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.Anti-AparthedMovemnent, 13 Selos Street, Lond~on NWI ODW, Tel 01-387 7966 NAN IBIA - FIGHTING FOR A FTUREl TIMEl ticks by fin die international negotiations been secured for the latest delaying tactic. 'Promnent cadres of SWAP'O are tinder the bank's collusion with thse South African for Nansibia's freedom as meanwhile, the As SWAFO's leaders in Widh ek themselves sevem restriction which0 inhibits their nove- a nky ui n NamAibia. country's resources are squandered by big pointed out to tse UN Seceary General when .ent, areas of staya wor1tbseove""nt's The kAA Women's Cminnittee is joining business and the health and strength of its he visited their coutry, 'while we are pacticipa- letter saed, It d for repree laws to be with the SWAPQ Women'sSolidarityCampaign people sapped by illegal South African tile. ting' in the negotiations for a settlement, 'the repealed; for prisoner-of-war stains for 'ur on Monday 31 October in a lunchtime protest Soith Attica's illegal military rule in Narnibas and planfar the Week of Ation - page 5 Southb Afrieat~ war of weords H~owssisinf-rsa in, disortio nsseaigtfor ward e a" used as weapons agaiast the fr t ine- stare '- MARGA HOLNESS, EAUL FAuVET and a special correspondent report page' to7 a [

-R 1 %6-1WiI!IL~~l~~iKR~~IEL1 '~' for 15 October HAS your local or student anti-apartheid group organis shoppers' collections for the materitlaid campaign yet? Don't forget that Saturday 15 October is the National Day of Act for the m ateril aid campaign. Shoppers' collectios are o egcel] way of gettingyour members and supporters involved in practicil act while bringing Southern Africa to the forefront of attention it y local high street. And the collections raise goods which are urger needed, in Namibian and South African refugee settlements in Ang Zambia and Tanzania. Shoppers' collections are not difficult to organise. You need asup of very simple explanatory leaflets, asking shoppers to buy one or n .extra items from a list of-suggestions(tampons, baby powder, shanp vaseline, antiseptics, toothpaste, etc) and to donate them to the c paign, You need boxes or sacks in which to collect the goods donal to be positioned outside the door to the shop or supermarket, 1 placards or notices to draw attention to What you are doing, how why. Finally, of course, you heed activists to giveout leaflets to shopq as they enter the shop and to explain exactly what is going on Full briefing notes on how to go about organisitg a collection, I of the goods that are needed, suggestions and advice on leaflets, puli material and-- very important -collection arrangements at the em the day to ensure that the goods get safely to the plates that-are iml ded, are available from AAM. Saturday 15 October is not verywww.nuance.com far away, so start th min your area as soon as you can, and contact the AM headquarter make sure that material ordered reaches yoi in go d time. workplaces and to promote awareness of British collaboration. The group, which inclu des representatives fro a range of unions, is hoping to encourage research into trade union pension funds and other possible linksPDF with So th Africa. Create! 5 Trial Members of Avon County Council are being circulated with the Sheffield Declaration by Bristol AA tQ encourage local action in the campaign to establish apartheid- ree Lones. Contact: Hedley Bshforth 3 1 Kenn0inton Avenue, Bristol 7, Tel * n., ..flyuL it .li, n sut5,alsao Group wilt be. pick~eting Barclays Bank in Lombard Street on 29 September from 12.30 until 2pmn. On 20 October we will be holding a Publi Meeting in the Holborn Library at 7:30pm to mobilise support for the Namibia Week of Action. On Wednesday 2 November, from 12.30 until 2pi, we will be picketing .Barclays Bank in Lombard Street as part of tle AntApartheid Movemint's Day of Action against Barclays. We will also be organising a material aid colletion on 15 October in support of the day of actios for the material aid campaign. Out regular activitie inctude picketing South Africa Mouse, TrafalgarSquare, toRelcasNeltsonandela ns all Sootl ,dfrieas Political Pruooa, every Friday fromg 5.30 to 7.30lp.. Come and joi us! Fqr try further information about our activities please write to 22 Browfildw Mews, London WC1N Namibia Week of Action have well-tockedbookstalls. To be Born a Nation The liberation struggle for Namibia, published by Zed lress on behalf of the SWAPO DepartmentofInformationandPublicity.357pppaperback,1981 £6.95 Namibiae - The Ravages of War, by Barbara l(&slg -describes the impact of the apartheid war machine on the lives of fhe people. Internsational Defence and Aid Fund, 1983 £1.50 Remember Kassinga - collection of briefings and intervietws on political prisoners and detainees: IDAF Fact Paper, 1981 50p Batlefront Namibia - autobiography of SWAPO leader John Ya'Otto. Heinatann, 1982 £1.95 Namibia A Revfew of Deelopments since thse 1980 Infernsational Conference, by Abdul S Minty - briefingontheintemtionalsettlemrenitnegotiations,April1983 20p Posters 'Cancel the Namibian ljranium Contract' (CANUC), 'Namibia the Facts', 'Solidarity with SWAPO' alt af 20p 'Stop the plunder of Namibia's natural resources (UN) 50p Leaflets advertising the march in London on 29 October and eor the Barclays Day of Action on 2 November are also available - contact Sue Longbottom at AAM for details. -0') of goods m tulbe,, collection coae iat INm worh of a Angl Cotact YorLca"ru The Anti-Apartheid Movement haa'local gr ihe followig centres 1 Aberdeen Croydon Nottigham IBath DudeOfr IBanatead -ithr Peterborough~> *Baere Edlinbusrghs Plymouth ' irnmingsan Enfield Richmond Borders Epsom Sheffield Bradford Exter : Sehaeesdale Sraintree -.Glasgow Smerset Brent Hackney Southampton * Brighton Htaringey SouthLondon Bristol Highgate SW Eeets Cambridge Huddersfield Surtrey Camden Ipswieh Teesside Canterbury "Leeds Tnsd Icity .Mcstatrwww.nuance.com WestLondont Clarton Meteside Wreham Co este-r MidSser York I . Norwich 3PDF The Sontish Committee Create! of the Atti-Apartheid Moveestcan besontacted 5 I throughTrial Joha Nelson, Secretary, 3 Rosevale Crmentf amltonanarks, *Tel Havailton 426.781 j The Welsh AAM can be contactedthroughthe Seceta 43 Glenroy Stree , i Roath, Cardiff, Tel Cardiff 499769 " The AAM London Committee can be contactedthrough its Secretary, Christabel Gurney, 211 Ladbroke Grove, London Win, Tel 01-9690915mmmmummmmm.m.mmmm Jmm tol 7 beLondonW2 1 y 3 rag 7XLi-rhi New Uii5 171FJ !

Historic Cape Town launch of united front FORWARD ATOGETHER j ONE OF THE biggest political rallies ever to be held inside-South Africa has condemned the support which Britain and the United States give to the apartheid regie as 'unashamedly greedy asd callous'. The United Democratic Front (UDF), launch1 d in Cape Town over the weekend 20/2,1 August, further warned that such collaboration 'cannot stop us in our march towards freedom'. The huge numbers of people (nsre than 2,000) who poured into the Rocklands Civic Centre in Mitehells Plain, Cape Town, over the weekend, and the diverse range of organisations represented (400 from all over South Africa), turned the UDF inaugural rally into an occasion comparable to the Kliptown Congress of the People in 1955. The Kliptown Congress adopted the Freedom Charter - today the guiding inspirution for the UDF, as it is for the African National Congress itself. The United Democratic Front has made it clear that it does not iniend or purport to be a substitute for accredited people's liberation movements. It has set itself specific tasks: to mobilise against "the Pretoria government's phony, constitutional 'reforms' and against the Koornhof Bills, which will deprive more and more African people of their birth- A numher of resointions were adopted at the alt on the land queslion. the regIme's hoaxing policies, theGro-p Areas Act, the ct of liing,' elcatio and -workers- In another, te, governeets of Bitain Ind Ith Unied States were castigated t oe theircoiol~saeainwf aritxasfheed rsght as the baiftustol Sstem con-- 'We ,demand thre immediate en"d ToI tinues to be implemented. the United States and British goeriMany months of hard work and ments' support for the South Afrcan cffort preceded the Cnpe Townlaunch gocamucent and we rejcs the ollty of the UDF, to build a broadly- based of constructive engagement' non-racial alliance committed to tight Israel was also condemned for its apartheid on a common platform of collaboration, It was noted that its unity. Political parties ald- trade growing involvement in the affairs of unions, community and women's the Ciskei bantustan, particularly the organisations, the churches and reb- expansion of its armed forces, meant gious groups, youth and students that it could not escape responsibility have all been brought together and for the eant wave of detentions and joined by many prominent personali- repression of trade unionists and ties from the history of the liberation others there. struggle. Strongregional organisiations Three national presidents were of the UDF were first set up i the elected for the -United Democratic Cape, Natal and the Transvaal, and Front; Oscar Mpetha, former Cape the organisation as a whole has a President of the ANC, today chairman decentralised, federal structure. of the Nyanga Residents Association TIhe thousands of people at the and national organiser of the African, launch, who farexceeded the capacity Food and Canning Workers Union, of the main hall and spilled out of Albertina Sisul, survivor of two overflow tents fitted with television decades of banning orders and forscreens, heard main speaker Dr mer- provincial president' of the Allan Bonsak call for a non-racial Federation of South African Women; freedom struggle. 'Let us not build and Archie Gumede, veteran of the our struggle upon hatred and hopes Congress Alliance. for simple revenge,' Dr Boesak,,who TIhe list of patrons ot the UDF, as is the president of the (World Alliance one commentato put it, 'reads like a of Rbformed Churches, said. 'The Who's Who of the liberationstruggle'. naturewww.nuance.com and quality of our struggle for It indudes Nelso Mandel , Martha liberation cannot be determined by Mahlangu (mother (f executed ANC the colour of one's skin but rather by freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangn), the quality of one's commitment to Helen Joseph, Haasn Howa (tighter justice, peace and human liberation.' for non-racial sport), banned journaOther speakers included AubreyPDF list Johnny Issel, FrancisCreate! Board, Mokoena of the Release Mandela5 BeyersTrial-Naude, Dorothy Nyembe Committee,' Helen Joseph, veteran (longest-serving woman political anti-apartheid activist and the first' prisoner), Dennis Goldberg, Walter person ever to be put under house Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and all the arrest in South Africa, Samson Ndou other political prisoners serving life of the General and Allied Workers terms. Union, Frances Board, aged 82 anda Messages of support were sent to fighter for trade union and women's' the Mitchells Plain rally from, among rights throughout her long life, and others, the United Nations Committee Sheik Gamiet Gadier, chairman of against - Apartheid, SWAPO of the Muslim Judicial Council. Namibia and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Why the war must stop IN COMMON with anti-apartheid groups in North America, Scandinavia and Western Europe, the British AAM is campaigning throughout the autumn to Stop the Apartheid War -- a member of COSAWR (Committee on South African War Resistance) explains. As warresisters who Were ourselves conscripted to fight for the apartheid armed force$, we are acutely sware of the destruction brought about by South African attack, on neighbouring counties. It is also clear to us that the South African Defence Force is preparing to( fight -a conventionalrar against the front line states. This is in addition to stepping up its attempts to destabilise using surrogate forces like the MNR and Unita and by sending in commandos to attack economic targets and murder refugees. The apartheid regine has 600,000 troops at its disposal and the most powerful war machine in Africa. Yet General Viljoen, head of the army, recently clsimed that the front line states, posed a conventional military threat to the regime. On .ellser analysis Villo-n's argument, contained in an article he wrote for the South African Institute of Strategic Studies, turns out to be just another justifieation for a further build-up in South Africa's heavy armaments and overall military strengath. We who have cxperienced at first hand the rapid militorisation of South Africa over the past decade ace ade, no illusions about the Botha regimil's sdillingaass to plunge the whole subcontinent into a major war, as a final, attempt to stove off tihe fbrces of liberation. 