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IJuy/ugust1 ThNesppeoftheAnt-AarhiMoemn 20I *No force on earth can ever stop a determined people who enjoy the support of all progressive mankind.' - African National Congress of South Africa, 4 June 1981 During the months of May and June this year, South Africa witnessed a great upsurge of resistance on the part of its entire black population -workers, church people, youth and students, community groups and other bodies, reinforced by the actions of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. Supported by progressive whites they demonstrated their total opposition to the apartheid system-first, on 31 May, against the South African regime's Republic Day celebrations, and again at the high spots of 16 June. the fifth anniversary of the Soweto massacre, and 26 June, South Africa Freedom Day. See page 5 of this issue for a Special Report on what happened on Republic Day and what it really means for the survival of the racist regime. BritainoftheAfricanNationalCongressAlsi n,l ws s __-page1I VELLA -RLLAY, who attended the recent international sanctions conference in Paris as part of the AAM's delegation, reports on developments in the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity - page 3 Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Do'tFel artheid! - what the churh is doing to stop the flow of oil to the South African war machine. REVD JOHN JOHANSENBERG of the United Reformed Church argues that the pressure must be stepped up - page 10 HeI the Aged Helps Apartheid JIM RADFORD and COLM LYONS expose what happens to the funds collected by the well-known charity - page 10 Trade Unionists in Action - Stop the illegal import to Britain of Namibian Uranium! Support the Rowntrees strikers in South Africa! Enforce comprehensive sanctions now! pages 3, 8 Plus news of action against collaboration by local government authorities, students, doctors and nurses, and anti- apartheid activists throughout Britain. THOUSANDS more signatures s orgently needed for the Anti-Apartheid Movement's national petition 'sotate South AfricaSanctions Now!'. It can be done - activists in Exeter, for example, collected 300 signatures and £30 in donations at a single picket. Make sore the petition is on display and circulated at public meetings, summe fairs and festivals, marches and demonstrations, conferences and all other events in your area. Petition forms are available free from the AAM Office; each contains space for 31 signatures. Cenr pgs -SLakedDocliet fro th Rat Dept.. -E ~mureu

Page 2 Anti-ApartheidNews July-August 1981 action in Bristol or a number o years, with hundreds of signatures REG RACE; MP for Wood Greea, being colected for the AAM's was among the winner in a fundNational Sanctions Petition, raising raffle organised by Haringey thousands of Boyrott Shell and BP AA Group. The eaffle brought in leaflets distributed and new members over£50forlocatandnationalAAM.gined. TheGrouppicketedaShellpetrol The filth anniversary of Soweto station during June and distributed era, machad by well-attended oil boycott leaflets in Wood Green. public meeting addressed by Paul Plans for the next few months Stnphenson, a member of the Sports include joint activities with Council and former Communlty Totteqham CND and Haringey Relations worker in Bristol, and Trades Council, a fund-raising AAM Executive Secretary Mike concert and a Christmas bazaar. Terry. Contact:MargaretTonge.Tel808 BristolAA Groupstrongly 2542. conde ned the decision by Br..tol Harlow Cabeor o f Commerce to go ahead -witb a heavily subsidised trade rsion to South Africa -s 19 June. ANTI-APARTID supportera in Months of campaigning by the Harlew raised over £130 for the Grouptoexposetheprivate AAMat a social to which a wide companies involved and ge the visit range of local organisations and called off culminated in local radio prominent individuals were invited. coverage and a phone-in. ItishopedthataHarlowAntiBristol AA joined with Somerset Apartheid Group will be set up soon. AA in a Soweto Walk in the Mendip is on5 July. Hull Contact: Box r, S 10 Cheltenham Road, Bristo 6. Cam bri STUDENTS AT Hull University organisedea Day of Action to commemorate the fifth anniversary CA BRDGEAA have collected, ofthe Soweto uprisingin South vanloadof toys for Namibian Africa. children in exile. The toys will be Contact: Hull University AA sent to the Mavulu Centre, s special Society (Christopher Aylott or children's section of the Namibia Ahmed Suleman)-To) Hull 445361 Action against multinationals- the Iuwn i.l step"* u.1w.9_- lon by local anti-apartheid supporters. After representations from the Council trade unions, the Labour Group on Leeds City Council has also asked its Municipal Committee to investigate stopping purchases of South African goods. Leeds AA Group, having organiled a sue-tsful Soweto Walk is nowy mobilising support for" the joint Yorkshire Regional Trade Union Congresi/AAM conference planned for the autumn and consolidsting its contacts with local trade unions. Contact: Jenny Warren, 144 Otley Road, Leeds 16. Tl Leeds 758528. DNSAT None College, Northampon. invited an AAM speaker to their Students Against NucleartEnergy (BANE) conference in Jane. Mike Terry spoke on the apartheid bomb, and the film 'The Yelowcake Road' eas shown. OXrd THE KITSON Committee at Ruskin College in Oxford have taken up the campanis in support of the British Leyland strikers in South Africa and the Pretoria Three. A meeting addressed by AAM was organised at the college's Headington annexe in Campaigning in W Leeds RIOTINTOZINCearned£21.1 THESON of singer Paul Robeson ihon net profit from the Rosting has joined with the Welsh Antiuranium mine inNamibia during Apartheid Movement in appealing to HUNDREDS of students and anti- 1980, compared with £12.6 million the Cwmbach Male Voice Choir to apartheid activists heckled Foreign in 1979. RTZ's total net profits last stay away from South Africa. Secretary Lord Carrington on British year were £155.4 million. Together with the Rhms Orpheus collaboration with South Africa's RTZ has a beneficial interest of Choir of Wrexham. the Cwmbach illegal occupation of Namibia, when 46.5 per cent in te Rossing mine. Choir is lanning to take part so an hapartheid International Eisteddfod he delivered a memorial lecturefa Iat due to be held in South Africa in LeedsUn*iversityinJune.Herefused Octoberthisyear. toanswerquestionsonBritain's TheCwmbachChoirperformed illegal contract for Namibian SHAREHOLDERS arriving at the together with Paul Robeson during uranium, put to him by members of Annual General Meeting in York of his lifetime in a concert for the the 1,000-strong audience, confectionery giant Rowntree- Movement for Colonial Freedom The protest, organised by Leeds Mackintosh were met by anti- (now Liberation). In a message read University Third World Society, apartheid pickets and handed leaflets out to the Choir, Paul Robeson I ar Leeds AA Group and other anti- exposing their company's pointed out that 'Myfather's records apartheid bodies, drew activists from collaboration with the South African were banned by the South African Leeds, York, Sheffield, Hull, regime. Bradford and other places in the York AA supporters were region, protestingatRowntreg'shandlingof Leeds Third World Society has a dispute at its East London plant in meanwhile collected £600 for South Africa, where 500 workers SWAPO's medical aid appeal. have been sacked and a protest strike The AGM of Rio Tinto Zinc, has been sustained for more than which operates the Rossing uranium four months. 0b'C mine in Namibia, was also disrupted The AA Group has secured wide by questions on Namibia as well as coverage in the local press and radio RTZ's land-grab policies in other for its activity in solidarity with the A arts of the world. While refusing to striking workers and their trade a e..... many questions, the RTZ union, the South African Allied directors revealed that Workers' Union (SAAWU), and has Rossing has to date paid no compan, challenged the chairman of the tax in return for the riches it has York-based Rownttree-Mackintosh ripped out of Namibia, but is group to a public debate. (See also keeping such payments in a special page 8 of thisue) I e reservefund. Contact:Box10,73Wamgeate, York. Pickets of petrol stations and other protests at the oil companies' fuelling of apartheid were oganisd throughout Britain during the AAM's June Month of Boycott of Shell and BP. Southampton AA Group hung a bnner across a motorway bridge as well as picketing garages, June on the arms trade with South Sheffield has been the scene of Africa, considerableanti-apartheid activity recently. At a meeting in June Southam pton arrangedbySheffieldAAGroup, AAM Executive Secretary Mike Terry and local AAM activists met MOTO leadingCityCouncillorsand Southampton were confronted by Sheffield's Member of the European 30 feet long banner suspended from a Parliament to discuss practical action footbridge over the road calling on in support of the liberation struggle. them to Boycott Shell and BP. The On the previous day, Sheffield AA banner became a familiar sight at joined with the city's CND branch garages as pickets were mounted by for a joint public meeting addressed " Southampton AA Group supporters by Mike Terry on the South African throughouttheJune Monthof nuclearthreat. Boycottoftheoilcosmparnss S r South ampto AAt...rd 56 walkers to their Soweto Walk, which was led off by the Mayor and a local P. The Group arehopingto hav THE four AA Groups in the Surrey raisedover£900. AAFederation(Epsom,Croydon, Contact:DavidHoadley,Tel0703 SuttonandI!,strad&Reigate)29363. oinedtogether for their Soweto Walk fromn Sutton to Epsomn and are Sh l hopingtohaveraisedmoretan £200. The Groups organised consumer boycott pickets in July and SHtEFIEL D City Council has invited are having a stall at the South Nelson Mandela to Britain to receive Suburban Co-op fete. an award in appreciation of his stand Contact: Marguerite Simmonds,. against apartheid, and has called on c/o Ruskin House, Croydon. Tel 689 the British government to preas for 5794. his releas,. ales APOLOGY government as earlyas the 1940s, as IT HAS BEEN drawn to our theywere in nazi-occupied Europe. I attention that the June issue of AA urge you not to go to South Africa.' News refers, inaccurately, to the On 8 July, Welsh AA organised an campaign to stop the Welsh National alternative musical event in Wrexham, Eisteddfod from collaborating with featuring South African and Welsh apartheid by taking part in the artists, as part of the campaign to planned international risteddfod in persuade the Choirs to call off their SouthAfricaiOctober.plsuetThereportshouldhavereferredplans, throughoutto the ULangollen the South Wales area of the International Eisteddfod, officials of National Union of Mineworkers has which have been assisting South deplored the tour and all miners who Africa with its preparations. AA are members of the Cwmbach Choir News would like to apologise for this have withdrawn from the visit, mistake and for any embarrassment Contact: Chris Wilkinson, caused to the Welsh National Secretary WAAM, 33 Romilly Road, Eisteddfod. Canton, Cardiff. Tel Cardiff 382846. Campaigning in Scotland RUTH MOMPATI, Chief Representative in Britain of the African National Congress, was a guest at the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers Gala in Edinburgh in June. Imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela had been invited to attend. Further information on antiapartheid campaigns was provided at the Gala by Edinburgh AA Group, which organised a float and a bookstall. CAMPAIGNING IN Constituency Labour Parties in Scotland has been given a boost by a joint conference in Glasgow in June, organised by the Scottish Committee of the AntiApartheid Movement and the Scottish Council of the Labour Party. BRANCHES of local authority employees' union NALGO throughout Scotland have beerlAsked by Scottish NALGO to affiliate to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, following a special publicity drive by, the Scottish Committee of AAM. Scottish AA are now publishing a bi-monthly news bulletin for affiliated organisations-it is available from the Affiliations Secretary, Steve Grist, 108 Howden Road, Jedburgh, Rosburghshire. ACIO NATINA AN ITRATIONAL Health and Education Centre in (lunchtsmes) or Citopher AYlotI Brighton KwranzaSulprovince,Angola Hull802108(afterhours).Aylo Contact: 153 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, Lambeth THE recently rtarted Brighton AA C'h""""n -ambeth D Grocuphasdeoped Ilo,,linkswith r do the local trades council and trade LAMBETH AAhold their meetings unionsandhasbeenactivein onthefourthMondayofeachmonth distributing ants-apartheid CROYDONAAhove 'adopted'a (excludingAugust) at theCapham infrmation and rabug Southern woman political prisoner in South Communty Project, 4 Venn Street, African issues at various trade union Afnca and are now en uraging London SW4. All supporters confernces held in Brighton. LabourPartywads and othe, welcome. Recent activities ofthe oThe Group is planning a political parties and organsaations in Group include a fund-raising social. coordinated campaign against theslareatoidothesame. Chontact:MargaretWinstanley, Barclays in the Universityof Sussex The Group have helped to 2b Dalyell Road, London SW9.Tel when ter ti starts in October. negasise a Soweto Walk, are working 733 5178. Contact Andy Winter, 179 Lewes actively with the Co-opandplanningRoad,Brighton, a mertingwithCroydonCND, L Contact: Urniu Alexis, 44 Purley Bristol OaksRoad,Sanderstead, Surrey, Tel 6609921. LEEDSCITYCOUNCILrejectedan a application by the South African JUNE1981wasoefthemost government'strading organisation to successful months of anti-parltheid hold a promotion of Cape fruit on July-Aun"s 1981 Page 2 Anti-Apartheid News

