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Alternative title Anti-Apartheid News Author/Creator The Anti-Apartheid Movement Date 1983-04 Resource type Newsletters Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) , , , Mozambique Coverage (temporal) 1983 Source Archives of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Anti-Apartheid News, MSS AAM 2202. Description Isolate South Africa; electing to act against Apartheid; Namibia: action now; send them to schools in Mozambique; time to wake up, Christian soldiers. Format extent 12 page(s) (length/size)

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http://www.aluka.org the addre of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is now 13 SELOUS STREET, LONDONNWI ODW, Teh the addre of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is now 13 SELOUS STREET, LONDONNWI ODW, Teh MAK A, BREpAK .1 .~ B, I ~ IThsIssue Public apfflrat trade misson as councillors arrive for anti-apartheid ae - page 3 RIAAN OLTON cotinues his survey of South Africanfrms with entales iru itan - page 4 Refom-ral a magined D YSU DAOOexpis why South Africa'S conatitutionat changes etre not what they seem, and how some peopile ham been conned page 5 o i ot _-IaltoPRAGASENNAICIERlo sat trendeton South Africa university camapuses - page 5 Namsibia - Action-Now South African lies, British equivocaion, and some interested MiPs - pages 6 & 7 Scandal at the farom Sieve consditions for South Africa's agricultural workers page 8 Former poltil pisooe, ANTHONY HOLIDAYsuggests some campaigning guidelines - page 9 how South Africa's town planners d a o o'Sm ng' p555 - o Sie oode s and -esdedtl his cotntry's longstanding policies of collaboration with apartheid South Aftrca? British lirks with South Africa - of trsde and investment, military and diplomatic support, of tourism, sport and cultural e0 rhsnges and 'kith and kin' - underpin the apartheid system iself. Making the fundamental break with tradition involved in a real conunitment to te caune of African freedom and independence would undoubtedly have far-reaching repercussions. But is it so muth to ask? Remember, a growing number of local authorities - Sheffield. Glasgow, leeds, Newcastle, Brent, Harlow, Camden and Islington among others - have already made that policy break by declaring apartheid-free zones in the areas under theirjurisdtc. tion or taking other important steps in solidarity with the South African and Naniblanlibergtion movements. The Anti-Apartheid Movement is currently cam- tenlonx i, by Pretoria, lengths t Thi! 5 -~ to withdraw halt to its w neighbouring held system i and debated t As the Pre has recently i gqvernments indifference I but of direct, Speaking to Delhi, he sitr Contact Gros tions to achi far from bei devised to re liberation of] is the challenge facing u, to which in 1983 it is. our task to respond, i UVRENJOWL.: , z1h.-

Page 2 Anti-Apartheid News April 1983 Hos,calledforFriday18Marchto Atkinson,bothofwhom atvebeen the Foreign Affairs Publishing Cor s p art otParticularly acesve in the caspaign to paty, a frnt organisation for apartSaturday19Mrhasproft n -SouthernAfica theimetoAct , SavetheANCSix.Other speadkers are hecid. WeeoAtin.Th rOouphasbeen, CI~Pa og n rrsstive Tynesidestudents raised over E100 ANTI-APARTHEID supporters in working for a massive turnout under THE Archbishop Elect of the Church from the Afrcan National Congress, at a benefit disco for the African Brighton joined with the El Salvador the themes FreeNelson Mandela!Free of Wales has pledged to use his influ and the new resistance film The Sun National Congress and launched a and Palestine Sclidarity Campaigns All South African Political Prisoners! ence to persuade the Church to with- Will Rise will be shown. Week of Action on 14 March forthe on 1 2 March for a conference on the with delegations expected from draw its investments from companies Meanwhile, the Group is challeng- Southern Africa Time to Act cam, theme of Warin the T'hird World Labour Party branches, Mis and and subidiaries with South African ing a claim in a Foreign Office letter paign, Another attempt to reverse and theThirdWorldWar.'. councillrus,tgae nions,youthclubs links, thattheBritishgovernmentdoesot the anti-apartheid policy of the Pointing out that thete has not and colleges fromall over . Bishop Childs is the Honorary collaborate with South Africa's civil Students Union has heen resoundingly bernasingledayofpeaceinthe Over70 peopleattended the President of the newly-formed Gwent nuclear programme, by asking whiy defeated. world since Hiroshima, aid that the Group's public meeting on 2 February Anti-Apartheid Group. stff from the Central Electrity Meanwhile, the Tyneside Local greatest threat of globalconflict featuringJohnMatshikizaandthe a rin ey Generating Bord and the UK Atomic AA Group has collected over 500 comes from regional wars such as film Thr Sun Will Rise, The Friday EnergyAuthority have been allowed signatures for the Free Nelson those raging in Narnibia, El Salvador night pickets of South AfricaHouse togoad workthere. Mandelapetitionatastreetmeeting and the Lebanon, the organisers set have continued to collect hundreds Contact; .aria de Goede, Tel 885 and collected £40 in donations for Out to bring together people from of signatures for the Free Nelson 1013, or Margaret ling 348 8463. the ANC. the peace and women's movements, Mandela petition and to urge passers- HARINGEY CouncillrRobin Young Contact:JeremyShepherd,c/o international campaigns and political by to support the campaign to Free will be reporting on the prospects for Durham NewcastleUniversityStudentsUnion, parties, and anyone interested in the the ANC Six. making the borough apartheid-fre.. Tel 328402. worldandittfuture. OtheractivitiesincludeSaturday atapublic meeting organised by the, street meetings and a fundrgaisin, taringey AA Group on 21April.He "WATED AR 1982 Ci~ty 0of"Londioni Jublesale.Everyweekeight orpine is due to attend the Sheffield confer- W-NED APRIL 1982 letters arrive from people wanting to ence for localatholicson25Much.Teesside Does anyAA News reader still have Find out more aboutthe Group. At the meeting in Haringey, to be heris copy of any e Arltd el h Contact:22Brownlow Mews,heldintheTradeUnion&Coma e CITY Group's reynt actavitie have London WCI, Tel 405 4498. nity Centre in Brabant Road Wood l Bernadette Vallely of the AAM 11nre -n buldn sp fo -h Green,N22,Ot oungf_..- ioind_NEW_AAGro h been formed Headquarters staff needs copies for 24-Hour Picket of South Africa ....bylocalMPsRegRaceandNorman' m anTeessie. The'onats l thMovement's archives. if yoya can are help,pleasecontastheratlJSeloas Nader Shakhib, c/o Engineering Street, London NWI, Tel 01-387 Department, Science Site, University, 7966, where youwill behandsomely South Road, Durham City (Durham rewarded. " : ° ' ' .. .. AA)t and- 1 Julho Fluxasan, c/o Doctors' Residnce, Midlesborough GeneraHospital, Cleveland, Teaside (TesA MTHE Anti-Apartheid Movement has Tyn sid "challenged Channel 4's decision to ,aminite Ihe, Scotth African ambatssador i lto appear, - a televisio n porine' and warned that it crates a serious "H "largest Afeica-ner -in precedent. pany n Sout f Africa, Geseor, found The ambassador got his chance to AneveningofIndianMusicandDancewith: itselffacingangry picketrs when it defend institutionalised racis after i3r lod lv" hel aih triedtorc,.itwhit,studentsfromf the mbsy complained aboutan Dr. Usem afrk0in e,Nii rhielMohmh, NewcastleUniversity fori os in South earlier , Chanel 4 programme on DUhaPrhi tinPrhei, inHowr ake LasOmirathy,KshavSatheandBahuddin Aeii. SouthAfrica.inth 'Whatever you SA delegatonfromtheStudent,want'series . . AA Group also managedtoconfront the trigee foi fmdom and ,n teo-two dyedn-the-woo- officials or justice in bSoth.e O Africa dtemands tRand Mines on the look-outfor bettercoverageonallTVchannels, TedfordWa TakodonnWC2 graduatesApparentlyobliviousto the AAM says, and there is no way Prorammebegins7.15pm prssand media exposure,the that giving the were's 'reprcentarecruiters told student activistsry hat tires an opportunity to hawk their Tickets D7.50, L3.50 and r2.50 pit would be pointless to give the vote views ia be justified as halancebr (a15dunwaed/stdents) toblackSouthAfricansbecausethey a w o From: 1 SelousRa tieeet, London NW uDW had ousofeine-year-oldsan TegEt 1hdt7 pytWell-known defender of apartheid Bordes--oerbeugh Rodd Labour PAl JulianAmeryMP san othervisitor to meet an anti-aparthaid reception Thie borer rente eda ForeignSecreitta whenhearrivedattheanduNhwAfrtia Polytechnic to air his views- on a d eico L A nt - prtin ontat w Southern Africa. Hnwas asked t pointedquesti Cbouthisrolein new skins ... HEART Irans plan'ts, skin itrrsplants n ep on nSouth Afria anceisi to b,a g s i s sn otheror da world leader i both. Over the yer to Jue 192, is ruer fficially iissued mo than 1,000 people ,ith Tato Minet WesLogn It new skins. They were 'reclassifed' centreser: o ih oi THERhondaValleyinsouthtaBrmality forBritish immigration under South Africa's Race Clauifica-rotl~m Nottingham ' fficWalelst i h ante avstorefusethbyentryv thionce1 d t r i Abbd~en Dundee Oxford aparutheirwt,son17Marh tBeforehgdes iring T Penurygig, Oan e oindfaforere o als. r ern Banstead Edi Argh Peterborough B b g the teriwhich eies oer 2 l iv re Barnet Enfield Plymouth whena rugbyteam ro eigrdnieay9n8thwire nvlarsian a pe Coourl s,39 Cap Coloureds Bath Epom Rei49t9 ITr ican ie Pretoiatou oftmtoriabach-) ray turned into Indian t and 11 into Thenske AA nda Cicb. UPhceanblecteand ohtoueretd pecety rt Africans while one solitary African Birminghia Exeter RichmonddotoplaythelocalPenygraWgcTl 0-6 g9t5 a a it would have ct e Borders Glasgow - Scaborough ! Rhonddla Labour IMP AlecJones in Northern Ireland.Othermatches ao-e Brantree Hackney " Sheffield was just one of the many asking the were arraged in, Horsham. Llaelli ne a.,n Haringy Skelenersdale. ForeignSecretarywhytheteamnhad and Newcastle.. .no edr Brighton Highgate'fe Somnerst " bee.allowedinto Britairin clear The Rhiondda Valley .demohstra- WITH another-wave of its'apartheid Bristol Huddsfiel " breachx not ony of the Gleneages tion against the Transkei players was wand, Pretoria has decreed that a Cambdrig Ipswich -SouthLondon Agreementonsportingcontactswith - supported by individuals from tile further 450,000 black South Africans madeni Leeds SouthWestHerts th prhi egmbtas hoidda rdsCuciteLbu areto begiven their 'independence' Canterbury" Licester Teeside * declrd, British policy- on-'noen- Pty Communist Party, Plaid Cymru --as citizensofthe aist-inviible-toCardiff - Mnchester Tyeside recognition of South Africa's se- and others. Former Rhondda mayor the-naked-eye state of KwaNdebele, City MMrseyide Welaxid called'independent'. Anode Powell said .that their visit was About 90 per cent of the 200,000 Cle. M ... id-Sussex WestLondon Itemergedwhe.th,-tea. arrved a.ninsult to localpeople. dblaculyivniteresg CochstrNorwich York earlierin-March that Britishl consular Some of the arrangements for the nated 'homeland' have" been dumped Croydon ".. . Nottingham "-- officials 'in South Africa had gone team's visit were made by Gulivers there since 1 979 under the regime's " out of their way to help. them gain Travels, ca firmn ini Tewkesury, programme of forced removals, The' Thec Scotihnmt~ tec- f the An ti-Apartheid MovementI can be cotacted entry to Britain, by granting them Gloucestershire, which specialses in other 250,000 live elsewhere. ,through John Nlson , Secretar, 3 Rosevale Crescent, Hamilton, Lnaks, 'declarations of identity' to enabile helping foreign rugby teams with There is no hospital in KwaTel Hailton 426781l themn to obtain vises. Because people, accommodation an otcs*I Ndebeia. Less than. two per cent of The Welsh AAM caribecontacted through the.Secretary, 3Glenroy Street, from the Transkei are not regarded as May 1981 they were involved in a the population is emrployed in the R oathi,Cardiff, Tel Cardiff 499769 -South6 Africa citizensbyPretoria,tourofPretoriabyaLonadon ru~gby .rea, and 83 per cent of its total The AAM London Committee can be contacted throuigh its Secretary, the y do nothhave South African pass- club, the Harequin. ae is ....e by, Peo ia

Anti-Apartheid News April 1983 Page 3 ELECTING TO ACT .AGAINST strgges through( raised sh 0 1 parli aentary candidates over the next 12 months a stand on many far-reaching policy issues, one of British government's attitude towards the freedom th Africa and Namibia. Anti-apartheid supporters country will be making sure that this question is d often - and that it gets an answer. The launching of fte AAM's and support for the front tine and sation Southern Africa: The TmTu neighbouring independent African to Act eampaignin Marches set's states. train of events in motion, alt geared Important anti-apartheid conferto alerting people to the deteriorating "eet in Gtsgow and Sheffield the situation in Southern Africa and the tatteri for representativesof local need to end presert policies of cell,- authorities throgot Britainfhaee boration with apartheid, Seen the campaign off toa determined The Movement has published its start. Local Anti-Apartheid Groups own Manifesto (Southern Africa '83: and otheroganisations will now be A Manifesto for Action) to bring$ msking systematic representions to ,Southern Africa to the attention of all parliamentary candidates to secure political parties, election candidates, , their endorsement of the Manifesto. oarganisations concerned about a general election and individual vot er themselves. The Manifesto reiterates longstanding AAM policies - policies S h e ffie ld 's which rocent developments inSeuthcen Africa have confirmed as te, SHEFFIELD Chamber of Coim most effective means of se uring trade mission to South Africa, peace ard freedom as the rgi, being condemned in all quarters namely,thimposition atohe in teh ei te United Nations sanmcti a on t point in the high street itself. Pretoriaegime, the strengthening of More than 4,000 Sheffield rst,the UN arms embargo, a ban on all dents have aleady signed a petition nuclear collaboration, effective against the trade mission, as a result measures to compel South Africa to of a campaign launched by the Shiefget out of illegally-ccupied Namibia, field Anti-Apartheid Group with the A series of Manifesto Reports being published by the Movement over the next few weeks and months look in more detail at Namibia, the front line states, nilitary, econonmir and other forms of collaboration, the sports boycott, apartheid repression,' and the rgiue's so-called 'reforms'. At the loal level, therapid growth of anti-aportheid activity by city and county councls and other local authorities represents one of tle most significant steps forward in British support for the freedom struggles. The challenge facing the Movement is to esure that the break with traditional policies of collaboration with South Africa is also made bsy the British government in Westminster, red faces merce is losing its nerve. Its latest planned for the end of April, is and is rapidly becoming a talking have bees, at least a doen articls in the local press and campaign activists have given a number of radio intervirs. The Chamber of Commerce, which active involvement of the City CooI- announced its trade mission, appanI, the Trades Council, the Sheffield rently in a fit of pique, just after a Council of Churches (which had tIN symposium against apartheid in never presiously adopted a pro- Sheffield lost November. is now so sanctions position before but decided rattled that it refuses to discuss the to do so by asn overwhelming majo- trip in public, It declined to take part rity), the Sheffield Campaign against in a radio debate on Sheffield's main Racism, the local United Nations chat show, while a public meeting, Associationandothr., with speakers TheoKotze,Stephen Each organisatin involved in the Lee of the South African Congress of campagn planning meetings has Trade Unions, local engineering and provided personnel for a stintof peti- shipbuilding union leader Len Crosley broning in the city- centre, while the and MP Prank Hooley, left an empty City Council has given £300 towards chair on the platform for a Chamber publicity and other expenses, There that was now too embarrassedto" Ilappear Five years after the massacre of 700 Namibians by South African troops, those taken prisoner remain in a concentration camp.

