eIo Nop eIo Nop UMPH of its overnment is and military Afrietian i-olperg-ion, Over7NJtasnibia she halid given South Africa a new opportunity to veto the United Nations Indepenlence Plan. On 27 June, the news broke that Sooth Africa was to be used as a staging post for the construction of a huge new military air base in the Falkland Islands - the first time that South Africa has been Substantially involved in a British defence project since the Sirnsatown Agreement of t955. Meanwhile, in Southem Africa, South African soldiers and saboteurs set off on mssions to bully, intimidate and kill the people of neighbouring countries. President Samora Machel of"Mozambique explained it very well when he addressed his kNCE OF- SI front line colleagues at a regional planning may seem dauntingly large, but it would be a meeting earlier this summer. 'Apartheid fears mistake to oveiestimate them. The people of the example set by our undertaking,' he said, those two countries, through their courageous 'Tsisleads South Africa to employ all themeans freedom struggles, show us every day that they at its disposal to prevent our success. It is this are not scared of Mr Botha and his team of truth which Pretoria attempts to hide from its bullies. There is much more that we can do tc people and from the international community. show and give them practical support, through -'Apartheid wants to keep oh the offensive in the bantustanisationof its own country,' Presi- n T iS issue dent Machel continued, 'and in turning the rest In..his Is u of the region into its satellitem.' The iummit meeting of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference Hands across the ocean (SADCC), which ie was addressing, expressed itself 'perplexed and deeply disappointed' at ABDUL S MINTY report. on testrengthening the failure of the western nations to c.iticie allinee between Israel and South Africa Pretori in any way for its aggressive behaviour. page 4 Ant-iApartheid News readers should hardly War ad read and bullets need reminding of the continuing contribution that western armns and equipment, m~ilitary Southern Africa's woent drought in recorded technology and expertise, make to the apart- history has given Pretoria new weapons with heid war machine.- - whi to beat the front line states -KEiTIt The odds against real progress towards peace SOMERVILLE and PAUL FAUVET report on and non- racialism in South Africa and Namibia their response - page 9 * , treet, London NWI.DW, Tel 01.387 7966 lAME gtting involved in the campaign lo Stop the Apartheid War being or'ganised by tbe AntiSApartheid Movement, the Mozambique Angola Committee md other solidaritywww.nuance.com group inBtair f and abroad, and in planning for the intemaonal Week of Action on Namibja at the end of October. Thje - an and eBshp HUGHPDF MASEKELA came Create! to Loudosn to celebrate Nelson Manda's 5 birthday Trial- and told AA News how he got his first trumpet - page The uranium snatchers How Britain steals the wealth of Namibia - and what can be done about it - pages 6/7' 6 Workentand Pineples and policies are being thrhed out amaong Sooth Africa'S non-racial trade snions page 8

Page 2 AntiApartheid News Septemer 983. Acti!ii !i yaontf -Natonal I- trnatohe County Cricket groundsi in Hove - for. IEpsom ,simpleinOfdA ~ Al h Fanl Belitens, of Sussex UniversityA l th EF~IMan te hrhadAA raised picketers outside the Hove ground 30Jattheithird annal garden wereinterviewedbya SouthAfrican fa t an party, with the help of local instru- journalist. He'seemed fairly disturbed mentalist Alex Kiddy, on guitar, and by our presence and attempted to aaufetsappe convinceusofradicalchangesfin o e GeorgeJohannes,fortheAfrican SouthAfrica'.me . National Congress, sg oke movingly County Councillor Harry Spillman Apar heid: The Facts, published by about the e uetion of the Moroka made a peisonal protest, speaking to th I International Defence and Aid Three and the ongoing strugge. those speetators who had been Fund in cooperation with the UN Contct Malcolm Clarke, Tel 405 allowed in as the match proceeded. Centre against Apartheid, Juae 1983 . 8721ext3966. Contact:FanBehens,Secretary, l12p i dingphotogepha,mps Sh e e Sussex University AA, Students and graphs, £3.00 paperback. * efi el! Union.Falmr,Brighton. ,F B WEALLrecognise,astheapartheid T sregime escalates its war against neighJUST in case he'd forgotten. Prsme bouring states and isitesifies its MinisterietBothawasremindedof repression oftheSouthAfrican Nelson. Madeta'- 65th birthday on, TYNSDE AA's 24-hour vigil on eple, that the solidarity movement. sentbNelson Mandela's 65hhirhdaA thdy wn is faced with new challe 8i Julywith a telegram se Nelson Mandehi's 65th birthday was A goodunderstandingof theSouth SheffieldAA which urged the release supported by several local MPs and African situation among the AAM's TheANCeleradere councillors. membershipisessentialifwesreto The telegram was signed by the The local media gave the event respond to the growing demands of Lord Mayor of Sheffield, the Vice considerable (and sympathetic) cove- the liberation straggle. At a local Chancellor of the Unipalsify, he rag and about 1,500 signa w level activis tsmust be well-informed, Dublin's Lord Mayot Dan Browne (ight) welcomed Ruth Mompati (left), the local churches anhcipa e of collected for the Free Nelson IMandela able to defend the struggle of the ANC 's Chief Representative in Ireland and Britain, to the unveiling of the loa ithan theeditoro f tile perition. n SheffieldMorningTelegraph. AfricanNationlCongressandto 'TributeHead'in the city's Mereon Square Picture byDbin Corporation And on 18 July the local AA held mood Rad. NeastAe ,o, 2Je- Apartheid. TheFacts should a lunchtime vigil-outsidethecathedral Nparidebotthetactohould Now nan for f Park handing out leafletsr, selling4.4 per#>svo provide botl the activist who has anid asking passers-by to sign the peti- EU Isome knowledge already and thiose" tinurgingMandela'srelease peinewtotheMovementwithaclear SUNDAY 26 J~pe, South Africa Nigeria's Permanent Mission at the SContact:FatBhomfield,Sheffield and up-to-date picture of what's Freedom Day, saw one of Dublin's UN. www.nuance.com WREKIN DISTRICT COUNCIL has happening in South Africa. maest remarkable occasiom when Amessagefrom theSecretary24076. joinedthegrovinglistoflocalauthp- This is the first comprehensive 1,500 peoplegathered in the beauti- General of the UN refetred to ritiesPDF committed tothe anti Create!-apartheid handbook n South Africa itself. 5 ful MerrionTrial Square, a public park, to Dublin'stcibueasa'commendableSussex struggle. I - Within t00 pages the book covers the pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, and expression of Ireland's deep commit0. 27 July, the Council adopted main aspects of apartheid its through him to the African National ment to the promotion of human 'the Sheffield Declaration, agreed history, economic basis, repression, Congress. I " rightsantfundamentalfreedomfor ANTI-apartheid peotesters outuu- earlier this year at the Sheffield con- its maintenance today, and the The occasion was the unveilingof all without distinction as to race, bered spectators at a cricket match in fetence, on apartheid-free zones. growing liberation struggle. Each sec- a sculpture by the well-known gender language, religion or political Hoe against South African youth A monitoring'committee is now to tion is full of well- presentedatatistics, American scdptress, Elisabeth Frink, persuasion'. team- despite the fart that it was a beset up, comprising members of the as graphs, tables, maps and charts and its dedication to Mandelaby Ireland's fotenost poet, Seamus weekday and during the university majority Labour group and the oppo- which, together with the many Dublin's Lord Mayor. The bronze Heaney,entertainedthegatheringvacation. sition,to develop anti-apartheid photos, remind us of the brutal bust, entitied Tribute Head and set with a reading of his own poetry' a The South African team, who policy for the Wrekin area. Plans so nature of racism in South Africa. on a plmth of Wictlow granite, will selection of African poetry and a called themselves 'Albatross', was far include renaming a street or pub- The book's treatment of apartheid be on permanent display fi the park, scene from Athol Fugard's play The supposedly multiracial. It actually her building after Nelson Mandela, in the 1980s is particularly valuable, The event was a great celebration Island. And Bill Meek, a well-known contained three Coloured members placing a block order for Anti- explaining the militacisation of the by the people of Dubln of a man Irish radio personality and a former and no black African players at all. Apartheid News, examining the state and the so-called 'reforms' as whom they seeasupholdingtheideals secretary of the Irish Anti-Apartheid STho Albatross team Played a Council's financial links with banks Botha's dual strategy to entrench of freedom, justice and srlf-deterin- Movement, sang most movingly his numbec of underenver matches in and ompanies, and looking into white rule in response to the lie~- nation - ideals which they themslves oten composition, Cry Afruca. BritainbesidesthatattheSussex recreationpoqiaes, tionstraggle . foughtforlessthan 70 years ago in All the speakers and artists were In covering the people's resistance the fight to free Ireland from British introduced by Dublin's City Manager, * * * U * *mm mm m [] * U 3 toapartheidthebookpresentsa re. Freak Feely, whose officers had systematic account of the sany black Comrade Ruth Mompati, Chief origanised site event in association S mmi youth,studentand RepresentativeoftheANCinIreland with the Irish AAM, A 'e youan Ac t is aN-women's organisatiom and the and Britain, replied to the Lord The afternoon drew toa closein _.... ,e / panding trade union movement. It Mayor's speech on behalf of Nelson an explosion of musie from Ireland's U . showstheirgrowingunityandtheirMandelaandtheANC. most famous tradifional band, The Do youfeel youknowallthereistoknowaboutcampaiien rolewithinthebroa tion The Chairman of the United Chieftains, and other leading groups. * Souterna .ica? Using the preas and media? Orgadaing events? * movement led by the ANC. Nations Special Committee against Contact: Irish Anti-Apartheid If your answer is 'yea'- don't bother to read anyfurther Useful features of this IDAFP pub- Apartheid, HE Alhaji Maitamia-Sule, Movement,www.nuance.com 20 Beeclipark Road, FoxBut if it's %no', then hurry to get your registratn fam fr te lication include its many teos- was represented at the ceremony by rack, Dublin It AA1A's A'flV S' CONFREtNCE, 2 .25 .. ol references, detailed chronologies and Kennedy Apoe, Counsellor to pPDF Create! n.ou3 ~aglossaryoftheterminologyofrm 5 Trial n m in n m For a mere £5 you will be briefed by the liberation movemnts on apartheid. The wellstructured see- o the latest developments in the freedom strggles in Sough Africa and B in of the book coull Group Numbm... campaigningplansandpioritiesinBritain overthe yea ...... basifo icusos.u ahead c ahowtoprduceattenion-oabb in itafnaiove pubeiye 'education sessions' at local AA group The Anti-Apartheid Movement has local groups in the following m aead how tor e rag,ifoa mandothermeetings. c material how to make sure that your picket, vigil or demonsttitaonsa This is an excellentguide to apart- Centres: a success you will meet other activists from local and student AA braid and wil be usefll to AA groups Aberde Croydon Nottiongham I - Groups,andhearaboutwhatthey'vebeenupto. andactivistsbothasan accurate Bath Dundee Oxford 'I oknow more? contact the Anti-Apartheid Movement (01- introduction and for