IJii-A.S.. .951 i ne I A MAJOR international mobilising conference, convened by theUnited Nations and the Organisation of African Unity, was held in Paris on 20-27 May in support of comprehensive international sanctions against South Africa. VELLA PILLAY, who attended the conference as a member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement's delegation, reports. The conference was attended by representatives, including foreign ministers, from 124 governments, from UN organs, the OAU, the nonaligned movement, national liberation movements, international and national organisations, and by individual experts. The ANC and SWAPO delegations were led by their respective presidents. It certainly was by far the most important, impressive and representative gathering of the world's antiapartheid forces. Moreover, it was the occasion for an historic statement by the general secretary of the victorious French Socialist Party of full support for the anti-apartheid struggle and the liberation of Namibia, and of commitments to an end to uranium purchases from Namibia, and to curb France's trade and investment relations with South Africa. The conference adopted a declaration which held that South Africa's policies had gone beyond being a threat to the peace and security of Africa and the world. It accordingly reaffirmed the need for international mandatory sanctions and urged all committed states to make the anti-apartheid cause a central issue in their economic and political relations with the Western countries. In line with the conclusions of the Paris conference, the 18th session of the heads of state conference of the 'DO WE HAVE any choice but to intensify the struggle on all fronts against an implacable enemy? Maybse the question wle should low ask ourselves is how much South Africa depends on us economically, rather than how much we depend on racist South Africa. What Africa should not tolerate is the idea that the rest of Africa- or the international community for that matterhesitates to support the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because such an action would hurt the Africans in Organisation of African Unity, held in Nairobi at the end of June, designated 1982 as the year for international mobilisation for sanctions against South Africa. The heads of state decided on measures to enforce the oil embargo, with parallel appeals to the oil exporting countries to prohibit direct and indirect exports of oil to South Africa. The OAU has aow requested all member states to deny landing rights and the me of their airspace to aircraft of any nationality flying to and from South Africa, and the use of their seaports to ships sailing to and from South Africa. A central feature of both the Paris and Nairobi conferences wastheir unanimous condemnation of the Reagan administration's proapartheid stance and its reversal of accepted UN policies. The OAU leaders specifically 'condemned certain members of the Western contact group, the United States in particular, for their overt and covert collusion with the racist South African regime'. These conferences mark a significant stage in the struggle for international sanctions. The forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly is now likely to see a Major new effort, led by the African countries, to achieve the implementation of worldwide sanctions against apartheid. South Africa and Namibia as well as the neighbouring states. True, there would be some suffering, but if such is the price that hascof necessity be paid for the attainment of freedom in Namibia and South Africa itself, that price is not too much for Africa We must all be prepared to die a little for the total liberation of our continent.' - Witness Mangwende, Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe, addressing the Organisation of African Unity ministerial conference in Nairobi. Employers and workers THE General Conference meeting of calling for tough action against South the international Labour Africa, including mandatorysanctions. Organisation (ILO) in Geneva in June Pressure for the readmission of updated its 1964 Declaration on South Africa to the ILO was Apartheid with a new document defeated at the Geneva conference. 'SANCTIONS against South Africa must be applied by those who sustain the economy of the apartheid regime -it is the West, and not the front line states, which has the responsibility to take the lead in enforcing economic sanctions.' This was the clear and unambiguous message pushed home through a week packed with meetings by Armando Guebuza, a member of the Central Committee and Permanent Political Committee of FRELIMO, and the Vice- Minister for Defence in the Mozambique government. Correcting the distorted view of the front line states' position often painted by the British press and other media, he stressed that Mozambique wanted sanctions against South Africa-and wanted them urgently. Through their multinationals, Britan and the other Western countrfes were giving South Africa their economic support and were therefore in a position to exert effective pressure on the regime. Armando Guebuza attacked the hypocrisy of those who used the economic weakness of theafront line states as an argument for evading the need-for sanctions. If the West invested in the front line states rather than in South Africa, then the front line states would be in a better position to enforce effective sanctions themselves, he pointed out. The FRELIMO leader was heading the first delegation of the FRELIMO party to visit Britain since Mozambique's independence in 1975, The occasion was Mozambique's sixth anniversary of independence, and his principal public engagements included the South Africa Freedom Day Rally in London, a major Rally in Manchester, a public meeting with the black community in Brixton, and meetings with the Anti- Apartheid Movement, Labour Party, Liberal, Party and Communist Party of Great Britain. raw materials, ANGOLA'S Minister for Foreign Affairs, Paulo Jorge, has called on African countries to use their raw materials as a political weapon to force the West to exert effective pressure on South Africa. Labour Party and Local ( IN A major contribution to the Leader Ken Livingstone pointed out campaign against collaboration that for the past four years, mnde a in local government, the Conservative majority, the GLC had Greater London Councilhas hadadeliberatepolicyof retrodo Cponcy htas discrimination in favour of buying introduced a policy of total South African goods. boycott of South African goods The GLC is a major porchaserof and services. A special Supplies goods, particularly of foods, building. Panel of councillors has been and raw materials, It buys goods on set up to review all the GLC's behalf of individual London Boroughs as well as itself, and its new purchase orders and congtracts boycott policy is also shared by the and to identify which of these Labour-controlled Inner London relate to South African goods Education Authority (ILEA), From or companies. The Panel is also now on the GLC will not only boycott South African goods and carrying out a complete review tenders, but will also avoid British of the GLC's shareholdings so and other companies with South that in this area too accurate, African connections, and will 'do its up-to- dateinformationis best' not to buy oil and petrol from available to elected members Shell and BP. Labour-controlled local and the boycott policy can be authorities throughout the country properlyenforced, arebeingurgedtoexaminetheir Announcing the GLC's new stand purchasing and banking policies. The to a press conference organised by Labour Party has circulated Labour the Anti-Apartheid Movement on groups asking them not to bank with Soweto Day, 16 June, Council Barclays. Trade unionists: plans on SECRET plans for direct action Over half of Britain's uranium The seminar, organised by SWAPO to block illegal imports of imports now come from Rio Tinto in cooperation with the Namibia Namibian uranium are being Zinc'sRossingminenear SupportCommitteeandsponsored finalised in a number of West Swakopmund in Namibia. Between bythe UN Council for Namibia, was 6,000 and 7,000 tons of uranium designed to stop this illegal trade. European countries, ycllowcake from Namibia Participants representing transport Britain,following havebeendelivered unionsandtradeunionfederationsin seminarhrough three airports Britain, France and the Netherlands, inJun, in Francealone. togetherwithindividualexpertsfrom in~i - 6Netherlands and Switzerland, discussed coordinated plans for 'swift and effective' action 'in the very near future', according to British TGWU representative Eric Reahnitz. The union representatives agreed to put pressure on their respective governments to end imports of A Namibias uranium and other natural resources, send a delegation to the Roing Uernuula, near Swakopmundi lathe bigges opericast uranium mine in European Pariament, stop up the world, Rossing is now exploing fr further uraniunm deposits in Namibia. edueation and mobilisation work Namibia among their members and encourage wider action within the trade union and labour movemsent. The British unions involved in the seminar were the Transport and General (TGWU), railway workers' union ASLEF, and seamen's union NUS. Messages of support were received from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the international federation ICFTU and the West German trade union federation. (dis)honour A TOP collaborator with South Africa- AG Frame, Chif Executive of Rio Tinto Zinc-has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The list of knighthoods also includes John Leahy, British ambassador to South Africa MICHAEL FOOT, Jim Callaghan, Denis Healey, Ted Rowlands and other leading members of the Labo. Party have personally pledged themselves to a policy of comprehensive sanctions against South Africa. A statement signed by those attending the Labour TUC Rally in Cardiff on 4 July calls for the 'total isolation' of the apartheid regime Others signing the statement included Eric Heffer, Eric Varley, Denzil Davies, Eric Jone, Neil KInock, loan Evans, Roy Hughes, Alex Kitson, Ron Hayward and William Griffiths. OVER 40 Constituency Labour Parties have affiliated to the AntiApartheid Movement in response lo a letter urging their support for the Isolate South Africa campaign. I~ t ~tu s0t ay,,j_ .._ EVERY MEMBER of the British Labour Group in theEuropean Parliament has now signed the AAM'a National Sanctions Petition, together with many other prominent figures in Ihe trade union and labour movement. Please keep the petition cimulating contact the.AAM Office for forms and further infornation.

