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Nwa 7.7. our and Trades Hall (see ry on back page for y ÅA Group meets further details wlite 36 Kingsl.nd High m ES. is stpping:dp its mase public awareness ern Africa. struggle Åsions by the borough ÄbIråý Ä6 Bazdays' t, t- rönat. cowmcts ~t j.X a . The, -iing ý -'ý of film,t hÄ 1,- -d Napubia, -tm-'ý -L'itics f.. 13-1ýy, carirpaig. and ,t, (7'-ý'uctlon. Ä: M.Ilgret Winstanley, ,cwd;,häxtorf, Condon 3 5118. rmo~ droup å t. b. fom.d i. all Inau~ mecting on ih, fil. 'ÅPýthM ide' -ffi b, h,,ýn and cf khý AA3,1 Office will cr Richard KinL 14 ue, Exeter, tel 0392ý ac AAM Office. h.~-- to St, ,p.ft,, a mend,-f the le A& (Iri*p w,, -re~ -e, F- ÅA -MMmhw tvteý to tl,, c. 7 F,>od Sýuth 1-I.Jkilig .hen th, ýk'Imerselale bc k, -YS Own ýýty I ýj. Ti tter Wi,-cn taken up ,ctrý of the 1<ýeåt Trädes i lo-l NIEETING ,lin Winter of Namjbia ner, Labow MP f.ekland ( 10 APRIL 7.3Opin Parish Church Hall et, Stockton-on-Tees I by the ChristiWovement hk groups oups in the foUowing Nterb-ugh Reigatý Richmond St A-teLi Sheffiid Skýhneradalc S..ý'set South..pt.n humanitarian conduct of war. The declantiois was signed by ANC President on behalf of the National Executive Committee and the combatants of the South African liberation movement, . This is the first occasion on which such a declaration by a liberation movement has been formally made before the Red Cross and formally received by its President, M Alexandre Hay. KADER ASMAL, who conducted the negotiations with the International Red Cross on behalf of the ANC, reports. For the President of the International introdoces a vital element, therefor, Committee of the Red Cross to meet in the str-ggle against apartheid for-, . leader of a liberation movement as Oliver Tastbo said at the offtciallyis in itself a aniqoe ceremony: ensconterinthehistoryofthis 'We oftheANChavealways international organisation. rspeeted homanitarian The reception of Oliver Tambo, principles is ourstrggle. We who was lecdng an ANC delegation have always defised the enemy toGeneva,byAlexandreRay, the intermsofasystemof President of the ICRC, represernts the dominatin and not as a people culmination of a legal and political or a race... We are freedom campaigir which finally recognises the fighters set on a road to huild a legal status of the national liberation new society.. [and] we do not movements of Southern Africa and Lake nur standarde from those coesfers on them the right to over- of sur enemy, who have shown throwthesystem of economic and sach shameles andrathless racialdominationinSouthAfeia disregard of all the norms of and Naiihia. These wars of iational humanity. Ours is a libention liberation are not internat ceoflits struggle, and we are imbeed but examples of inte4tional armed with the morality of liberatios.' conflitts where, ta ai% the language The South African regime is of Protocot 1, 'nenales are fi tnine bound by he rnonar~ -. 1.. these countries to recogrise their legal duty under the Geneva Conventions to enure the observance of what ose Wesrtern mflitary lawyer has called the 'mot basic valaes' in amd conflicts. The ANCa declaration n Geneva was an historic step m iti struggle ginst apartheid and colonialisi. It is now up to aetivists, especially i the West, to mobillse public opinion in sopport of the kind of sntiments espeessed by thousands of Africans at the funeral of the three militants killed at Silverton: 'They are not terrorists bet heroes: Amandla!' Kader .mal s a law tecurerat th T'inity College, Dublin, end cheirman of the Jrih 44M. He wit mupply informee«nn on the Genea r les end the cempaign for POW status to interested grnups. IT IS the conviction of the African National Congress .of South Africa that international rules protecting the dignity of human beings must be upheld at all times. Therefore, and for humanitarian reasons, the African National Congress of South Africa hereby declares that, in the conduct of the struggle against apartheid and racism and for self-determinatlpn in South Africa, it intends to respect and be guided by the generalprinci. ples of humanitarian Iew applicable in armed conflitt Wherever practially posible, the African National Congress of South Africa will endeavour to reapectthe rulesof the four Geneva COnventioné of 1949 for the victims of armed confliets and thet 1977 'adeNtional Protocol 1 relatingta the protection of victtme of international armed confliets. - Extract from thea"sta ent illued by the ANC following thcerenmony ANC President Oliver Temb is reeied by Alexandre Hay, President of the ICRC, in