Anti-Apartheid News, May 1988

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Alternative title Anti-Apartheid News Author/Creator The Anti-Apartheid Movement Date 1988-05 Resource type Newsletters Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa, United Kingdom, Lusophone Africa (region) Coverage (temporal) 1988 Source Archives of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Anti-Apartheid News, MSS AAM 2203. Description Desmond Tutu to speak in Hyde Park; bandit leader spills the beans on Pretoria's terror tactics; no middle ground for British journalists; mass stayaway for Sharpeville Day; British ad to Front Line States - a drop in the ocean; strength and hope of young Namibia; images of Portuguese colonialism; anxious times for Shell. Format extent 16 page(s) (length/size)

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ANTI APARTHEID NEtWS.f Desmond Tutu to Artbishop D oooon d Tutu w ill addrusowhat is ex,opetd to be the Io nonoooti.opooteid rolly in London 017 Joly. theo Iisdinin of flt ""'k od 000000 o pgin 9 fon, tbo - relearo at Nelson Mt.del od Cleotiog 30 veoro of oinreoCil a bot 25 Veoro ooSooti Atieio political pnoooer - Noleaon d Winnie Maod.laontborweddngdøvir, 195B AIJ e) May 1988 Te newopaper of the Anti-Apartheid Moveonent I 30p uý - ýiA y 1988 NM NEWS ADTMIPIL OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA very serious rican partheid. ragents in nts have each of b Y deople neaean in Sath Af ica' terror war appears designed iam physically reprsentatives of the liberation Ise to intimidate thos engagad in asobiising Z"sing an alarong process made even more he unpredictability of the regime's terrorist actions. incrasingly insecure and desperate choracem of its whole. The cold-blooded action of its agents in the asand in Europe cannot be soen as somehow narcdomea n the democratic movement inside dit attemipt to trn the clock back through its me prensivyand arbitrary measures in Namibia. the signs of a regime which is we k rather than allfa liberation struggle which is pining trenglh every Ike itall the more imprtrant to step up ov min cnd internationally. t Pretoia lees able to act in this way is a direct um ofitstrditonlallies, aboe all Britain, to : o toison. The AntiApartheid Movement has and two previous home secrtaies, handed over of evidncea of South Africa's clandestine made positive and specific proposals for action. All been refused. wesemmet has made it quite clear, in short, that it tado anything to prejudica in any wayitstraditional h epertheid Sooth Africa. The blood of the. now ids of Pretoria's assaasins is thus on British hands. prtheid Movement headqarters will continue to tovenrment to take effecive actinT to guarantee Soath Afticans and Nlemilanas in Bitain, eand of all Saniapartheid activity. down to all the AAM's members and supporters. ment needs to be bombarded with letters and for security for the ANC and for SWAP), and for al linkswith apartheid. RTHEID NEWS [theAnfi-Apameheid Movemet D 13 Mandela Steet, London NW1 oDIol 01387 79W Ling iTANT Eizabss5 George RCULATION Vanea Eyre Friends, colleagues and comrades from all over the world thronged to Paris on 9 April to pay tribute to assassinated ANC representative Dulcia September. Her coffin lies piled with flowers during the funeral service. World FAREWELL TO oULCIE Paris, 9A.88 mourns a loved comrade The Anti-Apartheid Move. ment responded immediately to the assassination of the Afican National Congres's chief representative in Paris, tasicle September, by presslng the British government to take firm action to safegaard ANC and SWAPO members in Britain. , In a letter of conrdolee to ANC president Oliver Tambo, AAM secretary12 Mike Terry said the blae for Dulcie September's March, arrived in Britain in meanwhile continuing to death 'also rests with those the mid-1970s to continue play an active role in western powers which have her studies. campaignas. stoodbyindifferentlyas She soon became a Later,DulcieSeptember Pretoria has escalated its popular speaker at colleges moved to Africa to under. progranne of international up and downthecountry,taketasksfortheANCandterrorism, describing her people's was in due course appointed 'Now that Pretoria has struggle against apartheid as the liberation movement's moved beyond bombing and and encouraging herlisteners chief representative in burglary in western Europe to become involved in anti. Franca, Switzerland and to assassination, South apartheid campaigns. Luxembourg. Africa's allies must respond Besides helping to streng- 'She responded to this by imposing comprehemsive then the Anti-Apartheid challenge with her charac. mandatorysanctions Movement's work in the terstic enthusiasm, commitDulcie September, who British student movement, ment and dedication,' Mike died when she was shot five she served on the AAM's Terry said. 'Her loss is felt times outside her office in staff during 1977-78 as throughout the ranks of oar the French capital on 29 membership secretary, Movement.' Flowers and banners, as far as eye could wee... A great crowd standing silently Where group on group, and nation afte" nation Had come to honour her In stateliness and pdde.. And how do we remember her, this comrade we have lost? Sweet both in name and eont, With warm heart and gentle sile, But dedication diamond-hard, calm courage, horn of love, Which challenged grief and danger in the jamseftyranny. Oh, exiled child of Africa, when once we knew Your ashes would be carried home again To be a part of your der motherland, Tears stung a thounaed eyes, and sents that you had loved Ran out again... 'Be free', they cried, 'fight on!' We will obey. And you, doey daughter of South Africa. Go wel, go well. 35; oftide Europe (srnf-ae)- Stars to shine for Nelson Mandela The thousnds attending the Wembley 70th Birthday Tribute are joining Whitney Houston, Oire Straits, Simple Minds, Maxi SUNDAY "In our songs and in our dreams ...... - ...... Y r ft, U and Rab ge, Hugh 17 JULY 1988 wo.e.0topestoseoneanayswm, ANI-APARTIEno NEWS is alo seat to all natiol mamber af the thausand$ move who watch it Masokela,MiriamMakebaand theremillbeanendtothisevil An"-aApartheid Meevt - . . . mmbeship los an bck page for live on 8BC2, listen to iton Hrry Belafonte in thehigWest Lao hicoadapartheidD elie Radio or see it beamsed by internationeltelevisionand "Bysteppingonstageat DESIGNEDhyoerHsddle.Artwnskers satellitetomanyothercountries radio event since LiveAid. Wereiymehopeta entertoit TYPESET by Non White -will also be treated to agalaxy Welcoming the coverage, MH P[AI aodecosmillionsofPeople PRINTEn by East End OAfse Lt, Espan Street Eney-ylBow, London ofstar AAMpresident Archbishop inBritainwhoweareconfident E3 3l-T TheEurythmis,Chrissie TroverHuddletoanraidhe shae our views and hopes." 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ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * MAY 1988 3 NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA Namibian youthst111 strike Mobilliatin against South the People's Liberation Army of African occupation is growing Namibia (PLAN). About five among Namibian schoolchildren, children were arrested and were says the chair of the SWAPO still hold at time of going to Youth League in Britain,Pntres press.Damateh. AttheWindhoekAcademy, In March,there was a tudents arestrikingtohaw spontanes demoostration by Afrikaans replaced with English pupis of Ihangwene 'econdory as the teaching longuage. school in Ouambh against the The authorities haw called placing of military bases near in the army to suppress the scbonk. protest - resulting in injuries Boae are built near schools and arrests among the students. deliberately to intimidate the 'The students maintain that children and to make sure unless their demands are met, innocent pupils aem caught up in they will not resume classes,' the crossfire of any fighting with aid Petrus Damateeb. South African lies South African disinfornmation is being accepted by the international media and given priority over reports from other sources, says SWAPO. Peter Manning, of SWAPO, detailed some of the acts of terrorism carried out by the apartheid regime which the media fail to take into account when publicising the war being waged against Namibia and the Pront Line States. He said evidenceofSouth African responsibility for the bomb which exploded at a bank in Oshakati, northern Namibia, on 19 February, killing 27 people and injuring 60 ' did not stop widespread publicity for the regime's claim that SWAPO was responsible. 'Responsible journalists would have looked at past events,' said Peter Manning. He recalled the incident last year in which South African forces were caught planting a bomb outside the maternity ward of theregion's hospital, thediscoveryof a bomb at the hospital the week after the bank attack, and an attempt by two-white meulto plant a bomb at a post office. One attempted murder reported by SWAPO highlights the callousness of the apartheid forces: a black teenager was sent by his white bow to post a parcel. The post office clerk became suspicious about the parcel and had it examined. It turnedouttobe abomb. The youth who brought it could not read, so he did not know his bo had addressed the parcel bomb to him. Uiersty of the Witwatersrand students mch in protest againstthe banning of 17 demoratic arganisationsinSonuth Africa, February188 Flame of resistance burns bright The people of South Africa UDF, as a broad umhrella palled to resort to measures remain determined and organisation, contained which were, as Esack put it, hopeful despite the regime's contrary attitudes to many 'unorgenied, undisciplined, banning of their democratic key ite. But now those reckless and, sadly, violent'. organtsations and leaders, who had been stressing the 'If this happens we cannot says a prominent member of need to cooperate with as be held responsible,' he the United Democratic wide a spectrum of opinion Warned.Front(UDF). aspossiblehadbeenbanned. Imam Esack wasspeaking 'They have been dealt a The South African state on 21 March, the anniversary very, very serious blow,' would clearly stop at nothing of the 1960 Sharpevile Imam Faid Ewck said in in its bid to crush the demo- massacre, at a meeting in London. 