accessible anstead Deham Peteboeough 387 7966) for details. rerence. mBarnet Edinburgh Plymouth m * -* m m - I JerenyShepherd iminha . Enfield Richmond Wyneside And-Apartheid and New- Borders Epsom Sheffield __ __Berdansraidthebank steUnivestitAAGroup Bradford Exeter . Skehmersdale m Bemdnrai th ban ec7:Brent ,Hackney "Soutthmpton IF BRITAIN'S population managed to Neas during a visit to London- ver DON'T FORGET that FridayI Brighton Harney s p raise as much, pro rats, as Bermuda's the summer that the Group had onyi pteiber isthe last date for sub- "li n a eS t Lo for the Southern African freedom been formed in 1980, in response to mission of motions for debate at Cambidge Huddersfield Surrey straggle the Pretoria regime would the discovery that the Bank of fthis year's Annul GenetaliMeeting Camden Ipswc Teeside get the fright of its life. Bermuda was involved in a $25 inil- of the Anti-Apartisgid Movement Leeds Tynside ,Beriuda's 85,000 people were able lion loan to the South Afriden state and also the last date for submit aedff -. rWalsa to hand cheque for over $59,000 to iron and steel corporation ISCOR. ting nominations for thte AAM City Manchester WestLondon the World Council of Churc for O lihe Group's first pubic action was a naal Comnittea nad Standing Claco" Merseyside Wrexham refugees from apartheid, at the close protest outside the bank's beadquar- OrdersComisttte. I Colee ltl.d-Sae , . Yorkce. of a fun d-raisingcampaigninitiated ten. " Thisyear'sAGMwillbeheld Norwich by the 'Bermuda Anti-Apartheid -Bermuda AA,a coalition ofindivi- on Sunday 23 October, l0am to Group,. The money was raised from duals, trade unions end .oter groups, -30p, at the WestiinsterCal 3 The Scottish Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement can he contacted individual donatlons, appeals to both has since organised a trade union dta Conference Centre M o Iepe through Jo1m Nelson, Secretary, 3 Rosevale Crescln t, Hamilton, Lanarks. the public and privatesector,and by week of action and has had some Terrae, Londulon SWI. The AGIM Tel Hamlton426781 www.nuance.com entertainers who gave benefits, while succeas in enforcing a boycott of is open only to fully paid-iu TheWelsh AAtcan be contacted dhrough the Secretary, 43 Glenroy Street, the Bermuda governennt pledged to South African wines. This yea, it's iembers of the AAM and pt R oath,Cardiff,TelCardiff499769PDF Create! 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Anti.Apartheid News , September 1983 Page 3 Windhoekieader sets freedom terms SwAPO has presented the South African regime with a direct through its administrator-general political challenge, by calling on Pretoria to meet representatives chnce then the fur has been flying as of the lberation movement for straight talks on Narmibia's freedom. iore and more evidence oftoaladmiThe talks, if they are to be meaningful, would lead to the imme- nistration and corruption among the. diate implementåtion of the UN Independence Plan (resolution tribal 'goveenments' has come to 435)andthesigningofaceasefire. ieht.. f - The SWAPO stalement from the This time, Pietoria cannot use ana SWAPO's Windhoek statemnent, Witbooi-Nijoma taij-s also reiterated of its favoPrite exeoses for evading issued after Htendrik Witboi and SWAPO's rejection of te pinciple the Namibian issue-the old chstrut rome at his colleatuaa had returned of linkage' betweess the withdrawal that SWAPO is an 'externa' move- from talks i Botswana with SWAPO of Coban forces from Angola and the meat with little ssipport inside President Sam Nujomra and tha implementation of resolution 435. Namibia, and thebclaim that sah SWAPO Central Committee, explaio- SWAPOfaetherchallengedPretoriä support as it d-ns hae comes from ed the liberalion movemesI's position fo lift the restrietions, on SWAPO the Ovambo tibe' in the"lorth. on a iamber of current issues. It mebers and funetionaries inside The call for talks was issued by- escibed the 'State Council' wièh Namnibia, and to scrap the variou SWAPO Light inside Namibia, from Pretoria is in the process of setting proclamations it has iLegally imposed Windhoek, and was authorised by up in Windhoek as 'yet another ploy on Namibians to cueail free political SWAPO's newly-elected and interna- by the South African regnme to acivicy. 'All these were promugated ly-based Vice-President, Hendrik entr,ách itseif in Nanmibia.' with a view to neutralising SWAPO as Wiboi. It made it clear tfhat the The Stare Council, which is being a liberation movement, thestatmemont falks dlakeaeI, ess d e ,n'iimgovernment', s . liäa lpy a re-run of the Turohalle trbäformula.Iteesintendedasa l inkt t aitiocover-up forthef ilue ofwhathas lin w t a d iion one to be known as South Africa's HENDRIK WITBODI himnsel has 'internat setiement' in Nanibia, many years of experience of South comnprising'first', 'second' and third Africa's "presive rule inside tier govenents', all steurtured on Namibis. Ha is the great-gratdsonofracialandtriballins. . re,19th century Hendrik Witbooti, The inteenal settlement collapsed 'bis famous nansesake who led the last sev era onths ago, wh. Pretoria Nama uptiäsng against the G erman reimposed direct rult on Namibic calonists and who wrote to the then Westminster waffie THE NEW Homna Seceretary, Leon Brittamn, was challenged by the AAM's choirpeuons Bob Hughes, ta put a stop to South Africon intlligence operations in the UK, at an hour-long neting at the Home Office at the end of julE. The meeting, whichhad been postponed because of the general election, follwed the b ak-in at the AAM's ncse for a series of meases towww.nuance.com curb South Afriean operations in the U. These included the cancellation of the co-visa agreement with South Africa, new procedures for the accrediling of South African diplómats to exclude anyne wilt security, intelligence or military background, snd a parliamentary enqairy to recommend appropriate clhiefPDF f the Herero plp, urgingCreate! that th -ans and the terro hould unite 5 together Trial against thle invaders. The present-day Hendrik Witbood is a church pastorand the principal of a school in Gibeon, in the Noana bantustan, which has pioneered ,Ifhelp and cooperative methods. Hendrik Witbooi isan elected leader among his own Nama community as welt as a national leader of SWAPO. In 1976, the year in whieh he publicly joined SWAPO, hr played a leading role in mobilising opposition to the Turahalle constitutional talks. He was detained withofft charge in 1978 and again'in 1979, and was sacked friom hi job as a school prn,cipal. by the South Afritan goveemnent. action here at home HERE IN BRIT .IN, local AA groups are making plans for the Movement's W-ek of Action on Namibia feom 27 Ociober to 2 November, part of Ile United Nations International Week of Solidarity , n Namibià. Seventeen years ago, on 27 Occober 1966, South Africa's mandste to eule Namibia was terminated by the UN Many groups will be picketing toal branches of Barclays ou Wednesday 2 Novemberf in protest at tre bank's support far South Africa's military occupation of Naoibi The whole of Ortober has been scheduled as a period for collecting funds f.or a minimaum of 100 medical kits for SWAPO. The Namibia Support Committee are organising a SWAPO Benefit on Saturday 29 October, in Ilington Town Hall. O revents in London inlode a neiech carlier in the day on 29 October, passing by the headquarters of some of te main multinationals involved in the plunder of Namibia's resourees For further detail aboat the Weék of .Action and what you con do, coraet the AAM headqarters or teNamrbi Sapport Committe, (3 'Leverton Street, Londont1^15, Tel 01-267 194112 L " - wme annie samnla -tevor esnoesonana »onanugnes atiersern n neaoquarers urngtneMay government polcies sor the lU5Ule. - m retingwiththeForeignOffice Piecerb Star Daybankholedyweekend.Ina Dedpite the iden.efrm, a er memnoandum, the AAM referred te f Old Baileytrials, con ren n be itsdwindling confsdenceinthe AAM'swost,fearsabou hextB t s ilinmssoftheBritish authotes and nature of Souh African opeFa .E t. ake serioas acion agsnt the ions, Whitelaw refused toa on - :. JOURNALISTSat theHouseof Commonshavebeenwarnedby SouthAfrieans'operationsc. these proposals. the Anti Aparthetd Movement tha Bntish polscy is shifting even Thie AAM provided 1hapter and The only tangible development at verse of cases Where the government the July meeting was an undertakig closertoSouth Afcainthe.wakeof thegeneral eaection. ho alled toinvestigatefullyallegal by the Home Seretary to discs tu be The, AAM s press coafefeisce al calhag for vegoro..s action by Britan and amproper Southi African activities. Proceduren,for accroditiogtooli ~ É the end of July followedan hourlong to combat South African aggression " .In October 1982 the AAM bad Afriecan diplornats -ith the Fore n meetLe at the Foreign Office bet- an lestabilisgtion; uneastrs to mer the previous Home Serretary, Seeetary. The AAM awaits the ween, an AAM delegation led by enslre theeffectiveimpementation WiliamWhitelaw,andpresentedthe govesent's responsewiN O W Atchbil.op Tfevor Hodd ton. ani o fex-itinggovementpolicasto_ _ , ______the new Minister, of State rsponsible isohte South Africa, suh .t the aras f.r Af-ican affalrs, MaIlm Riftind. .etarg,, sports boycott and aonSNseibi4 was t the top of the receogniton of the bantustans, and, in sgeeda tor tb meetitg sad, in part-l ,clar, a reent statement in parlia 11 Our Position hs been. èciäby the Minister tha progreos towards tent. We hae alws maintained th Naiban independe.ce depends in aewiadao öfaNn"fepsf peaètice [on] separate discussions 0- Angola is not : plut S% oSCR43'5. regronat secugity no ewu ai ' h e both the US and South Africa atact United Staterand Angola'. . . importane to a settlemeneat of the www.nuance.com The Mionster argued forcibly that Coban problem n association with this did not mean that the Bitish now Namsibian settlemeat. While wc do subscribed to 'frkagc' (e, the with- stat afeept that this shoold be e drawal of Coboa forces from Angola sáry eonsltion, we esmot 'sjore th, as preondition for Nomiblin lade- politicalPDF reality tiat the witladaCreate!-l peasdencel. Ho undertook in write 5 to of Cabana Trial tenops wooild ereafea Arcibishop Htidleston setling out better stmosphere for s id;,i ethe govemment's policy. mt-at " a , H°Wi.ro, °e thlng'emerged clearty ' Malcolm Rsfknd MP fros- the dis-,sion, IhateVerthe letter to Trevor Htddleston eie of dplomaticlangage' 2August198 aetyfol,thei,Britishgovement ,' intends to do nothing ta ei,.,,sde- . - *" pendeo e for Namibia except 'ait, prtièmlar, fo the 9oernment to watt and wall. pos polscie- to limiate the The Minister was also challegd aparteid systerm, inciudingeconomic on the decision to use South Africa sanctions and support for the Afrcian asa staging post for the constructjon National Congress. of the new military irbase, on the The AAM is awasting a considered Flklands, and ou the granting of an response from tle goverment. But if export'licence for the Marconi miii- British policies are to br judged by tary radarsystem . thetenorofthismeating,thenitis Th AAM delegatin presented cler that the AAM faces s iajor the Botih goveenment with a memo- chållest- fl we are to preent Britain Engieering rision AUEW-TASS renamed their fxecutive Commistee ruan en honour of Mandel's birtlday. General rn lfstm, The (ejc for Reves of from being drawn noo an evn doser Seretay Ken Gill (right), seen here with Reg Septensber of the ANC and Cate Clarke of the AAM, sigiedthis giant 8~ ,rl- P&tec71 n n,- ouhr:,rfi'iJifr rst l' " ea, bifthtlaiy ed (designed by a meinber of Camden AA), along with miany other AAM eI ees and såliprtes.

