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.Anti-AparthedMovemnent, 13 Selos Street, Lond~on NWI ODW, Tel 01-387 7966 .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 ting' in the negotiations for a settlement, 'the repealed; for prisoner-of-war stains for 'ur on Monday 31 October in a lunchtime protest Soith Attica's illegal military rule in Narnibas and planfar the Week of Ation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.