'Worldwide support for freedom struggle SOUTH AFRICA ATTACKS S RESISTANCE GROWS SOUTH AFRICAN aggression against the People's Republic of Angola has reached a pitch of ferocity not seen since the independence war of 1975/76. A statement issued by the Central Committee of the MPLA- Workers' Party in' June warned that the daily attacks and invasions by apartheid troops operating from Namibia are not a random phenomenon but are linked with the attempt to reach a Namibian 'settlement' outside of the framework.of the United Nations and UN Resolution 435 of 1978. During the first Six months of this apartheid aggression. Information year alone, South African forms materials for exhibitions, public mounted 472 air reconnaissance meetings and other events are flights into Angola, 22 airborne available from the AAM Office or machine-gun attacks, 30 bombing from the new campaign to Stop the raids, I 15 helicopter-borne troop and War against Angola and Mozambique paratrooplandings, and numerous (SWAM),set upin association withgroundattacks, the Mozambique, Angola and Gsine The attacks form part of a Information Centre (MAGIC), 34 oordinated regional strategy of Percy Street, London WI, Tel 01-636 subversion and destabilisation by the 7108.apartheidregime.InMozamnbique, ao r f g t the situation has movedtothebrink our f of 'a very ertons and dangerous war' with South Africa, according to the We feel we will aol he completely .Vice-MinisterofDefence,Armando freeuntilSouthAfricaandGicMin. o Namibiaae free. We can't kid In Zimbabwe, too, the apartheid ourselves about this because regisse is seeking to infiltrate instability in South Africa will undercover agents and mercenaries of ultimately affect out own esrious kinds. In June, Zimbabwe stability. So we are concerned. Minister of Home Affairs Richard Hence our stand that the regime in Hove revealed that a number of anti- South Africa must surrender government rebels had managed to Namibia in the interests not only cross into Zimbabwe from South of the Namibian people bt of Africa, wearing uniforms and South Africa itself, our own carryingarms, interestsinZimbabweandthose Serious efforts are needcd by of the world community.' supporters of the Anti-Apatheid President Canaan Banana of Movement to break through the wall Zimbabwe, speaking in an of silence imposed bythe press and interview to mark Zimbabwe's of~ ~ siet imoe bytepssIl first anniversary of independence media, and expose the facts of fisaniearofndpdne Zimbabwe and SWAPO- standing together THOUSANDS of pounds were Witness Mangw ende, have pledged raised for the Namibian Zimbabwe's totalsupport for the liberation struggle during the Namibian struggle led bySWAPO, liberationg vstg durZin eb and fund-raising efforts will now week-long visit to Zimbabwe by continue, SWAPO President.Sam Nujoma. The SWAPO President described Money was collected from Zimbabweas a'shiningexample'to organisations and individuals as the the people of Namibia, whose SWAPO delegation, led by Sam independence had strengthened the Nujoma and including SWAPO front linestates. He and his treasurer Lucas Pohamba and central delegation had been highly impressed committee members Pendukeni bythe Zimbabwe government's Kaulisge (also a leading member of economic development and the SWAPO Women's Council) and resettlement programmes, he said. Kapuka Nauvrala, travelled 4,000km and addressed at least 65,000 'WE HAVE FOUGHT British Zimbabweans. The Zimbabwe imperialism, the settlerism and government, which earlier this year racism of Ian Smith, and we will led the way at the Organisation of fight the racism and apartheid of African Unity by presenting a cheque the regime of Botha if he dares to for $50,000 to SWAPO, declared a invade us-and we shall be equally Week of Solidarity between victorious.' Zimbabwe and Namibia. Government Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister leaders, including Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, June 1981 Robert Mugabe and Foreign Minister 1A Presdn honorel 'BRITAINisthesourceofour flag of South Africa was the one miseryin Southern Africa and flown from therooftops of Sowetothus we always have a special the flag of the ANC. 'This is the feeling of the FRELIMO Central appeal to make to the people of Committee, the FRELIMO Britain.' This was the message government, and the people of from Oliver Tambo, President Mocambique,' he said. In oftheAfrican National Mozambique, he continued, 'wehear Congress,onSouthAfrica theecho of people crying in Soweto. .and thus we feel South Africa's FreedomDay,26June. problemsasourown.' President TambotoldAAM TheSWAPODeputySecretaryfor members and supporters at a pocked Labour, P Munyaro, stressed that the rally in London that 'it is your Namibian people were determined to struggle as it is ours'. The continue their liberation struggle for international community, he urged, genuine independence in Nansibia, must remain solidly united behind based on UN Security Council the people of South Africa -just us Resolution 435. C the progressive world was already solidly united behind SWAPO of Namibia. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President of AAM, stressed that the people of Southern Africa were 'absolutely determined' to realise the goal of liberation 'in its fullness' Commenting on the regime's Republic Day celebrations, Armando Guebuza, member of the FRELIMO Central Committee, said that the real Malarial aid campaigns THE Anti-Apaerthid Movement's THE International Committee on sponsored 'Wlks for Soweto', held Southern Africa (ICSA) is orgdnising to raise funds for the AAM's a workshop on material aid for educational work and for the African SWAPO and the African National National Congress Solomon Mahlangu Congress in November this year- The Freedom College in Tanzania have Workshop, which will be held in already raised more than £e4,000, Leiden, West Germany, is open, with most of the money still to come to representatives ofanti-apartheidin. andsolidaritygroupsand Several local AA groups will be humanitarian orgnisations. holding Walks later n the summer, Further nformation from ICSA, including Huddersfield. Sponsrship 30a Danbury Street, London NI 8JV forms ame available from the AAM Tel 01-359 4640. Office for other individuals and goup whowat to organis a Walk. Joan Lestor MP, Bob Hughes MP, Chairperson of AAM, Ruth Mompati, ANC Chief Representative, and Dr Yusuf Ddoo, President of the South African Communist Party, were among the many trade union and labour movement activists and anti-apartheid supporters who demonstrated outside South Africa House-in London to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Soweto Day on 16 June. Police drag away the Executive Secretary of the West German Anti-Apartheid Movement, Ingeborg Wick. She and other anti-apartheid supporters were picketing the residence of the South African ambassador in Bonn, where a reception was being held to celebrate the apartheid Republic Day, attended by the State Secretary of the Foreign Office and other West German dignitaries. Police claimed that a poster calling for 'No collaboration with the murderers of.Mahlangu' was an 'insilt' to the apartheid state. Ms Wick was assaulted and later threatened with a court case for 'resistance to the authorities' and 'having caused injuries' to a policeman. 40 s olat ApartheMi Sotbh At a-Sanctis Now! Special Campaign Supplement to Anti-Apartheid News Facts about apartheid -collaboration - sanctions All you need to know for the campaign to isolate apartheid 21 Match 1981 to 21 March 1982 8 pages 3-colour Price 20p Available from AAM, 89 Charlotte Street, London W1 P 2DQ Details of bulk orders available on request acnoisnop nuameston ARCHBISHOP Trevor Huddleston, recently elected President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, was presented with a gold lsitwaladwe medal and commemorative text by President Oliver Tambo on 26 June. The lsitwalandwe is the highest award given by the African National Congress to those who have made outstanding contributions to the South African liberation struggle and was originally made to Archbishop Huddieston at the 1955 Congress of the People To mark South Africa Freedom Day, the Isitwalandwe award was presented at a special ceremony in London to Govan Mbeki, currently imprisoned on Robben Island and. the late Bishop Ambrose Reeves, Namiiaillegal occupation THE tenth anniversary of the ruling of the International Court of Justice, on 21 June 197 1, that South Afica's occupation of Namibia is illegal, was marked in London by a special meeting organised by the Namibia

W E REPUBLIC ON 31 MAY this year, the Botha regime celebrated the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the South African Republic in 1961. The official theme of the celebrations was 'unity in diversity'. The Republic Festival climaxed with a massive military display in Durban, intended to demonstrate to people at home and abroad the strength of the South African state and its ability to cope with resistance from all quarters. In the event, however, the Republic Festival was a tremendous propaganda flop. The message which was rammed home by the people of South Africa on 31 May was 'White Republic No! People's Republic Yes!' BRIAN BUNTING reports on the countrywide upsurge of resistas resistance which has since been mark the fifth anniversary of th SouthAfrica Freedom Day on What was demonstrated in the weeks leading up to 31 May was the extraordunary breadth of the opposition to the Republic amongst the Sooth African people. The Festival highlighted, not the support for the status quo which was demanded by the regime, but the unity of the opposition forces in demanding the abandonment of apartheid ad the inauguration of a new era based on full democratic rights and opportunities for all. nee to the apartheid celebrations further intensified in actions to Soweto uprisings on 16 June and Workers went on strike at many surrounded by the apparatus of i 6 June factories,especiallyinthecar repression.Notonlywasthemilitary 26June. industry.Busserviceswere might on display in the streets of boycotted. Ma tallies and Durban. Police patrols were active In May Umkhonto launched a demonstrations were organised in everywhere, and road blocks were series of military actions against spite of police terror tactics to stop operated on all the main roads targetsinvariouscentres: them. leadingoutofthecountry. a police station in East London In his Republic Festival speech in Demonstrations were broken up with was attacked and an army Durban, the State President Marais teargas, baton charges, dogs and recruiting office in Durban blown Viliorn said: bullets.: Thousands of up 'Whatwehaveis a young demonstrators were arrested, a power station us Durban was nation that stands with honour boycotting students expelled en bloc, badlydamaged amongthenationsofthe strikingworkersandtheirleaders a policepatrolhemdedby world, respected byboth detained. 'Brigadier' Charles Sebe, head of friends and adversaries.' There is a new mood of resistance in the Ciskei Central Intelligence The reality was that the Republic South Africa today. The civil war Agency, was attacked and one of was celebrated by a frightened proclaimed by the regime will Sbe's aides wounded minorityof the white ainority, continue until the People's Republic demanded by the disfranchised APARTHEID CELEBRATES masses is achieved elec ticPowerlnsih THE RESISTANCE UNITES Orang Fre St~e wer h~nnM11 The underground apparatus of the African National Congress, the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and the South African Communist Party have all been active this year in the campaign to mobilise the people against the fascist retublic. For weeks before 31 May, leaflets were circulated throughout the country calling for a boycott of the Festival, for a threeday strike and a shutdown of schools to mark the people's opposition. railway Eares were cot by explosionsintheCape,Nataland MOTransvaal. ope All these attacks, plus the mas Fea circulation of leaflets and other forms of propaganda, demonstrated that the liberation movement has its underground bases and operates effectively from inside South Africa, with the support of the masses. The ANC flag, colours, anthem and slogans are in evidence everywhere in Fed South Africa today. At an antiIRepublic rally in Soweto, eight South It 1 ican flags were burnt while about the1 ANCflagswereraisedbythe org th'usi c audience. At an antiRepublic Day rally at the University of the Witwatersratd a number of South African flags were burnt to the accompaniment of cheers and the singing of the ANC anthem 'Nkosi Sikelel'iAfrika'. in fact, the enthusiasm generated by the anti-Republic campaign was far geater than that formally Bruce expressed at the official celebratios. black Opposition to theRepublic thed. Festival was widespread and overwhelming. Black schoolchildren and students boycotted their classes. Coa, 'RE THAN 100 legal organisations representing millions of South Africans nly declared they would have nothing to do with the Republic Day tival. They included: The South African Council of Churches, the South African Bishops" Conference, the Anglican, Methodist, Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran Churches and the Nederduitse Gerefoemeerde Kerk in Afrika. Most non-Afrikasas universities, students' representative councils and students' organisations. Most black trade unions and coordinating councils. [he Black Sash, the Institute of Race Relations, the Women's eration of South Africa, the Football Council. The Natal Indian Congress, Indian Reform Party, Labour Party, a~that, the South African Black Alliance, the Soweto Committee of Te AzanianPeople'sOrganisationandmostblackconsciousnessAnisations. C m ite par nrM u. wis the rae The President General of the African National Congress, Oliver Tambo, set the tone of the campaign against Republic Day in his message an 8 January this year, marking the anniversary of the foundation of the ANC in 1912: 'Racist Republic Day cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be a day for the oppressed, for the black ,,ople of South Africa, or for any . "ocrat. Like the racist constituti, a of the Union of South Africa, the constitution which created the so-called Republic was the exclusive work of whites only, for whites only. We can have nothing to do with. May 31. We refused to recogniea the legitimacy of the apartheid republic in 1961. We have much less reason to recognise it today, when the burning demand is fo a Peonle's Government.' From its outset two decades ago, the South African Republic was promoted by the then Prime Minister Verwoerd to lift the spirits of the 'yolk' from the depression which overtook them in the wake of the Sharpeville shooting. In the referendum, which took place on 5 October 1960, those voting for a republic totalled 850,458; those against 775,878. Thre were 7,436 spoilt papers and the average percentage poll was 90.75. The all-white electorate totalled 1,800,748, out of a total population of 15,841,128. Thus the Republic was imposed on SouthAfricabythewillofonly5.3percentofthepopulation. South African Nelson Mandela had led the campaign opposing the inauguration of the burn the apart Republic from an underground hideout in 1961, and on 16 December of that year the military wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe, announced its existence to the world with a manifesto and a series of saboage actions in various parts of the country. N I I