4 nt-Apati flNws September 1983 New New death sentence ANOTHER member of the African National Congress is now facing the gallows in South Africa. SMALESELA BENJAMIN MOLOISE, aged 28, was sentenced to death in the Pretoria Supreme Court on6 June - jusi three days before the Moroka, Three were hanged. Moloise, who made a black power salute and shouted a slogan on hearing his sentence, was charged in connection with the killing of a black warrant officer. The judge said that Moloise had associated with ANC members, including one of the Moroka Three, Maus Motaung. Bail refused for women's leader ALBERTINA SISULU, a leader of the federation of South African Women and of the new unity grouping, the United Democratic Front, was charged on the eve of South Africa Women's Day with 'furthering thgaims of the African National Congress'. She had been arrested three days before at her place of work, a doctor's surgery in Soweto. Bail was refused. Ms Sisulu, wife of imprisoned ANC leader Walter Sisulu, has only recently been 'unbansed' after many years of restriction. In London, South Africa Women's Day, 9 August, was celebrated with enthusiasm and vervtb by a pabked crowd in Conway Hall. The hundreds of people who came to the meeting, organised by the Women's Section of the ANC, brought gifts of baby oil, nappirs, shampoo, soap, tampons and other gifts for South African Tefugees at the Solompon Stahloangu Freedom College, in Tanzania and elsewhere. Doctorate for Pollsmoor prisoner NELSON Mandela's close colleague Walter Situa, who is imprisoned with im sn Polsmoor Prison, was honoured earlier this year when the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences o the Soviet Union awarded him an honorary doctorate. The degree was collected on hiswww.nuance.com behalf by the ANC Secretary-General Alfred Nz. FERTILE DEATH The sun's eyes turned away in sorrow in the bloody dawn when the hangnan's noose pressed upon the throatsPDF of fredom's braves. Create! 5 Trial Simon! Jerry! Marcus! You precious jewels of the people! Diamonds of this lionhearted nation of blacks! Though you did not see the fury of your people in those last moments of your life, fists rose clenched as your last breath mingled with the morning breeze never to return... The executioner rnbbed his hands4n glee, * sighed in relief, and laid his head desperate to sleep.' Unaware that upQn that plane of passion grew a nation vaster than the hopes of i morrow... E Aadeh 9 June 1983 (This poema, from an Iranian sympathiser of the freedom struggle, has been translated from Farsi) Foreign Offce fudges on Falklands THE Anti-Aparteid Movemsent is still awaiting answers to three role selt be pivotal to the entire crucial questions which it put to the British goverment following operation. Supplies, soaterias and athe row over the proposed Falklands military airbase at the end of equipment, as "fe l as the construction "dm June. At that time, it was disclosed that South Africa was to be workers, will be ferried from Cape NOR .H' the staging post forthe constructio of the new base. Town, thus developing links which South Africa would be naive not to 14,t' A TLA N TIC The Falklands base will be the first about 1,000 on average,peakingatfosterassiduously. .OCEAN British defence project since the 1,400. Work is seheduled to start in The British governmtnt, by choos - a - e Simonstown, Agreement of 1955 to September or October and to be ing to make the construction of the involve substantial South African completed by February 1986. Falklands military airbase dependent collaboration. -The decision to Use although the main runway should be on South Africa's collaboration, has Oe_, South Africa as a staging post was uisable byApril 1985. placed substantial power to influence attacked by both Labour and SDP The role of South Africa as a British policies regarding Namibia spokesmen. staging-pest has yet to be fully clari- and South Africa in the hands of the U$TH The questionswhichtheAAMputfled.ThePrimeMinisterrepliedtoanPretoriaregime. 'A ge C ,. to the government were: initial protest byBob Hughes MY on Mrs Thatcher's own double stan- TI A TIC *what assurances and undertakings behalf of the AAM by sEating that dards were exposed in the H e o of 7 : OCEAN hive been given to South Africa 'the decision of the "contractors to Commons when s led told Bob Hughes It. in order to secure its cooper- send their construction workers to that commercial links with South ; eb A - teem tion in this project? the Falklands via South Africa is an Africa must be preserved at all costs . SIm a secret arrangement'beemn entirely commercial matter. Service- and waved, the figure of150,000 I made to use the SinonstoWn men or defence personnel will con- British jobs at him, supposedly to be "lstg sat - - T naval base and/or other defence tinue to travel via Ascension.' lost if anti-apartheid sanctions were SeatS '. set s 1w, facilities in South Africa in return At a meeting with the Foreign enforced. -for South Africa's cooperation? Office at the end of July, the AAM *what guarantees are there that was also informed that no equipment this is not the first step in a new would be delivered via South Africa. defence arrangement in the Southwww.nuance.com Property Serees Agency, the Atlalic based on the cnopera- agency through which the government tion of South Africa? arranged the contract for the-airbase, The members of the consortium has presented a vry different impreswhich is to build the £215 million sion. From reports of their explanabase are Mowlem/Laing/Amey Road- tions as t why South Africa is stone.PDF It will involve a workfoceCreate! of involved itiselear thatSouth Africa's5 Trial ISRAELS UNHOLY ALLIANCE AN IMPORTANT conference on the growing alliance between the South African apartheid regime and Israel took place in Vienna recently - despite concerted efforts by powerful forces to prevent it from being held. ABDUL SJMINTY, Hofn Secretary of the AntiApartheid Movement, was there as the AAM's representative. He reports. Prior to the conference, from I Il3 July, both Israel and the USA had objecled to its taking place, The Israeli embassy in Vienna distributed a two-page statement $n the eve of its opening, claiming that it was 'another anti-Israel propaganda orgy'. The statement contained so many factual and 'other inaccuracies that it was impossible for anyone, including the press, to take it seriously. The conference was organised by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid in cooperation with the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO), the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity(OATUU) and the World Peace Council. Participants included representatives of various UN and other inter-governmental bodies, African, non-4igned and other states, anti' apartheid and other non-governmental organisations, and representatives of the liberation movements as well as various experts. The proceedings were opened and chaired by Ambassador Fafowora of Nigeria who led the delegation of the UN Special Committee. Participants heard statements from various delegation leaders during the opening session and. were presented with detafled" analysis of the nature and extent of relatigns between South Africa and Israel, and the growing alliance between the two. Despite the fact that considerable information was presented to the conference, the western reporting of is was very poor. It was almost as if it had not taken place at all. Various participants made a wideranging set of proposals for action and the final report of the conference, which will be issued soon from the UN, will contain the major ones. The conference declaration condemned Israel for its collaboration with the racist regime of South Africa, especially in the military and nuclear fields, and caled for this to be ended. The fact that the conference was held was in itself un important achievement. Its success, despite thelack of publicity, is a major step forward in ensuring that the truth about the growing altiarice between Israel and South Africa becomes better known. The details of South African-Israeli Nelson and Winnie Mandela's elder daughter Zenai was among the audience nuclear collaboration are kept very at the birthday meeting in the Royal Commonwealth Society, together with secret. Substantial information is her husband Prince Thu.lsuri of SwacIan available on military collaboration between the two countries, however. The AAM's contribution to the con: ference'included presenting some of this evidence, including details about the unmanned scout aircraft from -South Africa shot down by Mozambican forces in May 1983. Western drivel NINETEEN-eighty-three marks the end of the first United Nations Decade to Combat Racism and in August gavermenta,, liberation movements and non-governmental organisations net in Geneva to assess developments and to discuss theiternational struggle gainst rurism. International action against apartheid was at the heart of the agenda and so delegates had to sit through a series of hypocritical speeches from awestern diplomats, condemning apartheid while undertaking to protect South Africa against any effective international action. The previous month Geneva had also been the venue of a conference with the same theme, but very different in character This one was convened by non-governmental organisa tins and the participants included liberation movement leaders, representatives of indigenous peoples from the Americas, New Zealand and Australia, and black organisations from western Europe and North Mull renased a public garden-and shared a celebratory birthday cake with America. - ...... ANCrepmaenatatieluthomlmti . I .

Anti-.parthetd New September 1983 Paga 5 The Jazzman and the Bishop ONE OF the most exciting eventswww.nuance.com of the Nelson Mandela birthday celebsra tiois w~ the Festival of Afican Sounds '83 at Alexandra Palace. On Sunday 17 July around 3,000 people braved the sweltering heat to hear some of themost respected African performers in the world, and t9 dance to' the rhytluns of resistafice. RITA SANDERSON was amoag them. ArtistsPDF inluded many faem Create! fami- in the UK lugh received a rapturous 5 lir to theTrial AA Movement, like receptionfrom anaudienceoveejoyed OrcherrJzirät,DuduPukwana'sZila 'at his pres sse. Voices chsered, and Jsuls Bhula's Jazz Afrika, a hands clapped and bodies swayed to we1t a the intemationally known the music of a man whose music Osibisa, dancers from Ipi Tombi and represents 'free Africa' to thousands of exiled and oppressed. 1 ovm In the coalhoiig town of Witbank, 100 rilus from Johannes- j . burg, Hughs was introdue to the The ÅJerandra Palace pavilon -sa dominaed by a huge hast of Nelaon Mandela a culpted in hionoue of the ANC leader byartist 1I Walters mmbers of Soyikse, a revolutionäty African theatre group formed after the Soweto uppri in 1976. Bul sendoshtdby the biggest åttCaitt3ilCl<-flhe Frestieal, whlich was fi.nnally sippoted by the Arts Council nd the Musicians Union, was the insemationnlñ alaimed trumpet player and crmpoter Hugh Masekela. On his finst solo appearance Nels oi Mandela. 1 didn't do too well wtih the atethorities in school hait titeo, was a chaplain there called Trevor ludlesto n. e was a great voice agamst apartheid always speaking out in the press. Anyway he "viä the "hoodlum" priest, ve-ry.ne passed tirough his offic at some tin, if they semed to be straying :off thg inils! . 'Hr Wa very kisd: remember him saymg, "Wel, what are.yns going to do : what would really make yoU eel better?" Ud just seen a -film about Bix Beiderbecke it was a long-shot really I said I want to play the tr.pt' Trevor Huddleston, now President of AAM, managed not only to acquireatrmpet for Hugh (not easy an-he Birthday honours for Nelson TRIBUTES. meetings and an almost liewildering variety of special events were organised around the world to mark Nelson Ma[sella's 65th birthday on IS Julyv 1 cannot imagine -sn penple of is gr wlo were c mbe ed so universally and in so many different says' cmmen the AAM Presid nt, Archbihop Trevor Hluddleston, who knw the Mandelas well during ts OWn time in South Africa. 