Page 4 Anti-Apartheid News April 1983 But we're British... ..,aren't we? OVER THE centuries, coal and steel have both been crucial to the growth of British industry - but juat how 'Britsh' are these indus- STEEL-ANOTHER TARG tries today? They have both proved particularly enticing to South South African companies are African companies keen to plant the flag of apartheid un Britain. beginning to creep into the UK BRIAN BOLTON, who in last month's AA News described some industry. Thomas Barlow Hold of the South African industrial giants to have put down roots over (not to be confused with Basrlows here continues his survey 'with a look at metals and minerals. s bsidiaty of aarlow Rand, S South Africa's biggest corporate" grouping, the Anglo American Corporation, has a wide and expanding range 9f interests in Britain. They include strategic and precious minerals. Charter Consolidated, Anglo's main vehicle for expansion in Europe, has a 28 per cent stake in precious metals refiners JohnsonMatthey, which in turn 4hs a joint venture firm, Matthey-Rustenburg Refiners. Last year, MattheyRustenhurg opened a refinery at Royston in Hertfordshire. * Rustenbur Platinum, the other partner in Matthey-Rustenbug Refi-' in the UK arein nominee/investment companies with names like Pinsjudged Investments, and smaller traders such as Hard Alloys and C Tennant &,Sons. The Rand Selection Corporation and the Gold Fields Property Co have substantial portfolio investment in British qompanies LTA, for, example, South Africa's second largest construction firm and another Anglos subsidiary, recently acquired a 21 per rent stake in cement and coal distributors Bath and Portland. RENWICKS-COAL TRADERS nus, i s u 2er cent owu vy Atng Renwicks, a British company best and 33 per cent by known formahing caravans and boats, Consolidated Investments (Johnnies), now derives 20 per cent of its- turnSouth 9frica's second largest mining over from trading in coal. It was house. recently taken over in a dawn raid on Marketing of platinum group the Stock Exchange by an unknown metals in the UK isviaadealwiththe Hong Kong company, Kangra. The Engelhard Corpoation, an associate deal appeared innocuous until it of Anglns in the US. . emerged that South African businessLast year, during the reorganis- man Graham Beck was behind the lion of Anglos' US interests, the bid. Beck is the chairman of Natal Engelhard's main trading arm, Phillip Coal Exploration and on the board Bros, now named Phibro, was merged of the Richards Bay Coal Terminal Company. Renwicks itself had a 50 per cent stake in Westrn Fuel, which runs a coal terminal. Coal is emerging as one of South Africa's most lucrative exports. Despite opposition from the National Union of Mineworkers, sall quantities are being smuggled into Britain. RAND LONDON - TABLES TURNED? Rand London Corpoation, a South with leading US money brokers African company which is emerging Salamos Bros. Derby & Co, one of as a challenger to the big mining Phibro's UK subsidiaries, is one of companies, is 51 per cent owned by the main importers of South African British coal tradersBurnett & aHlamminerals and a dealer on the London shire. But it looks aif Rand Lodon Metal Exchange. It also owns a num- will soon outgrow its parent and take ber of steel companies in the UK, over Burnett itself. including stockholders RGB Stainless It seems as if the intention at the and Charles Wade& C, moment is for Burnett to takeaproCharter std Anglos also own portion of Rand London's coal Anmrcosa Sales, another London exports from South Africa, through Metal Exchange ring dealer and a the terminal built by Brint Invest, further source of imported South meats at Genk in Belgium. Brnt, the African steel, and have a stake in old shipping company Halt Steam, Coutinho Car, yet another metal ships under a new name, owns 6112 trader. * _lancantr urneadisinu 23 lif~hT edbytKedtf.- ', -~ - ET also steel tings plc) outh with interests spanning the whole engneering industry. Thomas Barlow's interests include Smith Druce Metals, a steel producer and stockholder. Another, more recent, example is the psrchase by tse privately-oned Cape Gate of two of the wire-making subsidiaries of Johnson & Firth Brown - Johnson & Nephew (Manchester) and Johnson & Nephew (Ainbergate). The deal has provided an obvious entree to Britain for Cape Gate's fencing products. At the time it was struck, the autumn of 1981, the British government was promoting four maime trading -subsidiaries: Exeter Sales, Imex, Schwarz and Walmer Grain. Tiger Oats has stakes in two of its custorers, Allied Lyons and J Bibby &-Sons, Last year, two Souths African bankers, Jan Marais anid the aptlynamed Abe Bank, were widely reported to be seeking Bank of England approval to take over an unnamed UK bank. The aim was to establish a conduit for money flows to South Africa.' The'most prolific South Africanbased portfolio investor in the UK at the moment is Rhocorp's associate East Rand Consolidated. East Rand have around £5 million in UK companies, ranging from Lonrho through Fsoss to Grand Met. Contracts and licensing arrangements are another growth area for South African companies in Britain. Roberts Contructiox f- example a pocket liner SOUTH Africa and the delights of apartheid have been on the menu for travellers on the world's most lixurious liner, the QE2. They've be,11 shown a film made by South Africa's tourist agency to promote the country and treated to a ecture by heart transplant magnate Chris Barnard. All expenses for Professor Barnard to join the 35-day cruise, including his first-clas air fares to and from South Africa, were paid by Cunard. slush funds THE British Overseas Trade Board is offering Scottish businessmen £415 a head to help them visit South Africa to promote trade. The subsidy is for a two-week trade mission arranged by tie-Dundee and Tayside Chamber of Commerce from 15 to 28 October this year. It's just one of at least 16 British trade missions to South Africa during 1983. firm contrasted by Lambeth Council at one stage, is a subsidiary of Murray & Roberts, which is heavily involved with the South African state and military. Murray & Roberts is itself onethird owned by Anchusa Holdings, which in October 1980 bought Caravans Intemational's South African interests. International capital, as is clear from the ubiquitous presence of transmational corporations, cares little for national boundaries. With the possible exception of Anglos, however, all the South African companies mentioned above are 'national' in that they owe their existence and continued development to the process of capital formation in South Africa itself. That they should now be entering the UK is much more significant than just the operations of Angles. industry. D YET MORE DEALS -Like Johnson & Firth Brown, S Peasson were short of cash when they sold out to PG Industries - Plate.Glass and Shatterpruf, leader in the South African glass industry. Pearson, like all other glass makers in the UK, have been hit by the recession and by competing products. It could have been helped by import controls of the sort that exist in South Africa and protect PG. The General Tire & Rubber Company, based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, was fended off when it bid for Hallite Holdings. It only managed to get 28 per cent, but this still gives it a useful base for a second bid in the future. General Tire lGe4tire) is owned by Aurochs Investments, in ttrn owned by the unpredictable and unknown Dr Heshel Khazam, Gentire's other interest in the UK is Pigott Maskew, while Aurochs have three dormant subsidiaries probably serving as nominee companies and occasional .importers. 1 CASH FLOWS Much of the South African presence in Britain has to do with trade and financing. Prime examples are Samancor (South African Manganese), whose UK agent Amcor (Overseas) Ltd acts Mapping out a strategy SWAPO's Secretary of Economic Affairs, Ben as a channel for a large proportion of - Amathila, visited Britain recently for a series of meetings-and events in the British Steel Corporation's im- solidarity with the Namibian struggle, He also found time to help open the ports of manganese ore; and Tiger AAM's new headquarters, together with Shapua Kaukunasa (left), SWAPO's O1ts-& National Milling, whicr has Chief Representative in Western Europe, Picture by Cameron Brisbane

Anti-Apartheid News Aprl 1983 Page 5 BALLOT BOX BRIBERY EARLIER THIS YEAR, decisions by sections of the Coloured anl Indian communities in South Africa to support the Botha government's 'power sharing' proposals were hailed as a breakthrough for apartheid. DR YUSUF DADOO, Vice Chairman of the African National Congress Revolutionary Cotnci ad Chairman of the South African Communist Party, explains what South Africas constitutional 'eforms' really mean. Anti-Apartheid NeAws Dr Dadon, what is your attitude towards the new 'power-sharing' constitutional proposals of the Botha regime? Dr Dadov: These proposals have been called a 'reform' by Bothaendhis apologists, but as far as we ae concerned, they are a complete fraud. The proposal is to establiss three racially segregated parliaments- one for white, one for Coloureds and one for Indians. Tie representation of the vious cunmunities it thete parliaments nd in the various committees which would be set up to advise the government would he in the ratio of four whites to two Coloureds to one Indian. The Africans who comprise over 70per cent of the population ae totally 1xcluded from this plan. This is not a reform but a perpett - Dr Dadiao at the opening of te ation of apartheid. In parliament, in AA's new headquartes. the cabinet and in tre committees PIcture by C-zernnJrisbe the whites would have a permanent built-inmajority. LabourPartyresignedindi"tsafter Annpae Newt:TeC theEsliowe conference. And meetings AnnAPartheid Nei ,e Coloured called by the Labour Party to e plain I Labour Party and the South African their decision have been. broken up Indiana Counc il (SAIC) have both or cacelled because of the anger of indicated they are prepared to operate the people. the new machinery. What's your As for the South African Indian ....ns,? Council,theyaresimplyhand-picked Dr Dado: They have fallen into government stooges. Ever since the Boha's trap, either through stupidity Nationalist government came to or throlin i, er, onre, Tl --l. ower, the Indian neoslehave sef-ed Learning from' the 70s Students c REPRESSION of progressive Sot' organisations has continued unabal But students continue to resist view of apartheid and their own PRAGASEN NAICKER reports. Deamatic changes in politicaldreeh-, tion have taken place in the student P movement since the mase bannings of I black organisations in 1977, At the i 1982 congress of the Azanian Students Orgsmfiaon (AZASO), 5 Aanon Mot-waede pointed out that t 'thestudent of the eighties is different b fromthe student of the seventies, Y having gained direction from learning I ad experience. Students have realised C that workers and not themselves are c the vanguard of the struggle and so ti theyhave taken on a more supportive it role.' v. This view is not restricted to urn- e! venily c9akmw,. The C ...ncil of0 South African Students (COSAS), the major school students organis tisn, ,ued 'Student-Woxker-Artion' at their themne fur 1982/8J. Th ... - -- t anew nta and their its of Soweto. refining their iffon struggle AZASO'. 