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NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA in Luanda, - 13.50; outside Europe - E13.50 outside Europe (sudace)- is also sent to aI notional members of ment - see membershop foro on back ie, A-orkers pson Street Sistmas under the Le of Emergency THE United Democratic Frot (UDF) called for a 'people's Chrtsta aganst the emergency' from 10-25 December. The UDF called on the people of Sooth Africa to come together in united action to demand the unlocking of opartheid's jails, the end of the state of emergency and the unbanning of the African National Congress and other democratic organisations. The UDF also demanded an end to rent evictions and a living wage for workers. The campaign to free all politicol detainees began with the ringing of church bells on 10 December, International Human Rights Day. In protest against the 18 months of the state of emergency, there was a day of fasting on 12 December. All cultural activities on 16 December, South African Heroes' Day, were dedicated to the libemtion struggle and to South African heroes past and present. All cultural and sports events from 10-25 December wece dedicated to the liberation struggle, and the UDF asked audiences to observe a minute's silence at all such events, and to sing the national anthem. Where possible, representatives of progressive organisations wece asked to address the audience. People made a special effort to visit the families of detainees and to send them Christmas cards. Church services were dedicated to the victims of apartheid. The IUDF made a special appeal for 'maximum politi cal discipline ad restraint', and said, 'This Christmas let us re-dedicate ourselves to the struggle for freedom, democracy and peace. Let us look forward to the daywhen the people shall govern. www.nuance.com 'Our victories should be celebrated and our defeats studied. Let us think with pride and sadness of our leaders in jail and exile, and those martyrs who have fallen in the fight against racism and injustice.' PapersPDF face state control Create! 5 Trial THE New Nation, a progressive South African news. paper, has received a final warning from the regime and is in imminent danger of closure. The paper, which has been under repeated attack for its critical reporting of police and army actions and its wide coverage of the ani apartheid struggle, has been officially labeled a 'threat to the maintenance of public order'. Over Christmas, South African minister of home affairs and communications Stoffel Botha was expected to force the New Nation to choose between accepting censorship or a three-mouth closure Editor Zwelakhe Sisulu, son Of detained African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu, has been detained since December 1986. This is his second period of detention. The Weekly Mail, another anti-apartheid newspaper, has also joined the lengthen. ing list of publications threatened with closure. A letter from Stoffel Botha to the Weekly Mail has accused the paper of contravening censorship laws on over a dozen counts. Embarrassed by the collapse of past censorship laws after challenges in the courts, Pretoria recently devised a cumbersome new method of issuing official warnings before taking Punitive action. Irwin Manoim, co-editorofthe Weekly Mail,has described the warningsystem as 'death by a thousand cuts'. A newspaper has to walt until the end of the process to see if it will be closed down; only then can it challenge the government in the courts. In the meantime, news. papers subject to warnings are under intense presure to toe Pretoria's line. Telling tales in Zimbabwe A YOUNG white woman who confessed to spying on ANC exiles in Zimbabwe for Pretoria's intelligence services has exposed what seesn to be a pattern of recruit ment of female agents in South Africa. The woman, Ddele Harrington, aged 27, was sentenced to 25 yeas' imprisonment by a court ln Hamre. She admitted spying an ANC members in Zimbabwe between Ocsober 1986 and January 1987, hut pleaded not guilty to charges under Harare's Dfficial Secrets Art and the Law and Order Maintenance Act on the grounds that her activities were not harmful to the Zimbabwean state itself. It appeased that harrington had been appallingly trained and equally badly briefed. She was caught when she asked a Zimbaswean policeman guardicg the house for ANC refugees where she was living to post messages to her controller i Pretoia. There are some strong similarities between Harrington's case and two other recent cases of young white South African women alleged to have been working as penetration agents for the security services. All three women are believed to have worked for the intelligence section of the South African security police in Johannesburg. In soother case, five men and a woman are being held on suspicion of operating a spy ring. Meanwhile, Trish Hanekom, the political prisoner released quietly in South Africa on 22November and immediately deported to Zimbabwe, has been talking about the activities which put her in jail. Hanekom alleges that she and her two partners uncovered details of massive South African involvement in destabilisation in 1983. They obtained top secret documents outlining destabilisation operations in Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Charges against the three were reduced, Hanekom says, because security officials did not want to risk releasing the highly sensitive documents even at a closed hearing. Acknowledgements to Southsca Soufharon

NEWS *FROMSOUTHERNAFRICA* iArushasets Army chiefs face revolt in the www.nuance.com HUNDREDS of black Namibian troops reruited into the South African armed forres have mutinied rather than fight alongside Unita in Angola. The mutiny adds to the cost to the South African regime of the nrecedented casualties among its armed foræsPDF during their latest interventionCreate! in Angola to prop up Unita. 5 Trial One s1dier from 101 Battalion in Namibia described how more than 400 troops mutinied at Oshakati. He was one of 48 who had resigned from the unit, white 360 others were in ctody at a military prisen in Walvis Bay. The soldier objected to the South Aftrcan Defence Force (SADF) using the battalion as 'Unita mercenaries against our will'. He told journalists that many members of the unit bad been captred er killed at Mavinga, Angola, and their parents had not been told. He said they were given only light weapons, and he accused the SADF of cowardice by sending Namibian troops into Angola first to beep white casualties to a minimum. Commonwealth plans more action THE Commoewealth Com- Statement and Programme mittee of Foreign Ministers, of Action on Southern established by heads of Africa agreed at Vancouver. governmenl at their TheRt Hon Joe Clark, Vancouver meetieg last Canada's serretaryof state Ortober, is to hold its first for external affais, Will cha meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, the committee, and other at tbe brginningofFebruary. members will inelude the The committee h been foreign minister$ of ser up to fecus international Australia, Guyana, India, attention on apartheid and Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia to further the Okanagan and Zimbabwe. pemspectives en interaion ranks Thereot f A.see nine-page Programme ot Ai 101Battalion,setupbytheSADFtoreatedivsioi 0Tinp i d within Namibia and so disguis their own role, is pat oie an internatieal rampeigl South Wmt Afriro Territory Fore (SWATF). aparibrid, These units are made up of 'voluntoers' rermited on an * End all lons end finaec ethnie basis under the rommand of white Nasibi and * Bd nulear andmilatåSouthAfricanoffire. *Impose a mandatry oil