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Sunday Times, Daily Dispatch, Finance Week. The Friend and The Satal Mercurr

Becently these newspapers and publications have cone out in full support of the so-called new constitution thus becoming extensions of the state's propoganda and Ideological tools alongside the Labour Party,

After careful consideration the Rational Executive Committee has referred this natter to the regional councils for final decisions. It is important that action in this regard should flow from popular feeling if it is to enjoy maximum support*

The added advantage in this approach is that regional newspapers will be considered regionally. f e o ' C 4 t f * Biographies

LIONEL" BEPNSTEIN • T.irmoi ’Rusty' Bernstein was b o m in 1*920. s Of middle class parents, he attended a private school in Natal, and became invol­ ved in the struggle against ^artheid fran an early age. By the late 1930s he was Secretary of the Labour Party’s League of Youth and a marcher of the Party's National Executive.

After finishing his schooling, he became a part-time architectural student at Wits University. In 1939 he joined the Ocmnu- nist Party and within a year was in charge of .propaganda at the Johannesburg office. Rivonia in July 1963. • He was also elected to the District Ccmul- . ttee. * . At the Rivccia trial the State alleged that he was a member of During World War H he served with the 6th Orkhonto We Sizwe and of the banned South African Division in Europe and joined Gxnunist Party, but he was acquitted the Springbok Legion. On his return to v due to lade of evidence. He was then he was involved in the 1946 rearrested and charged with breaking Mineworkers' strike, and was charged and his banning order in 1963, but fined for assisting an 'illegal' action. escaped to London while out on bail. Lionel Bernstein is married to Over the next ten years he continued his •another South African political exile, p o U tlral activities: hie was a founder Hilda Watts Bernstein. member of the Oongress of Democrats (OGD), an executive member of the Springbok Legion, editor of its newspaper 'Fighting DENNIS GOLDBERG */ • Talk' and helped to draft the . ^ Dennis Goldberg was horn in Cape Town in 1933. Both his parents were In 1955 he was banned frcm participating in . w*bers of the South African Ccrmunist and political activity, and ir 1956 was Party. He attended Observatory arrested and hecamfi a defendant in the Boys' High School and then the Treason Trial (1956-61). In the 1960 University of Cape'Ttvn. In 1955 State of Emergency he was detained, released, be graduated with a degree in and in 1962 was mider house arrest. engineering and worked for the City Despite these restrictions he continued to Council. be active, and was arrested in the raid on Throughout the 1950s he ves active ’ AHMED M2KAMED KMHRflEft ■ in democratic organisations, first in the Madem Youth Society, a ncn-racial Ahmad Kathrada was b o m in 1929 in the youth organisation tied to the Congress Western Transvaal town of Schweizer Feneke. Allianoe, and then in COD. Be was Bis family was observant Moslems and followers also active in organising for the of Giandi. At the age of nine he was Congress of the People in 1955. Be sent to Johannesburg for schooling. Bis later served as an executive meraber political activities began at an early and President of CCD before it was age when in 1940 he joined the Ocnnunist banned in 1962. Party. Be left school at seventeen before completing his formal education and went During the state of emergency in 1960 to wodc as a full organ! BPr in the he was detained for four souths. offices of the Transvaal tesive Resistance After his release and following the Council. Later that year he served a formation of Unkbcnto We Sizwe , he jail sentence for civil disobedience. joined the underground nowement, Mark­ ing with the High Ocnmand of Ctakhcnto In 1951, as chairperson of the Transvaal and developing techniques for manufac­ Indian Youth Congress,he attended the turing explosives. Berlin Youth Festival, the Congress of the International Union of Students in Warsaw, Be was arrested in the raid on Rivcnia and then Marked for nine sooths at the in 1963 and subsequently sentenced to headquarters of the World Itederatlon of life isprisorment. He is serving this Dem ocratic Youth in Budapest. sentence in . Returning to South Africa, he helped organise While in prison he has fought a long organise the for which campaign for the right of political he received a nine month suspended prisoners to have free aooess to news­ sentence. papers and radio. In 1978 this was brought to court and although he lost In 1954 he was banned, but he continued his the case on appeal, the press coverage political activities while also helping of the issue persuaded the Prisons to organise the Central Indian High School Department to grant politlral prisoners in Johannesburg. In 1956 he was the right to read newspapers and listen arrested and charged with Treason and was to radio broadcasts. a defendant in the Treason Trial (1956-61).