'White South Africa is being prepared for just such a war a daily barrage of propaganda praising the 'boys on the border', warning of a 'total onslaught' from neighbounring countries and 'terrorism' within tl country is uileashed. by the media. Schoolchildren undergo cadet training and attend army-run 'aldventure camps' during their holidays. Whites generally are being organised into commandos, civil defence units and other paramilitary.structures. The threat is made all the more urgent when we consider the nuclear capability of the SADF. There is a very real danger that with its back to the wall the regime will unleash this 'final solution'. We thus heartily welcome the decision by western anti-apartheid organiations to launch a cordinated campaign to stop Sooth African aggression and mobilise against rpilstary and nuclear coll g lothl'vihtlh the apartheid regime.We wilt su'ftfsrt this campaign in whichever ways we can. COSA WR can be contaed at sM Box 2190, London WCIN 3XX. The Coemiwtee's bulletin, Resister, eonrains well-researched material abotit the apartheid war machine as wlt as news of campaigns, Still fighting despite serious illness and a leg amputation - Oscar Mtpetha Feedon-t ng people at tuth Afris o say with one voice to the whoet world that wd hens the vsion ofr united desocraie South Africa bsed on the ill of the peaple, n till stene fa t unity Of all oa people trogirgh united action against the "evils of aparthaid and economic and all other forms of exploitaion, and in ue mach is a free and jast South Afria we are guided by these noble ideals: We stand t torr, creation 9aa ie democray in which al South Atficam will *par iepate iin the gsoerni'n; of e taunter. Westarad't, sing',-,a,--m, - untrassmnted-South Africa, a South Africa te 'of Bantnso ant iGreop Areas. we say all fooms of oppression and exploitation mast end. In accordance with thest noble ideals we join hands, as eommanity, women's, studens' esli-gios, spotting and other orgaisatiors and trade unions to say no to apartheid. We say no to the Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill - a Bill which will ereate yet another ondemocrtic constitution in thwww.nuance.com country of oar birth. We say no et the Kenrhef Bills which will deprive store and more Africanp eople of the isteirtr.t. We say ye to fie birth of thy United Dermoeraic Front on this historic day. Wr know that this govonment is deterrined tohbreak the unity of our people, that ou people will face greater hardehips,PDF that our-people Create! living in racially segregated and relocated 5 ases willTrial he cut off from the wealth they produm in the vitis.,thiat rents and other boic charges will increase and that oar living standards will fall, that working people .will be disidad race teem mn, urban from rural, employed from ientpled, mm fet women. Low wages, poor Working Conditions, attacks an our trade unions will contiaue, studerits will continue io soffer under ueqast education created to supply a eservois of cheap taboos. .Ethnic control Iand taea facilities w ll reinainapartheid will still he teltin oar classrooms. ::% :<7':"?- : : ': 11" religion and! citurA llfe f oar Lople willb h ess1el, 'The 'is of aparteid will c-eheo to b stampeden the-eulture and religians of our people. The oppession and exploitation of women wilt contine. Women will stffer greater hardships under the new pass laws, women Will be divided from then children and faislies. Poverty and malnutrition will continue to disrupt family lite. The brunt of apartheid will stB be carried by our families, non-racial sport will suffer, there will be less moniWy for the building of sport tacilities, and forced separaties will deal non-racial sport a further blow. We know that apartheid will continue, that white domination and exploitlation will continue, that forced removals, the Group Areas and the Bantustas will remain. We tasaw th Ither, wilt not be an end to the unequal distithuinn of land, wealth and resources of the coanteil, that the migratory tabour system will tive on to destroy fasmily life. - . We know that the government will always use false leader to become its bane pastern and tp control as. Our es 1", l 1 ill Sr Fed with feas of hrassont, bannings, detentiomand death. Minditl of the faci that the new cnstitutional peposals and Koorashofmnesres will further entrench apartheid and white, domination, we commit ourseles to uniting all ear peopt e wheors.- they may Sr in the cities and coontryside, the facteries and mines, s1h-ls, colleges and oniersities hoses and spots fields, churches, osques, i)d temp 4plc t graottuor ftoedom . . We therefore 0esi-le to soand hoslder to shoulder in our common struggle and ce .,mi ouelem" to iork'tegfsher to aoaniso and mobitise all community worker, student, women's, religious and other organisations ander the banner of the United Democratic Front, consult on people eogtlrly and honestily, and bravely strive to represent their views and aspirations, educate all about the cgming dangers and the need for onity, build and strengthen all organisaionas of the people, and be anited in action against these Bills and other day-to-day problems affecting our people. -And now therefore we pledge to come together in this United Democratic Frent, and fight side by side against the governments constitutional proposals and the Koorehorf Bills. Declaration of the Unkted Democratic 'ont Cape Town, Auguns 1983 -oernl .-st

INONEofth .ceslounriesinthrd ISouthAfica- three to four blac idre are eattiited to die everky hour from malnut ftrion and relae dsass PAMI ZIN KEN describes tie relenstless spiral of illness and unidernoureishment in this land of plensty. Children aeethe v i mdica- population xtends to not eVen tor of mainutition in a inmunsmty knowing the cause of death ir 10 To many people the terin 'malnu- time as many black fatalities as in ition' cons eupi an xfam picture white ofa waed 'hild,asketon .oeted Careful simtif, o],: by a by dll.itting skin, wi~h Large eyes nmthe of Durban dpctck and revealing a word dominated by others has nvethelessrevealedthathinge, abouthalfofall'blackchildrenaged ,This kind of malnutrition, known one tO four and of school age are as maramas, certainly exists in malnourished. In the Bophuthaltsana South Africa and is increasingly bantustan nthefigurewas56pe rcent. N common in drought-affected areas. It also. occurs in bottlefed babies who receive insufficient and unhygienicaly DISEASE SPIRAL prepared arlifical milk. Malnutrition is in turn related to Another revere kind of maiutriwww.nuance.com- other diseases. When children whose lion, kwashiorkor, affects toddlers. A diet is already borderline become ill child with this dreadful disease stops they lose their appetites, ies pushplaying and loses interest in food, ing them towards malnutrition. As a The multinationals in Namibia do not have things all dte own way - this petrol station in Windhoek was destroyed while the body becomes swollen.PDF child becomes poorlyCreate! nourished his in a SWAPO sabotage 5 attack Trial in July this year. Even with. good medical care the. or her resistance to disease in turn ar child may die. diminishes and-he or she becomes Kwashiorkor, unknown in Britain, more prone to idfecilon. Thus there has been so common in South Africa. is a downward spiral of malnutrition that it used to be a notifiable disease, -disease-malnutrition. until ceasing to be so for political infectiuas disease, associated with nOWO (and not medical) reasons. It is thus poor living conditions,suchas kbestbRncertanhwmn ae cu measles,whoopingcough, tnberculo-ti o aycssocr&P I OES today. Baragwanath hospital alone sis and, especially, diarrhoea and SHEFFIELD CHAMBER of P admitted over 1,100 children with cholera, all carry greater risks for the Commerce have finally come THE NAMIBIAN refugees captured at Kassinga, Angola, and still serious malnutrition in 1978. Needless poorly nourished. But unless the clean over their recent trade detained by the South African regime more thn five years later, to say, none of them was white, doctor recognises and is concerned mission to South AfiCatwhich r e te sot anregi eoe th i slae abou manutrtio, thre ay h ~,renmain desperately isolated and vulnerable -even though in some about malnutrition there may be n provoked a storm of controversy respects their prison conditions seem to have slightly improved. STUNTEDGROWTH ndedevlopme lftcountries in the City in May.MARK Many still have no contact with the outside world and are preumThese obvious forms of malnutrition such, as Chad, Mozambique and HOLLINGSWORTH reports: ablybelievedbytheirfamiliestobe missing or dead. represent only the tip of the iceberg, Tanzania producing only 75, 84 and John Hambridge, chief execotive however. Less dramatically, but far 86 per cent respectively of the of the local chamber of commerce, The military censorship and tight Relatives and clergymen who were more often, a black child is seriously calories needed by each person each has reopened old wounds in the security which enshroud the Kassinga interviewed earlier this year said that underweight for his or her height and day. In such a situation malnutrition chamber's ling-running battle with detainees make it very difficult even other prisoners were held at Hardap is thin. -Alternatively, a child looks is inevitable until food availability Sheffield AA by claiming opposition to say for certain exactly how many Dam besides the Kassinga detainees, normal, but when both height and, improves through agricultural to the visit had 'added 'credibility to there are. One international Red including Angolan soldiers and weightarechartedisfoundtohave productionorotherwise., themission'. Crossreport gives the figure of 118 SWAPO guerrillas captured by the stunted growth. These forms of mal- South Africa, however, produces Anti-apartheid activists bae been people, all f thenacaptured by Soutl South African army. Security at the nutrition also ipair intelectual 1 8 per cent of its calorie reqlire- refused right of reply to reoress the African troops w t crossed into prison was very tight, they said, arid des'elopmet and ena tional aciee- mients and thore should thus be no balane. Aid they may have to take Angola , and maseacred Namibian some sections were kept completelyrant. . malntirftionl wstaoeves"r. South outadvertisementsinQuality - the rifugees at a settlement in Kassinga closed off by locked gates and doors. The problem can only be properly Africa exports food, while its own chamber's monthly magazine' to get on4May198 ArepresentativeinWindhockof detected and prevented by careful children starve, A small part of the their message across to ordinary Th Kssinga detainees are the International Red Cross said that monitoring of the grovth and