Ill-feeling about SADF intervention in Angola spread to * Intensiy the academir oter battaliom. le 701 Battalson, 47 soldiers mere w oen- sappert ter tbe aeademic a martialied and diseharged for'falling to complymitbmslitary Mobiliaoatgram.rotsle'standards'. *rovidef snesal supp A similar nember resigned from 202 Battalien sn tbe Li e Stotes, bit not a an Kavango bantusten, and 400 memberoftheSWATF AmongsttiheBlitishpa combatauxiUaryseree were disehargedinNovember, after Gemid Kaufman MP, si eomplaning abot bad treatment and cndition. Jeebins, cbeir et he TU( These Namibian battalens are used by Obe regine a TASS; Stmn Fanssame, surrogate torces to detend aparthid, while in Angele itael, delegatien from ithe Sneti Unita is med by South Atrina esap Angolanresores. NALGO and the NUR, Bur when Unita is under tbreat, lis tbe black Namibian Closres and tbe lirodwt proxy forces tht bear the brunt of the Angelan ermy The AAM mat replrsen (FAPLA) offensires. T-sr. A jeint stotement The rse of black troopasn bray fighting means tat Berie (;rant MP and white rasalties are kept to a minimum. dissoriatedthemfromMm Overll SADF losses are kept lo toe, bemause th datbs of black soldier go unreperted in the mrdia, mhile losaes in 32 Battalion are not annnouned at all. The regime's reliance on black volunteer feres is peoviag to be an important weakness. As Seutb Afria's erisis Beie Grast bP deanribei worsens, it cannot aford to relyon troops of dubious an a et in it ar m ios loyalty. i tient-band interma Inside South Africa itself, a number of ants of mutiay Sonthes, Aftrira abat bei: have br.n reported from blaek muniripal paliemen. In 'This is parlicularly im December, riet police kad lo be summoned to quell a gohemment bas elampad d rebellion in the Val Teaingle, ater black pelie defied a .uty. white officer. 'Atter meeting epreen www.nuance.com Black muninipal polire began to be renranted in 194-885 the Front Line States, ti to bolster the authority of the township ouanrils mtablished igbit enelelstingly or by the regime. But low pay and mial tension bave beightPDF- Britain.Weallagreedt Create! Ieneddiseontent. 5 reprenentandpushteraneTrial ACTION ONATIONAL& INTERNATIONAL Nuoetoo Bedworth and Hinkley AA lobby Lmis Stevens, MP for Nuneaton (above), over the Local Gooernment Bill, pointing out the clauses on South African goods and companies. Fifteeo people joined the lobby at Mr Stevons' surgery on 5 December, including delegations from Nuneaton Trades Council and the Sotb Midlands branch of te National Association of Probation lfficers (NIAP0). spite of o discussion lasting 45 minutes, Mr Stevens maintained his support forthe bill nowthe bill bmoved to the House of Lords, it's up to local AA groups to lobby local members of the Lards. P,t-ure N-.-ton Trbne ,to omod the bill while it is wider rule in assisting the siduals and or aoisations are South African regime to underine the arms embargo. 3pm in the rand Committee confirmed so far ore Baonems use of Lords urging the to attend e nd of January and to support hops in your diocese, aademim fersity in your area, former trade a ansociatod with your union, and hoa have had some links with local do, from Mick Flynn at AAM I. ess who responded to a reent ge or boo inestmeots in companies Sooth Africa. B do ot innest their peonis funds oth Africa - this represents £13 Slocal Government Chronicle, ouragd South African investment s instability makes it bad business specific anti-apartheid policies. who was a member of the standing committee Gegrnment Bill in the Home of Commons, has taken 'an enxtremoly Mactioary step in authorities to buy South Afdrcan goods and 1 companies linhed with South Africa. must get together to counter this attack on ust mount a huge campaign as the bill goes f Lords to get the clauses on South Africa good chance of succeeding if we act together, ed to write to members of the Lords on this Ciskei Aircraft Industries began production of the Hobbyliner and Scaniner aircraft in November after the Austrian government failed to prevent this breach of the arm embargo. Austrian regulations have a loophole which permits companies to transfer licences and know-how for the production of aircraft in South Africa. Several organisations have protested to the FRG and Austrian governments about these deals via their embassies, and the World Campaign is appealing for others to do the same. Over 50 aeronautical engineers who were working on the Isre 'Lsi' fighter plane project which has been scrapped have been recruited for the South African state armaments corporation Armscor. They arrived in South Africa in November and are expected to work on a scaled-down version of the Lavi and to help upgrade additional Mirages into Cheetahs. Further details from: World Campaign, Box 2, 1007 Oslo 10, Nornay. Tel: 472 301345. Telex 72314. Lewisham court case leaves Shell shocked THE high court ruling in the But they will also have to raising questions about Shell vs Lewisham ase has take account of the court's whether the regional shar upheld the duty of local summary of the effects of holders' meeting planned by authorities to enforce the the House of Lords' ruling Shell for Nottingham in Race Relations Act and will in the Wheeler vs Leicester 1988 can go ahead. (The not please Shell's bosses, citycouncil case, other two proposed venues anxious to undermine the In terms of Lord Justice are Solihull and Glasgow.) Boycott Shell campaign. Neill's ruling in the Elsewhere, recent actions For Shell, Lewisham Lewisham cae, 'a Council include picketing of the council, a tiny purchaser of must not use its stautory Shell shareholders' meeting Shell products, was not the powers in order to punish a in Bournemouth by East prime target, only the means body or person who has Domet AA, weekly pickets to stop other local autbori- done nothing contrary to by Lewisham AA, Wallasey ties from boycotting Shell. English law'. borough council's review of In this Shell failed. The Meanwhile,www.nuance.com news conti its Shell contract, and new court said Lewisham was nues to flow in from around pickets in Birkenhead and entitled to decide that it Britain and around the Southport. was in the interests of good world of support for the 0 A special Shell campaign race relations to cease tradingwithShellbecauserampaig:PDF Create! informationpac including5 Trial of its links with apartheid. 0 Sheffield AAM has poster is available at £1.50 But it ruled that launched a special postcard: from 13 Mandela Street. Lewisham's aim of changing the 'Boycotters' Guide to the company's policy the British Motorway' -a Invited to sign thetowards South Africa was must for the motorist with a national petition for the 'extraneous and impeaiiss, conscience. releaseofallapartheid's ible' and that this nullified a Danish activists carried detainees, Shell management its decision to boycott as a out an imaginative series of refused, lamely pleading in a whole.actions duringtheNovember letter of 2 December from Loal authorities which International Shell Week of Mrs J E Manners at Shell boycot Shell to promote Action, including the staging Centre, London, that 'as good race relations - their of a rule we dbnoodduty under section 71 of bat highly realistic 'blood.gneal r etdonot sign the Race Relations Act outside Shell's individual petitions. Howwill therefore, it seems, be Copenhagen headquarters, ever, I can assure you that Shell South Africa continues acting quite properly so Nottingham city council to campaign for significant long as they do not refer to blocked a Shell-sponsored plitical change in South the international campaign concert by the London Africa and an end to for disinvestment SymphonyOrchestra, and is apartheid.'