'They feel a cratic resistance movement, London organised by the coainato of depression, grow Esacksaid. Anti-Apartheid Movement frustation n ad aiger, but It had swiftly nipped in es.part of a National Day of0 underneath there is an the bud the emergency cow Protest against the bannings. underlyinghope.' mittes forthedefence of Attended by a very wide Imam Esack, a leader of democracy set up after 24 range of organisateons parts the Call of Islam and the February, and the narrow culary religious groups, the Imuam Paid Esak Muslim Judicial Council in space remaining for above- protest meeting later South Africa, said that one ground activity was being marched to 10 Downing of the most frightening diminished all the time. Street to deliver a delara things about theSouth While the grascootation to Mrs Thatcher, AntiAparthld Movement African government's 24 strength of the UDF lay in mirroring the procession led should consult widely to February clampdown ws its many and diverse affili- by Archbishop Desmond involve more British organithat some of the individual ated organisations whose Tut to the Sooth Afrcan sations in the sanctions leaders restricted had been activities it would be rery parliament in Cape Town on campaign and to step up involved in efforts to offset difficult to restrict 29February. thepressreontheBritish crude official attempts to completely, the danger was The delegates prsent at government. A fallow-up divide the black community. that the anti-apartheid the meeting at the National reting is now d- to b He pointed out that the opposition would be cor Liberal Club agreed that the convened. Struggle against censorship Any day now Rashid Seria, editor of South, may be told that his paper is to go the wayof New Nation to be arbitrarily banned by P W Botha's government. 'South ha refused to be part of the conspiracy and has told the truth. So now we may be banned,' he says. Since the New Nation, one of the dwindling group of anti-apartheid newspapers and journals in South Africa, was closed for three months in March, South's staff know that they are next in the firing line. by Eli.abeth Geore The alternative press ha been living on a knife-edge since a set of emergency regulations passed on 28 August 1987 made it easier than ever before for the government to silence any voice of dissent. These regulations place an enormous amount of discretionary power in thehands of StoffelBotha, minister of home affairs and communications. The minister simply issues a formal warning notice in the government gazete to any publication which 'in his opinion' is guilty of publishing subversive material. The definition of subversive material includes any article which the minister believes will have the effect 'of promoting the public inage or esteem' of an unlawful organisation, or of -promoting or fanning' subversive activities such as boycotts or strikes. Following this warning, the minister examines the finance in 00w next three nones of the as the Pretria newspaper, and is then to block fcelgi empoweved to act, either by Sena belie, censoeship prior to publica- now that the tinn or by suspemion for up threat - Sou:tothreemonths. 1ogreas,Weet An official warning to the the Sowsetanr New Ntion was gaetted mere closely on 27 November 1987 and restrictions on the paper was closed on 23 South cocei March thisyear. warningatthe South was warned in hot its frotI December, hut Seeia says alaims 'You h that the weekly editions to know'. since then have been even more had-hitting than Promtes uhoald before. 'The trustes have the South Ar taken a tough stand, they ment ond to are determined not to governmenl. 1 knuckle down.' aapport and Launched in March 198,, adaerts shoald South has a circulation of the Edito, So around 15,000 and rereives 13094, 7900 Si much of ito funding from tV,,odoc, Ca, abroad. Thissoure of21-415 012, ti MAY 19-0 NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA Saihs should die.' i South African mence - the soutlhm Aoplwn town of Cuito SCuonuvelo has been under contiuous summlt for more in four months ,ader spills the beans nla's terror tactics AprominentfigureintheMlil ('Mozambique NatiOnal Resistance)' bandit snovement, who recently gave hinself up to the Mozanbicaun authorities, has confirmed in detail South Africa's logistical support for the right-wing terrorist organisation. by a COSAWR correspondent Paut de Oivenra had been the MNR's 'representative for Western Europe' forthree years before he returned to Mozambique in 1987. Speaking at a press conference in Maputo in March, he said he then became disillusioned by the MNR's lack of political objectives and its total subordination He said 'It would be impossible for the MNR to achieve any political aim other than violence. It's war for war's sake.' SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPORT Oliveia confirmed that South African backing for the bandit movement has not abated. He said that in January a South African air force DC-3 flew Evo Fernandes, former general secretary of the MNR, into Mozasbique. The plane later returned with Fernandes and Artur da Fonseca, the MNR's 'foreign relations' secretary. He told reporters that logistics and training for the MNR were being supplied by South Africa's Seventh Infantry division and by the Fifth Reconnaissance unit. While he was stationed in Lisbon, Oliveira remained in contact with the bandit base camp at Phalaborwa by telephone, but in June last year he was provided with a fax machine and an encoder/ decoder. The equipment was installed in Oliveira's house by the main liaison officer between the South African military intelligence and the bandit group, Brigadier Charles van Niekerk. MACHEL'S DEATH The MNR defector provided new details about the death of President Machel, whose plane crashed after having been diverted by a false radio beacon. He said he did not have conclusive proof about the events of that night, but he had received a call from South Africa in the early hours of the morning. 'They confiesned the news, they gave a list of names of the people on board the aircraft, they confirmed the death of President Samoca Macbel and told me to be on standby for it might be necessary for us to claim the action,' he said. ARMS SHIPMENTS Oliveira's accounts were supplemented by two members of the MNR who gave themselves up early this year. They told reporters that South African weaponry was still being landed by sea. Nineteen-year-old Fer nando Tepo was pressganged into the MNR last year and said he had participated in a three-day operation to move AK-47s, ammunition, mines, mortars and mortar shells from the beach to a hiding place in the bush. INTERNAL FEUDING Oliveira gave reporters a view of the tensions which exist within the MNR. He said that a 'Washington Paris axis' is trying to break South Africa's monopoly control over the bandit group, and referred to 'attempts from the United States to have a word to say over the control of Rename (the MNR)'. Internal feuds have led to the deaths of several former MNR leaders, including Orlando Cristina who was killed outside Prtoria in 1983. Oliveira believes that Cristina was killed because he no longer served the purposes of South Africa's military intelligence. He also said that the South African military was behind the deaths of two MNR leaders in amysterious car crash in Malawi last year, because they had contacts with the Washington-Paris ais and 'because they disagreed with Pretoria's influence over the MNR. Oliveira's account puts paid to any attempts to portray the MNR as a viable political force. The bandit group serves only as a South African tool to destroy the economic fabric of Mozambique. Its leaders remain in power if they suit Pretoria, and they are removed if they do not. COSAWR, the Committee on South African War Resistance, can be contacted at BIM Box 2190, London gela'si116 lsra-range artillery has played a central part in its WC1N 3XX.non af Agl Time table to end the war The firm resistance to apart- Angola; the ending of held aggression put up by support for the Units the Angolan armed forces, terrorists by the US, South FAPLA, coupled with the Africa and other countries; principled and astute diplo- the implementation of ems. macy of the People's lution 435 for Namibis's Republic of Angola, has independence; and gara. opened up new prospects teed respect for Angoa's for achieving peace in the sovereignty and territorial region and Namibia's inde- integrity. pendence. South Africa's reaction But, because Pretoria is has been to step up its armed clearly intent on continuing aggression against Angola, its illegal occupation of The US State Depart.Namibia and parts of meart,eager Ioseethe withsouthern Angola, there has drowal of the Cubams for been a spate of deliberate internal and hemispheric disinformation on the real reasons, at the end of the situation, current administration's term of office, has reacted by Marga Hoilness favourably to Angola's proposals. In respone, In September 1987, the Pretoria has launched a apartheid regime admitted propaganda campaign for the first time that its suggesting that it is in armed forces were in Angola contact with the Soviet to prevent the defeat of its Union toestablish as-aled Unite proteges. 'neutral', ie pro-South Thisadmisaionwasforced African, government in upon it by the fact that Angola, along the lines of white South African con. proposals for Afghanistan. scripts - more than 40 Instead of addressing the officially announced to date problem of the independent - were dying in Angola. government eo be set up in Public opinion in South Namibia, under resolution Africa itself was demanding 435, Pretoria refers i that the curtain of secrecy Angola as though it were on what the South African yet another bantustan. A Defence Force (SADF) was Soviet spokesman correctly doing in Angola, thousands pointed out that the oaly of miles from South Africa's thing Afghanistan and borders,be lifted Angolahave in commonis Internal factors led the the fact that they bath regime to relegate to second begin with the letter A. place its customary prpa- In Angola in March, I ganda presenting Unite as was told by military officers the main military protagonist of the Angolan armed forces' in Angola, rather than the staunch defence of the SADF cannon fodder it strategic locality of Cuito really is. This piqued Units Cuanavole, in Cuando leader Jonas Savimbi into Cubango province, under accusing the South African attack by the SADF's air military hsa of making force, long-range artillery 'counter-productive' state- and infantry for more than ments, fourmonths. The Angolan government has presented the US, as the Because Pretoria has intermediary with Pretoria, been unable to achieve its with a draft proposal for a military objectives in Angola peace settlement which it is increasingly resorting to includes a timetable for the disinformation, faithfully withdrawal of Cuban troops echoed by mostofthefromAngola. mainstreamBritishpress,In The preconditions for which opponents of the this are the withdrawal of apartheid regime need to be South African troops from increasingly alert.