excess calories is consumed by the chamber of commerce members.' believed to have been held prisoner his work was severely hampered by development of every child. But this white population to the detriment of Haibridge has made several extra4 for most of the period since then at the fact that the Kassinga'detainees requires a universally available and its own health through obesity-related ordinary claims about the apaf'theid the Hardap Dam detention camp, are not protected by the Geneva accessible child health service, disease. regime, one being that white businesswww.nuance.com- attached to a South African military Conventions, He called for as much genuinely concerned with the prorno- The manner in which- available, men appreciated the need for social base near Mariental in southern international pressure as possible to tion of good health and nutrition, foodPDF in South Africa is distributedCreate! change and 'this group represented 5 Namibia. Trial It seems that some of the be pat on the South African gotrn, This is not ihe orientation of the and used is a disaster for its children the strongest force for change in original group may now be held else- ment to award them full prisoner-of-. South African health service. Its and the future 'they represent. South Africa'. Another was that this where, at the Osire- military camp war status. cynical lack of interest in the black group'wereatthesharpendofthenear Hochfeld in Namibia. Little or South African dilemma and they nothing is known about Osire, except The information in this article is were trying their hardest to put that conditions thre are believed to drawn from the news bulletin of the M N thingsright'. beworsethanatHardapDam. InternationalDefenceandAid Fund, M A I G.. E . tambridgewasatpainstordisprove Anumberoffamilies have been Focus. For further information on Nelson Mandela's argument that permittid to visit the. Hardap Dam what you can do o help win freedom 'every effort to isolate South Africa camp, undoubtedly in part as a result for the Kasainga detainees,contactS T R IK E A G A IN ! addsstrength.tothestruggle', Indeed of international pressure and protest. CATE CLARK arAAM seadqaarrers, he maintained that the black populaTHE advertising agency that ran when a referendum is being held in lo dintwantt beilate po Margaret Thatcher's election 'cam- South Africa on the much-debated nomically from the rest ofthe world. paign yes, you're right, Saatchi and Constitution Bill. Saatchi and Saatchi The chanher's chief executive Saatchi -has been hiked by the South are working through their South also beieves that many black people African.National Party to persuade African affiliate, KMP Compton, can afford to buy their own homes in whites to vote 'yes' to the regime's which already,handles several state Soweto now that ouncil-owned constitutional 'reforms'. accounts, The crucial date is 2 November, The deal between Saatchis and the homes arebeingput up for sale. Th average Soweto house is being sold Another of Saathi and Saatchi's NationaPartymyoff for about R6001lus an additional visit which the NP's chief information amount'ofuptoR600forelectricitythes officerDrJanGroblerpaid to London which is not included in the purchase ..... - last November. KMP itself'signed the 'British contract at the end of August, and is price.t ,. =' .... ,'-ii. ,L, aiway no wokin ovrtietopreentthe With 90 per -cent of black house-.,arwyS now working avertime to presentrthe holders earning less than RI10 per 'National Party as 'the moderate, week, many buyers have to relyonrj,6 *sh middle'betweenthe extreme right the benevolence of die building B r it (ConservativeandHerstigteNasionale scetiesformoortgage I s.Thisis e,* e j.,,. bparties)andtheofficial white opposi- whereteCt 2o apThis /of~ttlll' lll n Il |ionProgessve~demlPary), where the Catch 22 of apartheid eaji*11 hill()'1 iJ on (Progressive Federal Pary). comes into operation. Several realThe agency has already beentelling.des cnot eveal -or ....* . =dentscannotevenapplyfor'loans A fSouthAfrica.votersthatifthey rthetermsoftheGroupAreas vote 'no' to their government's plans Art.' i"1"_ ... |theywillbeopeningthewayto'Left Oereietrmt.oaiovl *u s11CsS andRight-wing extremism', 'unwoek- called her building society to ask able fantasies, confrontation among about bonds. 'Sorry, we don't lend populatiop groups and a breeding a tColureds"'wasthereply.andgrounidforourenemies','stagnation toCo le,acrdthe ply. n andcollapse'. a boscaUniversityresearcher,more ai ,, tire 'il'vAnother ad-Lists 10 outcomes for than 10,000 houses am needed to theu tra3ton,relieveovercrowding - and that's divisin 'o change'ou nd 'olen just ustheCape Peninsula. Dr Niekey lyamo of SWAPO (eight) is one of a number now working forwww.nuance.com the change'.,Takeyourpick,folks., uti liberationmovementintherefugeesettlements Picture by SWAPO HealthPDF hazar Create! 5 Trial in Iamibia O~NE OF South Afreica's most Ieffective weapons in its international campaign of disinformation against SWAPO has been its control of information about Namibia, Now, in the area of health, an inyaluable new source of information to counter South African propaganda has been provided by the latest edition of the Namibia Support Committee's-bulletin Action on Namibia. Focusing on health inside Namibia and in the SWAPO-run refugeecamps in Angola, the bulletin highlights the difffrences between the ynical disregard for the health of black Narbibians show by the South Africai ocnpation forces and the positive' health prograsme developed by SWAPO. ,Inside Namibi', an article written by a medical worker within the country, chronicles the daity realities of Namibians living in the war zone:. non-existent health services, random assault and shootings by undisciplined troops, fouling of water sources, curfewn, intimidation and brutalisation. Women and Health' details the On the ocedilon of the Namibia Week of Action ANGOLA INFORMATION in London extends wartniest congratulations and solidarity to SWAPO of Namibia sole legitimate representative of the people of Namibia 34 Percy Street, London W 1 COMMITTEE ON SOUTH AFRICAN WAR RESISTANCE (COSAWR) extends greeting to SWAPO and pledges support for the Namibia Week of Action and other campaigns to ed the illegal South African occupation and establish a free Namibia BM Box 2190 London WC1N 3XX Durmg 'the preparations for the Week of Action we think in parti .lar of the thousands of Namibian refugees in Angola and Zambia who have been forced to flee their country. On this occasion we want to confirm our continued support for them and their striving, expressed in SWAPO, for a free, just and 'independent Namibia. Nanibia Refugee Project 22 Coleman Fields, London NI 7AF Tel 01-359 4362 GREETINGS FROM ELTSA, TO SWAPO " FOR THE NAMIBIA WEEK OF ACTION British banks out of Namibia and South Africa! Barclays Action Day 2 November End Loans to South Africa (ELTSA) 467 Caledonian Road, Londonwww.nuance.com N7 rape, disrupted family life, isolation and victimisation of women, but recounts also their heroic support for the liberation struggle. The courageous resistance of people inside Namibia is matched by their struggles outside to build for theirPDF own futures even in theCreate! refugee camps of Angola. 'Kwanza Sul'5 is the storyTrial of those struggles as women and men, old and young work together to provide the education, health care, nutrition and material necessties denied them inside Nadibia. Ass 'Working on the Nuclear Chain Gang' makes clear, however, itis not only the Soutlh African regme which is culpable in Namibia. Brilish multinationals like Rio Tintt-Zine squeeze their profits out of the blood of Namibian work rs. While some- British people profit from the biter expeiuace of Ntanibians, others have woe the respect of SWAPO for their cosistent support for the liberation struggle. Throughout the bulletin further ways of supporting the struggle 'for freedom and health are detailed, and it concudes with an interview with SWAPO's Dr Nickey lyamboinwhich he says: 'Ourmes tote iish' people and all our sup 'ore" is this: Friends in this country have been helping us over the years we highly respect and continue to respect their contribution to the strugle. We feel that much more could be done and we hope that the British people and all the friends and supporters of the oppressed people of southern Africa, in particular Namibia, will continue increasinrg their support, their material.support. NSC's bulletin on heaithis designed to provide background information for an international seminar,0n health in Namibia frotu 14-16 October, organised in cooperaion with the SWAPO Department of Health and Social Welfare. People with expertise or particular interests in the field of health who are interested in contibating to the d-|lopinent of a health programmse fhr a free Namibia can obtain details of the seminar from the NSC. A MEDICAL .expeirt .who visie squatter camps on ,hch outskirts of Okahandja in Namaibia described conditions there as 'uo liey aib. 'It makes my hair stand on end when I think how rapidly an epidemic could be started,' he said". Black workers and their families in the camps were living in pigsties roofed with corrugated iron sheeting, while the pigs themselves lived further slong the same rows. For this each family was paying R20 a month rent There were no toilets rarrangements for rubbish remnova t ad drinking water came from a reservoir covered with a thick layer of slime. A SURVEY of Rhosadal, a black township of Windhoek, found severe overcrowding in the rented sectoran averege of 13 people living in each small house. Some houses held 35 people, while those for whom there was no room at all slept in cars or outside in the yards,. Maiy children were found to be suffering from influence and chronic chest diseases, a situation made wrse, the survey'oncluded, by the overcrowded conditions. SWAPO Secretary for Foreign Affairs, briefs the press in Windhoek. Vice President MeidrikWitbooi is at his side, Picking on-SWAPO A DEMONSTRATION BY SWAPO restrained by their superiors', a jorsupporters in Windhoek during the nalist noted. 'As one tried to pound a visit of the United Nao Secretary fleeing protester with a twirling PickGeneral Perez de Cuellar was broken handle his superior shouted: "Leave up by a group of 20 policemen him man, there are too many internawielding batons and pickase handles tional press here." ' The police claimed that the 130 SWAPO's Secretary I.r Foreign demonstrators were 'impeding the Affairs in Namibia, Nico Besainger, passage of delegatiom' to see the told a Windhoek news conference Secretary General and that the pick- that the harassment of SWAPO messaxe handles made it easier for them hers and supporters amounted to a to 'push three people at a time across virtual ban on the liberation movethe street'. mentinside the country. Some of the police 'had to be Big brother Barclays ON WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER many local and student antiapartheid groush will be outside branches of Barclays, protesting at the bank's involvement with South Africa's illegal military occupation of Namibia. PATRICK CUNINGHAME has been looking into Barclays' activities in Windhoek and beyond. 'Ondangwa may sound like the activities to maintain its position as end of the earth to you, but do you the largest bank there. Its staff. 