'At Cape fstrom -the agerdomrthe there when we OLSTU f.m education we w should be laid formal and inf Charter the fact that ed at school. Ed., ost tr lies side of achool A ti-Apartheid News: The Labour beets stniaated into greater activity NUSAS (National Union of South e Party and the South African Indian because side by side with the African Students), and AZASO, all 0 Council claim to speak for their 'reforms' we seeintensified repression actively supported the boycottof the t people is this true? - tortue and deaths in detention, regime's republip day festival, the Dr Dados Whatever the Coloured tightening of the pass aws,bulldozing campaign against the Pro- goveent n Labour Party meant in the past, by of homes, mass removals. - South African Indian Council, and deciding to join Botha now they have Umkhoato we Sizwe, the military the boycott of Wilson-Rown tree in forfeited the Support of the majority wing of the liberation movement, is solidarity with striking workers, " of the Coloured people. The more striking ever more frequent and besidm the boycotts and other ct : honest among the leadership of the heavier blows. Inside the country the ties specific to students. AZASO and workerand the independenttrade COSAShavealsobeeninvolvedinuoeb er anions are organising ted more active the community campaigns against Koeberg. thanever, increasedfaresandrents,andfor the In January the congress of the ending of school fees (payable by A san er TranevaltAnt-Soslth Africa. Indian black children only). hS Concil(TA$C)decidedtorevivethe in the W ork Transval Indian Congress and work Breaking the aage for a unitted democratic front to THE commisrssling of S outh A frica's, oppose the President's Council plan A new development has taken nuear reactor at Koebehrg has been and all other forms of apartheid place on the Afrikaans-dpeaki nisetbackforatleastninemonthsby oppression. verstycampuses, with the emergence, gterldliasabotage last December. The over-whelming majority of the of the first liberal student organisaFour cisi-, set off by African South African people are demonstra- tion. The Political Sttsdenti OrganisaNational Congress fighters, rocked ting in action that they am notlion of South Africa (POLSTU) is a the regime's showpiece nuclear instal- interested in separate parliaments, hlakaway from the ultr- onseivpelve lation near Cape Town. The blasts sparate development, bantustans or Afriaans Student Union and the came just a few days after South any other apartheid rubbish. We Afrikaner Stidenteboud (ASB). African comando mturdered 42 demand total equality and total freeo- POLSTU has specified its aim as In people, including 30 ANC members, don for all and we will fight for our- fight 'for ajust and free Sou ti Africa'. in Mtaast - spl ,.. gtrt(hraosunt egtj.- At its seaoand sanal.cnreei.

Page 6 AntIApasrtheid News April 1983 Six wasted years ALMOST six years ago Britain, West Germany, France, Canada and the United States of America formed an informal team to negotiate with South Africa for Namibia's independence. BOB HUGHES MP k as esses the work of the 'Contact Group of Five' and Namibia's future prospects. Two words describe activity to date: abandon its demand. The Anti-Apartheid Movement was initially doubtful of the prospects for success and our pessimism has been amply justified. Changes in the poiti'cal composition of the Contact Group now make it an obstacle to progres. Mitterand socialism represents France. but this is more than offset by the changes in Britain and the United States. We are now represented by Thatcherite conservatism, the USA by Reaganite republicanism. The electiun of Chancellor Kohl in the FRG does nothing to help. The Five began in the naive belief that' South Africa was wilting to cooperate and to accept the UN Plan for Nalmibia. They have now moved into a position of aggressive defenders of South African swalstance to implemen tatlon of Resoluition 435, In fact, the USAe g to ispose nowand extran ous coraditionis bsefore gseeassit i reached on holding elections. I refer of couse to Americain insistence that Cuban troops be withdrawn from Angola as being linked with a Nanmibian settlement. Despite the B~ritishovernment's public position beingdifferent from that of the USA, it will still not cl upon the USA to 'Cooni of M~iiters' inthe territory.E This attempt. at an internal settlement has now failed and the admsu tion of Namibia has reverted to direct ride from Pretoria. South African troops have 'continued their brutal repression - in Namibia and repeatedlunce Happy days... lgh hopes as UN Special Repsesenative Mtrti Ahhtasri sets off for Namibia with his survey ear, AXIs Angola wit tagi o nsequnce for 1978. Neary five yearstlater, the UN Independence Plan for the eountry remains on the table. Pict reby UN YNagart the Angolan people.. Thes activities of tbe Contact Group have had a paralysing effect on the Ub capacitycitthe,UNtobringNamibibneaee~Temslcdcn W U to independence. The misplaced confidence of'the Fie that South African compliance with Resolution 435 was,atanymomentoftime,imminbenthas a prevented UN discussions. The Five have taken it upon themselves t o act de icfo as negotiating agents for the, UN. However, the United States has no authority - either moral orcnttuinl- to "interposeo a ci no w impose its own foreign policy on the a...... international community. Negotiations with South Africa are deadlocked. The AAM believes that a report must now he made by the Five to the UN Security Council, The UN has the ultimate responsibility and must take appropriate action under its Charter. Action cannot be long delayed -indeed it is long overdue. The future well-being of the people of Namibia demands urgent attention. I I , Fighting South African propaganda SWAPO's armed struggle against the South African army in Namibia When such visits occur, they are is rarely reported in the western press, except to repeat South Africa's usually at the invitation of the Sout claims of large numbers of SWAPO guerrillas killed. If one were to African authorities, and journalists am believe the many statements emanating from South African military takenbySouth African military conmandens to South African Defence commanders, SWAPO's back has been broken many times, the Force (SADF) bases and briefed by guerrilla forces of PLAN, SWAPO's armed wing, are isolated and them. desperate, starving and losing their way in the bush. What's the truth? BARBARA KONIG suggests some answers.s MmaI " SouthAfrica'smilitarycommanders In contrast to the liberation move- other accidents). So goes the South freuently have to eat their words as ment. South African forces in Namibia Africanversion. PLANcarriesoutsuccessfulattackson sustaininimallossesincombat,have . SouthAfricanarmybases, plunges the the support of most Namibians, and WESTERN COMPLICITY whole of Namibia into darkness by apparently only die from road act- Western correspondents writing on blowing up electricity pylons, and is carrying 240,000 litres of fuel, all of dents (In 1981, the South African Southern Africa are virtually alt based clearly shown to be operating through- which was spilled. Defence Minister claimed that 29 in South Africa. They find it easiest to out the country. The present PLAN South Africa's reporting concentranational servicemen had7 died as the pick up the regime's claims, ands few offensive illustrates South Africa's ted on the number of PLAN combaresult of enemy action, *bile 16 had visit Namnibia to verify whet is really efforts to disguise the reality of tants killed, minltnising its own loss diedinmotoraccidentsand34in goinmgon. SWAPO's presence in Namibia, and the and putting ot misinformation about im m mmininm~minuinin mimmmmmmumusa mnwayinwhichSouthAfrica feeds ras- the nature of some of the PLAN - information to the world press. actions. Foritnstance, the train 'derailm1 In December 1982, the commander ment' was claimed to be due to a 0 & iInterntin al:Defec :eAmdFund iofthe'SouthWestAfricaTerritory 'weakening of the xils as a result of UIE I $ N~1IUIlAiV A mForce',SouthAfrica'spuppetarmyinthe 'intense heat from the sun'. BO K ON NA IE1 IumaP'~ll~ Namibia,claimedamarkeddecreasein m SWAPO's militaryactivities MORE 'LINKAGE' NAMIBLA - THE RAVAGES OF WAR i In late January1983, the head of The apartheid regime has also been tby amthin §3thesecuritypoliceinNamibiadis- exploiting the western media's obses16Opplluapubl 183,prieaL£,.0 § counted reports of a large scale offen- sion with linking the presence of Cuban §sivebySWAPOguerrillasasa'bilunder'.tropsin Angolato a Namibian fa - * A few days later, an SADF statement settlement. The South Africans have APARTHEID'S ARMY IN NAMIBIA - SouthAfee'si lltagy claimedthatthewarsituation was. stressed the 'detrimental effect' of esupa rlon undercontrol. SWAPO'sarmedstruggle on the'sensibyIDAFResearchInformation&PuhlietiomDept t-five' negotiations in progres between 74pp ilhls, phli 1982, price 50p .THE REAL WAR themselves and Angola a comment By midFebruary this year, the South