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lAntiApartheid News lAntiApartheid News Price 6d My16 NEW BILL MEANS SLAVE LABOUR 'Appendages' - dependents of African breadwinners in urban areas, like these children at a communal tap in Pimville, Soweto, Johannesburg - will all have to leave 'white' South Africa, if Deputy Minister of Justice, Mines and Planning, G.F. Froneman, has his way (te story right). Reading students hold campaign week READING UNIVERSITY students areorganIsing a South Africa week from May 19 to May 24. They plan to draw attention to the worsening situation of Africans under the Vorster regime, and to interest a permanet body of students at ReadinginSouthern Africa, through the spread of more inormation about the situation. They will collect money for the Defence and Aid Fund, and looking ahead, will try to influence a future Conservative Government against seling arms to South Africa and to arouseprutesto at next year's South African cricket tour Of the UK. On Monday May 19 at 7.30 pm, RtFirst and Albie Sachs, two South Africans with direct experience of persecution for political activity, will address a meeting on Apartheid. On Tuesday, the Christian societies have organined a meeting tdiucos Christianaspectsof partheid withteverend Elliot Kendall, secretary of the Conference of Missionary Societies. Os Wednesday, at 8 pro, the film 'Come Back Africa'., directed by Lionel Regusin, will be shown, and en Thursday at 8 pIe, Dennis Bruts will discuss 'Do sport, politics and apartheid mix'. He will also read his own poetry. On Friday at 8 pm, a number of short films, including Let My People Go, will be shown witha commetaryfromAlan Brooha, organising secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement On Saturday May 24, students will be picketing major stores selllngSouth African produce in Reading. Other students tram universities and colleges in London, Oxford. Cambridge, Warwick, Soufhamptonandpossibly Bedford, Scotland, Newcantie and Cardiff will do the ane in their ares. South African students will be at Reading durigthe week to give personal accounts of the situation to students. There will be a picture exibition throughout the week. Organisations helping Readtlganl-apartheld stdent"to mount the 'week', include the university Christian organisations, the University Liberal Party, the Reading town Labour Party, and the Reading United Nations Association. Families forced to move AFTER nearly three years of resistance to South African government orders to mace, the last members of the Bakhbung tribe finally left their 7O-year-old farm sear Boon, Transvaal, recently. They were asisted by men employed by the Department of Bantu Administration to demolish their houses and materials, which were to be used again, www.nuance.com The Africans and their goods were takensome 50 miles north-west to Ledig, near Rusteburg, where they joined other families who were maved in 196t. The families were given touts for shelter while rebuilding more permanent homes. The newcomers are livingPDF at one end of a two mileCreate! strip already inhabited by the first 6455 families Trial who moved earlier. Some of these families are living in corrugated iron shacks, and not all have their own latrines. Boys carry water in drum on donkeys for the people to buy. Accordir to the local surse, there is malnutrition among the children at the settlement, resulting in some pellagra. SOUTH AFRICA'S proposed new Bann. Laws Amendment Bill has aroused even businessmen from their torpor in the face of apartheid, as well as the moretraditional local protesters, such as the Black Sash and Institute of Race Relations. The Bill exmpowers the minister of Bantu Adthdniration to prescribe that no African lahour be employed in say particular area, or in any particular eategory of employment, or by Ay particular employer. it is also proposed to restrict even further, the places where African workers may live . The Bill gIves the Minister power to detain in rural settlements Africans who hove transgressed the pans law and power to subject them to forced labour. Mr E P Bradlow, a Johannesburg businesemar and past president of the Association of Chambers of Commorece. the Bill "draconian", and said its full Implementation would impose a stranglehold on South African industry, retard the country's econmic progress' and imposea "most damaging" lack of security on the Aftas lahoar force. Mr Bradow said "It is essential that certain tasks eow being performed by whites must be performed by Africans in the near future if there is not to be a breakdown. "it is quite obvious," he said, "that the effect of the new Bill will be not to decrease the number of Africans in the cities, but to transform the African working force into migratory labour. Lahour stability is essential if people are to bre trained to undertake mace sophisticated week". The Federated Chamber of Indestrieu is making representations to the Minister about the Bill. The Black Sank says the Billis concerned with "power, naked and unaahamed . This grotesque Bill is themostcydcnisbversion of human beings into labour units that Nationalist peer has ever produced... It creates slave lahour". The Institote of Race Relations said: "The introduction of this form of utimited job reservation at the behest oftheMinister, . .isso dictatorial and so far-reaching is its potential magnitude that it dwarfs all previous inroads - and they have been many -on what are commonly regarded as the basic tenets of modern government. It ostitutesgronsisterference with the rights of employers and stripe African workers oi such meagre security as had been left him. The Institote views with alarm and dismay the introduction of this new and retraressive power oftotal constraint." 