ,, '· ...~1· ·· .>...... 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