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ANTI APARTHEID NEWS The hewspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Vorster shops for arms in Israel 5 - at Sharm El Sheikh on April 10. In spite of official denials that war-plane plant and inspected its electronic security fence. -p1 n irua an israei are to esiaOisn a Joint milsterial committee to improve their economic relations, following Prime Minister Vorster's visit to Israel, April 9-12. The committee was set up in a ration - are covered by the formal pact s ied byVorster and Israeli pact. PnMinlstr Rabiawhich deals Israeli nuclear scientists wiU be with economcmi scientific and indus- includedinthefirstscientifictrialm ' missionwhich Israel will send to Details of Cooperation have South Africa asa result of the pact still to be worked out - but reports Other signs suggest that the suggest that South Africa could South African visit was a shopping export uranium to Israel, as well as trip for Israeli weapons. coal, iron ore; cement and semi- Vorater made a 'private visit' processedteel. fromwhichjournalistswere The trip was only the third time excluded - to the aircraft plant at that Vorster has travelied outside Lydda where Israei's Kfir (lion cub) Africa since he became Prime delta-wing warplane is manufactured. Minister - his other visits were to He visited the Golan Heights and Portugal and Spain in 1970 and to israel'stborder with Lebanot , Where Paraguay itn 195. hesawthecountry'selectronicAlthough officialson both sides security fence and defence network denied that defence issues were dis- in action. Used matters clearlyrelated to And he went ona trip on a naval lefence- including nuclear ollabo- patrol boat with Israeli-manufactured Crisis in Rhodesia A public meeting in support of the struggle of the Zimbabwa people FriendsMeetingHouse.EustonRoad,LondonNW1WEDNESDAYMAY12 7.30pm Speakers include: JUDITH HART MP ELLIOTT KENDALL (Director, C & RR Unit, "British Council of Churches)ABDUL S MINTY (AAM Hon Secretary) Chairman: BOB HUGHES MP Admission lop - tickets available from AAM 89 Charlotte .Street London W1P:2D (Tel 01-580 5311) 'End SA police killings' SATIS (Southern Africa-The Impri- South AfricalnEmbassy calling for soned Society) supporters demon- an independent enquiry into Joseph strated outside South Africa House Mdiluli's death. ip London on April 9 to show their The letter demanded that the outrage at the murder of Joseph South African Government release Mdluli, the latest victim of Vorster's all political prisoners and dletainees Security Police. Signatories included Lord The mass picket was the climax Caradoi, Lord Brockway, Lord of a three-day protest mounted by Gardiner, Revd Dr Colin Morris, the African National Congress. General Secretary of the Methodist Throughout the three days Missionary Society, AUEW President demonstrators held placards bearing Hugh Scanlon, Cyril Plant, Chairthe names of the 23 detainees known man of the TUC, George Doughty, to have died at the hands of the former General Secretary of police in South Africa. AUEWITASS), NUS President Bishop Colin Winter of Damara. Charles Clark, the Anti-Apartheid land (Namibia), Communist Party Movement's President Bishop General Secretary Gordon Ambrose Reeves, and MPs David McLennan, Abdul Minty, Hon Steel, Sydney Bidwell, Joarn Lestor Secretary of the Anti-Apartheid and Andrew Faulds. Movement, and former South Picture and South African protests African political prisoner Fred against Joseph Mdluli's murder,, Saneson, handed in a letter to the pqge 3. In this issue: Implement arms ban -call from AAM RECENT disclosures have shown that breakIng the South African arms embargo has become big business in Britain. ABDUL MINTY exposes the loopholes in the ban and argues that new legislation is needed, page 5. Thousands protest at police murder ,IN South Africa thousands protested against the death in detention of former ANC member Joseph Mdluli and a call was made for his murderers to be treated like the Nazi war criminals. How Joseph MdIuIi died, page 3. 'Sick'blacks get sentence for life SWEDEN'sleeding daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, recently exposed the horrifying treatment given to Africans who are diagnosed as 'mentally sick' in South Africa. The paper's Editor-in-Chief,PER WASTBERG, describes the campa in which they are forced to live, page 10. , Rhodesian Bishop speaks out A DUTCH journalist, FRITS EISENLOEFFEL, recently talked to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Umtali, BISHOP DONAL LAMONT, about his assessment of the situation in Zimbebwe. Bishop Lamont speaks out, page 8. How I was tortured - SWAPO detainee SWAPO's Branch Secretary for northern Namibia, REUBEN HAUWANGA, has given a first-hand report of the atrocities committed by South African troops in northern Namibia and of the torture of SWAPO leaders detained under the TerrOrism Act. AA News publishes extracts from his statement at the UU, page 4. How SA is wooing the Arab States AT the same time as it has been strengthening its relations with Israel, South Africa has been putting out feelers to the Arab states. AA News reports on South Africa's overtures to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Lebanon, page 5.

