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KEEP THE PRESSURE ON! What's going on in ? laws, and discrediting the all-white sentation. The "stay-away" shut down This September, we watched 50,000 elections held this September. factories, schools, shops and transport. protestors march legally and peaceful- The has re-ig- ly through Cape Town, without a hint nited the democratic opposition. looking Abroad of repression . Then newly- Through non-violent direct action, elected president F.W. DeKlerk thousands have participated in in- As the Defiance Campaign con- declares that the door is open for the tegrating hospitals, beaches, parks, tinues, the government has been reform of the apartheid system. In Oc- and workplace canteens. Workers pushed into more visible concessions. tober, eight national heroes of the anti- have held meetings and sing-ins on the It has allowed several municipalities to apartheid struggle are released from trains during their long commutes to repeal "petty apartheid" rules, like long imprisonment, including ANC work. School children and teachers segregated parks. leader . staged marches, college students set On October 4, in its most dramatic Are apartheid's rulers giving up at up barricades, and unions called a con- gesture, Pretoria released the country's last? sumer boycott. Banned organizations leading political prisoners, with the Hardly. At the same time the held public rallies to "unban" them- significant exception of Nelson Man- government was making highly selves. dela. publicized concessions, it was also kill- On September 6, three million DeKlerk's gestures are directed at ing 27 election protestors, putting joined a national strike to protest the international as well as internal hundreds more in detention, raiding elections, which exclude blacks from audiences. Until recently, the main church and union offices across the voting and from parliamentary repre- Continued on next page country, and setting the police loose on . scores of strikes and demonstrations. Apartheid's rulers haven't given up, but they do appear to have a better grasp of reality . The government in Pretoria recognizes that the democratic movement in South Africa has grown powerful and resolute. They see that international condemna- tion is not easily appeased. And while they wonder how to reform the apart- heid system, millions of people keep struggling to end it.

