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'Our Victories Should Be Celebrated and Our Defeats Studied eA eA ,im.arylFebruary 1988 APARTHEIL T,,newspapeý ofth. Anti-Ap-theid movemfflt/30P NEW S@ ..Y. - - ', - - ........ ...... ,yM by Smh Afric.. imodi, 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.
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