STATE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS REVEAL PLOT TO BRING The leaked documents together Windhoek'. According to the notes of TRANSAFRICA, the influential black anti-apartheid lobby based in Washington, United States, released reveal a clear desire by the United the meeting, General Malan declared Asri thconifluential blStatkepatntaparetsatthe edinWaandton.nitedSe.,rd Statesto overcome an apparent that a series of confidential US State Deparent documents at the end of May and early June. Much has conflict with South Africa over 'a SWAPO victory would be been revealed about the Reagan administration's plans for US/South African relations as a result. The Namibia. 'The continuation of unacceptable in the context of a documents, which the State Department has admitted are authentic, confirm the worst fears of the Anti- Namibia as a festering problem Westmnlnter-type political system. fl-flii LaiiU auvcaiictis. ,complicates our relations with our Namibia needs a federal system. kpa- ..~l lvg |tlu. In April, and again in May, Anti-Apartheild News warned of Reagan's Strategy for War and of A Sinister Plan for Namibia. In this Special Report, AA News seeks to place the leaked documents in the context of dangerous new plans by the United States to integrate the South African apartheid regime into Western defence and security arrangements. The plans, for which the US is seeking British support, are in essence preparations for direct Western intervention in Southern Africa. UnitedStates policy on Naibia Who are these whitesoldiers if theyare not South Africans? i UNITA guerrillas receive consignments of arms from unidentified troops. (This picture appears in a South African publication.) Apartheid's Angolan puppe WHATEVER else maybe read The events at Houstonairport, ON 14 MaySouthAfrica's Foreign I lle.-- P ~,.. ua ' intoit,the arrest of two British Texas, revealedthat the South MinisterPik Botha arrived in The W estPrepare for W ar gunrunners bythe United AWashington at the invitation ofthe African regime' arms new US administration. Thespirit of Torpedoingthe UN Settlement Plan of 'a future ini which South Africa States authorities in Maythis procurement agency, Arnscor, the visit was summed up bythis US for Namibia is the first step by the returns to a place within the regional yearhasproducedfurther isdirectlysupplyingmilitary toasttoPikBotha: UnitedStates towards creating a direct framework of western security' clearly evidence that Jonas Savimbi's hardware to UNITA, equipping 'Let this be the new beginning of alliance with South Africa. demonstrates the US alliance-withUNITAforcesinAngolaare themto wagetheirterrorwar mutualtrust and confidence In his Scope Paper, Chester apartheid policy. This relationship between the United States and Crocker suggests that General Haig with South Africa is intended to stem nothing more than a front for against the Angolan people. SouthAfrica,oldfriends...whoare should tell the apartheid regime that the growing tide of the liberation theapartheidmilitarymachine, gettingtogetheragain. 'Wewanttoopena new chapter in struggle. The African liberation The meetings concentrated on relations with South Africa! struggle is therefore equated with '(TheU .e mattersoffargreatersignificance than 'We will not allow others to 'Soviet encroachment' in order to "(TheUS)_agrees thst UNITA is an important factor in the Angolan situation. | mere toasts of friendship, however. A dictate what our relationship with isolate the liberation movements of We believe that there can be no peace in Angola without reconciliation | memorandum from Assistant Secretary South Africa will be as evidenced South Africa and Namibia, and win between UNITA and MPLA. We se no propect of military victory for of State Chester Crocker to Secretary by our recent veto of sanctions, wider support for the apartheid regime UNITA. Must achieve movement towards reconciliation by playing on of State General Haig was prepared as But just as we recognise your as an upholder of western interests. divisionsinMPLA.' abriefingforthelatterinhis permanentstakeinthe future of The main obstacles identified by conversations with Pik Botha. Southern Africa, so you must the US in promoting its alliance with Described as a 'Scope Paper', it recognise our permanent interest in apartheid, are, firstly, the South Atlantic Treatyidentifies 'thre discret 'of Africaaswhole. continuing impasse discussion -'Namibia, US-SouthAfrica 'Althoughwemaycontinueto second,the need for the US to appear !...a future i 'which South Africa '...it can also begin a process nuclear cooperation and general differ on apartheid, and cannot credible in claiming to the world that returnstoaplacewithinthe leadingto..greateracceptanceof bilateralissues'. condonea system of institutional- apartheid is being 'reformed'; and regional framework of Western South Africa within the global The Scope Paper discloses that the ised racial differentiation, we can third, what are described in the leaked security interests' frameworkof westernsecurity' UShadtwoobjectivesininviting cooperate with a society undergoing documents as the South Africans' These stateents reveal that at the heart Bsenos Aircs Argentina, at the end of Botha for talks: constructive change. Your 'misadventures with their neighbours' oftese IStateents Devalt t the isear M e on eArenet, ace nd of '... to tell the South Africans that government's explicit commitment -presumably a reference to the of theUS Stae Department there isia May. The conference took place in we are wilting with them to open a in this direction will enable us to apartheid regime escalating its real commitment to integrating South considerable secrecy but it is clear that new chapter in our relationship work with you. You must help to aggression against neighbouring states. Africa into western security and the US, South Africa, Argentina, defence arrangements and thereby Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil were all '...to make clear to the South make this approach credible. You The US policy coincides closely creating the conditions for direct represented. The US representative Africans that we see the should also recognise that this with that advocated by Margaret western intervention in Southern Africa. reportedly was General Vernon continuation of the Namibia period represents your best shot, a Thatcher and other Tory ministers. However, the prospect of South Walters, a former deputy director of problem as a primary obstacle to rare opportunity, because of our The dangers of a Thatcher-Reagan Africa's admission to NATO remains the CIA and former head of the US thedevelopment of that new mandate and our desireto turn a alliance with apartheid South Africa remote both because of the attitude of Southern Command, who is now relationship and that we are willing new leaf in bilateral relations.' cannot be over-rmphasised. As Antia number of the smaller NATO described as a roving ambassador for to work with them toward an This last statement serves to Apartheid News warned in April: membersandalsobecauseitwould PresidentReagan. internationallyacceptable confirm what has repeatedly bees 'Shocked by events in Southern require a total revision of the Treaty. The outcome of the meeting is settlement which will not harm suggested in Anti-Apartheid News, Africa, the dramatic advances of This is why there has been increasing unknown. Brazil and Argentina have their interests', namely that the 'reforms' introduced SWAPO in Namibia and the Africa speculation about the possibility of issued denials about any alliance with Later in the same memorandum in South Africa by Vorster and P W National Congress in South Africa, the formation of a South Atlantic SouthAfrica. Crockerproposesaveryattractive Bothaformpartofastrategyinitiated Western policy-makers are Treaty Organisation an idea which However, at a time of growing military carrot to the South Africans. Provided in collaboration with the apartheid apparently actively eontemplating had currency in the late 1960s and has links between South Africa and that they are willing to cooperate over regime's international allies.Theyare direct Interventiontoreversethe now resurfaced reactionary Latin American regimes, Namibia, he promises 'a relationship intended to create an environment in tide of African liberation. The This speculation was transformed mere public statements are hot initiated on a cooperative basis (which) which those allies can develop close evidence of their intentions is clear into active concern when the news was sufficient guarantees that the South could move toward a future in which protective relations with apartheid only a determined stand by a leaked that a conference of strategic Africans and the US are not actively South Africa returns to a place within South Africa, whilst claiming that united Africa and massive experts from the US, South Africa and planning how SATO can be made a the regional framework of western apartheid is undergoing major reforms. international solidarity will stop Latin Americawasduetobeheldin reality. security'. TheReagan administration's vision these plans being put into reality.' NAMIBIA: PUBLIC PROMISES, PRIVATE DEALS WITH APART

SOUTH AFRICA INTO WESTERN DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS war, involvmig South Africa. We w , 'We should be aiming at getting a better understanding of have to invade Neaita, and glier whether South Africa would be willing to move forward toward countries a well. We are pleading for you to see the dangers of a a restructured, internationally acceptable settlement... Part of wrong solution in Namiba. It the problem is semantical ... we should describe our efforts as would be better to have a low-level attempts to "complement" rather than to "change" 435.' conflict there indefinitely, than to - from a memo to Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker STUF TH U NItheUS...ved fromhisassistantPaulJHare,13May1981 :STU FF THE UN!t themeetingbetweendissentingovercertainpoints. Haig and Botha as a means of Onlytwo weeks prior to the Haighave a civil war escalating to a convincing the South Africans that it Botha meeting, the foreign ministers of general conflagration, waspossibletoachieve an theContactGroup,includingtheUS It is clear that the US and the South internationally acceptable settlement Secretary of State. had met in Rome Africans have common cause. Chester in Namibia involving elections, which to discuss Namibia. The communique Crocker, in his suggestions to the still either excluded SWAPO from issued afterwards stated, inter alia, the Secretary of State, proposed that power entirely or which prevented it Contact Group's General Haig should make it clear to from taking effective control -even 'belief that Security CouncilSouthAfricathat despiteatriumphatthepolls. Resolution435provides a solid 'We share your view that Namibia In this process it appears that the basis for the achievement of a not be turned over to the Soviets. A US have the support of the other negotiated settlement .. Russian flag in Windhoek is as members of the Western Contact At the same time the Ministers unacceptable to us as it is to you.' Group with, at the time the documents rcogsised that the settlement pies It emerges from the documents that were written, only Canada apparently as endorsed by Resolution 435 with the complementary measures that 0 havebeenaddedtoit,suchasthe proposal for a demilitarised zone, has not proved sufficient to- bring about implementation. They agreed that the search for a settlement should be intensified and that ways to strengthen the existing plan should be considered.' It is clear that the US is prepared to present one impression to the international communitya commitment to the United Nations Settlement Plan for Namibia (Resolution 435) plus a reference to strengthening it -while actually planning something quite different with the South Africans, namely, a 'settlement' whose primary purpose would be to safeguard US and South African interests. For the US, diplomacy over __outern Africa involves continued No more criticism... 'fltha presented vision of southern Africa's future, in context of "Constellation of States" concept. He appeled for USG support for South Africa's view of region's future, involving a confederation of states, each independent but linkeby a cetralising secretariat. SAG doesn't expect US ppot foe apartheid, lbst it hopes there will be no repeat of Mondale's "One Man, One Vote" statement." Ne lan for Namibia .. 'With regard to Namibia, USG asums that constitutin is an important lame, which must be resolved before elections. The constitution would include guarantees foe minority eights and democratic processes. We have said we believe SCR 435 is a basis for transition to independence for Namibi, hut not for a full settlement. We wish to meet SAG concerns, while taking account of views on other side. We cannot crap 435 without great difficulty. We wish to supplement rather than discard it.' Support the puppets... 'We believe a Lancaster type conference won't work. We sees panel of experts, consulting all parties, writings constitution, and then selling it through the Contact Group. With SAC's help, we could-sell it to the internal parties (in Namibia)'" Entrench the bantustans 'lothac eyedtoCrcei rom aophuthatswana and Venda. He explained that their ambassadors wanted to deliver the messages in person, but gotha decided to convey them to avoid appearance of trying to force US hand.' dfrom US noses of conversations betacn Chester Cracker, South African Foreign Minister Pik b otha and Defence Minister M ,Magus MalanPretoria, 15/16 April 1981[. '(gotha) affirmed that it means a great deal to the South African government mito have good relations with US, and that SAG understands US problems is /maintaining friendly relations with black African states.' dcpion aimed at preserving the aatedstate and enhancing its role as eionalmilitaryPoweractingin~la e t . concert'with the major W estern p en - g o .. . tosbvert the independence of seek to restore its place as a legitimate and important regional actor with 'Recent elections have opened new horizons for whom we can cooperate pragmatically.' bothpourcountries.ThepeoplestofotheoUnitedsCome in from the cold... Congess of South Africaalertedthe StatesandSouthAfricahavegivenourgovernments C m n f o h o d . international communityto its belief a clear mandate to seek a new beginning at home and 'This approach can bgsn a process leading to the end of international thatthenewReaganadministration abroad.The Reagan administrationhas acceptedthis rejec tion of your country and greater acceptance of South Africa within the enriched uranium to South Africa. challenge and welcomes the opportunityto improve global framework of Western security.' Thishas beendramaticallyconfirmed relationsbetweentheUnitedStates and South C lear w ay investm ent bytheleakeddocuments.They Africa. SouthAfricacanrelyonour nvm, in clude a secret SouthAfrican dr. Steriaan relybon as u determinationandbackbone 'Youwillneedtomakeitclear to Pik that we share the South African hope memorandum to the US on their nuclearrelations. .leaderofthefreeWorld.' that,despitpoliil- differences among the states of autheenAfr, the The South African secret economic interdependence of the area and constructive internal change memorandumrequeststheUS withiot Afica can be the foundations for a new erai of cooperation, administrationtograntexport extractsfromatoasttothe stabilityand security in the region...' admiistatin togratepor rmits pressure needs to South African Foreign MinisterwihnouhArccabetefndinsoraewrofoprto, forthedeliveryofenricheduramum beeertedon tShuthirfhltco mtae Tg teT. . . they forthug de o, enaivel, anm t ex ee obythe US Secretaryof State - from a Scope Paper prepared by Chester Crocker for General Haig nthrog fance,or,wnaltenatiely tha The seqec s o adyihtrg eio n theUo i de the latter in his conversation s with Pic Botha. 