Defiance Grows The pressure has escalated at home and abroad. This summer, leading South African anti-apartheid forces came together as the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), uniting the major labor federation, COSATU, with the community and church organizations of the banned UDF. In August, the MDM embarked on AL. a Defiance Campaign aimed at chal- : lenging the country's segregation 25,000 COSATU and NACTU members demonstrate againstthe Labor laws, overturning its oppressive labor Relations Act as part of the nation-wide Defiance campaign. Keep the Pressure On! continued from front page pressure point has been negotiations with the international banks over ex- tending South Africa's $13 billion foreign debt. Although the banks have now given in, agreeing in late October to re-sechedule the debt without at- taching conditions for political change, the specter of tougher sanctions still looms. In Europe and the British Common- wealth, governments are telling De- Klerk that new sanctions will be imposed if change is not forthcoming. Even the U.S. government has changed its tune, acknowledging that previous On October 15, the government released eight leaders of the anti-apartheid sanctions have had positive effect in movement, including ANC leader Walter Sisulu (center) jailed for 26 years. forcing Pretoria into a new stance. Also shown (L-R) are , Oscar Mpetha, , State department officials suggest that Walter Sisulu, , and . further sanctions will be inevitable if tangible progress is not made during repeal all security legislation; stress the need for tighter sanctions this parliament. n End all political trials and execu- and continued disinvestment cam- International pressure is com- tions. paigns. pounded by the sagging state of the These conditions would produce, This message was openly delivered South African economy, which is among other things, the release of Nel- in October by Moses Mayekiso, rapidly losing capital to disinvest- son Mandela and the inclusion of the general secretary of the National ment, unemployment and inflation. ANC in any government talks. Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) and Multi-national companies continue to Conditions for negotiations are just co-chair of the MDM. Mayekiso, who pull-out in the face of sanctions and an the beginning, however. To dismantle was acquitted last spring on treason uncertain future. apartheid requires more than ending charges after an international cam- So DeKlerk is being told by friend state coercion or removing petty apart- paign, stated: and foe alike that he must move on a heid laws. Apartheid rests on the "Apartheid is far from dead in reform agenda. But how fast and how denial of citizenship, on the segrega- South Africa. DeKlerk's government is far are still very much the heart of the tion of land and housing, and on a far from accepting democratic elec- issue. forced migrant labor system . There tions in South Africa. They will only will be no end to apartheid until there listen to power, not words ... Conditions For Negotiation is "one person, one vote," the "The state still has immense power. segregated homelands and townships Although the economy has weak- The liberation movement of South are dissolved, and workers have full nesses, it is still a very powerful Africa is clear that no reform will be human rights. Apartheid cannot truly economy. The imperialists have shown meaningful unless the government be reformed, it must be transformed. DeKlerk that he must negotiate now, enters negotiations with democratic For the liberation movement, the while he still has power... forces. The movement is equally clear sole purpose of negotiations is to ar- "Our millions of allies in other that democratic participation will not range the peaceful transfer from apart- countries must not let up on the pres- be meaningful unless the government heid to a unified, non-racial, sure of sanctions now, or DeKlerk and ends repression. democratic state. DeKlerk and his al- imperialism will try to negotiate a set- MDM organizations have thus out- lies would prefer a compromised tlement which excludes the masses lined broad pre-conditions which result which will keep the white from the negotiating process, which must be met before credible negotia- minority in a position both economi- does notgive any power to the masses, tions can begin . As COSATU's resolu- cally and politically dominant for a which does not end exploitation and tion put it, the apartheid government long time to come. which safeguards only the interests of must: imperialism ... n Unconditionally unban all banned A Message from "Now is the time to intensify sanc- organizations; Brother Mayekiso tions to cut short the social and n Unconditionally release all political economic agony of apartheid ..." prisoners and detainees; Anti-apartheid organizations in In New York City, we can keep the n Unconditionally allow the return of South Africa are calling on their inter- pressure on through passage of a all political exiles; national supporters to escalate the stronger Intro. 1137, the pending bill to n Confine security forces to barracks; pressure on Pretoria during this mo- tighten City sanction laws. See the back n Lift the state of emergency and ment of crisis and transition. They page for details. S.A. UNIONS WIN AS MOBIL, GOODYEAR LEAVE South African unions want multina- Goodyear will pay the principal on Impact On Sanctions tional companies to disinvest from the housing loans to be offered its workers apartheid system, but they also want over the next five years . NUMSA will The right of South African workers the right to negotiate over the terms of gain at least 50% control over the pen- to advance notice and negotiations as disinvestment. Two victories this sum- sion fund, which will be reconstituted companies disinvest has been asserted mer have made that right a reality for as a "provident" fund to benefit and won on picket lines in South the first time. workers and their communities. Africa. It's equally important that these Like the Mobil settlement, be asserted in theisanctions Precedent At Mobil NUMSA's victory at Goodyear estab- laws here that are forcing companies to lished the union's right to negotiate disinvest. Mobil announced it was withdraw- directly with the parent company and In New York, we have the oppor- ing from South Africa in May, without to have union applied to the tunity to add these rights to a new and any advance notice to the Chemical new owners . There will be no lay-offs tougher sanctions law, Intro . 1137 (see Workers Industrial Union (CWIU). or unfavorable changes in working story, page 8) . Across the country, The union responded with a militant conditions for at least twelve months, labor rights to notice and negotiation two-week strike at Mobil installations giving the unions time to solidify their must become a basic condition for demanding negotiations. An interna- strength under new management . defining responsible disinvestment. tional protest campaign was also launched, including a demonstration at Mobil headquarters in New York City. MHT: BREAKING THE TRUST By July, the CWIU wrested major concessions from the oil giant . Mobil will provide its 1,500 employees severance pay equal to one month's (2,000 rand or $700) . CWIU won important guarantees that the new owner will honor union recognition and rights. CWIU also won the right to negotiate directly with the U.S. parent corporation over setting up a worker-controlled trust fund from Mobil's South African profits.

