No. 13/T1 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS* .arch 1971

No. 13/T1 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS* .arch 1971 BOAF'i IN SOUTH AFRICA /The Sou h African Goverrpeqt ,sqrted to banning f writers and censorship of numerous Pu licationsi an ent he leader of the liberation movement and other oppo ents of u ic and to isolate the South African people rom full awareness of the anti-racist sentiment in the world. The writings of hundreds of prominent leaders of the African people, including those of Chief Lutuli, Mangaliso Sobukwe and , are banned under the Suppression of Communism Act. Also banned are the writings of over a hundred exiles, including many prominent South African writers such as Ezekiel Mphahlele, Dennis Brutus, Lewis Nkosi, Yzizi Kunene, Bloke Modisane, Ronald Segal and Alex La Guma. The total number of banned publications was estimated two years ago at 13,000. These include, in addition to those considered pornographic, numerous Communist, socialist and trade union publications and books concerning the Socialist States. AJso banned are hundreds of. publications which uphold racial equality, or describe the struggles of peoples against racism or colonialism. Under the Suppression of Communism Act, it is an offence to publish or disseminate any speech, utterance, writing or statement or any extract from or recording or reproduction of any speech, uttering, writing or statement" of any person listed as a fember of the Communist Party or any other banned organization, or any person prohibited from attending gatherings. This provision affects hundreds of persons, including Practically all leaders of the liberation movement and all prominent African writers. The Customs and Excise Act prohibits importation of "indecent, obscene or )bjectionable" goods while the Publications and Entertainments Act prohibits the ?ublication or manufacture of "undesirable" material in South Africa. Decisions on ?rohibition under these Acts are left to the Publications Control Board which has interpreted numerous Marxist, anti-racial, anti-colonial publications as objectionable )r undesirable. A selected list of banned publications is reproduced here to illustrate the 'ange of publications banned: numerous publications on Marxism and Socialist States Lre omitted from this list, as almost all such publications are banned. *All material In these notes and documents may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgement, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint, would be appreciated.

BOOKS BANNED IN SOUTH AFRICA Peter Abrahams. A Night of Their Own. 9 Thomas R. Adam. Government and Politics South of the Sahara. 6 African National Congress. Brute Force - the treatment of prisoners in South Africa's Jails. 29 . v Alan Aldridge (ed.). Illustrated Lyrics. 27 February 1970 Jorge Amado. Gabriela (dust cover only). 24 v American Committee on Africa. Would You Give South Africa Nuclear Power...The U.S. Did. 24 December 1970 Herbert Apthekar (ed.). And Whn not Every Man? 1 VJames Baldwin. Another Country. 4 October 1963 Blues for Mister Charlie. 18 The Fire Next Time. 24 W.A. Ballinger. Call it Rhodesia. 20 Congo. 12 June 1970 John Barth. The End of the Road. 9 Aubrey Beardsley. Under the Hill. 18 November 1966 vBrendan Behan. Confessions of an Irish Rebel. 11 Sally Belfrage. Freedom Summer. 10 Alvah Bessie. The Symbol. 28 Mary Benson. The African Patriots. 6 At-he Still Point. 24 April 1970 The Baagef' Slavery (The Pass Laws in South Africa). A Christian Action pamphi(et, London, 10 June 1966 South Africa: Struggle for a Birthright. 30 Major H. von Dach Bern (Swiss Army). Total Resistance. 9 Robert M. Bleiweiss (ed.).Marching to Freedom: the Life of Martin Luther King. 12 June 1970. illiam Borroughs cbead Fingers Talk. 13 V The Naked Lunch. 10 June 1966 Brief on Apartheid - pamphlet published by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, London. 22 1-05750

- 2 - E.R. Braithwaite. Choice of Straws. 7 To Sir, With Love. 22 Michael Braun. Love Me Do - The Beatles' Progress. 22 November 1964 Berthold Brecht - Published by Deutscher Kulturbund. 6 March 1964 George Breitman (ed.).Malcolm X Speaks - Selected speeches and statements. 21 Douglas Brown. Against the World - A Study of White South African Attitudes, 6 May 1966 Brian Bunting. The Rise of the South African Reich. 10 Wilfred Burchett. Come East Young Man. 6 March 1964 Martin Burger. Dr. Verwoerd of South Africa - Architect of Doom. Published by Christian Action, London. 10 June 1966 Robert Burns. The Merry Muses of Caledonia. 23 0 William Burroughs. Junkie. 5 Horacio Caio. Angola - Os Dias Do Desespero. 16 E skine Caldwell. The Bastard and the Poor Fool. 4 October 1963 C) " - '? In Search of Bisco. 6 May 1966 C TheLastNightofSummer.24January1964 Place called Estherville. 5 James Cameron. The African Revolution. 6 Guy and Candie Carawan (compilers). We Shall Overcome - Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. 25 3)g~2( !# Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power. 14 March 1969 - Nick Carter. Rhodesia. 19 February 1971 Christian Action, London. The Dispossessed - The Human Traed of Apartheid 10 June 1966 Nelson Mandela versus the State. 10 June 1966 Verwoerd's Police State. 10 June 1966 Edward Clayton. Martin Luther King: the Peaceful Warrior. 12 December 190 N Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice. 24 January 1969 D. Cohn-Bendit and G. Cohn-Bendit. Obsolete Ccrxunism - The Left Wing Alternative. 6