'And ri a rvsn tsgnceof life imprisonatent,' l, LONDON, the mamth Festi,l of African Sounds '83 was foltówed by . speat birthday meeting at th Royal Commonwealtl ,Society, atlended by, anong sssy albhees, Winnie and Nelson's attlee dautghter ,Zenan, and her husband Prci T.umbumzi of iSwaziland. Speaikers Archbishop tluddlestons, Mary Brsn (another tongslanding family fend of th MadeLas), Ruth M-pti of thre AN, Trevor Philips and Des, Starrs of the Free Mndela Coordinating Commitre ere joined by trumpeter Hugh Misekela, intoe John Matshikiza and the ANC choir in paying tribute to Mandea, South ,f the River Thames, the London Borugh of GREENWICH awarded Nelson Mandeta the Freedom of the Borough at a special cremony on 20 July. In HARLOW, a new namebäod, "Maiela Averue', was ufveiled on the town's First Avenu by the chair- Mandela man of anrlow Council Councllor John Cave jorned over 2,000 mayors from 52 c"untries in sýipilg the intemtional dorlaration for Handel's relese. In HULL Ilie' ornamental grdens in front of ,the :house c.pied by tnt* Wilberffe, the ilavery abolitioltist, were srnamed 'Nelson Mandela- Gardens'. e' teremony foraed partof the 150th annivemary celebrations of ti bolitjon of slavery in the British empire, on. 26 jly 1833. The City Council in LEEDS sent a letter to Winmi Mandels, snviting her to attesd an official ceremony to rename the garde-n in front of the City Buildings after her husb d. Within the trad usion movement, engineering union AUEW-TASS (which proposed the resolution unanimusly adopted at the 1982 TUC Congress to support the Fre Mandela Campaign), renated is ExeentiveCounmittce room after NelsonMandela. .' The Labour Party has msvited Handela to its conterenre in October this year. international, Nelson Mandela and King Juan Carlos of Spaln together becaie the finst recipirts of the Simon Bolivar Award from thewww.nuance.com UN Educational, Scicatific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). A ceremony look place on 24 Jaty in Caracas, Venezuea, in Conjunction With the 200th anniversary celebrations of the birth of South American revölitsonegy !radeu iaan. B~I var,;, was 'in orders' and didn't possess as meetings - mY statement is in my money) brt alan to Fmed a teacher music.'PDFfrom whatwasknowa Create! as'The Andindeedit'was,foratthe 5 Trial Johannesburg Municipal Native Bank' birthday rally for Nelson Mandela in After tIht Hugh caught on reAy the Royal rommonowealth Society, sasickly, and so n Esther Huddleslon Hughb's trumpet filled the air in a 'was bumming instruments left right jóyful tribute ln the ANC leader. and centre' and the HuddlestonJazz Andonthesamenighttw greatBandwasformed. comredes,'thejazzman' and 'the. i In 1955 Trevor Huddleston was, bishop', werereuaited.. deported from South: Africa but on his way back throUgh the, United An LP of the music festival, African States hr stopped to see Louis ,ornls, will be availablé son -conArmstrong perform. After the perfor- tart AAM for detafls. 5 mance he went to meet the great "Satchino' and told tlm about Hugh Julian Babsula ant Jazzfrika can be , and the difficulty of getting good heard again on London on 8, 9 and instruments. 'Wel,' said Louis, '1'11 10 September, at the Albany Empire send im one of my horna.' And it in Deptford, the 100 Club in Oxfofd was duly despatched. Street, and the Country Club at Zenani Mandela, Nelson and For Hugh Masekela that was a 210A Haverstock Hill, respectively. Winnie's rlder daughter, visited turning point in is life: 'My biggest They will be peeformig together the Africao Sonda Festival vvhåse dream was t6 g to New York where with South African dancers and she was bi London- togeier here all the great ja-cplayemwere'Thesgers,Othingo. withRuthMtmpatiotheANC dreamcamelrcandHughpessed20 o ytas in Amsericaafterwinningseveral ' -" masical scholarships. He has played with the greatest and earhed the respect of musicians all over the la 1980 Hugh reurned to Africa with ild1 South African singer Miriam Makeba. Wben 75,000 people tused up in Lesotho to hear them be d eciale-t. tN- Now ling ini Botswana, Hugh says 'It's time to come back home and t.ach wliat we have learnad, and playfor oar own . people, and stop knoking at 5 Anerica's black back door.' He feets firat the best contribution bie can make fn the movemrent is his music: 'T'm not a great mtdllertual and I don't have to esuch to sayat 6 Hugh Masekela at African Sounds '83 Brushing against apartheid ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY in 198I from contributoes until apartheid is 651h hirtiday and latted for tw) (10 DSecemter) ls tommsirr oj a9bilished in South Africa Then, the weeks. briot of the World Aganist Aprt- arwns will be presented to the Contibuting artists vere: Arman whid as fomed in Paris in consalta- newfrerstate. LeonardoCeemonimi,GavinJantje,, tron with Ihe EN Special Comnittee The exibitn, whi h happ'aced Wilfeedo Lam, L0uisieBrocquy, ulin against Apartheid. st the Georges Pnpidu Centre ,, La Parc, Roy'Lichtenstein, Luceburt, It was decided to xt up a mobile Paris and over 10 social and cultural Enest Piginon-Erist, Roberto art e hihition consiSting of works centres in Frane, made its debu in Rauschenberg, Antonio Saurs, Paul do.nated by trtists who would recive England nt the Upitas Gallery of Rebyrolte, AnÅtni Tpies, Jo, Tilson no remuneration or roYaties. The London's Royal Academy on 8Joly. and Wolf Vostell exhilition, whii nowr c i sts of the Organised jointly by the British The eshibition i, availabla sn work of 15 artists, will tour the Defence and Aid Fund and Anti.- poster form, price £49 plus VAT for galleries of tle world, - bopefully Apartheid Movement, the exhibition a set of IS, or£8 plis VAT singdy. growing and gathering moreptIUngscnimlQzated Nelsonwww.nuance.com Man Detailsl,A 1, Pae6 4tiApf t held News Septemfber 1983 1MAIAI% OuMIM0rkicSarr ACTIONPDF Create! 5 Trial THE British government's hypocrisy on the Namibian uranum issue ha been exposed by SWAPO. After years of complicity in the theft of Namibian uranium the Department of Energy trumpeted its decision. earlier this year to end the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) contract with Rossing, in December 1984. SWAPO moved quickly to explain the emptiness of this declaration. The liberation movement pointed out that. -on.e-third of the supplies covered by the contract have still to be delivred 1. the CEGB * there is no firm assurance that furthtr quantities will riot be imported to Britain after 1984 (whether via a new contract or bought on the 'spot market') * the British government is meanwhile accepting steadily rising imports of Rosing, uranium oxide for processing at British Nuclear Fuell and eventual re-export to Japan and West Germany *the Rossing mine has become the largest single source of revenue for the South African army of occupation. Britain's record of duplitciy on Namibia is wll-known. Any claim that by announcing the termisation of the contract the government has ended its part in the theft of Namibian uranium is as phoney as its pretence that it has negotiated' honestly, as a member of the Contact Group, for Namibia's independence. The announcement on the contract is a smokescreen behind which British companies will continue to lead the plunder of Namibia's natural Wealth, with the full connivance of the British gove nment. SWAPO's position is clear: the CANUC campaign should continue and intensify, while the corporations behind Rossing, such as Rio TintoZinc, must be made to pay compensation to the Namibian people. RIO TINTO"ZINO, THE CONTRACT and whyis ilega THE Ro ing mine is the largest uranium mine in the world, It produces ,200 tons Of Uranium oxide annually about one-sxth of the world's supply. Rio Tinto-Zin, Britain's largest mining company, owns just over half of Rossbig and also manages the mine, The other main shareholders are: the Ilndustrial Development Coroiration of South Africa (IfC) (13.2%), General Mining of South Africa (6.8%), and Total of France (5.0%). Rossing currently accounts for 4% of RTZ's total investment, but earned 26% of RTZ's profits in 1982. RTZ claims that it has fewer 'voting' shares in Rossing than the IDC, but it won't reveal any figures. The UK contract began in 1968between RTZ and the United Kingdom , Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), but changed in 1974 to a Rossing-Britsn Nuclear -uels Ltd contract. In 1980 the CEGB took over the UKcotract from British Nuclear Nuclear Fuel (BNFL). When this happened, the British government admitted that the contract comprised 'two akreements'. It is not known whether this refers to the original order of 6,000 tons plu the L500, tons added in 1971, or whether, as has been speculated, the Tory . government increased ,these quantties again in 1980. But it seems clear that secret new 'agrements' can be made to increase the quantities covered by the contract. The British government has admitted that far more uranium from Roting over and above that covered by the contract is clandestinely imported into Britain for processing and re-export. , Edmondsns, a small anti-trade union lorry firm based in-Morecambe, delivers the material to BNFL at Springfields once it has been brought ffrm Namibia by ship. .'the Inside Story of Britin's f Sor t C ract S:for Namba Uranium- SICCESSIVE British governments, RTZ and other British companies profiting )rom occupied Namibia have repeatedly rejected the International Court of Justice and UN. Security Council decisions banning trade and other .economic relatipons with the illegal regime. The British government and RTZ both acknowledge that UN Security Council resolutions 276, 283 and 301 were adopted without a British veto, but they question the 'obligatory' nature of the decisions The 1971 Opinion of the Internationalwww.nuance.com Court of Justice, supporting resolution 276, says' 'all member states of the UN are under obligation to recognise the illegality of South Africa's presence in Namibia and to refrain from any acts, and in particular any dealings with the' Government of South Africa implying recognition of the legality of, or lending support or assistance to, such presence and administration.'PDF Create! 5 Trial This was endorsed by the Security Council in 1971, through, resolution 301. This further stated that all states mast refrain from entering into 6ronomic or other forms of relationship with the illegal. regime ... franchises, titles, or contracts ... are not subject to protection or espousal by their states against claims of a future law* ful Government of Namibia.' The British and Frelach governments were the only two in the UN to reject openly, but not to veto, these decisions. While secretly signing deals-with RTZ to enable the company to start constructing Rossing a few'years later these two governments argued that, because Article 39 of the UN Charter was not invoked, the decisions were not binding. The International Court of'Justce examined this argument and concluded, however; that 'it is not possible to find in the Charter any support for this view ... the, decisions ar consequently binding on all members' (IC1 Reports UGBang SoUth Afrcas War\ TOURNG 98394,Rusting will becomre the largest portion, has been deferred. " The money will be spent on South Africa's war effort in Namibia thrugh 'During peevios strikes at the mine, the largest single taxpayer to the illegal This is becanse Rossing's shareholders, Afica's arny and police payrolls, on its maieante of a 65-strong'security Rossing has used this' force and the 1 South African remgte in Namibia - a including RTZ, are still getting their subsidies to white farmers in the war force' at the mine, 'to maintai a state South African police to crush legitimate regime which now has 100,000military initial capital investment back (appr6xi- zones and on quasi-military and bantu- of preparedness against civil or labour protests by the black workers and personnel in the territory. - mately f200m). During 1983-04, how- stan infrastructure (roads,,fencing, etc) or terrorist attack' (according to a their efforts to gain recognition for the In the past, Rossing has paid income ever, Rossing will have to pay £30m or and personnel (security guards). leaked Rossing security document National iion of Namibian Workers, [tax, sales tax, rates and non-resident more in company tax, according to Over and above this, Rossing is which the RTZ chairmaphasconfirnmed (NUNW), a Suppressed union which .0pharhilrzs tex, but-comapany tax. ioAaP#sae atoey, jA~ip'yti W~u~a rae,f, uprsSAO

Anti-Apartheid News September 1983 Pap9 7 oered m dust 'WE LODGE OUR APPEAL TO YOU Working in the-open air under hot sn, in the uranium dust produced by grinding machines we are also exposed to the ever present cyclonic wind' which is blowing in the desert. Consequently our bodies are covered in dust and one can hardly recognise us. " We are inhaling the uranium dust into our lungsso that many of us have already suffered an effect. We are not provided with remedies and there is no hospital to treat us. Our bodies ae cracking and sore... Extract of a letter from workers' representatives at Rosring Mise to the British people, December 1979 BLACK workers at the Rossing mine The naximunm pay in grade 1 is are exposed to appatlingheath hazards R317 a month; that in grade 13 is as well as being discirminated against R2,548., The rates for the highest in 'work grades and housing, grades are kept secret. tn proportions Racim- wors te tothemine'sprofits, the overall wage Racim work~er anda staft at theie bitt is the lowest jar Namibia. " are graded fr~om I to 18. Grade~s I tor8 bili h "oeti anb On top of better jobs and higher are the unskilled or semi-skilled: more pay, white workers have much better than 90 per cent of these workers are housig because it s allocated accordblack and on monthiy rates of pay ing to grade. The 1981 British Council without jobwww.nuance.com security. The higher of Churches visit to Namibia learned grades, 11 to 18, have fixed salaries that male Ovambo workers were liying and conditions, much higher rates of in overcrowded conditjn in a eup pay and are 95-100 per cear white. one mil downwind of the mine and Less than 10 per cent of the workers in the entire mine are women. ApartheidPDF Create! 