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SOUTHERN hN AFRI A Monthly Survey of News aid Opinion Published by the Southern Africa Committe , 244 West 27th S rec fth o6 New York, Ne4.m4-4OO1 . Vol. VI No. 5 May 1973 4% Inside story of the Portuguese failure to destroy the liberation movemernt of Guinea and Cape Verde 41*t (translated from an exclusive report in Afrique Asie). OTES TO OUR READERS TO OUR NON-SUBSCRIBERS TO THOSE INTERESTED IN PROMOTING LAST CHANCE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SOUTHERN AFRICA: MAGAZINE!!! If you are willing to promote SOUTHERN AFRICA in your area, please let us know how many subscription blanks and/or magazines you can distribute/sell tcheck As of July 1st we must remove you from our mailing out local bookstores, churches, friends). Also send us list unless you send us your subscription. We cannot names of people you think would like samples. Thank afford to continue sending you SOUTHERN AFRICA you. free! Please respond if you are interested in remaining informed on the vital Southern Africa issues. 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If unable to send $5.00, please write to dipankar ray us for other arrangements. penelope roach david robinson susan rogers tim smith susan strane jinny stroman john stroman Volume VI No. 5 stephanie urdang Contents: NOTES TO OUR READERS Billy Graham tours FEATURE: THE PLOT AGAINST CABRAL 4 New air route proposed INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA 9 ECONOMICS 24 Blood Apartheid-fatal Rhodesia hurt by border closure In the courts Chrome deal hurts workers New Trial under Terrorism Act US Steel in Angola International Links First National City Bank joins in Angola bank Foreign Affairs Minister and the venemous snake Gulf seeks better corporate image Censorship update Conflict of interests? Hangings in Pretoria AT THE UNITED NATIONS 25 Castration for sex criminals Apartheid committee tenth anniversary New Security Commission formed International conference in Oslo Freedom of the Press THE PORTUGUESE TERRITORIES 26 Police news Guinea-Bissau Defense Military notes Concord purchase dropped Neither side forgets Cape Verde Armed Forces increase Daily life in liberated Guinea Women's military force increases Angola New Defense College Protestant missions subversive Firearms relicensed MPLA 1972 military summary Drug battalion Armed forces budget for Angola Communications headquarters opens Mozambique Churches Military notes Cosmos Desmond's letter of Resignation Sao Tome and Principe Lutheran controversy borders on schism Portugal British Dominicanbarred Army photo center raided NHK Church backs "whites only" stance Bombinss in Lisbon Sports Defense pact discounted SA Games open with 'historic' soccer match ACTION NEWS AND NOTES 29 American participation scores controversy United States ,multinational games'-a force or farce Wide support for African Liberation Support Committee multiracial team tours Belgium Sharpeville commemorations Anyone for Tennis? PAIGC support committee leader bombed. INSIDE NAMIBIA 16 Black Journal TV show New advisory council denounced MACSA spring fund raising Victory over Union Carbide SWAPO attacks police station in Caprivi INSIDE ZIMBABWE 17 Fair practices bill threatens corporations Second Wave of attacks: more coming Presbyterians and ITT resolutions Urban guerrillas in action Oberlin College student solidarity measures against guerrillas Oberlin College student solidarity ZANU-ZAPU form united front International Smith seeks a settlement International groups Africans working for Smith position English anti -corporation actions ANC role in settlement Church of England in shareholder row Settlers' right flank Support for strikes SOUTH AFRICA'S NEIGHBORS 19 Call for Alliance end Zambia Canadian groups focus on coffee Mission to Zambia reports Holland Boycotts oranges Aid for Zambia Libya bans aircraft EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ZAPU LEADER 20 Jamaica prohibits imports THE U.S. AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 23 Belgium leaflets Fair employment practices in South Africa West Germany collusion Buthelezi in Washington Swedish aid to PAIGC and ANC Attack on Bannings Yugoslav aid to MPLA Nixon to visit Africa? Material aid conference Ambassador denies racism RESOURCES 33 Outcrv at Zambia tobacco loan ACTION ON BYRD AMENDMENT 34 THE PLOT AGAINST CABRAL PREFACE- EDITORIAL COMMENT people who believe that because of their education or The article which follows specifies the