- 3 Ernest Cole. House of Bondage. 10 James Collier. Somebody UP There Hates Me. 8 Mercer Cook and Stephen E. Henderson. The Militant Black Writer in Africa and the United States. 29 May 1970 Canon L. John Collins. Faith Under Fire. 2 September 1966 Jack Cope. The Dawn comes Twice. 12 December 1969 Suzanne Cronje. Witness in the Dark, (pamphlet published by Christian Action). 19 Basil Davidson. The Liberation of Guin6. 11 July 1969 Lin. 5 7hich j§,aAfrica. 5 June 1964 John A. Davis and James K. Baker (ed.) Southern Africa in Transition. 3 R6gis Debray. Strategfor Revolution. 29 May 1970 Angelo del Boca. Anrtheid: Affanno e Dolore. 5 Margrit de Sabloniere. Apartheid. 6 September 1963 Jacob Drachler. African Heritage- Intimate views of the Black Africans from Life. Love and Literature. 7 Patrick Duncan. South Africa's Rule of Violence. 10 July 1964 vLawrence Durrell (ed. The Best 'of HenMiller. 7 January 1968 Allen Edwardes. Death Rides A Camel. 5 June 1964 Paul Edwards. Through African Eyes. All editions. 23 September 1966 Cyprian Ekwenesi. Jagua Nana. 9 Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa. The Church Makes a Decision on South African Banks 1969 - Special Report. 24 December 1970 Easter 1965. 16 July 1965 Michaelmas 1968. 24 December 1970 Lent 1969. 24 December 1970 Bernard B. Fall (ed.). No Chi Minh on Revolution. 25 Apri Franz Fanon. A Dyig Colonialism. 12 June 1970 The Wretched of the Earth. 7 m,-,ma the African Revolution. 12 June 1970 L 1967

- 4 - Jules Feiffer. Harry. the Rat with Woman. 24 January 1964 Edward Feit. South Africa: the Dyamics of the African National Congress. 9 August 1963 Ruth First. One Hundred and Seventeen Days. 12 November 1963 Ian Fleming. The S ywho Loved Me. 18 Lionel Forman. Chapters in the History of the March to Freedom (pamphlet) 5 June 1964 A.C. Forrest. Not Tomorrow - Now {The Middle East and Africa Today). 9 April 1965 Margaret Forster. Georv Girl. 29 October 1965 Marion Friedmann (ed.). I Will Still Be Moved: Report from South Africa. 16 August 1963 William R. Frye. InWitestAfrica - the Dynamics of Apartheid. 7 March JS Roger Garaudy. Marxism in the Tentieth Centu_ . 12 December 1969 Jane Gool. The Crimes of Bantu Education in South Africa. 23 September Nadine Gordimer. The Late Boureois World. 8 i~t -\ Nadine Gordimer and Lionel Abrahams (ed.). South African W ritin Tqday. 29 Lieutenant Colonel T.N. Greene (ed.). The Guerilla - and How to Fight Him (Selections from the Marine Corps Gazette.) 10 June 1966 Che Guevara. Bolivian Diary. 6 December 1968 Reminiscences of the Cuban RevolutionaryqWar. 1 August 1969 Jack Halpern. South Africa's Hostages. 7 January 1966 John Hatch. A History of Post-War Africa. 18 June 1965 I) ' Joseph Heller. Catch-22. 18 Alex Hepple. South Africa: A Political and Economic History. 23 September 1966 Verwoerd. 27

