THE DANGEROUS GA (OF THE ECC/END TO END CONSCRIPTION)

A CONVERSATION WITH OUR WOMEN AND OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Gabrielle Malan

( A I INTRODUCTION * Reco'«s, T-shirls & bultons

• At the end of April this year there suddenly appeared i Meanwhile we have hearri is , in Johannesburg pamphlets from ECC: End Conscrip­ tion Campaign. (Afrikaans END). Afrikaans copies launching out, dislribuling re c o ^ r® ,Campai9n is ions among children and L ^ p o o p i e ^ bUl' W0re ]aAnfded ° Ut by certain young people outside several Afrikaans High Schools on the Reef.

^ -o n ^ E ^ S°P • The pamphlets stated the case of the ECC and invited \ military service and encouranp^h that be,itf,e the pupils to join in a picnic at Zoo Lake. They were st'iption. (See Ecc _ ^ e„aiion cl con- old. You can participate in a campaign for a Just eace at a non-racial picnic. Come along! Join in games kite building, and painting. Come sing along with us! a Americans against the war in V il! War to inf'uence I justness”. My husband and I nam and Question its ® The Picnic during one of the mass strepf 10 NeW York in 1Q67 war. People like Jane Fonda ancM/p3’ h9ld f° profest the We sent an observer and received the following feed­ back. There were no white children. About 200 “• children from Soweto turned up and a number of white leaders. (Note that the leaders were white.)

a fte r 2 0 years to his universl i fmm h- r.eC6nt,y returned i Freedom songs were sung and kites were constructed ed the attack. An older and wi J ° h he had launch- and Mandela’s name painted upon them. The so- Jhe students of a new generationfh^h t aCJmitted before called “ Peace-ribbon” was also painted. It was an ob­ further the aims to the Marxists in Am been used to vious attempt at involving Afrikaans-speaking child­ What a terrib,e mistake he had made.03' n° W rea,is' ren with the ECC, even though it did not succeed. i CHURCHES ° Disco’s j I At the end of May we discovered ECC posters near our I to further"1 i n the USA wpre used local High School. They were pasted to garbage bins I unusual in those years to hear™Pa,9.n- 11 was nothing on the pavement. Now the children were invited to par-! text as Matthew 5, only to declaim ™miSter ann°unce his ticipate at a disco. I nam for the next 30 minutes ,he War in Vief' | ______•

We ourselves heard such a sermon in a church on River­ side Drive in New York. Freeze Move^n'eli"9 ll^em inL5^ 1^ 0^ 1^ ^ PeaCe and in Europe two years aqo undpr Th h Pr° teSt marches In the course of many years the churches in the USA had, than Dead.” 9 U der the banner: “ Better Red, of course, been prepared for this sort of thing by the preaching of the “ Social Gospel” — i.e. a gospel that Let us look at the ECC in SA and thQ- , stresses the horizontal relationship with the world around among our young people and schoolsT ^ pn9erous 9ame us, while the relationship toward God is neglected. campaign against the SADF and SA Policp fh pr0paganda arguments and their deliberate distortion% S u ^ a c t t

CAMPUSES

The older ones among you will remember that those were the years of great unrest on the American campuses. The CC^NSCRIPTION^IN S A ?T WANTS T° END slogan of the time was “ Make Love, Not War.”

This was part of the process to enervate the future 1 mo— ,- « soldiers of the USA. Are we not hearing the same sounds in our own country? emergecMn A r " had ^ Small wonder that the Americans lost the war and gave Vietnam into the hands of the Communists. Shortly after­ ;“ s r SACC s s s e wards Laos and Cambodia also fell into their hands and so a large part of Indo-China was lost to the West. 3 Sash a, its annua, con- ban in that s lm e year ° f° Unded in D^ PIOUS FRAUD j. What appears today like an innocent movement working nesburgWlCape ToL^Durban^Po f p,i-Ve are Johan- for a “just peace” or initiating “ constructive projects” in maritzburg and Grahamstown.’ El,2abeth. Pieter- the community, will be proved tomorrow as the cunning fraud of a hidden agenda to weaken the SADF so that the Marxists can bring about the country’s downfall, as they B?sehops" WCo^feareendc i° rande 1 h ° ^ ' h e S A' Ca,ho,ic did in Vietnam. Nusas. and the student movement 6 Active support is obtained from the SACC (and its Western Province Council of Churches), the SA WHAT LINKS DOES THE ECC HAVE WITH THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Anglicans, the ANC/UDF/SA COMMUNIST PARTY? Methodist Church, the UDF, the Black Sash and PFP- Youth. Individuals who support the organization are ^Peter Hathorn, representative of the ECC, said in Nov. ’85 Bishop Tutu, Allan Boesak, Mrs Sheena Duncan, Arch­ in London: ‘‘The ANC is now entering the effective stage bishop Denis Hurley, Sir Richard Luyt (the erst-while of their operations, due to the ECC’s work." vice-principal of UCT), and others. It is obvious from ANC pamphlets that they cannot take over SA on their own. So they must muster support within AIMS OF THE ECC the country. The UDF and the ECC are used for this pur­ pose. The ANC writes: “ Delay your call up, devise tactics 1 To end conscription; of resistance and devote your energies to the most impor­ tant immediate task — building a broad front to oppose 2 To allow citizens of the RSA a choice in doing Na­ the SADF” (ANC pamphlet, June ’85) tional Service with the SADF; They resume: “ Your task is to build organizations which 3 To create alternative projects to National Service, e.g. are able to reach into homes and win comrades for community projects, and organized resistance."

4 To oppose the use of soldiers and National Ser­ The ANC further appeals to the while youth: "White youth vicemen in the black townships. — refuse to be conscripted into the SADF . . . join the anti­ conscription campaign."