Genera Pretoria Three«Do Not Cry For Us!» THE trial of ANC freedom fighters NCIMBITHI LUBISI, PETRUS MASHIGO and NAPITTALI MANANA (see Front Page story) provides revealing insights into the real state of the armed liberation struggle inside South Africa - details which tie apartheid regime normally goes to considerable lengths to suppress. The three men, all of whom were sentenced to death, were tried oncharges of treason and at tempted murder, with additional charges under the Terrorism Act. Six others tried with them rqceived prison terms of between 10 and 20 years. The three sentenced to death were granted leave to appeal against convietion and sentence. In January 1980, the threc men accords full prisoner-of-war stetus-to bad been involved in a raid on a aptured feedom fighters. South African polite station an Be[re sentence was passed the S.ek.ekaar, situted in the extreme nine aecesed et the tral came up the nrtb of the Transval on the border stairs from the underground cets with the Lebowa hantustan. The raid chanting 'We shall overcome some sark ne of man>r dating ntions by day'. Interviewed by the press, ANC freedom fighters against the parents of themen trced ther,most blatsnt symbols of the commitment to the armed struggle apartheid state and the eonomic and back to the events of June 1976. 'My military machinery of qppression. ton asked me to do hin one ig Giving evideace in court, 20-yea-ild favoor,' said the mother of one Petus Massgo expleined that the accused, '- not to ery for hin. And attack had been intended by the tn battling harddot to.' ANC as an armedpropaganda The brutal sentenes handed exergie in solädaety stth African down by the Pretoria Sepreme COuet rsideote of hea-a.ho have ben have been -oodmqre by the foccibly remioved from theit homes Chairman of the UN Special by the South Africasantto tjliee. Commitrtee gainst Apatleid, Dr Masbaig. etso d-arhted the Akpn,,dý Clark, He has appealed to trammg tha[he and -,t South all goveness and organisations, Africanstrad reeiv!ctsn Angola e, tanch an orgent campåign to save sad that they had been instructed by the ives of the three men sentenced the ANC not toie methods which to death. involved the killing of civilians oe to The ON SetretaryGeneral has tak, haeges for ra.rsom. expressed his concern to the South to the fae of te apartheid African government. ln Britain, the regimne's eff~et. teassear adl Labour Party cm.t'nim ia-sdiale discee dit theiliberata-n ateoggle, lthe telegram, signd by Gde,,al Seretery ANC, in signing the relevant Ros Haywerd, to South African protocols of the Gernev Conventions Pime Minister Botha. Many other has undertaken to obsetve the organisations have taken action on international iaws of war. Justice and the issue, and it is erucial that bese morality denand that South Africa protesms ,,ieac aar steppd op. Heroes Day OLIVER TAMBO, President of the African National Congress of South Africa, told a London rally to mark South African Heroes Day on 16 December that 'the British people are allowing their govermment to get away with mnurder'. President Tambo seid that despite the arns embargo Britain was arinsg the apartheid regime. There were renewed efforts to bring South Africa back int the international community and South Africa was being given 'nuolear teeth' by Britain and the other major Western powets The otfi'eispeaker at the Coaway Hall rally were Shapua aukungua, Chaef Repreesntative of SWAPO, and Abdet S Minty, Hon Sentary of the At-Aparthesd Movement. South Africa Henoes' Day, 16 Anoe s mnty, non ecretary of AAM, on the platform of the Heroes Day rålly flscrre by Morni g St,,e De>,cember, is the snni-esary'nf the 1838 nc.e of tbingaas i ans at BlnOO River and the lataet oi.the armed strggle by tmkhate we Sizwe, the armedwwiin of the ANC, in 1961. pagainst the in brief mortuaries Jonath 44)wen so mmoned to the h eadmaster's South Africa has supplied Chile THE carry office to 'explain' why the school ith South Africa? with two batteries of French- apartheideven beyond death - by halt had not been properly cleaned. msiderable designed Crotale sir defence missiles. storing black and white bodies i They were made to bend over and yin meeting and The missiles, which are known in separate refrigerators at mortuaries, each given two cuts with-the easre. aised bythe South Africaas the Cactus, were sent Three ofthefour refrigerators at 'we felt humiliated. He treated to the Pinochet regime via France. Durban's police mortuary are for us as if we were children,' Mr Baloyieisthathisearlier Coloureds.AsiansandAfticans;the said. -renotvioated remainingoneisforwhitesonly. to meet Boths at s e.tdby Moroccoisanotherofthe banque Ae no -eignMinisr. apartheidregip'scustomers.Ithas SOUTHAfricanmusicaltribute to tIto Luns' obtained Ratel and Eland armoured BUSINESSMEN attending abanquet murdered Beatle Jqhn Lennon was -an -n- f.,,- vehicles from South Africa. i, couth Africa orvanised bv the -.