70www.nuance.com know Barclays has a branch even that per cent of whom are whsite, rose far out in the bundu?" So begins a from 440 in mid-1978 to 659 by the recent advertisement in Paratus, the end of l182, working in 47 officet journal of the South African Defence and 90 agencies, many of which arc Force, illustrating the close coopera- situated in major militaiy bases such tion between South Africa's illegalPDF as "Grootfontein, Tsumeb,Create! Oshakati military occupation of Namibia5 andTrial ad Ondangwa. Barclays National Bank, the South Birclays worksciosely ith other African subsidiary of Barclays Bank multinationals involved in the plunder pic. Ondadnwa happens to be Sooth of Namibia's resources, such as Rio Africa's largest military base in nor-. Tinto-Zinc. In April this year, the them Namibi a, where SWAPO's Rossing Foundation Education Struggleaiso$inp see .: " CentreWas opened byRTZ after At the Barclays AGM in April this Barellys had contributed a R35 000 year, group chairman Timothy Bevan, grant. having jast returned frm- Namibsa, In Novembee 1980, Barclays as rmade the absurd suggesiton that the involved is the formation of the Ondangwa hranch had been opened Private Sector Foundatunoostensibly 20 year ago. In fact, as he well knw,. to_ uplift the quality of life of disadand as was reported in the ndhoek vantaged people' in Namibia. In Aderiser at the tite, the branch reality the PSF functions to protect was opened-amid a fanfare of publi- the interests of free enterprise' by city in April1979. containing trade union and woker AsSouth Africa's military presence resisstace through employment in Narsibia has grown intq what th codes. Weidhoek Observe, desribes as 'the world's greatest invasion', with one soldier per six Namibian adults, so Barclays National hash icreasrd its ICSA tsalutes SWAPO and its armed wing PLAN. We congralate the AAMandNSC TheMozambique Angola forstrengthening solidarity ,Comsitteesalutes betweenthepeoples of f theheroicstruggle BritainandNamibia ofthepeople ofNairribia anti hopethat duringthis undertheleadershipof WeekofAction SWAPO international public opinion will SWAPO assert itself andi bring nearer the and extends its solidarity dayof liberation in Namnibia with the NamibiaWeekofAction Forwardto freedomandpeace -ia Naumbtiat MozambiqueAngolaCommittee Allsupport toS:WAPOI (MAC),98GreatRussellStreet CISI rn LondonWCB3LA o A Tel 01-5805405 Dn Strn NI 30 abr tet odnN Namibia. Week of Action NAMAIBIA SUPPORT COMMITTEE salutes SWAPO and the struggling people of Namibia. Your country, under military occupation and rled by martial law, has become a plunder ground for multinational capital. South Africa has tried to make you slaves in your own country. Now not only South Africa, but also its western allies, try to block your struggle for freedom. ,NSC campaigns in solidarty with SWAPO. We call on AAM members and supporters to take up thefollowing campaigns: *mecical aid for SWAPO Kims of medical supplies ame regularly shipped to SWAPO'slepartment ofHelth. Cost: £20eac " *materfal aid fcSSWAPO Women's Council Our SWAPO Women's Solidarity' Campaign sends packs for the battle against lliteiacy. Cost of materials for 15 studentsplus a tutor:f 35. SWAPO women also urgently request regular supplies of sanitary towels. eCampai n Against the Nareibian Uranium Contract (CAN UC) Britain gets 46 percent of current uranium imports from Namibia. British electricity and British nuclear weapons use illegally-mined Namihian uranium. British trade unionistswww.nuance.com are prepared to undertake selective blockades. A broad popular campaign of protest is needed. What can you do? *freedom for Namibian political prisoners, particularly the Kassinga detainees, over a hundred young people kidnapped from Angola in May 1978 and held without trial ever since. FurtherPDF detailsfrom Naenilia Create! Support Committee, PO Box 16, London 5 NW5 Trial 2NX Tel 01-267 1941/2 Polluting the air-waves INFLUENCING foreign journalists based in South Africa is only one of the insidious methods used by Pretoria in its massive disinformation campaign. Another proninent tactic is the use of governmentcontrolled external radio services to broadcast a mixture of straight news and subtle disinfo nation. A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT reports. The decision to ban, in principle, foreign journalists, based is South Africa from working in the front Ilne srates was taken at a meettlsg inKodoma, Zimbabwe, at the end of July. Soon afterwards, Zr'mbabwe became the first to implement the decision by expelling journalists working in the cointry who had their bases in apartheid Sooth Afries. The Kadoma decision was immediately distorted by sections of the western press. which interpreted it as a ban on western journalists and an attempt to censor reporting. , The Zimbabwe government's statements that journalists were welcome to go to Zimbabwe, and to report from there, were ignored. The prohibition was in fact to be applicable only to those journalists worldng froth South Africa. These are particularly susceptible to the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, disinformiation put about by the media bodies controlled or influenced by the Pretoria authorities. The distortion of news relating-to Southern Africa was very mudh in evidence at the time of the ANC's attack -on South African Air Force headquarters is Pretoria at the end of May. It was also apparent after the brutal South Afrin attack on civilian targets in Maputo which followed. The only clear information about the raid against Maputo came from journalista based in Mozambique who were able to reveal that the South Africans had discriminately bombed and strafed civils-n facilities, like the jam factory and creche, or civiliandwelingi. . I South Africa's radio stations, broadcasting to the whole of Africa, to most of Europe, North America, the Middle East 'and Australasia, were, as usual, one ot-the main channels for getting across Pretoria's version of events. They have prowerful transmitters and me able to project their lies over considerable distances. In' Southern Africa itself, the South African government radio broadcasts in English, Portuguese, Loci, Chiclewa, Tsonga, French and Swahili, to name but a few. The ploy of mixing more or less straight lews with distorted or comdpletely untrue items 'enables the stations to convince listeners that .they really are hearing the truth. Muel of the disinformation concerns conditions in indrpendent African. countries and the relations between them. The whole aim is to confuse people and to stir up disaffection within African states. This would in turn tend to weaken Pretoria's neighbours, thus taking some of the prcsse off the apartheid oppressors The most blatant form Of propaganda used by Sosth Africa is the- setting up- of clandestine stations purporting to be broadcasting from inside neighbouring states in areas said to be con troled by so-called resistance movements, These stations in fact broadcast frome the Transvaal, South Africa, in the case o(the anti-Zinibaban R adio Truth and the anti-Mocanbican Voice of the Mozamique Reistance, and from occupied Namibia in ,the case of the pro-Urita station Voice of te Resistancee f h Black Cockerel The Voice of the Mozaibiqse Resistahe used to be called Voice of Free Africa and was originally set ap by the Smith regime to weaken Mozanlbique and thus end its support for Zimbabwean freedom fighters. These stations, financed and ran by South Africa, broadcast blatpsr propaganda against the governments of Zimbabwe, NIoaiique and Angola, aimed at encouraging armed resistance against them. They are also intended to wreck the cooperatiod between the independent states of Southern Afnca ,and pieticularly todestroy the progress made by the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Recent examples of the propaganda broadcast by these mouthpieces ot Pretoria are the attempts by Radio Trutth to stir up further troube in Matabteland by claiming to support dissidents fighting the government of Robert Mugabe. The station also launched vicious attacks on Joshawww.nuance.com Nkoao for 'blustering' but for not rly doing mich to help the Ndebele against Mugabe's alieged oppression. Radio Trth also tried to stir up trouble between Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana by alleging that Zimbabwea s had bee sent to Botswana by the govetrment for ischievous ends. It claimed that Zimbabwe wasPDF trying to hijack the SADCCCreate! and that the Kadoma declaration 5 was anTrial example of this. (The last clearly shows .PlaRtrias eoncarlti the blow struck at Kadorna against one of its owanpropaganda sources.) The anti-Angolan and gatiMoosesbican raio stations give prominene to the destructive and muriderous activities of Unita and the 'Mozambique National Resistance' (MNR). Tle Voice of the Mozambique Resistance Movement recently broadcast warnings to foreign workers in Mozambique that they would be killed if they did not leave before, the onset of the MNR's 'Red August' campaign, thich the MNR sasd would make August a month red with blood in Mozambique That these propaganda machines are part of South Africa's.destabiisation Stirategy is undeniable. The Kiadomia declaration is a sensible move aimed art' reducing South Africa's opportunities for misleading the world about the conet in Southern Africa The conern-of the peoples of Southern Africa about South Africa's se of lies and distortions was made clear recently by AngoLan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in a speech about South African activities against his country. He said that national and international opinion was 'intoxicated' with 'media campaigns based on thd newspapers, news agencies and radio stations of' South Africa and many Western European countries'. These were 'fed news and commentaries and reports consisting of distorted realities, imaginary stories and ancedotes witten by mercenaries of the press about our country.' The confusion spread was part of the South African policy of destabilisation, carried on in 'the propaganda, political, diplomatic and military flttds. WAK Fog on the WHEN THE South African Air Force r: capital Maputo, on 23 May 1983, killing tary aggression was backed up 'by a pos campaign was well prepared and highly el raid. The world was persuaded that the bomb explosion in Pretoria three day between Moambique andthat event has The claim -that ANC bases were the m lists and diploosats and the reports of th claim'completely. The casualty figures and theit allegations that they had wvarnec of the action and that they had (by this ised the -ound anti-air batteries, were s showed all this to bellies were quickly ave Matola was just anottlir example of tJ of the South Africin propaganda and serious diadvantages suffered by the fro illustratsd vividly how closely enmeshed media, with their reliance on South Afi stringers, etc, and their close cooperati medidand with the apartheid authorities The net result of South African domi in and about Southern Africa is that the news and policy-formation in response tc military aggression, political destabilisati pressure, Indeed, the constant accumul front line states, particularly Angola Zimbabwe, together with Lesotho, aitour It is enormously to apartheid's advan the liberation movements and the front c6ndut this war in virtual silence. And % cloaked in silence, it is the South Africs western partners which dictates the terms The efforts of the front line states undeclared war, and the consequent tnt prospects, pass unnoticed by the press, ri allied with the apartheid regime. Solids inadequate resources to break through the aggression. No country has suffered more from th heid's War in the region than Angola So to annex a huge chunk of territory in ih lie home counsties in England, and to us and land attacks, and the promotion impunity that is assured by the media s More column inches have been devoted i intervention in Chad than in the past twi of southern Angola. I In this survey, Marga Holness analyse: propaganda imanoeuvres to boost Uaita Paul Fauvet reports on the front line state tion, and how it has been attacked and pondent describesSouth' African destab. means of propaganda and disinformation.