FUNDING X"The UDF works closely with the ECC. So the general leader of the ECC in Port Elizabeth is also the regional The ECC is mainly funded by the SACC, which, in turn, ob­ chairman of the UDF, for instance. tains monies from the WCC and other foreign organiza­ tions and churches. (See Aida Parker Newsletter/Apr. ’86) The general leader, Laurie Nathan of Cape Town, has col­ THE UNDERGROUND AGENDA lected funds and support during his travels overseas. The Western Province Council of Churches (WPCC) has XThe moment the enemy (the Marxist) goes underground, already appealed to the National Council of Churches and he works with the concepts of conflict and destruction. the Presbyterian Church of the USA for financial and Thus the ECC supports Swapo and the ANC and they are moral support. trying to persuade the youth to do the same. They said: “ Support the colossal movement, the freedom struggle of the ANC and Swapo, the campaign to isolate the apartheid ° Oliver Tambo of the ANC said on Ethiopia’s Radio regime and the implementation of international sanctions against SA.” Freedom:

The ANC is not concerned about those who scream Here we see the true aims of the ECC! Lenin had already for peace, except in so far as we can use them to sow said: "We consider it our duty to support pacifists (those opposed to war) — it will help us to discourage the confusion or even division. Anyone who says that enemy.” “ peace” can be achieved by a peaceful struggle, is ready to capitulate.” (SABC News Commentary on the ANC, 22/5/86) THE AGENDA ABOVE-GROUND

As soon as the enemy moves above-ground, he uses flat­ tery and fine-sounding words like “ peace” and “justice” Thus, when the ECC talks about a “just peace” , we should Because these words represent certain Biblical concepts know exactly what they mean by it. to the Christian, the uninformed, gullible person is easily ooled. Christians, especially, should be warned that the HIDDEN AIMS OF THE ECC FOR THE “PEOPLE’S WAR” Marxist means something totally different to what we understand by these words. Years ago the Communists hi­ They project the SADF as a “threat to peace” , since jacked an emotionally charged concept like “ peace” for the SADF, according to them, is used to keep the body their own purposes. When they use the word, they actually politic in power — “ an unjust system.” read it as “the Marxist struggle until victory is won.” So too, should the word “just” be read in this context. In 1979 They want to undermine public support for the armed they already acknowledged that “ there would only be forces. peace when all countries had embraced Communism.” They want to weaken the Security Forces and cast © Winnie Mandela, who works for so-called “ peace” in slurs upon them, especially upon the SADF. SA, said in a moment of truth (when the underground language popped up above-ground): — They want to discourage and destroy the Cadet System in white schools. “ We will liberate this country with our match boxes and our necklaces!” — They want to brand the SADF as the “ military arm” of the Nationalist Party. Small wonder that her “ bosses” called her to order and her media-friends abroad suppressed it! — They want to discourage military chaplains from par­ ticipating in National Service. ______• ______

tion and issued with addresses and telephone numbers in order to emigrate. S SZ T r 0T 'he ANC,SA Communist P" 'V » The organization claims that it was instrumental in - They accuse the SADF that the South West Africa getting 7 589 National Servicemen to refuse conscrip­ case is deliberately prolonged. tion on grounds of moral, political or religious objec­ tions in 1985. The liaison officer of the SADF, however, - They want to destroy the peace initiatives and na- stresses the true facts, namely that this number in­ tional dialogue of the SA government. cludes students who wanted to continue their studies.

- They wish to entrench the idea that National Service is a violation of human rights.

~ SADF as^war m ," ‘ a,y ° ' ,iCerS ° ' ,he

? « L a9|ndiar SCienti0US 0biecti0ns am° n9 Co1-

- They mobilize the world press and world opinion in t0 Prom°te international condemnation of SA.

SPECIFIC TARGET GROUPS AS FOCUS OF THE ECC

• scholars and students, schools and universities

I • lecturers, teachers, cadets

• Church youth groups

® women’s organizations

• opinion and policy makers in the community

Dralt dodgers are counselled how to evade conscrip. EMBLEM OF THE ENEMY i to the enemy will decrease and they will successfully enervate us.

® In order to paralyze Christians, conscription must be portrayed as unchristian and unbiblical. Certain members of the SACC especially are occupied with n o t C onscriptC ori this demoralizing task. \ f * o ONSLAUGHT ON THE WHITE MIND

In the introduction to the so-called “ Peace Kit” which is being distributed widely by the ECC, they say: G t ^ O

“ We can appeal to our young white soldiers and their Alert your children and young people to the dangers in­ wives, their loved ones and their families. We can con­ herent in this emblem. Explain that itAan effort by the vince them that they cannot win this struggle, it is enemies of South Africa to destroy our powerful defences wasteful to try, the whole effort is an unjust one.” by fine-sounding words that are really full of venom that must paralyse us. School cadets, too, are scurrilously attacked.

We must fight back! METHOD OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

MOTIVES OF THE ECC The method used above, are old tactics of the Marxists namely • By making conscription suspect, they wish to sow doubt in the minds of South Africans as to the justness of the war. So they hope to demoralize us. © create the impression that victory is already theirs;

• Because the SADF is a very real threat to the terrorists • make a big noise — even if your numbers are few and your power little; of the Marxists, the ANC and the UDF, the power of the Defence Force must be undermined by discrediting them. o create fear through intimidation — this usually ener­ vates people; • The national will of South Africans and the SADF must be destroyed systematically, so that opposition ® propagate the lie just long enough for people to ac­ cept it as the truth; © flee from the powerful — but attack the weak mer­ • Pray for all Security Services — the men and their cilessly; families, who must all make great sacrifices in these days. o subvert your enemy by eroding his morals • Be thankful for all who enable us and our children to © destroy his morale by incessant conditioning, run him live in safety. And if your son is also contributing down continuously, abuse him, accuse him, until he is towards our safety, we thank you that you have so conscience-smitten that he believes himself guilty already instilled in him a love for his country, and have and too weak to resist any longer. prepared him to stand proudly in the breach for the women, the mothers and the children of this country! This is EXACTLY what the enemy wants! HOW CAN WE FIGHT THIS DANGEROUS CAMPAIGN? Thus many people are helping the enemy to weaken our resistance so that a Marxist regime can take over SA. • We have launched a counter-campaign. We call it SUPPORT NATIONAL SERVICE (SNS). Join us and start a small committee in your organization and in WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THE ECC? your town. (Afrikaans: STEUN NASIONALE DIENS- PLIG/SND) © Believe in the just case for SA — true, it is difficult/ complex and totally unique, but by Divine Grace we • Discuss this with your principal's and invite speakers are already on the way to a solution for our country. from the SADF to inform your children.

• Believe in the biblical justification for war, the right to • Ask your ministers to preach and to discuss the defend one's country against all foes — those from biblical justification for defending one’s country. without and those from within! © Get the women of your group together and discuss the © Support National Service and encourage your sons to booklet of Bybelkor (DRC), Die Christen en Oorlog by do their training with pride and dedication, that they Prof Pieter Potgieter or any similar study. may be militarily prepared to defend their country. • Discuss the matter with your church Youth Groups so © Support the Security Forces and their actions; the that they may be armed with facts and counter­ SADF in all its branches, the SA Police that must arguments. uphold internal law and order — often under the most trying circumstances and extreme provocation. • Spread these ideas among your Afrikaans friends. O o J I • Devise your own plans to support the protecting ser­ vices locally and openly. What about an advertise­ ment in your local paper to thank them and to ensure them of your daily intercession on their behalf?