-.- ,- ,.,- f ,,,,, ,f ovingit to retary ce to samed by in where edly Sharpeville massacre, Shootfng at birthday, tributes ,eves will be best Sharpevile: the Agony of South numerous friends an outstanding Africa,and his part inthe protestnot includingthe Seartheid and a only helped to ensure that the facts the United Natior weremadeknowntotheworldbut Thefmeri porter of African also took him past the dangerline in Reeves was held ie time of his criticism. When a stateof emergency Parish Church, S1 beendueto wasdeclared,hefledSout Africato Friday2 January walandwe, the Swaziland to avoid being silenced by by Canon I. John oftheAfrican thepolice. AdelaideTambo. Travelling ontoBritain,he theVeryRevdE< gress. The .medal helped mrobilise international Dean of Westrai en presented to opinion before returningto South of the African Na bythe President Africa in September 1960. Two days the singing of Nk liver Ta ,bo in later, without charge or trial, he was The AAM's Chair deported. HughesMP,andI ontributionto Forthenext20 years,Bishop Commissioner libe ion Reeves' life was that of a dedicated present attheaer campaigner. In October 1963, in a ts-w the Church statement to the Special Political the Bshop as 'one Committee of the UN General guithed and' Assembly, in which he urged the case Is of his generatios'. for international sanctions against may struggles and the apartheid regime, he said; to both Christians 'Itistime that wei l recognised salike. AsSecretary. that there is no painless wayhi ident Christian which the present injustice and e1930s,hewas an sufferinginSouthAfricacan f ecumesnicalism and beended- Any realistic ice. DuringWorld approach tothisprobicmwill as priest in Liverpool, iemant sacrifice. Sorepeopledustthe'tricerdyand ad e oe~epe th pased fol ygood wltllose their dividends, If they hcpasiliedfr allowthepresentsituationto hvfutiity o-f continuetheywillprobably ar loe their capital aswell The n was elected Bishop lossrftradesaycause g,just a year after the temporaryhardship so some had cone to power and perhaps manyworkers. edicatedtothe Butisn'tittimethatweceased apartheid. He earned usingthese p bilties as an ruthAfrica'smers us e osibtiea portfortheANC's excusefrinact ..n. tt ofBantueducation. BishopReevesbecame BlshopAmbrose , President of the Anti-Apartheid anAnti-Aparthei racist educational structure. out sa - nan vi narwUa riuU this decision was immenselycostly Isitwatlsdwe before his death. and certainlywon 'or Bishop God rest his Soul Ambrosemanyci..ines.Asevents tTrevorHuddlestonCR I moved fast and the Treason Trial, 29December 1980

MIA 15~.,,,, 71*~ *å ÄXEPJOgýý4ý 51,SWAPOIS,Ådnäniä:fffiäti,ý,4c theirindependelire - their genuine anå if ýä"ýf aretvstay béars visible4rngi, independen ýSWAPOstanclsforthe QUi4d?tb,pc.til, iýi de will be lett rks OL:kp<,ateti torýn 'ån^ v-~ it.ryc (,by,*thåSoiIriftMilpoli and' eneup ýtat.Wherealltlie 4 their ~rate. P-ciple, of the --tyaregoingtobý t, miiý,frvr'Äk,there's kged M, be has sperrt n6,trjy lone-lh4 ,s4i61tPirisona treaterlNually:Ifonelooksatthe t4,6'1 4 hat w I-,ý ~J , ,men in detention witlicaut eflirge. In tlflý interview, oven sbortly after lic history of Narrlbia there Ss no doubt Nra, ii.a,, aff-jg d.II, II n^ the arrtived in l^ don ni (lic ýrid of läst vear in 3 bid to further his > thatitis$WAPOwhichisthKreal -Åltal 1,- 1 fh" ,3n, zwe Stlåtlies, be talked ýihout fiis' latcý[ "D in detentiý-,äý-lfe was ýpesý.tatiýe of the oppressid toýeiia- -ff-mg, make pcople, And it i snöt just Qui-selves ý,Lsacäfl-ý,hy1,,, Vinstill arrested un-27 April 1979 and lield without cflärge, under - who claim this - even South Africa YQung. I niý CII k, 1, L.ý , hejte my lprödamation'AG2<> until 26July4 980. Foi niot of tgis time be herself ccptý Ihis fact beca~ it j, Pople rC; U, wIfl Il".. We was in solitary confinernent ip Gobabis.prisöiL only$1MAPO SWAPO at horuk? ränr 2I'c i, IgAc fthe'c0..try. mernbersan,1SSiAPOlemierswho ivsi&aIke ýVhar were the conditions tik, In ae picked up, tortured and assautted GÅ bigFYuob? Witatftap~ Jto,yduWh- you bytheSonth Afric_fm,,,,s.,Möstby Nom detåiled Iii~ position in prison is that, apart ýwereýreklarjec[Pom detention in --f.pcople II,,, hed their bloold, from ftwe Bibk,-y.u4e,mbtall.wd july? beeäms,fn,f,ý].vedN.Inibia IPI,'1^ ul y7ý1 to luive 4n-y i W. ty i sOme of th-ý h-e died - apjthesre, eliýJC CY, ýký 4,ätifin -f isxlå~gInh,ell tItebed. nötflibeufl- ,, Pht-. md told i, no other politicalP-ty which cap -ý444 T. . CelliTýIfi,h-t 17,- feet w I de tyat Lwe t,,. be töho.se standthe real which wc steý6å,,i4'the rkrJ 1 rtfnl t, jap,'mby seveu feet lonjia-dtbe.orrly .restPÅinyboln,4 l,," pastandwhichwc aý able-to itand \vmd.W:lä 4 Iclutå of jpýcrl high not aflowä te W piL. I a, D,11 d in the future. Pep" d äv oh, LIIIIPÅ.