- 5 Sidney Hook. From Hegel to Marx. 18 June 1965 Tom Hopkinson and the Editors of Life. Life Uorld Library South Africa 5 March 1965 Langston Hughes. The First Book of Africa. 29 September 1967 Aldous Huxley. Island. 28 Historxy of the 20th Centur_ Race and Colour, Vol. 6, Chapter 90. 27 February 1970 Christopher Isherwccd. Down There on a Visit. 10 A. Jacob. White M an, Think Again. 9 December 1966 Hewlett Johnson. Soviet Strength. 13 May 1966 \vLe Roi Jones. Dutchman and the Slave. 25 The System of Dante's Hell. 3 March 1967 Helen Joseph. Tomorrow's Sun: A Smuggled Journal from South Africa. 23 September 1966 Kenneth Kaunda. Zambia Shall Be Free. 15 February 1963 Elia Kazan. America Amerika. 4 September 1970 The Arrangement. 2 June 1967 -'Nikos Kazantzakis. The Last Temptation of Christ. 3 ',-Jack Kerouac. BiESur. 29 October 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. Iy e Can't Tait. 9 October 1969 Hans Kohn and Wallace Sokolsky. African Nationalism in the Tvrentieth Century. 3 Leo Kuper. An African Bourgeoisie - Race, Class and Politics in South Africa. 5 August 1966

- 6 - Alex La Guma. And a Threefold Cord. 5 March 1965 A Walk in the Night. 25 Sons. 29 May 1970 Colin and Margaret Legum (ed.). Africa Handbook. 16 January 1970 The Bitter Choice: Eight South Africans' Resistance to Tyran.. 28 March 1969 South Africa: Crisis for the West. 5 QJ Doris Lessing. GoiASHome. 6 December 1968 Deirdre Levinson. Five Years(AnExperience of South Africa). 1 October 1965 Joseph Lewis. The Bible Unmasked. 18 June 1965 Oscar Lewis. TheChildren of Sanchez. 3 September 1965 Lord Russel of Liverpool. South Africa: Today and Tomorrow. November 1963 Allard Lowenstein. Brutal Mandate: A Journey to South West Africa. 16 August 1963 Chief Lutuli. The Road to Oslo and Deyond. 4 October 1963 Norman Mailer. An American Dream. 18 June 1965 Malcolm X. The Autobiograp of Malcolm X. 2 June 1967 WTilliam Manchester. The City of Anger. 24 December 1969 Nelson Mandela. I Am Prepared to Die. 12 L'Apartheid. 21 October 1966 Irving L. Markovitz (ed.). African Politics and Society. 13 November 1970 Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. 18 November 1966 Ralph G. Martin. Black and White. 7 June 1966 Richard Mason. Suzie Wong. 7 May 1965 Matter of Colour - a Documentary on the Struggle for, Racial Equality in the U.S.A. 16.July 1965 Andr6 Maurois. September Roses. 25 Govan Mbeki. South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt. 15 Tom Mboya. Freedom and After. 6 September 1963 ~i2 ~

- 7 'qary McCarthy. The Group. 5 June 1964 ) Vernon McKay. Africa in World Politics. 18 June 1965 Dr. Thomas Patrick Melody. The White Man's Future in Black Africa. 18 Grace Metalious. Peyton Place (Dutch translation). 21 October 196 Henry Miller. Tropic of Cancer. 10 July 1969 Nexus. 7 Plexus. 24 January 1964 Bloke Modisane. Blame MY on History. 9 August 1963 De Wet is Blank. 27 October 1967 A.M. Mohammed and M.A. Foum. Forge Ahead to Emanci ation. 6 March Eduardo Mondlane. The Struggle for Mozambique. 11 July 1969 Ezekiel Mphahlele. African Writing Today. 11 September 1970 S.B. Mukherji. Indian Minority in South Africa. 5 February 1965 1964 National Union of South African Students. Why Nusas Gers Attacked. 24 December 1970 Lewis Nkosi. Home and Exile. 27 October 1967 The Rhythm of Violence. 24 April 1964 inetDay Torture in South Africa. (Published by the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners.) 7 January 1966 Kwame Nkrumah. Africa Must Unite. 18 November 1966 4ladimir Nrbokov. Lolita. 6 November 1964 Ferdinand Oyona. Houseboy. 10 June 1966 Martin Oppenheimer. Urban Guerilla. 12 June 1970 6