5 Trial African state a crucial bargasining wea pn in obtaining nuclear technology, materials (mainly enriched uraniura) and scientists from a few key western states. ADl these are needed for the further development of the apartheid nuclear bomb.. Its control over such a large proportion of the world's uranium oxide enables the apartheid regime to strike up nuclear exchange relationships. The oe, South African Industrial Development the Corporation owns one-qdlarter of the ate Rossing shares and the mine is governed Sod by the South African Atomic Energy the Enrichment Act of 1974. :ers, ch The Bri;ish government admits that Bomb prior to 1974 uranium from South Africa itself was imported into Britain by the UKAEA and that the UKAEA supplied enriched uranium to South Africa. Since then, Britain has relied mainly on Rossing, but it'has lktpt a vti of secrecy over its nuclear links with South Africa's Nuclear Developnent Corporation especially since 1979 when the evidence suggests that Pretoria exploded its first nuclear bomb. . On 15 Mabch this year, however, the British' Energy Ministry, John Moore, revealed in a parliamentary answer that 'the South African Nuclear Development Corporation (formerly the SA Atomic Energy Board) is an Trade hnceexposedtou,aiomdust.SomeU I onists local Damara dolojred' workers live dt Arandis, a badly-bult settlemint 10 miles from the mine, while the whites live at the plush seaside resortofSwakopmsad,40milesaway. n s t th e open-cast. It is therefore extremely dangerous not only for the black workers who directly dig the uranium THE trade union movement has the pelts, cadmium, beef, diamonds and oxide, but also for the local popila- power - potentially - to stop the any other products, all of which are tiron who are subjected to a constant Rosing contract. But what's essential banned under UN Decree No I. The barrage of uranium dust. Fot the firsit of all is to win the support of the conference recommended a publicity workers there are also other chemicals rank and file members vho would be and education programme in the trade and eases used in the mining and mill- at the sharp end if resolutions and, union movement to explain Britain's ing, and the risk of explosions during policies against collaboration Were. put role in Namibia and the need for the the 'yellowcake'dryingprocess intofractice. blockade - this could include a joint The heat and scorching winds i the At a conference te July this year transport union poster, feature articles desert around Rissing mean that the for trade unionists in London and the in union journals, and the organising air is dust-ridden - dust which gives, south-east, the transport unions were. by joint port committees of a SWAPO off radon gas, Underground water urged to convene national and regional speaking tour around south-eastern supplies are also contaminated. The meetings to plan for a selective bloc)- ports. risks of lung and other cancers' from "this dinst are immense. Until a couple, of years ago there were no regular health checks for the lowergrade wrkr., and , TZ have refused an idependstt bealth aind environmental study. The original recroitment practice at Rossing was to bring supplies of con- M tract labour onerfe-year to 18-month terms from countries other, than Namibia. After exposure to the hazards, these workers would disappear back home, possibly to awaitwww.nuance.com a slow -death, from exposure, as cancer may take many years t6 develop, with no possibilityof compensation. dofNnb posbittyPDF f ompnsaion oe oCreate! Naiban urarium. Ak press- A number 5 of trade Trial-unions have In1982marethan85percentof yworkers'un alradytakensignificantactionagainst the black worhforce were Namibian. told the conference that his usio bad the Rossing contract. Lorry dnivers Many are on contract ftom the bantu- previously cooperated with the Na o- and.tansport union Officials have been stas to which they subsequently dis- nal Union of Seamen (NUS) and t monioring Edmondsons, the firmused appear. RTZ claims that 50 per cent of Transport & General Workers Union to carry the uranium. Such monitoring the 'workforce have been with the (TqWU) to stop nuclear waste dumping ould be extended onto cross-channel mine for more than five years, but at sea. He felt that thesame cooper- roes, with the help of the seamen's they also admit that computedised ton could be activated agajnst Natls- aIon. Last year, Region 3 of the records have only existed since 1981. bian uranoum. TGWUorganisedawell-attended interArthur Pickering, who worked at The trade union delegates also agreed union conference on the CANUC tossing, said in, 1981 that 'most of the to take amount of other produce enter- campaigs in Bristbl - a centre of RTZ wdrkers, especially in the open pit, ing Britain from Namibia - karakul operations. leave after a year or so. I know of very few workers at Rossing who actually'''A-S-ANC " stay thaere toe many years.' * CANUC is the Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contract. CANUCm * coordinates thework to stop the contract. When your group has decided i to take some action, contact the CANUC office and discuss4with us whati we can do to support you. Literature, posters, badges, etc, are available A d we can arrange speakers or films for larger meetings. m l CANUC is convened by the Namibia Support Committee; recognised by * the UN Council for Nauslbia as a non-governmental organisation in support m m of UN policy on Namsbia. CANUC issupported by the Anti-Apartheid I Movement and many other national and local organisations. -- -I ------FILL THIS IN AND RETURN TO: CANUC, c/o N$C, 53 Levetton Street, London NWI, l Lwant to join the CANUC activist network and enclose £3. [0, Please send me further resources, as ordered below. 1 0 Please send me furthee information about other NSC campaigns. 3 Am-airR C (Tick appropriate box)3 N am e ...... A ddress ...... Tel ...... I...... associate member of the systeis r~lsa- _."f an blity service operated by the UKAEA'. W at union political or conm Rity organisaton brahes are yqu ny Is the British government, like the m leagan administration, stepping u its FURTHER RESOURCES AND INFORMATION nuclear collaboration with apartheid? I lease send me: No one knows, butthechilling attitude Quatfty Pamphlets emanatingfromPretoria,su..medup ' eret bythe regine's Deputy Minister of ." "The'Routeg File the inside storyof Brims's Derc. two years ago, is that 'it contract'' " P -wouldbeverystupidnottouseiti'TradeUnionActiononNamibianUranum' £L.00 nuclear weapons were needed as a Last resorttodefendoneself'. . 'Free Namibial Britain's Nuclear Colony' p m ...... 'SWAPO of Namibis' ' 25p 3 Poters Further information on the apartheid ....'.... 'Stop the plunder of Namibian Resources' S0p bomb .a befoundinSouthAfria'aI .. 'CanceltheNamibiantaniumcontracts' 30p NuclearCapability,availablefromIT e dforoe " I AAM for50p. Totalenclosed for orders ...... inIi mm~i~[m - ~ www.nuance.com Pge 8 Anti-Apartheid News September 1983 Trd Unoit agisAprtei W orkers'leader A*netSlikeOtk & ThMa -hwrsrndWrersa- diviedPDF Create! Pass.,lans 5 Trial hoe detention-prompteda worldwide campaign,oabeen ee- mere OSCAR wEhse sprtses4eear-s uotaeeruindspitigleadephysi 7 Ve ted president of the United Democratic Front in Cape Town.0 j= ""' S Mpetfia, whose spirits seem as buoyant as ever despite great plsysi- 111 ' .% iiD cal frailty, was only recently released on bail (of one rand, pending appeal) at the close of his marathon two-and-a-quarteryeartrial. Warktninvoltvednonionsorin Unonsts boren tre es! besesbnrd Or' use Speaking from a wheelchair to the defendants were sentenced to varying st si aeis. tai wajex es or,, h i +Wb tne thw..c. -re . -tr C U-, inaugural meeting of, the Soweto terms of up to 20 years in prison. are be-,wichoser ,' req anraat deeoc. moernct cue, youth congress in August, Mpetha The United Democratic Front,of terosa,'.T,, r'oi. u .. frhtthe saidthathehad'madeavowwith whichMpethaisnowoneofthe 0ess'rc° s ,41k5 attade on wers myselfthatwhatevertheydowithleadingfigureheads,isanumbrella ve.soi b'3 . , - e , me is immaterial. I will not diebefore grouping of youth, student, women s, e,, Isee,freedom.' 1. . church,tradeunion,politicaland ,I Barely a month before, he had community Organisations, united in been welcomed home fromPollsmoor support of the objectives of the prison to Nyanga hy a crowd of well- Freedom Charter and pledged to wishers. With a possible sentence of campaign against the South African five year' i nfisonment haiging government's phony constitutional How the issues are being presented to trade unionists inside South Africa a cartoon in a popular anti-apartheid over bin (the minimum mandatory 'reforms'. Provincii branches of the newspaper in Cape Town sentence on his conviction for 'mur- UDF have been set up in the Transder and trisor', currently subject evaal, Natal anid the Cape, and on 20 to appea, he told the crowd to 'singAugustanoverallnationalstructure Tmysong'. wasdo,to-belaunche.'. Tr de unon pla th i ta tc Immediately the crowd, swaying The Soweto youth congress is One SOME important steps have been taken this year to forge greater i. meant to emasculate democracy and dancing, burst into the freedom of several to have be mobilised in song, 'There are gunis inAngola'. support of these uni moves. side usity within South Africa's democratic, son-racial a union within the trade uni. movement The charges against Mpetlh, ho Oscar Mpetha, one of the main movement. Feasibility talks have been in progress to discus the enemy, we-should recogis, the fact is a diabetic, arose out of riots in speakers at its inaugural meeting was formation of a new trade union federation inside the countty. How that some unions, though opposed to 1980. Ding his long detention, his Albertina Sisulu. the president of the signlificant would this be for the advance of the freedom strusggle registration, have for tactical reasons health de0trioeated, and it now Federation of South African Woman asawhole? acceptedit.Itmustnotbeusedasan appears that one leg must le amputa- and only -ntly free from a ban- isae to militate against unity.' ted. Pasing sentence, the judge said ning order. Her husband, Walter There were shouts of 'Anpadla' pointed out that the regime's cu- t that he would not have jailed Mpetha Sisulu, is in prison in Pollsmoor with CPower') and the singing of workers escalation ofits programme of forced if be had not been. obliged todoso NelsonMandeai songsastradeunionistsfiledoutofa removals,thetightening of the pass T ho ino under apartheid law. His six cowww.nuance.com- conference hail in Athlone, Cape laws and influx controls, and th new THE non-racial South African trade Town, in April this year. The dale- constitutional 'reforms' are all inten- unions taking part in the unity conw anted for Nam ibia representingmoretha300,000 dedtofragmentthecountry andPDF to felessc in Athlone, Create! Cape Town, on 5 Trial workers i 14 of the non-racial, or - sow division among the people. 9-10 April this year were: independent, trade unions, had been 'A difficult period lies ahead,' TRADE unionists will be collecting trade -'union pension fund trustees attending the fourth trade union SACTU hisvearned. 'In orderto roe- African Food and Canning Workers donations frpm colleagues for the should be approached to take action summit confqrence called to discuss solidate our strength gain new ground Union (AFCWU) Namibian material aid campaign, as fordisinvestment, andplanforworkers'unity . and isolatethecollaborators, unity Cape Town Msnicipal Workers one result of a conference held in Unions were asked to beck the In spite of manydifferences must be achieved. The effect of trade Association (CTMWA) London on 17 July. Unions in the UN International Week of Action on between the various trade Unions union =fity oh the general unity of Conmercrl, Catering and Allied education sector, i lparticuiar, will Namibia from 27 October to 2 Nov- involved (riot least on the best people against apartheid, will be Wotkers Union (CCAWUSA) aim to collect or buy blackboards, ember - this includes a demonstra- approach to forming a fe'eration), dramatic and dynamic, The people Council of Unions of South Africa tape recorders and other equipment tion in London on 29 October, the Athlone summit was solidly demand a- united trade union move- (CUSA) for Namibian refugees, and to raise focusing on multinationals illegally agreed on a fundamental principle - ment!" (B(orke r' Unfty, official Engineering and Allied Workers funds for the literacy paclsi being put involved in Namibia. Throughout the need for workers' unity as a organ of SAC-TU, June 1983) Unison (EAWU) together by the SWAPO Women's October them will be a special appeal fighting defence against attacks by The Atrican National Congress h Federation of South African Trade Council, costing £30 each. formedical kits for SWAPO, with the the state, by the bosses and against welcomed the Athline trade union Unions (FOSATU) The solidarity conference, organi- aim of raising enough for 100 kits all the other problems facing South summit and the subsequent feasibility Food and Canning Workers Unin sed by the Namibia Support Commit- from thetradeunion movement. Africa's black workers, talks asstepsinthe right direction. (FCWU) tee with the Tower Hamlets and Several recommendations were The Athlone summit set up a feas- In underground information circulat- General and Allied Workers Union Hackney Trades Councils, made a made concerning the Rissing uranium ibility committee which hassince met jng inside South Africa, the ANC (GAWU) number of hard-hitting recommenda- contract and the need to enforce UN to discuss details of the proposed new points out that a lot nf flexibility wl Genral Workers Union (GWU) ,tions. Five British compansies were Decree No I for the protection of federation. The feasibility committee be needed if the country's trade General Workers Union of South picked out as special targets for a Namibia's natural resources (see has been asked to consult with all the unionists are to achieve the goal of a Africa (GWUSA) disinvestment campaign Barclays, centre pages of this issue), different unions involved and is due strong and united movement. Motor Assembly and Compononts Standard Chartered, BP, Shell and A full report of ie conference is to meetagaininOctober. Onthe issue of whether or not the Workers Union (MACWUSA) Consolidated Goldfields, all of which available from the Namibia Support The moves have been welcomed non-racisl trade unions should seek Municipal and General Workers have Namibian operations. It ws Committee, 53 Levertos Street, by the South African Congress of official registration, for examplethe Union(MGWU) % agreed that. local authorities and London NW5, Tel 01-267 I941/2 Trade Unions (SACTU), which has ANC says that 'although registration Orange Vaal General Workers Ualon (OVGWU) Workers on strike at a steel South African Allied Workers Union furniture factory in Brits, (SAAWU) SouthAfrica,havebeenwww.nuance.com frontS "-eetingeverydaysince Thre 0 t thle dispute started last THE President of the African National Congress has said that South Africa's goieaneesPDF They have had Create! liberation movement would be making 5 Trial to sell live"stok and a terrible mistake' if it began to rely possessiaons and to rely on on armed struggle alone to defeat relatives and friends to apartheid. Sapport them and their 'In oursitution we have re-attach familas in their fight equal importance to organising the against the basses for -adloited workers,' Oliver Tambo reinstaterrent, bark pay Said. We operate on three fronts: thie and legal costs. 