Antl-AparitVG eW UGOUU fO- a 80 ie front line orce raded Matola, near the Mozanbique killing six people arxdinjuring4O, the milia powerful disinformation offensive. This ghly effective in the vital fist day after the tat the raid was a retaliation for the ANC te days previously - but no connection nt lad ever been deminonstatied. the esain target held the field tnclijoirnas of their independentfindings refi ted the gures claimed hy Pretoria's miitary chiefs vatngd Mozaimbique's defences to stay out sy this minns, was the inplication)www.nuance.com neutralwere widely dissemninated. The* fets which kly available, but mnuch less widely reported. le of the insidious power and effectiveness i and disiformation machine, and of the the front line states in countering it. It also meshed with this machine are thb western th African-based agencies, staff reporteci, operation with Souti Africala owio racist orities the'iselves. sPDF domination of the circuits Create! of inforaltion hat the front line states aUff,,in5 theTrial a-,a of ose to eviots, as much as the)' snffer froni ibilistion and econoinc manipulation ant -cumnlation of all these'pressu, ee5on the ngola and Mozambique, and incriasingiy ,aiiounts to a state of. indeclared war. advantage, and greatly to the prejudice of e front line states, that South Africa can And when the war hors up too ntich to be Africuan information maacine with its willing e temrs of the reporting. ý states to defemld t hmselvs agaiogt this int iostt to thleir people avid developnent press, radio and TV servicia of the countries Solidarity moveins satrufgile with vatiy ugh the wall of silence surrounding re toria' rom th, contrived obscurity cloaking apart;ola. South Afica has heen alloweirtsally ry in the south, roughly equal tothe siZc of id to use this as a beach-head for fWti'r air Intiofi of its lmet ostfit Luita; with an ledia neglect and distortion of the realitis. wvoted in the past month to Låbya's alleged past two years to South Africa's oceipation analyses recent South.Afritan injitaly- and t Utita and block a Natátbian settlement ine states' new ounterffersive in isforiuad and måsrepresented; and. a special eoueesdestabilisatinn of the front line status hy malin. 's~ \\ .;~; Settin g the rétord WHEN tle information ministers of the front line stares met at Kadom a im ibabwe at the end of .uly. the. agreed on cotr0non action to launc an offensive agaiindt PPetoria's systeratic d i mation' about the region. The apartheid regime's use of the press was deseribed as 'carefully orchestrated propaganda aggression against the peoples of the region'. PAUL FAUVET explains. Thiedeclaration drawnupatKadomla smreered Peter Wilshei in the Sunday connantrates largely on pooling of Times, desceibine the Kalona detlaresnlurcs bitwein the front line states, ration as 'a bluntiy negative banX The eoIperation betwien thelir media, Guardian in an editorial entitled "The traiting of jounla3iats and other iuch bad hews from Africa' called the dicimatters,. Bat in uni pargaph it alan si, 'paanoid'. anunced that 'foreign torrispon- . (tnidentally, the Guardian editorial dents aceeated to South Afria and misleadigly desceibed the front line those reportig to regional burcaux in states as thome states 'nearest to South South Africa will not be allowid, in Africa'. By tht citerio Lesotho and principle to work in the front line Swailand would be members and statesn$' moie'. TiWzanis would not.) This caused ömething ofan outey. Yet the Kadoma deelaration, far The foreign coerespo dert association from alanming the door in journahiists' in Johnnesbrg sent a filig ation to facs, 'ietally invitej ftlhm, to comi Zimbabwr iq. an 'insucessfaal attempi and set up office in the front line t revrse-' te decision. Accusations states. In the words of the documint, wer made that thi front line stiltes 'tie Muters ppa-led to Ne-s Wiri inpedin the-free flow of infor- Agecies and other interatiinal mation. Te" attåcks bad an impact media to establib 'hie "regional withnr th fot Ie t thmselvs bureaux in the jndepindent countries in that Rotswana dissociated itself of the region'. Some well'knows from the decision. (iBotswana's ninis- agincies have alcady done so ter had not attade the meetig, and Reuters, for mntane, las nstalled.a it w-s claimed that thie Botswain regional bureau i lrare. official who sagned the Kadoma Thifrontline states see n good d'clacation bad no right to do so.) reason wiy journalists who intend to A flurry of pateånalist leetures cover indepndeent Africa should bas appie-ed in certiin British papers. themselves i Johannesburg, As the 'Only blind admicers neid apply,' Maputo paper Noticias put it:'We are tired of heing rigarded as South Africa's bacl yard.' - rounalits based in South Africa are subject to a concentrated barrage of disinformation from thie relnine u'oout region a faám. Ean pirfe-fy.honest, äatirjot ,r .t irimune to tie un-latrv, effect, Of this What an enorous diffitencé it Id maket, ro ews overage of South Afracan aggression sf the jöumalists writung ahou-t it were mainly bsed in the countries attacked resther than in the one doing thewww.nuance.com - attacking! The argumenrts used bY those w ho: defend plcing regional bureaux in Johannesburg are extremely feeble. atesPDF- South Afeima's G5 roiseCreate! gnta Accordingto the G ,ardian, 5 'South Trial Africa is not oaly the most conveniant bse in theoregion icause of its communicatiöns, it ias alan the most cum fortabje. ln fatt, the ar.e few seriöus Sommunications problems lur j-nalist, an any front ine capitnaL. Maputo's A/ , t¢ee-s -ok' j.,t ,a ,ell . Johanntes-" bure'e. (TV c ,ws ould, however, '1 MW.fen,..dJBen-eee A a iai i South Afic is~ racist and g.sn~cl4a... Beut sinace she~ fed-s and protect s . 1I havetopasha somehow I Carfoon by MKLÄ f.,, diffictuties in' endg back tetéviion iunages dicr¢fly from Maputo to EuroPe.) Ic should be pointed out that the front line states are - certaiy not csking the wster.'media toclos theie offices in South Africa, Thesi offioes may hae , usfiul ruin to play in reporting on the strsuggl, of the South African people too verthrow apartheid. Bt they eject the notio that the same jouralists should report on thi rest of the rgion. ,South Afrian. joa lits iethimselvis are not affected by the Kadoma diclaeatinn. There are stilla n ic be cf honest and courageoms journalists wocking on the South Afriaan press. While it fs just as sy for a wemtrn news agency to set up offices iH Ham.e or Maputo as in Johannesburg, obviosy the Ras^1d Dgily Mul or th. Cape Argua have no choie hut to be based si South Africa. It thus sems likely that some of the front lis states wiU ontinm, to grant visas to seleted louth Alriean joLuahsts, in the hope of nsaltig that at last som of the cality of indepndent Africa, of the altemnative to aparthid, is refleeted in the South African press Lobbyi$ot SUCH IS THE GRIP which thfe Sotth Afaiean military exerts,'ovea events in that par of- th world that even Pretoria's --wet lolbbyvt in.s the Unttd Statea has his slary paid by the, Souath Afrian Dfenc, Forna rather than Ihe South African Depactment of Foreign Afaim and Informa, tio, Stuart Spencer washited byPretoria to add to the arsenal of iighly-paid lawyem and ex-politiclans through which the apartheid regime influences decisions in botth the Demsocrati, and Republican parties. Ht peviotasly worked as- campaign manager for RonaldReagan ia the ltter,'s rae to b governor of Califomrai in 1966. In 1980, he aggii helped Reagan out in the election campaign against Jimmy Carter. I As the apartheid srny's mouthpiece in, Washington, Spencer has sadoubtedly been working overtime to whip up rigt.wing feeing agaast SWAPO and n intersationalty acceptable Narmibian setlensent. den history tae bndne dremilv the anciet x11.aSna eKtaia rtoop omnssesaan g ANGOLAistlefronttininthewar'pThebo ss ch . tor thl, raio of South-e ,Rftca. l t- t tc ndt AlthgdU fh South Afriat i- asin aganst the dat and dstructio of 1974 as dfied ilie country has w-ugt by the S-outh Afcan ivasion been under attack eitmer y1, direc t aces thel, wa es th, onte1t of South Afr 'n olfes~ve or throgh contemporry Af-an and world destabillsation a -ti- e _r since, politic, Thti bo' vidly d-is how This4cconntis valuablebecautit people are living on the front ln. blrig you cl. t. the speriele o Drawing on their personal observations Anug"n, hasttelbokgoesfertbrx, i.ljnllt~thecuntryandion a5d tsadthepohicaofrhe nietsriews. the aulhors give clear ,delopment of MPLA from a herafast-pacd accOntof he waaä.d the on 1 ,v1, t s social teansfornati of the0u ctlyv the atficult decisions thaft haflnd to ln smhallvignet theb madeab htt,,orgisai of heroasmofthepe cldrenof prouctn,teac11e antf I utnun, h., fl Seil of inau, halib, cae andeducaionandl g' , w e ou theorgansatonof people,the bS th c limaposdbyfheAles'oup. the tteet with little homar-nade guns The -anfh of' ui t of ehickent.ire and rubber bandswww.nuance.com that bcni. andit,1~l s 1li.eullet MPLA . h.overanda anboIi ia oflthe escapdfromSouthAtriesafnc ovrn, hveteantac fh tor.(SADE)i 11, seiimtijlreaditig foyaasyonewho toPDFostratt wuts udeetuathe,polaidaandCreate! 5 Trial maig contactwith theirarimy, cnoicl' a i FAPLA; tntd the peopleofEbn, who frbdthe nwapapiheadålls ir the outh frienCas considered sunk in the preoc(trPations of peasnt agricul- Flaine Unterler

Steps forward i the mines? IN JUNE Ibis year, a black mineworkers' union, the National Union. Minisg, Exptosives andl Chemnical of Mineworkers (NUM) was recognised 'as a 'negotiating agent' by Workers Union. < ' ...r M; t Therearealsootherforces"at the South African Chamber of Mines. The NUM is now ttoinsed There' a lo to..all strikes, at1four work' for example the white-led SA to negotiate wages and conditions, and toca strikes, at four oake whoseretr, A < ma"rmlssereary,Ava mines where it has members, three of them belonging to the Anglo der Watt is ogaising a parallel, subAmerican Corporation, It's the first agreement of its kind -RON sevioent branch for black mine- PRESS looks at what it means. Some 20 per cent of the value of So th Africa's economy is accounted for hy tming. Seventy per ,nt of South Africa's export earnigs come from minerals- gold, coal, diamonds, manganese, uranium and asbestos, to name a few. The industry employs over 600,000 African workers, of whom 42 per cent come from neighbouring state,. There are 77,000 white workers on the mines. For decades the white min- have enjoyed a privileged position, having the vote, a powerful trade union, higher wages and better conditions. They were and still are bitterly opposed to any advances by the African workers. The African sineworkers have fought conmistently to build a trade union and to improve their lot in life. To list but a few incidents: in 1877, African workers struck against sumilating searches; in 1919, 70,000 struck for higher wages; in 1946, led Trade union ONE OF South Africa's most important non-racial trade unions, the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), hs been banned by the puppet authorities in the Ciskes bantstan. SAAWU played the leading role in the ng-Tunning dispute with WilsonRowrtree over thesacking of Wor.ers at its East London sweet factory. Most of its leadership is currently in detention - the result of a massive police crackdown against trade unionisls and others over the last few weeks. In a statement from Lusaka, the General Secretary of the South African Conaress of Trade Unions :. workers." " These developments raises number by the African Mineworkers Union, of questions. Is there a split in the 75,000 struck for ninon recognition Once united front of mine owners? ani higher Wages; in 1982, in a spate Anglo American as long realised of strikes, over 20,000 took part in a that old-style apartheid exploitation struggle aver wages. - Is out-dated and will lead to r vo.These strikes have been accompa- tion. The corporation represents the nied by much loss of life, many more 'liberal' trend of capital in arrests and literally thousands ftied South Afrim. The G ldfields group, and banished to the bantussans. on the other hand, still clings to the The mine owners are now tnding old svystem and remains opposed to to conclude tha an organised work- the organisation ofAfrican workers. force may be easter to deal with than But what is the real motive behind an angry one' whoge leade s are Anglo American'srecognition of the, unknown. The Anglo American Cor- National Union of Mine Workers? Do poration, one of the largest mining they regard this union -affiliated as groups, has been the first to recognise it is to the Council of Unions of black trade unions, South Africa (CUSA) and hence There are a number of unions of associated with the International African workers on the mines. The Confederation of Free Trade Unions major one is the National Union of (ICFTU) - as a safe bet? 