Pan Africanist Congress. International Response to Sharpeville: Fifth Anniversary. 6 August 1965 S.E.M. Pheko. Christiani YThrough African Eyes. 8 May 1970 Willard Price. Incredible Africa. 5 February 1965 Prisoners of Apartheid. (A Christian Action pamphlet.) 1 October 1965 Phillip W. Quigg (ed.). Africa - A Foreign Affairs Reader. 15 January 1965 Martin Redmann. Postdam: Agreement and 20 Years Later. 12 November 1965 Richard Rive. African Songs. 9 August 1963 (ed.).Qrtet, New Voices from South Africa. 21 August 1964 The Rt. Rev. Ambrose Reeves. South Africa: Let the Facts Speak. 9 August 1963 Bloedbad in Sharpeville. 6 September 1963 Report on South Africa. (Published by Christia Action, London.) 10 June 1966 VPhilip Roth. Portnovys. Comoplaint. 11 April 1969 Leslie and Neville Rubin. This is Apartheid. (Published by Christian Action, London.) 10 June 1966 Albie Sachs. Jail Diary o' Albie Sachs. 28 April 1967 E.S. Sachs. The Anatomy of Apartheid. 3 December 1965 vFranqoise Sagan. Bon.our Tristesse. 27 April 1964 Robert Scheer (ed.). Eldridge Cleaver - Post-Prison Writings and Speeches. 7 November 1969 Stuart R. Schram. The Political Thought of Mao Tse-Tung. 11 July 1969 Ronald Segal. Into Exile. 9 August 1963 The Tokolosh. 11 September 1964 (ed.). Sanctions Against South Africa. 3 December 1965 Ronald Segal and Ruth First (ed.). South West Africa: Travesty of Trust. 18 October 1968'

- 9 L~opold Sedar Senghor. Nation et Voie Africaine du Socialisne. 25 October 1963 Herbert L. Shore and Meychelina Shore-Bos (ed.). Come Back Africa: Fourteen Short Stories from South Africa. 20 December 1968 Allan Sillitoe. Key to the Door. 25 October 1963 Ndabaningi Sithole. African Nationalism. 25 April 1969 Louis L. Snyder. The Idea of Racialism - Its Meaning and History. 19 March 1965 Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenburg. Candy. 20 August 1965 Herbert J. Spiro. Politics in Africa. 22 February 1963 John Russell Taylor (ed.). New English Dramatists (plays by Charles Wood, James Broom Lynne and Joe Orton). 25 March 1966 Massimo Teodori (ed.). The New Left. 21 August 1970 Sekou Tour6. La Guin6e et 1'Emancipation Africaine. 25 October 1963 United Nations Office of Public Information. Segreation in South Africa. 13 February 1970 Pie re L. van den Berghe. Race and Racism. 27 October 1967 aatsyayana. Kama Sutra: The Hindu Act of Love. 25 October 1963 J( Mary Ann Wrall. The Dominee and the Dom-Pass (or Padre and the Passes). 3 December 1965 Jack Ioddis. Africa: The Way Ahead. 11 September 1964 T. Walter ITaubank. Documents on Modern Africa. 15 January 1965 Charles Wfebb. The Graduate. 15 January 1965 World Council of Churches. Christians and Race Relations in Southern Africa. 18 June 1965

- 10 - PERIODICALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Africa and the World. All editions. 1 October 1965 Africa Bureau News, London, and its Annual Re-ort. 5 July 1963 J Africa Today. (Published by the American Committee on Africa.) All editions. 3 September 1965 African Association Review, Cairo. No. 35, December 1964. 16 July 1965 African Forum. Vol. II, No. 2, Fall 1966. 2 June 1967 The Africanist. (Published by the Pan Africanist Congress, Maseru.)_ All editions. 3 September 1965 African National Congress of South Africa. (Pamphlet published by the African National Congress, Dar 6s Salaam.) 18 December 1964 Afro-Asian Journalist. Vol. II, No. 1, January-February 1965. 16 July 1965 Afro-Asian News, Jakarta. All Editions. 6 August 1965 The American Student, Vol. I, No. 1, Spring 1965. 7 January 1966 Amnest. No. 3, 1962. 10 May 1963 _gla Report of the Mission sent by the World Assembly of Youth. (Published by the World Assembly of Youth, Brussels.) 18 December 1964 Anti-Apartheid News. (Published by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, London.) All editions. 6 August 1965 Apdusa, Lusaka. All editions. 6 May 1966 The Arab Worker. (Monthly bulletin published by the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, Cairo.) 8 July 1966 -\Azania News, Lusaka. All editions. 25 March 1966 Chinese Medical Journal, Peking. All editions. 20 January 1967 Christian Action. Several editions. 19 March 1963 Christian Action Newsletter. 25 October 1963 Colonial Freedom News. January 1966. (Published by the Movement for Colonial Freedom, London.) 13 May 1966 The Commentator. Vol I, No. 6, 17 October 1966. 20 January 1967