ANTI-APARTHED NEWS * JANUARY/FEBRUARY NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA Walvis Refugees Bay erupts attacked SOUTH African armty nav and palace personnel cardoned off a TWO Naibian ìLudea whoie township near Walvis Bay have been wounded and f-u lo Namibio o 18 Nomrber in ro f s- .atnep.t tearon to bomb blosts l. the Afia fo- s -eptd town. theo lryrng t erota the Local sources 'y telophone border In Angela. oines and all other communica- Alr . ge 28 tuden tions to the towanship of Kuisb high achant Laor iecchtly mond mra cut. Battleships wort tried taofl flo a Nåribla. deployed at the saport and the The SADF elair that oamber of sldior in the ar the y>ang poe e l,wasinreasred. napped 1by SAAPO, bet On 12 Nomehor SWAPO ehur offiil ìa the comhatants hlow up the moln attdent fled beca~se Ibey pat office rn Walvis Bay, draagig it extensialy. On the www.nuance.com ni biaörv e vat ith aen -ae alght,ithe municipal bu)id- a nlibon ati SIua&en, tomoroi,PDF ho onrrtrl hildOrgansaron Create! (NANsO0). ings in Kursebmond 5 orer alsoTrial annehevtbeeyear ago, blaster, injuring to palicemen. NANSO la oative in maobiiWalvs Bay houses the hago Jag Atueden a, te iapprt thb Rooikp irrfnrce base as ll as liheratide ttroggle, epp South Afrian tore and marino cnrriptien, ar becèrye headquaners. involved n ennavity Ambush Mertlaarb, & atinte atodent rganotln feamol ulera i. 987, tho Naaihjae OVER 100 South African datigral Cöuati fot saldiers were reported killed or Studeot (NACOS), he, wounded in northern Namibia Opparentlybeo et op th who a troop convoy of aboot right - wingheehing le 70 vohrcle wos ambanhd by roter the a-sfes af th, People't Liberiarao Army of NANSO. Namrho (PLN> S...'npieraro: iDAF Nmibia PLAN), SWAPO'' JOHN MUAFANGEJO,the NamibianartistofweeexhbtedinEurop iSeptember.. ... Theamhushtook ploce International renowo,diedsoddenlyat hishomein The RtRevd James K ,ulumn,lender ofthe B an n ed dosing a majol battla on 31 Windhoek on 27 November 1987. It is believed that Angican Churlh in Namibia, said John Moafangejo etoer at anlhuhodi. 57m Muafangejo, who was 47, died after a heart attack. 'was aniqepernon. ehd tgifttoexpe the ALL, (nm -reain , OcIrgrtOkaglimI57k Nibao,tlr-fitédi Natt.., nortbnoaf Ofndangwa. life and faith and politica of or people. It is a Hm-a aUighteDatant PLAN oid a heavily-armed His linocut prints depiting daily life in Naanibia tragic los,' Natibiln Wome's Day, ambsh for the convoy, which whih bth fall -a i0 ms beading towards the Angola Derembr. wer hanaed by bordo, the South Afrian appoiuted A bttle ragad for seral ntetra goexraert. hours in which 14 Sooth African ha rZaihel 'D ile,a,b e commhtvehresoerooomplbtaly IsI< h, d rayybmnoroio g destnroendar tao thote, a www.nuance.com eOtad end ar thn Buffel and a Wolf, wort, captured b au n ow-klad12 th BrraftodPDF Wlrroarr Create! 5 Trial100 nlhera wondcd by thoe rott. ON 5 and6 December, aotherscess farthe dtelgatt fram wrKean'l,- ha ead altr Suth Aftan'o do g ASWAPOwarcommunique workese mployed in ascendant federation, the rommttees 0rganisg in anntevation, fced -em -alto.tu,ý. issurr on 19 November also Namibia's public seralvces National Union of Namibian the inieiplities, water The ,ogretdeidedao, he1987 camra statedthat15moraSouth lenched the Namibian Workers(NUNW) etfearS,AWKintr th, ateae afthenew lin,manteao1 irtldod Africn soldiers were killed in Public Workers Union The tw-day launehrog elertriraty crpretin), io n end fraatedo plan epeehan an th, e-~1,t battles during Octber. (NAPWU). The union marks canragras orm ettended bv paatel servviev, administra f ectionfar 19ff.A hmannlhb åtoaionia netitnal extcutive rannI Namlbia ond ao-and lee men elerted, with Steven srice at tho en gravoh Immanuel a, national rhaib- the 13 wmen, nume 1in,beii Peara or Thehennfmr~r Gsfound thievesaround! Can. I,,a,oal b1,cl<" - , Gasu hi ve ntiane... torty eatd domned by the Carapratöa -a oI I I..* Gobriot Ilhete et eling Cherchot, "ynath aorfenito. general -rcetary. At presnt, ho, mm a gröups en NAPWU enjoas the tappert sWApo. oaf en raliated 0,00f ANDREAS SHIPANGA, 'minister for mines and trade' in 500 million cubc feet per day for 20 era, tfirient to meabem, with u patentil the puppet Namibian administration, elams to have bad suppy up to 60% of Smth Africa' .e..gy needs ond anr eershipaf1,00., D etained intenave discussanas' with svera] British eomanres over seriously underine the efferts of the antrnatrnl ad Iv hit spee, natinel the exploitation of the Kudu gas field, diseovered 120km embargo. cirmnSL~~ lJ, ANGOLA, aff offthesouthNanibaancoast. ShouldtheKudufietdprovatobe enacb scala,it anadereference to thesrious omber af tho Namibian Shipanga visited Britain last February as the guast of a would dwarf the Mossel Bay offshore ges prert ber g prblemt feced by pablie Couracl of Cbi-hraandBritishcompany. dev.lopedin Soath Africa with the help ala no mher af K marh-tt, inlndig poverty SWAPD's treotary af His vasit included a trip to a North Sea oil tag and a compares, inluding Trafalgar Huus DO C~pratto, moget, recism ethe we. laböu, it boiag deaånek l aeeting with Mrs Lynda Chalker the minister of state at NEIandBOC. place,vietiriianafunn andartheT orimnAfeby the Foreign Office. Striet security aueaunded the rdentities The gas prodaced by the R5.5 billion Matare Bay proert merbern and a complete the South Afrian rogime in of the compenies involved. is to be converted to liquid fues vie a complex idstral ch af wrkers' rights. nii. Drilling in the Kudu fieldwasstartedbythe US company, prces, ht wil provide les than 10% of South Afdra'a hefarhatnafNAPWT.Id egd,who moetdmto Chen,in1973.WhenCheceonpulledoutofNao)ba, futlnereds. be thattre Pitoa thon 7 0,ther, it cpntdto the South African state ol exploration company (SOEKOR) Whetther the Kudu field proves to be an large a the Soth puppet admauistratinn' be ld in ni a cry onfinlook over the concnssion, subsequently handing it over to Afrian regime hopes, it is certain that any offahre expiora- Nto mprthto r -pem tho or,ent a the Ot, deteotian SWAKOR, 100%.ownedwww.nuance.com by the illegal Naniblan administra- tion and developnent wold be imposable without thecno" N W n panantalterna oomp, o dsonlete high lina Iogyand expertisefromforegrcompenies te stogetrade oin ecority pri- rr-th af ItisnotknonwhetherBritisheompanesteaderedfor rgaarsatieo, the wrhersPDF Wndboek, Create! 5 Trial the serond exploration test hole at the Kudu field, but the As Skerf Potts, chaimann of SWAKOR, epalned inain amibiaa,dntifying l nnet frinil, drilling contract ho snte been awarded to a Fench offshore recent intervew, 'the heip af foreig ni eomponiet will be ,th . soen whieh tak,, ap hoo indicatez tat 3t-yea-rcontrator,Forinter. allnd in... baue it will be far t hig far ovon the palitiral questtons, ont ald Anga mll mota bp Although accurate surneys of the field have not been Namiblan governent (aic) on its own t. develop to its full that of Neiian indopon- charged with 'g iiag fond onuocted, aptimistic ettiortes pat its resrtes a high m potential'. dene. ondmanryinter.o..