-11ý1111 1ý upontfi all,Wevr,Ir5ckedupin ~ edfioInt- -y- 1,,livingn tjý~ 17- 2 fi-, -,,y day wifiktrelI~ ~tu--]c,recejve, InviewofallthaVsa~ to,ycutý o tltegtýýor n rlo-ciioIcssve, hydoyouk-p M,ýkýwcý bo,- LO-ndonECI30~ Il, Eveä -dufing ~ timel thý municipal aitý fK't.tila, ecn MOMM? the 1ý,nubýV, ~ nde did: not see artyoric etse. rn f4ct, even tog. forsEI _rh-t Mstny S vhi~ thå pI-IIt, I-d, 'ly i the bliftik -Xpoli_wen CcKatiitum motanowdtQ hý Ieven m~ wnt1,1,1~ yea bteauserh,,,, Itythe hackto'askL,p,....i--, t,ý go to cliurcli.EhadtobLåtherluruse 4 ,4ULlloriti". s. P Omy ýver saw White mc ftorn iipmtý 6- e~ ulgfati and L"tE -SWAN) I mäÄ,r, ýatfyki,ý uguipst gluljý lxt- 1,1 the§'ý,ufiý,plic,,,uldwýrw»d 11-ct 111.gä vå ýid you beciapy yolirmindfor åk,~ V th-e 24 h cus a d<2y 7 Somf-~ flh,,y tv-IJevýncheckin, TIllf,UR jdv,,wd~ti- ýý1 South skf-'_, &;rj Ä,t ILA t, I read the Bible £bur timus ý,dotý tundermybed. alistsmth,I Oruig i 9ý"0 PLÄN tr-&äN th, ý,pärtneid håý p~ d it5,1ý,iý., nn,,tu' fp 11w LIS Stjztý 1ý-ttattjjj -,,wll pur 22( fä påtr(to end - ý"ýmy 11a d ýL- thý.,c4paewitli 70 th, jtjý fle 1ý thýr ,2, wntt Os, ~~ 14t "p- pý inon <ýf t-be 15å14ý1, Sömtun- tý ak,tJYýfIingý - cjgbý,4 .0 raf fflniffý- IWý wyibnlläeä, 70 "d, nd tA25..t, i stilýp.tte, Katk,ä ir, Nirräbuä.- L- JMed l 5 Wnplå ",m' an 4 ýen 11)ý T,ý,flffl pv;ý" Kýy-,cq P-,pý,i,Vdr, EPý,6p4ý Rnbih ("",ökJfOle - PlcIY[rs-Fhaiåoiýr-sclfýbai ýh41%9h fWAPO figftLe,ýv, ou( the the rs,,a'_2M-klý K ,affliUfhe ränd, hIit nrS,1n41iv I ÄCý' p !ýld 1~7 0 jci4,6ý1N II, HI, How, -Å"*01 (51 f- oftli, ij.,ý &Ctis -b, T,-,,tuý t. &ýtd, ,ýw ]~ i famn,, äffi tl,ý ~nhtion, i ha4- hg- k"prenfýtå~rae tö hýpifjlýn, ,,hich uaw beénm'Nhtf> kl thbýPiinkýyuýt cnäý,irribffig7 aqý tiåt ýke -,cu a rPý5-1 <,,,,1~ mallvfe,...... 1,.,ä'th,(Tun,uv,rtR.,,,,mae Katski ',n ',x ýIlh, SOuth Affican Go- inerf, 'lpil TVJ5 6 ý 1~ S WA PO -aitýOie f M56, - mmen . är&.4,v P-,ro& dýrnug '17gýtliI- thcurWcstem TD,lin,, ýMýfl , -zuäJ months 1 ltlýtch m -Iitz, årta ~ri pwkLlliput'ý 11,1 b4 - partners, -tt Ih,ýIttrmnPc Iö khfar.stå,kru0. 6m,r silkg Ah, namtcnanvr tU tnik ni underrmický Af,ii, iftveik,toIYIQ$ý.twjfth.ttbc kT A Nåmitw~1 tke Tc,,oj- tý ni Act in onlyhoA ý, 1, " IPYM,- C,ý yv. 'ikr jni, ullponmrk&ýVAFG A t mnribli_Tbcpcolifý4Na~ rffllcý you,-, b it you häivý ýörý;;1,that111Yby betrItytdtlwcý*ins,ýofulý--ffbýnil.ýn 9APPmi4-g SwAi><),ýåýtbeytOtn b e f IN Astutep".tý,-dtolltwingf4e, e"rcRp.eýwill'provc to

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS, as a special exclusive, has obtained the mint Medicaf Asiation of South Africa (MASA). These reveal a masive mitr General of the World Medical Association (WMA), the American Medical possibly the British Medical AssociationlMA), to rewrite the Constitut make a placefor apartheid. Under the rewritten Constitution, the MASA would be able to appo, for Africa for at least two out of every six years. This would assure a seat Council for at least that period. Under these new conditions MASA is pl which it walked out of in 1976 because of what it described as 'discrmiim Addressing the MASA Council, its Secretary-General, Dr C E M VilIj 'considerable benefits to both MASA and the Republic of S uth Africa a5 were to rejoin (the WMA) under such favourable conditions'. A SPECIAL reports: MASA is currentlyfacing time was not ripe to applyfor internal dissent over its handline of readamission to the WMA'. irlisi iciati G e Lry-Gen ebruar3 ieen e) ica, thf is hadi our ;c oeed that rejoin Would receivg that I Contact: The Secretary, Anti-Apartheid Movement Health Committee, 89 Charlotte Street, London WlP 2D [ Africa. thefigure is 69 births, and for ,mosls Were istanasSnua wren tie u suat--is -c-t- n1 wyne was el Weteran,BritishadAustrlian askedtoexplatthechangestothe Medical Associations Hoyever, African affiliates of the WMA and to mg in urban areas MASA decided that at this stage 'the obtain an assurance from tile MASA hs per 1, 000 live s 12 per 1000. The extracts interpersed in this aticle are taken from the Minutes of the Meeting Concil of tlhe Merleal Assaeation ofSoutk Africa, PretOria.- I. I . ' )to ovement's peal ng to not to :he country THE Anti-Apart Health Comniltt British maritCals chtse South Al in whichb to do t A briefing pr, Comittee oin stuedents who _o a se