'Is the role Mine Workers, claiming some 25,000 which Anglo American envisages for members o13 mines. Others include the mning unions realistic? Or will the Black Allied Workers Union, the the African workers, once again, Black Allied Minewww.nuance.com and Tunnel prove that they are the captains of Workers Union, and the Federated their fate and that their unions are part an'd parcel of the lberation struggle? uituuw ed Sofar,theworkershaestaked theirPDF claim. We have yet toCreate! see how 5 Trial (SACTU) warned that the Ciskei the process will develop. One thingis poppet leaders had declared an 'all- certain, however -tht the Africat out wa' on SAAWU. On top of the mineworkers, deserve ever support banning, anyone found carrying ouit and encoupragementt in their latest the w ork of SAAWU is sow liable to steps towards trade unionism in a prison tere of up to I0 years- The South Africa's majo? industry. SACTU General Secre tary John Nkadimeng said that the regime was BRITISH investmentsinaSoth Aica determined to 'suppress by force the were worth £11,000 rillion in emergence and growth of any militant January 1982 - the last time they trade union in our country'. 'The were valued. . puppet bantustana have learned well Britain is the targeit sing i foreign from their racist masteas,' he added, investor in South Africa, accounting SACTU appealed to workers for up to half of all foreign investthroughout the world and their trade ment in the country. In 1978, British unions to step sp their support for investments in South Africa were the struggle for full-trade union and valped at £2,000 million at book 4-otieri5t,,dhr- Zenas Massdela, Nl~son ad Warm words BANNED LEADER Winnie Man David Kitson have both sent pen greeting anti-apartheid supporter Despite her continiled banning and banishment to the bleak town of Brandfort in the Orange Free State, Win ie Mandela is in 'fantastically good spirita' reports Richard Balfec, Labour EuroMP for South London. Accompanied by Davs4' Kitson's daughter Amandle. he visited Winnie on South Africa Women's Day, 9 August, on behalf of many individuals and ofga a sations in the British tabour movement. Labour Party general secretary Jim Mortimer and engineering union AUEW (TASS) general secretary Ken Gill, in particular, sent messages of support. The Royal Arsenal Co-op and AUEW (TASS) sent the money to cover the cost of a year's supply Of fuel for a paraffin stove, provided by the ritish ermbassy and presented to Witnnin Mandela, by Balfe ad Ritnon. Thle tiny houise in the black township 9sf Bsrandfornt where Wineje M~aasdel. lives his no electricity andi gets very old in the winter. Amandla Kiton was also able to visit her father, who is an AUEW (TASS) member, while she was in South Africa. She writes: - from Winnie lela aod imprisoned trade unionist Duali messages front South Africa, in Britain' greetings and thanks to all AntiApartheid ienmbe for their help and solidarity. 'On my last trip Stanley ClintonDavis was good enough to accompany me to South Africa to see my father 'I'd also like to thank Richard-Balfe, Member of the European Parliament, for accompanying me this time.' Winnie Mandela, th~rough Aesandla Kitssn, sent a taped minage (on Women's Day) to all those in England who are engaged in the struggle against apartheid: ' cannot thank our friends in S England sufficiently for their expression of solidarity with us. Had it not been for their support and their solidarity w would not have the inspiration and the" courage to go on under very very difficult times in our struggle. It is when we know ofsuch support and such comradeship that we are able to go on. We know that we shall attain our freedom with sueb solidity. May they keep up the good work. We shall never forget what they have meant to us durng the most diffimilt times. AMANDLA!'

Jornallits who set out to report what's reially hapening in the South African, resistance struggle fate many haarids -~ parttilarly if they're black. Thami Mazwai, news editor with the black newspapeK Sowetgan (centee, surrounded by colleagues) was imprisoned for 18 months for refuasing to tettify ins a political trial Writing about resistance -a risky business TO BE a journalist in South Africa is not a safe occupation if you have anti-apartheid views. Steve Bike's biographer Donald Woods, former editor of -the liberal East London Dispatch, was forced to flee his native country after constant harassment of his family by the authorities. And now the wife of bannedwww.nuance.com black jouirnalist Marimuthu Subramoney, Charles Nqakula - detained in the Ciskei Press protest THE International Federation of Journalists has protested at the arrest and detention of a black journalist, CharlesPDF Nqakula, in the CiskeiCreate! hanf stan. 5 Trial Nqakula, a former acting president of the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA), the main trade union for black journalists, works for a news agency in the Ciskei, He was arrested on 16 August. Another journalist faring apartheid harassment, Johnny Issel, has been elected a patron of the United Democratie Front, launched in Cape Town in August to fight against the regimes plans to entrench apartheid. Int, a regional secretary of the South African Students 0rganisation (SASO) until its banning in 1977 and a former orgaiser of the Cape-based antiapartheid newspaper Grassroots, had his ban renewed for the third fime in July this year. His 10-year-old daughter received a warm response when she spoke on- his behalf at the UDF launching rally. A banning order on the former president of " MWASA, Zwelakhe Sisule, has not beenrenewed following its expiry in July, however. Thyna Subramoney, has been threatened by security policemen during a visit to the Presi Trust - a news agency based in Durban. Two white officers accused her of running the agency without a licence and breaking the law by being in a white area. In fact, Press Trust operates as a partnership with white journalist Ingrid Stewart and so has the 'privilege' ofallowing blackreporterstowoykinDurban. * Ms Subramoney said this was the fifth incident of police intimidation since the news agency started two years ago. 'We are not a subversive or underground- orgatsjsatiot,' shgsaid. 'All we are trying to do is an honest job in journalism and earn a livelihood.' It transpires that the real reason for the raid was police surveillance of Ms Subramoney's husband who had paid a lunch-hour social visit to the offices. He is now being charged with contravening -the banning orders he received in 1980. A black journalist with better luck - for the pimoment at least - is Thami Mazwai, news editor of the Sowetan, who has been released after serving an 18-month sentence for refusing to testify in apolitical trial / White journalists are aiso in trouble with the friendly apartheid police. Sue Sparks, wife of the Observer's South African cormspondent Allister Sparks, has been charged, along with the Financial Times' Bernard Simon, with obstructing security police While they were raiding the Sparks' family premises in March. Back home, the controversy over the front lines states' decision on South irican-based journalist (see centre pages) has been continuing. In a letter to the Guardian, for example, L Clarke from Uxbridge condemned the western media for recruiting South African correspondents with no direct contat or e.xperience of black South At ricah life. Britain's popular papers do not employ their own correspondents in South Africa and rely on the news agencies. However, that does not stop the bastions of the freedon, loving press advertising specia package holidays in South Africa. The Daily Mail has beep offering its readers vacations with 'breathtaking unspoilt scenery' and 'captieating sophisticated cities' being proclaimed in the advertisements. I presnme a day's sighteing in the black towrnships of Soweto and Alexandria is not in the itinerary. Mark Hollingsworti CEDRC tAYSON, a M~ethodist minister in South Afica and a staff member of the banned Christiam institute, was arrested in November 1981. During the next 15 months of detention, he was tortured, humiliated and subjected to9a systema tic process of selfdestruction. It failed - he explains,. Inside your head is the focus of and grilles covered with thick plastic detention. They restrict your body or glass, like an hermeficallysealed to manipulate your mind. tank, through which the sound of thb . motorway barely petntrates. Aplastic Fear is the object when they say. packet of food is pushed through a 'Now yoetcan find out whathappened hold sometimes. Unseen and utheard, to Steve Bike.' Friends have told you the warder spies osyyoo through his their experience of beatings; electric peeph le. ihock through their heads firom ear When they moved me to a cell in to ear or through the genitals, tied Pretoria where the glass and cover of down in a secluded farm; tied up and the Judas eye were missisg, t stood lpcked in a cupboard, being dragged and watched the world of the corridor aftera ear bundled up in a bag, or tot hours through that tiny aperture. held from the door of a speeding van But the locks still clonked heavily with your eyes just inches above the behind me, and for 22 orwww.nuance.com23hoursinroad. everydayIwasalone. It is regular treatment for interro- Even your exercise period walking gation to cogmience with days pf in thie corridor, your shower, emptydeliberate dehumanisation, stripped lag your sit pot, must be apart from naked with Your hands cuffed behind others. You pray for the warder to your back, enforced wakefulness byPDF leave the wooden door Create! open apd lock continuous standing day and5 night Trial only the steel-grille. Sometimes he until your feet are swollen, purple does. and painful, whilst relays of mn, shout abuse or threats, or talkso Idleness Detainees are mestlyactive gentlyand friendly. people, and the transmission from They are trying to climb inside the hyperactivity of interrogation to your head and take it over, and you the total absence of stimuliin solitary feel like an animal backed to the confinement is traumatic. Front an coenter of its cage, eyes-wide with earlier detention I knew the selfexpectation for anything. destructive effect of succumbing to hatred qr self pity nd s deterSolitude The security cells at John mined to keep indl and body active, Vorster Square now have the, bars but it was desperately difficult, News black-out on hangings announced THE South African authorities have announced that, in future, executions of those held on death row in Pretoria Central Prison' will be carried out in secret, A iieou officer for the Directorate of 'Justice' said that hangings will not be publicised and that the names of those executed will be withheld from the press. The spokesman said that the masons for this was to avoid giving 'prominence' to the event and to 'protect the next-of-kin, and the families' of the condemned person. There can be no doubt that the move is in reaction to the worldwide campaigns of protest and solidarity over the impending executions of captured freedom fighters -most recentlythe Moroka Three and against the courageous stand taken by their families inside-South Africa. I The Djrectorafr spokesman said that confirmation of executions could be obtained from the deputy sheriff. -He added that there were currently 175 prisoners on death row in Pretoria. Sisulu trial, due soon ANTI-apartheid activists will beoutside the South African embassy on 17 October, the day that the trial of Albertina Sisulu opens in South Africa. I Sisiul was arrested shortly before the 9 August celebrations of South Africa Women's Day, and charged with furthering the aims of the African National Congress. She has been held in Diepkloof Prison and, sinme her arrest, has been elected a president of the United Democratic Front, The British government has told