'We have labour front, and the front of mass come to realise what it is popular actions as well as 'the front c eto inalfe at ti of armd ations.' tosacrifieandsek TheANCPresident,whowas tother and to trust one speaking in an interview broadcast another,' one worker from Maputo, said that South Africa's leaderfsaid. 'Most of us highly industrialised character meant' were not aware of our that the liberation struggle was, de rights. We learnt that by facto, a struggle of the workers. 'They being alone nothing could constitute the most powerful continhappen aud the only way gent,' he said, pointing out that it was to stick together.' was 'no longer possible' to make an absolute separation between trade union issues and the national libera- -tion struggle. worlds apart RUSCILLA -nd Michael Joubet of Houghton Ridge, Johannesburg, planned a little surprise for their 150 guests when they celebrated their wedding anniversary recently - they bought lots of sheets of 22-carat gold leaf and floated it astiny gold nuggets in the consomme. 'I wanted to do something really special,' Ruscilla explained, 'and I had heard about a party in Cape Town where there were diamonds in the pudding.' Southern Africa's worst drought in recorded history doesn't seem to have made much impact on the Houghton Ridge set and their friends. There have been some minor irritants, admittedly. In the white farming area of Tzaneen, for example, a ban has had to be imposed on nighttime irrigation. But during the day, the overheard sprayers continue to whirr, shooting jets of water over the fruit orchards and even the rugby field of the local Afrikaans high school. Over the hill, in the Gazankulh bantustan, three-qUarters of the cattle have had to be slaughtered, there is no longer any grass left to water and even subsistence farming has ceased to be possible. Interested in health issues in The Health Committee of the needs new members for o Research Ol Publicity ,] Supportingthe boycott 0 Material aid Contact Mick Gavan, AAM H London NW1, Tel 01-387 79, Food for ti THE grim consequences of food shortages for South Africa's black population do not end with the death toll from starvation (three to four children every hour). Mahutritiona is oue of a long lisf of causes of mental illness in South Africa, described in a new AntiApartheid Movement publication which sets out the case for sanctions against the country's psychiatric profession. The brain of a malnourished child is starved of essential nutrients. This can lead - if the child survives at all to gross and permanent retardation of the intellect. Surveys of black children in varijous parts of South Africa during the 1970s revealed up to 70 per cent with malnourished body weights, Pellagra is another disease ofwww.nuance.com chronic malnutrition which can Cause mental illness but which is easily preventable - it's caused bya lack of the B-vitamin complex niacin in the diet. It is known as the 'four Ds' disease - diarrhoea, dermatitis, dementia and death. Tuberculosis - rampant in South Africa ard the product of the povertystricken, overcrowded and unhygienic conditionsPDF in which the vastCreate! majority of the black population lives -5is another Trial well-recognised cause of organic mental illness. Infectious diseases such as bacterial, meningitis, viral encephalitis and brain abess. all of which flourish in the apartheid environment, can have the same results. 'If we gave them shoe ... they would kick their fellow patients' The case for South-Africa's expulsion from international psychiary (AAM, July 1983) shows that apart from these identifiable physical causes, mental illness among black people is a clear consequence of the laws and p$ictitdh . '?3I~' Sfafhefd" ifs'f. The Anti-Apartheid News September 1983 Page 9 Pretoria- thirsting to fight LAST YEAR, 72 per cent of white South Africans saidwheninterviewed that they thought their government was right to use food as a weapon in its war against the rest of Africa. Since then, food shortages have become much more acute for the front line states as the crippling drought has b!en made even worse by apartheid attacks. KEITH SOMERVILLE looks s% how South Africa uses the spectre of starvation to bully and intimidate its nibours. The draught has been a massive against rail and road routes within human calamity for the people of Mozambique have disrupted the Southern Africa, but the Pretoria supply of food to provinces such as regime has done all in its power to nhambane, which has suffered pattiuse that calamity to increase the culsely severely from the effects of dependence of neighbouring states the drought, and lave also affected orc the apartheid -cnomyand on thesupplies of fuel and vital agrculthe whims of its rlders, tutral inputs to Zimbabwe and Malawi. The most obvious forms of Action South Africa's other main weapon adopted by Pretoria have been direct has been the supply of food- and attacks on the infrastructure o'neigh- water. Despite South Africa'n own 'ouring states, particularly Angola food shortage, being felt most and Mozambique, and encouragement severely in the 'honelands' ani black of bandit groups ouch as Unite and areas, South Africa has been offering the MNR ('Mozambique National maize to Zambin at a price $10 below Resistance'). The latterhave disrupted that offered by Zimbabwe. Zambia, attempts to supply food and water to 'obviocnly realsing the ulterior drought-stricken areas antI to maint motives behind the offer, rejected it. talifsome sort of economic normality, The reaction in South Africa, exemnliThe MNR's attscksin particulgr, fled by comments ue the state-rs have been very damaging. Strikes foreign radio service, Radio RSA, was to call the rejection 'illogical and impractical' and toaccnse the Kaimda SouthernAfrica? governmentofadecisionthatwas politically motivated and which Anti-Apaftheid Movement harmed the ordinaryZambian.The radio commentary was entitled 'Ideological stupidity versus practical reiabiiht'. BOtswana, whose agiculture and livestock industry has been very badly affected by the drought, has also suffered at the hands of the Pretoria eadquarters, 13 Selous Street, regime. The country's capital, Gaborone, has often experienced 66 walershortages,andthisyearthey promised to be wosse than usual. South Africa decided to make them worse till, and in the process to lo u g h t sdemontrateitsaiity to arm Botswana, by violating an agreement institutionaised violence of the South on the supply of water from the African police state, tlhe monptsy, Notwane and Moldpo rivers. frustration and hopelessness of life in The South Africans built dams on the, townships, squatter camps and the rivet at two places in the Bophubantustan dumping grounds; the thatswana bantastan and by so doing anxiety, worry and fear engendered reduced the catchment area of by the migrant labour system and the Gaborone's dam by 13 per cent; the destruction of family life - all help dam is the only source of water for to explain blaek South Africa's high Gaborone. This has meant that many rates of suicide, alcoholism,www.nuance.com persona- residents of the capital, and also of lity disorder, psychosis and psycho- Lobatse,are.withoutwaterandhasneurosis. alsoaffectedthegenerationi5f elecMental health 'care' for black tricity, making Botswana more South Africans is reminiscent of dependent on electricity supplies some of the worst scenes from the from South Africa's ESCOM. DickensianPDF world of the VictorianCreate! Samora Machel has said that5 Trial workhouses and lunatic asylums. South Africans were responsible for Between 1i0,000 and 20,000 black' disruptions that have occurred in mental patients are ho lions run for profit by pany, Smith-Mitchell archac system persis inteknational exposure nation in the mid-197 Health Organisation an 'If we gave them would kick their fellow title is a reference tc ,African 'rationalisatior ment of black mental at the record of South dominated psychiatric speak ng out against th and findsit dismally Is count. Yet South Aft member, of the Woe Association, the World Mental Health, the We of Social Psychiatry Federation 'if Biologi Professional bodies in including Britain, mai with the Society of South Africa, The AAM pamphl been produced as part o to get South Africa these international b break links with apartt is available from 13 price 30p. used in nstitaa private comand Co. This is despite its, and condemOi bythe World d others. shores they w patienis' (the white South n' of the treatpatients) looks Africa's whiteprofession in rese conditions cking on every rica remains a Id Psychiatric Federation of rId Association and the World cat Psychiatry. other countries, staln relations Psychiatrists of et, which has if the campaign expelled from odies and to reid psychiatry, Selous Street, the supply of water from Swariland to Maputo. During the middle of the drught, the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) summit was held in Maputo. The meeting discussed South African destabilisation of SADCC member states and ways of further reducing dependence on South Aftica. The South African reaction to the summit was to accuse the SADCC governmeits of neglecting their duties towards their people and using South Africa as 'a scapegoat' to 'evade the challenges presented by harsh and complex realities', such as the drought. A South African radio commen-" tary said interstate cooperation was a prerequisite for economic development in the region but the SADCC states were preoccupied with 'nonsensical allegations'. Regional iistability, would thus continue, the broadcast warned, and SADCC members would remain dependent on intent- tional handouts to save their people from starvhtion resulting from drought. The cynicism of Pretoria's approach to the drought is sickening. ,Those western countries which oppose sanctions against South Africa would do well to observe that the apartheid regime will even use natural disasters as a means of furthering its destabilisatien campaign against the front line states and to try- to increase is economic domination in Southern Africa They would also do well to observe the SADCC's effortsto lessen member states' economic links wits and dependence on Pretoria. They should. also note that many SADCC leaders, including Robert Mugabe, have said that when considering economic sanctions against South Africa, western countries should not use the excuse that sanctions will hurt the front line-states, South Africa's- unchecked activities and vicious policies hurt them far more. Front line states looking for diversion ONE of the main features of the recent SADCC summit meetini of Southern African states was a directappeal to stop colaboratinj with Pretoria. PAUL FAUVET reports from Mozambique. The heads of state and-government summit called fora switch in western of SADCC (Southern African Devel- investment priorities away from South opment Coordination Conference) Africa and towards the SADCC - it met in Maputo on II July for their hoped for 'a significant transfer ol fourth annual summit. SADCC is an the resources which go to shoring up economic grouping of the-neae inde- apartheid to the development of the pendent states in the region (Angola, independent countries of Southern Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozam- Africa'. bique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia The communique addressed itself and Zimbabwe) formed in order to. to those who 'attempt to maintain break with the dependence on Sorth friendly relations with both South Africa that constrains the econorntiei Africa and SADCC (and would thus of most of these countries, seem to be anindirect replyto some SADCC Chairman Quett Masire,www.nuance.com recent US policy statements expressPresident of Botswana, stated in his fng this supposedly even handed attiopening speech that 'weremain per tlde). plexed and deeply disappointed at Those who claimed to be interesthe impunity with which South ted in coopertigin the constrnucti n Africa conlinues to flout world or renovation of regional asfrastrucopinion by its inhuman andPDF illegal lures were the sameCreate!countries that actions'. He explained 5 