ACTION- ATIONAL AND INERNTONAL- Britain Birmingham IN Birmingham, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Birmingham's Campaign for Justice in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) held a joint meeting on the British Government's role in Zimbabwe on March 13. Those present included representatives of the local Labour Party, local clergy and several Zimbabweans. The meeting urged the Labour Government to stand by its October 1974 Manifesto declaration, which stated: We will continue to support the liberation movements of Southern Africa.' The meeting also called on the Government to give unconditional aid to Mozambique in the application of sanctions against Rhodesia. Birmingham Trades Council heard former Zimbabwean detainee Didymus Mutasa speak on the current situation in Zimbabwe on April 1, at a meeting attended by 150delegates from local trade union branches. Birmingham AAM is planning to holds its annual general meeting early in May. Birmingham AAM has responded to the national Anti-Apartheid Movement's urgant appeal for funds with a £30 donation. Contact: Margaret Stanton 100 Oakfield Road, Sally Oak, Birmingham B29 7EG. East London 140 PEOPLE attended a successful one-day conference on Southern Africa on March 20, organied jointly by East London AntiApartheid Group and Walthamstow CLP. Ethel de Keyser, Stan Newens MP, Baruch Hirson (former pOlitical prisoner) and Edward Ramsdale of SACTU %iere the main speakers. , On ApT6, a joint meeting with Newham LPYS was addressed by Paul Joseph. On May 17 at 8.00 pm a meeting is being held on 'The Changing Face of Southern Africa', at 41 Rushmore Road, London E5. Ail are welcome. Contact: Jean Middleton, 205 Lower Clapton Road, London E5, tel 986 2707. Haringey HARINGEY Anti-Apartheid Group is planning a major fund-raising event on Saturday June 12, combining an evening of South African music, poetry and song, with the first showing in Haringey of the SATIS/IDAF Photographic Exhibition on 'Southern AfricaThe Imprisoned Society'. Tickets at E1.50 include wine ad refreshments. Further details from Margaret Ling, 348 6657 (home) or 349 1931 (day), or Sarah Carneson (883 5531). The Group held a successful jumble sale on March 20 and has been able to donate £25 to AAM. Bristol BRISTOL Anti Apartheid Movement is planning to hold a public meeting on June 8 at 7.30 pm at the Central Hall, Old Market, Bristol. There will be a showing- Actors and cine technicians extend SA ban THE two major trade unions in the British entertainment industry the actors' union Equity and the cine- technicians union ACTT - have both voted in favour of more stringent action to isolate South Africa. Equity, at its annual general meeting held April 11-12, reaffirmed its policy of refusing permission for television programmes featuring its members to be sold to South African television. In a new move, it asked Equity's Council to issue a standig instruction to members not to work in South Africa or Rhodesia. Previousli Equity's policy was to leave it to individual members to decide whether or not they-should per. form there. At the annual cOnference of ACTT, members voted to black all material emanating from South of a film on Namibia and the speakers will include a representative of the African National Congress of South Africa and a lcal churchman. Further details and offers of help: Ron Press, tel Bristol 426608. Cornwall ANTI-Aparttieid Movement members in St Austell, Cornwall, have arranged a weekend school on South Africa, May 8-9, at St Blazey Church Hall, St Austell,. A public meeting is also planned at 8pm on May a. * Contact: Debbie Parkin, 3 Brays Place, Sandy, St Austell, Cornwall. West London WEST London Anti-Apartheid Group held a successful fund-raising Curry Lunch Party on Sunday February 29. As a result it has donated £30 to AAM Head Office and £10 to the African National Congress. The Group held a public meeting on 'Women Under Apartheid'.to mark.Sharpeville Day on March 21. Speakers ware Shanti Naidoo and Hilda Bernstein. The Group is also planning to organise another fund-raising stall in Portobello Road Market, Contact: Betty Northedge, tel 5805311/5898243 . Barnet BARNET Anti-Apartheid Committee held a public meeting on Angola on February 24, at which the speaker was AAM Vice-Chairman Bob Hughes MP, It showed the film 'Angola in Struggle'. The Committee has been organising regular sales of AA News in Finchley's main shopping area It is planning a fund-raising folk eveningon May 1. It has also arranged a sponsored walk povisional date May 16), Anyone who would like to take part -as a walker or sponsor - please contact Joan Darling, 51 Dollis Park, London N3, tel. 346 7740. On Zimbabwe, the Committee distributed the AAM leaflet 'Crisis in Rhodesia' to Saturday morning shoppers on April 3. It is also planning an All-Party:Eorunon Zimbabwe., Africa, especially advertisements for television. The meeting reaffirmed the union's existing policy of instructing members to refuse to work in South Africa and in addition asked the incoming General Council to 'effectively discipline members should they ignore this instruction'. More generally, the conference reaffirmed its opposition to apartheid and pledged its support for 'policies designed to produce majority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia and which will end the illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa', Its motion went on to recognise: 'that the British Trade Union Movement can best easgit these objectives by working closely with the South African Congress qf Trade Unions and pressing the British Government Barclays HASLEMERE Group members accused Barclays Bank of supporting apartheid and of defying UN Tesolutions on Namibia, at the Bank's annual shareholders' meeting on April 13. A statement by Peter Hain which was read to the meeting by a shareholder said that Barclays had 'become an integral part of the repressive apartheid system'. Barclays Chairman, Anthony Tuke, revaalpd that the Bank now employed 1 646 black clerical staff out of 12 0Q0 'i South Africa, compared with 299 a few year, ago. Between 30 and 40 of these were in managerial positions. CLPs AT least 13 Constituency Labour Parties have sent resolutions to the Labour Government welcoming its commitment to no independence before majority rule in Zimbabwe and its ennouncement that it will giveeaid to Mozambique Among the points in the motions are a 6eaming agaismt any form of British military intervention in Zimbabwe and a request to the Cabinet, the Labour Party NEC and the Parliamentary Labour Party to give all necessary prpctical support to the Zimbabwe freedom movement. The CLPs which have passed such motions are Burton, Blackpool North, Newton, Brent East, East Dumbartonshire, Thirsk and Morton, Eton and Slough, Edinburgh South, Stroud, Beth, Exeter, Hartford and Stevenage and Bury St Edmunds. Conference. 'THE NUS-AAM Student network 'conference on Southern Africa will be held at Sheffield City College of Education, July 9-11. All activists are urged to attend. Registration is £12.00 per person (inclusive of meals and accommodation) NUS NUS National Conference at Llandudno presented an interesting picture of the trend withl. to take all possible step to withdraw investment by British coinponiesin South Africa.' It urged the TUC to hea discussions with SACTU to itplement-this policy. The conference received messages from the Anti-Apartheid Movement and SACTU urging it to maintain its stand for South Africa's Isolation. ' The Anti-Apartheid Movement organised an information stall at the meeting and displayed the exhibition prepared by SATIS (Southern Africa-The Imprisoned Society). At Equity's meeting the Movement distributed a special appeal to members urging them to refuse to perform in South Africa. ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS was sold to delegates the student movement on international affairs. On the initial motions submitted for conference Southern Africa was prioritised eleventh in the ballot and although it was not tabled for debate it was the highest placed international motion. With the death of Joseph Mdluli, the withdrawal of South African troops from Angola and the situation regarding Zimbabwe, delegates compiled an emergency motion Tabled by 48 Onions, the motion was placed fourth on the priorities ballot of emergency resolutions. Due to the extension ' of debate on matters already before conference, the motion was unable to be discussed. Southern Africa is regarded asone of the most important international issues facing the national union and the student commitment to the campaign remains undaunted. The Southein Africa section of the international report was disappointing. Internal wrangling on the floor of conference ended in a referral back of this section of the international report. Int rest in the Southern Africa campaign was high and thanks must go to delegates who helped with the sale of AA News at the conference. Loughborough LOUGHBOROUGH University students called on the university's governing body to disinvest from firms involved in Southern Africa at a students union general meeting in Mqrch. The union also decided to affiliate to the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Teachers ban AN invitation to an Inspector of Bantu Education to visit a north London school was withdrawn at the beginning of March after protests from the teaching staff. Teachers at Archway Comprehensive School gave unanimous support to a resolution asking'for the cancellation of the proposed visit and said that they would refuse to teach if the Inspector was brought into their classrooms. Ltter. the ILEA denied any knowledge of the visit and it seemed that an I LEA inspector had extended a privatre invitation . Ireland Sharpeville IRISH Anti-Apartheid Movement marked the anniversary of Sharpe- ville with its annual Lutuli Memorial Lecture, this year given by Professor Terence Ranger on March 22. His theme was 'Race, Apartheid and the West'.Other speakers at the memorial meeting were the British AntiApartheid Movement's Hon Secretary A~dul Minty, and the UN Commissioner for Namibia, Sean MacBride. A new branch of the Irish AAM has recently been set up in Cork. Ilembers in Galway are also planning to set up a local branch. Contact: Irish AAM, 20 Beechpark Road, Foxrock, C Dublin, Canada Teach-in THE Southern Africa Action Coalition ISAAC),-'based in Vancouver - held a teach-in on Southern Africa, April 23,25. Speakers included representatives of the Southern African liberation movements. SAAC has also made representations against the renewal of the licence of a local radio station, CJVB, because of a series of pro-apartheid talks given byitsPresident " New Zealand All Blacks CHURCH groups in New Zealand have'joined the campaign against the All Blacks rugby tour of South Africa scheduled for later this year. New Zealand's Religious Society of Friends has called for an and to sporting contacts with white South Africa CARE has appealed for information about 23 events in which South Africa's Consulate in Wellington says South African competitors participated in the period December 1 1975 - March 7 1976. According to the Consulate, these took place in Thailand, El Salvador, Spain, Italy andother European countries. CARE has also asked for information about countries which do not require visas for South African visits and those which accept South African sportsmen as individuals, but not as teams. Contact: CARE, Box 2794, Auckland, New Zealand. UN Secretary ON Secretary General Kurt Waldheim pointed to the 'dramatic changes' in the political situation in Southern Africa in the last two years, in u speech ata meeting on March 19 called by the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid He went on to say that new bases for free and independent societies-had been established in the area and that recent developments had thrown into relief the 'inequity of coaditions prevailing in South Africa', Namibia and Rhodesia

Call to end torture of South African political prisoners Security police murder detainee OVER 2 000 people attended the funeral in Durban of Joseph Mdluli, who died on March 19, the day after he was detained by the Security Police. They heard speeches from Winnie Mandela, former Indian Congress leader Dr Monty Naicker, Fatima Meer, President of the recently-formed Black Women's Federation, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Durban. Most Revd Dennis Hurley, who has called for a full investigation At the end of the service, the crowd sang South Africa's national anthem Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika. A statement circulated a2 the funeral recounted the circumstances of Josph Mdluli's death and asked: 'And life goes on as before, or does it? Let us wait for Nuremburg.' In a message to Joseph Mdluli's wife, Lydia, Winnie Mandela wrote: 'It is not clear to me why God should choose to give us our freedom in such a cruel manner. But it is clear He does intend giving us our freedom.' 'No tribal amnesty' -ANC THE African National Congress of South Africa repeated its call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners, after a statement by the country's Minister of Justice The Minister said that he was 'definitely considering' requests from Transkei officials for the release of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other leaders who were born in the 'homeland'. Later he said that the leaders would not be released - but the way is still open for a similar offer of 'repatriation' to a 'homeland' to be made to other prisoners. The ANC said: 'The South African Government and the Bantustan leaders in the Transkei are obviously trying to exploit the issue of an amnesty for ANC leaders on Robhen Island to win recognition for the Transkei when it becomes "independent". 'Nelson Mandela and his comrades have been imprisoned because they fought for majority rule in a non- racial South Africa. To torment the political prisoners with the offer of a tribal amnesty is a cruel mockery Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's wife, said that although she could not speak for him, she thought he might refuse any offer of release on condition that he was confined to the Transkei. She said: 'Nelson is considered a national leader, not a tribal leader. Perhaps he will just return to his cell,' African workers mount bus boycott WORKERS at Springs in the Transveal are still walking to work in protest against increased bus fares. As AA News goes to press, the Springs bus boycotters have been walking to work for over four weeks.' A committee has been set up by the Vorster Governmenl to investigate the'circumstances surrsyding' the bus borf/ott, - Joseph Mdluli was arrested at his home by Security Police at about 11 pm on Thursday March 18. His wife said later that he was about to go to bed and was wearing only his raincoat and slippers when he was taken away. On Saturday the police returned and told her that her husband was dead. AT least 31 people are still being held under the Terrorism Act in Natal, as ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS goes to press. They have bean held totally incommunicado for over four monthe and the Security Police have giveano idication that they intend bringing them before a court. There is every likelihood that Later she want to the police mortuary to identify his body and was refused permission to see it. After she was eventually allowed in, she described her'husband's injuries: 'A severe swelling stretched across 'Majority SOUTH Africa's Human Rights Committee has reaffirmed its 'total opposition to detente and the, dummy institutions of the apartheid system'. Ina new 1976 policy statement the Committee says: We aim to advance the people's struggle for freedom We stand for majority rule We stand for a free socety with no di'crimination in colour, da, belief or sex We stand for the uacondtional release of political prisoners We stand for the return of our political exiles We stand for the abolition of detention without trial, the freeing of detainees, the PeacefUl his forehead, his lower lip was bruised and cut, and his stomach was dilated to twice its normal size.' 