Anti-Aparthe4id News aue.ibuy18* Pgej~ eryait .heted t(ilya nsee plant g.ve < state WM, audý Afri, :he di l tho .kæns sort of a, imipoveelt ett ri.t-ptoo Bantk, it I Sutli A. Sept trt insg on 12-14 May 1980 of the Federal N Itn tit rtiteiiirto tittore tlý tak plc this is the l "1 apatiset systenm to cotItast Campaign detølis Al ILEAST Its ater maior ati Af~irn Cne tiot eoit Af~rt cmate eie Robert, the first ititanceto get tite s re ktnosv to be res inta ss ritisk sitteea- to, d ftbtfa, tativeritles- Analo Charter Il-e acti.n, sa, b s ikts, can be Isstenatioisal Ltd (p)art oflthe Anglo- ognedStadýetS ssbo arr tb aýkatg arnis. Corporationempe tant of taktagob .h, irtst by t hse UJtniCorton Ltd. Titt Sotil [ýnpn ,aststi aets to ,a(a Afriran civil service is al,,a taoking emigratton ta Soth AFifria atailylar Brtisi gra duates. aieaas -o teas Ile,' srmet 'the NUS istpotn on iattgat. do sttrsrie ermpai'gn in itiatld by te, A.M to ør t.ojoja titt retiit being alert student grottps ad ,ttet eth6lid by ,,sip-,is ua...er lie unsions t h,.o6gitost titt aurntry to Ntional Ky Polats A,[. what is g.,iig on. Studessls arr aged1 FI Itrtt itcrsttta a to find dert hriihoipne art da, ees'egagisa sb ,,crait,,t i,t to visit thiteecsaae for jab iiesitatodtttlgv att lltmiwand, ilthere.,, Soutth CTEI,- Ka (iteiR11 0/i Stpapartheid job ads! THE A-AM hus enitten Io a niamber i elegtpft ad otlier nBwsPaPCts, as of Britisht trade unions callinig on South Mette's aboetage of sitilled tts to campasagn against insooeaaing manpower bewones msore ansal. Sot Ateiesteffoets 1:o Merlit patilirt efforts ltave ben made to "kled woekers, tetitnittians and mret unsensployed ste6lwolsØss, manges, espeetilly for its stste ard bots eraftsiten arid prcsduction .hs ajor corpoaluos. li æn t workes. mnoths thee ls beess a draat The AMletter deas inosqaw in meeuitment adveetising attention to thie ctll made by the ILO in lte EilB~ press, -wtlsa Parttclttsa Comuatc On Aparteid ina At em~ asios eugiiiu tgtet, 1980, Ifitounions sitould wilidraw ethnists, cosuputer teehusilesans, union carda fromi triemleiS 'jouissauyren' and wa on5. Adverte fase essigating to South M$eia, Or~lt tite esltioritiea, lte Soth auti-esiigretion wmspaigns, bart Msicsn esnibay and the partatal eecrsitsn.nt adverts aud exert -aud indiidusal wtpomios noýs prest for thea io=a of Souit eppear tegularly in tite Sun, Daily' Afeian mersaltsent otfitesi ninutes of ý itigue, lieol Asso titution ni appohest æBet for Nl ýs plainniin imlasatory viliten, i ica as w) AIAL CMI iation. lthe hopita Secitary G BMA in Lat m.aintaintl txistting g c tit- se ass ,d on a ýen~eral o iairy 1980, extremnel that he bi ,d.been of 'The S .ffirially in 1980 BMA .Meetisý It aay. A A visualty Trasvat ran obta don.ted Pe of Comi !ansatic tte ,,ena he I that:

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January-February 1981 Page 9 FREE MANDELAN glectionsastuets. ' PUBLICITY is crucial in the election battle to return South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela to the Chancellorship of London University. Forty-three thousand graduates of London University - those members of Convocation who are still on a current mailing list - are being asked ' through a postal ballot to choose between Princess Anne, trade unionist Jack Jones and leader of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela as their choice for the post of Chancellor. The results will be known following an extraordinary meeting of Convocation on 3 February. The graduates qualified to vote are scattered all over the world many of them so Africa, where a number of universities and cplleges in former British colonies have traditional links with London University. The post af Chancellor has never been contested before. It fell vacant on 2 December, when the Queen Mother tendered her resignation. The decision by a number of graduates to nominate Nelson Mandela for the electoral contest was in origin a protest against a crude attempt by the Standing Committee of Convocation to pull a fast one. They seers to have hoped to slip Princess Anne into her grandmother's seat before anyone noticed. Princess Anne, moreover, has no higher academic qualifications. Nelson Mandela, on the other hand, has a distinguished academic record, which he has furthered even while incarcerated on Robben