Advance At Goodyear CWIU's victory set a precedent that was quickly taken up by 1,200 mem- bers of the National Union of Metal- workers (NUMSA) employed at the Goodyear plant in Uitenhage . Like Mobil, Goodyear had unilaterally an- nounced that it was disinvesting and Several hundred demonstrators rallied on October 4 outside the New York selling its assets to a South African offices of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. The rally protested MHT's decision to company. Goodyear also refused to rollover its loans to South Africa for another ten years, taking the heat off the negotiate seriously over the terms of DeKlerk government. Parallel demonstrations were held against apartheid's withdrawal. major creditors in London, Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt and Copenhagen that day. Workers walked out in protest in The New York rally also protested MHT's dirty business here at home . MHT early July and all were promptly fired recently extended credit to the Pittston Company to help it bust the United by the company, which advertized for Mineworkers of America . Over 1,800 UMWA miners have been on strike against scabs. The workers refused to back Pittston since last April over the company's slashing of medical and pension down and after a 10-week strike and benefits. lock-out, Goodyear was forced to And while the bank invests in apartheid and union-busting, it refuses to invest make even greater concessions than in its own communities . MHT has collected $2 billion from Brooklyn depositors, the Mobil settlement. but only granted $3 million in loans to Brooklyn residents. Each worker will receive severance Capital knows no country. ..but solidarity crosses borders too . Join the local pay (1,000 rand) and the right to campaign against Manufacturers Hanover by contacting: Interfaith Center on withdraw pension money, up to twice Corporate Responsibility, Room 566, 475 Riverside Dr ., NY 10115, 212-870-2293 . the amount of their own contribution (5-10,000 rand per individual worker) .

SCRAP THE LABOR RELATIONS ACT! These days it's hard to tell if apart- ing for two others. In addition, fierce opposition to the LRA over the heid is cracking up or cracking down. hundreds of workers have been ar- past year. They call on employers to The answer is: both at the same time. rested for participating in the Defiance negotiate contracts overriding the new South African unions are taking bold Campaign and in protests against the restrictions. Worker protests have con- action and meeting with stiff reaction 1988 Labor Relations Amendments vinced some employers to negotiate, from employers and the government. Act (LRA). but most have welcomed the Act as an In July, police ,arrested COSATU The LRA remains the central focus opportunity for union-busting. general secretary Jay Naidoo, who was of labor agitation. The Act stripped South African labor researchers later released. In August, police raided away legal rights won by unions in this reported this summer: "Workers are COSATU headquarters, ten field of- decade, outlawing most strikes, clearly ignoring contentious clauses in fices, and four affiliate offices, seizing solidarity actions, secondary boycotts, the LRA. Bosses are responding harsh- files and arresting indignant staff. wildcat strikes, and public . It ly by using court injunctions, lock-outs Security forces occupied the meeting makes unions financially liable for and eviction orders . The last three area of the Workers' Summit in employer losses during job actions, months have seen increased police in- August, videotaping the proceedings. negates seniority rights, removes tervention in strike activity, death Three COSATU leaders were detained protections against unfair dismissals, threats to union activists and the kill- around the election protests, along and denies sole recognition rights to ing of unionists during strikes." with four UDF leaders. the majority union. In other words, the At the Workers' Summit, union Two members of the Alexandra LRA attacks every basic principle of delegates agreed to escalate the battle Five, co-defendants of NUMSA leader free trade unionism. this Fall by launching two new cam- Moses Mayekiso, were redetained on Both COSATU and the smaller paigns against the LRA, a consumer election day; police have been search- federation NACTU have mounted boycott and a national ban on over- time. The boycott ran from mid-Sep- tember to mid-October, targeting white urban businesses, with par- ticular success in the Eastern Cape region. The ban is ongoing. In addition, the demand to repeal repressive LRA measures has become part of the national Defiance Cam- paign, joining the challenge to all- white parliamentary elections and segregation laws. The issues came vividly together on October 14 when 150,000 marched in demonstrations throughout the country to cap off the LRA boycott and to celebrate the release of eight top political prisoners. Trade unionists march against the LRA on October 14th.

JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP LRA REPRESSION! Let South African business know the whole world is watching. To Bobby Godsell, Chairman of South African Consultative Committee on Labor Affairs (SACCOLA):

We protest the action of South African employers in denying basic labor rights to our union brothers and sisters through the 1988 Labour Relations Amendments Act. We protest employer and state violence against unionists seeking to nullify LRA suppression . We will continue to press for comprehensive international sanctions against South African business until labor and human rights are observed and apartheid is renounced.

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Send to: Bobby GodselI, SACCOLA, c/o Anglo-American Corporation 44 Main Street, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001 (or send to LCAA and we will forward your message) VIVA OSCAR! "The struggle in South Africa is not merely a contest between fwo contending political powers . It's about tea cups and tin mugs. ..

A LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN

This September, the LCAA received the following letter from a in Cape Town.

Dear Friends, The Defiance Campaign has been remarkably successful . Although the Emergency is still in place and is still being applied with great f orce- thousands still in detention or under restrictions, peaceful protests still suppressed with brute force—its awesome power has been broken by the defiance. One can almost see the uncertainty on the faces of the policemen, who are quite clearly no longer operating under clear and single-minded direction. If the new President has contributed anything in his short term in office, it is a palpable lack of direction. I'm pleased to say that the unions have been very much at the center of the defiance. You will have read about the stayaway around the time of the white elections. In addition to this, workers are organizing regular pickets at their factories and, at the moment, we are in the middle of a national overtime ban. Our major target has been the Labour Relations Act and here too we are succeeding in rolling back its boundaries . We have forced many employers to sign private contracts nullifying the Act and the government has just announced that it will investigate some of its more obnoxious provisions. OSCAR MPETHA, the father We have also been on a systematic campaign of defiance against racial of South African - discrimination in the workplace . Where, for example, toilets or canteens are ism, was released from prison segregated, workers have simply been using'white' facilities. It's not been without cost. In one of the platinum mines, it seems that on October 15 with seven other white workers drink their tea out of tea cups whilst black miners are leaders of the democratic op- provided with tin mugs . As part o f the de f lance campaign, a black miner used position. Born in the in one o f the tea cups and his f oreman shot him dead! 1909, he has been an activist in One of the really important features of the Defiance Campaign is to remind the world that the struggle in South Africa is not merely a contest the labor movement since 1925 between two contending political powers . Its about tea cups and tin mugs... and a member of the ANC since Overall, its been an exciting and uncertain time . I think that the 1951 . In 1980, while serving as a government's unpredictability means that there is a dawning recognition that the old way of ruling is under terminal threat. They're groping around national organizer for the Food f or a new f ormula. and Canning Workers Union, he You may have read about the negotiations between the People's was imprisoned on charges of Delegation (SPD) and government representatives over the future of Soweto. terrorism for teaching freedom Quite clearly the rent boycott in Soweto has forced the government to recognize that the SPD is the true representative of the people of Soweto- songs to workers . He was held people like (Anglican bishop), Frank Chikane (Council of nine years, despite his age and Churches}, (UDF), and Cyril Ramaphosa (NUM) . We're severe health problems . While going to have to be prepared for this type of development. in prison, Oscar Mpetha was The struggles waged in the factories and the streets and in the interna- tionalcommunity are slowly f orcing the state to the negotiating table. named honorary president of We have to maintain the pressure and, at the same time, maintain this the United Democratic Front. initiative at the bargaining table. The unions have long understood the An international campaign to complex relationship between organized power and negotiation . The current Soweto negotiations are showing the way in the broader community. honor Mpetha's 80th birthday in How we resolve these issues is clearly going to have a powerful influence prison is now an international on our struggle, and hopefully our victory, in the nineties . celebration of his courage and freedom. Viva Oscar!