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * MAY 1988 No middle ground for British journalists Word arenotenougi-even sressed trat the nanning ot ment that is shutting the for journalists - when. it opposition publications was avenues of non-vtolence.' comes to opposing apartheid, not simply an attempt to Joe Thioloe, of the a conference on the media stop the free press, but 'to Soweton, said the symbols and censorship in South kill the democratic move- of resistance that Pretoria Africa and Namibia was told mont once and for all'. believedweredeadhadbeenlastmonth. Hesaidtheregimewas coming olive again - there also waging a propaganda was no need for the press to by Deborah Ewing war: 'It is our own union legitimine them, the people. members who print all these were finding their own way President of the Anti- lies, our own members who to do that. Apartheid Movement Arch- print all the rubbih --not Easop Pahad, of the ANC, bishop Trevor Huddleston because they want to but said the international media tld the conference on6 beausethey live in South had a dutyto report the April, organised by the Africa. Forthis reason, trade truth about resistance and National Union of Journa- union activity could not be about South African atraci lists in London, 'I distrust separated from the political ties: more than anything else a activism of COSATU. 'It is not enough to ay conferenceofrhetoric' Amrit Mangosaid New they areprevented from Journalists who had Nofion had heen closed for going to Soweto, or anysown in from South Africa three months despite the where else. We have very to address the 'White Lies' fact that the regime had courageous people who have conference called for active never questioned the the information... Either support from the western accuracy of any of its correspondents stay there media in breaking the wall reports. andtellthetruthorare of silence. RashidSeria,ofSouth usedaspropagandatoolsby Amrit Manga, ofthe newspaper, Cape Town, Pretora. There is no middle recently banned New which was threatened with ground Notios, South Africa's banning even an he spoke, Gadian writer Victoria higgesi independent news- said newspapers were Britain said that while paper, said: 'The New accused of popularising intornational lawyers agreed Nation wasthevoiceof banned oganications. the state of emergency regomillions of the oppressed. 'It is not us but the lations were the harshest in The banning violated your hundreds of thousands of the world, and while foreign right to know.' people who attend funerals correspondents might be Sakhela Buhtungu, a wearing T-shirts and singing regarded as 'failures' if they trade unionist from the songs who popularise the were expelled for breaking paper-making industry, ANC. And it is the govern- them, they must also avoid being labelled 'engineers of uonsuet. Apartheid adverts Around 80 demonstrators picketed the offices of Independent Newspapers in ublin in protest at a series of South African government propaganda advertisements which appeared in the Irish Independent and the Evening Herald. The Irish AAM (IAAM) Anti-apartheid supporters demonstrated against the death sentences sent a protest letter to Joe ImpOsed on the Shopenigte Six on 17 March in the High Street, Haynes, managing director Easter, of Independent Newspapers, Fallawing the ewasoftheepostponementoftheexection ofthe after an advert placed by Six, pres $re ill continuing. In London, the weekly pickets of the South African embassy the South African embassy will take placs eery Wednesdey, 6-7pm. appeared last December. ACTION OFOR SANCTIONS One in five says it's time to go &aak * contriboting to the massive capital outflow that South Africa has experienced, causing inestmentstaratiin 0 undermining busies macale and encouraging emigration of skilled people from South Africa a cbusing a gradual decay af technology in South Africa as its irtersinl corporate connections am cut Disinvestment, therefore, is exacerbating the ecrornic crisis experienced by the Batha regime, and will have an increasing impact, both politically and economically. This report contributes significantly to the current debate on tightening sanctions against South Africa and will he submitted to the US Congress, which is considering new sanctions measures, to the Cosmmaweulth foreign foreign ministers committee, charged with examining how Commaorath aunctions can be extended, and to the Japanese and EEC goearmeets. 'The South Africa Discnnection' will embarrass the British government, which has been pomering companies as 'progressivee 'ges of'reforn' in South Afrio, The disvetmeant trend shows that foreign firms are not interested is playing such an inappropriate role. The report concludes tho for multinationas, assesments of invlvesment in South Afria are bind purely on the commercial and poltiscl risks of association with aparthleid, risks that ae growing as pressure from campaigners intensifies. 0 'The South African Donessatin - an examranation af British company withdrawas from South Africa 1986- 1988' (1988), The Aesi-Apartheid Movement, E5.00 'Shel sol atiZ 'uth Afdcais teal Cciesiar' -a new leaflet l rai 6,oAAM. TO order copis contet the trade union secroat , AAM. i kl TheconferenceonSouth alie Africa's children held in Harare, Zimbabwe, last September has since prompted solidarity action all over the world, reports its convenor, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston. The children's testimonies of apartheid violence and torture have been -raised with the British, Dutch and other European govern. ments, in the US Senate, the Commonwealth and the UN General Assembly. A special organisatior, Groupe Enfants Detenun, has been formed in Switrer land, and many pastors and priests persuaded to take up the issue. Ireland has held a hig public rally and is planning an autumn conference. West Proetstes, hnc1udirel members of SWA German groups have trans- Namibis Support Committer, pickete latd and published some of March in protest at the purchase of NE the Harare documents. power cmpaies. Manyof the world's top A letter addressed to Japanese prin muasiians, write. and artists i at the embassyproesed nt theJap took part in aUNICEF violison of United Nations Decree Ne symposium on Southern thU natorl resources of Namihia. African chlldren in Thepicketalso publicised the role Zimbabwe in March, opened (BNFL} in processing the Namibisn or by President Robert Mugabe. the stand taken by Liverpool pormrl Fifty-fe British companies or .lmost a fifth of thosu operating in South Africa have pulled out in the last two years, according to a new report published by the An-Apartheid Movement. Another 19 companies hem substantially reduced their holdings in South Africa in the came period, by Stuart Bell 'The South African Discorneation' shows how firms hae adopted disineotment in response to a combination of South Africa's economic and political crisis, and to pressures generated by anti-apartheid campaigners. 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ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS *MAY 1988 7 SOLIDARITY OWITH THE WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA& NAMIBIA Miners launch no hangings petition The National Union of RailAgainstApartheid is mineworkers (NUM) has taking up the roseof Harry produced a petition calling Gwala, a former member of for the revoking ofthe the Sooth African Railways death sentences Passed on and Harbour Workers Union three South African mine- (SARHWU) and long-time workers (the NUM 3) and South African Congress of calling for the immediate Trade Unions (SACTU) release of Manne Dipico, a stalwart. young regional organiser of Harrywas imprisonedfor theNUM detainedunder life in 1976 on charges theslateof'emergency, under the Prevention of For copies of the peti- Terrorism Act. tion contact the NUM, St Harn'ys case is particularly James House, Vicar Lane,pressingbecausehehasbeenSheffieldS12EX. crippled by motor neurone Thepetitionisoneofa disease. Appeals for hisnumber of initiatives release on humanitarian and launched by the Joint Cam- medical grounds should be paign Against the Repression made to both the South of Trade Unionists in South African authorities and the AfricaandNamihia. British government. 'Get involved'says NALGO Trade unionists in Britain must campaign areas are identified do much more to help their which NALGO membersarn colleagues in the South African urged to take up. Firstly, they trade aunion movement, says the ere being asked to raisaficancial, Natiael and Local Government material and political support Offices Association (NALGD). for NEHAWU and SAMWU (the Por representatives of South African Municipal NALGO went to South Africa Workers Union) in June and July 1987 and have Secondly, NALG 0 is calling produced a report of their visit, for support fur the wider 'Building Friendship, Working liberation movement - ANC, for Freedom'. SACTU, COSATU and the U OE Their visit was at the Thirdly, NALG O is calling invitation of NALGO's sister as its 750,000 members to put nionsin COSATU (at that time theirweghthbehind the campaign the Municipal Workers Union of to isolate the apartheid regime South Africa and the Hearth and by affiliating to the Anti Allied Workers Union) and Apartheid Movement, during thefourweeksthe CopiesoftheNALGOreport delegation spent in South Africa 'Building Friendship, Working they mactrade unionists in for Freedom' am available from many pas of the country, as NALGO headquarers free of mall as attending the launch of charge, although donations to tie em National Education, NALGO's campaign fund for its Health and Atied Workers sister uniom am welcomed. For Union (NEHAWU) and the a copyor further details contact second uatioail congress of InternationalSection,NALGO,COSATU. 