'that noneTrial of provided South Africa with the the SADCC countries was expecting capital, technology and wpaponry anyone 'to go to war on oar behalf', used for an aggressive foreign policy but that they did ask, 'in the name of directed against those very infrapeace, that those who claim to be our structures. It Was a futile exercise to friends should exercise thos cons- invest in, for example, bridges of railtraints which are within their power wa's, while at the same time providto force South Africa to-desist from ing South Africa with the means to its actions', send in sabotage squads to destroy The final communique from the them., w ftO1 Anti-iAparthead News September 1983 Getting it straight for the next Olympics SPORTS personalities and administrators, meeting in London at the end of June, agreed on a programme of action to make sure that the next Olympic Games, due to be held in Los Angeles in 1984. are apartheid- free. The three-day International Con.erce on Sanctions against Apartheid Sport, organIsed by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and SANROC (South African NonRacial Olympic Committee), adopted I decliration asking for a code of condict to be adopted by the Intersa tiosal Olympic Committee along the same lints as that already agreed by the Commonwealth Games Fede,ation. In other words, it would make clear that countries whose sporting organisations- collaborated With apartheid would be suspended. The United Nations is now to approdch the Inter national Olympic Committee, who organise the Olympic Gamis, to persuade it to take up the idea. Ambassador Victor Gbeho of the UN Special Coommrde,, who chaired the London conterence, told delegates that the U N would be holdmg a meeting in Los Anigees next year to assess lhe extent of sports participation with South Africa by countries intending to take part in 4he Olympic Gaies. The code of condict which it was envisaged the 1OC should adopt, he said, would make it 'absolutely, clear' to sports men and women that collaboration, with Soth Africa would attract punishment from the international Community, It should prompt interational 'federations and other sports bodies to impose their own sanctions, and should pressurise governments themselves to take action against collaborators by, for example, withholding passports and visas. - , Delegates to the UN/SANROC conference included sports stars from Tanzania, France, Australia, New Zealand, East Germany, the Soviet Union and Britain itself, togetlf" with represeatatves of natios.al olympic committees from Algeria. Botswana, China, East Gertany, Libya, Nigeria, Tanzania, the Soviet Union and Zimbabwe. They singled oat the US, Britain and New Zealand as the three most prominent collaborating luntries, and identified rugby, cricket, boxing, tennis motor sports and golf as the key sports whe concentrated aection was needed to tighten the anti-apartheid boycott. The conference, which seit a tlegram to tennis star John Mlircc congratulating him on his decision to turn down a $1 million offer to play in South Africa, also issued anppeal to sports men andi women throughout the world to join the struggle against apartheid sport, including boyeotting events in which South Africans were taking part. It was announced that the UN would be awarding citations to sports personalities who took a principled stand on the issue. " If the kind of proposals put forward by the confereite were iipleminted, South African competitors would be barred from events such as Wimbledon and the Royal Henley Regatta, both of which were in progress as the delegates were meeting. 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BLO KC PT L LA E jubilation at their successes. At government supported the CommonBerley Sohith African oarsmen got, wealth Gleneages Agreement against through to the evente under the apartheid sport, 'any individual" cover of British club membership. , South African sportsman or woman Commeniting on the conference is welcome to come here to pray proposals, British sports minister Neil' tennis, cricket, golf or any other Macarlane said that while thelBitish sport be ot the wishes'. Singing in the rain POURING RAIN failed to dilute high spirits at this year's protest picket on 24 July against South Aftiean participation in the Stoke Mandeville nter,-national Paraplegic Games. About 60 supporters of Disabled People Againt Apartheid and the AAM half of them disabled sang freedom songs outside the hospital as 640 atile assembled for the weeklong sports. The athletes came from 36 countries, including South Africa but none from Canada, which withdrew from the Games in protest at Sfokf Mandevdle's violation of the Commonwealth Gleneagles Agreement on apartheid sport. The pickets were also entertaied by a disabled drama group, Graeae Theatre, whose members contributed to the protest by performing street theatre. Disabled People Against Apartheid and the AAM are now Working to make sure that boycott action lakes place at the next paraptegic olympics at the University of Illinois, in Chain pagne, USA they are doe to be held just befor the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Gamer. If any AA Newc reader is in touch with a disabled person in Illinois, a trade unionist or any ,,pporer of anti- apartheid In the US, please could they contact the AAM headquarters to help with this campaign. WHILE the dirtiest deeds of rich governments, multinational corporations and arms dealers may pass unnoticed by the Great British Public, let no, person bring into disrepute the national game of cricket. The cricket mercenaries who flaunted international rulings on boycotting apartheid have brought upon themselves much Wrath - they have offended the traditional sense of 'fair play' it's just not cricket! It's perhaps for this rdason that Peter Dawn's one-hourplay,Babooa theWeaset, attracted so much i tal attention from the critics when it opened at the National Theatre in London What a delight, then, to discover that the play s excellently written, the characters wholly beli eable and fie dialogue punctuated with sharp and poignantly witty observations on South Af-in life. - The play, set in a cricket ground in South Africa, takes the form of a dialogue between an english cricket mercenary and Baboo, a black criket tan who has illegally tound his way into the ground. The englishman becomes increasingly annoyed at the insolent persistence of Baboo, who, wants to talk about cricket but keeps brianging politics into sport. The cricketer manages to maintain his stance of liberal easy-going arrogance as long as hr feels supriowww.nuance.comr, But as the discussion continues Baboo suddenly throws what.seems to be a cricket ball and the cricketer catches it. Baboo, who n; holding on. to an attached string, tells him it's a grenade and- we see the balance of power completely shift. Now the englishmen, too rightened to resist, is forced to listen to the truths aboutPDF the orlds of rich andCreate! poor, black and wheit. 5 Trial As auddenly as the object was ,thrown it is withdrawn, andBaboo, Blackmail and bluff FOR once, sports mercenary recruiter John Carlisle MP has said something totally believable. He warned in the wake of the decisive MCC rejection of the.proposed cricket tour of South Africa that 'more blackmail and bluff will follow'. Pretoria is already digging deeper into its pockets to offset the effects of the MCC vote and to lure yet more sports teams and players into the apartheid snare. Carlisle expressed himselt 'very disappointed' over the MCC vote. Encouraged by a MORI poll of British opinion (commissioned by the pro-apartheid South African Olympic Committee), which professed to show that a vast rsnnority were strongly in favour of collaboration, he and his cronies had been confi dently predicting a spassive MC( turn-out against the sports boycott. In the event, a, AA Ne, reeders will remember from the press, the poll was 4,344 MCC members in favaur of a South African tour and 6,604 against. No bribes for the 'Brat' MISINFORMATION is the South A frican propaganda machine's stockin-lride and nowhere is it more apparent than in the sports world -Admitting that he was, alfter, al, planning to go to Johannsburg and frOm ,there to Sun City, Czechoillvak tennis sfar Ivan Lendl claimed that the Bophuthatswana bantustan, where he was due to play, w-s 'not part of South Africa. At least I don't think it it.' ndaantbd by the disapproving truo of the Czechoslovak authorities, fellow tennis players and fans, Lendl flew off frdm Wimbledon to join US star Jimmy Connors amidst the fruit machines and casinos of Sun City. Not so John Mcnroe, who tured down the $1 million offer -ecame 'I believe in equality. Every body having the same -rights as the next guy. Everybody having equal opportuni ties in education, join and sport. 'That is possibly a little idealistic of me, but I think certain countries strive towards that ideal. But South Africa dosn't exactly fit into that category right now. I don't think I could go there knowing that there are probably goodbhlack tennis players who can't receive the benefits of playing the likes of Jimmy, Letndl and me beausoe of their colour.' having made his point, disappears back over the fence. The play ends With a news broadcast over the tannoy reporting an assault on a visiting cricketer and the police arrest and mysterion death of the culprit only the pudience knows the real story... li his first play Peter Dawson has succeeded where many great playwrights have failed. He makes a genuine and- political statement in a powerful and humane play without falling into the cliche of agitprop which patronises both the audience and those people it seeks to support. John Matshikizas sensitive performance gives the character of Baboo the vital dimensions of intelligence, wit and dignity, and Stephen Hatter sley is superb as the.macho individualist sportsman free, white and over twenty-one. Rita Sanderson lta,... Fair play on the cricket field

Anti-ApartheidNews September1983 PageII WANTED Women with a flair fordrama WOMEN artivists and supporters who are interested in drama and in takin part in a series of multimedia workshops with an anti-apartheid theme are invited to get in touch with the AAM Women's Committee (Sue Longbottom at the AAM headquar tes, tel 01-387 7966). The Women's Conmsittee is w~orking with theWomen in Entertainment alternative theatre group to set up a series of workshops which will lead to a multimedia production about the Southern African freedom struggle. Willingness to commitwww.nuance.com yourself to quite a lot of work - but very enjoyable and something quite differrnt - is more important than acting experience. The workshop will be neeting throughout 'the autumn. period, so don't delay get in touch now. HEALTH WORKERS: ZIMBABWEPDF Create! 5 Trial Nurse-midwives, doctors, dentists, occupalional therapists and physiotherapists are all needed to support Zimbabwe's expanson of riral health services. They are needed to work with district and village health facilities and primary health, initiatives, including training schemes for village mnidwives, rehabilitation assistants and dental therapists. All CIIR posts are two-year contracts on a basic salary, with return air fares, language training, superannuation, insurance anda other allowances provided. For further information, pleasesend a brief cv and large SAE to Catholic Institute for International Relations, 22 Coleman Fields, London NI 7AF, quotingrefAA/1. FOR SALE new auto-de-luxe Belling electric cooker, four 7-inch rings, ideal for family. £200 on. Details from AAM, Tel 01-387 7966. LABOUR'S independent monthly LABOUR LEADER - for socialism and the Labour Party. Annual subscription £3.50. Send for a sample copy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds LSI-I 9LW. PEACE NEWS, fortightly paper covering. the growingpeace movement from a radical viewpoint. News, viewsand analysis about militarism, the arms race, economic oppression, sexual violence, racism, and devastation of the environment. £12 for a year's subscription (Britain and Ireland); £6.50 for six months; £2 for five trial issues; 10 per cent discount for non-wage earners (except for the trial sub). Details of rest of the world rates from Peace News, 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham 3. RESISTER, bulletin of the Committee on South African War Resistance. Up-to-date news on apartheid militarism and resistance to it. 13.00 pa from COSAWR, BM Box 2190, London WCIN 3XX. PHOTO CRAFT 4 Heath Street London NW3 Photographic dealers and photographers Shoppers' gifts vital, says Namibian leader rTHE Secretary of the SWAPO Women's Council, Pendukeni Kaiinge, appealed when she visited Britain earlier this summer for material aid collections to be continued. Many local AA and Namibia support groups have already organised collectiona from shoppers, og, are planning to do so, as a buildsp to the AntiApartheid Movemenl's national day of action on material aid, on Saturday 15 October. Pendukeni Kaulinge stressed that the women in SWAPO's refugee settlements in Angola and Zambia need 'just everything needed by a human being' clothing, blankets, tents, medical and toilet items, educational materials. The SWAPO Women's Comcil (SWC) has been puttingalot of effort into its literacy campaign, particularly among the older Namibian women, most of whom are illiterate. 