14 May98 tnhe uaees to ethesply fofmh to ensure that South Africa______Fricedanrect from isdenidthenrchedurnium for Originally the US directly and that would guarantee the apa theid through the UK supplied all Sooth regime the ability to mnuf actr a Africa's enriched uranium. However, nuclear bomb. the mid- I97lls concerning South policy are enormous. Enriched Africa's nuclear weapons programme, uranium is the necessary ingredient for the Carter administration effectively a nuclear bomb and there are no halted these supplies. This occurred international safeguards which South The African National Congress, in a letter to the Anti-Apartheid Movement from its headquarters, has warned that 'the US when the US enacted non-proliferation Africa can be guaranteed to respect, views South Africa as a faithful wartime ally, occupying an indispensable position in its global strategy and possessing legislation forbidding the supply of The Anti-Apartheid Movement does essential mineral resources. This appraisal has led to the revival of the much-condemned plan of forming the South Atlantic nuclear fuels and technology to those not believe that these dangers can be Treaty Organisation (SATO) involving certain Latin American countries and in which South Africa will play a leadingrole. countries which refused to permit resolved by South Africa signing the This move, which is a flagrant violation of the United Nations' arms embargo against South Africa, strengthens the regime international inspection of all their Non-Proliferation Treaty. Only an end militarily, thus further endangering peace, security and stability not only in Southern Africa but in the whole of Africa. nuclearinstallations. to allforms of nuclear collaboration 'The intentions of the United States are clear. It intends protecting the fascist regime because of the lucrative profits it Now South Africa urgently wants with South Africa will really affect the reaps from the oppression and exploitation of the people of South Africa. Secondly, it wants to retain the regime as the this policy reversed. It believes, with apartheid regime. Immediately, all last bastion and bridgehead of imperialism in Southern Africa and Africa as a whole for the purpose of perpetuating its Reagan in power in the White House, possible pressure must be applied on economic plunder and forcing independent African states into ne-colonial subjection. Finally the US wants to that the US President will exempt South the US administration to halt ,he incorporate South Africa into her world strategic goals. To achieve these ignominious aims, the US is woking relentlessly Africa from the restrictions of the non- supplies of enriched uranium, directly to have the racist regime recognised as legitimate by the international community.' proliferation legislation. Maximum or indirectly, to South Africa. In protest at the Reagan administration's collaboration, the ANC has called on all members and supporters of the AntiApartheid Movement and progressive forces worldwide to: L organise demonstrations, protests and pickets outside US embassies and other representation 'Botha concluded by saying that SAG doesn't want to let Namibia go the LI expose and condemn US collusion with apartheid through posters, stickers and other information material wrong way; that's why South Africa is willing to pay the price of the war. We LI send letters of protest to the United Nations Secretary General pray and hope for a government favourably disposed to us. The internal "I expose the efforts of the US to revive the plans for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation (SATO) parties don't want us to let go until they have sufficient power to control the 0I expose the US/SA alliance as calculated to perpetuate racist domination in South Africa, isolate and destroy the situation. We want an anti-Sovietblackgovernment.' ANCandSWAPOandtodestabilise the front line states. HElD AGGRESSORS TO BLOCK THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE I

LEYLAN:GET OUT NOW! Trade union solidarity IGNORING massive pressure from the British and international Edwardes. A former AAM President WOSA and has instead engaged in Iarmworkers trade union movements, and from Westminster and European MPs, and leader of theSocialist Group in frantic strike-breaking efforts. These 'NO APARTHEID LINKS'the British government is still stubbornly refusing to intervene in the European Parliament has tabled 'have included despatching Rover cars was the call made in June by t the matter for discussion with the to the homes of-workers who have British National Union of the strike at British Leyland's South African plants. This is despite European Labour Group. agreed to return to work, and offers Agricultural and Allied Worke the fact that Leyland South Africa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leyland South Africa, meanwhile, of 'triple time' for skilled workers. (NUAAW), an AAM affiliate. BL, while BL isinturn 99percent owned bythe National refuses evento discuss thematter Despite these inducements, the vast African officials seeking aice EnterpriseBoard. withthestrikers'union NUMAR- majority of strikers are still out. 'agricultural training schemes' Twothousandfourhundredblackworkersweresackedby UNION SUP*f3RT approached the Agricultural T Leyland SouthAfricawhentheystruckforhigherwages.Callsfor U N S UP Trn chu Leyland to quit South Africa are now being made by workers SHOP STEWARDS AT British Executive Secretary Mike Terry. represented. The NUAAW pro Leyland have voted unanimouslyto The stewards are now compiling a to the Department of Agricult there in t he face of its.refusal to. reinstate the sackedworkers, move towards blacking vital parts and list of the components and asked the TUC for support in The dispute has radicalised option but to call on Leyland to kits destined for South Africa. equipment which go-to South Africa. effort to stop any further Sout opinion in South Africa in favour of withdraw from this country'. Their action is in support of the Telegrams of protest at the African involvement. disinvestment and withdrawal, The British government ministers have 2,400 black South African workers treatment of the black workers have moderate N atioal Secretary of the told MPs, however, that 'the sicked by Leyland at its Cape plants been sent to the BL management in C -National Union of Motor Assembly government does not intervene in The stewards' decision was made Britain and South Africa. Leaflets COVENTRY Trades Council 1 and Rubber Workers of South Africa industrial relations', whether in during a meeting addreased by SoBy explaining the dispute at BL's South appealed to all trade unionists (NUMARWOSA), Freddy Sals, for South Africa or in Britain. On these Smith of the South African Congress African subsidiary have been, city to take action to stop the example, told a mass meeting of the grounds Industry Secretary Keith of Trade Unions (SACTU) and AAM distributed to workers recruitment of car workers by dismissed Leyland strikers in June Joseph has told AAM Chairperson African car giant Sigma, that Leyland 'would haveto leave Bob Hughes thathe doesnot believe W hat you can do: send a message Journalists because it was refusing to pay the 'that there is any point' in a meeting. MANY individuals, MPs and trade you can do. It points out that MEMBERS of the National Us workers a living wage. Sauls has never EL itself is determined not to unions have sent messages of support Leyland is currently investing seven Journalists have called for a ca previously supported the withdrawal intervene. The international union to the Leyland workers. If you have million rand in South Africa. to persuade British newspaper of companies from South Africa. federation ICFTU has protested not yet done so, write now to: Leyfand must be forced to withdraw. publishers not to collude with Salts'callwasbackedupbya stronglytoLeyland,demandingthat NUMARWOSA All supporters of the strikers African censorship and not to, mssmeetingoftradeunionistsand theytalktoNUMARWOSAand POBox4097 should write immediately to Sir South African advertising or o community groups in the Western reinstate the strikers. The TUC and Port Elizabeth6000 Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for forms of propaganda. Cape at a meeting on 30-June.They, severalBritishunionshave madethe South Africa. Industry, at I Victoria Street, pledged their full support for the same call and the issue has been . AnewAAMpublication, The LondonSWI,andSirMichael u li s e LeylandSouthAfricaworkers, forcefullyraisedatmeetingswith AnwAMpbiain h odnSIn i ihe u lc s c o undtookotoAfrcakthrike by massdismissalsbyLeylandSouth Edwardes,Chairman, BL, at 35-38 THE National Union of Publc undertook not to break the strike by senior Leyland management. Some Africa (20p), provides more Portman Square, London WIN 0HQ, Employees (NUPE) has agreed applying for jobs at Leyland plants, 15 MPs and European MPs have I ion on the strike and wat demanding their intervention. circulate all its branches with and concluded that they had 'no written to BL Chairperson Michael information on the ru t SWAPO I Trial of strength at Rowntrees as boycott spreads kits appeal. CISKEIAN bantustan police, Juneand againin aletterto he etaworkers CySteirNbnacnta edpole, Junesandaomainyin s le th t THE STRIKE at the Wilson-Rowntree sweet factory in South Africa has THE International Metal Work by their own account 'armed to Time, the company has claimed that become a trial of strength between the South African Allied Workers' Union Federation has declared that it that, 'measured ganst the EECCode (SAAWU)-which most of the black workers at the plant have joined- and 'expects from all IMF affiliate of the South African Allied of Conduct', the company's record is the Wilson-Rowntree management. Rowntree-Mackintosh Ltd, the York- South Africa the unconditioni Workers' Union in June in a excellent. Chairman Kenneth Dixon based British parent, has recently increased its stake in Wilson-Rowntree from unreserved and full implement further effort to breakthe went so far at the AGM as to saythat a 53 per cent controlling interest to 100 per cent ownership, and strongly of IMF decisions on South Af: union, thecompany actually encopraged supports the local South African management. statement from the IMF's cn Alt the detained workers were non-racial trade union representation -The duration of the dispute -more than four months-is clear evidence of in Washington in June pledged ,former employees of Wilson of its workforce in South Africa. In the mood of confidence among black South African workers and the IMF 'to lend its full supprt Ii Rowntre, the South African fact, they have sacked 500 workers, militancy of their trade union organization. Their defiance of their bosses has black metalworkers of South, subsidiary of the British Rowntree refuse to recognise or talk to SAAWU prompted a South Africa-wide solidarity boycott of Rowntree's products in theirstruggle for equal right Mackintosh chocolate company, and have cooperated with both the under the slogan 'Spit out that fruit gum chum!', involving student, civic, organisational, educational, le The arrests came as Rowntrees police and a stooge union, the Sweet church and traders' groups. strike assistance'. launched a propaganda campaign to Workers Union, in an attempt to AAM members and supporters are urged to send messages ofsupport to W orkers in cover up its real role sn South Africa. smash the resistance of the workforce the Rowntree workers and their trade union. The address is: At the Rowotree AGM i York in altogether. South African Allied Workers' Union South Africa , I POBox7002,EastLondon5200,SouthAfrica. South Africa Delegates rrom the transport union TGWU pledged to isolate apartheid Arrests and detentions 'THEIR LIVES wont be worth living'-that was the brutal boast of South African Minister of 'Manpower Utilisation' Fanie Botha in 1979 when asked what would happen to trade unionists who refused to submit to the apartheid regime's plans to smash the independent, black and non-racial trade unions. Altogether over 100 trade a year after being detained and held unionists have been detained since in solitary confinement. November 1980, more than 80 since Many workers have been on trial Marchthisyear. fortheirtradeunionactivities.In Meanwhile, veteran trade unionist February, 208 workers appeared in Oscar Mpetha is still in prison almost three separate cases. Workers in Namibia -pressganged A JOINT Consultative Committee of In Namibia, he revealed, contract the South African Congress of Trade workers from the north 9f the Unions (SACTU) and the National country are being forced to sign Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) undertakings that they will serve nine has been formed to facilitate months in the South African army, as workers' action against apartheid a condition of obtaining employment. throughout Southern Africa. Younger workers in particular are Aaron Temba, Chairman of the being pressganged into what amounts Secretariat of SACTU, told the AAM to a forced labour system as part of National Committee that the South the regime's increasingly desperate African regime med migrant workers attempts to defeat SWAPO's armed to divide and weaken trade unionists liberation straggle. in South Africa and Namnibia. -Policies of support TWO OF Britain's three biggest trade unions threw the support of their three million members behind the AAM's 'Isolate Apartheid' campaign last month with unanimous decisions by their annual conferences to support the imposition of mandatory United Nations economic sanctions The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) Biennial Delegate Conference voted 'to render every possible assistance', including support for mandatory economic sanctions, to 'fellow workers in South Africa who are struggling to end the apartheid regime'. The General and Municipal Workers Union (GMWU), in voting for UN mandatory economic sanctions and the total isolation of Plan now! for TRADE UNION supporters of the Anti-Apartheid Movement need to pull out all the stops to make the AAM trade union Week of Action in October as big a success as possible, according to East Anglia Regional Trade Union Congress Chairman, Paul Bonython. He was speaking at the end of the joint AAM- East Anglia TUC regional trade union conference in Cambridge South Africa, called on its Executive and the union at all levels to support the Trade Union Week of Action called bythe Anti-Apartheid Movement from 24-31 October 1981. The TGWU and GMWU join engineering union AUEW(TASS), whose conference also unanimously called for sanctions. The National Union of Railwaymen will be discussing sanctions at their conference in July. Other unions to adopt resolutions on South Africa at their annual conferences in May and June were the civil service union SCPS, which for the first time adopted conference policy in support of the AAM's work, and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), whose Annual Meeting adopted lengthy policy including a call for a campaign against South African government and related advertisements in the British press. Action Week Paul Bonython's call was underlined by the contributions at the West Midlands regional conference organised later in June by the AAM and the West Midlands Regional Council of the TUC. Altogether 70 trade union delegates attended the two conferences, the first of their kind to be organised by AAM. The East Anglsa and West Midlands conferences are being followed up by further conferences with the relevant Regional Councils of the TUC in the South West and Yorkshire in the autumn. lhat he is South on had raining is tested are and Its th has in the South ion of mpaign South accept ther dto edical kera' sin ton rica'. A ference the o the Africa is, by gal and -on strike THE wave of strikes that has hit South Africa since before Christmas 1979 continued during June with a further strike at Fords, Once again the issue Was the dismissal of workers., Two workers were dismissed after refusing to train workers who they thodght had been brought in to replace them. Five hundred day-shift workers at Fords walked out at the US company's Port Elizabeth plant. - pressure THE non-racial South African Chemical Workers Industrial Union has succeeded in forcing multinational Colgate Palmolive to agree to direct negotiations with it over wages and conditions. Investment Selling out BRITISH STEEL is selling its interests in South Africa for a total of R67 million. Through its subsidiaries British Steel has, in the past, been actively involved in developing South Africa's steel industry. Even after these sales BSC will retain important connections with South Africa. Funding THE South African regime borrowed, a massive R727 million overseas during the first quarter of this year alone.

