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Group Inbtair F and Abroad, and in Planning for the Intemaonal Week of Action on Namibja at the End of October 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.
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