Island. He is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and completed the first part of an LIB at the University of London. He is also an honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of Lesotho and practised as a lawyer in South Africa before his imprisonment. But, as his nominators have stressed, 'it is not his qualifications alone which make him the most suitable candidate for the office of Chancellor. His life has been dedicated to the creation of a world where every person, regardless of race, creed or colour, may live freely. It Was just such ideals which led to the establishment of the University of London.' In tribute to his life-long struggle against apartheid and for peace and freedom, Nelson Mandela was last year presented with Ihe NehruoAward for International Understanding by the Indian government. He has received many other tributes and awards from countries and organisations around the world. If Nelson Mandela emerges as the winner in February, his nominators have said that they expect the University of London to petition the South African government for his release so that he may fulfil his duties as Chancellor. The election has already produced a gratifying stir in establishment circles. Even The Times has been moved to print an editorial on the subject and there has been considerable coverage of the contest in the press, on radio and TV. Action worldwide GLASGOW City Council decided just before Christmas to award Nelson Mandela the Freedom of the City of Glasgow. The Labour Lord Provost of Glasgow, Dr Michael Kelly, has written to the South African President asking that Mandela be released from Robben Island to receive the award. Scotland AROUND 200 supporters joined the Free Nelson Mandela torchlight procession in Glasgow on Friday 12 December. Organised by the AntiApartheid Movement Scottish Committee, the solidarity procession marched from Glasgow Trade Union Centre to an indoor rally where the speakers urged increased support to free the African National Congress leader and all political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia. The speakers were Zola Zembe of SACTU and Pregassan Naicker, R onald ANC. Ronald Raa France apartheid - friend THE French anti-racist group MRAP IT was with elation that white South Africa greeted the election and the French Anti-Apartheid in November of Ronald Reagan as the next President of the Unit Movement have produced a new States and, if Reagan carries into practice the many sillythin campaign, with a portrait of Mandela said about South Africa in his election speeches, there might be by a well-known French artist, cause for that elation. A more sober view is that of a US political Details from the AAM Office. sacentist visiting South Africa: 'Don't mistake a more relaxed therl l stittide.to South Africa for a change of course.' An AA NEWS vie r special correspondent looks at the implications INTHENetherlands asignature What emergesfromrecent Crockergivesthe enormous grow, campaign calling for Mandela's statements by Reagan's transition in the past four or five years of Ut release has developed into the largest team is that there will be a shift in import dependence on Africanoil ever held on Southern Africa. Over policy towards a more favourable and minerals, and the changed 40 organisations, including both the attitude to South Africa as a Western geopolitical balance in Southern trade union federations, the Dutch ally against the Soviet Union. Africa after the Portuguese Council of Churches, political parties Reagan and his team represent revolution. Africa is Viewel as nt and youth groups, have expressed what has come to be called the the influence ot either the West is their official support for the globalist approach to foreign affairs, the Soviet Union. And, as for campaign. asopposedtotheregionalist.They Africannationdlinterests:'WeIsa' Left to right: Philip Dlamini, President of the Black Municipal Workers Union, Joe Mari, General Secretary; and Gatsby Mazwi, Deputy General Secretary. FREE MPETHA! worker's leader THE trial of veteran South African trade unionist OSCAR MPETHA is due to open on 3 March, together with 17 other detainees, before the Cape Town Supreme Court. The men have been charged under the Terrorism Act, with murder, and alternatively with public violence. Mr Mpetha (71), the National Organiser of the African Food and Canning Workers Union, a founder member of SACTU and well-known community leader, was previously detained in solitary confinement. There will be a picket of the South African embassy in London on