THOSE ELECTED THE following individual members were elected to the Anti-Apartheid Movement's national committee at the AGM: Mink Antoni, Hanif Bhomjee, Paul Blomfield, Paul Brannen, Turin Brokenshire, Alan Brooks, Chris Burford, Fred Carneson, Richard Cahorn MP, Nigel Clark, Brian Filling, Roger Harris, Bob Hughes MP, Rachel Jewkes, Soresh Kamath, Nigel Leigh, Margaret Ling, Adrian Long, Amin Mawani, Cedric Hayson, Abdul S Minty, Rekha Pat], Vella Pillay, Mike Pye, Dorothy Robinson, Mike Sparhain, Des Stars, Mike Terry, Dan Thea, Caroa Towle. Those subsequently elected by the full national committee to serve on the executive are: Bob Hughes MP (chair), Abdul S Minty (honorary secretary), Suresh Kamath, Dan Thea (vicechairn), Mike Terry (executive secretary), Vella Pillay (treasurer), Paul Bloalfield, Richard Caborn MP, Rachel Jewskes, Margaret Ling, Adrian Long, Amin Mawani, Mike Sparham, Des Starts. There is no change in the standing orders committee elected at the AGM: Chris Easterling, Bill Otto, John Sprack. WE would like to thank the AAM executive committee and the numerous local groups and individual members of the Anti-Apartheid Movement who sent us messages of support and solidarity after the recent attempt on our lives in a suburb of Harare. We have no doubt whatsoever that the remote-controlled bomb that caused so many frightful injuries on that October morning was aimed at us by agents of the racist South African regime. We are determined to continue the fight, confident that the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain will redouble its ceaseless efforts, and especially in support of the Front Line States. Message from Jeremy and Joan Brickbill, Hara Briefing meetings BESIDES attending the Anti- grouping had already developed Guest speakers THE AGM heard directly about developments in Southern Africa from three guest speakers. Or Simba Makoni, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Coordina. tion Conference (SAOCC) made a powerful presentation of SADCC's aims and hs support for sanctions: 'The main cause of suffering to our member states and to the people of the SAOCC region, and the primary source of vinlense in Southern Africa, is apartheid. 'But our countries are suffering enormous damage at the hands of the South African government, both directly and by proxy. Sout African aggression is not the only cause of our economic malaise, but it is a major factor. 'Certainly, we will suffer from the application of sanctions by the international community, but it is a cost we are willing to bear in the conviction that the only alternative is to prolong our current agony for ever.' Mathe Diseko of SACTU OrFrancisMelifromtheeaecative of the AfrcanNationalCongres culled foro I...... :kO;: I Apartheid Movement's AGM, r alternative means of transport peop is the light of r snt el Minty, AAM ban secretary, with Or Francis Meli of th Afrcan National Congress. Simba Makoni met representa- to avoidusingSouthAfrican developmentsinStihAfrica:h a a tivesoftheBritishgovernment, channels. 'Following'theDakrias,www.nuance.com 28.29 Novemberthe ban onall SouthAfrican the black and ethnic thebusinesscommunityand Fthe paaotat i-Apartaleid Movement and Namibian products minority communities in non-governmental oeganieationsPDF A 1g-year prefectCreate! is n 10 there has been speculation 5 that iio f"tTrial ever delegate Local groups to campaign Britain and agreed to estab- obret on tos Ae roectisveowto theANCispreparng to rn ag general meetingin for'apartheidfree'policies lishaspecial committeeto themonthe pree of be lanched to develop the fteld. bytheshopsintheirarea. mohilisinthisarea. SArtCCdevelopmentprojects. Lobito corridor, the rail link v 4)11 ellegt,,from Relutrons wer also HesaidinLondonthatmost from Zambia through Zaire and in aut Brt-, debatyd iTrade unions passed on: economic, countries in the regional Angola viathe Benguela rallway. k ises fring ati A newjoint campaign will militaryand nuclear collabotheld actinists in 1988. be launched focusing on the ration, international work, )elegates representing represion of trade unions in students and youth, health, I ayti-apaytheid groups, South Africa and Namibia, women, the black commu-v unions, student groups especially on casn such as nity, finance and fundraising many othtr organisa- threeNUM members on and organisation. a Ipw revolutions death row and Moses Delegateswillreceivea Jacob Hanni ,ring the full range of the Mayekivo, geeral secretary copy of all resolutions; instead of prsing abe armed i-Apartheid Movement's of the National Union of further copies are available strggle. Ti is doibly wrong. k. Metalorkers of South from AAM HQ. 'We used Baker to weaken *Astgoa Afric (NUMISA),'eue aa owae emegenc tr 1988cntheyearinoatlne the enemy so that the armed to emrgeny moiontraggle would triumph, got we denied South Africa's * Namibia *Febrnary-YouthConfer. areol tharte emion agaiat Angola Intensified campaigning .ce in Birmingham, a aret talking to the apartheid Sth complicityofthe on Namibia for the potentialbreakthroughin administrtion in the withdrawal of all British the AAM's development, support heidrse wed att s.TheAOjM companies operating in will givea major boost to support for apartheid, she expressed alarm at Namibia and giving maxi- the growing involvement of etegates oed 'yes' in Sheffield declaredwarontheBritish et shifts in British mum publicitytoSWAPO's young people in anti- The delegtes say: people, so now we call on you cy. struggle, apartheidcampaigns. 'HavingadelegateAGM is fantastic, the debates are much more freedom.' ILocalauthorities *FrontLineStates oMarch -Month of Action open and constructive.' Jacob Hannai, deputy cbief Peority for the campaign March Month of Action in solidaritywith the front 'There should ham been better coordination on who was representative of SWAPm, tppowesintheLoca todraw innew forcesto linestates, speakingonwhichmotion;et times it's been really disorganised and brought a massage from Sam rament Bigl to compel support the front line states *April - a conference to confasing.'a, predentfSWAP: local authorities to and to pressurisewww.nuance.com the British follow up the Harare 'It's great having the AGM in Sheffield, it attracts a more 'We an p oantr MovemetO ndon the boycott of government to enforce the Working Group's campaign representative selection of people. Plus the accommodation is for its constant political and tkPDF African gaudy and arms Create! embargo. to highlight the suffering of cheaper.'5 solidarityTrial spport to SWAPO Of ipavies with South chlrnuneSATtedIoldrtSspottoSAOo ia conoci(m. children under apartheid. 'This AGM has been a test cam and it's worked well. But I was Namibsa in its jost stroggle for Full support for the cam- *May - International appalled there were only five women standing for the national national liberation. * Shell paigns of Southern Africa- Week of Action against committee, and I'm determined that will never happen again.' 'SWAPO cals n he (AMI Hew initiatives agreed on The Imprisoned Society Shell. 'Contentiousdebateswerecut short too often and there nenr to intensify its local campaigns ShellBoycottcampaign, (SATIS),inparticularthe toomanysnidecommentsandtoo much petty bickering.' foe the imposition of compre lading involving trade No Apartheid Eecu ins *June - a major festival 'Thereshould bea more practical emphasiswith ehaf day sot hensive mandatory ecoomic u-ns r presented an Shell cam paign, for 16 June will launch a asideforworkshops.' saens antyecois obi h .... sb~ssanctions against he ..cic ubli ls. Black end ethnic Northto-anuth fern 'I'vebeentoaw.ryAAMAGMsince1969andthisis the best so Pretoria regime in order to force *CuoBmackaavdmv eitin ic MandelaMarchculminating far!' n inorities inamassiveLondonrally itincomplywith the implemn Tesc ,sorycot be Delegatesconsidered a onor aroundMandela's 70h ration of the UN Security feted in 1988 to secure a major report on work with birthdayon 18 July. Concil eesolation 435 (tf7fi.'