• Support our collar buttons, available shortly with slogans like:

“ COURAGE S.A. WE SUPPORT YOU.” Price: R1 each Obtainable from: WOMEN FOR SOUTH AFRICA (UCA) P.O. Box 48020 Roosevelt Park 2129

(This pamphlet is also available free of charge in Afrikaans) I 1 lAida Parker Newsletter Issue No. 79 Perspectives on Southern Africa Aprils, 1986 • End Conscription Campaign... a special report Naive sincerity—or dangerous that ECC has the active backing of 18 major support groups, the most impor­ duplicity? tant being; the SA Council of Churches (SACC), the SA Catholic Bishops Con­ 7J SA is today confronted with what particularly prominent in township af­ ference, the Church of the Province of (judging by the American experi- fairs and, according to West European SA, the Methodist Church of SA, the ence in Vietnam) is potentially the diplomatic sources in Pretoria, advises UDF, Black Sash and NUSAS, in par­ S most dangerous political move- on which township “political” funerals ticular the latter's political and pro- 1 mont to emerge in the current na­ should be attended by Embassy offi­ ANC Freedom Charter oriented action tional crisis. This is the fast- cials. groups. SACC was among the first or­ growing, heavily foreign-financed In Durban, the ECC campaign was ganisations to endorse the ECC “De­ End Conscription Campaign launched at a public meeting addres­ claration," this being approved at the ECC), an organisation which has sed by church leader, the Rev Wesley in recent months established Council’s annual conference in June Mabuza, and by Advocate Zac Yacoob 1984. overt and personal links with of ihe Natal Indian Congress. The ECC (among others and most impor­ today operates in Johanneburg, Cape ALMOST 20 years after tantly) the Helsinki-based War Re­ Town-and Durban, and has established “peaceniks” cost America the sisters International, an identified support links with organisations in Vietnam War, SA is being hit 1 adjunct to the vast Soviet~T'Active Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth and with a copy-cat campaign. So ■ Measures” apparatus. Grahamstown. Close contact has also seriously do we on APN view 2- >' ECC is presently seeking to popular- been established with the emerging this new challenge that we | ise a Vietnam war-style "Draft Dodgers anti-conscription campaigns in have devoted this entire issue If the type that ~ because ^WA-tNamibia.SWA-Namibia. It has been agreed that < the US Government failed to recognise ECC develop contact with Swapo to the End Conscription Cam­ ‘i the developing threat sufficiently early Youth and the Namibian National Stu- paign, have thrown out normal features and increased size to % was eventually . to bring humiliation...... dent Organisation (NANSO), which 12 pages. And, for this issue ij fn d defeat to the US forces in Indo- works very closely with NUSAS. only, we lift all copyright. If china. The idea of a saturation cam- As elsewhere, SA’s mass “End Con­ you can use any of this mate­ > poign seeking an end to compulsory scription” campaign did not begin in rial in any way, use it. The print | military service originated at the Black recent years. Long before ECC was order has been tripled and ex­ Sash s annual convention in Cape launched the South African Catholic tra copies are available at R1 Town in March. 1983. In July, 1983, a Bishops Conference was busy on a each. We acknowledge with . ^tirnilar idea was mooted to 100 dele- similar high-profile project, and there gratitude the gifts that made ^ J .te s at the annual national conference were a number of campus groups. this possible: R1 000 from a of the Conscientious Objectors Sup­ These included COGS, the Conscien­ Sandton businessman, and an port Croup (COSG) in Durban. It was tious Objectors Support Group, while extremely generous gift from there that the decision was taken to set at Wits there was WASG, the Wits Al­ Mr Marion (“Mac”) Magruder, up an End Conscription Committee. ternative Services Group. Overall, it can be said that the whole effort had its an Arizonian Republican who Operates recently visited SA and is de­ roots on the campuses and with the October 1983 saw the launch of the Catholic Bishops Conference. term ined to try to save it. More End Conscription Campaign “Decla­ about Mr Magruder soon. A recent letter published in the Fi­ ration ’ — a document expressing the nancial Mail states that the ECC is “a underlying reasons for the call to end 3 SACC s Cape Town branch is rep­ broad front of about 50 organisations.” conscription and asserting the demand resented on that city's ECC, while jh e Signatories included Profesor John for a ‘just peace” in SA. The “Declara­ Ecumenical Officer of the Western Pro- Dugard, who chairs Lawyers for Hu­ tion ’ was launched at a public meeting vince Council of Churches sits on the man Rights; Tom Waspe, head of attended by about 1 400 people and Cap« ECC was JODAC (Johannesburg Democratic addressed by, among others, the Rev also represented on the SACC Interna­ Action Committee) and a prominent Allan Boesak, president of the World tional Year of the Youth Committee in anti-SADF activist; Dr David Webster, Alliance of Reformed Churches and a 1985. “Eminences” who have called who heads the Detainees Support patron of the United Democratic Front for “an end to conscription’’ include: Committee, and Shawn Koppel, (UDF), and Mrs Sheena Duncan, Bishop Tutu, recipient of a politically- Transvaal PFP Youth chairman. Pre­ former chairman of the Black Sash.’ inspired Nobel Peace Prize; Arch­ sumably, ail these people represent Since the outbreak of Black urban un­ bishop Denis Hurley, Catholic Arch- groups sympathetic to ECC. rest in 1984, the Black Sash has been What can be said with confidence is • continued on page 2 Naive sincerity, dangerous duplicity? ••m) continued from page 1 a ■ ■ 1. To project the SADF as a “threat aood.good, anuany kind of war icis KaHbad." ” Allied bishop of Durban who said (Natal Mer-1, to peace" because it is allegedly used to with these are the pragmatists, who ar­ cury 27.1.86) that the Catholic ChurchJ defend an “unjust system.” 2. To gue that maintaining large security is "to pay more attention to Black lib­ erode public support for the armed forces is more costly in terms of time, eration movements, including the forces. 3. To weaken and discredit the expertise and productivity lost through ANC” ; Dr Beyers Naude, General- security forces and the SADF in parti­ mobilisation than a state as hardpres- Secretary of the SACC, who was pub­ cular. 4. To seek to discourage and sed as SA should be asked to bear. Few licly warned by the State President that, destroy the cadet system at White in the media point out to these that they by his actions, he was “playing into the schools. 5. To project the SADF as "the are hostages to mythology, that with­ hands of South Africa’s enemies;” Dr, military wing” of the National Party. 6. out such security forces, SA would very Allan Boesak; Sir Richard Luyt, former To sustain the attack on military chap­ soon be in the grip of far worse perils: Vice Chancellor of UCT and head of lains. 7 To seek support for the ANC/ that there are certain wars which must FONS (Friends of NUSAS) and Mrs SACP “Freedom Charter." 8. To ac- be fought. Sheena Duncan. cuse the SADF of prolonging the strug­ 3. Unfortunately, the movement is"^ j Described as an “alliance of com-’ gle in SWA and wrecking “constructive also powered by numbers of extreme V' rhunity organisations and religious negotiation.” 9. To destroy peace in­ left anti-SA activists whose intentions -j groups,” ECC’s publicly-declared aim" itiatives by the SA Government. 10. To are by no means so noble or so artless: -i is the end of military conscription and propound the theory that military ser­ people who, having studied how sue- '<( the right of SA citizens to choose vice is a violation of human rights. 11. cessfully. the anti-Vietnam War lobby J whether to serve in the SADF. That, To discredit the role of women in the destroyed the morale and fighting spirit j ^ basically, is the message of the “Dec- SADF. 12. To attempt to portray senior of the GIs in Indochina, seek (by stim- -j ^ laration” drawn up for signature by, SADF officers as “war criminals.” 13. sympathisers and supporters. / /.To promote conscientious objection THE call to end conscription is To get its message across, ECC has among Indians and Coloureds. 14. To dangerously naive, romantic, sim­ engaged in a wide range of activities, help focus international opprobrium on plistic and counter-productive.” aimed at “raising the awareness of con­ , SA' — former PFP leader Van Zyl Slab- scientious objectors.” These include It is clear that ECC will intensify its bert, speaking in a debate on June surveys on all English-medium cam­ campaign against compulsory military 5, 1985. puses on attitudes to conscientious ob­ service in 1986. The following ECC ulating a violent anti-military hysteria) jection; education seminars and work­ target groups are easily identified: shops for ECC member organisations. to employ the same demotivating tac -I scholars and students; church organi­ tics here. In a recent interview with the Natal sations; women’s groups; lecturers and It is this core component of ECC'. « Mercury. Laurie Nathan, ECC’s teachers; journalists and opinion mak­ which needs closer examination. It is I national organiser and a former Gen­ ers; business and political policy mak­ without dispute that extremists such as \ eral Secretary to NUSAS, reiterated ers; liberal Whites and the Afrikaans Bishop Tutu, Allan Boesak and their that ECC was “a single issue” cam­ community. A breakdown indicates fellow radicals see themselves as lead- ; paign, aimed at the removal of con­ that the ECC has a tripod support: ers of a revolutionary struggle and j scription “through the strategy of rais­ 1. It undoubtedly attracts many therefore have no compunction about 5 ing the consciousness of White South idealists who hold a genuine moral re­ acting as arson squads," eagerly en­ Africans.’^ pugnance to force, the carrying of arms couraging young men under their influ­ 1 or military service in any form. ^ However, investigation shows that ence not to rally to the national de­ pE C C is now involved in the broad poli- 2. Nearer the centre are those who fence. It is no accident that the Tutus jtical battle: that while ECC’s moral de­ dream of tranquility and justice for all... and the Boesaks play key roles in or­ clarations certainly sound good it (ex­ the Utopian Good Society. These are chestrating and mobilising support for actly as with the American anti-Viet- ordinary folk who can quite easily be ECC. Are South Africans sufficiently jnam War “surrender lobby") has a hid­ trapped into an emotional vortex and alert to the great dangers presented by den agenda. This is: r persuaded that “any kind of peace is this campaign? Read on.