1MehledonPlace, London In the report, three major WC1 H 9AJ, 01-388 2366. Support from TUC women One Of the most moving and of the majorityand is attacking stimulating debates at this year's the whole democratic Women's TUC conference movement cantred around the emergency The motion then made three composite motion on South cails fur action: Afric. * for more protests from the The motion, moved by Terry TUC Women's Committee and MeasIe of Manufacturing th genera counil science Finance(MSF), *forthetrade union SecOnded by Bernadette Hillon movement to step up calidarity oftheualnofShop, withblack South Africa hstrihtbuti and Allied Workers workers (USOAW) and supported by the 0 for comprehensive sanctions Society of Glaphical and Allied and pressure on the British Trades (SOGAT), was prompted government to support by the mornt banning orders mandatorysanctions. Imposed an 17 of the leading The debate that followed attipaOrtheid organisatinns, was opened by Rain Chiya from The motion pointed out that COSATU and Patricia de Lille the Dotha government has no from the National Council Of intention of accepting the fights Trade Unions of South Africa. --a ss -." - -- eavn are e- ws students protest in support of the 21 March stayaway in South Africa Mass stayaway for Sharpeville Day In a remarkable display of political commitment and organt- The emergency regulations, coupled with the effective sational strength, hundreds of thousands of South Africans banning of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the defied the regime's 24 February bannings by joining work Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), neant stayaways and boycotts to mark the anniversaries of the that the call took the form of a low profie appeal for a day Sharpevile and Langa massacreson21March. of'protest', issued in the name of 13 UDF offiates which The commercial capital of Johannesburg was largely had escaped the crackdown. deserted by black workers, and in Soweto buses did not eon The work stayaway was supported by a boycott of due to low staff turnout and almost total lack of demand, primary and secondary school classes in thetownships,whie The picture was the same in the rest of the Transvaal and on university campuses absenteeism reached 80- 90% in the other parts of the country. In Uitenhage in the Eastern Eastern Cape, 75-80% at the UniverityoftDurban-Westvio. Cape, scene of the 1985 Langai massacre in which 21 peaceful protesters were killed by police, 80% of black workers On the Wits University campus, 69 crosses were planted stayed away. in memory of the dead of Sharpelile, while in the backSupermarket chains reported stayaways of up to 90%, ground posters displayed the names ofdetained WitsStudent and in East London at least two large industries experienced Representative Council president Rosemary Hunter and100%absenteeism. formerBlackStudentsSocietypresident Tiego Mseneke. Media workers say no to Beeb's links Trade uion leaders join the picked line during the Sharpeville Six campaign - now din campaign ga on to sav alol those on

MAY 1988 AID TO FRONT TES - A DROP IN 19 , British public expenditure on aid over 797 million flows from the Front Line States in debt nut 2% in real eitn, This is a digrce in repayments every year. earlyuu disgaeefal an the destrurtion of The problems of debt service repayments have put agrarnme f r the Front Line States. In pressure on the Front Line States to cut back social welfare i ni in mat terras fell to only 53% of the programmes, which baa had the effect of forcing the poorest to pay the highest price for the debt burden. by Joan Lenton INTERNATIONAL RECESSION At the same time that the costs of apartheid aggression sed at a time when the people of the and debt have been taking their greatest toll, the internaace been eriously hit by the twin evils tional recession severely hit the Front Line States, with the ion and economic debt. prices of their commodities falling drastically, feeding the spiral of debt and poverty. aN AGGRESSION BRITISH AID IN PERSPECTIVE mobabwe's rainiSter of finance, Bernard t Line States have spent shout US$27.5 So far I have concentrated on the costs to the Front Line to defend themsalves against aparheid. States over the last seven yeas. The military cost, $27.E billion, the debt burden of over $800 million per year in cost of human lives lost, destrction of repayments, and the world recession have added together to and the loss of development potential create a regional crisis, reaching disaster proportions in aecounts for $17.5 billion, and Mozan- Angola and Mozambique. What is the British contribution to isisting the Front .n cost of warfare amounts to at least Line States? A meagre £81 million in gross bilateral aid in Angota end Mozambique. The indirect 1986. r, with at the progress in overoming Since then it has committed itself to giving substantial .on, especially among children, being support to Mozambique and Tanzania, but only after both to the United Nations Children's Fund countries caMine to an agreement on economic reform with I young children have died in Moram- the International Monetary Fund, which typically has the the last year banse of destabilisation. effect of reducing domestic demand and cutting public spending. Furthermore, of this £81 million in 1986, only £217,000 went to aid Angola, an amount that would probably not the need of the Front Line States to even cover the cost of one of South Africa's bombing raids. and tne problems of development If the British government is srious about its commitment ltil capital, is the debt hurden that to work for an end to apartheid, why had it not increased gnty of the natiorn. thelevelofaidtotheFrontLineStatessince 1980, rather st Line States runs t $15,027 million than almost halving it? It should be giving aid to the victims Sservice payments burden the states to of apartheid in ever-increasing amounts, along with applying t a large proportion of their expot economic sanctions against the apartheid state. to pay in interest an pin eil repay- Crocodile team from Mrs Thatcher will not solve the to pi is an d p roblem.Onlyamassive injection of resourees, coupled tion na fthireportwith carrying out the wishes of the majority of the South 2i% and Tanzania 25% of their export African people - mandatory economic sanctions - will verepayments i 16Zia ai lead tothe ending of a Southern African nightmare. -ee, in May1987 it decided that the taining those payments was too great, Joan LestorMPis Labourpokesperson on OverseasfDevelop% of net expert eaming. Overall, well mast and Caopertir. Bettor mad and rail links -vital for the Front Line States and one of many ares calling out for international support The South Afmcan army - a huge drain on the apartheid regime's budget PRETORIA'S BUDGET HIT BY BOYCOTT Presenting the Botha regime's budget to the South African parliament in Cape Town on 16 March, finance minister Berend do Plesis unexpectedly disclosed that sanctions were boding the South African economy. Giving the background to his spending and renenue plans, the minister said that 'acr economy is hamstrung by a host of politically motivated and internationally orchestrated restrictions that distort the optimal allocation of resources'. by Keith Somerville He tried to say that sanctions were counter-productive bat had to admit that 'they serve a purpose insafar as they form us to put everything into using our own resources'. Da Plessin's statement directly contradicts past South African statements en sanctions and delivers a rebuff to the Thatchers and Reagans who deny that economic measures can affect South Africa. It was clear from the minister's details of export earnings that even the limited sanctions implemented so far by Pretoria's main trading partners haw been far from futile. He said that declining overseas demand had meant that the allimportant maining sector had experienced a poor year in 1987; guvernment nirence from the gold sector, for example, would be R500m l than originally estimated. O Plessis also admitted that anal exports were down. Ga Plesis also told parliament that South Africa had registered a trading surplus of If6.4bn in 1987, which had enabled the regile to increase its foreign reserves and to service debt repayments. Another disclosure that confirms the need for more sanctions action was the finance minister's statement that the massive governoment deficit of R9.86bn would he partly met through the conversion of 'new foreign loans' into long-term loans by taking them out of the 'debt standstill net' (the South African decision to limit repayments of foreign debts - something given do facto acoptanse by western governments and financial institutions). Foreign financing of at least R50m is involved. The financing of such a huge deficit, partly with foreign assistance, has enabled the regime to boost spending on def em and security mesively While overall budget expenditure has risen by 12.9% to R52.6bn, defence spending has grown by a massive 22% ta R8.2bn (about 15% of total budget). This huge bonus for the armed forces, along with increases in spending On the police and prison services, will enable them to stoin aggression against neighbouring states (notably Angola and Mozambique) and to step up repressine at home. Western financial aid to the regime including allowing the South Africans to roll over loan repayments - enables the apartheid system to keep going and to maintain its oppressive policies This budget statement shows that sanctions are effective and should therefore be implemented with greater vigour to cover all economic tinks with South Africa. If the limited measres applied in far have 'hamstrung' the economy, what would comprehensive sanctions achieve?

ANT!-APARTHEID NEWS *MAY 1989 THE GRIM HISTORY OF APARTHEID TERRORISM The murder on 29 March of Dulcie September, the AN C's chief representative in Fronce, Sitzedand and Luxembourg, is only the latest in a succession of rertorbt outrages committed by agents of the apartheid regime. by Brian Bunting The previous day a South African death squad attacked a house in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, killing four people, including three Batowana women, the fourth being a male South African refugee. After killing their victims, the raiders mutilated their bodies and burnt them beyond recognition. Or the same day in Brussels a 40b bomb was discovered outside the offices of the ANC's chief representative to the Benelux countries, Godfrey Motsepe. Fortunately, the bomb was defused by the Belgian authorities. This was the cond time in a few weeks that Matsepe had been the target of attack. In February he was injured when assains opened fire on him as he was standing inside his Brussels office. The Paris journul, Le Monde, reported in its issue of 1 April that the murder of Dulcie September occurred shortly after agents from South Africa's National Intelligence Service (the successor to BOSS) were identified as hving entered the country. Lo Monde coid that, while the agents may not have carried Out the murder, they had probably commissioned the gunman and organised the attack. It is almost certain that South African death squads are operating in ether European countries, including the United Kingdom, which has the largest ANC presence in the world outside of Africa. The South African regime has cid that the ANC is a legitimate target wherever it may be found. When President Botha renewed his state of emergency in June last year, he declared open war on the ANC, rejecting suggestions that he should enter into negotiations with them. 