AfiTI-APARTKEIO IYES as JAUARf) SOLIDAR OWITH THE WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA & NA Coal industry digs for dirt RICHARD CABOSN MP has called for a Hoie Office investigation of aa office set up by the South African coal industry to gather intelligence on the Anti-Apartheid MovemrentlNational Union of Mineworkers campaign against South African coal. The establishment of the Office of the South African Coal Industry (OSACI) highlights the growing crisis in the South African coat industry. Sanctions measures taken by France, Denmark and the United States have reduced revenue from coal exports frm R3.2 billion in 1985 to R1.9 billion in 1986, and changes in the market price for coal he made it harder for the coal compaes to dump their blood-stained product on the world markets. The OSACI announced its arrival with a four-page document criticising a two-sided campaign leaflet produced by the AAM. They hae since distributed a document to all national trade unions purporting to be a 'scientific' survey which claims a majority of black miners are opposed to sanctions. This is despite the declared policy of the South African NUM, which now represents over 50% of South African miners, in support of sanctions. The office is headed by Mr Robert Swain, who was a captain in British army intelligence until 1984. In an article in the Observer, Mr Swain candidly admitted the nature of the OSACI's work. 'it is true I hare not worked in the coal industry and I kne never visited South Africa. But there are similarities between army intelligence work and my present job. Both involve intelligence gathering.' The office is clearly planning a sanctions-busting operation in this country, and its opening coincides with a declaration by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) that it will in. futura buy one-third of its coal on the open market. www.nuance.com The South African coal industry is desperately trying to find new markets to replace those lost through sanctions measures. A group of Conservative MPs led by Michael Brown MP is believed to bare connections with the OSACI. ForeignPDF secretary Sir Geoffrey Create! Howe, in reply to AAM chair. person 5 Robert Trial Hughes MP, has expressed support for a coal ban, provided similar support could be obtained from the other EEC countries. Long march home THE eight Saeol Workers Co-operative (SAWCO) players who toured extensively through Britain with their play The Long March, which told the story of the BTR Sarecol dispute, have returned safely to South Africa and their families. They now join the other 900 strikers in their two-aod-a. half-year stroggle for trade union recognition and reinstate, vent, taking with them the news of their highly soccessful two-month tour of Britain. Thousands of British people saw the play, and all audiences without exception responded enthusiastically to their gripping tale. In addition, after all tour expenses had been cleared, well over 10,000 was raised, plus money raised through T-shirt and poster safes. It was during their tour of this country that news arrived from South Africa that the industrial courts had found in favour of BTR, provoking angry reactions from NUMSA members. The players have asked for the following message to be sent to all AAM activists who contributed to the tour's success: 'The play was step one of our campaign against BTR. We thank you all, comrades, for your support. Now we are returning home to continue ou struggle, and we hope you will continue to support us. Please spread our message to everyone in Britain, that BTR stands for BLOOD, TEARS and REPRESSION.' 0 Another BTR company has locked its workers out from its Durban factory. BTR Dunlop took this action following a wage dispute between the company and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). BTR says retrenchment is a distinct possibility because overseas competitors are supplying cheaper goods. A conciliation board has been set up by the minister of manpower after more than 1,200 NUMSA members voted to strike. Another 19, including SARHWU prresdent ,Ju and treasurer Thai Mbanwa, are still hing i section 29 of the Internat Security Act, CCAWUSA- William Ntomha, a CCAWUSA 1, who ted the Nets dairy vtrike rdy this year against the state of emergency, wa senteoced It the murder of a delivery van driver in Parkherst. Another 27 CCAWUSA members, who part the OK Razors strike in January 198, were cc public violence chorgrv. The mothers were gc-n R1,000 pending appeal. NUM - scores of mineworhem are in detentio the 1987 miner' strihe. POTWA mere than 34 postal workers are far charges, ivcluding macdee, sbvtage, sedition, and puihc violence, arisig frnm the t,- netih that hit the sectvr in 1987. cvntin.e Ond vac Courtscrackdown theninsthdstytiv tntroduring new ] ontradeunionists ;ogeerLale * make sympathy SEVENTEEN members of the South African Raitway and *allow employee Harbour Workers Unio (SARHWU) have heen charged on strikes 15 counts, including abduction and murder, resulting from * encourage 'swes the South African Transport Servicv(SATS)disputelst recognseminoyear. practiceferao Many observers see this as part of the apartheid state's eights offensive against the Congress vf South African Trade . aighw raciatly-hu Unions (COSATU). not represent th Recent court cases, including that of Moses Mayekiso, enable emphoye: highlight the Sauth Africau government's attempts to illegalt ikes criminalise trade union activity. *allvw employvi But, unlike the Mayekisv cae, which stems from the strike. arrests during the first state of emergency, these cases arise At thre recent from the industrial unrest at the startvf197. meetingitwasg Scores of workers involved inwww.nuance.com strikes hove heen detained the attacks on thi or arrested on charges ranging from intimidation t murder. ment in South Afi They are mainly from the four COSATU affiliated unions: COSATU km 1 SARHWU, the Commercial Catering end Allied Wvrkers internally in Souti Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA), the South African On 1 Febroar NativnalPDF Union of Mineworkers Create! (NUM), and the Pest Office Joint Campaign5 Trial A and Telecommunicatios Workers Association (POTWA). in South Africa a, South Africa Ho, SARHWU - apartfrom the17,another13SARHWU reopeiagoftheI members are presently facing chargesofausault, conspiracy, of the National 1 incitement and intimidation. All have been refued bai. (NUIMSA). Durham miners target coal im OVER 300 demonstrators supported a match past Seaham docks, Seham Dock Co organised by the Durham Area NUM, Durham Mechaalcs and Tyne- coal and intendsto e side Anti-Apartheid group, and protesting against the role of the The march in Sli Seaham Dock Company in importing coal from the European'spot' of Seaham'sthreeph market, where South African mat is blended with coal from all over A rallyfollowedthewod, fromtheNational0 Seaham Dock Company is owned by Burnett and Hallahire, MP Stephen Hughe which has cn interact in fact collieries in South Africa.Th company closures and AAM it became notorious among coalfield communities when it imported For farther lufr. large amounts of foreign coal durint the British miners' strike. AAM trade union ran AA ENTERPRISES Wishes all its customers a happy and successful New Yeara FORWARD TO FREEDOM IN 1988! SOLIDARITY WITH THE FRONT LINE STATES! VICTORY TO SWAPO AND ANC! So ace toeI in the Front Line States am the key to defeating apartheid -metal works in Lubango, Angola. Unity in action for the Front Line States "The people of Africa, aod in particular of Southern Africa, solute the Anti-Apartheid Movement and call upon all its members to redouhie their efforts in support of the lust struggle of the peoples of Soothern Africo." These ace the words of Simba Makoni, executive secretory of the Southern African Development Coordination Conferonce (SADCC), in his address to the Anti-Apartheid Movemeat's annuil general meeting. Simhu Makoni's message to the British people is that the struggle by the nine independent states of Southern Africa for economic development and the fight against apartheid ame inextricahly linhed. 'SADCC is the product of the front line states, it represeats the extension and translation of the methods and strategies of cooperation in the struggle for political independence, into the struggle for economic libeantion. 'In the words of the late President Samora Machel: "Our economic plans have to be conceived and prepared by ourselves. There is no one who knows our needs and our priorities better than ourselves. We must not accept the habit of plans made outside our region." 'The allocation to various member states of the responsibilites for coordinating SADCC programmes in the different sectors, therefore, ensures the equitable sharing of both the costs and the benefits of cooperation, 'It may be asked, what, in seven years, has SADCC achi red? I think we can say, with some degree of objectivity, that SADCC has made significant progress. 'The first, and I dare say most important achievement of SADCC so far, is the creation of a regional identify, and a oneness among the peoples of the region. 'It is now commonplace, andwww.nuance.com almost second nature, for people to think and talk about their country in th regional context, seeing themselves as part of a family. 'SADCC is no longer regarded an a club of heads of stote and government and their ministers, but as a cooperative effort by the people of the region as a whoe. 