WHERE does ECC find the funding for all its many that funds already requested from foreign organisa­ activities and publications? Till now, it appears, its tions but not yet received would amount to main benefactor has been the SA Council of R76 000.” The deficit would be “supplemented by Churches (SACC), which itself draws the vast bulk soliciting internal funds and donations.” Appeals of its financing from overseas anti-SA sources, and for funds to underwrite specific campaigns would be which has been actively pushing anti-conscription made to SACC and the SA Catholic Bishops Confer­ on its own account since 1974. Now, however, fol­ ence, while ECC affiliates would contribute to local lowing extensive visits to overseas sympathiser administrative costs. Main coordinators of fund groups by Laurie Nathan, the ECC’s national organ­ raising for ECC are SACC and its regional Council, iser, and others involved in the campaign, it is the Western Province Council of Churches (WPCC). hoped that ECC’s financial position will improve WPCC has already applied to the US National dramatically” in coming months. A budget of Council of Churches amhthe Presbyterian Church of R133 000 was presented at the ECC’s recent na­ the US for ECC support funding. Dr Beyers Naude, tional conference in Natal, with an amount of SACC Secretary General, has lent his support to an R20 000 brought over from 1985. It was disclosed overseas fund raising cam paign by Richard Steele. The ECC zeros in on Afrikaners PATRIOTISM is generally defined against discontented people to main­ indeed, crucial — target of Soviet ex­ as “love for, or devotion to, one’s tain a White government.’ Challenging pansionism? 9. Why does the ECC, by country. ” Until very, very recently, this, Myburgh said no structure could its negative and destructive actions, ef­ those words were so writ into the have only negative aspects. He put fectively endorse the ANC’s rejection Afrikaner psyche that even to sug­ these questions to ECC: of peaceful change? 10. The ECC has gest that an organisation such as 1. The ECC claims it cravesmounted a massive propaganda cam­ ECC could find a nesting place in “peace.” But what does “peace” in its paign aimed at destroying the existing this community would have been terms mean? 2. Why does the ECC system, but why does it never utter a laughable. Again and again, when ignore the Soviet military build-up in word about what should be set up in its action, courage and sacrifice have southern Africa and the plus/minus 50 place? been needed, the Afrikaners gave 000 Cuban and East bloc troops in An­ & Nathan’s replies to Myburgh's ques­ them — and give them still. But gola? 3. Why does the ECC ignore the tions were not favourably received by times change: and now, seeming­ ANC’s repeated and public refusal to the audience. However, it is clear that ly, the ECC recognises a window renounce violence and its threats to the ECC and certain elements on Stel­ of opportunity, among Afrikaner- concentrate on civilian targets? 4. Why, lenbosch campus will persist in efforts dom's radical chic, at least. by its sustained propaganda assault on to establish a formal ECC branch there. And where better to start than at the national security forces, does ECC Currently, NUSAS-Stellenbosch is sel­ Stellenbosch University, time- provide effective moral support ling T-shirts on campus with, on the honoured alma mater of many of SA’s for the ANC / UDF forces in front, the words “WHERE IS THE greatest thinkers and political leaders? their declared intention of mak­ BORDER NOW?” and on the back "n February the Stellenbosch Aktuele ing SA “ungovernable”? 5. What does “BOETIE IS GOING TO ATHLONE." Aangeteenheidskring/Stellenbosch Ac­ ECC have to say about the murder and tuality Affairs Circle (SAAK/SAAC) burning of Black moderates and the But Stellenbosch is not the only tar­ called a meeting with the theme, “Mili­ barbaric violence recently experienced geted Afrikaans area. On March 11, tary Service — Yes or No?” Speakers in Black townships? 6. Where are the 1986, an ECC meeting was held in were Laurie Nathan, ECC national or­ demonstrations and pamphlets di­ Johannesburg for Afrikaans members. ganiser, and, in opposition, Nic rected against the “necklace” burnings A proposal was accepted to translate Myburgh, chairman of the Popular Stu­ of innocent people whose allegiances ECC to END (Eindig Nasionale Diens- dents Alliance (PSA), a moderate cam­ and political views may' not coincide plig). The END, it was stated, will be pus organisation. with those of the ANC/UDF? 7 What 'introduced at schools, campuses,, ECC, Nathan declared, was not teaching colleges .and churches ‘by 3 does the ECC have to say about docu­ against national service, but against means of pamphlets, posters and ments in possession of the SADF, indi­ military service. According to Nathan, newspaper reports. If that is not proof national service is practised by “ren­ cating that the ECC has been infiltrated that skilfully inculcated appeasement, dering aid on a humanitarian level,'’ by the ANC? 8. Why does the ECC pacifism and self-flagellation hang whereas “military violence is used ignore the fact that SA is a manifest — heavy over our land, then nothing is. J