'We will not talk to these people,' he said. We will fight them for the simple reason that they are part and parcel of the terrorist curse besetting the mrd today.' As ot ago as June 1985 the then chief of the South African Defense Force General Constned Viljoen, claimed as a 'big succes" the South African mid on Gaboune, in which 12 people, mainly South African refugees, mere hilled. He emphasised that he was determined, by such methods, 'to pre-empt these people before they can spread themselves... Naturally there are limits to our capability as for as distance is concerned, but we will use every method at our disposal to overcome the problem of distace. You must know that if Isaywe will attack, the it will be donewith the full cooperation of the government, politicians and taking into consideration international repercussions.' In a statement to the press 0n 19 February 1988 the South African minister of defense, General Magnus Malan, said: 'There is one thing I will do. Wherever the ANC is, we will eliminate it,' If aver there was a 'soft tUrger', it was Doulcie September. And she has not been the only one. The list of assassinations perpetrated by the South African regime in defence of white supremacy reveals whe are the real terrorists. In February 1974 Abraham Tire, secretary of the South African Students' Organisation, was killed by a parcel bomb in Botswana. In the came month John Dube, deputy representative of the ANC in Lusaka, was killed by a parcel bomb in Zambia. It 1978 Willie Nyoni mas reported mising, presumed killed, after being shot at in an ambush in Swaziland. In June 1980 Patrick Macau was killed together with a 7-yarld girl when two boasts occupied by South African refugees were blow" up in Manzini,Swaziland. lO 29 January 1981,13 ANC and SACTU members were killed by a South African commando which invaded Mozambique and attacked three houses occupied by South African refugees in Matela, close to Maputo. In July 1981 Joe Gqabi, chief represntative of the ANC in Harare, was shot dead at point-blank range in his car in Harare. It March 1982 the ANC office in London was damaged by a bomb. Ic Jute 1982 Peteus and labe Mzima were killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. In August 1982 Ruth First, writer ad ANC activist, mas killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her atthe university in Mapoto, Mozambique. It December 1982,42 people mere killed in a South African commando raid on the homes of South African refugees in Maseru, Lesotho. In 1984 Jeanette Schrotmmd her daughter Katren were killed by a parcel bomb in Angola. Is Mey 1985 Vernon Nbadimeng, son of SACTU general secretary John Nkdimeng, was killed by a car bomb in Gaborone, Botswana. In Dearether 1985 six South African refugees and three Lesotho citizens were killed in a night mid in Maseru, Lesotho. Sean were massacred at a Christmas party, two gunned down in their homes. In December 1986 Shdreck Maphumulo was shot dead in a mid in Muatsapha; Swaziland. in September 1998 a powerful bomb exploded outside the ANC offi. in Stockholm. It December 1986 Imail Embrahim was kidnapped is Swaziland and taken by force to South Africa, where he is cov on trial. In May 1987 Tsitsi Chiliza, a Zimbabwean citizen, was killed when a booby-trapped TV set, presented as a gift to the ANC represtatim, exploded in Haerre. Also in May 1987 three Mozambicans were killed during a South African commando raid in Maputo, appaleatly aimed at ANC houses. In May 1987 Theophilms Dtadlo, an ANC official, and two passengers were killed while driving in Mbabane, Swaziland. In July 1987 Cassius Make, a member of the ANC executive, and Paul Dikeledi were killed, together with a Mozambican moman, when their taxi mas ambushed by assassins in a car with a South Africao number plate ner Mbabane: the 11th assassinatio within eight months in Swaziland. In October 1987 three me who had been charged by the British police with conspiracy to kidnap ANC leader in Loeden were mysteriously released. It March 1988 Atmec Mazizi Malhae, a membr of theANC, was shot and killed while lying under polic guard in bed ina hospital in Mamru, Lesotho. He was recuperating from a bullat wound sustained in an earlier attempt ox his life. Th.. murderusattacks base all been made by South African death squads or agents who bive violated the sovereignty of foreign states in carrying out the instructions of their maters in Pretoria. To the list of victims set out above must be added the huge number of me, women and children assasinated by death squads and vigilantesin South Africa itself for to other crime than their opposition to apartheid. Clearly the scumre of terrorism is the policy of STRENGTH AND HOPE OF YOUNG NAMIBIA Last October, when I had been in Namibia for only five Most of the delegates wore SWAPO colours and many of weeks, I was invited by the Council of Churches (CCN) to the young women wound blue, red and green wool onto take part in a northeron area weekend conference of NANSO pieces of stick which they waved in the dancing. The enthu(the Namibian National Students' Organisattion) at siosu for SWAPO filled the air at the end of each cession,Ongwediva. wheneveryonestood shouting 'va NANSO, viva SWAPO' and raising their clenched fists. It was always good-humoured by Pa Pececk with a great mood of comradesip and confidence in victory. The young people were well swore of the South Afrirao I travelled with eight men, including the president of 'hearts and minds' campaigns, and of the necessity to stver NANSO, Paul Kalenga, three other organisers, a student and clear of them, to refuse to join cadet programmes, 'youth three CCN members. We spent most of the night sleeping in preparedness' (a programme of indoctrination which our vehicle, waiting for curfew to end at Tom and the opening encourages the youth to report against anyone speaking of the military checkpoint for entry into the war zone. against South Africa), velid and vlei 'holiday' programmes, Ox Friday afternoon more than 200 delegates arrived and youth camrps. and at first, as the only white person, I felt conspicuous. That the youth are not fooled was apparent, nor in my The feeling didn't last long. I was soon made to feel a experience is the black population in generml. Support for home and comfortable in this large, cheerful, friendly group SWAPO remains solid and unshaleable. The Namtibanas' who, once I had been Introduced, were very accepting. love of their country is deep and iosmoovable, and they are The students of northern Namibia have little to be cheer' not going to sell it down the river. fut about. Their places of study often have military bases, Church and youth leader assured me that, ofte, even or at least military activity, around them. A school hall young men who are conscripted into the army have their teary had been the target of a bomb attack about a year hearts in SWAPO, though once they are in uniform they are earlier, and in April 1987 13 schools were bombed or set on subjected to intense psychologicalpressures.fire. AttheendoftheweekendI had become 'comrade' and On Friday night our vehicle was stopped between the I felt I had made friends among the group. I had certainly ELIN mission centre and the Ongwedva teacher' college, become an enthusiastic supporter of NANSO, even though I The occupants were ordered from the vehicle by soldiers of was not eligible for membership. the South African Defence Foree, who then proceeded to I my four months in Namibia I was to find beyond ire into the air in an attempt to intimidate them. doubt that the Namibtans are a humorous and irrepressible NANSO, despite the inevitable opposition and campaign people; they have courage and tencity of purpose, and a of vilification in the media, is growing in strength, its natural optimism which flies in the face of bitter experionce. members spirited, determined, and totally dedicated toPam Peoc wonked in Namibia in 1987 wirh the Council obtainving their couotry's ciepenteoce. The love of the ,of Churches. She is a member of the Edinburgh Namibia country came home plainly to me, expressed eloquently in Support Group. the $ong, dance and poetry which interspersed debates. t

NELSON MANDELA June12 GLASGOW e First City to honour Mandela with Freedom of the City June 12 AIRDRIE June 13 BATHGATE 9 Lothian Regional Council has honoured Mandela with Freedom of the region. a Rooms in URHAM * YORK .EEDS June 21 NEWCASTLE e Nelson Mandela has been honoured with Freedom of the City. June 22 DURHAM 0 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been honoured with the Freedom of the City. June 23 DARLINGTON June24 THIRSK June25 YORK June26 LEEDS o South Africa Freedom Day. o Leeds Civic Gardens have been re-named in Mandela's honour. June27 BRADFORD June29 HALIFAX June 30 ROCHDALE July 1 EDINBURGH MANCHESTER City Chambers named after Mandela. July2 June 15 MACCLESFIELD DALKEITH July 3 STOKE ON TRENT June 16 * Street renamed in Mandela's honour. GALASHIELS * Walter, Sisulu, Mandela's co-accused has Soweto Day. been honoured with Freedom of the City. June 17 KELSO July 4 STAFFORD June18 July5 WOOLER Jl June 19 ALNWlCK Jl ALN WICKWALLSALL June20 July7 ASHINGTON BIRMINGHAM * Student's Union: room named in Nelson Mandela's honour. July 9 COVENTRY * Building named after Nelson Mandela. July 10 * Coventry Cathedral Service. July 11 LEAMINGTON SPA July 12 NORTHAMPTON July13 BEDFORD LONDON July 14 LUTON July15 ST. ALBANS July 16 HARINGEY * Re-named street: Nelson Mandela Close. July17 FINSBURY PARK TO HYDE PARK * National Demonstration July 18 NELSON MANDELA'S 70th BIRTHDAY AY 1988