actions'of the some other attribute, they should be given power and major participants in the plot against PAIGC and Cabral privilege. Such persons become disillusioned when the which culminated in the actions of January 20, 1973, and traits they most esteem in themselves are not equally shows what motivated them. Although the details are regarded by people of the liberated areas whose will different, the general strategy used by the Portuguese in determines more and more the distribution of power and this plot in Guinea is familiar to those who have analyzed responsibility in the struggle. They easily fall for promises what happened within Mozambique's FRELIMO in the of power or esteem if the lure is posed in terms of some late 1960's, The parallels include'the following: form of independence for the people. In Guinea, the "carrot" was an "independent" (1lThere is a conscious aggravation by the Portuguese mainland (within the of traditional fears and rivalries. In Guinea, not only the Portuguese community) but forgetting Cape Verde. In differences between tribal groupings, but those between Mozambique, it was a free north, but forgetting the south. Cape Verdeans and mainlanders are exploited. In The combination of these Portuguese approaches has Mozambique, the Portuguese stirred up northern/southern resulted in the tragic loss of both Cabral and Mondlane. feais as well as invoking tribal rivalries. However, as John S. Saul shows in a recent article (2) Infiltrators are planted in the midst of the ("FRELIMO and the Mozambique Revolution," Monthly nationalists. Because they are accepted as militants Review March, 1973) such major tragedies and lesser thernselves, the infiltrators are in an excellent position to internal conflicts often reveal contradictions within the confuse the thinking and even the allegiances of some of movements and enable both the movements and the the more susceptible partisans. persons in them to grow and mature in political (3)The Portuguese and their agents seek out ambitious understanding. The result in the end is a stronger (and persons who desire Dersonal aggrandizement, or find more revolutionary), rather than a weaker movement. REPRINT FROM AFRIQUE-AS!E (France), Feb. 19, 1973 with permission of author Aquino de Braganca. English translation done by Christiane Makward. THE PLOT AGAINST AFRICA After Amilcar Cabral's assassination, Afrique-Asie was the only international newspaper allowed by Guinea to conduct an investigation on the spot. In Conakry, our special envoy, Aquino de Braganca, stayed for three weeks with the leaders of PAIGC and with the military officials. He closely followed the proceedings of the preliminary inquest commission which interrogated 465 persons, and found 43 to be directly involved, nine to be implicated for complicity, and 42 suspect. On last January 15, Amilcar Cabral, secretary-general of PAIGC returned to Conakry from Accra, where he had attended a meeting of the OAU Liberation Committee. In fraternal support of the Guinean Party and government, PAIGC fighters have the free use of a rear base 'inGuinea-Conakry, including, in the capital, services, residences and harbor facilities for their flotilla. Ati ving in Conakry that day, Cabral was surprised to find one of the PAIGC barges, which should have been at sea with an ai ms shipment for the liberated regions of Guinea-Bissau, still lying at its hitching. He summoned captain Joarluim da Costa, whose motorboat was to have towel her "Why didn't you carry out the orders of the War Couinil" asked Cabral. -O i- engine failed. "Hury," Cabral insisted. "The field commanders are 1973, which was to be decisive according to the expecting those arms to settle a key offensive." Portuguese colonialists' plans. In reality, the countdown had already begun. DGS/PIDE (Portuguese secret service), exploiting all Da Co,'ta was part of the conspiracy. He was waiting kinds of sources for a number of years, had recruited for oidi:rs fIurn his accomplice, Inocencio Kani, the other Guinean agents and introduced them into the resistance capt in of the boat. He knew his part exactly. All the movement. Adventurers, brainwashed prisoners, old 4 pawns weie in place at the very turn of the New Year, militants now weary, embittered and dissatisfied .. , No doubt the number was small compared with the mass of suddenly reappeared. He motioned to the men. "Finish fighters and their leaders. The trouble was that some of him off. Quickly." them had obtained key posts even vital responsibilities.