numbers (probably as high as 85%) of Blacks who might have good reason for Things ECC needs to explain... not wanting SA ruied in terms dictated by the Soviet-aligned ANC/SA Com­ * fH E R E are serious questions that "•■claim is a major political declaration on munist Party. Nor is there any acknow­ ’those tempted to support the ECC -3the ECC’s “hidden agenda,” and ledgement, anywhere, of Moscow’s in­ would do well to scrutinise, the most IjSurely calls for far fuller explanation ’important being: Would it be fair to Uhan anything the SA public has yet creasing chain of terrorist franchises in suggest that by its stand the ECC pro­ » received. Africa, stretching from Ethiopia down. In short, it appears that the ECC, or vides implicit support for ANC terror­ 3. The “end conscription campaign” certain among its leader groups, is ism? Critical aspects: 1. A prime ANC is not, of course, conducted indiscrimi­ completely insulated from Africa’s objective is for the SADF to disappear nately. While ECC demands an end to tragic eco-political history since the in­ from the scene and particularly from the current system of SADF conscrip­ trusion of East bloc forces in 1975. the Black areas during this ongoing tion, there is no discemable suggestion In other words, the whole ECC cam­ period of township anarchy. Coinci­ that the ANC, Swapo or Umkhonto we paign appears to be highly selective: dentally or not, the ECC's “Troops Out Sizcue similarly disarm. Nor, as far as is with the whole purpose being to make of the Townships” campaign slots known, have there been any ECC de­ trouble for SA at a time when the ■‘comfortably into the same scenario. monstrations against ANC/UDF town­ country is under attack on almost every ship terror. No trace can be found of 2. On 27.11.85 ECC representatives .front. Though the ECC might profess Laurie Nathan and Peter Hathorn ad­ any EEC recognition or denunciation to seek a better society, should its cam­ bf the immense suffering, deprivation dressed a meeting of the Committee on paign prove successful, the results and degradation that Soviet imperial­ SA War Resistance (COSAWR) in would prove the very reverse. What a ism has brought to those African states London, displaying ECC documents. power take-over by the Soviet-sup- Hhow under Moscow’s domination. In his address. Hathom declared that ported ANC/SACP would mean in theA/VCis now entering the effective 4. Nor, studying their many docu­ terms of human misery is written in stage of their operations, due to the ments, is there any apparent recogni­ letters of fire skyscraper high in Angola. ECC’s work. " If correctly reported, this tion of the fact that there are significant :Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. 4 '