STOP OI! STOP APARTHEID WAR9 T55~ ,mue a eilatne -*n t fthe IiskeA llefo-sserl Church a stake mn North Sea oil. demnostrate l d in Britain, Reed John Johansen-Berg MA BD, has been increasingly active in anti-apartheid campaigns. During his year in office he joined a widely-based Anti-Apartheid Movement delegation to the British government to press for more effective action to halt repression in Southern Africa. In February 1981, he again joined AAM in a meeting with ministers of the Foreign Office and the Department of Energy to raise a number of issues concerning oil supplies to the apartheid regime and the illegal export of Namibian uranium. In this special report, Revd Johansen-Berg looks at what the Church has done so far to stop Britain fuelling apartheid, and where it must go from here. Sometimes the Churchstaskisto Have we achieved anything? For pour oil on troubled waters. At other those concerned with radical change times we need to stop a flow of oil there has been too little movement which is troubling the waters. The and no real answers to questions. Th Church has been concerned about the companies are concerned about thei injustice of apartheid in Southern public image and this is illustrated is Africa for a long time. Opposition to the production of the Shell South the sale of armaments to South Africa 'Social Report'. But our Africa has been one expression of concern is not simply with wages an that concern. Oil did not figure much conditions but with the removal of in earlier resolutions or the injustice in a situation where representations because it has been black people have suffered thought of as part of the general deprivation for generations. Some economy, rather than viewed in the shareholders have been affected by light of its military significance, the representations made, as have The publication of the fiingham some of the staff of the companies Report proved a watershed (or concerned. should we sayan oilshed) in the tt is therefore important to Church's attitude to the supply of oil continue raising questions. The to Southern Africa. There had been lesson learned at great cost in strong backing in the Church for a Zimbabwe must not be forgotten. In non- violent resolution of the South Africa the urgent need is to Rhodesian problem and the sanctions overcome the injustice of apartheid. policy seemed to offer some hope of Can this be brought about nonsuccess. The Bingham Report showed violently? I believe it can, given the that the continued supply of oil was will, but the strategies devised must a major brech of that policy and not be undermined either by there was a deep sense of shock that government connivance or multinational companies could be so multinational muscle. The involved in such a breach information made available by the A number of church shareholders Shipping Research Bureau met to talk about the ethical and showing how embargoed oil is practical implications of the Report' reaching South Africa, and As a result, at the 1979Annual information showing that South General Meeting of the Shell African companies are trying to gain Transport and Trading Companyf they and others put a resolution condemning the company's supply of oiltoRhodesiaandaskingthe H l directors to give assurances that the IN THE COURSE of detailed company would not participate months, evidence has been unc directly or indirectly in the supply of oil products to Rhodesia whilst that the welt-known charity, United Nations sanctions remained in upholding the apartheid syster force. Whilst voting in favour of the LYONS have been working to resolution was small, the debate collaboration-among trade ur proved an effective way of bringing others who come into contact the concern before shareholders. This action was followed by A charitythat claimsto be questions raised at the Shell AGM in 'completely non-discriminatory' an 1980 by church shareholders and 'to help needy old people, wherever others Pressureonthe theyacetobefound -irrespective o company was maintained by a letter race, class, colour, or the governme sent to the Chairman in May 1980, of their particular country', can urging that reparations should be expect a sympathetic response from paid to Zimbabwe for damages progressive people. Help the Aged caused by the continued supply ofoil makes precisely those claims and its to Rhodesia during the period of letter-headings contain an impressiv UDI. list of influential people, including A much more widely supported Mrs Thatcher, Jim Callaghan and approachwasmadeinan DavidSteel,whoappeartoendorse international letter sent to Total, them. Shell, 9P, Mobil, Standard Oil and The formula works well. The Texaco, signed byover 50 church moneyhas rolled in and Help the leaders in France, the Netherlands, Aged has grown big, because the the UK and the USA. Signatories general public have believed such from the UK included church leaders claims. Thousands of teachers, from the Church of England, Roman parents and children, including man Catholic Church, Methodist Church, trade union and anti-apartheid United Reformed Church, the Baptist members, as well as black Britons ar Union and the British Council of refugees from racial tyranny, have Churches (BCC). The letter stated the supported and sponsored Help the moral case for some form of Aged's fund-raising campaigns, reparations to be paid and urged that usually organised through the schoo a substantial amount should be and have collected for, and donated contributed towards the necessary to, this apparently worthwhile cause reconstruction in Zimbabwe. Sadly, we must report that such Following the 1910 Shell AGM, a people have been misled. Many of them would not have given a penny letter was sent from WOW campaigns to Help the Aged if they had known requesting a meeting with the the truth. Chairman and listing areas for The truth is that, whilst claiming discussion. At the Shell AGM in 1981, further questions to be 'non-sectarian', 'non-political' were raised on the role of the and to have 'no involvement with a company in Zimbabwe, South Africa government', Help the Aged has be andNamibia. workinginclosecollaborationwith e ir nt that we must be vigilant if further complicity is to be avoided. Where do we go from here? I think that church shareholders and others should come together t plan and present a much more cogently argued case for a change in company policy with regard to South Africa, with an accompanying resolution. Thu will enable aime highlighting of' what is happening in Namibia and some forethought about the developing situation in South Africa. This should be accompanied by further representations to the British government to press for more effective UN action. Why should the Church be concerned in such issues? Christians need look no further than the words of Jesus himself since he says that he comes to proclaim good news to the poor and liberty to the oppressed. Jesus commends to his followers the way of non-violence but not of inaction or quietism. He confronts the forces of evil and injustice and seeks to overcome evil with good. Our preaching about love and reconciliation finds their expression in practical, pastoral, economic and political action. The Church can be glad that other organisations like Christian Concern for Southern Africa (CCSA), Amnesty, War on Want Campaigns, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, ELTSA and others have done so much in this area. The Church has found itself drawn increasingly to action in this same sphere. The recent BCC report sets out various options and comes out in favour of a strategy of progressive disengagement and the CCSA's increasingly campaiging stance has made the churches review their policy. It is significant that the missionary bodies are leadine the wa n wiino,,,, .. Oil for apartheid troops-a tanker passes A South African armoured personnel carrier on a road in northern Namihia. speak and vote at company meetings. THE IRANIAN il Mi er hasgiven I hope the next year or two will THE I AN il nt ao g show the Church here as active as the asurances that Iran will nout allow Church in' Holland and America in the sale of Iranian oil to South Africa, s The Minister also called on speaking out on these ises. Christ other members of OPEC to adhere came to break down barriers. The situation in South Africa, beset with rily to the organisatio's boycot barriers, is a denial of the gospel of policies against apartheid. recocilatin. ust s w hae a Between 1973 and 1979, under reconciliation. Just as we have a |the Shah. Iran supplied 90 per rant*| racispnsibilityand workt for reconciliationst of Suth Africa's oil requirements. within oar own community in this country, so also as shareholders in companies we should make our voices heard in speaking out against injustice in South Africa and in working for a just and peaceful solution: British Petroleum, which, together with Shell, markets 40 per cent of South Africa's oil and owns apartheid's largest oil refinery, is also involved in Namibiaian advertisement in a Namibian newspaper. e Aged helps apartheid lvestigations pursued over many black'. An investigation by the grants as possibly benefiting overed by anti-apartheid activists CharityCommissioners has people,it would still meant lelptheAged, is implicatedin subsequentlyconfirmedour .1978 HelptheAged provide complaint that this statement was as much money to meet the a. JIM RADFORD and COLM untrue, although these official old people among 4 2 millio publicise Help the Aged's watchdogs were strangely reluctant relativelyaffluent whites as ionists, conmmunity groups and to take further action in what was a meet the much greater need with its fund-raisingefforts, clear-cut case 6f misrepresentation. 22 million mainly impoveris Once the facts were uncovered, blacks No wonder the Sn the apartheid regime in South Africa the only line of defence open to yearbookt describe the task d and has ch~snelled its voluntary Help the Aged was to claim that collecting voluntary money funds in that country into agencies university chairs in geriatric medicine finance its services as 'big bu f and services which mainly benefit the would somehow improve the and records its appreciation n privileged white minority, thereby standard and variety of services 'cooperation between privat supporting and subsidising apartheid available to all races. Since most of organisations and the state', and the perpetuation of racial the services provided to elderly 'lends South African welfare inequality, whites in that country are non- their distinctive character'I On behalf of a number of existent for blacks, one would have Aged has helped to maintain e organisations, including the Councils to be extremely naive to believe this. distinctive character which i for VoluntaryService and The South African official yearbook and loathed throughout the Community Relations Councils in for 1978 lists a range of services 'apartheid'. Manchester, Reading and elsewhere, provided by the state for its 'senior The Greater London Trar we carried out an investigation into citizens' including medical, social, Council has drawn the atten 'Help the Aged's' activities in South recreational and housing services, and its members to this situatio Africa during 1978. This revealed subsidies of R9,478,578 towards 287 many trade unionists and v that out of a total of R279,560 that homes for, the aged. The guiding groups have asked us what was raised, R208,160 was given to principle in these services, we are done about it. The answer is agencies that mainly served and told, is that 'the aged are assumed to We call upon every trade an y benefited white people. Of this, be an integral part of the community branch, every opponent of R34,000 went to a Durban and must be given theopportunityto and apartheid,and everytea id Association for the aged, which remain full snd happy members of it parent, to make these facts' undertook to spend only 10 per cent as longaspossible'. known,andtourgeallthose on work 'among nonwhites', while It is patently clear that this refers have contact with Help the R 174, 160 went towards the onlyto whites, because the policy press them to cease this coll Is, establishment of chairs in geriatric and services for aged blacks are immediately, in the knowle medicine, in the predommantly described separately in three succinct if they continue to support white universities of Cape Town and lines, viz 'institutions for the care of Aged they are supporting an Witwatersrand. agedblacks aremainlyestablishedin organisationwhichitselfsu It took us manymonths to South Africa's Black states because apartheid. confirm the essential facts with Help they are traditionally cared for by A complete copy of the full the Aged. The first reaction by this relatives'! Elsewhere the yearbook correspondence containing t 'reputable charity' to our questions explains that 'Welfare Services are evidence of Help the Aged's was to try to get out of trouble, by entirely the responsibility of the involvement in apartheid car claiming categorically, in a circular to Governments of the Black states', obtained from the authors a ny head teachers, that most of the The basic facts about Help the file, 3 Manchester Road, Ch en recipients of their fund-raising in Aged are indisputable. Even if we Manchester 21. but send £2 South Africa-segg 'coloured or set aside 10 per cent of the university the cost of photocopying, p g black hat in ed twice needs of 3n it did to samong shed h African of to sines', of the e welfare which services Help the that Sknown world as es tion of n and iluntary :an be plain, ion racis cher and widely who Aged to aboration dge that Help the ports he 5 be t HTA ortton, to cover ait etc.