Tuesday 3 March, 1-2 pr, in protest at his trial. JOE MAVI MEMBERS of the Executive of NUPE, together with members of NALGO and other public service unions, will be picketing South Africa House from 1-2 pm on Monday 16 February, on the opening day of the trial of three leaders of the municipal workers strike of August 1980. JOE MAVI, PHILIP DLAMINI and GATSBY MAZWI, respectively General Secretary, President and Assistant General Secretary of the Black Municipal Workers Union, have been charged with organising an 'illeal strike', They were arrested at the time of the strike and held under various acts before being granted bail. stand for confrontatiot and cold war and, since South Africa has for long tried to demonstrate its common cause with the West against the Soviet Union, its government now hopes that the US will turn a blind eye to its peccadilloes. According to the most influential Reagan camp Africa adviser, Chester Crocker, the Carter administration State Department was suffering from 'a severe case of regionalitis', meaning that it sought to promote African interests at the exprse of US economic nd strategic interests. Another member of the transition team has hit at US ambassador to the UN Donald McHenry as being 'too pro-African'. Both of these statements could be contested; what is certain is that the US will shift its emphasis awayfrom the attention to regional sensitivities identified with the policy of former UN ambassador Andrew Young. It means that President Reagan will support South Africa's internal 'reforms' - as a means to bringing the regime in from the cold and 'stabilising' it. It will regard with sympathy Pretoria's 'policy-making based on the inputs of military and economic elites'. It will mean strong US resistance to embargoes of any kind on South Africa: Chester Crocker has ridiculed the arms embargo and dismisses a potential oil embargo. But on immediate issues such as the Namibia negotiations, the Carter line will be followed. Unless, that is, talks break down irrevocably, when Reagan will probably recognise that there is confrontation between the African front line states and South Africa on the issue. He'could then back the so-called internal settlement of his apartheid ally. Among his reasons for the cold war approach to African affairs, to stop behaving as.though someh African and American interests aur identical...' But there is a possibility tha what might he a rightwards shift v become a lurch. All Reagan's sympathies and those of his advise (such as Kissinger, that 'good trier of South African Foreign Minister 'Pik' Botha) lie with Pretoria. Reagan is soft on the Transk he would like openly to arm UNITA's Jonas Savimbi in Angola Now that Reagan has been elected his advisers are trying to minimise the damage his outpoke sess has caused. But the ground ri have been laid: the US sees its interests as lying with a stable. exploitative South Africa. In the confrontations to come, all Reap sympathies with apartheid might I activated. SA lobbyisl THE South African regime's forn US lobbyist, Don de Kiefer, has b appointed a member of Presidenelect Ronald Reagan's transition team. De Keifer, a lawyer, worked for Dr Connie Mulder's nforimatic Department in the USA for four years. He is now in the transition team's economic policy group. Reagan's chief foreign poic. adviser, Richard Allen, is another well-known collaborator with the white minority regimes. During th last years of the Caetano regime it Portugal, he worked as a public relations lobbyist for a front organisation for the Portuguese government. One of his tasks wvcs attempt a cover-up job on the Wiriyamu massacre of villagers in north-west Mozambique. Asrecen as August 1979, Allen was still denying that the massacre ever occurred. Anti-Aprtheid News

EIGHT YEARS Domestic - Workers NFOR THANDI 'saves in our country thefinefoee g tered workers has increased substantially to £300. Like farm workers, domestic workers are in a vulnerable position. Unprotected by labour legislation, their conditions of service are determined by private verbal '1 don't have time for friends and visiting. How can you have time to visit when you have two families to look after? I never sleep at home with my husband and children.' agreements with their employer. There are no laws stipulating minimum wages, working hours, leave provisions or benefits. Workers are completely dependent on their employer's benevolence and as unemployment soars they are forced to accept even less satisfactory conditions. Since 1979 there has been a 30 per cent increase in parttime work. 