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 MAY 1988 11 UPDATE OSOUTHERN AFRICA:THE IMPRISONED SOCIETY Bannings in South Africa bring fears of yet more hangings v00 oT me cnuciia - commnr sla raln service at negma Mundi, Someto, to protest at the banning of 17 organnations Workplace clashes lead to death sentences There are four trade union each given four death activists among the 40-odd sentences in May 1987, people now on death row in having been found guilty of South Africa whose trials the death of four 'team sarse from resistance to the leaders', or forenmn at the regime. Anglo-American-owned Veal Like political activists, Reefs gold mine. members of unions affiliated Their trial did not arise to the Congress of South out of a strike. On the African Trade Unions mines, collusion between (COSATU) have been regime and management is persecuted: detained and even more blatant than in tortured, shot at and tear. the Nel's Dairy mid, because gaised, brutally attacked by it is longer established. police and by police-inspired Police are called in over vigilante. disputesbutthelawallows They are also subjected mine management to have to intimidation by prison private security forces as sentence. After the postal, well. Anglo-American also transport and cateringstrikes uses disciplinary forces of of 1986 and 1987, scores of white moneworkers, who go workers came up in court into black hostels at times on charges of public of 'unrest'. violence, assault, conspiracy, By February 1986 condimurder. Many charges were tions on Anglo-American's dismissed for lack of evi- President Steyn minehaddence.Somestuck. becomeso seriousthat, When the Commercial, after an ultimatum from Catering and Allied Workers management, 2,200 workers Union was in dispute with left, preferring to go home the Nel's Dairy chain, police jobless rather than return to vans came into Nel's work- work. places, andabout 1,000 Inthesameyear,33 workers were arrested under workers died on Val Reefs. the emergency regulations. When, after the deaths of Of these, 750 weee sacked the team leaders, 10 workers on theirrelease' were arrested,theNUM William Ntombela, demanded their release and elected shop steward and .12,000 men caine out on respected strike leader, was strike. found responsible for four There had been conflict incidents. In November between team leaders and 1987, he was sentenced to union. The day before, the death for one murder, to 12 union had asked manageyears for another, and to meet t confiscate the team two f-year sentences for leaders'weapons. two attempted murders. Both unions concerned Tynlevuyo Mgedezi, have given notice that they Mangalio Nongwati and aresupportingtheir menhees Taiai Tseblaa, shaft against, state oictimlsation stewards of the National by taking the death sentenUnion of Mineworkers, were ces to appeal. by Clive Nelson One weak later, a.17-year-ld youth, Michael Line, and another member of the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress, Mlonaloi Gxotiwe (27), were [so executed. Both them oxecutionswere virtually ignored by the world's media. Pour more eecutins - all anebers of the Addo Youth Congress - were announced ad osly delayed after the defence lawyers were able to proe that . petition for clemency had been submitted. loin tleir that this spate of eaestions islosely linked to the recent clampdown on Is organisations in South Africa. The campaign for the Sh arpoile Six brought the political hims of the apartheid judicial system sharply into focus. The material presanted by the defenoe which led to the stay of execution - that one of the state witnesses had been forced by the polia to falsely implicate owo of the accused was available to the judge right from the original trial, when he refused to allow crosexamination on this evidence. Only when there was a masive outcry in South Africa and internationally at the proposed execution of six people based on a perversion of the use of 'common purpose' were the courts used by the regime to 'find' a 'legal' reaon for not proceeding with the executions. Those on death row ea ow peaple ivolved in mum prtest (many of the cases are also common cause) through to ANC freedo fighters like Robert McBride whose appeal was rejected on 31 March. The campaign for the Six and all those on death row needs to expose the root cause of the violence in South Africa - the apartheid system itself. The bias and illegitimacy of the judicial process is a manifestation of that system. This is the key to effective international opposition to apartheid executions and is whew the prwent position of the British government is so flawed, At a recot meating betwe a senior Foreign Office allicial and AAM and SATIS representatives protesting at the lack of government action over the case of Tsepo Lersoare, Michael Lucas and the Addo Four, the goeroment reiterated that it oly intervened in cases which wer 'clearly politically motivatead', and where the trial process wun Manifestly unfair. It was unable to define what 'dearly politocal' meant and refused to accept the inherently biased nature of the apartheid legal systm. That this position sends the wrong mssan to Pretoria is demonstrated by the recent spate of executions -the regime feels confident that international opinion can be fobbed off with an apparent 'leniency' in the case of the Six while proceeding with other execution$, The focus of the No Apartheid Executions campaign must be P.esident Batha. Whaterr the courts decide, he has the power to 'pardon or reprieve offenders, either unconditionlly or subject to mch conditions as he may deem fit, und no rerit any fies, panaites or forfeitures' (Republic of South Africa Constitution A.t 1983). The fate of all those on death row depends on otha. Mrs Thatcher must be put under masive pressure to intervene directly in all these cases. The thousand or more people who crowded into a memorial service in ghongletho forMiehael Lucas br tstimony to the iaseive support those on death row haro inside South Africa. We mus now generate this support around the world, hr ~ Friends and colleagues from SWAPO mourn the death of former political prisoner Immanael Shifidi - hin funeral in Windhe in I Botha reprieves killer soldiers On the day six South African an operational ama'. for the Council of Churches bws and acrows, ant soldiers were due to stand The murdered man was a in Namibin since his release The cr'd was trial in Namibia for murder- former Robben Island after 18 yeasin prison. through the samelng a former politicalprisoner,ImmanuelShifidi, Secutypolicefirng prisoner, President Botha who in November 1986 The police bave tried to and rbberbollets. personally intervened to attended a SWAPO rally in claim that SWAPO officials quash the charges. Windhoek. According tothe had called them inin Four ofthesix P W Botha invoked a inquest magistrate, the restore order after'black on rharged with clause under the Defence meeting was peaceful until black' violence. Evidence at murder were white, Act which empowers him to the arrival of the military the inquest revealed that the ing a nolonel an ac halt a trial of members of forces, when dozens of soldiers were frmn Battalion dnt. Botha's dic, the security forces if the people were injured and if1, a black unit of the vention in the case c men arc soid to have acted some stabbed. South African Defence sharplywithhisre in good faith for 'the Theonlyperson to die Force (SAF) and were personally rcpriev suppression of teresrisom in wm Shifidi, who had worked armed with sticks, machetes, Shwpeville Sit

M 0 MAY 1988 SUNDAY 17 JULY 1988 NELSON MANDE[A COME AND JOIN THE NELSON MANDELA FREEDOM MARCH! ASSEMBLE: 11-12 NOON FINSBURY PARK RALLY: 3.30 HYDE PARK Speakers include: ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU ANDIMBA TOIVO JA TOIVO, Secretary General, SWAPO of Namibia BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON, President, Anti-Apartheid Movement - as well as one of the 25 Mandela Marchers who will have just completed the 590 mile march from Glasgow to London! PLUS music MONDAY 18th JULY Mark Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday by wearing the 'FREE NELSON MANDELA' badge produced for the occasion. Urge your friends, family and colleagues to do the same! Organised by the Anti-Apartheid Movement 13 Mandela St London NW1 01 387 7966

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWOS * MAY1988 13 ENEWS O IREWS &REVEWS 0 Dear Anti-Apartheid News, gHaving been a member of AAM for about eighteen months, I went to my first conference on Saturday 1f March, a Yorkshire regional one of people's sanctions, and thanks to the orgaisers for their hard work. it was well organised, apart from running late but what a shame - the people's contribution was not reatly sought (isn't that what 'conferences' are about?) and the whole issue of putting sanctions into practice was not ptoperly addressed. To begin with there were far too Many speakers (nine in all I think!) who moslly spoke for too long, often repeating what we knew about the current situation in South Africa, as opposed to tackling the question of sanctions There were no questions or comments asked for from the floor. Also: * The platform was all male apart from the afternoon'$ chairpaeson. * Only one workshop leader wan a woman. O Participants could only attend one workshop. There could have been at least 2 sessisons organised. 0 My workshop was dominated by the male 'facilitator' and one other ma0. * Nn anough emphasis was put on future strategies for action. We won't destroy apartheid with six hours rhatorlo Sue Fowler Bradford 0 Doa Editor, First I paw my revolutionary greetings and as a South African I personally appreciate all that is done bythe AAM and AntiApartheid News. This is proven by the great interest that has suddenly appeared in some quarters of this country where I'm studying at the moment, Students in my class having nen and read Anti-Apartheid News were very impressed with the layout of the newspaper and very genuinely horrified at some of the atocitie of the Botha regime against South African people. They therefore pledge solidariy with us in the struggle. ANC student Burgas Bulgaria Send your letters for publication to: Anti.Apartheid News 13 Mandela Street London NW1 ODW Please keep them as short nd to the Point a possible. _Race and class Conflict of cultures in Angola? Uanhengu Xitu's stories absut'Mestre' Tamodo are o tongun'in-cheek commentary n life under Portuguese contrnl Uanhenga Xitu: images of Portuguese colonialism One of Angola's leading literary figures, Uanhenga Xitu, can now be read in English for the first time in a publication by Readers International, The World of 'Maestre' Tamoda looks at the impact of Portuguese colonial culture through the bizarre adventures of a Kimbundu villager who turns speechifier and self' appointed lawyer after a spell working in Luanda. The first story of the collection woo written in a Portuguese prison, where Xitu was held for more than a decade for his involvement in the resistance to colonial mle. His manuscript was discovered and confiscated by the prison authorities a number of times, said added to after his release. Since Angola's independence in 1975, Uanhenga Xitu ka risen to prominence in government and is currently Angolan ambassador to the GDR. He is also an influential 0 Joan Hymans, a founder member of the AstiApartheid Movement, died suddenly in mid-Febcaary, aged 74. Joan had represented the Movement for Colonial Freedom, now Liberation, on AAM's national committee since 1959 (when the AAM was the Boycott Movement)i Her organising ability was particularly valuable at that period as the AAM's first speakers' organiser. She arranged for the first wave of South African exiles who arrived in London after the first state of emergency in 1960 to speak at Labour Party and trade union con, ferences and meetings all over the UK. ly Dorothy Robinson Having helped to found the Movement for Colonial Freedom in 1954, in the days when Britain's colonies in Africa and elsewhere were struggling for independence, she had already met many of the African leaders at meetings in London. In the 1960s she had the opportunity to meet South African leaderssuch as Oliver Tambo and Yusuf Dadoo and many others who had been in prison under the apartheid regime and wove now able to tell Britain what apartheid was all about. Joan began to work in the Labour Party in 1946 and was a lively participant at local Hampstead Labour Party meetings. From 1971 to 1982 Joan was a hard-working member of Camden Council. Members of the AAM national committee will recall Joan Hymans' valuable contributions to discussions. She was undoubtedly one of the stalwarts of her time with total dedicationtothe causes of anti-apartheid, colonial freedom and race relatiom We grieve at her passing. Then genes ultir count issue betw Sou] H able chan apart neriol tiona held. com sepa0 polit that impii strawc Sc ree on th thoer the s stug- member of the Angolan Writers Union, which seeks to poilti encourage young writers and poets vatted in the country's that rich oral tradition to express themselves through publishing. Hi Speaking in London at the launch of The World of ront 'Mfetre' Tamoda, Xitu said that the Angolan Writers Union raneet was keen to develop its tinks with writers opposed to urcism world and apartheid all overtheworld. leads During the pre-independence period Angolan writers had cms tended to focus on issues relating to the anti- colonial situat struggle. 