SATIS (Southern Africa - The Imprisoned Society) in a letter that it has recently protested to Pretoria about its punishment of people becase of their political beliefs. Houever,_since Sisulo was not a ,British, subject, the letter said, 'we have no formal diplomatic or consular standing to intervene in her case' Mandela new campaign THE South African government, osoved swiftly to try to stop a new campaign to Releas Nelson Ntandela fom getting off tieground. A rally to launch the campaign, due to be held in a Soweto church on 4 September, was banned by the chief magistrate in Johannesburg under the Internal Sprtisity Act. The chairman of the Release MandelafCampaign in South Africa, Curtis Nkondo, said that it was intended to internationalise the camPaig while reorganising it 'on a national-basis by setting up regional committees, We as a family are very grateful over your concern, We have accepted his death a a sign of victory. Rest assured that the Pretoria regme will be overthrown and justice, peace and truth will ultimately prevail. ,Long, long live ANC! It is* forward ever, backwards nevert from a letteto a rsember of the Anti-Aparthalid Moveient from one of the ielatives of the Moroka Three, hanged on 9 June this year in Pretoria The Petora cels wel neoen mall steps long, but at Johannesburg Fort the seven foot by five foot cages permitted no Walking. Exerciseswww.nuance.com helped. I set out patterns of thought' and imagination, and once I had a Bible started systematic study, making notes on lou paper. At Pretoria the lights plunged us intodarkness from 8pmo to 6am. to Johannesburg they only went out when they fused. IsolationPDF Both psychological Create! and theological studies affirm that we5 are social Trial creatures, and when cut off from family and friends, human nature malfunctions. The sudden severance of all ties, news, contacts makes you feel half dead. After some months inside they took me to an office expecting further interrogation, and my wife walked in. They made her a messenger of death to tell me that Neil Aggett had been killed the day before. We had a few minutes of family news, Then she was gone, the doorshut. You can , o nothing about the intole' table burden your family, and friends fnust bear. Your children ae as marked as you are. Uncertainty The future has no subftance. There is no information, no contact With lawyers, no knowledge if you will be charged or release , a6 news of anyone else. Nothing. Will I breathe open air or walk on grass again, and will my daughtes know me? If I internalise everything will it drive me mad? Not a chance. 'This was the cell they pat fein a year ago and the rain still comes through that broken, window. Maybe they'll fix it for me next yearHow do Mandela and Mbeki and Sisulu and the others cope? Will Batbara ever laugh with ua baby?9Aad how is Penelope in her.soul? Conviction But the experience strengtheas you, detention is demystified, and you now know for sure that the oppressors, cannot win. It is a strain to think clearly under pressure -I do not scream or cry Iutclafn up and think, 'Well, either they kill me or they stop'- but your convictions grow all the time. There was never a question of giving up the struggle, but of how to continue it in those circumstances. Merely by being there, you are a pilitical and theological fact, so you must be it as well as you can. When you win the battle inside your head even these devout religious thugs who are using you to earn their promotions and their pensions know that they cannot win. Your confidence in the victory of liberation unnerves and infuriates them. They lost the battle. in their own heads years ago. CEDRIC MAYSON was released on bail in February 1983. He decided to leave South Africa, convinced that the opportunities for his carrying on useful work in the struggle againsI apartheid inside the country were rapidly diminishing. The risks to friends and colleagues if he remained in South Africa were also too great. 'After 15 months of reflection in prison, I was determined to carry on the straggle against the heresy of apartheid, and the evil political, economic and social oppression which thrives in its shadot,' he explained on his arrival in Britain. "The UK and the world have to realise the monster they are nurturing in South Africa. Many in the west have been crnditioned bY the South African govenment propaganda to accept soinething utterly evil, and I wish to sngIojt th international effort to be rid of it.' fight the clamp wn SOUTH Africa's Minister -of National Education 'has been forced by widespread protests to shelve plans to tighten up on racial segregation in the country's universities. For the time being at least, the controversial Universities Amendment Act - dubbed'the 'Quota Act' -and passed earlier this yeae will not "te implemented, The Ministert Dr erit Viljoen, has said that th power to invoke it will remain on ise statute book. The Act provides foe quotaf to be imposed on the number of students of particular racial groups ,who may attend universities reserved for other racial groups. The aim is to make it even more difficult for'black students to gain admission to South Africa's privileged 'white' universities. At the moment, they can take up offers of places if they first obtain speciql, ministerial permission. Theldecision to delay ,imposition of the 'Quota Act' represents a victory for a concerted campaign of opposition, mosuted above all by South African studnts of all races. Student leaders and some staff membes" predicted str ongprotest actions including boycotts of lectures and sit-ins if the law were implemented, with students , enjoying significant minority staff support. The administrations of the four English-language universities have roundly condemned the 'Quota Act' as a blow to the heart, of academic freedom and university autonomy. They argue that Dr Viljnen has been trying to shift the responsibility for from the IAUPL in protest at keeping black students out of white UTASA's continued membership. universities from his own department Most of the opposition to the to the universities. themselves a 'Quota Act", however, has come from sleight of hand which has been used students themselves, The Nationalwww.nuance.com by the regime in other areas, such as Union of South African Students .sPorts, in its efforts to make apart- (NUSAS) launched a major campaign held invisible to the unwary.eye, against the Bill while it was still being 'One University of Cape Town debated,. professor said that he would resign NUSAS president KatePhilip told if the 'Quota Act' was enacted at the aPDF meeting of 2,500 students Create! and staff university without an 'honourable 5 at theTrial University of Cape Town that fight'. Professor Jan Beekman, who 'We most reject tie quota system for spent two years in a Nazi concentra- its racism, its entrenchmsent of ion camp for refusing-to sign a unequal education, its divisive and declaration of loyalty to thelGerman discriminatory aims, and because it occupation forces in Holland, poio- wll be another tool for the state to ted out that the issue was whether use to entrench the broader inequaliacademic freedom should he curbed t ties of wealth and power in our on racial grounds, society, " Thse Internationai Assoiation of At the University of Natal in University Professors and Leetrers Durban a minting of 1,200 sindents (IAUPL) may finally be forced to was addressed by veteran antiexpel its South African affiliate, the apartheid campaigner Helen Joseph University Teachers Association of and by the president of the Azasian South Africa (UTASA), over the Students Organisation (AZASO) Joe 'Quota Act'. Several countries, inclu- Phashla. They called on the urnverPiling Ireland, have already withdrawn sity to ignore any quota and to allow black students to continue studying. .n~l =l ,lor- * lRhde and Pietermaritzburg were " also the scenes of student protest meetings demanding opposition to TE E'-H RTS theproposedActonthepartofthe university authorities. In Pietermaitzburg, the chancellor of the UniA ONG-SLEEVED aWEATSHIRT vertisy of Natal led a march through !with craw nesck} giass: aclienu, terge the city centre, punctuated byshouts Coloas desim, navy, red, white, of'AmandlaNgwethu'andthesingPrice:P5.0 ingoffreedom songs. Students held up a banner proclaiming, from the SHORTSLEEVED TEE-SHIRT Freedom Charter, that 'The doors.of Slzes: small, medium, earge learning and culture shall be opened'. I Ceturs:nvy,red,white A Pce P2A5 l / C RELEASE MANDELATEE-SHIRT (with short seeves and portrait af S Nelson Marnceus) . Sizes:call,iediem, large Calve: white Prlnt 2.50 Price; 2: u mm-,-,mmmm,,,mm---Please add poaetae l& esing as follaws (adjust for overess poseage): A-ISap, B-40P, C-40pend give second choie at colur air RetSize tColer 'Price 'Total I I p llease nakecheutlPosal Order/Moe Order lgP& *ayablet aBari A.A.'ans send wsth os etnd Aparieid ITotal I 63 C ,ieterd ead, New Sar-t FNS NZ 'NAME ...... A- E,, * .-...... ! . .., o :...... ; ; uTELEPmONE ...... (BLOCKCAPITALSPLEASE) Unm mmInmmml! ~ m In brief: TWO prominent'student newspapers in South Africa have warded offfor the time being at least - a omlitionatban under the Publications Act. The ban, was imposed on Saspu National, the newspaper of the South African Students' Press Union, and Wis Student, the 'newspaper of the University of the Witwatersrand, under a section of the Act requiring them to submit all copy to thewww.nuance.com Pubiscations Contro Boird ffor 'approval' before publication. This was interpreted by SASPU as amounting to an 'all future editions' ban, since the newspapers would heve had to express views acceptable to the regime to get permission to distribute. But in the event, the ban has been dropped following appeal by the two papers. SOUTHPDF African riot police Create! armed with rifles, teargas, whips and dogs5 broke Trial up a university campus concert in Durban earlier this year, giving the 3,000 music fans 20 minutes to disperse. The police told the organisers that the concert was an 'illegal gathering' and that it contravened the Internal Security Act, under whichgatherings which threaten 'public * peace' or which might lead to 'racial hostility' are prohibited. In fact, the organisers bed peeviously been ganted a Group Areas Act permit for the non-racial concert, Resistace. continues to grow... IN SPITE of the very low rate of prosecutions filed against persons detamed without charge, South Africa's courts have been oveewhIl-med with political trias over the suitImer Twelve separates involvisg 24 -people were hardin late July and early August, nine of which were relted to alleged African National Congress activities within the couitry. I. our trial, of Isaac Geno in Krugersorp, al eight-year sentence was handed dowvn for possession qf literatu, anid clothes. desie4 in ANC colou rs, activities alleged to promote the arms of a banned organisation. ELEVEN nevspaper editors and two other journalists have hers threatened with charges by the apartheid autho cities in recent months, following press reports on a host of atrocities committed against civilians is. South Africa and in occupied Namibia. The regime's severe clanpdown on the media helps it to create the illusion that the threat to white privilege origisatls from outside South Africa. Pretoria seeks its scapegoats in fictitious 'guerrilla bases' in neighbouring states, while urging whites and its psappet supporters in the bantiastans to resist the 'total onslaught' on South Africa. The South African Defence Force, meanwhile, began civil defence training in the middle of Johinnsburg in August, while similar exercises were held in Cape Town. A BOMB attack on the Carlton Centre in the heart of Johannesburg in late Augast s.cessfully struck offices of the puppet Ciskei administration. Ciskei was responsible for 62 out of 167 detentions in South Africa last year and.has earmed a reputation as one of the worst symptoms of 'new' apartheid. Trade union and civic leaders have bben suppressed and bus boycotters have been threatened with imprisonment for up to 10 years. 'The Carlton Centre bombijigmacident was the eighth'important action agaist strategic intallations and government targets this year. Others include attacks on administration offices in Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth, the Pietermartzburg supreme court, Pretoria air force headquarters and the Sasol oil plant at Secunda. as Mahlangu Freedom College fPr Sough African refugees in Tanania