Namibia Update UNIONISTS ORGANIZE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS, AGAINST PRIVATIZATION In November, Namibians elected has set up eight regional offices to government of control over Namibia's their f first independent government in work on the elections along with labor infrastructure. 100 years of colonial rule . SWAPO is a issues. It has received direct assistance Three public sector unions in clear winner, but with 57% of the vote, from COSATU in South Africa, which Namibia are fighting the government's it fall short of a 2/3 majority needed to has sent leaders to advise NUNW on intention to privatize public employee form its own government. dealing with employer threats and pension plans. The scheme would vigilante violence. allow white Namibian government The election process has been super- COSATU has directly pressured workers, who comprise 80% of the vised by the United Nations, but South African companies operating in plan, to withdraw both their own and dominated by South Africa . South Namibia to cease intimidation of black government contributions from pen- Africa has retained control of the inter- voters and to recognize the NUNW. sionfunds and re-invest the money in imgovernment, the police and security COSATU pledges to take action South Africa. forces. South Africa is setting the rules against companies transporting white Essentially, the plan would remove and conducting the elections. There has voters into Namibia for the elections. 1.2 billion rand from the public control, been sharp violence against the libera- Meanwhile, South Africa is selling deeply undermining the solvency of tion movement and its leaders in the of f public services to private com- an independent Namibian state. South West African People's Organiza- panies in order to extract as much It is clear that the fight for genuine tion (SWAPO), including several assas- money as possible before inde- independence in Namibia will go on sinations. pendence and to deprive the new far beyond the election date. SWAPO leaders in exile were only allowed to return over the summer. At the same time, authorities have bused in whites now living in South Africa to register to vote. There are also _widespread reports that South African employers in Namibia are intimidating blacks from taking part in the elections or backing SWAPO. Central Union Role Namibian unions have played a cru- cial role in organizing against this in- timidation: registering workers and rural farmers, defending election ac- tivity atthe workplace, and getting out SWAPO's message. The National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) was established as the national labor federation at a trade Moses Mayekiso (COSATU) and Ben Ulenga (NUMW) address a May Day union convention this June . NUNW rally in Namibia.

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COSATU Congress The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) held its third national congress in July to set new directions for the workers' struggle. The meeting was attended by 1,800 delegates, who resolved to: n adopt strong pre-conditions for any negotiations with the apartheid government, demanding the end to all state repression. n build the union alliance with the Mass Democratic Movement, or- ganizing with the Defiance Cam- paign and sponsoring a broad anti-apartheid conference in the coming months. n mount a national, direct action cam- paign to repeal the repressive provisions of the 1988 Labour Rela- tions Amendment Act. TEXTILE UNIONS MERGE n affirm conditions for responsible disinvestment and sanctions, stress- COSATU's goal of "one union, one industry" was advanced this fall with ing union rights to advance notice the merger of two major unions into the new South African Clothing and and negotiations. Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) . The merger joins the Amalgamated n formulate a Workers Charter, or Clothing and Textile Workers (ACTWUSA) with the Garment and Allied workers' bill of rights, as part of a Workers Union (GAWU), for a combined membership of 185,500 . The new post-apartheid constitution. union SACTWU represents 70% of workers in its industry and is poised to expand into rural areas and the leather industry . SACTWU now ranks Workers' Summit among the three biggest and most militant unions in the country, along with the metalworkers and miners. COSATU sponsored a second Workers' Summit in late August, gal- vinizing the campaign against the Labour Relations Amendment Act ahead of the inflation rate of 15%. In- threats of eviction to win their demand (LRA) . The summit drew 750 shop- creases brought the average to for a "service bonus," additional pay floor delegates from all sectors, includ- 142 rand a week (about $50) . Wage based on seniority . ACTWUSA ing the second largest federation, gains corresponded to a near doubling credited its sister union in the U.S., NACTU, and independent trade of strike activity in this period. ACTWU, with a major share in the unions. To maximize consensus and Major contract settlements were victory. ACTWU locals contributed rank-and-file control, union officials reached this summer in the mines and generously to the ACTWUSA strike were excluded from the debates. metal industry. The National Union of fund and the union also applied pres- The police attempted to disrupt the Mineworkers (NUM) reported wage sure on Hextex management. gathering and occupied part of the hall increases ranging from 13 .5-21 .3%. The to videotape the proceedings . How- National Union of Metalworkers Phelps Dodge, Again ever, workers spread out into nine dis- (NUMSA) agreed to wage increases of cussion groups, with messengers between 15.2-18.5% and also won May The Phelps Dodge Corp ., notorious between them, to foil police efforts. Day and Soweto Day as paid holidays . for union-busting in the U .S., is at it This enhanced the strong sense of again in South Africa . The company unity which pervaded the Summit, a Hextex Solidarity owns nearly half of the Black Mountain feeling workers pledged to bring back Mineral Development Co ., which to the regional and local levels. A seven-week textile strike, the recently forced 1,000 striking workers largest and longest in the Western back to work under threat of mass Union Pay Gains Cape, ended in victory this July for firings. The union was demanding 1,060 members of the Amalgamated entry level pay of $160 a month; the South African workers in unionized Clothing and Textile Workers Union of company offer was $107 a month, industries won average pay increases South Africa (ACTWUSA) . The about half the average wage for in- of 22.5% in the first half of 1989, staying strikers overcame jailings, scabs and dustrial workers in South Africa.