'Appendages' must leave IN SPITE of the Transkei's inability to support even its existing population, the South African Government is likely to intensity its policy of sending Africans living In urban areas home. A blunt speech fromSouthAfrica's deputy minister of Justice, Mines and Planning, G.F. van L. Fronemuan made this plain, despite the nervous tremor that his colleagues suffered when they readitrecently. Froneman, referring to Africans legally living in urban towuships, said that wives, chldred, the aged and the idle would have to go to the rural areas. This means that some 3.8 million Africans would have to be shifted, leaving only able-bodied men and single women in urban areas. He saldthere woa no real obtigation o the whie state to prepare the 'baninstns' for the superfluou' Africans who would be 'repatriated becase they were actually illegal alies in the white homelands". In fairness, however, the Government would shoulder the financial burden and resettle the "appendages" (dependents of African breadwinners) with as little dis ruption as possible. "We cannot, however, become soft-hearted and allow ourselvesto be influenced in our policy by the hypersensitivity of the consciences of our drawing-ream politicians", he said. Earlier this year, Froseman said that "petty apartheid" was essential to carry oat Rationalist policy". Bid to end hanging fails PROGRESSIVE MP Mrs Helen Suzsn has failed in her bid to have the death pr aty abolished is South Africa, despite spport from mary of the country's leading jurists. Mrs Szman was initially only asking for an inquiry, bat even this was tsrned down by Parliament. With an execution rate that was one the highest, if not the highest, in the West, it was high time South Africa investigated the abolition of capitalwww.nuance.com punishment. she said. ' 'People far the abolition of the death penalty will result in thouuands of nswhites, overcome by their primitive instincts murdering us in our beds. 'Figures show that whites murder and rape nen-whites at a rate four timesgreaier than the reverse,' she said, addingPDF that the Create! 5 Trial way to combat violence and crime was tremave the root caeses-socialdislocation,, poverty, low wages, hopelessness, bad living conditions and -that cancer in our societymigratory labour', A number of leading law professors supported Mrs Suzman's case. Only one, Prof H.L. Swanepoel of PotchefstroomUniversity, came out strongly in favour of the death penalty. Among those who condemned capital' punisrest were Professors Eison Kahn, John Dugard and P.Q.R. Botorg, andsenior lecturers David Zeffertt and Dr B. van Niekerk - all of the University of the Witwatersrand; and Prof S.A. Straus of the University of South Africa. Millionaire's mansion SOUTH AFRICA'S own mlti-miumonaire, Board of the South Africa Foundation, a mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer, is utinesman's organisation, founded to building a lttie nest for his family on the counter the bad publicity South Africa's Natal coast, at the cost of nearly half-a- policies were getting the country. million pounds. The Spaish-stylo mansion wil huse about 30 people in snaimam comort, Mr and Mrs Oppenheimer will each have a INSIDE: luxury suite overlooking the sea, with private balcony, in addition, there will be 10 suites and five luxury suites. There win Southern Africa's be 15 bathrosa and four sir-condRtioning revolutions - pages 4 & 5 plants. The children have a separate wing, and two swimming pools. The adults have Trade Union one main swimnmingpooladanundergroud news - page 7 wine cellar. The caretaker will occupy a separate home. The mansion is near an airfield, a morway, and one ofSouth Torture Africa's mat lunrioun hotels. Mr Oppen- in jail - page 3 hemmer Is expected to keep several yachts near the site, and build a special jetty. The Sport -pag entire area,elghtacresofs eaidewodlsnd, S page 6 will be floodlit at sighi. Mr Oppenheimer is a member at the L UNITED STATES: Houser slams torist ads THECAMPAIGN stopthe recentlyinaugurated Soth African Airways flights from Johannesburg to New York stepped up last mouth. The American Co.mttteeon Mfrlta's execute drector, G ourge Homer, made a long statement to the Subcommittee o Africa of the Hoase Foreign Affairs Commitee meeting in Washington.

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