'Thus,PDF for instance, trade unionists,Create! accountants, scholars banker s and5 financiers, Trial the youth and women of the region have all established regional fora for addressing their interests and concerns; and, above all, they are searching for a role in the movement towards economic liberation. 'Our programme of action now spans 13 economic sectors covering food, agriculture and natural resources; energy, industry, mining and trade, manpower development and tourism. 'Some victories have been achieved, but problems remain. An arms embargo has been in place since 1963 and - over the years - the application of economic, diplomatic and cultural sanctions has been tightened. Sanctions are now beginning to bite. 'According to some recent assessments, South Africa now makes fewer manufactured goods than in 1982. It produces less cement, lens gold and coal, and much less of some key farm products such as maize. 'There are half as many new motor cars sold in South Africa today as there were five years ago. Emigrants from, outnumber immigrants to South Africa two to one. 'We are grateful to the international community as a whole, for providing tangible support for our development programmes. It makes little sense, however, for our partners to assist us develop our infrastructure and other economic assets, but then fail to bring effective pressure on the South African regime to desist from destroying, directly or indirectly, the same facilities they have helped us to develop. 'Countries should not see support for SADCC as an alternative to action against apartheid. The best support we can receive is that which brings us peace and stability, through the abolition sf apartheid. 'The South Aro,'an regime has considered SADCC as a direct threat to its interests, and has, therefore, taken measures seeking to render our efforts ineffective. In the eyes of the regime, the development and consolidation of stable, democratic, non-racial societies in our countries represents the most potent weapon against apartheid. 'Thus, the destruction of strategic economic assets, such as transport routes, power lines and oil refineries, and the disruption of agricultural production, are the chosen weapons of apartheid. 'There is a great deal of self-serving nonsense in the suggestion that sanctions should not be applied because our countries are not themselves applying sanctions, and most of them are continuing to trade with South Africa. 'This is an argument which makes theblood ofthepeople of Southern Africa bol. All our countries have made, and are continuing to make, incalculable sacrifices. 'There is only so much that we can do. The primary responsibility for applying sanctions rests with those who have the power to make an effective impact by their actions. Those in the international community who oppose sanctions have not offered an alternative policy. 'It is galling, therefore, on the one hand, to be told that sanctions cannot be applied because they will hurt us; and then, in the next breath, that they cannot be applied because we ourselves are not in a position to take such action ourselves; or finally, if we do not fancy those arguments, that they cannot be applied because they will not work. I fear there are too many excuses against sanctions.' The full text of Simba Makonis address is available from the AAM can and will uggle to the to lire our y ie Urgaal tion of Angolan

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS - JANUASYIFEBF 0 0 Apartheid's Rebels by Stephen M Davis is the result of six years spent investigating the ANC's underground military resistance to apartheid. Davis and his wife, writer Carole Douglis, were the first American correspondents to visit ANC camps in Taszania; other experiences described include secret meetings of activiats .i Johannesburg, a leargassing at Zimbabwe's independeace celebrations and encounters with South Africa government inforrsants in Boston. Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South Africa's Hidden War is published by Yale University Press at £19.95 hbk, £6.95 pak. * Africa: What Can be Done? by Ben Turok explores the concepts and strategies radical forces in Afrira seed to combat capitalist exploitationwww.nuance.com and political repression. From Zed Press, £23.95 hbk, £6.95 pbk. * No 46 -Seve Bika by Hilda Bernstein is reprinted to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the death in detention of Steve Biko, the 46th person to die in detention in South Africa. From IDAF at £3.50. i It's Not Fair in Southern Africa is a series of activities for youth groups and schools exploring issues includingPDF repression and violenceCreate! in Southern Africa and Britain's links5 with Trial apartheid, through simulations, role-playing and discussion. From Christian Aid at £2.00. GAY RIGHTS AFTER some recent confusion over the African National Congress's position on gay rights, Thabo Mbeki, ANC publicity secretary, has written to Peter Tatchell: 'The ANC is indeed very firmly committed to removing all forms of discrimination and oppression in a liberated South Africa... That commitment must surely extend to the protection of gay rights... 'As a movement, we are of the view that the sexual preferences of an individual are a private matter. We would not wish to compromise anybody's right to privacy both now and in future and would therefore not wish to legislate or decree how people should conduct their private lives. We have consequently never hen opposed to gay rights. 'As you know, we are always interested to see as many people as possible involved in the struggle against apartheid. We therefore appreciate the initiatives undertaken by gays to involve themselves and other people in this atroggle. About this there can be no question.' OSOUTHERN AFRICA:THE IMPRIS _ Sister E to face q nity str .... The ii were so the wo people, ~~acane 300,000 signatures on their way to 10 Downing Street at the close of the national petition campaign stera at Govan Mbeki speaks an the it GOVAN MBEKI, African National Congress leader freed from political imprisonment late last year, has since been hounded and prevented from speaking by the South African government. In this interview, recorded shortly after his release, he gave his views on the present situation in his country. You hare been free so briefly. What differences hae you noticed from 1963? Apartheid basically has not changed. Things here and there have happened. The pass laws have bera repealed. But these are peripheral to what is really the heart of the problem in South Africa. What minimum conditions must officials meet before you are prepared to most and negotiate with them? The basic condition is that apartheid nst go. Then other things which arise as a result of trying to keep apartheid alive, such as the emergency, the occupation of the townships by the army, and similar things which go with the enforce. ment of apartheid have to go, if we can sit down seriously and say we are discussing the situation. What sort of problems or issues would you discuss? If we sit down with the goverment, and apartheid has gone, the main issue would be the oneof political power. Now when we talk of political power, firstly the people have to enjoy political rights on an equal hasis with everybody as the people of South Africa, and not as one racial group or another. Would you participate in the proposed National Statutory Council? I don't think there is any question of us participating Teacher seized SOLDIERS of Koevoet, the notorious South African counter-insurgency unit in Namibia, severely beat a primary school teacher in front of his class on 3 December before taking him into detention. Keikki Shililifa. aged 5, was previously imprisoned on Robben Island for five years because of his involvement with SWAPO. Since his release in 1985, he han been teaching at Omulukia primary school in norehern Namibia. Eyewitnesses said Mr Shililifawww.nuance.com was taken away by Koevoet soldiers after being 'kicked and beaten with rifle butts'. Omulukila is the site of alarge Roman Catholic mislon church destroyed by explosives on 20 Septemher. Officials of both church and SWAPO have deiedPDF Create! 5 Trial South Africa's claim that the explosives were planted by the liberation movement.