1981. 25th ANNIVERSAY OF WOMEN'S DAY South African womn fight TWENTY-FIVE years ago women from all over South Africa women-that's why we were so women heroes and women pt convergedonPretoriatoprotestagainstthepasslaws.RUTH activeinthoseyears. bigpartas members. MOMPATI was on the march. She is now the AfricanNational What happenedafterwards? am not saying that thenre Congress Representativein Britain. AA NEWS talked to her about For a numberof years the eaty, becasemare South African women's refusal to carrypassesand the part that government was unable to extend l es ducate so the passes to women. In 1958 a namber womentameaog the theyareplayinginthefreedomstruggletoday. ofwomenfromJohannesburgnuee leadership. But the organisat Thisyear is the 25th anniversary of become so militant that so many to gaol for refusing to carry passes. It trying to remedy this byimp ary education for out women. the march on Pretoria by South were prepared to come all the wayto was onlyin 1962, after the liberation o African women in 1956. What was so Pretoria to demonstrate? movements had been banned, that For muth African women special aboutthemarch? ThemachWas organised bythe theywereableto issuepassesto free we must ham a free natit Twentythousandwomen FederationofSouthAfricanWomen. women, therole of women now will Twentydetermine the position of wo: demonstrated outside the Union This was a federal organisation which But the significance af the march after our country's eranipa Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August had affiliated to it the African was not ust the number of women Our women know that they 1956, to tell the government that National Congress Women's League, who came, but the fact that they had fighting for their own freedo women refused to carry passes. They the Transvaal Indian Congress became politically conscious. They recogise that national liberal were delegates representing women Women's Organisation, the Coloured were fighting the system some prerequisite of their own libe: from all over South Africa- Cape, People's Congress Women's couldn't reador write, bat they Orange Free State, Natal and the Organisation, Congress of Democrats understood the significance of their What can women in Britain d, Transvasl, They represented all the women and trade union women' s unity as women and as members of supporttheirsistersinSouthwomenof South Africa. sections. the African National Congress and You can give a lot of support Some arrived in Pretoria the day The march was the culmination of other organisations. They understood support, political support and before and others early in the a great ferment of activity. Right that women must fight together. solidarity with our struggle fc moring of the demonstration. The from 1913 the government wanted to Since then we have continued to freedom. This is especially tri police tried to stop us gathering- extend passes to women. They tried fight, because Britain is so involved many of the women had been taken again in 1929. But always when they The regime has been intensifying South Africa. off trains or turned back at Toad tried to force passes on them the apartheid - especially by trying to Britain invests in South Al blocks. But we were used to this. The women refused. The government tarn aft black tabour into migrant instead of investing in its own police were always tryingto were always defeated. Thenthey iabour Howhas this affected industries. So women must it intimidate women and the women triedagainsntheearly1950sand women? people here realise that when refused to be intimidated, again the women refused. So there Fighting the pass I mens fighting for sanctions this will affect t When we arrived we sat in the was great activity among women - the break-up of family life. If you too. For example, if Britain gardens in front of the Union demonstrations, petitions against re South African coal, it means Buildings. Then we marched with our passes, a delegation to the so-called carry a pas, you can only live whe r i petitions against passes up the Native Affairs Department. the governments wants you to. The British workers will be Uem amphitheatre. We stood in absolute There were other issues too, government wants to make more The most important thing yo silence for 30 minutes. Then Lilian Nurses were told that if they didn't people live in the bantustans-the is to explain the need for san Ngoyi led us in singing: 'Hey carrypasses theywouldn't get women have fought against this. We You can also collect mate Strydom: You havetouchedthe trainsg. So there were arefightingagainst badliving especially for the children wi women. You have dislodged a demonstrations at hspitais -for conditions and for better health run away from Soweto, Lang boulder. You shall be crushed.' example, at Baraganath in services. Mamelodi and other townshi Twenty thousand women sang. Aid . Johannesburg. The government was The regime wants only able- are now at the Solomon Mal then we sang the National Anthem trying to introduce Bantu Education bodied employed men to live in the school in Tanzania. - passes, education, we were being towns. Women and children, and the We ask you also to join th Hadw ,ated.sntio attacked fromallsides.Therewasa oldandthesick,aseforcedtolive in campaign to save the Pretoria aogafsed? How had the women concentrated onslaught against the baistustans. The men work in the - young men who are under, cities -their wives and families live in execution for their fight for f VIOLET WEINBERG was a founding member and later a Vice President of the Federation of South African Women. She was active in the Congress of Democrats, an organisation of white supporters of the African National Congress in the1950s, and took part in the women's match of 9 August 1956:' "When we learned that the Prime Minister refused to meet us, the leaders went into Union Buildings and left the hundreds of thousands of signatures on petition forms at his office. When they returned, Lilian called for 30 minutes silence. My heart sank as recalled how often people fidgeted when called upon to observe two minutes silence in memory of somebody who had died. But, as Hilda Bernstein says in For their triamphs and for their tears. "even the babies on their backs did not cry". The sight of the 20,000 women is a vivid memory of Joseph's coat black and green uniforms, saris, red capes of the church women. and others in their best dresses of many. many colours.' the bantustans where they can't make a living. People are dying of malnutrition in the bantustans In the cities there are separate hostels for married men and for married women, so that if you are black you have to live like single people. The regime is breaking up African family Life. What role do women play in the African National Congress? Women have always played a key role in the ANC. We work in all sections -we do not have a special place. We have women leaders and INTERNATIONALDEFENCEANDAIDk'unDFOR CELEBRATE THE 25TH SOUTHERN AFRICA-LATESTPUBLICATIONS ANNIVERSARYOF To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of South African Women's Day, SOUTH AFRICAN IDAF, in cooperation withthe UnitedNations Centre Against WOMEN'S DAY! Apartheid, has produced two new books: To Honour Women's Day - Thirtyprofiles of leading women in the Rallyin London SouthAfricanandNamibianliberationstruggles onSaturday8August 52pp, illustrated, price90p ISBN0904759466 S p a s '' IISpeakers,poetryandsong Women Under Apartheid " "Contains 100 photos and text showing the situation of women in South - see back page for details Africa and the part they are playing in the liberation struggle. Plus Exhibition on 120pp,price£3.00 ISBN0904759458 WomenUnderApartheid AVAILABLE FROM 9 AUGTUST from:JDAF 104 Newate Street. ECIA 7API arranged by I Mozambique: challenge to tradition MOZAMBICAN women need help to widen their horizons beyond the importance of women. This is being realise their full potential-in a prevailing limitations of their homes, tackled by the OMM, particularly society where they have teaditionally and to involve them in economically with the younger generation in the been seen as objects of pleasure and productive work in agriculture, schools. Women also have to as ehlldhearers. Making women aware cooperatives and manufacturing. challenge their own acceptance of that they are equal to men and that The OMM is concentrating on a attitudes which lead to a traditional progress can and should be made literacy scheme, as most adult evaluation of their roles together is a priority task for the Mozambican women are illiterate. . Organisatiun of Mozambican Women Women taught to read and write are (OMM), a leading member of which in turn teaching others in the visited Britain recently. The AAM districts and villages. WOMEN'S COMMITTEEreports: MsGuebuzamidthatthereis great determination to make Maria Guebuza met members of progress within the OMM but that the AAM Women's Committee and women's inexperience in organsinsg, a women from MAGIC for a lively relic of past oppression, presents discussion on the work.of the OMM. difficulties. Men in Mozambique have Ms Guebuza explained that the had a relatively privileged position .o fis step being taken by the 0MM and traditional miale attitudes have to to emasneate Mozambicanwomen beovercomethrougheducationto v are to inform and educate women to undeestand fully the value-and i M Gueboza Many of our women are servi gaol sentences and women in can join the campaign for the release. ay a is the fewer on is roving to be on. But mean lion. are m. They tion is a ration. oto Africa? - moral ue with frica ake we call hem uys that ployed. u can do ctions. rial aid, as have a, ps, and lang Three threat of raedom. ing long Britain ir Krn mompai women so rne nnustans nave 'walk long distances for water. IN RECENT MONTrHS nursing joumals in Britain have carried a spate of advertisements for nursing jobs in South Africa. The Anti-Apartheid Movement Health Committee has launched a campaign to stop recruiting by South African hospitals in Britain and to persuade nurses not to accept jobs in South Africa. The Health Committee has collected information on the crisis in health .are for black people under apartheid and how emigration by British nurses will help to perpetuate the unjust system. Health facilities in South Africa, nurses-hence the overseas recruiting like everything else, are segregated drive. and systematically discriminate The AAM Health Committee are against black people. While the white contacting the trade unions and population (15 per cent of the total) professional bodies which represent is provided with well-equipped, British nurses to alert them to South modern medical facilities, black Africa's recruitment efforts and to patients lie on the floor in mobilise their support. A special overcrowded, under-financedblack leaflet(availablefromtheAAMhospitals. Office)has been produced, urging White South African hospitals are nurses not to emigrate and instead to now experiencing a shortage of white loin the campaign to isolate South Africa. WHAT YOU CAN DO: = Monitor your local press and professional jousnals for job adverts for South Africa, and send the information to the AAM Health Committee 0 Distribute the Committee'f leaflet to job applicants, friends and colleagues. 0 Inform your local NUPE, COHSE and RCN branches about the campaign 0 Organise a public meeting on the issue Medics take a stand CONCERTED campaigning by the Congress in Lisbon in September. A AAM Health Committee and its statement from the BMA Council supporters in the medical profession said that the representatives were bore fruit at the beginning of July, expected tomake it clear that any when the British Medical Association medical association applying for (BMA) decided to oppose an WMA membership should be ableto application by the Medical demonstrate conformityto Association of South Africa (MASA) internationally accepted ethical to rejoin the World Medical criteria. Association. The AAM Health Committee has The BMA's representatives, Tony been campaigning against Grabham and Dr John Marks, have collaboration between the BMA and been mandated bythe BMA Council the South African medical to vote against MASA's application I profession. It is now alerting antifor WMA membership, when the apartheid groups in other countries matter comes up at the WMA oftheltest developments. 7