'I lifted his head and saw two crisa-cross cuts at the base of the skull near the back of his left ear. Watery substance was oozing from the wounds which measured from 3cm toS cm.' Both Mrs Mdluli and her son Mdluli's brother is also reported to have been detained. Joseph Mdluli was a former polL tical prisoner who served a year on Robben Island for furthering the aims of the African National eongrses. After his release in February 1968, he was placed under atwoyear banning order In the last few months at least 30 people are known to have been dtained in the Durban area under the Terrorism Act, and most are still being held. The Terrorism Act provides for the police to hold them indefinitely without any access to them by family, lawyers or friends, and to refuse to disclose any information about them. A statement issued in London aoutn -.cn Embassy, i rasalgar AAM suppor ter st against the uY th l can Naational Congress Square, London WC2. murder ofJoseph Mdluli outside points out that they, and all other South Africa House in London on detainees, are 'in grave danger' Thomas have said that they are pre- April 9. Story: Pasa 1. It asks everyonewho is conpared to swearunderoaththat Mlungifi Mxenge, was arrested by cerned for human rights in South Joseph Mdluli was in good health Security Police. He had also said Africa to send protests to the when he was arrested, that hewas prepared totestifyto VorsterGovernment andto call On March 24 his close friend and the dead man's sound state of health for the release of all South African former fellow political prisoner, at the time of his arrest. Joseph political prisoners. rule -only solution' Women defy lifting of house-affeast and tmol, Sheil. Suttner, mother of rem oval order all other restrictions It condens the 'dummy institutions' which it says the Vorster regime has created 'to sow disunity and confuion in the people's minds'. The statamentgoes on: 'We are referring to the homeland govemments, the Coloured Representative Council, the South African Indian Council, the Urban Bentu Council, advisory boards and management ommittes. It reaffirms its support for SWAPO in Namibia and says it continues to exist because Vorster dare not ban it. The latest Issue of the Committee's bulletin indudes Speeches made by its Chairman, Mohamed political prisoner Raymond Sutner, and Sampson Ndou, a former trialist under the Terrorism Act, at its Human Rights Day meeting on December 14 1975. It also records mesnges of support received from anti-aprtheid campaigners in other countries, including Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe MP, Cardiff Trades Council and the cine tchnicians union, ACTT, in Britain. Previous ieaes of the bulletin have been banned soon after their publication and the current bulletin warns that it is now illegal even to poesess copies of the two most recent editions. HUNDREDS of African women have been moving back to their homes at Malang in the northern Cape, in defiance of a government ruling that they must move to a barren outpost in the BophuthaTswana 'homeland'. Thel women - with their families - were forced to move last year after putting up a protracted and stubborn resistance. At least 10 of them have already been arrested and given 60-day gaol sentences The women said that Vaalboschock - the area to which they had been forced to move - is uninhabitable because for most of the year it is under water. strikers beaten up by police Right: A pregnant woman lies on the ground after being dubbed to the 4P - h --i ground in the police baton charge A CROWD of about 600 Africans Themeetingthat precededthe At 10 amthepoliceofficerin was attacked and beaten by police police attack had been orderly, charge, Colonel B0tha, ordered the with batons and dogs as they were despite the fact that the crowd - crowd to disperse within half an peacefully dispersing after a meet- Heinemann Electric's entire black hour. This was accepted by the ing outside a Germiston, Transvaal, workforce - had been protesting union representatives addressing the factory on March 29. One man had against the dismissal of 20 of their meeting and 25 minutes later the hisarmbrokenandseveralwomen colleagues, workers - after singing Nknsi weretakentohospital. Sometimepreviouslythe Sikelel'i Afrikaandgivingclenched John Nsibenate, who has worked workers had petitioned the firm's fist salutes - began to move off. as a packer at Heinemann Electric management to recognise their 'hese kaffirs are getting of Germiston for 14 years, described union, the Metal and Allied Workers cheeky,'one policeman was heard the scene: 'As people were walking Union. When this was refused, a to say. 'Let's get them. So the away from the factory the police strike was called. The management sudden unprovoked attack was attacked with truhhdions and dogs. responded by sacking those they launched, the long baton sticks I was hit on the shoulder and legs.' picked out as 'ringleaders'. raining down on men and women who raced for cover in the bushes at the roadside. Gavin Andersson, actingsecretary of the local union branch, had his arm broken, and a pregnant woman appeared to have been knocked unconscious. (Later th Minister of Police said in Parliament that 27 policemen with batons and two dogs had been present, and that thee men and four women had been injured, Eyewitnesses saw over 12 people being taken to hospital by ambulance.) they heae been - and may still be being - subjected to the same kind of torture as Joseph Mdluli. Message$ protesting againt the murder of Joseph Mdluli and demanding the release of these and all other detainees and political prisoners in South Africa, should be sent to the r

Page 4 ' Anti-Apartheid News, 1eMay1976 Namibians tortured by SA police IN a statement before the UN Council for Namibia in March REUBEN HAUWANGA, SWAPO branch secretary in northern Namibia, painted a horrifying picture of the torture of Namibian political detainees and the atrocities committed against people suspected of supporting. SWAPO in the Ovambo Bantu stan. THE following is part of the text of Reuben Hauwanga's statement before the UN Council for Namibia: WHEN I was arrested on the early morning of August 17 1975, 1 was taken to the Regional Prison at Ondangua. A certain white warrant officer Petrus Johannes Jordaan, assaulted me with the aid of Tweihala Kamhulu with fists, kicks.and with the butt of a rifle. That day I was locked up together with a mentally ill man, Paavo, who kept dancing, laughing and shouting the whole night. The next morning, this same Jordaan, an ex-professional boxer, came again accompanied by three white police, Botha, Jan Hoffman and another wbose name has unfortunately escaped me. Jordaan again started punching and kicking me, assisted by the third policeman. I started bleeding profusely from both my nose and mouth. I was then ordered back into my cell and Jordaan gave me, what I believe was a Karate chop. I lost balance and what else I remembered were kicks on my back and buttocks. After that I believe I became unconscious since I only came to find myself alone, my face swollen my legs clumsy and jaws heavy. During and between the punches, Jotdaen kept asking me: 'Who killed Filemon Elifas? What are SWAPO's future plans? Where are SWAPO's guerrilla camps?' Jordean returned two weeks later bringing writing material for me to write down everything I knew concerning SWAPO, myself, Elifas's death, etc. I stayed for two more weeks to recuperate and was then taken to Oshikango,. a South African police station in the northern part of Ovamboland, where interrogations were conducted under torture by colonel Among the fasts he revealed were: * how SWAPO leaders arrested in connection with the current Terrorism Act trial of 6 people in Windhoek were hung by their