• During the 1960 state of emergency he Be 1s married was detained for five months. In October and hft* two children, and his wife Esm§ 1962 he was placed under twelve hour has not been allowed to see him for 18 house arrest and a few months later he years. Bis family live in England. 'disappeared* to join the underground. Be was arrested in the raid on for five years, and this forced him to Rivania where he had gene to record resign his positions with the ANC. . an underground broadcast'. Be was charged under the Sabotage and Be was arrested and charged with treascn Suppression of Ormrnmign Acts, fourri in 1956 and was a defendant in the Treason guilty, and sentenced to life inprison- Trial. However, despite harrasnent, ment. tannings and arrest, he continued to exoersise his leadership fron behind the m o m m scenes. After the ANC was banned,Mandela ppra-M RQUHTAHLA MSNDEXA vent underground and for seventeen ncnth* evaded all efforts to arrest him.

Nelson Mandela v ie s b o m In 1918 Into the royal Tembu household. Be went to During this time he left South Africa aid school at Bealdtown Missionary School and toured independent countries in Africa. Be in 1938 went to Fort Bare University. addressed a Conference of the Fan African After completing only two years of his Freedom Movement of East, Central and B.A. degree, he was suspended for Southern Africa at Addis Ababa. Shortly participating in a student protest. Be after his return in late 1962, he was then scved to Jcburg, where he ccnpleted arrested and sentenced to five years' his degree thrcugh GNI£A. In 1914 he inpriscranent for illegally leaving the began studying law at Hits. country and for incitement.

In 1944 he joined the ANC and with Be was brought from prison after the rai/i and Halter Sisulu, founded on Rivcnia and was charged in the Rivonia the ANC Youth League. In 1948 he was Trial with sabotage and with being a elected National Secretary of the Youth member of Unkhonto He Sizwe. Be was foutd League, -and at the Alt Conference in guilty and received a life sentence. 1949 became a member of the National Executive of the ANC. Be became In the years since his inprisonment, he has National President of the Youth been recognised throughout the world as League in 1950. a statesperson and a leader of the struggle for freedom In South Africa. Be has received j - In 1951 he went into partnership in a many honorary degrees, and there have legal practise with Oliver Tambo. In been a a m b e r of campaigns for his release. that year he also became Transvaal Pres­ ident of the ANC. In 1952 he headed the Defiance Campaign Against Cbjust laws - Be is uarried and received a nine month suspended to HiimLe Mandela, and they have two sentence for his part as volunteer-in- daughters. Be also has two children fron chief. Be was also banned for six a previous marriage. Be is now fifty Bcnths. Be was banned again in 1953 six years old. » QCXffiN ARCHIBALD MVtKYTT.TTOy yw y T In the early 1950s, Mbeki's store was destroyed by a tornado, and he was tern In 1910 In returned to teaching. Be was dis- the Ngamakwe district of the missed for trying to organise . His schooling was at a workers near his school in Ladysmith. number of different mission schools, Thus In 1955 he moved to including Healdtown. In 1937 he and became a reporter for ’Spark' and received a B.A. degree frcm Fort editor of New Age until these Bare Chiversity. In 1940 he m n - publications were banned. pletfcd a B^rhel or of F.o-TY-m-i r*y degree through ONISA and published During this time he also helped to a took on the Transkei rali^ co-ordinate organisation for the Transkei In the Making. Congress of the People and consolidate support for the ANC in the Eastern After leaving Port Hare, he taught Cape. for several years tut was dismissed for being Involved in politics. Govan Devoting himself full tin*, to the ANC began his political involvement while at In 1956 he became National Chairperson Fort Bare and had joined the ANC In as well as a menber of the Joint the add 1950s. An intellectual and Ccranittee of the . an activist, Mbeki saw as a Despite being banned and harrassed, he cancitted socialist. Acting an this oontinued to play a key role in the caimittment, he opened a co-operative ANC in the late 1950s. store in Idutywa in the Transkei. IXiring the state of emergency in 1960 Be also continued his writing and other he spent five months in detention. activities : in 1930 he became friitnr In 1962 he was arrested and charged of the Territorial Magazine, in 1941 under the Explosives Act and was In he vas elected secretary of the Transkei solitary oonfinennet for several months African Voters Association and in 1943 before being brought to trial. He he was elected to a four year in the was acquitted on a legal technicality Transkei Bunga as a representative frcm andwas served with hcuse arrest Idutyw. In 1945 he he i***; elected order. He ignored the order and secretary of the Transkei Organised tent underground. Bodies, and in 1946 he a book called Let's Do It Together %rtiich aimad In 196j he was arrested in the Rivonia at promoting the organisation of co­ raid and sentenced to life lnprison- operatives societies. Be was also nent for sauotage euid for being a instrumental in drafting 'African mender of the High Ccnmand of Claims', an ANC policy docunent. Unkhcnto We Sizwe. In 1964,after the Rivcnia trial, 111 19cb he was detained during the a book of his. South Africa i state or emergency . After his reli Bie Peasants Revolt, was published. he undertook a amber of secret Despite inprisornent, he has ac+iviti°s for the ANC. Be was arrested . continued to study and In 1970 in the raid cn Lillleslc.af farm, but was awarded an hcnourary doctorate denied that he was a mmher of Ubkhonto ' by the University of Amsterdam in Vte Sizwe. However, he testified that he Holland. had done underground work tor the ANC. * I Be was found guilty and sentenced to Gov&n Hjeki is married and has four life imprisonment. children. Be is now 74 years old. Raymond Mhlaba is a widower with eight • children. m a c r o j g m

