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Never, 28 A Review of the Year-1979 Says Botha 22 New Security Chief UNITED STATES 22 Police Station Attacked 10 McGoff Comes Out Ahead 23 Golden Glitter 10 Saturday Evening Postscript 23 Israeli Connection Growing 11 Savimbi Arrives With Open 25 A Decade of Misinformation: Hands South Africa's Ten Year Effort 12 Promises Promises-US to Build its Image in the US Corporations in South Africa 12 South African Engineers at DEPARTMENTS Nuclear Lab 2 Update 13 Bank Funds South African 13 Washington Notes Arms Deal 31 Action News and Notes Front Cover, Michael Scurato Members of the Southern Africa collective who contributed to the production of this Southern Africa Is available on microfilm through University Microfilm Zerox Company, Issue: Michael Beaubien, Jennifer Davis (Editor), Truman Dunn, Bill Hartung, Craig Ann Arbor, Mich. 68206, and is listed in the Alternative Press Index. 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Southern Africa Committee, 17 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011. JANUARY 19801SOUTHERN AFRICA 1 Nuclear Meeting Bars increasing tensions between black and white employees. South Africa On November' 19 Ford management South Africa was barred on December 5 (closely in touch with Detroit) declared that from attending the 23rd annual conference anyone who refused to work overtime or of the International Atomic Energy Agen walked off the job would be fired. Ford is cy, a move which may presage its eventual apparently trying to negotiate with the expulsion from the I10-member agency. black union, the (African) United Auto IAEA is the autonomous United Nations Workers, but some black workers now find agency responsible for safeguarding against the union much too moderate. However the ANC Fighter to Hang nuclear proliferation. union has had well-attended meetings in the The move urged by African nations, fol townships to discuss grievances. UAW James Daniel Mange is the second South lowed the September 22 "fireball" mon organized workers at General Tire have also African freedom fighter to be sentenced to itored by the US which, it has been sug been on strike. hang by the South African courts in the gested, was in fact a South African nuclear After the dismissals, community leader past year. The charge? High treason. explosion. Botha sent Ford a letter listing grievances Mange was tried along with eleven other The expulsion was the first in the and asked Ford Detroit to start a Commis members of the African National Congress agency's 'history, and was opposed by 24 sion of Inquiry to look into the situation. on charges of undergoing guerrilla training members including the US, Israel, Italy, By presstime Ford had not responded. abroad, returning to South Africa with the and West Germany. Observers have commented on the high intention of overthrowing the government, level of poltical awareness and solidarity and storing caches of Soviet-made Ford (SA) Faces displayed by the workers in the total weapons. None were charged with murder walkout of the entire black assembly plant and, only one of the defendants was ac Major Labor Dispute workforce. Such actions put in jeopardy cused of actual violence, arising from a bat As the year ended, Ford South Afric. not only jobs and income but also the right tle with the police near the Botswana border found itself the center of the most serious to remain in Port Elizabeth. that left two of his companions dead. labor dispute involving black employees Despite Ford management threats to hire Mange himself was arrested as he headed that has occurred since a wave of strikes in new workers to replace the strikers, as of for the Mozambique border in a car, 1973. In an unprecedented act in late the beginning of December, only 170 of the dressed in priest's robes. He aroused the November, Ford management dismissed strikers had returned to work. And on suspicion of a policeman when he drove 700 black workers who had walked off their December 7, as the dispute continued, through a red light. jobs in an act of solidarity with a fired black South African security police arrested 21 Most of the defendants had been active in employee. Ironically Ford, which employs a blacks as a result of what they termed the 1976 Soweto uprising and were in their total of 3304 blacks and 1979 whites in "labor unrest." early twenties, although their ages ranged South Africa, had worked hard to establish from 20 to 46. a reputation as a leader in industrial race Lesotho Dissidents Mange was not charged with graver of relations. The company had been one of the Flee to fenses than his fellow defendants but was first signatories of the Sullivan principles, singled out nevertheless to die. The others the US designed "equal opportunity" code South Africa received sentences between 13 and 16 years. of conduct for American operations in In an ironic twist of history, members of Mange was the obvious leader of the group, South Africa.