'We ame now summirg op hut the stroggle ageinst for ci apartheid goes on,' he said. The World of'Mstre'Tamoda, by Uanhenga Xitu, translated Race, by Annella McDermott, Readers International1988,phktate£4.95.hbk59.95. pbk, What man of peace is this? __ Gaisha Buthelezi - chief with a double agenda, by Mzala, is one of a sudden recent spate of books on Buthelezi, but it must rank among the best researched. Mzala spent nearly three years interviewing Buthelezi's former schoolmates and university peers, his relatives, members of the ANC, Inkatha and other South African organisation. by Elinaheth George A mountain of tapes and papers was painstakingly amnaed as Manla himself was unable to enter South Africa. A former law student at the University of Zululand, Mcal ba worked for several years in the ANC's research department. In the course of his research, Mania found that one after another of Buthelezi's claims about himself were either untrue or, at retiear debateabout the is, maintenance and ate demise ofapartheld at avoid the difficult of the relutionship een mee and clas in h Africa. arold Wolpe's very readcommentary of the ging South Afrisan gle, Race, a and the aid afe, presents a us challenge to conven. i theoriet about apart He argues that the vre ronent cannot be ated out as a purely cal phenomenon, hut racial consideratsons sge directly on the turing of dam relations. by Gerald OlSullivan me readers may disa with his argument, hut sis basis Wolpe is able ughy to enadne both changing nature of the tIe against apartheid he historcally specific cal terrain on which truggle is being fought. arold Wolpe's valuabte ibution does not n within the refied d of the academic, but up toa concrete disin of the present ion and the prospects range in the days ahead. clam and fhe saatheid by Harold Wolpe, 54.95 from James Curry best, booed on very shaky I ground. Having interviewed Archie Gumede,MlBYengwa and others. Mala now dismisses Buthelezi's claim to have once been a member of the ANC as pare myth. Nor did he participate in protests against the bantustan system, but actually pledged his support to it m early as 1953 when he was invited to work in the Native Affairs office, Butheleal and the apart. heidregime have consistently promoted Buthelezi a the 'traditional' leader of the Zulus, but Mzala comprehensively discredits this view and points out that tribal chauvinism anyway flies against all the principles of the democratic liberation movement. Throughout the book Minia namines all the facets of Buthelezi's complex public image from the cotredictiom of Inkt Buthelesi's attitude t tions and, in his cone brings u buckto confronts the qu posed at the begin. chapter one: 'What in peace is this?' Gatsha Buthelezi with a doubte aenda Oy Alzala, n7.95 17.95 bhh. from 7ed I

1988 GRAND DRAW DUS 24 DAY TOUR OF CHINA FOR TWO OVER EASTER 1989 PRIZES: China- Donated by SACU China Tots Tel 01 482 4292 niain Bike. Donated by Mosquilo Bikes. Te 01 226 8765 de by women's co-op in Botswana. Donated by AA Enterprises Tel 01 837 ng chair. Donated by Twn Trading Tel 01 837 8222 ed byn Suppote. 'ean Wine. Donated by Vinceremos. Tel 0532 734056 Donated by a SuppOrter prizes! iteto Apartheid Mo3ement 13 Mondela St. London N4W1 0W Tel 01 387 7966 NION 31TY fer rdersich! DEND esl%1U4UW BULK ORDERS (minimum order 5 T-shirts) ,lease send - * L and - XLT-shirts TOTAL £ 'ackage & Postage 10% on orders of under 10 T-shirts £_enclose a cheque (payable to AAM) or postal order for £ ingle shirts (E6 each plus £1 p&p) available from: A Enterprises, P0 Box 750 London NW1 0DW. Tel. 01- 482 3883 AME ...... ORGANISATION: ...... a Street, London NW1 0DW rce for T.U. and ctivinsts ves Cinema, ield invited: mlneworkers of BETTY HEATHFIELD Registration, NSC, PO Box 16, London NWS 2LW. Tel: 01 -267 1941 SAVE THE SHARPEVILLE SIX! NO APARTHEID EXECUTIONS! Protest every Wednesday 6-7pr South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, London WC2. Organised by SATIS tel: 01 387 7966 Sherfield Communist Pany Workers Branch Pablo Meetog TRADE UNIONS AGAINST APARTHED Tery Wlde (National Communicatons Union & CP Exnutive) SACTU Speaker Thursday 12 May, 7po AE House Forninal Gate, Sheffield ALL WELCOME LOCAL AUTHORITIES AGAINST APARTHEID NATIONAL CONFERENCE on 'Building Links with the Frontline States' 19-20 MAY 1988 SHAW THEATRE, LONDON Speakers and participants from Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Workshops on trade, aid and twinning. Full cultural programme. Open to representatives from local authorities and voluntary organisations, including black community groups, trade unions, churches and aid agencies. AAM activists and local groups welcome. Registration fees: £55 (local authority), £25 (voluntary sector). Includes buffet lunch on both days. Make cheques payable to "LAAA Building Links Conference". For more details contact Dan Thea, Principal Race Relations Adviser, London Borough of Hackney, The Town Hall, Mare Street, London E8 lEA. 0 01- 986 3123 et 297. T R DI AGAIN ST APARTHEID Solidarity with the Front Line States Look a ie label DoO't buy product of ap, leid, AA Eeirinplse. ttne ya flue folloi high q Galty ood produ &o, Ofro e Soui0 African Front Line Sa inead: BOTHA! "ON-le T AN . , aag -llgaioid mll ' ,I,, pak-,I,iI,, Ihind ROASTED UTS lc ir -pfA la, "1'-nania In Niwar-,; a Entomri~~s CASHEW NUS ;vtak PO -o 7V-Lodon NW1 SEW FROM T-: 1- MOZAMSIOUE Tl~ a~nt~ h~ -spo I'l- a t he" ixs'utl~l rcr~n thNfoRtlt i OP- i,,gkOriJg 1ard, ,iAlrd. ..d,,d NUTSTOBOTInA! Wrt,irphontdayforourmai,)ndt g9- Packs with the A Ent-p,sg 1,op,, (:Iahw, are MIozabique, , 1--d laget-rign -0-tag, Rern d~l form 1,fo- W.earnroand ieim iniliii,tagtrSoiuthIo nia ndSl ra opt~a, AfanM, iatts ru. di the MN ibanitsitii.rc eanana,,no~ --nrn.,, lik, can,- al Aanii I - S 1, AA ENTERPISES, PO BOX 533, LONDON NI 9YS -1- luoni,.ngs ,c MN R -ill,, TEL 01-837 9977 -j .... Pl- note our .nadrs -d phone, numbe CAFE VITORIA Onpnt01hal2mnetrll,o llll\ Angola aona Ziabe,5, aai,5a taIUI~l trom tAI)DtIO a EA Enrprise Coffee inoaprority p for A-SolS i. i. fight _ eoocO. veopmr bdat "gorthA001rc111tbdil.Cal FLAIE LILY WINE VTOR Es aafiaonn,0e o vampck f irrtrnaioaia air ninga,,,5,r OwnuS Or ri,aldinra-irg Ml, sa-h-et - babw0 aalIabl r inrpr'", mall ordct CULTURAL EVENT FOR EALING SATURDAY 18 JUNE 1988 Venue: Southall Park 12 Noon - 1 lpm speakers, local theatre, Asian & AfroCaribbean percussion session, 'Premie 'Asian popband, 'Abacus' women's reggae band, & lots of stalls, food, bar & books. ORGANISED BY EALING COUNCIL AND EALING ANTI-APARTHEID GROUP AF

ANTI-APARTHEID NEIS GMAY 1918 15 APARTEID GROUPS The AAM has local groups in the following places: LONDON REGION Bornet, Brent Camden. Chiswich, Croydon, Ealing. Earls Court & Chelsea, Enfield, Greenwich & Bexleyheath, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow& District Hillingdon, Hounslow and District, Islington, Lambth.Lawisham, Morton. Newham. Notting Bill. Pimlico & Westminster, Redbridge, Richmond. Southwark, Tower Hanlets. Waltham Forest Wandsworth. There is a regional committee for London REST OF ENGLAND Aylesbury, Barsley, Dasingstgke & District, Bath. Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn & Darwen, Bradford. Bridgewater. Brighton, Brstol, Burnly & Poodle. Calderdale, Cambridge, Canterbury. Chelmstord. Cheltnham. Chesterfield. Cotswolds. Coventry, Crawley. Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Dover& Deal. Durham. East Dorset, East Grinstoad, Eastleigh. Exeter, Furness, Halesowen, Halow, HarRpoot.gosings femel Hempstead, Herefordshire, Huddersfield, H, K :gon&Disrict Lancastor, Leamington Spa. Leeds, Leicester, Leighton Buzzard & Linslade. Lichbeld & District, Longsight/Levenshulme & Rusholme. Laughteroog. Luto & District, Malvern, Manchester, Mansfield. Matlock. Mrseyside, Milton Keynes, Newark. Northampton, North Devon, North Manohester. North Shropshire. North Staffs. Northumberland, Norwich. Nottingham.Nuneaton. Oldham. Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth. Reading, Redditch, Redhill & Reigate. Rochdale, Rossendale. Rotherhom, Salisboy. Sheffield. Somerset & Dorset Southampton, South Devon. St Albans & District St Helens, Stockport Sunderland, Sutton. Swindon, Tameside, Teeside. Thanet, Tones. Tyneside, Wakefield. Walsall.Watford,WellingboeoughWewynJHatfeld.Winchetr.uWindsot &Slough. Withingtoe, Wekitn York. Therm are regional committees for Greater Manchester, Wessex, West Midlands, Yorkshirei&Hmbeside. SCOTLAND Aberdeen. Argyll, Ayr. Cental Region (Stirling), Clydebank. Cumbenauld, Cerninghame, Dumbarton. Dumfries, Dundee, EastKithfide. Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife. Fraserburgh. Glasgow East. Glasgow North West Glasgow South, Hamilton, Hyndburn, Inverness, Midlothian, Paisey/Rnfroew, West Lothian. Soanish Committee: contact John MacKinnon, 266 Clyde Street. Glasgow St 4JH; tl Glasgow1041)221 1276. WALES Abergavenoy, Barry, Blaena-Gwaent. BRidgend. Caerphilly, Cardiff. Cynon Valley, Deeside, Denbigh, Gwynedd, Lampeter. Merthyr, Mid- Powys. NewepotPontypridd. Rhondda. West Gltmorgan, Wrexham. WalesAAM:Contact Hanf Bhanjee. 