Raymond Mhlaba was b o m in 1920 in ANDREW MLANSENI the district of the . Be completed ten Andrew KLangeni was b o m in Prospect years oi scnooiing, the last two of in Johannesburg in 1926. Be which were at Bealdtown, before worked as a golf caddie to earn the having to leave for lack of money. money for his education. He cccpleted During these years he was involved his Junior Certificate at St. Peter's In e number of student organisations. Secondary School in 1946. Be In 1942 he joined the Ocxnunist was unable to proceed for lack of. Party and fxan 1946 V^mtll the funds and worked as a clerk and party was baimed in 1950, he served later as a bus driver. as district secretary for the Port Elizabeth area. In 1944 he In 1951 he joined the ANC Youth joined the ANC and **cm 1947 - 53 League and in 1954 he was elected w b ? the local branch chairperson. Branch Secretary for the Johannesburg area. In 1958 be was elected Regional Cn 26 June 1956 he led a group of Secretary for the area. In 1961 Defiance Canpaign volunteers through he helped organise the All In Africa • the ’European Only' entrance of the Conference in Pietermaritzburg. Later New Brighten railway station, becoming that year he was arrested tiiile investi­ the first ANC leader to be arrested. gating the forced removal of the Be was latrr banned, but was neverthe­ Bapedl tribe frot their land near less elected to the Cbpe Executive lydenburg. Be «b s arrested again during of the ANC in 1954 sod continued his the Rivonla raid and charged,under the political activity. — Sabotage and Suppression of Craimnl sm Acts, with attempting to overthrow the government by violent action. hospital he was banned. - Be denied that he was a menber of O nkhcnto We Sizwe but admitted that In 1960, during the state of emergency, he had agreed to carry messages for he was detained for three ncnths. the organisation. Be was At the end of 1962 he joined Onkhonto sent priced to life imprisonment. We Sixwe and was a g«rh»»r of the technical ccnmittee of the Johannesburg Andrew Mlangeni is Berried with Regional Oannand. In 1963 he was four children. detained and kept in solitary oenflament for fifty days. that year he v b s charged under the Sabotage ELIAS MJTSQftUDI ' and Si^presslcn of rvmT»Tn