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Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Anti-Apartheid News, May 1988 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) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.AAMP2B4000005 http://www.aluka.org ANTI 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." ISSN 0003-55 Hynde,operastarJessye hoped'thewholeworldwilljoin Norman, comedian Billy us in payingtribute to Nelson in Connolly,andWhoosiGoldberg Mandel'. JimKerr,SimpleMinds -msnaider-Pe (sustece -l ; 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.
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