picked up by almost every Bitish TO HONiOUR WOMEN'S DAY - profles ofleding women tnthe South Africans announced that between 600 newspaper. This argument has served i aadN ibinliertion stru"ggles and 800 PLAN combatants were ope- as yet another excuse for South Africa by esarhnfrmtin Publc pt stingacrossa700km wideareaoftosbotage efforts to reach a Namibian Stppilluspubl 1981, price ll northern Namibia, from Kaokoland in settlement - the main objective of the ....M ,X5ING"* .. - the west to the Kavango area in the talks as far as the Angolans are condetaineeinsNamibia eas5t,andthattheoffensivewasby far cerned. " & *'lsbiggestinthe16-year-old war, South Africa is clerly determined yI Rsearch Ifor mation Publica ; DDuringFebruary, PLANcombatants to allow only its own version of the *2p ui181 rc 0 blewupthepostofficeatOasalcati;warinNamibia to be reported. Military * NAst~IA. ~i~ rc~s- tbotaged a bridge at Ongwediva, correspondenstl in Winilsoek were told byIDBA -ElfoaSl makingitimpassable;attackedaSouthinFebruarythat all mwe reports '5~ -Aftican army base near Ruscana. killing would in future have to be cleared by SlOpp Ba, putil 1980, price 3.50 3.23 South African soldiers, blew up five the SADF before publication. The UIelectricity cable supportsin Kaokoland, South Africans were apparently con Avallable from IDAP Publcations, 104 Newgale Street,Ldon ECiA 7AP.U cotting off power generated from cermed by- reports 'reflecting a false P osatage andpac il sive in the UK only, - Ruacana and plunging Namibia into image of the war'. - mm darkness; and sabotaged a freight train Cooking up a holiday jaunt The travel industry, now valued at R620 million, is South Africa's second largest revenue earner. In December 1982the South African Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Dr de Villies said that the number of tourists visiting South Africa had risen by 12 per cent compared with world averages of three to four, per cent. A senior official responsible foe trade and tourism in Namibia said at the beginning of this year that tourism is one of the biggest ear iers of foreign exchange in the territory. About $40 million dollars were carned from almost 76,000 tourists each year. The British ompany Thomas Cook merged with South African Renmiese Travel in October 1982 to for a new travel giant - Thomas Cook tennie' Travel (TCRT), with a turnover of' R270 million projected this year. The travel trade hasit substantiated by sources close to the South African government, that Cooks found it prudent to -achieve-4-atle Profil. in

Asatl-Apariheld News April1983 PWge7 Fi DABBLING IN THE Namibian an case of the forner in contraventi Number One) goes right to the to4 ing at the register of Ms' business When Nicholas Winterton returned from Namibia last year fail of praise for South African stooges Dirk Mudge and Peter Kalangula, no one really bothered to listen. In fact, Winterton is only one of a number of British MN who have been to Namitba and South Africa on Pretoria-flnanced freebees. This is an oft-tried method of seeking support among politicians and one that South frica uses with monotonous reglalty. On the trip last summer with Winterton were MPs Michael Morris,,who doubles as a management consultant; Eric Ogden; who claims to have done his homework before the trip; and Michael Brotherton, who describes himself as an expert on hearing aids. The previous year Michael Colvin went on a similar joint with Peter Bottomley, who works with the world's largest grain trading multinational, and Edward Heath. The year before that, 1980, trailblazers John Biggs-Davidson and John Corrie took the route to Southern Africa. John Carlisle also enjoyed Pretoria's hospitality in 1980, while more recently he has begun petitioning the MCC to get South Africa ted to the International Cricket or shareholders. the mo the latter category in rece to be Lord Cockfield (tha dated). The most reyent add rogues gallery of involve David Price when Lin Agencies, a Vestey compa he is a director, became new container service i Bay with Tilbury and FeI There is only one MP interest in South African This is Julian Amety, wj board of two gold minl managed by Anglo-Am. Reefs and Western D Among the others wi honesty to fill in the p register and whose comps rate with apartheid are Be (consultant with French ings), Sir Albert Costain ( ltont firmtbeainghs mu (economic adviser to Bet monwealth Shipping), Pat Wilson (consultant for Uni a. )st, famous i nt times ha rteerCoSoli-i ition to this ment was Sitr7 nor Shipping ny, of which involved in a ning Walvis lxstowe. who lists an companlesA' * o sits on the e empire striks back -British MPl Michael Morris, Ni Mgcma ies chael Brother ton don their shorts to save Nambi *g companies erican, Vaal John Major (Standard Chartered) Tom union leaders as w sep Levels. Normanton (dirctor of Commercial must be said wc ho have the Union Assurance), Colin Shepherd BothNicholas arliamentary (parliamentary adviser to Balfour mond Fletcher 'at nies colabo- Beatty, the construction ann of BICC produced by Llo) eard Braine plc) and John Ward (a director of distribution to sc Keir Hold- Taylor Woodrow). billed as an introdu the constrc- Other MPs have become embroiled, fails to mention t Ism-Llohyd In the All-Pasty Namibia Group, inclu- illegily occupied I fis & Coin- ding Ben Ford and Ray Fletcher. This that there is a war i trick McNair 'group' was set up with the assistance If you are Inky ion Carbide), of Michael Brotherton ad others by of the above-nasm, Trevor Lloyd-Hughes, who used to be of Parliament, you one of Harold Wilson's advisers. Lloyd- him a line or two Hughes nowulns the Namibia Infor- board meetings mation Servie fromt his PR film in Africa, he has tv aout-east London. iTe Namibia (dis)- different point of v Information Service has recently taken to printing its pro-South Africa *Mps have a 'olse material in a format similar to that of is open to publics , Focus, the news bulletin of the Inter- in this article were Znational Defence ad Aid Fund. Lloyd- the register co1p982 'Hughes has trd to influence trade. 1982. 6,30 to 7.3Jpm, organ Nnmibia Support Commit kher Africa-The Imp ety (SATIS). a the" same day, the theid Movement ad the ins Assoiation are ho sar on South African ag, st the front line sts Ion. A new exhibition on be opened. lay S MayfRememer K ural event in London o he Nanibia Support Cot programme includes the I a play specially prepared iF0 Theatre Group to cot Kassinga, plus Kenyan cell as MPs ith much C points out that -third of the illegal ur, d by the current CEGI as still to be imtorted tSouth Africa by gainisga local partner. This is beause Cooks are anxious to retain their United Nations contract, r reputedlythe largest in the worM, which is coming up for review this year. Thomas Cook specialiy recommends Iat Tempo Travel, based in Asnos Grove end ini north London. Tempo claims to be the leading travel company in Britain can apecialising in travel to South Africa, ad Namibia and the bntustans. the In the introduction to their brochure nc theysay: 'South Africa is one of the ired most popular destinations in the u0' Southern Hemisphere. Here in a country eight times the size of Britain for you, can really get awayfrom the I at crowds and enjoy sun, sea, scenery and is service in the land of gold. - ,Think of rign ibons and elephants, gold an diamonds, $40 golden beaches and good restaurants imst and you are thinking of South Africa.' One of Tempo's specialites isa 15ok day camping holiday to Namibia Iles? ('South West Africa' according to the lew brochure) for £450 excluding travel to asirs Johannesburg; there is also a 19-day of' tor for £513 excluding travel. Tempo also offer five-day and seven-" itd day coach holidays in Namibia, saayin can in their literature: 'South West Africa it (Namibia) is undoubtedly one of the i'ja- t facinating countris in-the 'orld-, ..., Not a mention of the war going on or the large South African military presencethroughout the country. A tone to the Sun City leisure complex in the o' Bophuthatswan is desribed as visiting the 'new independent state of Bophuthatswana' in the Tempo brochure; similarly they offer accommodation in 'the independent state of Transkei'. Anothertgem from the Tempo brochure is: 'We can help in the planning of tours for people with specialit interests such as Cyclists, Golfers, Bird Watchers, Steam or Flower enthusiasts, Your next corned beef sandwieh? - one still on th F]1 o as possible, sending Ad like a share to adm AGM. There will be airsm warp - -

8Mit-Aparted News April 1983 t togOtren. YB4,LA l'ILI0AYI to the aboutamedaes , workers have deteriorated over Pat20 years. gI ou se ,fSouthAfica'27M.blI Populay on, about st en aio. ~~ quarter -yie on whi -snd fa and plontatons, many of h ch owned by British capital They c If I were to claim that oranised prie agricultural workers, their fa ;temsn of semi-slavery flouish in ties andI dependanits. ntih Africn, I would doubtless he The SAftlia Afr , Lasbou Bull, steed with exaggeration and distor- recentlyrepordthatthe en.Butreadon. mionthlycashwageof a full- ti According to a national research farm workerh was £25 plus payme tanisation in South Africa, the in kind amounting to about LIS. ins Labour Project, a system some areas the cash and payment rsi'ts where farm workers can be kind were one half of this average. id virtuallynothing and in some In the Western Transva", ;es are provided with less secrity example, adult workers received itbenefit than slaves' (Cape Tlles, than the equivaleut of £6 per mo ansay 1983). -plas one to one-ans-a-half bags report describeshow maizeflouti th Sot i metrnr ent off on holiday 0. top Of thi the SouthAfri, .viig tlsirworkers without food or authorities abolished the labour I cases of consistent cruelty ancysystem in 1980 This had gi J eelostation on the farms', the black farm workers limited access lespread use of black child labour, land and enabled them to supplem I eaaples of black farsslabourers their wage earnings. Workers had cting 7J0 hours a week for a cash of a piece of land for six months ge equivalent to £1 or£r2 amonth the year in exchange for six moot Isoie mrning no wages at all, unpaid labour for the white farr There are no adequate statistics to Nowadays the worker and his em sstify the scale of these quasi slave family are forced to work the wh ictiet in South Africa. The aparb year round on the white-oened ts authorities. tesleadi fo rgressivelv diminishing level, id nmedical I.