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Stirrings within EARLIER this year, members critical of its support for the of the Anti-Apartheid apartheidregime.ASpecial Movementjoined Correspordent,whoattended representatives and supporters the conference, reports: of the church organisations. THE Dutch Reformed Church ChristianConcernf (DRC)inSouthAfricaisknownin or Britainforitssupportoftheracist Southern Africa and Christian regime. What is seldom known is Organisations for Social, that the DRC is numerically the Political and Economic largest church in South Africa, both Change, for a hard-hitting look amongst whites and blacks. at the role of the church in the However, racism has divided this church into four parts: the Mother Southern African freedom church fie white church) is at the struggle. The day conference head, linked to the DRC Mission was addressed bythe black church (meaning Coloured), the South African theologian Dr DRC in Afrika (meaning the church Alan oesak, a member of the for Africans) and the DRC Reformed Church (providing for Dutch Reformed Church who those of Indian origin). White clergy has nevertheless been sharply and missionaries dominate each of RESISTER, bulletin of the Committee on South African War Resistance. Up-to-date news on apartheid militarism and resistance to it. £2.00 pa from COSAWR, BM Box 2190, London WCIX 6XX. LABOUR'S independent monthly LABOUR LEADER - for socialism and the Labour Party. Annual subscription £3.50. Send for a sample copy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds LS] I QLW. PHOTO CRAFT 4 Heath Street London NW3 Photographic dealers and photographers apartheid church these structures. At parish level Fearlessly he describes apartheid as white and blacknever meet. theproduct ofthe churches: Dr Alan Boesak, a Visiting However, he knows andtalks of the clergyman who belongstothe moodofhiscongregantswhoare 'Mission Church', is one of a growing poor and oppressed. He speaks of the number inside the DRC (including a 'war that has shifted into South few whites) who oppose racism, not Africa', where army and police are only in their own church but also in out every day of the year to suppress SouthAfricaassuch. strikingworkersanddemonstrating Dr Boesak's theme, The Crisis for schoolchildren. But, most significant Christianity on Southern Africa, of all, he points to mothers in underlines the fact, however, that congregations whosesons, as a result this is not (yet) a church in of their experience, left home to join resistance. The institution of the the freedom fighters of tie Afigan church contains its divergent parts as National Congress Dr Boesak is yet and it is premature to look for condemnations of apartheid. As be parts of the church which struggle Put it: 'Is [a purti of the church with the people for liberation, going to join in the struggle for As a theologian of the poor and liberation?' It seems that the conflict dispossessed, Dr Boesak's writings are over this question is going to today read in many countries, intensify. Springbok Rugby tour: huge ca ASAANEWSwenttopress sometopposition.AtourofSouth g "dbythRyavyi mass demonstrations involving Africa by British soccer players was Sailing Associa ion. Local called off in Johannesburg in June, AA Groups need to be ' Manythousands of people were example afterthe Football vigilantand readyto ae taking place throughout New Association had ordered them to quicklyto stop Zealandin protest at the 'return homeimmediatelyor face localised sports Muldoongovernment's sanctionswithoutlimit'.In collaboration, stubborn refusal to stop the Zimbabwe, afive-matchrugbytour es y imnori apartheid regime's showpiece by Oxford University was cancelled sports. by Robert Mugabe's government Springbokrugbyteam from because theteamincludedtwo South touringthecountry. Africans. The hard work and commitment But many other apartheid sports of ariti-apartheid activists in New events slip through. In recent weeks, Zealand and Ireland, the principled just to name a few, a cricket team stand of many countries, especially from Namibia has toured England, a in Africa, and the publication of the South African rowing eight took United Nations registers of sports part in the Henley Regatta, a South collaborators, have kept the issue of African judo team toured Wales, and apartheid and sport in the headlines, a South African yacht is due to take British sports collaborators have part in a round-the-world race Anti-ApartheidNews July-August 1981 Page lI Books about-the liberation struggle Alex Callvieos, Southern Afsrea after often informative, yet curiously between Cief Bthelezi sndt PRteSO N E Zimbabwe,PlutoPress,£2.95. unsatisfactory. ANCleadership.1Thetactical This short (I 86-page) paperback will The title is highly misleading, necessity of such attempts to wean probably enjoy the same success as Southern Africa in its new phase Buthelezi from his opportunist role, A NEW booklet tells the story Congress. the author's earlier volume, Southern following Zimbabwe's independence or to diminish his unhealthy ofthecampaigntofree South Daveisnowin Pretoriaprison Africa after Sowero, written with cannot be analysed solely in the influence on the masses of Natal is African political prisoner Dave with other white political prisoners. John Rogers: Like its predecessor, it context of the two aims Callinicos not explained, nor are we told of theKitson Thecampaign in Britain for his has been produced with great speed, sets himself: to 'trace the origins of ANC's subsequent denunciation of Dave Kitson was born in South release has been directed bythe is fast-moving and covers a great deal ZANU-PF's victory and to assess its Buthelezi when his repressive Africa but spent 12 years in Britain Kitson Committee of AUEW(TASS), of ground. With a sharp eye for the precise character, and second, to reactions to the militancy of the after World War II. He worked as an with the support of the Antitelling quotation, the author races analyse the confrontation.., between youth in 1980 finally put paid to aircraft designer, studied at Ruskin Apartheid Movement, Southern through a wide range of secondary white capital and black labour in any hope of drawing him into the, College Oxford, and was eventually Africa-The Imprisoned Society and a few primary sources, culling .South Africa'. To do only these two camp of liberation. sacked by British Oxygen for his (SATIS) and many other the juiciest bits of others' research things is to leave out of account On the armed struggle, the ANC is trade union activities. He returned organisations throughout the trade and citing opinions with unabashed almost completely the Namibian indicted for 'militarism' and its with his wife Norma to South Africa, union and labour movement. eclecticism wherever they serve his issue (SWAPO is referred to only successes of recent years given hut where he was arrested and sentenced One Union's Fight Against purpose. The result is highly readable, once, in passing), and to neglect the grudging recognition, It emerges by to 20 years' imprisonment in 1964 Apartheid- TheStory of the Free profound significance of the the ead that there is no radical or for his activities with the military Dave Kitson Campaign is available -r-am imning emergenceinAngolaand revolutionarymovementinSouthern wing of the African National fromAAM, price50p. Mozambique of two strongly anti- Africa that meets with the approval S imperialiststatesledbyMarxist- of the author -hreventakesa Packed ce l on N a m ii a Leitinistpartiesdedicatedtothe passingdigat'themonolithicone- SOUTH Africa hs by far the biggest Namibia -A Guide to Action, Action building of socialism. As to the subtle party model found in Angola and prison population in the world, on Namibia Paper 1, 1981, price 4lp realignments within other front line Moznbique' as something to be according to .an rnt sury by Contains briefings on the campaign states and the complexities of avoided, and sketches briefly his own criinologsist at Cape Town against the Namibian uranium alliances within theregion as a whole, conception ofthe sort of U contract (CANUC), medical aid, these do not feature either. revolutionary party which alone University. political prisoners and women, plus On his chosen ground, Catlinicos could transform South Africa, Four hundred and forty people background information on the deals cavalierly with many startingfromthe premisethat oat ofeveryt00,000ofthe S e m tioned liberation struggle, the situation complicated events and processes 'socialist revolution is the population are in prison at any time. seaety inside Namibia and Western policy, which deserve more considered precondition of national liberation in his is mo e than twice the figure for South Africa's prison population tretmnt Hi acont f hehisor SuthAfic'.the United States, SouthAfrica's ismorethansixtimesthat of Britain treatment. His account of the history South Africa'. Namibian Women's Struggle and and development of the liberation Since no existing party Conforms nearest rival, where 189 per 100000 and 12 times more than Ireland's, Solidarity in Britain, produced struggle in Zimbabwe is superficial, to his model, the author can only areingaol. relativetothepopulation. jointly by SWAPO Women's Council managing only to be tendentious , give his revolutionary analysis the S o u th A and SWAPO Women's Solidarity ZANU-PF is given a pat on the back obligatory final upturn by breaking A fica w oos top Campaign,May1981 foritsostensiblecommitmentto outhfthertherhopelessituationin t r Contains information on the socialism (p 54) and its efforts to Southern Africa onto the world oppression of Namibian women politicise the peasantry (pp 36-38), stage. A breathless final paragraph under South African occupation, the but ultimately condemned for compares 1980'a crises in Poland, THE IRISH Anti-Apartheid senior tourist executives in 90 organisation and arms of the SWAPO bowing down before the laws of the Brazil and South Africa, and Movement has been asking political countries. Plans to hold the Skal Women's Council snd what can be international capitalist system concindes: parties contesting the Irish general World Congress in South Africa doneinBritainto build solidarity (despite being'one ofthemost 'Onlyan international election to ensure that the incoming represent a significant propaganda amongwomen here with women in radical movements to have taken revolution, based on the unity government stops all contacts with coup for the apartheid regime. The Namibia. powerinthethirdworld'- p167). ofworkersindifferent SouthAfrica. In particular, the South African government has WhenhelaterturnstoSouth countriesagninstboththeir IAAMis campaigning to ensure that offered the more than 2,000 Bo th these new briefing documents Africa, he manifests once again the own rulers and the multi- individuals from state-sponsored delegates expected to attend from all ate available fromthe Namibia hostilityto the African National nationals could end the system bodies, government departments and over the world a 75 per cent Support Committee, 188 North Congress and especially to its ally the so well epitomised by apartheid other bodies in receipt of public discount if they fly on South African. Gower Street, London NWI 2NB. South African Communist Party South Africa.' funds are not given leave to attend Airways. (SACP) which was evident in his Well, that should cheer them up in the Skal conference in South Africa The Irish tourist industry, which earlier book. The ANC is accused of the streets of Soweto, Gdansk and in November this year. hosted the last Skal World Congress, c", purely'verbalradicalism'which,we RiodeJaneiro. Skilisan internatiunal tourist is planning to send around 20 are told, was belied by the meetings Alan Brooks promotionandtravelbodylinking representatives to South Africa I -P[ II[ AAuNe c

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Use this form to win more members for AAM. 1921 -1981 60th Antnersary of the South African Communist Party CELEBRATION MEETING 7.30pn Thursday 30 July Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WCI Speakers: DR. Y M DADOO Natiunal Chairman SACP MOSES MABHIDA General Secretary SACP OLIVER TAMBO President General, African National Congress (SA) GORDON MACLENNAN General Secretary, Communist Party at Great Britain MICHAEL O'RIORDAN General Secretary, Communist Party of Ireland Free All Prisoners! PRESIDENT Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress has appealed tn all members and supporters of the Anti-Apartheid Movement to step up their campaigns for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia. 'We plead that your efforts should not be slackened,' he told a South Africa Freedom Day rally in London. 'Our people are troopingito gaol. More and more will be collected as the conflict mounts.' E Sunday 26 July: PICKET at Stoke Mandevlle Sports Stadium,. near Aylesbury, in protest at South African prticipation in the International Stoke Mandeville Games for the Disabled, part of the official British programme for 1981 International Year of Disabled People. Transport for disabled and ablebodied supporters available from London. Organised by and further information from AAM Health Committee, 89 Charlotte Street, London W IP 2DQ. Tel 015805311 R Saturday 8 August: PUBLIC CELEBRATION, London: Speeches, poetry and song to mark the 25th anniversary of South African Women's Day on 9 August, and women's struggle against oppression: 6.00 pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WCL Speakers from the African National Congress, SWAPO of Namibia, El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, Anti-Apartheid Movement. N Friday 21 August: FUND-RAISING BENEFIT, London: to raise funds for the Namibia Support Committee. Band and Disco at the Africa Centre, 38 King Street, London WC2. 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