43 Glermy Street. Roath, Cardiff CF2 3JX; tel Cardiff 222 49769. There is also a local AA group in Guernsey, Channel Islands. Irish people call on their government o act against apartheid 'SANCTIONS NOW!l' ACTION *NATIONAL& INTERNATIONAL Shell on tt scrapheay Following pressure from local anti-apartheid campaigners, Hackney Community Transport (HCT) have scrapped their account with the Shell garage in Upper Clapton Road. The filling station has been picketed regularly for several months by Hackney AA and suppoters who also wrote to HCTs user groups asking them to demand an end to the account. HCT claim that the account was closed for 'economic reasons' unconnected with the Shell boycot campaign, but Hackney AA ae claiming a victory for their people's sanctions campaign and warn the Shell garage Action for homeless Members of a church group, Christian Response to South Africa, spent a freezing night in a sandbag shack in Enfield to mine money for homeless people in the borough and in South Africa. About 100 people took part in the event, which raised £1,660 through sponsorship and collections. Enfield council donated the sandbags and gave advice on building the shelter outside Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St George's Church in London Road, Enfield. Ireland on the march Over 5,000 people took pat in the Irish AntihApartheld Movement's (IAAM) Soctions Now! demonstration in Dubln on 19 March. Kade Asmal, chair of IAAD, handed in a letter calling for sanctions to the Departonent of Foreign Affirs. Areas of particular concern arc the import of coal and anthracite, and the export of computers and electronic equipment med by the South African military. Mowaipiniso,representing the ANC, and Inam Fecid Esnck, a leading Muslim member of the United Democratic Front, appealed to the Irish government to impose sanctions and to the Irish people for solidarity. The Dublin rlly, which had substantial traind union support, was also adden ed by the Worker Party leader, Tomas Maciollla, Tom Kitt TD, Ruffin Quinn TD, Senator Katherine Bunbhus, and Chri O'Malley MEP. that their pickets will conti. nue with renewed vigour. After successfully putting pressure on Sheffield city council to cancel its r1.8m Shell contract, Sheffield AA continues to support the decision with a picket every Monday morning, 7.30 to Sam, outside the main Shell station in the city centre. To encourage other sectors of the communityto get involved in the Shell boycott, pickets have been given special focus - for example, an MPs' Shell picket, Youth Action Against Tescos and Church Action Against Tescos. Links of oppression Barnet AA members showed their support for the Austra. lian aboriginal struggle for land rights and justice by inviting a speaker from the aboriginal solidaity campaign to their Shrpefille commemorative meeting on 24 March. Natnsha Sivanandan said that links between the black Australian nd anti-apartheid struggles were growing, as white Australia celebrated 200 years of colonial con. quest and settlement. Sipho Pityana (ANC) and Margaret Ling (AAM) spoke on the implications of the hannings in South Africa and solidarity with the Front Line States. A resolution of support for the Sharpeville Day general strike in South Africa and deploring British government policy was passed by acclaim. Sports appeal The London Committee of the AAM is collecting sports and recreational equipment for the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somofco) in Morogoro, Tacania. All kinds of sporting materials are needed for the studena who are all refugees from the opaelbeid regime, including chess, draughts, Monopoly, Scrabble, footballs, darts and datbo.ads. Donations should be sent to the London Anti Apartheid Committee, co institute for African Alterna. tires, 23 Bevenden Street, London Ni. Shettield AA Flag Day Saturday 21 May 10am -4p, if -00 can holeave a marriage on 0742-739147 on their tO-mtile teh. The 32 see Deaten and Reddish MP, On the move Over the weekend of 26-27 March, Stockport AA orgo. nised 0 variety of activities which included distributing Front Line States leaflets in the town centre. A public meeting with speakers from the Front Line States was well attended and was followed by a social event. Stockport and Tameside AA together held a 20 mine sponsored cycle ride which mised around £600 for the ANC and SWAPO', me~dical supes appeal. Canterhury AA is organising a Soweto Walk on l My and are hoping for even more participants than last year. Cinema campaign Local AA group, around the countryhave reported great succss in leafleting audiences going to see Cry Freedom Loicestec AA have raised £860 fram collectiom outside local cinemas and also recited 12 new mebers. Haringey AA has collee ted over £1,000 outside Muswet Hill Odeono cinema during the three Weeks Cry Feedom ha been shwing. The money will be split between the AAS, the ANC and SWAPO. Kingston AA have been distributing leaflets at perfotmances of Cry Freedom in Esher and Ewell, and have contacted the Woods family who now live in efile in Suohiton.

ACTION *NATIONAL& INTERNATIONAL Pt s coda bepaddretlyintte _enip fees ean he pnid directly into the AAM's I _CO MMUNIT¥ Y -CTIVE SANCTIONS -MIGHTY the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the call for sanctions I Anxious times for Shell Shell approaches its annual The latest of a series of general meeting on 11 May wage disputes surfaced in somedisarray, recentlyat Shell subsidiary In South Africa its veneer Veetech Oil, where wideof concern for democratic spread worker dissatisfaction rights-hbarely made credible was reported and some by its series of full-page strike action after rejection adverts in the Weekly Mail of a CWIU claim for a R700 - was shattered at the end mimmum wage and demand of March when management for a 13th cheque. at Shell's Port Elizabeth Shell UK's after-tax brasch drove out of the profits last year plumnmeted premises workers who were by 9118m to £675m - chief protesting against therestric- execUtiVe Bob Reid described tions en COSATU and the 1987 an 'a year of mixed BLabour Relations ill. fortunes'. Intensified picketing of I erein the UK, Shell's Shell outlets is being planned share of the petrol market for the International Forthan dropped from 19.7%in nightofActionfrom7- 21 1986 to 18.4% in 1987, a May, and shareholders will 66% decline msanexpanding be demanding explanations arket. This decline - at the AGM an to why Shell almost certainly due in part is apparently expending its at least to the boycott cam. involvement in South Africa. p was registered before In the USA, the Boycott Shell's humiliatng with- Shell Committee reports d rawal of its much-hyped increasing support - over Formula brand petrol, a SI national trade union, fianco which has further church, civil rights and antidamaged the company's apartheid organisations haveimage. endorsedtheboycott,and Shell is also comingunder boycott activities have taken fire from environmentalists place in over 30 cities. for its manufacture of pesti- Two municipalities in cides in the so-called 'drin California and Kentucky range that have been univer. have pawed selective purI sally condemned, inter alia, chasing laws which bas the for their damage to aquatic purchase of Shell products. life. Mostworryingofallto Internationally, the expo- Shell must be the sanctions sure of'Neptune strategy'- proposal now being consiShell's underhand attempt deced by the US Congress through hired boycott to deny oil companies busters Pagan International which maintain links with to deceive key church leaders South Africa the right to I and head off the campaign bid for lucrative fuel against their involvement in contracts in the US. Led by South Africa and Namibia- congressman Bob Wise, this has revealed the company as proposal stands a good ruthless and unscrupulous. chance of being approved W hile it lavishes generous. on the floor of the House of looking sponsorship on Representatives. I public relations projects like A Shell spokesperson in the Malindi mad rally in the Netherlands has already I Kenya and black talent admitted that they will have contests in South Africa, to to reconsider their South its black employees it shows African links if the measure a hard face and tight fat, becomes law. CAMPAIGN DIARY I Sunday I May: International Labour Day a Wednesday 4 May: Remember Kainga. 10th anniversary of the antscre fa oser 800 Namihian refugees in Angola by South African rops. Serumc an King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 7pm. All welcome. Details Church Action on Namibia, 01729 7925. " Saturday 7 May: Day schoal an Namibian uranium. 103am t 4pro Holhorn Library, Thenhold's Road, LondonWC. Details NSC, 01-2671941/2 0 Saturday 7 May - 21 May: INTERNATIONAL FORTNIGHT OF ACTION AGAINST SHELL i Wednesday 11 May: Shell AGM. Picket of Shell Centre, South Bank, London SE1, 1O.30am - 1.30pn. " Saturday 14 May: Day of piketing Shell stations * Saturday 14 May: Hull Day of Action against South African coal imports. Assemble 12.30pm, Central Library " Wednesday If May: Namibia Heraes Day " Thursday 19 May - 20 May: Building Linkswith the Front Line States conference, Sam Theatre, Euston Road, London NWI. Organsed by Lon.l Authorities Against Apartheid. Details Dan Thee nr Pat Gordon, 01-906 3123, ext 297. 0 Wednesday 25 May: Stop South African coal. Pickets of the Portuguese and West German embassies, 1- 2pm. Details Coln Adkins, AAM HO. * Wednesday 25 May: African Lieration Day and 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Organisatinn of African Unity (0AU) 0 JUNE/JULY: FREE ALL NAMIBIAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND DETAINEES * Saturday 11 June: NELSON MANDELA 70TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE, WEMBLEY STADIUM. 24th anniversary of the conviction of Nelson Mandela and the other Rivonia trialists O Sunday 12 June: Start of Nelson Mandela Freedom March, Glasgow. AII-Scutland demonstration to send off the 25 marchers, one for each of the 25 years that the Rivonia trialists have been behind bars, who will walk the whole distance to London. Amemble 12 noon, Kelvin Way, Glasgow. Rally 3pr Glasgow Green. * Monday 13 June: Meeting in London to celebrate Trevor Huddleston's75th birthday nn 15 June U Thursday 16 June: South Africa Youth Day and 12th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising. A Saturday 18 June: London Borough of Ealing joint open-ir festival with Ealing AA 0 Sunday 26 June: South Africa Freedom Day. Mandela Freedom March arinves in Leeds. * Sunday 10 July: Mandela Freedom March in Coventy Cathedral service. 0 Monday 11 July: 25th anniversary of the arrest of the Bieonis trialists * Sunday 17 July: NELSON MANDELA FREEOOMAT O MARCH AND RALLY. Assemble 1lam- 12noon in Finsbury Park, north London, to join the Mandela Freedom March. Rally 3,39pm Hyde Park. Vigil in Trafalgar Square, 9pm - 1am. I Monday 18 July: NELSON MANDELA'S 70TH BIRTHDAY. Service in St James Church, Piccadilly, London. 19M. The copy data for the June isue of Anti Apartheid News is Wednesday 11 May. Copies of the June issme will be available for collection from 13 Mandela Street from Friday 27 May. Copy dates for the rest of 1988 are: July/August - Wed 16 Jon September - Wed 10 August October - Wed 7 September November - Wed 12 October D-cember/January - Wed 9 November