- F aid the Anti- tica th deal prini- farm - farmtabourin andthe apartheid thejsomepaisto noI the s - --~t -tn IStimoeo.ns.e .APilfl79,.Jtve tos incarcer ng paso to te mack Trade unon moveggest category of black workers who e emnployed in agrcul.ture - can get haa unearthed some new information the stocker to his master sn an even more insidious ,,anne. Thre Urban Areas ark Act and the so-called 'insflux regula- a fiors' (the past laws) focbsd black ins worlkers from moving from rural to are urban areas to look for belter employor-meint elsewbere. mil The mltrd 'master and servant' laws also tie the black worker and his 'fi" family to the white farme until such age time as the boss Areides that the ime worker is too old or ill to be produtfits rive. At that point the redundant fIi worker and his family are forcibly sin banished to the poverty-stricken bintustars. for In a statement to the South less African Manpower Commission, the nitb Orange-Vaai General Workers Union of urged that, if the authoritses really ,believed in the free enterprise system, ran 'we should he allowed the legallyten , orced ri ht to sell our labos en w1herever-we find the best price for it to we want freedom of movement ent not "farm worker" stamped on our use passbook, no passbook at all'. of These conditions survive in a Its' country wilc is supposedly industnecl dised and whichis currently peddling lire lmyths abou 'constitutional reform, ole end Progress. South Africa's race 1. laws and regulations do not merely of exploit black labom, they are preda tory. cnooking faiittds afinr backbreaking t"il from t anise to sunset in summer te. peratres averaging 95 degrees F. Their diet is monotono s and madequate, their education non-eistent. The survey concludes that child labour is sustained and exacerbated 'by the uneaployment, overcrowding, inappropriate investment and familial and community disruption in the bantustans, at thle disposal of the, republic's agricultural needs. Cild labour is oftensupportedh y poverty-stricken parents out of sheer necessity. With little work for adults and no form of social security, every child that can work must play a part in scraping together some kind of living the alternative is slow starvation, how, one asks, can white South Aficans be so callOus? Just as one wonders at the morality of our own 19th century mill and mine owners. But if it is highly profitable to disregard the welfare of a whole people and so to enslave them, and your whole prsperity is built upon that ensld-ment, ite system bartalism You as well as the slaves. The reckon ing when it comes will be swift and terrible Two valuabl books - don't miss them. IKLS eusenttuons endangering taff, there is -re r oP farmersdeal 1 . of course, Sthe meaere a- bantustnm Iand forced t0 shair or. sqluaidroiuma hats and primitive- campaign Malasgui from the gallows. He was Is Cutting through the s( - a personal -view FORMER JOURNALIST ANTHONY HOLIDAY was released from prison in Pretoria last November after serving a six-year sentence under South Africa's Terrorism Act, He was found guilty in 1976 of preparing and distributing pamphlets for the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. Previously a reporter with the Rand Daily Mail and Cape Times, he completed an honours course in philosophy while in prison and is nowpursuing his studies in Britain. .The most crucial lesson taught me status as apolitician. ll six years in a South African prison The first is that this denial consti is -,like most worthwhile things we tutes a deliberate attempt to sever his learn - so glaringly self-evident as to contact with reality by obscuring the seem not to demand attention, objective reasons for his being in Yet it does require attention, prison at all, and thus to persuade because it is often obscured for us by him to think of himself as no more a kind of humanitarian rhetoric, some than a common criminal, who of which is well-intentioned and 'deserves' his punishment. The upshot some of which is not, since the Pretoria regime is perfectly capable of employing it as well. The lesson I mean is simply this. that South Africa's political prisoners, besides being 'human beings', 'captive beings' or even 'suffering beings', are, first and foremost, political beings; they are political prisoners. That this is so is evidenced by the strenuous efforts made by the apartheid regme in general and the South African department of prisons in Toe recentlycompleted maxium se closed circuit TV to monitor the Io condemned prisoners - such as the execution. spokesmen, within South Africa-and from the embassies abroad, repeatedly reject suggestions that I and hundreds like me were jailed by reason of our political convictions. Upper-echelon officialt of the prison service lilewise insist that there are no political prisoners in thei jails, only 'security prisoners' a stance rendered somewhat ludicrous by the fact that rankand-file warders habitually referred to my comrades and myself as 'the politicals'. 'From the political prisoner's point of view, there are two intimatelyrelated reasons why he or she must resist these efforts. to deny his or her ofcourseofacceptingthisviewof TonyHoliday industryinthe Western Cape woutd himself would be to dehumanise and power game.Thustheprospectof nothave been possible withot degrade the prisoner, rendering him possible remission of sentence in African and Colotred workers, the or her unfit for furthei political work, return for recantations of the beliefs Africans are viewed as a 'problem' 1 should add that in no case of for which theyhave sacificed so with little provision made for their anypolitical prisoner I served my much is a lure which the government most basic needs. According to sentence with has this tactic succee- has begun to dangle before loyal government policy, the Africans ded. But I am convinced that it is in members of the AINC and the South belong in the bantustans, and it is in pursuit of this goal of depolitictistion African Comsnist Party. Once those bleak wastes that the people of that the authorities removed Nelson again, no prisoner I served with is KTC must find family housing. Mandela and other African Natiqnal likelyto bedupedin this way. yet it In Orlando East the shack destrucCongress leaders from Robben Island was clearly a recantation of some sort lion exacerbates and highlights the to Pollamoor Prison, and that the which secured an earlyrelease for the housing crisis that the bantustan same s trategy lies behind the decision Afrikaans poet, Breytan Breytanbach. 'solution' creates. All the shack From the perspective, therefore, ownes have rights to remain i of the solidarity movements in Britain, Soweto but no houses that can and elsewhere, it is essential that the acc modate their famis ilies. The increasing political role of apartheid's Planning and peovision of hosing for prisoners should be recognised and the net generation hs been passed understood. This is especially true at by Pretoria to the bantetas governa time when the solidarity movement ment, but the people of that generais -extending its scope and local autho- tion live and work in the areas that rities are giving evidence of their white South Africa las claimed for deepened concern by such actions as ' itself. ' naming streets after South African The demolitionsatITC and political prisoners like Mandela, Orlando East show how hossslessness Sisulu, Mbeki and others. has become a feature of aparth eid. In To understand the prisoners as 1972' Dr Connie Mulder made the politicians requires a deepened under-standing of the political context in which they must perforce live out their political lives. This context is one which has since the beginning of the decade been characterised by a urity section of Pretotia prison has renewed and powerful upsurge in ag narrow passiges. This is where popular resistance to apartheid -an ANC Six - are -held while awaiting upsurge which can only result in fuller jails and more vicious sentences. to, keep anti-apartheid fighters like But these reprisals are being met, Robert Adam and Barbara Hogan 'both outside and inside of the jails, apart from prisoners who shared by an invigorated sense of solidarity, their ideals. In Hogan's case it would a sense that the movement tro over. have been entirely possible to place throw apartheid is one movement her among black women political with ac united leadership.For"myprisoners comradesand,thissolidaritywas Secondly; the South African poli- made powerfully manifest some tisal prisoner iswiliy-nilly a factor in months ago, when we listened and the ongoing political process, if only replied to the slogans and songs of because of what his or her incarcera- six young guerrillas of the ANC on tion symbolises. This means that if he 'Death Row' in Pretoria's Maximum accepts a non-political view of him- Security Prison. self (a view which is certainly not the Their defiance in the shadow of one the authorities really take of him), the gallows was a political act. It must Mothers with their young children fre he is easily transformed into a passive be liqked to tlve political actins of beginnisg of this year - their caedboa pawn in the white esl ablshaert's, all who work for an end to apartheid95 linlad the day before. which stated that 'It igov emn policy that Bantu are only temporarily resident in the European areas of the republic for as long as they offer their labour them'. Dr R Scheire ofthe Universityof Cape Town has estimated that between 1960 and 1980 approximately three million people have been moved into the bantustans as a consequence of thin outlook The conditions of their resettlement in a bleak environment, cut off from their past, victims of poverty, malnutrition and disease, were first exposed in Cosmas Desmond's book The Discrded Peope. These conditions persist and many more removals are planned because of schemes t 'coasolidate' the bantusitans' land.