feet and. given electric shock torture at a police camp at Oshikango o the starvation conditions under which 25 other SWAPO supporters ere Skoon, assisted by Lieutenant Diepenar, Captain Steyn and Warrant Officer Loafs, At Oshikango we were suspended from the roof so that our feet just touched the floor and were not allowed to sleep. Should it become impossible for us to keep awake and we slumbered, a bucket of water was poured over us. A punch in the stomach or a kick or a slap in the face were common. Hours merged into days and days into weeks: Colonel Skoon would come now and then with a question.or two and went. Some days later one of my arms was freed and with the other still suspended I was ordered to write down the answers I gave to their questions. Diepenaar was not satisfied with my statement and told his man to suspend me from my feet. In this condition I hanged for some three to four hours, feet up and head down. Further interrogation took place at Ogongo with Colonel Skoon again, It is at Ogongo that my comrades and I experienced unspeakable agonies. When one morning I was locked up in a police van, I heard constant screams coming from an apartment. It was obvious that the victim was in extreme physical pain and agony: the voice was that of our National Organiser, Aaron Muchimba. Later, when I was subjected to electricshocks, I understood why my comrade was screaming. I also saw how they grabbed my beloved comrade and friend, Sam Shivute, one of them on his hair and the other at his feet swinging him to and fro and finally throwing him on to a table. He was screaming loudly, What happened to me is very little in comparison to what is happening to many of my comrades still in South African being held at a previously unknown camp at Onuno * mass murders committed by South African troops in southern Angola * rapes and killings carried out by South African troops - some of them transferred from Rhodesia - in northern Namibia. hands. It is indeed an unexplainable miracle that many of them do not die under such circumstances; it is conditions like these that Western allies of South Africa support, thus prolonging our sufferings and dehumanisation. They must be told this story. Immediately after Prime Minister Vorster announced the withdrawal of the expeditionary forces from Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), hundreds of these troops made their appearance in Ovambotand and Kavango. Rapes and killings became the order of the day. To illustrate allow me to mention but a few examples: * Sara Angula, 19 years old, was shot dead in June 1975 and her boy-friend seriously wounded * Mrs Nailenge, an old lady in her 70s, was raped, and her husband, Revd Nailenge, a pastor emeritus, seriously assaulted * Selma Johannes of Onankali and her pregnant mother were both raped in October 1975, Concerning Angola, South Africans will never be forgiven for the murderous actions they committed there, I am going to inform this Council as to what two eye-witnesses who were in gaol with me told me. One man was travelling with three of his friends in southern Angola in September last year., Suddenly South African soldiers came out of nowhere and without any warning shot them down. His three companions died instantly. He only got a flesh wound, but was thrown into a truck and in that truck there were more corpses. As my informant told the story, for two days they kept travelling around and now and then he heard machine gun firing or felt how more corpses were piled on 4 ' 16rrrist People become terrorists' in trial under Terrorism Act TWO'months ago the trial of six SWAPO members under the Terrorism Act opened in Swakopmund Supreme Court, Namibia. Aaron Muchimba (SWAPO National Treasurer and Organising Secretary), Andreas fangolo, Hendrik Shikongo, Rauna Nambisga, Naimi Nombowa and Anna Ngihondjwa are all charged with 'terrorist activities' aimed at overthrowing SouthAfrica's edministtrtion of Namibia. The trial, which was initiated in connection with the assassination of Chief Filemon Elifas, Chief Minister of Ova-nboland, has developed into a full-scale attempt to discredit SWAPO as a whole. Defence Counsel, Dr W E Cooper, has challenged a number of translartions submitted in evidence to the Court In one instance, the Ovambo word for 'boys' was found to have beentranslatedas 'eoldiers' in Afrikaans, In another case, Cooper disputed certain words translated from tape recocred songs submitted by the prosecution to illustrate SWAPO's 'terrorist leanings', The word for "people' had been translated as 'terrorists'. On March 4 the hearing was adjourned for 10 days toallow the 'defence team to carry out an ins- pection in loco in Ovamboland. On his returnCooper urged'the Court as a whole to make their owe inspection of certain sites fnentioned in evidence, to 'get to the bottom of things' andto enable the Court to see for itself the 'ridicofiousness of the testimony of some witnesses. His request was, however, refused by the presidingjudge, Justice J J Strydom.I The trial resumed on April 5 after a further Adjournment. It has gone virtually unnoticed in the British press, despite the fact that the charges carry a maximum Penalty of death. Tis border post on the road to the iMambo "homeand snows now tme Vorster regime has sealed the area off fromtheoutsideworld,topofhim. usandAfrica.Letpeople like This truckload of corpses was Colonel Skoon, Warrant Officer then brought to Onuno, where the Jordaan and Lieutenant Diepenaar dead were buried just outside the of the South African Security camp. _ Police be always remembered as Let history never forget South international criminals and may Africa's treacherous actions in they be arrested and tried wherever Namibia and elsewhere, and may they may be found, as was done all her friends and allies never be with Hitler's Nazi criminals. forgiven for what they have cost ANC leader sees SA withdrawal ON A journey of symbolic significance for the future of Southern Africa, Oliver Tambo, Acting President of the African National Congress of South Africa, travelied to southern Angola to witness the final exodus of the defeated South African forces. Together With Lucin Lara, a member of MPLA's Political Bureau, he spent March 27 - the day the South Africans retreated across the border - with an armyunit which had led the advance into the southern border area. Lucio Lara described how 'precisely at the moment when Botha, the South African Defence Minister, was receiving on the other side of the frontier - that is in Namibia - the forces of aggression which were retreating, we on our side, with President Tambo with us, were talking with our combatant forms which had expelled their troops. 'Heat least was able fully to appreciate all the enthusiasms of our people, who likewise showed great sympathy with him.' In aiasoadcast to nark the expulsion of the South Africans on April 3, the President of the Angolan People's Republic, Dr Agostinho Neto, said: 'The,com plete withdrawal of South African troops from the national territory is anrevent of unusudl importance and gives a clear demonstration of the capacity of the Angolan people to " defend their country. He said that Angola was trying to obtain compensation from South Africa for the damage and destruction which the invading South African forces had caused. In a statement made on March 20, before the South African withdrawal, the MPLA Political Bureau stressed that there was no question of any deal being made with South Africa over the Cunene hydroelectric project, and that MPLA would give total solidarity to the* people of Namibia. The statement accused the authorities in Pretoria of 'cynically twisting' Angolan Government declarations on its policy of solidarity with the people of Namibia. It said that the defence of the installations at Cunene were the 'sole and entire responsibility' of the Government of the Angolan People's Republic and that they would continue to function normally for the benefit of Angolans' brother people .in Nalmibia with whose 'legitimate representatives' Angola would soon establish the necessary agreements. 'To the brother people of Namibia,' the statesent went on, 'with whom we have deep historical links, we pledge that nothing will be done which could endanger their deveopment or make more oppressive their.conditions of fif urlder radit totuth African domination,'