NEWS VIEWS &REVIEWS From the twilight DON MATTERA, with his Italian grandfather and Tswana mother, is classifed in South Africa as a 'coloured'- or, as he describes himself, one of the 'twilight' people, 'almost white but not black'. He 'rose' to become leader of one of the most notorious teenage gangs of Sophiatown, then the Chicago of Johannesburg; now Mattera regards it as a miracle that he survived his many injuries and the horrendous time he spent in prison. Today, many young RichardAtenbre,aIh'sfilm. black South Africans are in as much danger: 'There is is most Attenborough tried to be honmt in his portrayal of no discipline in the streets, ays the apartheid, and that he ended the film considerablyless they are made to swallow in iris naive than when started, people. The system is foods, 'It may not always he totally accurate, but the justness designed for the depreciation of oar struggle is so overwhelming that even if people try to and eventual destruction of least distort it, it wil) always stand out. You can't distort our human life. But Sophiatown family straggle.' represented the antithesis of gamt Whatever his reservations about Cry Freedom, Semte the divide and rule policy of rly- comes backtothefartthatit mustbe seen. apartheid - all peoples were 'The importanre of this film is that it takes the raw woven together in a very brutality of apartheid and places it before the world to see. colourful fabric depicting all film It does in a few hours what it would take manyof our facets of life.' n comrades and politicians much time to achieve. Theapartheidregime 'Children especially must see Cry Freedom because tries to portraythe t South African children are being subjected to the most 'coloureds' as a separate horrific violence, and the children of the world must see nation with their own what is happening to their counterparts. The children of civilisation and their own tot South Africa want education and housing - nothing destiny. Many have accepted In the extraordinary. Instead they go homeless and are educated this division, but Mattera to be the slaves of apartheid.' writes uncomprehendingly ith We con onlyhope that themanypeoplewho will see this ofthose who say, 'Oh wit even film are stimulated into action rather than mere sympathy bans, call me Hotnot, that with the victims of apartheid, and that the black people of Boesman, Geelbek South Africa will one day soon make their own films about (Yellowesouth); anything high- their heroes andtheirhistory.www.nuance.com butnative,kaffir!Bans, spare me that insult...' _For Matter refuses to accept his twilight status ' and beginstoidentifywith nPDF cthehackfight.Withagreat Create! 5 Trial exi-ce a w inner straggle,hemovesaway from his violent ri rt life orts of participation of African l Governments, sports and finds a new excitement being governments and sports bodies and other organisa- in politics -some of the it by administrators, as compared tions should support first stirrings of his political speopfe with the two previous con- SANROC, which, in the awareness were sown by Africa's ferences in London (1983) words of the final wetownhy of the and Paris (1985). declaration, 'has made as meetings with 'FAADAA' itis. Among the issues eutstanding contribution to Trevor Huddleston, then African discussed were: the international campaign working in Sophiatown. their overthepast25years'. The opening and the pas *Notification of the climaxofthebookdeal h bans, International Convention 4 Maximum use should with the destrction of ce was 'e waSndh ophiatown/Kofifi, hat Afrieans Against Apartheid Sports. made of the UN Register of ie next By September 1987, 22 Sports Contacts with South Mattera's closing words t states had ratified it, and Africa to expose and isolate promise, 'In another day, itaining over 70 countries had signed collaborators. another time, we would itensine it. Only five more states are Britain and the US have emerge to reclaim our ngthen- needed to ratify it for it to by far the biggest number of dignity and our land. It was oycott enter into force interna. such sports collaborators, onlyamatter oftimeandove, tionally. mostlyin tennis, golf, rugby Sophiatown would be arts of * With tennis now becom- and cricket. rehorn.' dedoffinganOlympicsport,the Butinthemeantime, plenary conference called upon the * The special contribution Matters fears for the public International Olympicsmade by anti-apartheid immediate future and for large Committee to adopt a code sports bodies inside South the hloodshed still to come. school- of conduct regarding sports Africa in supporting the 'In South Africa now every pirit. contact with South Africa, international boycott day is a holocaust. nceinsus and to ensure that the despite persistent repression nt was International Tennis Federa. was hailed, and delegates est such tion stops all contact from the South African Gone With the Twilight marked between its members and Council of Sports (SACOS) is published by Zed Books in the South African players, were given a waco welcome, at £19.95 hbk, £5.95 phb. Dear Comrades, Every anti-apartheid activist who attended the AGM at Sheffield University at he end of November was united in their determination to defeat apartheid, irrespective of differences of approach and ideology. For sanctions to become an effective reality the Anti. Apartheid Movement must he able to call an the active support of the broadest possible crass. section of political thought in Britain and that MUST include the new local parties and federal and regional organisetions otshe emergent Liberal Democratic Party that represents the aspirations of over 7 million British electors. The Anti-Apartheid Movement cannot afford for its campaigns to be hijacked by mere sectarian interests. As a Liberal I was delighted that so many delegates of other political persuasions shared that view. Please let us keep the Movement as broad-based as possible in 1988. Yours in Solidarity Richard Denton-White Hackney Liberal Executive London Liberal Party Newington Green, London N16 Dear Comrades, Over a period of three months, I collected 480 signatures and £112.34 in donations for the AAM's national petition campaign for the release of all apartheid detainees- a considerable amount of hard worE, considering that roughly out of every 12 people I approached, only one persan would commit themsef to expressing their opposition to apartheid. So I conclude from my efforts that racism and fascism are deeply entrenched and endemic, at least in the area campaigned in, and surelywww.nuance.com within this country as a whole. Having attended a concert recently in which the SWAPO singers performed, however, I was quite emotionally moved as well as politically inspired by their exuberant spirits and the tenacity they expressed in their songs and poetry to continue to fight and eventually conquer imperialism and colonialism. It was all aPDF great inspiration to me inCreate! any further campaigning. Yours truly, 5 Trial Nicholas Botee Exeter branch secretary, New Communist Party Exeter, ean Send your ]ftels for publication to: Anti-Apartheid News 13 Mandela Street Laden NW1 DOW Please keep them as short and to the point as posible.

ANTI-Api -AMf APARTHEID GROUPS The AAM has local groups in the following plaen LONDON REGION Barnet Brent Camden, Chieswick. Crydon. Ealing, Earl Court & Chelsea, Enfield, Greenwich & Bexleyheath, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham. Harigey, Harrow & District, Hillingdon, Honsloos, Islington, Lambeth. Lewisham, Merton, Newhamn Noring Hill Pimlicc & Westminster, Redhridge Richmond, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wa Itham Forest, Wandsworth. Rhere is a regional committee for ondon REST OF ENGLAND Aylesbury, Barnsley, Basildon, Oasingstoke & District, Rath Bedford. Birmingham, Blackburn & Daeon, Bradford. Bridgewater, Brighton, Bristol, Burnley & Pendle, Calderdae, Cambridge, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chester, Chesterfield, Cotfwelds. Coventry, Crawley, Darlington, Derby, Ooncaster, Dover & Deal, Durham, East Dorset. East Grinstead. Eastleigh, Exeter, Furness, Halesowen Hardow, Hartlepol, Hastings, Memnl Hempstead, Herefordshire. Ruddersfield, Hail Kingston & District. Lancaster, Leamington Spa, Lends. Leicester, Leighton Bnarcd & Linslade, Lichfield & District Longsightttevenshnlme & Rusholmn. Losghhorough. Luton & District, Maidstone, Malvern, Manchestor, Mansfield, Matlock, Merseyside, Milton Keynes, Newark, Northampton, North Devon, Nort Manchester, North Shropshire. North Staffs, Northumberland Norwich, Nottingham, Nuneaton, Oldham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth. Praes.t Heading, Redditch, Redhill & Reigate, Rochdale Rassendale, Ronherheia, Seliskury. Sheffield, Somerset& Dorset. Southampton, South Deaon. South West Hosts, St Albans& District. St Helens, Stonk port, Sunderland. SeM0. Swindoen Tameside, Teesside, Thanet, Totnes, Tyneside, Wakefield, Walsall Welligborosgh, Welwyn/Hathield, Winchester, Windsor & Slough, Withington, Wrekin. York. There ar regional Icommittees for Greater Manchester, Wessex. WestMidlands, Yorkshur&Homberside SCOTLAND Aberdeen. Argyll, Aye. Central Region fStirling), Clydebank Combermsuld, Cunnighame. Dumbarton, Dumfres, Dundee, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Fal irk, Fife, Fraserburgh, Glasgow East, Glasgow North West Glasgow South, Hamilton, Hyndburn, Inverness, Midlothian, Paisley/Reefrew. West Lothian Scottish Commitee: contact John MacKinnon. 