Page 10 Anti-iApatheid News April 1983 sted in health issues in Southei Africa? ealth Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement new members for rting the boycott al aid arters, 13 Selous Street, HARINGEY:COMM UNITY AND TRADE UNION CENTRE 2A Brabant Road (off Station Road), Lonadon N22 T. be WoodCee Bes 29,W3,2 Entrance:£2.OO AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: Don't break the rules, Send them to schools in Mozambique ARE YOU doing your spring cleaning at the möment? Do you have an'old slide rule lurking in your desk or attic, made redundant by the arrival of the mass-produced pocket calculator? Or are you a teacher with access to discarded slide rules i n school and college store rooms? The Mozambique Angola Comosit ree has launcthed an urgent campaiga to colect 5,000 slide rules by June this yr because in Mozambique they can make a real tostribution to the battle agalnst underdevelopment Five hundoed years of colonialism by Europe's least develped country has left Mozabiqu our af the world's poorest natilns. To retain tight control of industry, Portugal trained few Mozambican technicians. And those it did tran were really clerks intended to keep a check on the work, rather than techuicians trained to solve problems. Their traing was so backward that at independence ight years ago Mozanbican technicål schools still did not use slide rules. Instead students were trained to mse tables and to do laboritos calculations by hand. Everyone, for example, learned the long hand method af caleularing square roots. Mozamibique bas commited itselt to providing basic fod, clothing, health care and educatlon"to evefay one in the coontry by the end of the decade. This Is a tall order föi a country that came tu independence with lens than 15 per cent of aduits able to read. It means major industrial development anl a massive expansion ofeducation. And it means tranig th.uands of tehnician. With li thelp f teachen f-9m all .ver the w.rld, tecbniffl edtuctioa is being tutlly tr.a.s.tormed to proide the praetcal itraning the country needs. Clearly it ould be better tu jump directly it th I 980s a.nd giv ach student a pocket calrolator. But Mozambique ii so poor that it -not yet afford to buy either the caleulatorn nr the batteris ta keep them euaning. Thus, as a temporary 2neasure students lon to une the slide rulewhie is at bgast a major improvenrit ovr doing the .squre roots by long hand. For the pant tw years ..ch student has bce given his or e, ow slide rule, to use l..sghe.t training and then on the job after graduation. The first side rules were collected by malis teachers who retaened home to Sweden and Holland. The Dutch Eduardo Mondlane Foundation has already sent 8,000 släde sules, all of wnich have now been distributed. Support group in Europe and America are trying to collect together the thousands of owanted slide rules that inust be lyiïg in store rooms, desks and cupbards. Can you colleet- as many slide rlen as po-sbl,? Then ibring them er nend the,, t:. Mozambique An9ola Committee, 98 Great Russell Street, London WCIB 3NF. Tel 01-580 5404. SHEBA Feminist Prilisher, a tluee yrar-old workes' cooperatve of nine womn, has decided to boycott all iales to South Africa. Pr eviooly, individuals in South Africa could receive copies of Shebo's books by mali ordr. But hen a dstributor from South Africa offered to rep-e"nt the cooperatlve there, ti worke iscussed lthe implicatlons and decided to abide by the Afeican Netional Congress cä] fo a total boycott. Sheba publihes books on a wide -rage of topics, iacluding health, a , poetry, cartoons and novS. tJa, Owe Freedom by Buchi Emecheta and Magg Murray looks at the positron of womeni in Africa today. THREE women from Trynmside AntiApartheid Group who attended the AAM Women's Committee activists' workshop on 22 January are now cnthusing their collegues- mal, and female to otganise material ad collections in Newcastle, leading up to the national day of action on this campalgn (12 October). Tyneside AA is fairly large for a .local organisation and has heen able to form a variety of presnace groups on different imes. Although the women finvolved do not work autonomously thje, have tried to develop activities of interest to a wsder range of women. The Group held a joint meeting with the International Women's Day Committee in Newcastle, inviting a speaker from the ANC." A group on Education and Resources is planning to introduce material on ýeti-apartheid and racism generally into tol schlsoo and ynoth club " inelading tape-slides, teachers' packs and filns. The group 1O hopes to bring together tfachees pnd youth leaders for discusaion. Another grcop has been set up tö make contaets with total trade unins and to encourage sapport for antiapartheid struggle- The women members plar to organise actisities of specific interest to women trade onist. Contact: Julia Darlieg, Fiona Turnbult and Cathy Hsggins, c/o Tyrreside AA Group, 2 Jesmond Rd, N'ewcastle-upon-Tyne. Tel 811911 or 812144. THE Newiletterof the AAMWomen's Committee, now in it, sixth issue, has ittroduced thiee new features, to airäcontrovernall "peeta of womrn's" str'uggl in Southem Africa and internationally, and to give space to guest correspondents nd lettres. The eurnt ise"looks at the seven demands which have come to be seen as the common denominator of the British women's mnoemnt, and how they relate to the South African situetion. There is lso a special nfeature from the SWAPO Women's Solidarity Cainpaign (SWSC), The Women's Conmittee Newsletter is avalable on annual subscipton for £3 (£4 overseas) from Sur Longbottom, AAM, 13 Selaut Street, London NWI, Tel 01-38-, 766. _1~ k l

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Members were reminded that the N O TICEDtakingupof wasonly justifiable Nif the war was a just one, while the WlY not advertise in Anti-Apartheid regime's institutional violence - comMews? It's read not only by the pelled Christians to resist supporting AAM's membership but by activists the SADF. all over the world. Subscribers include The CIIR have now appropriately libraries, colleges and universities, launched a book outlining the governmental and non-governmental church's role in war resistance during organisations, trade unions and the the past 10 years. Warand Conocfee ou vem . t inSouthAfricadescribestheroleof per column inch; deign and a twork mlitary chaplains, the political facby arrangement. Contact Bernadette tors surrounding conscientious objecVallely, Anti-Apartheid Movement, ion and the increased militariun in 13 Seions Street, London NWI, Tel South Africa. Nyameko Pityana 01-387 7966. malntains in a foreword that no CEDRIC Mayson, ex-Metaodist minister and member of the baned Christian Instlitute staff, has been charged with high treason in the supreme court, Pretoria. The first two weeks of the trial have been dominated by evidence about the 'confession' which he made duting detention. An AA News special correspondent reports on the proceedings so far. Cedric Mayson alleged that for the first three days of his detention he was kept naked, -handeuffed and standing for long periods with only two hours' sleep on the third day. The prosecution denied these allegations, but the court heard 13 security policemen give evidence without being able to describe in any way the clothes which they maintained Mayson was wearing. Evidence was heard -of an earlier statement made by Mayson which the police had destroyed because it did not saywhat they wanted. As the trial proceeded, the plight of security detainees becamne clearer. The scurity police admitted that tbey could keep a detainee as long as they pleased and go on interrogating Methodist miister wins bail in Pretoria treason tra all him until he made a statement which they considered to be true. When asked' why lis-made the 'confession', Mayson said: 'Quite frankly, I 'was afraid of dying there.' After nine days of sitting the judge ruled that the 'confession' was inadmisible as evidence and the state prosecutor admitted that the evidence of Major Visser, the officer in charge of the Mayson investigation, contained 'serious discrepancies'. The trial took.an unexpected turn when the state prosecotor asked for a postponement so that an important state witness could be traced. Mayson's defence immedintely deaanded his release-he had already been in detentinn for 15 montha. To the delight of the Mayson family bail waS agreed at Rl,000 and Cedric Maysoc was released. His tial is now due to resume on 18 April. It is very unusual for somecne accused of high treason in South Africa to be released on bail. This, together with the rejection of the 'confession', is