ALL possible efforts are being made to sensibly spiked efforts by the organisers .Wars” ) programme was condemned i“intemationalise” SA’s increasingly to bring in their proposed “star” as “contributing to an increasingly controversial End Conscription Cam­ speaker, Cardinal Ams, one of Latin tense and dangerous world situation.” paign. According to an article in Busi­ America’s foremost exponents of the Here, of course, the “peace” spokes­ ness Day (25.3.86) a “smuggled out” Marxist-style “liberation theology,” men were parrotting straightforward petition from the ECC was last month which helped bring the Sandinistas to TASS propaganda, -presented to the UN, calling on all power in Nicaragua, there was no member states of the world body to shortage of other speakers. Earlier, a working paper presented grant asylum to SA draft dodgers. This These included Carol Tongue; by the ECC planning group dealt with was delivered by Gavin Evans, an ECC Bishop Tutu; Namibian advocate and last year’s UN International Youth activist, who told a hearing of the Spe­ Swapo member, Anton Labowski; Year. It was stressed that the ECC cial Committee on Apartheid that “the. Archbishop Denis Hurley; Nadine should establish and maintain close brutality with which the SADF and Gordimer and Sir Richard Luyt. Ezra contact with the UN International Sec­ Police are carrying out their rule of ter­ Sigwele of the UDF outlined his in­ retariat established to coordinate the ror is unprecedented.” A 226-page volvement with the SA Peace Council IYY. The aims would be “to raise dossier presented to the Committee al­ in the late 1950s, his association with a ECC’s awareness of the struggles for legedly included affidavits by township peace group while in exile in Lesotho peace and liberation in other Third residents and from conscientious ob­ and his links with the World Peace World countries; to keep ECC in­ jectors. Council (WPC), the key Soviet front formed of IYY activities internationally, especially solidarity around SA and Libya; to inform the Secretariat of ECC' s own Youth Programme and ac­ tivities; and to win international support How the ECG tries for the stand taken by the ECC against conscription and militarisation in SA.” ECC national organiser Laurie to win Nathan is quite emphatic that the launch of the movement’s “Troops Out of the Townships” campaign on international support September 17, 1985, was timed to co­ incide with the UN International Day of Peace. Writing in the January/Febru­ ary, 1986, issue of the US publication. Other developments: When Laurie organisation set up in 1949 on orders The Non-Violent Actiuist, Nathan said: Nathan and Peter Hathom visited from Josef Stalin. “The campaign aimed, firstly, to raise London last November, a video re­ public awareness of the destructive role Miss Carol Tongue, bom inLucerne, cording was made of their visit and the being played by the Army and, second­ Switzerland, and in 1984 elected to the BBC broadcast an interview with ly, to build pressure on the Govern­ European Parliament for London East, Nathan (27.11.85). Disclosing plans ment t6 withdraw its troops and to end is a well-known member of the for 1986, Nathan said the ECC in­ conscription.” W omen’s International League for tended concentrating on White schools Peace and Freedom, which was and had already approached teachers An ECC meeting held in Ronde- granted affiliate status to the WPC in in this regard. Claiming that the ECC bosch on 16.1.86 and attended by 1981. She is also conspicuously in­ enjoys the support of students and about 60 people dealt predominantly volved in CND (which British conser­ with how the movement could expand SA’s "English churches,” he said the vatives refer to as “Communists, its overseas contacts. ECC demanded the withdrawal of the neutralists and defeatists” ). SADF from the Black townships, the Plans to send an ECC delegate to abolition of compulsory military ser­ Further indication of the ECC’s faith­ France to attend a conference organ­ ful adherence to the carefully-nurtured vice, the unconditional release of politi­ ised by SOS Racism, a French anti­ cal prisoners and the lifting of the ban world “peace” movement came at a apartheid organisation, fizzled when on the ANC. seminar given at the “peace festival” and entitled "The International Cold the proposed delegate, Miss Janet What does become clear from the War.” Though this seemed to have re­ Cherry, chairwoman of the Eastern ECC’s “internationalising” efforts is markably little to do with the SADF, it Province ECC, based in Port Elizabeth, that, while focussing on the SADF, the examined the dangers of nuclear war. was arrested on a charge of being in campaign is an integral part of the inter­ NATO, it was stated, had “made the possession of Mandrax. Though she national “peace” and “freeze” move­ greater contribution to this” by (a) be­ was later released, Lt-Col Genie van ments aimed at undermining the mili­ ing the initiator and consistent pace set- Rooyen, SAP Liaison Officer in the tary establishments of the Western •ter in the arms race; (b) by insisting on Eastern Cape, stated that a docket world. the need for nuclear superiority over would be forwarded to the Public This became strikingly evident last the Warsaw Pact by developing new Prosecutor. year when the ECC convened what weapons and (c) maintaining the “no­ Examination of ECC literature and was described as SA’s “first-ever peace tion of the winnability of a nuclear war” actions shows that the lessons of the festival” at Wits: its purpose, to quote and its right to launch a first nuclear anti-Vietnam War movement, and its the Weekly Mail, being to "explore the strike, “both of which have been re­ gradual spread into major Western possibilities for world peace and jus­ nounced by the Warsaw Pact.” The states, have taken deep root in its tice.” Though the Government very Reagan Administration’s SDI (“Space South African successor. (to ECC seeks political credibility: Steers ONE of the more arresting side­ “ the PFP debate is crucial.” ECC9 ' lights on the End Conscription clear branches in Cape Town, and Port Cam paign is its anxious search for Elizabeth in particular, oppose political respectability, a search PFP affiliation, this because ECC which sends it scurrying to court of PFP members believe they “should not the favour of some, while chary of ment of 1984,” the Johannesburg have contact with political parties too-open. involvement____ with____ End Conscription Committee ... as these are part of the unjust’ others. The ECC’s inner circle isM states that the year’s “support system and could therefore lose particularly squeamish about any / work for the UDF included post­ support of the UDF.” public association with the UDF 1 ers” urging Indians and Coloureds One document adds: “Despite or------even *L-the PFP. It js> however, , to vote “No!” in the Tricameral the differences between the ECC well aware of the importance of Parliament elections. and PFP, there is no reason for the using all available support groups, The document also mentioned relationship between the two to particularly those with high public an anti-SADF pamphlet in which be antagonistic. Our position on credibility. One ECC working ECC used the term, “the Sebo- conscription and that of the PFP, paper stresses the “importance of keng invasion.” This refers to the although different and motivated using affiliate or sympathetic first SADF action soon after the for different reasons, ought to groups,” especially “where it it­ outbreak of unrest in 1984, when strengthen one another and the self is not acceptable.” after a period of township terror, mass opposition to conscription.” k I now quote from a document the Army moved in, surrounding entitled “ECC Planning Day,” dis­ the area and conducting a house- Strain cussing the movement’s “pro­ to-house search for terrorists and There are other signs of strain file.” The problem, this says, is weapons. Contrary to ECC prop­ inside the ECC. In m uch of its lit­ that “(General) Malan identified aganda, there is ample evidence erature, the ECC has claimed that us as a UDF group. While we sup­ that the “invasion” was welcomed the SA Institute of Race Relations port the UDF, we decided that for with heartfelt relief by most resi­ is affiliated to and endorses the strategic reasons we should not be dents, whose first question to the ECC campaign. The Institute has too closely identified with them as troopies was: “What took you so m ade it clear to APN that “it is in we want to reach a broad spec­ long?” no way affiliated to this campaign, trum of organisations. We need to While the ECC may not be offi­ nor has it endorsed this or any pay special attention to our con­ cially affiliated to the UDF, it other call to end conscription.” stituency and choose speakers maintains a close working rela­ Interestingly, although the ECC and write statements and pam­ tionship. In all centres a number gains its main financial and moral phlets accordingly. This needs a of ECC affiliates are also affiliates support from the SA Council of clear analysis of our constituency of the UDF. In Cape Town the UDF Churches, the SA Catholic and the political changes happen­ is directly represented on the ECC Bishops' Conference and certain ing all the time.” Committee, while in Johannes­ mainline churches, Natal mem­ Be that as it may, there are, and burg the ECC is rep resented on bers working in the universities have been for a very long time, the Anti-Conscription Committee and high schools are unhappy ab­ clearly identified and close links of the UDF. out the “church-based image,” ^between the UDF and ECC. In a ECC documents declare that, in which they feel young people docum ent entitled “An Assess- its efforts to preserve credibility. might find off-putting.