Asli-Aparthinth Mews my.r S-'!plemen CURRENT seas ofBrts British LABOURMPsareprotest militaryequipment to South forthesupplyof military Africa have beenmade followingdisclosuresmad' possible by the ineffective legislationpassedtoenforce m h s an arms embargo of theAAM has shown how s Republic and by the half- ported from Britain tb So the 1970 Customs and Ex heartedwayinwhichitis Order - otherwise known implemented. ABDUL 1288. MINTYdemonstratesthe MPsaretoholdaspecial confusion and secrecythat meeting of the Parliamentary surroundsthearms ban and LabourPartytaconsiderthe argues that new legislation dislosures immediately after isneeded. " reess. ON March '17 the British Govern- Frank Allaun MP has put ment admitted that Centurion tank down a parliamentary questio engine parts and equipment may the employment of recently have reached South Africa from retired civil servants by big Britain. Britisharmscompanies. The firm involved, Aviatio At least five major breoche Jersey Ltd, hesfor several years the arms embargo have been been selling Centurion tank engines revealed in recent months. T and other equipment to a number are: of countries - theequipment Mar being provided bythe Ministry of of atrop0 spheric stMar Defence. . communicationssystem The Ministry of Defence has sus- use in Namibie. This ca pended all dealings with the Jersey to light when a Marconi firm and appointed Sir Philip Allen, emloyee, Jack Hall, a retired civil servant, to enquire refused to work on it. intotransactions betweenthe a asecondMarconi contra Ministryandthecompany. foheusleiofS600dat According to South African press ' link equipment to updat reports, an official of Aviation Jersey, J R Chalmers, claims that 'Any association we had with South ceduras and what particular typ Africa was with the blessing of the- of equipment is determined to Ministryof Defence.' fall within theembargo are not Prime Minister Wilsofi informed made available. theHouseofCommonsonMarch Thus,aconsiderable amount 18 that he could not anticdpate any military equipment sold'to the possible criminal proceedings and South African Defence Force is that responsibility rested with the not covered by the official Govemment of the Channel Islands. embargo because it does not fal There is no question that selling within the defined ategory - b equipment for the Centurion tanks that list is not published. Thee is a clear breach of the arms embargo. way in which it has been possib The enquiry by Sir Philip AHen is to ascertain the limits of the emba cover dealings between Aviation is by finding out which equipns Jersey and the Ministry of Defence: has in fact been sold to South what remains unclear is whether it Africa - and that information i is an offence for the Jersey firm to not very easy to find either. havesold the equipment to.South For example, when the Sout Africa Africans built their first militar One of the major difficulties aircraft under licence from Italy with the British arms embargo is ,whose Impala planes were powe the secret way in which it is imple- by Rolls Royce enginesl This mented. was done ay using the British Details of licensing pro- licence granted to Italy, which arms ban ing against big British contracts equipment to South Africa, e by the Anti-Apartheid Moverategic materials are being exuth Africa under a loophole in ese Export of Goods (Control) as Statutory Instrument No the South African air defence system. *thesaleofenginesforthe Centuriontanksandot equipment to South Al byAviation JerseyLtd n on It hasnow been confir by the Minister of Dafe that theme ales did tak: place. S of * a contract for 250 ret motorstobefitdtohey ejectorseatsinSouth r. *,; Africea-mde Mirageje con fighteswthaBritishf ther reed ene a kt firm Mertin Baker Ltd.. a a deal involving a military communications switching unit, which has been taken up with the Foreign Office by Bob Hughes MlP, Vice Chairmn of the AptiApartheid Movement. for me ict a of Ut only leto rgo ant h ered in turn presumably passed it on to South Africa, with the result that engines were installed under the supervis on of Rolls Royce technicians from Britain. British-made heavy trucks have been sold directly to the South 'African Defence Department, as has a wide rne of radar and other electronijc equipmpent." Some of this equipment is sold to South Africa becausei ils con sidered of dual-purpose (civilian and militaryl use or because it is made for a civilian purpose and therefore can be sold even though it is ordered by the Defence Ministry in Pretoria. Recently, as a result of the protest action taken by Jock Hall. a Marconi employee, it ecame known that South Africa had placed a major contract with that firm for a Troposcatter system for possible use in Namibia. Representations to the Foreign Office have been answered with the information that the matter has been passed on to the Trade Ministry which is responsible for granting licances for such exports.. But months have passedwithout any word from the Trade Ministry: no one can confirm or deny whether this particular system requires an export licence or is covered by the arms embargo or whether the contract has been accepted or indeed ,whether the equipment has already been supplijed to Pretoria The Observer reported on April 4 1976 that a consignment of 250 rocket motors was on its way from Britain to South Africa. These are likely to be fitted to the Mirage F-1 jet fighters which South Africa is shortly to build locally under licence from France. The motors are for a new pilot ejector system manufactured by Martin Baker Ltd: they were sent from Britain via France to Sputh Africa. A spokesman for Martin Baker has suggested that if the engines are being sold to South Africa this is perfectly legal because the British embargo permits the supply of parts for British equipment aleady sold to South Africa, and that country has British-made Buccaneers and Canbarras. It is clear that whilst the general arms embargo polity appears to be a straightforward decision not to assist the' South African military establishment, the way rn which it is interpreted and implemented by Britain leaves so many loop s that it s relatively easyfor the Pretoria regime tn obtainaios types of equipwant from this country. The Anti-Apartheid Movement has taken up this question with the Foreign Office and is calling for full information about the operation of the arms embargo to be disclosed. The arms enbargo policy requires a comprehenslve review and tighter legislative measures need to he ehacted in order to make it an effective policy. Vorster regime woos Arab States AT the same time as it has been forging closer links with Israel, the Vorster regime has been trying to strengthen its relations with the Arab states. ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS reports on South Africa's attempt to barter gold for oil. THE oil-producing states of the Middle East are being subjected to an intense South African 'wooing campaign' designed to break the OAU oil embargo on South Africa and to forge new and lucrative trade ties with Middle Eastern countries. Since the policy of 'dialogue' with black African states failed to bear fruit, Pretoria has turned with increasing ttentio to the Arab world. The Johannesburg Sunday Times reported on February 19 1975 that the secret diplomacy with anti- communist oil producing states of the Middle East was beginning to pay dividends. In 1974 Carel de Wet, South African ambassador to London and at one time tipped as soccessortp.Hfljgard Muller, South Africa's FOrieiag . Minister, visited Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Lebanon. The trip, disguised as 'personal holiday', serwed to initiate talks on closer trede ties A visit to South Africa by a party of Saudi Arabias in Febmary 1975 seems to have been the direct result of de Wet's close contacts with the Saudis Benefits South Africa hopes may accrue from a detente with the Arab world include the possibility that even unofficial relations may ensure protection against the oil embargo, that some of the profits of oil-rich Middle East countries may flow into South Africa in the form of investment and trade, and that friendly Arab connections may take the sting out of UN and OAU criticism of apartheid. The Arabs are to be tempted with the prospect of gaining a safe hedge against inflation through acquiring South African gold: '20 days of oil in Saudi Arabia could buy one year's production of South African gold,' quotes the Rand Daily Mail ot February 3 1975. Fnom Batrain, South Africa . seeks to gain a usefuI refuelling President SeAt of Egypt point for South African Airways on its European route, as well as a contract for processing aluminium fromBahrain in South Africa, Both possibilities have been mentioned in secret talks. In 1975 C J Vermeulen, a young Afrikaner academic and expert in Semitic languages, gained entry into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt (Egypt has had no contact with South Africa since 1960 and had talks with government minis tars. It seems that as a result King Kalid Iba Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia Vermeulen is now acting as unofficial forwarding agent for vise applications from South Africans wanting to visit Middle Eastern countries which have broken off links with South Africa. Under the gaise of biblical archaeological ventures, parties are being formed to visit Middle East countries, including Egypt, to which South Africans are officially not admitted. More recetly, the visit to South Africa in January this year of former US Treasury Secretary Robert B Anderson, who investigated the potential for huge American and Middle East investments in South Africa, has stepped up South Africa's progress towards the desired goal. Anderson, invited to South Africa by Prolecon, a Pretoriabased business consortium, was particularly interested in the mining and manufacturing industries' potential of finding supplies of agricultural products for the Middle East, and in financing his big capital projects at government level. He is adviser to geveral Middle Eastern govertme o Efforts to attract Arab invest-' ments to the 'homelands' (the Bantustans. which are to be given a deceptive status of so-called ite' pendence under South Africa's 'separate development' policylleae also under way. It is of vital importance that the Arab world is made aware of South Afric's direbt and indirect attempts to establish trade and other links with variauj Middle East countries, in violation of UN and OAU policies. " Churches oppose' SA loans THE Church of-England's Church. Commissioners, the Methodist Church, Britain's biggest local authority,'the Greater London Council, and the Universities of York, Leicester and Aberdeen all called for an end to the Midland Bank's doans to the South African Government, at the bank's annual shareholder meeting on April 7. A resolution calling on the hank to make no further loans was supported also by Camden Borough Council= West Midlands County Council, War on Want, the Labour Party's Superannuation Fund, and the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust. Other churches and church organisations backingthe motion included the United Reformed Church, three Roman Catholic monasteries and convents, and Lancashire Congregational Union. I Altogether the resoludon received 3 0000000 votes - many more t h8n the 1 500 000 which were already pledged before the meeting took place. (Votes cast against the resolution totalled 47 million) Proposing the motion, the Secretary of the Methodist Church's Central Finance Board, Derek Farrow, said that in South Africa human rights were violated inan unprecadented way After the meeting a spokesman for ELTSA (End Loans to Southern Africa) saidthat the support for the resolution showed that many millions of ordinary people churchmen and woman and others - were opposed to the Midland's South African loans. He pointed out that of the 300 000 votes cast for the resolution, half came from shareholders whose names were unknown to the resolution's sponsors. IELTSA has asked Midland shareholders who are opposaed to its South African loans to retain their shares for possible further use. Further information: ELTSA, 134 Wrottesley Road, London NW10. 1 rr -nnrFIyurJlvulu nfl,. *vwy ~,u Th Impriso Sodi 1 On a sugar plantation in Rhodesia 1 2 Black nannies in a Johannesburg park 3 Family on a plantation in Natal owned by a British company 4 Police baton charge Cato Mahor i demonstration 5 Ina resettlement camp , Jr6

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Page 8 Anti-Apartheid News May 1976 Bishop speaks out in support of black majority in Zimbabwe Sfrican confidence is Lro THE Roman Catholic Bishop of Umtali, DONAL LAMONT, has been one of the most outspoken critics of the methods of the Smith regime's Security Forces. On a recent visit to Zimbabwe, a Dutch journalist, FRITS EISENLOEFFEL, interviewed him for ANTIAPARTHEID NEWS. What effects do you expect from rhe breakdown of the talks between Snith and Nkomo? The main thing one notices at the moment is a growing confidence among the African population, both in the Africap townships and in the tribal trust kinds. Where even a few months ago people were a bit hesitant, they now seem to be much more confident about their chance .of success in their struggle. Possibly this is also because of a the stories people now hear about the number of what they call guerrillas and what the government calls terroristswho arecoming over the border in this area near Umlali. They are taking more interest in What is said on the radio of other countries, I myself recently heard a new programme beims broadcast in English from Mozambique. The African people are greatly encouraged by the breakdown of the telks. They are very happy with this, because it was clear that they were only a facelde, window dressing. There was never any seriousnets or any hope of success iri them. The situation is clearer now. How do you expect the military situation to develop? One does not have to be an expert on military matters to get this clear. The Rhodesian army is small, and has an extremely vast and difficult border area to control. You can easily see how ideal this mountainous and wooded country is for a guerrilla movement. There are something like 800 miles of border. I understand that where there is a conflict of this type, b:etween an organised and disciplined army and a guerrilla forc6, you need about 15 to,20 regular army men to combat one guerrilla. Now this army is composed not only of Europeans, but of Africans as well. From my conversations with the African people I do not believe that the African soldiers are in any way committed with enthusiasm to the cause for which the Rhodesian army is fighting. They are there as a form of employment. But there is no loyalty. When attackced, naturally, they defend themselves as anyone would ,in the circumstances. But other- of 40 are called out to do military service'two or three times a year, for periods of six weeks. They have to leave their jobs and .families for that. Out here in Urali a newspaper is published two or three times a week. But now, the editor himself is out, doing duty. And already there are quite a number of young Rhodesianswho should normally be prepared to serve, who are out of the country, in Britain or elsewhere. I recently read an estimate that about 25 000 Rhodesians under the age of thirty are overseas. How many years can this go on? F| i5 Bishop Donal Lamont, Roman Catholic Bihsep of Umtali wise I do not think that the Rhodesian army can count on the loyalty of its black personnel. And