- ll~ Democratie Nouvelle. No. 5, May 1963. 8 November 1963 Eastern Horizon, Hong Kong. All editions. 23 December 1966 EbonpyAfrica. All editions. 5 June 1964 Evergreen Review. Several issues. 22 November 1964 Foreign Affairs Bulletin. Several issues. 21 August 1964 Freeomrways, New York. Vol. II, No. 4, 1962. 1 March 1963 Free Trade Unions in Africa. Fourth African Regional Conference of the ICFTU, Addis Ababa, 8-12 April 1964. 15 January 1965 Global Digest. (Monthly magazine on world current affairs, published in Hong Kong.) All editions. 23 December 1966 Granma. (Weekly review, published in Havana.) All editions. 25 November 1966 I.C.F.T.U. Bulletin, '3u.ssels. January-February 1966. 10 June 1966 Impact. Vols. 13 and 14. 6 March 1964 Information and Analysis, Paris. . 26 April 1963 Inkulenko (The Radical Review), London. All cditions. 4 February , 66 International Socialist Review. Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer 1965. 12 November 1965

- 12 - Lesotho Commentator. Vol. I, No. 5, 26 September 1966. 20 January 1967 Liberator. Vol. III, No. 11, November 1963. 7 May 1965 Look. Vol. 30, No. 17, 23 August 1966. 23 September 1966 Mayibuye (Power to the people), Lusaka. (Bulletin of the Congress.) All editions. 25 September 1966 The Modern African Review, . March 1965. Monthly Review, New York. All issues. 16 August 1963 African National 3 September 1965 Namib Today, Dar es Salaam. SWAPO Revolutionary Bulletin, 25 February 1965 18 June 1965 New African, London. All editions. 18 June 1965 New World Review, New York. All editions. 6 May 1966 Pan-Africanist Review. Quarterly. Vol. I, No. 1, 1964. 1 June 1965 Peace, Freedom and Socialism, London. All editions. 25 March 1966 Pr~sence Africaine, Paris. No. 50, 1964. 18 June 1965 Qhoboshoane. (Newspaper printed in Maseru.) All editions. 20 January 1967 Raarts . Vol. V, No. 5, November 1966. 28 April 1967 Revolution, Algiers. (Africa, Latin America and Asia.) Vol. I, No. 6, October 1963, and all ensuing editions. 17 July 1964 Revolution in Africa. All editions. 18 June 1965

- 13 Sechaba. (Published by the African National Congress in Tanzania.) All editions. l0 Iay 1967 Socialist Standard. Vol. 59, No. 708, August 1963. 6 March 1964 Solidarity. Vol. IV, No. 2, of April-May 1965, and all ensuing editipns. 3 September 1965 South Africa. Information and Analysis. October 1964. 18 December 1964 South Africa: Freedom News, Dar es Salaam. (Published by the African National Congress.) Several issues. 18 June 1965 Southern Rhodesia. Report of the Mission sent by the World Assembly of Youth. (Published by the World Assembly of Youth, Brussels.) 18 December 1964 Spotlight on South Africa, Dar es Salaam. (Published by the African National Congress.) All editions. 6 May 1966 SWAPO Information Bulletin. (Published by SWAPO, U.S.A.) All editions. 1 October 1963 Swiss Press Review and News Report. Several editions. 29 October 1965 Tokoloho, Maseru. All editions. 5 December 1965 Toward Angolan Independence. Report of a seminar organized by the World Assembly of Youth in Leopoldville in April 1963. (Published by the World Assembly of Youth, Brussels.) 18 December 1964 Toward Freedom. Several issues. 20 November 1964 Transition 24-1, Kampala. Vol. V, 1966. 8 July 1966 UNESCO Courier. Several issues. 16 July 1963 United Africa - Voice of the Council of African Organizations, London. All editions. 6 May 1966 Unity, Zambia. All editions. 20 January 1967

- 14 - World Assembly of Youth. Several publications including WAY Forum and WAY Review. 18 December 1964 WFDY News, Hungary. All editions. 6 May 1966 hat Can I Do - A Guide to Action Against Apartheid. (Published by the Iorld Assembly of Youth, Netherlands.) 24 January 1964 Wo'ld Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. Several issues. 22 November 1964 W.U.S. in Action. Vol. XV, No. 6, December 1965. 3 March 1967 The Zimbabwe Voice, Lusaka. 7 February 1966. 6 May 1966 The Zimbabwe Review, Lusaka. All editions. 25 March 1966

- 15 GRAMOPHONE RECORDS Address to the Churches. Recording by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 19 August 1966 Nazi Germany, 1953-1945. A documentary. 24 VWe Shall Overcome. Recording by Pete Seeger. 29 October 1965