ADDRESSING cadets at Natal Command last year Mr Ad- ^MILITARISM,” the ANC pamphlet says: “WHITE YOUTH : riaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence, stated that the ECC REFUSE TO BE CONSCRIPTED INTO THE SA DEATH ' was being used by the ANC” to achieve the banned ;• FORCES. DO NOT GAMBLE WITH YOUR YOUNG organisation s “evil goals.” Mr Vlok objected to the efforts OLIVES.” Then the unmistakable message; “JOIN THE of certain people, specifically the ECC, “to break down the ANTI-CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN AND THE DEMO­ will of young men and women in defending South Africa ” CRATIC STRUGGLE.” In other words, direct support from (Citizen, 10.9.85). He was immediately challenged by Mrs the ANC for the ECC. Jacques Boulle, chairman, ECC Pietermaritzburg branch, Has the ECC, as so often claimed, been infiltrated by the who declared: “We are outraged by the allegation made by > A N C ? It would certainly seem so, judging by documents •• 5„the Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Adriaan Vlok, that the captured by the SADF last year during its pre-emptive strike ECC is linked with the ANC and communism.” v on the ANC offices in Gaborone. Several “working papers’' Mrs Boulle may indeed be outraged, but examination of outlined ANC infiltration into the ECC. In one particular relevant ECC and ANC documents seemingly reflect the document, an ANC terrorist sought permission to continue same common purpose: above all, indicate that the ANC at infiltrating the ranks of the ECC where he “hoped to recruit least believes ECC to be doing its job inside SA for it. The ECC “Declaration” put out for public signature reads: “We more White activists for ANC training.” The writer stated live in an unjust society... we call for an end to conscription. that he was still "safe and in good hands,” and that he We live in an unequal society ... we call for an end to ■'"’“would fulfil his mission at all costs ” (Sundav Times. conscription " Under the heading, “YOUTH AGAINST 23.6.85). (7 APN April 8. 1986 IN the months to come — unless ive, the citizens, can take suitable preventive action — you will be able to see how widespread the draft resisters problem has be­ THE word "peace" has become one of the most powerful psychological come; how it is being exploited by warfare weapons used in the Souiet Union's assault against the security of the radical/left, how they plan to the Free World. Those demanding “peace. ” both in SA and the Free World, hit campuses and schools, should carefully consider what sort of peace they want: and on whose terms. churches and cities across the na­ The Souiet and Western concepts of peace differ irrevocably. Marxist/Len­ tion, just as they did in the US in inist doctrine clearly states that Communism and capitalism cannot co-exist: the late Sixties. Plans are being which, by definition, suggests that peace is only possible after Communism m ade for a particularly intensive ■has finally triumphed over capitalism. campaign just before the July Lenin, who formulated the Marxist concept of “peace." stated in his 1986 SADF intake. Some high­ treatise Socialism and War, that “Marxism is not pacifism ... only if it is lights from the “peace” blitzkrieg accompanied by a call for revolutionary struggle ... does the demand for now being waged against SA: peace make sense." In his treatise of the Tasks of the Youth League, pub­ ITEM: ECC organisers insist their ef­ lished in the 1920s. the Souiet dictator was even more blunt. “As an ultimate forts are not intended to benefit the objective, peace simply means Communist world control." On the role of ANC. That's not the way the ANC see pacifism. Lenin explained that “we consider it to be our duty to support it, judging by this quote from the ANC’s pacifists in the bourgeoisie camp ... this will help demoralise the enemy." Radio Freedom, broadcast over Radio While lauding the presence of “peace" mouements in the West as repre­ Luanda. 13.2.86: “In this year of our senting the “indomitable will of the people." Soviet journals such asPravda People's Army — Unkhonto we Sizwe are quick to warn their own people of the dangers of pacifism. “Our — the anniversary of the Soweto up­ propaganda must display firmness and principle in upholding the Soviet rising. June 16. South Africa's 'Youth Union's positions... and in popularising the ideas of Marxist/Leninism .. and Day.' should ensure ... high inuolue- must resolutely get rid of touches of pacifism that sometimes emerge in ment of the youth and students of our certain propaganda materials." In the light of this statement, it is under­ country by making the whole of South standable why no independent “peace" group is tolerated behind the Iron African ungovernable and take the war Curtain. Through KGB “active measures" the Souiets haue successfully into the White areas: weakening still planned and coordinated “peace" campaigns that focus on any action further the enemy's State organs of taken by the Western world and perceiued by the Kremlin as a potential repression by mobilising the White stu­ threat to their concept of “world peace." while ignoring their own manifestly dents and working youths ... by aggressiue intentions. strengthening the Anti-Conscription Such strategies haue long been applied against SA. The country is ac­ Campaign and make apartheid un­ cused of "destabilisation"by the international Left when it attacks ANC workable... " terrorist bases operating against our own citizens with impunity from neigh- ■ ITEM: Main ECC targets are our bouring states. The words "apartheid" and "capitalism" are used inter­ y ounq serving or prospective Nation a! changeably by Marxist revolutionary forces to legitimise the stepping up of Servicemen. That's scarcely surprising, the ANC's "People's War " against SA which appears to increase rather than because the SADF remains predomi­ decrease in intensity as the Pretoria Gouemment steps up its programme of nantly a citizen force. Of a total strength change and reform. of about 320 000, 9.5% belong to the T ransparently. the Marxist interpretation of apartheid goes far beyond the Permanent Force. 15,5% are made up aspect of racial discrimination. It includes ecc nomic forces of the free market of NSM, the rest (75%) are part-time system, based on the principle of private ownership: more correctly, the soldiers. In other words, citizens make revolutionary Left state that “there will be no peace in SA until capitalism is up more than 90% of the deployable ovenhrown. The SA Communist Party spells that out with great emphasis SADF. If a substantial proportion of in its intellectual mouthpiece. The African Communist. Questioning SA's that 90% is demotivated or unprepared reform process, it asks whether these alternative policies will lead to the to serve in time of emergency, we are removal of "colonial relations " (read capitalism). The party stresses further not likely to win. something the ECC that " the destruction of colonialism (capitalism)... is the essential condition people understand very well. ... and the key aim of the SACP...for the establishment of a Socialist South Africa, laying the foundations of a classless, communist society. " ITEM: Certain ECC propaganda In their view then, the bottom line is that it is capitalism, and not apartheid, suggests that SA's defence spending is which is the true focus of attack. It is only in this context that the attack among the world’s highest. In fact, it against South Africa can be fully understood on a global leuel. To quote, remains among the world's lowest. there will only be ' 'peace'' in SA and the Free World when the last vestiges of Some country comparisons showing capitalism are destroyed by international Communism. That, finally, is what defence expenditures as percentages the enemy means by "peace. "A nd it-is against that background that we. all against Gross Domestic Product: Israel. of us in this threatened land, should commit ourselves totally to the support 24.8%; Egypt. 9,6; US, 6.9: UK. 5.3: of the SADF and the security forces generally. If the race is not necessarily to Czechoslovakia, 4.4; France. 4.1. the swift, nor the battle to the strong, the odds still favour them. Should a South Africa. 3,8: West Germany. 3.3: Red Dawn be our future, ordinary people will suffer as they never believed Portugal, 3,2: Switzerland. 2.2. possible. Let a pro-Souiet gouemment come to power, they will find out ITEM: Prospective NSM who have ' what they have lost... too late, but of course, we are not going to let it to report in July 1986 are an important happen. target group. It will be more difficult to reach these young men, as many are already in temporary employment. It given to the production of comics and eral student aid to male college stu­ can therefore be expected that the photo-comics aimed at the SADF and, dents who fail to register for the draft. ECC will attempt to get at them something very important on campus, Fully enforced since October 1, 1983, through parents; churches; youth or-^U/hat they term “guerilla theatre,” this law requires students applying for ganisations: youth gatherings: social oking fun--- at. the SADF and portraying federal aid to sign a form that they have and sports clubs. It is up to concerned •the "heroics” of the ANC terrorists, registered for the draft or are absolved South Africans to make their own ef­ tl ITEM: NUSAS has formed Pupils (because, for example, they are forts to neutralise this ECC thrust. Awareness Action Groups (PAAG) op­ women). More than 300 000 students ITEM: It is clear that the ECC is in­ erating at schools, at this point mainly who had not registered for the draft creasingly targeting in on White in the Western Cape. Slogans include: | have since done so. Under US Presi­ schools. It can be expected that not -CONSCRIPTION’S COMPULSORY ! dential Proclamation men must register only will the cadet system be con­ — CADETS IS NOT — DON'T DO IT".7 within 30 days of their 18th birthday. demned, but that active steps will be and “SCHOOLYARD TODAY. Failure to do so is a crime. taken to influence prospective NSM TOWNSHIPS TOMORROW ... NO: Now for certain questions the ECC against national service, especially stu­ THANKS! CADETS IS NOT COM-j seems to have trouble in answering: dents in Standards 8 to 10. According PULSORY!” Numbers of high school • Examining the record, is there any to ECC documents, the involvement of students have approached the National real reason to believe that the USSR teachers in this attempt will receive high Student Federation for counter-action pours weaponry and expertise into the priority. material. ANC because its prime aim is to defeat apartheid9 Has the USSR really come to Africa to help educate the illiterate, Pacifist propaganda cure the sick, house the homeless, erect and manage factories, improve agri­ culture, feed the hungry? Or has it for pupils, students come here to further its own geo-stra­ tegic interests, cynically using the ITEM: Here, taken from various ITEM: More recently, ECC has ex­ Blacks as its surrogates, while manipu­ ECC documents, are some of the pro­ tended its propaganda campaign to lating "useful idiots" among the Whites posed actions surrounding their cover an “Alternative Service Project,” as its dupes? •'Youth Campaign.” These include: propagating "alternatives'- to the • Would those masterminding the “Building of broadbased anti-militari- system of military service and offering ECC drive against compulsory military sation movements among the youth; assistance in rendering legal advice and service agree that SA, strategically and educating and mobilising youth against so on. On March 15/16, 1986, the economically, is a key target for the compulsory conscription; making con­ ECC. Cape Town, introduced a hard­ Soviets in their scramble for world tact with and giving input into a wide sell "Alternative Service Project — hegemony and the creation of what US range of youth organisations, holding Working for a Just Peace" campaign. historian Richard Pipes aptly describes photo competitions around the themes During the UCT Rag on March 15, as "the last, big White man's Empire”? of the army and apartheid; making pamphlets entitled "ARE YOU IN­ ITEM: That, considering the Soviet } contact on a school level with sympa­ TERESTED IN ALTERNATIVES?” sponsorship of the ANC and its SA thetic societies, teachers or head­ were handed out in their thousands to Communist Party affiliations, an ANC masters; distributing pamphlets at the public. The launch of the “Alterna­ victory would mean not genuine Black school gates — these must be well writ­ tive Service" campaign must be seen rule, but an exchange of White rule, ten and witty: placing carefully phrased as a temporary change of strategy, to replacing the present Pretoria govern­ letters in education journals and the prevent possible State action against ment with a puppet Marxist junta con­ press; inviting schools to approach the the direct "end conscription" message. trolled by Whites in the Kremlin? The ECC: monitoring SADF activities in the ITEM: How do other countries han­ Afrikaners may have their fauits. but at schools; making contact with sympa­ dle students encouraged to balk at mili­ leas; their hearts are in SA. Wh -re. and thetic parents: contacting cadets at tary training? In 1984. the US Supreme to whom, do the allegiances of the ECC church schools.” Special attention is Court upheld a 1982 law denying fed­ sponsors belong?