good news for the many supporters of Cedric Mayson. Nevertheless, it is important that public interest and concern be maintalied for the resumption on 18 April. There is no doubt that Cedric Mayson has been greatly encouraged by the concern shown on his behalf in Britain. Detention with or without trial under the barbarous circur"stances of the 10th flour of John Vorster Souaare is a disgrace to aniy nation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie (eight), was given a first-hand briefing on apartheid when the Rouraln Catholic Aethbishop of Durban; Deas Hurley (left), visited him in Lambeth Palace, Aachblsbop Hurley, who eddresed a meeting organised by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) during his recent visit to Britain, hes been in hot water with the South African regime for his outspoken criticism of repressions. A report by the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference on atrocties in Namibia, based on a visit which A hbislop Hurley and others made to the war zone in 191; was baniedealierthisyear. Picture byMbrning Star Christian can serve both God and the resisters, micst of whom will be dis- show any sympathy towards the SADP. In the appendix there are qualified from doing alternative set- 'enemies' of the state nor may he statements by the SACC, South Afri- vice because the majority of them publish his reasons for not serving. can Catholic Bishops Conference and base their objection on both religious The board will also meet in secret. resisters, including Peter Moll and and political grounds. One cannot These proposals are intended to RichardSteel. objecttofightingintheSADF-with- divide the war resistance movement. The publicity given to Peter Moll out challenging the legitimacy of the, It is hoped that the South African and Richard Steel has highlighted the state and the role played by the army churches will reject them and object plight of war resisters in general, and in the maintenance of apartheid. to the increased penalties that ,re there is increasing support for them, The SADF plans, to establish a envisaged for resisters. Already repeceven from the muzzled South African board which will decide whether a. sentatives of the Anglican, Methodist press. war resister is genuine or not. The and United Congregation- churches To counter the challenge to mill- board will be composed of three have stated that resisters cannot be tarism by the churches and other ministers of religion appointed by expected to ignore the political bodies, the South African government the Minister of Manpower, two SA.DF implications of their decisions, and approved the Naude Committees officers and a judge. They will decide that it would not be right fdr Chrisinvestigation of alternatives to natlo- whether a conscientious objector will tans to accept the distinction between mal service in the-armed forces. The fit into the following three categories. political and religious resisters W committee recommended 'that only N those prepared to serve in the the hsieh penalties imposed on them. those people who 0bjected to serving army in a non-combatgnt role. Although Warand Conaciecein specifically on scriptural grounds 0 those prepared to serve in the South, Afica highlights the many should be allowed to do alternative armybut not in uniform. " incidents of support by church service for a period of eight years. U those who are not prepared to bodies for war resisters, It fails to Those objecting for political reasons, serve in the army but are prepared to convey fully the fact that the vast on the other hand, will now face up serve the apartheid state fur a period majority of white Christians.in Southtoeightyears'imprisonmentina ofeightyears.. Africa are doing very little to support civilianjail, Ifaresisterisunder21,hewillconscientious objection. The moves, The findings of the Naude Com- have to have the permission of both already made mast be acknowledged, mittee ar now before the South his parents before the board will con- however, in the hope that more will African parliament and are likely to sider his application. He will not be be done. become law soon. They are in fact a allowed any legal representation. He Nicholas iatia cover for harsher penalties for wat may notstateany politicl reasons or

Page 12 Anti-Apaathed News April 1983 Jeclaing an all-out war i the region e are on the increase ave broken down and South Africa's i ar Square, J. Six m - Davidj iO5-,srar 0 Campaign for the totalsolation of the apartheid regime through the imposition and strict enforcement of United Nations sanctions - of a mandatory and comprehensive kind 1 Press the British government and the international community as a whole to adopt effective measures to compel South Africa to get out of Namibla 0 Support the front line and neighbouring states, including aid for projects of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) " Expose the lie of South Africa's so-called 'reforms' and publicise the real nature of apartheid i Campaign for the release of all South African arid Namibian political prisoners and to stop th execution of freedom fighters inions, religious ,ith the ge eeral Society (SATIS), c/o 13 Selous Sreet Londo NWI 0DW, Tel 01-387 7966 E Friday 15 April: Indian Music and Dance, London Fund-raising concert at the Logan Hall, Institute of Education, London WCl. Programme begins at 7. 15pr; tickets £1.50 (unwaged/stdents), £2.50, £3.50 and £7.50. Organised by AAM, 13 Selous Street, London-NW I ODW. UWednesday 4 May: KASSINGA DAY Five years since the massacre of 700 Namibian refugees in Angola - picket South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, 6.30 to 7.30pr. Organised by SATIS and the Namibia Suppont Committee. Also on 4 May: joint AAM/UN Seminar on South African aggression against the front line states, London. Details from AAM, 01-387 7966 " 0 Saturday 7 May: South West England Regional Activists' Conference, Bristol 10am onwards at Barton Hill Settlement. Speakers from AAM, ANC, SACTU and on the front fite states. Discussions onNamibia and the front line states, trade unions, local links with apartheid, the general election, material aid and political prisoners. Social evening afterwards. Registration £1 (SOp unwaged). Further details from Bevis Miller, Tel Wells I 77443 ra- E Sunday 8 May: Remember Kassinga, London Cultural event of organised by the Namibia Support Committee. premiere of play ut, on Kassinga perforned by the SWAPO Theatre Group, Plus Kenyan novelist-Ngugi wa 'Thiongo. Details from NSC, Tel 01267 194112 to ESaturday 14May: Wales AAM Annual General Meeting, Cardiff i, Details from 43 Glenroy Street, Roath, Cardiff, Tel Cardiff Pe- 499769 ere e. *Thursday 16 June: SOWETO DAY rte iSunday 26 June: SOUTH AFRICA FREEDOM DAY esl over the eting M. e Nelson * pubslicising the facts about apartheid inSouthern Africa 5-Y 55Tthe ti onia raid isoSouth c*aspaigning for the total isolatios of apartheid South Africa, 'hen Walter Sissilu and Arica' other colleagues of Mandela were Attc' arrestedandputontrialbythe * expoing British collaboration with the apaNetseidMardeiae _ teguse N Monday 18 Juy Nelson Mdela' I. imobiising political, moral and material support for the 1 65thbiulday - he has been in 1 pnisonl continuously stice iberationmovementsofSouthAfricaandNamibia pn nt62 " August 1:962 N . Sunday9Otober20thgriE...... vesayoftheopening of the A DD ESS ...... isu.. Rivonia Trial, when Mandela, Sisulu and nine oiher accued ...... were charged with sabotage. m . - Eightofthen, including Mandela, ...... - were sentenced to life imprisonTELEPHONE NO ...... E Tueaty 15 October United 1 Nations Dayof Solidaritywith StMinimum annual membership fees Individuals - £7.50 South Africa Political Prisoners l students/apprentices- £5 school studeats/pensionerfelaimants N Make sore that you and your /unwged- £.1 loeal oerastions - 10 grouphaveenoughFreeNelson ~Affiiation rates f-national trade unios are on a aliding wale Mandli petition forms available from £50 to £220, depending on the size of the union eago, and from AAM, 13 Selous Street, areas- £25 non-national trade union bodies -£10 ondon NI ODW N*Subcriptions to AA News only 1 1/uEmope-fLo o1 utside £ i 1MMemnrhip fees and subseriptions can be paid directly into the U AAM'lsGo Account No 52 513 0004 .They cma also be paid by Baker's Order - forms available from 1 Lfse thisform to wianmore members tee the Acti-Aparthesst Memerne.a f Retrit tin: Anti-Apartheid Movement, 13 Selous Street, London U Nl Tell1-387 7966. -RUE~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 'I'RfU~ E ~clAeu~~la',eeyo Af-W Pc! --- - Vioa 8 6r-c' *1* SO y isseof laabe for at tNw1 ODW