266 Clyde Street, Glasgow 61 4JH; tel Glasgow (041) 2211276. WALES Ahergaenny. Bary, Blaena-Gwent, Bridgend, Cerphilly, Cardiff, Cynon Valley, Deeside, Denbigh, Gwynedd, Lampear. Merthyr, MidPowys.NewportPotefpridd, Rhoadda. West Glamoegan,Wreham Wales AAM Contact Henif hmee. 43 Glenroy Street, Monh, Cardiff CF23JX; tel Cardiff (222) 49976g. Thee is also a local An group in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Not a sell out? Bristol AA puoblicise Shall's celleos net apase.m ..n.g ..e ematiaet Weak of Agction as Nmibie - and preoath AnfiApartheid News at tle sem. time. ONATIONAL&H Candles F OVER 130 people attended ALL a public meeting organiond hold by Barnet AA on 10 ncem and to ber, United Nations Human RE RightsDay. flagd The meeting begon with a multi-faith prayer and Overwww.nuance.com candle lghting led bythe by 30 Little Sisters of Jesus. Sb ANC representative ourp Dennis Goldberg and writer hod p Donald Woods spoke on the T violations of hum on s that t in South Africa, day. OverPDF 130 was raised for EaICreate! campaign funds, and £150 ont 0 was5 taken atTrial a stall selling Solid, AA Enterprisesgoods. Th roinci lIberat Scholars hlI NEWCASTLE University is raisiog money to enable a o sym black South African student 2. Fill to study at the university. years I The uirexsity authorities 3. So, agreed to waive the corso toru , fees if the students un10 4. coold come up with enough otiern money to cover three yeors, 5. Ni travel fnd maintenance(a)Cocosts (h) Sti In 1986, istaff and (r) Vi stodeots raised over £12,000 peoplx in donattios. o hage Cheist- (d)Me mas draw and o hac levy. (e) Re They were suppoted by itrn we local MP, rhunch rolips (f)G .nd Newcastle city council, exeot I who contrihuted a substan- (g) De tied omountt to the fond, 6. A ( To keep the fund going any gil in 1988, a Christma draw 7, Cot was again held in December (o) Cot 1987 to raie the oecessary person £4,000 (b)E Over 30 unoversities -nd moneypolytechnics ae now S.NoIrunning South African tothe scholarship schemes similar to Newcastle's, including Durham, Bristol, Leeds and many Oxbridge colleges, town detain for th Lnds from flags local Anti-Apartheid groups are being encouraged to a flag day in April to raise funds for theirown activites support the AAM nationally. EKHA PATEL of Aberdeen AA reports on a sucssful ay, and gives other groups some useful tips. £700 was raised within o space of six to sosen hours people collecting on Aberdeen last October. R flag day proved to be a quick way of fundraisiog; to leant surprise, we mn out of the 2,000 stichers we rinted foe the occsion. o yeass ago oce of our local couorillom suffested the AA troop approach the city coucil for acoecttog Towoetoooevr.o'o 11tno,17~ ding with -importnt event in the"oul ion moxement caleodar. sing successfully held a flag day, we list oal AA groups to orgaise as mi r event otaet you lorol councillo 'and find out pathetic cofncillor iso useful cootact Iin the applicatiog loon at leaxt 18 mc ,efor the proposed date. gest dates which coincide with One or mracres in Soothen Africo. ad the regolations canefully and comply ie you moy find yourself paying a fine or orrangements: Ilerring tim student unions usually hay rhes Flogs- try 13 Mondela Street f-nt slonteem to coHect ace emontial; basiai D etanees Febmay, hefield t7LIL~t ~ AAplanopublicmeeting on the treatment of children DURING November ood in Sooth Africa, with Glenyc December, Sheffield AA Kionock, who attended the hove given priority to the Ia.are conference, as guest campigns to free all speaer, apartheidrs detainees and No Apartheid Executioons The video of the Harare conference on the repeession of childen to South Tesco Afnica, whxch peovdes o powerfl indictment of the THROUGHOUT December aparthed regimes imprison- Eneter and District AA me t and toet reof children ollectd sign tn es outside had a rgol premiere on their local Teoco on a peti 20 November, and Sheffield tin, in the forn of a large AA was a cpyovable rand Cape apple, protesting f ohaoo. ya againstthe snpeoarketas The video is available for continued sole of Sooth hire by other gro ups and African g nd . organlotions from the The Exeter group haa Harare Working Group, 13 also produced a guide to Mandela Street, London 'Apartheid-Free Shopping in NW1 ODW. Exeter'. which sho s the extent to which South Sheffield AA has moved to: African goods are available NBakhelds in thecity and explai the Sheffield SI 4HJ bckground hi the consumer Tel (0742) 739147 boycottwww.nuance.com capaign. (24-hot answering service) Valunters are needed to help staff the office, uerntly apar 1PDF-Opine Yearold Create! 5 Trial on 16 December there HEMEL HEMPSTEAD AA was a torchlight vigil on the held its first AUM recently

ACTION 1 *NATIONAL& INTERNATIONAL Over 300 000 sign petition Save the Sharpeville Six -new campaign materials include tear-off postcards to send to different embassies, price SOp per sheet from SATIS. Pictre : Morning Star OVER 300,000 people had South African and Namibian signed the national petition detainees. to Free AllApartheid's Considerable work is AA Committee Detainees by the time it was needed to make the British presented to the British government stick to even government on 10 December this mild position and, - including foreign office although the petition itself minister Mrs Lynda Csalker. is now closed, the campaign +Seeral thousand more is continuing. algnatures hove since been Although some people received, havebeenreleasedinSouth Representatives of Africa, others have been EMENT religions, trade union,detainedinthelastfew astney community, political and weeks, and on 11 December campaigning orgauisations - 18 monthssincethelocal handedinablown-up copy declaration of the state of uniesities. of the petition and a letter emergency - the Detainees' eneol to 10 Downing Street,ParentsSupportCommittee Sooth followedbyameetingwith (DPSC)drewattentionto gglingfor Mm Chalker at the Foreign the over 1,000 people who Office,. have been detained without yhoeone The ministersaidthat trialforthewholeofthis yam the government 'would period. senda continuetokeepupthe TheDPSCalsopublished alins. pressure both bilaterally and a st of children and young Ito.h through the European peopleindetention,ranging alAAgup Community'to release all,in agefrom 14 to 19. ays tended Nahnal elhorshipuraoe, (pea idividealw ged rnebtship 00.00 eiwaebership(.opeop orotame adde)13 0 m -sdentslapprnice 6.90 tohool st odens/pensioeebsllciasn-unwaed f4.50 Oranasaisns- please oniastAAM HO for detils of affiliation ees Iasetick whihev.ofthe abe isapplicable) eturthmiforeD: Ate, Aparhed M nvernetl3Mandla Street tndon NW1 Dw, tel 1-a 387796 m I NME LEP ONENO - ne. Iwod- i m Memeliship feel ua o be paddirely ito enoAM'sGir ou No 25130004. m Pyents n. also be made by Eakesrer(tidler details) m i i New recruits inowhowtogetincontacttoemembessip drivewithit. don'twaittobeasked. There are some immediate Contact Mamta Singh or target groups: Vanessa Eyre at AAM head. quarters for supplies of www.nuance.com 4 circles already close to leaflets, posters and other the AAM - every AAM material to help you recruit member knows others, at more supporters- there are home, work, among friends prizes if you succeed. CAMPAIGN DIARYPDF Create! 5 Trial Friday 8 January 1988: 76th anniversary of the foundation of the African National Congress (South Africa) Tuesday 12 January: National lobby on the Local Government Bill, 3pm, Grand Committee Room, House of Commons, London Lobby of the House of Lords against clauses in the Bill to ban the boycott of South African goods. Details from Mick Flynn at AAM HQ. Monday I February: Launch ofjointSATIS/AAMcampaigrn against the repression of trade unionists in South Africa and Namibia Demonstration outside South Africa House, London, at .lapm to coincide with the reopening of the trial of Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of Snuth Africa (NUMSA). Tuesday 2 February: SADF Out of Angola public meeting, London, to protest against conscription in South Africa, 7po, Africa Centre, 38 King Street, W2. Speakers from South Africa, Namibia and the Front Line States. Details from the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR), tel 01-278 6928. Thursday 4 February: Lawyers Against Apartheid picket of the South African embassy, London 6-7pm to coincide with the 16th anniversary of the declaration of a state of emergency in Namibia. Details from Mark Guthrie, tel 01. 286 3008 (day) and 01-583 0998 (eveing). Saturday/Sunday 20/21 February: Anti-Apartheid Movement Youth Conference, Birmingham University Weekend conference for youth activists from all over Britain. ANC and SWAPO speakers, workshops, pcacticol skills sessions. Details from Karen Talbot at AAM HQ, MARCH: MONTH OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN FRONT LINE STATES Action to step up the arms embargo against South Africa and for more assistance to the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Speakers from Front Line States. Details from Alan Brooks at AAM HQ. Saturday 19 March: People's Sanctions Against Apaiheid conference, Civic Hail, Leeds Delegates from AA groups, political organisations and trade unions welcome Organised by Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Committee of the AAM. Details from Southern Africa Resources Centre, Monday 21 March: Sharpeville Day/International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the 1984 Langa massacre in South Africa. APRIL: Campaign against the repression of children in Southern Africa Conference in Britain to follow up the Hare conference oh children. Details from Clive Nelson at AAM HQ. Wednesday 6 April: No Apartheid Executions Anniversary of the execution in 1979 of South African patriot Solomon Mahlangu. MAY: International Week of Action against Shell ANTI APARTHEID NW. The COPY date for the March issue of Anti-Apartheid News is FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY Copies of the March issue will be available for Collection from 13 Mandela Street from Thursday 3 March. Copy dates for the rest of 1988 are: April- FRIDAY I1 MARCH; May - FRIDAY 8 APRIL; June - FRIDAY 13 MAY;July/August - FRIDAY 17 JUNE; September- FRIDAY 12 AUGUST; October FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER- November - FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER; December- FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER.

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