ALTHOUGH most parents send Allan Boesak, Desmond Tutu and Peter Younghusband. Service in their children to school to learn the school cadet corps, once per­ knowledge and skills, sometimes ECC’s cause. For a school whose haps the finest in the country, is certain activity involves very dif­ motto reads Pro Fide etPatria (For now purely voluntary. Old boys ferent purposes. Examine recent Faith and Country), one wonders throughout the country should events at Bishops, generally which country they are now talk­ take their respective schools to recognised as one of SA’s finest ing about; a free South Africa or a task if they are found to be sup­ schools. According to concerned Marxist Azania? The long-term porting ECC programmes and ac­ old boys, headmaster John Peak consequences of this show of soli­ tions. For schools which are arranged for a bus to take boys — darity for the ECC can only be meant to embody all the finer in their school uniforms — to the guessed at, if we bear in mind that points of a nation’s culture, heri­ Cape Town City Hall, there to at­ the bomb which exploded in the tend an ECC inaugural meeting. tage and tradition for the genera­ Prominently arrayed in the front lift of the State President’s Coun­ tions coming, recent events at rows, they sat listening attentively cil Building in Cape Town some Bishops can only be viewed with as such illustrious patriots as years ago killed a Bishops old boy. concern by all.

Collection Number: AG1977

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