'No matter if I work here for one hundred years I can be dismissed for breaking a cup and get nothing.' 'Bantu Administration Board' officials continually harass workers ostensibly to check their permits. In the case of domestic workers in particular, their living quarters in the backyard of their place of employment are invaded to ensure that they live alone. Workers live in cramped back rooms with inadequate washing facilities; in the whi, e suburbs they are kept apart from their families and from fellow workers. In exchange for a few pounds a week, unnourishing rations - 'we are expected to live off the smUell of workers stave round the clock cleaning, cooking, gardening, caringfor children and animals. 'You know I looked at my child after the raid and thought what effect will it have on his mind if I have to hide-him every time there is a knock on the door? What must he think when these officials barge in in the middle of the night and throw his father into a van?' In South Africa the regime takes minimum responsibility for the reproduction of labour. Instead, black women without any welfare provisions - particularly child care are forced into domestic labour in white households so that white women can satisfy labour needs outside domestic production. FULL-TIME WORKERS Average wage per month: £14 (urban areas) £7 (rural areas) Average hours per week: 61 Information from a study carried out ihi the Eastern Cape, 1978/79, in Maids and Madams by J Cock attack Ms Jacklyn Cock, the author of the book Maids and Madams, from which some of the information in the above article was taken, was the object of a racist attack shortly before Christmas. Three sticks of dynamite were thrown into her home in South Africa. 3overnors back SA nuclear trainees q A remarkable show of sregard for the clearlycptessed views of college staff id students, the governors of nperial College London have !cided to continue admitting uth African students for surses in nuclear technology. member of Imperial College nti-Apartheid Group reports: in the Spring of 1980, AA EWS exposed advertisements placed the Johanmesburg Sunday Times the South African Electricity pply Commission (ESCOM) couraging South African students apply t Imperial College London stfora. MSe in Nu-lear nb5l ience and Engineering. TI June, following protests by XM ativ sts at Imp-ial, the college Veen. publlcy dissociated themselves from the ads and gave private assurances that no South Africans Would be admitted to the course in 1980-81. At a college AUT meeting in October 1980, however, members of the department concerned revealed the presence of at least one ESCOM student. The AUT meeting overwhelmingly adopted a motion attacking nuclear collaboration with South Africa. lEven this Oid not prompt the college authorities either to confirm or deny the existence of the ESCOM student. The strength of feeling among students was clearly apparent at the next student union meeting on 2 December, the largest in recent years. The student union massively adopted a resolution of support for the Ants-Apartheid Mpemnt's cam pasng against nuclear collaboration and condemning the admission of South African students to the nuclear technology course. By the same motion, the student union executive was required to communicate the feelings of students to the next governors' meeting on 12 December. It was at this point that the Rector of Imperial College, Lord Flowers, decided to intervene. In a circular letter to all members of the governing body, Lord Flowers stated that in his view it was impractical to obey any UN resolution, since this would imply that the college should obey them al Despite letters to the governors anda deasostratio.pnised outside their ieeting by Imperial AA Group, the goiveenoris opted totally to ignore the wishes oftaff and students by voting 27-3 against any ban on South African students. SouthAfricans PifturesbyTonyMcGrth Slide Shows AUEW TASS THE National Women's SubTHE AAM Women's Committee has Committee of AUEW (TASS) agreed details of two new slide shows, at their December meeting to send a produced inside South Africa and message of greetings to Winnie showing the conditions of black Mandela and to distribute publicity women domestic workers. aid material produced bythe AAM wome n m the bentustans. They Women's Committee. would be useful to Vot w5shi00 10 For further iwiiormaton on toe AAM orgasise meetings to pubLicise theCom io one ATE situation of women under apartheid. , Co tee, ontactCA TF CLARK at the AAM Office.

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