'They am the ones for whom the struggle feels we must do a lot,' Pendukeni explaine4; 'we do not want them to rfturn as they are, as they left the cduntry, we have to help them.' When the women first arrive in Ancola they are often unhavvv. Pendukeni Kaldige tense and depressed. They have probably had to leave partners and children behind during their risky flight into exile, and once in th camps have to face great physical discomfort and hardship. 'When they arrive at the settlemenia they are tired and their morale is really down,' Pendukeni explained. 'We have to try to bring it up by explaining how it is we have come to find ourselves is such a situation. It takes only a few months before tley begin to wake up, they understand and try to accept the reality.' Some anti-apartheid activists have been asked by shoppers during material aid collections why they don't simply send money to Angolainstead, Pendukeni explained that the campaign to send sanitary towels; for example, is vital because these items are simply not available in Angola. The only substitute that can: be bought in Luanda is toilet paper. An alternative solution is for the SWC themselves to organise the manufacture of sanitary towelsin the settlements. This would involvewww.nuance.com obtaining -the materials, perhaps by growing cotton, and is a long-term plan. Briefing notr on how to organise shoppers' collections and on the msaterial ol ccipaign forVVam.nin asd South~ Afti refugcra ire genteral are arailable from the AAM. GPDFet those Create! 5 Trial muscles in trim THEREseem tobemoreand more opportunities to Walk, run or-cycle your way to fitness and raise funds for freedom in Southern Africa, all in the same breath, puff or part. Many local AA Groups organised sponsored walks again this asmfr, as part of the well-established Walks for Soweto campaign, in support of the African National Congres Free does School in Tanzania and for AAM headquarters fluds. - Members of Bradford A-A Group will be wearing Free Nelson Mandela T-shirts when they ran in the Bradford to Leeds marathon, while on II Sepstember Scottish AA Committee members are due to. take part in the Glasgow marathon. There's still time to sponsor the latter, to raise funds for the Freedom School - contact Scottish AA at 3 Rosevale Crescent, Hamilton, Lanarkshire (Tel lamilv ton 426781), or Robert Watson (041-424 1141). In London, last year's highly successful Cycle for Mandela sponsored cycle ride around the highways and byways of south London, ending up in Richmond Park, is due to be repeated on Sunday 9 October. This is the event of the season - don't miss it. Details and sponsorship forms are available from 13 Selous Street, so. get those bicycle pumps working now. INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTAR' SERVICE Vacancies in Third World Development BOTSWANA Youth and Community Worker; TEFL Advisers for Primary Teachers; Coordinator for Pit Latrine Project; Electronies Engilseer; Water Technicians; Food Technologist. SWAZILAND Builder/Instructor; Smal-scaleWater Technlans; Agriculturalist for Poultry Hatchery Management; Agriculture Teachers; Animal Husbandry Instructor; AgricuhreHortiulture instructor; Agriculture Extensio Worker;Coordinator for Agricultural Cooperative. LESOTHO Water Engineers MOZAMBIQUE (minimum two years postqualification work excperience). Agriculturalists; Foresters; Agricultural Engineers;Water Engineers; Sawmill Managers /Techicians; Stilled Artisans, eg, Fitters, Welders etc; BuildingSupervsors, Topographer; i Econonists, Planners; Arehitects; Accoutants EFL & Science Teachers; Doctors; Nurse-tutors Medical Laboratory. Also Maths, English, Technical Drawing Toane at secte level," EFL for primary/middle school to teach at the . International School in Maputo. Two-year contracts with modest living allowance and flights. Regret no funding for dependants. Write for details including short cv and se to International Voluntary Service, AANI, 53 Regent Road, Leicester LET 6YL., Sponsored sitting? No - it's the start (or finish?) of Camden AA's Walk for Suweto on 3 July this year it again this year? Participants in the 1982 Cycle forilendela .make yourself known WHY NOT advertise your organisetin, products or services in Anti-Apartheid News? We reach a readership of activists throughout Britain, involved in local community organisations, the trade union movement, the churches, colleesand univeraities, music and the arta, the peace movement and the fight againt racism. Besides organisig campaglns, they all need to keep informed shout eveni in Southern Africa and elsewhere, and (now and again) eat, sleep and relax Anti-Apartheid News also goes IO libraie, international agencies, governments and many other asbseribers in Britain and overseas. Our rates are competitive, and we call provide typesetting and design services if you need them. 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I Pae 1 Anst-Aparthseid Ntews Septembier t93 i nili --- 01 1 I Ni U beraship Form I The AAM works in political parties, trade unions, religious groups, universities, clleges, schools and with the general * public for an end to all forms of collaboration with the 3 South African apartheid regime and for support for those I struggling fot freedomand independence. What it involves: publicising the facts about apartheid in Southern Africa I campaigning for the total isolation of apartheid South A Africa * *exposing British collaboration with the apartheid iegime I mobilising po itical, moral and material support for the I liberation movements of South Africa and Namibia. I I NAME ...... : ...... ADDRESS...... TELEPHONE NO ...... *lt Minimum annual semberShiptes Individuals - £5.70 students/appreantices - £5 school sudents/pensioners/claimant/ unwaged - 3.00 local organisationa- Z 10. *Affiliation rates for national trade uniols are on a sliding scale frot £50 to £LA, depending on the deze of the unions regions and areas £25 non-national trade union bodies- E10 *Subscriptions to AA News only UK/Europe - £4.50 outside Europe: surface mail - £:4.50; aimail - L£6.50 O4eeMership fees and subscriptions can be paid directly into the AAM's Giro Account No 52 513 0004 *They can also be paid by Banker's Order -forns available frost the AAM headquarters Use this form t win more members for the Anti-Apartheid Movement Return it to: Anti-Apartheid Movement, 13 Seious Street, London NW1 0DW, Tel 01-387-7966. STOP www.nuance.com the apartheid war Tfhe days of racism and white minority rule in Southern Africa ae umbered. In an attempt to presee the apartheid system and to keep themselves in power, South Africa's rulers are fighting a vicious waragainst thePDFmajority of South Africa's Create! own people, against the people of Namibia,5 andTrial against th front line and neighbouring African states.' Why does it concern us? South Africa's apartheid policies are a threat to peace - not only in Africa, but in the world as a whole. South Africa has a powerful army and airforce, which are used i attack neighbouring states, to bomb villages and toWns, to destroy cropl and livestock, to kill and maim small children, women and men. South Africa has a nuclear capability, which its rulers have warned they are prepared to use in defence of apartheid. All this has been made possible because of the help and support which South Africa receives from Britain and other western countries. PROTEST at South African acin of aggression and against breaches of 6e~ United Nations armus emasrgos * INFORM the general public aboutthe apartheid war a MOBILISE other organisations and individuals into support for aniapartheid activities P CAMPAIGN against British collaboration with the South African regime, for freedom in Naihia, and for support for the front line states. EJOIN11E The Anti-Apartheid MovethAent for freedom in Southern Africa I Sheffield and Southern Africa, I material on the campaign for I apartheid-tree zones, published by * AAM,November1982 2op I 3 Sport and Apartheid, published by SCatIholic Institute for International Relations (CItRand aailable fros * AAM - 30p For further isformation on prices, bulk rates, etc, contaet Sue FOR THOSE AA News readers who haven't yet sent greetings to NIlson and Winnie Mandela, theit .addresses a, Nelson Mandela *rolsoo Maximum Security Prison Pa 4Tokai 7966 Cape, south Africa Winnie Mandela 802 Brandfort Location PO Brandfort 9400 Orange Free State, South Africa i For further details of casspaign icti-[ ivities in solidatity with South African 1 land Namibian political prisesie, * contact Southern Africa-The Impri-3 * soned Society (SATIS), c/o 13 Selosus Street, London NWI ODW, Tel 01-. |387 7966." I- I -: .Resources.0l hiatls news Badges and earrings in eight colours - silver, gold, red, green, pink, purple, light blue and aquatic blue. The eanings ae for pierced ears and have silver-plated wires. AA symbol badge, I" dia 75p AA symbol badge, '-" dia 50p AA symbol earring, 's" dia £1.50 pair worpoe against apartheid' symbol earring, " dia. £1.50 pair Free all Soah African and Namtbian sotlical prioners! postcard to mark Nelson Mandela's 65th birthday lop Foster Southern Africa - The Time to Act! yellow on red, with blank space - whichcanbewedto~lvertiselocalevents 20p If we gave them shoes .. they would kick their fellow patients'- The case for South Africa's expulsion from international psychiatry, review of the incidence and treatment of mental ils& under apatheid and the case for sanctions, published by AAM Health Committee, July 1983 lf)p Isolate Apartheid- Report of the A4 n -A partheid Movement Trade Union Conference held on 27 November 1982, published by AAM with introduction by Jack Jones 20p The case fore review of'Brtishwww.nuance.com Polcy - orioSuthern Africa, memorandum presented by AAM to, Malcolm Rifiind MP, Minister of State at the Foraigo and Commonwealth Office, 28 July 1983 donationswelconte That change ofPDF address.,. Create! 5 Trial THE AAM will definitely be changing its address, following the decision of the Greater London Council to suppo t Camden Council io renaming Selous Street 'Mandela Street'. In a statement issued on IS July, the GLC etplained that the present name of Selous come from a 19th century painter, 'but It has very unfortunate connotations with the Selos Scouts of the former illegal Rhodeian government'. 'We have carefully considered local ohiections to the name change,' the GLC said. 'But we consider the temporary inconvenience to the comparatively small number of business, occupiers in this short streetis totally outweighed by Camden's wish to honour a man whoe strggle against racism, and the penalty he is paying for his beliefs, is internationally recognised by all free men and women.' Commonwealth approval for AAM INFORMATION produced by the Anti-Apartheid Movement received an approving mention from the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth at the liternational Conference on Sanctions against Apartheid Sport. Addraessing delegates at the opening session on the importance of the fight against apartheid, HE Sir Shridath Ramphal recommended that they should read The Emirarion .of Skilled Personnel to South Africa, by Chris Child. The document in question is availAble from AAM , as is the Movement's contribution to the sports conference itself, Britain and Apartheid Sport Breaking the Links (AAM, June 1983). Copy Date The copy date for the October issue of AA NEWS is FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER Printed copies will be available for collection from AAM HQ at 13 Selou Street, London NW ODW, teron Friday 16 Septembter Campaign Diary E Saturday 24 -Sunday 25 September: ACIfVISTS' CONFERENCE, Goldsmiths College, London Organised by Anti-Apartheid Movement for representatives of local and student AA Groups and others interested. All you need to know about campaigning for the next few months, plus a chance to get to know eachsother. Speakers: films and videos; discussion groups and workshops on how to organise pickets, vigils, demonstrations and other actions how to use the media; how to raise funds. Details and form for registration (f5) from AAM. 1Sunday 9 October: FREE NELSON MANDELA Sponsored Cycle Ride, Londton Raise funds for the campaign to free all South African and Namibian political prisoners, spot the deer in Richmond Park and get fit all in one go. Details from AAM, 01-387 7966. 1Tuesday II October: United Nations Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners UFriday 14 - Sunday 16 October: Seminar on health in Namibia, City University, Londoir Organised by the Namibia Support Committee fop-health workers. Details from NSC, 53 Leverton Street, London NW5, Tel 01-267 1941/2. E Saturday 15 October: DAyOF ACTION for material aid campaign Can you organise a collection of goods from shoppers for South African and Namibian refugees? Can you collect funds for medical kits for SWAPO? Details from AAM, 13 Selous Street, London NWI ODW. N Sunday 23 October: Anti-Apartheid Movement Annual GeneralMeeting, Westfinster Cathedral Conference Centre, Londoi Thlaursday 27 October - Wednesday 2 Novemher: WEEK OF ACTION ON NAMIBIA Organised by AAM and the Namibia Support Committee as part of the" UN International Week of Solidarity on Namibia. Eyents include: ,Saturday 29 October: Protest march in London passing the' headquarters of multinationals involved in plundering Namtiia's reisources and fuelling South Africa's war N"Sturday 29 October: SWAPO Benefit at Islington Town Hall, London mWednesday 2 November: Day of Action against Barclays Bank, in protest at its role in Namibia and its collaboration with the South African Defence Force. Details from AAM 01-387 7966 or NSC 01-267 1941/2 PDF Create!www.nuance.com 5 Trial