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BATTLE IS ON FOR NEW YORK CITY SANCTIONS

Intro. 1137, the bill to close the that it's hard to pull out of existing the use of third party vendors, and loopholes in New York City's sanc- investments and agreements. special exemptions. tions law, is still pending before the Mayor-elect David Dinkins directly Anti-apartheid groups also want City Council. The idea is simple : the refuted this claim : "Hard business new provisions recognizing the rights City should not purchase from or con- choices between and among markets of South African workers to advance tract with corporations doing business are made every day by the firms in notice and negotiation over the terms in South Africa. question. The choice here is between of disinvestment as companies However, a number of banks and serving the City market and that of withdraw from South Africa . This businesses find it hard to let go of South Africa." Dinkins has proposed amendment has been vigorously apartheid. They want to weaken Intro. that under Intro . 1137 banks not be championed by the City's labor move- 1137 with delays and exemptions. allowed to rollover their loans and be ment and by South African trade Some hard fighting over the next few given two years to sell off their South unions. weeks will decide the issues. African assets. A major concern is to include labor Others have taken a tough stance, rights in the monitoring and enforce- Weak Bill too. In September, the Westchester ment mechanisms of the bill, which County Board of Legislators voted to need strengthening overall . The City Pressure to weaken Intro. 1137 has withdraw its deposits from Citibank, has yet to clearly designate one agency come mainly from the big banks and after the bank's decision to reschedule responsible for enforcing the law. The Chamber of Commerce . The banks $660 million in loans to South Africa. new bill should also affirm that non- want no penalties on their current to mayoral agencies, like schools and loans to South Africa . They especially Strong Bill hospitals, are governed by sanctions in want to be able to renegotiate these their purchasing and contracting ac- loans for longer periods of time . In fact, Anti-apartheid groups want to tivity. major international banks have just re- make sure that Intro. 1137 doesn't let Supporters of a strong Intro. 1137 extended their loans to South Africa the banks off the hook. A strong bill are urged to contact their City Council for ten years. Business also wants a would cover all the loopholes busi- members with a message: labor rights, five-year grace period to phase out nesses have used to maintain profits in yes! Exceptions for banks and corpora- non-equity ties (licensing and South Africa: prior loans and credits, tions, no! Keep the pressure on apart- franchise agreements). Business claims licensing and franchise agreements, heid!

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