Taut nerves, hope and despair, Death is Part of the Process, byHilda colleagues of the Af i - National are not eveaed so tha tho still Bernstein, Sinclair Brwe 93 C~ongres haeeceiedif stencges free arid in hiding are throwns into hbk£7.95 thaughthrwasnotonedeathasa diarra,tknowingwholasben result of their acItons. At that time taken nd, more inportaintly, who the regime ignored, as it always aa talked. Some talk immediately ONE IS immediately caughtupi ihis ignores, the opportinity for peaceful dosing polie ,trrogatian, some are story of a handful of protagonists, change and now fares aimed con- tricked and riitt, and death by black, Indian and white, who, over frontations, bloodshed and death, torture coesr obsceely to one who 20 years ago, sweitthed from years of Hilda Berstein writes in ac ru' won't talk. But I do not want to give non-violent struggle in South Africa trolled taut style. There is meticulous too many details of the story. to the sabotage of targets which attention to detail in the description The writing is as evocative of would not cause Is of life. The of the planning, the making of the Africa as Karen Blixen's Oar of selection of electricity pylons and explosive devices, the tension and Africa. Hilda Bernstein writes. goods trains shows how deeply non- the pumping of adrenalin when the At and water alike lay against violence was part of the make-up of- bombs are set in place. One is always them heavy and soft as silk those who believed in and foughtwww.nuance.com for aware of the armed menace of the again t theitskins. Sea and sky a fret and independent country for police and the army, lying in wait, and rain and river merged into all SouthAfricans. oneexperiencesthedespairlatentin e,mergedintothe night, The blowing up of a pylon, a forgotten fingerprinted torch, the became the darknss itself, holdplunging aPDF city into darkness, would, Create! lighting of a cigarette which leads to ing5 the wholeTrial wod . it was believed, shock the regime and capture, unspeakable torture at the My only negtve cr s that its white supporters into a realisation hands of the security police and the townships aed ti dsbubs of the absolute inhimnanity of apart- yearsofimprisonent, donottometolife. stuggle heid and would bring about funda- I With the arrest of the first group takes place against a reported backmental change. It is for asts such as of saboteurs, nationwide arrests drop and not in the scehing, living these diat Nelson Mandela and his follow. The naves of those detained city. But to criticise is to cavil. 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Linda Breunan_86A LABOUIRS independent monthly- children's books about South Africa. Florence Road, London N4, Tel 281 LABOUR LEADER - forsocialism0901. andthe Labour Party. Annual subFOR SALE -ew anto-de-luxte Belling scription £3.50. Send for a sample d isto rtio n electric cooker, four 7-inch ringe, copy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side. ideal for family. £200 ono Details Leeds LSI I 9LW INSIDE South Africa itself not from AAM, Te 01-387 7966. ' - ISD ot fiaisl o RESISTER, bulletin of the Commit- surprisAgly - schoolbooks are burstPEACE NEWS, fortnightly paper tee on South African War Resistance. ing with racial stereotypes and apartcovering he growing peacemovement Up-to-date news on apartheid milita- held distortions. Children - bleck from a radical viewpoint. News, rism and resistance to it. £3.00 pa and white - are taught that white views and analysis about militarism, from- COSAWR, SM Box 2190, superiority is based on a 'higher London WCIN 3XX standard of civilisation' and 'Christia- - r if . ,1 slty', while blacks are prest ed as 'theiative problem'. GeOgraphy pupils are taught that the banttstans have 'tl best agrieultural land in the country% while a history book informs its readers that 'as the Indian population multiplied and spread over the olosny, the whites took fright..'. resources. THE Assoctation for Curriculum Development, in Geography, which aims to promote geography education of ja kind more relevant to today's needs, has various publications which are likely to be of interest to AA News readers who are also geography teachers. The Association's journal, Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education, costs £5 per year, while a report of a conference held earlier this year on geography and racises costs £250 plus sop postage. Both are available frons ie Association tot Curriculum Developimt in Geography, London Univer- sity Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WCI. No go for David SINGER David Essex was met by ai anti-apartheid picket when he arrived to give a, concert at the Newcastle City fll during August. Members of Tyneside AA appealed to his fans to ask him never to go back to 'South Africa. Essex gave a series ot concerts at Sun City in the Bophuthatswana bantusian in February this year. A meolber of his backing band,www.nuance.com The Real Thg, later told te AntiApartheid Movement that he and [ i colleagues had been shocked, angered and sickened by what they saw condiiort in die African villages. Musician Eddy Amoo called on- his contemporaries 'to refuse any inducements to go to the place. STOP!PDF Create! 5 Trial the apartheid war The days of racism and whiteminority rule in Southern Africa are numbered. In an attempt to preserve the apartheid system and to keep themselves in power, South Africa's rulers are fighting a vicious war against the majority of South Africa's own people, against the people of Namibia, and against the 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 to attack neighbouring states, to bomb villages and towns, to destroy crops 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 anid support which South Arica receives from Britain and other western countries. * exposing British collaboration with the aparthe *hmoblising political, moral and material supper liberation movements of South Africa and Namibi NAME...... ADDRESS...... N.O...... * Minissum ainoual menmbership fees *individuals £ 7. students/apprenties £ 5 *schsool stssdents/pesonesel unwased £30.00 Olocal organisations~ £10,. 0*Affliation rates for 5lh~mal trade unions are on a slidi from £50 to £,220, depending on the siz~e of the unions Or areas £25 foon-national tade untons bodies £ f10 *Subscriptions toAA Vens only *Ult/Europe - £I.5t Europe: surface mail - £4.50; airmnail - Z6.50 *Membership fees soid subscriptions can be paid directly AAMt'eGiro Account No 52 513 0004 *they can also be paid by anker's OIrder -foems avai the AAM hseadquarters Use this farm to wins moreembers for the Aati-Apsrtheid Return it to: Anti-Aparthieid Morvement, 13S-s Street,I NWt 011W, Tel 01-387 7966. Greetings cards Freeaell Soufh African and Namib poi a risonrs-/stof12ineSkpV ostcards,twoeachof designs by Ken Sprague, in attract wallet. Ideal for bookstall sales at meetings and events, and as gifts. Published by Southern Africa-Th Imprisoned Society (SATIS) £ nr Support Fr e1 lSouh Afrcan and Nanib political prisonerst! ingle postcard he South mark Nelson Mandela's 65th biuthd ipport for published bySATIS Disounyts are savailble on bulk or Eof boths thesS'itegie, for tocat and student AA Groups and6 others. Contact Sue Longbottom at AAM for details.. mentU " yellowonred,withblankspace awhichlcan beused to advertiselotinll ' events l I Prismatic jewellery i Badgesndearri eighteolou * '-silver, gold, redgree, pink, re ious purple, fht blue and aquatic blue general - The earrings are for pierced ears an sthe * havesilver-plated wires. ,rthose AA symbol badge, :- dia v -IAA symbol badge, Iz" din I AA symbol earring, W"dia f 0 'Women against apartheid' I symbolearring,', dia £1.50; rn Africa Paphl" www.nuance.com I South I 'If we- gae 1eem shoes f.. they wo, *kick their feilos patients- The , sad regime fojr dSthl Afrca's expulsion from E for the * international psychiatry, revie of .PDF- the incidence and treatmeatCreate! of 5 Trial mental illness under apartheid and tlst'cse for sanctions, published b ...... AAM Health Committee, July 195 .*.." I Thecasefore vewofBritshpol ...... on Southern Africa, memorandum .presented by AAM to Mialcolin .I liin MP, Minister of State at t I Forign and Comonwalth Offic I 28 July 19d83 oaion- c ..man.1 - For futher iforiatioi on prices, matman/ bulk rates, etc, contact Sue * s Longbottom at AAM, 01-387 796 0nosie Cofa tyo rL c into the blefrom I Movement -London- Caimpaign Diary. ISaturay 24- Sunday 25 September: ACTIVISTS' 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 each other. Speakers; films and videos; discussion SgrouPs 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 (£5) from AAM. 0 Sunday 9 October: FREE NELSON MANDELA Sponsored ]Cycle Ride, London Raise funds for the campaign to free all South African and Namibian political Prisoners, spot the deer in i Richmond Park and get fit all in one go. Details from AAM, 01-387 7966. 1 Tuesday I IOctober: United Nations Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners * Friday 14 - Saturday 16 October: International Seminar on Health i Nambia. City University, London Organised by the Namibia Support Committee in cooperation .with the SWAPO Department of Health and Social Welfare, for health workers and others with particular interests in the field. Details from ran NSCPO Box 16, London NW5 2LW Tel 2671941/2. six ESaturday 15 October: African NationalCongressInternational iye Bazaar, London Support the struggle by coming to buy cakes, gifts, plants, household goods, linen, preserves, hanticraft, kitchenware, exotic foods, African beads and Nlakonde carvings. e Traditional food served 1-3pm. Open I lam-4pm at Porchester .00 Hall, Porchester Road, Ba),swater, W2, Admission 10p. OAPs ian "nd children free. to ISaturtlay 15 October: DAY OF ACTION for material aid day, campaign Cat you organise a collection of goods from shoppers lop for South Af ican and Namibian refugees? Can you collect de funds for medical kits for SWAPO? Detaili from AAM, 13 Selous Street, London NWI ODW. EMonday 17 October: Free Albertina-Sisulu and all women political prisoners picket of South Africa House, London Organised by Southern Africa-The Imprisoned Society (SATIS) and the AAM Women's Committee on the opening day of her trial for furthering the alma of the African National Congress, et I-22pm. al ESntday23 October: Anti-Apartheid Movement Annual 2op General Meeting, Westminster Cathedral Conference Centre, www.nuance.com Londo EThursday 27 October - Wednesday 2 November: WEEK OF A' I93N ON NMII ACTIONONNAMIBIPDF Create! Organised byAAM and the Namibia 5 Trial S uport Committee as part of the UN International Week of Solidarity on Namibia. Events irclude: ad EWatarday 29 Otober: Protest march in London passing the headquarters of mtlltinationals involved in plundering Namibia's 75p resources and fuelling South- Africa's war - M Saturday 29 October: Benefit for SWAPO at lslington Town Hall, Upper Street, LondonNlorganised by Namibia Support pair Committee, The Republic, Supercombo and the King Biscuit Disc Kit. Starts 7.30pm; tickets £3.50 (0 in advance from NSC), £1.50 UB40 Id MMonday 31 October: Joint action outside Central Electricity ued Generating Board, Newgate Street, London ECl (near St Paul's). Organised by AAM Women's Committee and SWAPO Women's Solidarity Campaign in protest at the plunder of Namibian uranium and the nuclear threat to peace. Surprises for the City's y office workers and tourists alike, 1- 2pm. .3 EWednesday 2 November: Day of Action against Barclays 30p Bank, in protest at its role in Namibia and its collaboration with icy the South African Defence Force. Details from AAI 01-387 7966 or NSC 01-267 1941/2. he ESaturday 19 November: Focus onl forced removais in South e, Africa, London Multimedia event organised by the ANC -'rl Women's Section and the AAM Women's Committee, 2.30 5.30pm at Hampstead Town Hall (BelSize Park tube). Speakers, films, slides, action resources. 6. | I A rop- Copy Date - -~, r ThecopydarefortheNovembser issue of AA NEWS is Printed copies will be available for collection from AAM iQ at 13 Selous Street, London NWIODW, 'our contact address/telephone number her, fron Friday 21 October

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