the struggle is not only on the borders. Even behind them you have no loyal African community. You couldn't say for instance that these large Afrilan towtiships with their high concentrations of population are quiet because they are loyal. Nqtatallr They can-break out in urban guerrilla warfare any moment. How do the white settlers react to this? Most European men under the age wing' If one looks carefully, one finds clear signs of a fundamental lack of confidence. Here in Umtali there used to be a maternity clinic. It has now been turned into a house for the aged Young people are leaving Rhodesia and the white population is not reproducing itself. How much longer can the remaining ones endure this 'leager-situation'? Sooner or later Australia or Canada must seem a more promising alternative. How can the Europeans look forward with any confidence towards maintaining this position of privilege? Massacre claim backIng EUROPEAN public opinion has recently been shocked by reports about organised mess murder, committed by Rhodesian regular troops and foreign mercenaries fighting with them, against innocent African villagr& Tom McCarthy, a young Britisher who had joined the Rhodesian light [nfatry as a mercenary soldier, told AA NEWS how his unit had massacred tie population of a village near Mount Darwin Initially some doubt was case on McCarthy's story when Rhodesia's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace said that a priest working is the area could find no traces of the alleged atrocities in the village But now confirmation from an independent source appears to be imminent. The Chairman of Rhodesia's Catholic Commission for Justice andjPeace, Bishop Donal Lamont of Umnali, last week'told a visting Dutch journal st thet his Commission had discovered the existence of a second village with the same name, not far from the original one pointed out on inaccurate maps by McCarthy It's hard cheese for the gin and tonic set so Rhodesian i a small but growing number of whites have come round to supporting change; and numbered amongst them are some very worried metebears of the Rhodesian Front party, the governing party. Which is why Ian Smith, the illegal Prime Minister, called 500 citizens into a meeting in Salisbury recently to try and give them some reassurance. What undermined the confidence of the whites was the Russian and Cuban presence in Angola. The Rhodesians have always belieyed that they could fight and win against the nationalists as long as a great power did not help out the freedom struggle. The Russian presence changed their minds on one score and that was reipforced when Smith made a bad error, as he is wont to. When in February he celled on the British to return to eaton in the settlement talks that wore then going on with Joshua Nkomo, leader of one faction ofthe African National Council, Smith used the Russian threat as the excuse for taking this latest U-turn. That scared his supporters. Smith gave credence to a Russian -threat which most-of the white population was not willing to accept. Immediately, whites panicked. Businessmen Rocked to sell up their assets and the price of diamonds rose. The busiest men in Salisbury wers financial advisors investigating the feasibility of transferring companies to South Africa. Mothers woke up to the fact that their sons were spending their first year out of school in the army. HusbandsieeTV0,fto be away, sp. HOW are Rhodesian whites reacting to the final breakdown of talks and the prospect of mounting guerrilla warfare? An ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS Special Correspondent who recently visited the country reports on the state of white morale. THE white man's lot in Rhodesia today appears, on the surface, just as-comfortable and secure as it has evgr been since UDI. But the gin and tonic set, sitting beside their swimming pools calmly discussing cricket is far removed from the truth. More likely than not, thosepeople sipping their drinks will be talking about the war that has caused some of them to cancel their holidays to Rhodesia's beautiful Vumba mountain region on the border with Mozambique. "Menfolk may well be absent f1rom the poolside because they are serving their now thrice yearly stints in the reservist forces. In other words, the reality of war if m/ch closer to the population than they care to casually admit. Many of them are blind to their future, however. Some hites are not even prepared to realise that the ratio of black to white is a staggering 22:1. Many white Rhodesians have stiffened in their resolve to fight it out with the nationalists entering the country in greater numbers every week. These people subscribe to a form of national disease which outsiders might call suicide - because it can only lead to widespread warfare. B't the most sursrising feature of a recent trip to Rhodesia Js hat vhltes pack up and go reserve army or police dutymuc h But'the strangest role of all Smith, and secondly to the public. more than cormal. And the ltber- was being played out by the main with the comment that 'I don't see tion struggle had reached a new -opposition party to Smith, the how I can do anything'. plane with the offensive beginning Rhodesia Party led by Tim Gibbs, It was that reluctance to on January 16. son of the former British Gover- pressurise Smith at a crucial time So, some whites had their eyes nor of Southern Rhodesia, Sir which no doubt sent shivers up opened.OrasJoshuaNkomo HumphreyGibbs. .LordGreenhill'sspinewhenhe would put it. theyrealised they While some people inside the met businessmen on his brief foray were drowning in a sea of potential party urged him to capitalise on into Salisbury in February. violence. the unrest and instability amongst For the illegal Rhodesian regime The reaction of the government the white electorate, Gibbs turned . the state of white opinion will to Smith's mistake has been swift, the other cheek. His party holds remain as the single mst important Because the political leaders know no neat in Parliament but it did and volatile factor in the continua that Rhodesia cannot survive if the pick up 24 per cent of the vote in ion of white rule. So too, the white population shrinks from its the 1974 elections, guerrillas know only too well that current 275 000 theyembarked on Tim Gibbs' decision to stay breaking the back ofRhodesia a strident propaganda campaign silent and not campaign publicly means bringing about the collapse designed to play dowrthe Russian/ against the government was a of white morale. Cuban threat and to reassure the reminder of the intense prysure The first signs of that collapte governed that all was well in the all-powerfui Rhodesian Front are evident to anyone who visits Rhodesia -it was the outside government places on politics. . Rhodesia. The most unfortunate world and its press which was at The Rhodesia Partydid hold aspect of Rhodesia todayis tnat fault. - meetings round the country, bit those signs are not being built upon The campaign was unprecedented in private. Gibbs did travel to by those who claim to support and it employed television and radio London to tell the British Govern- majority rule. to the full. The Minister for ment what he wanted,but virtually 'Defence,PKvanderByl,became inprivate. 22 h i r anationalherotomanyanda Hewouldnotcomeoutinpub 22 blacks national fool to some overnight as lic and present his view that he parried the word d's press in a majority rulehadtocomequickly to orfne wh ite televised press conference. (although 12 months was too fast) As van der Byt has admitted because he believed most whites RHODESIA recorded a net outpublicly, the campaign took about would agree with the government's flow of 39 whites in February 1976 three weeks to Work. The signs of inevitable charge that he was - compared with a net gain of 340 despjair disappeared from the faces undermining their efforts, at the for the same month last year. of whites, but it did leave a larger - time, to negotiate with Joshua The last four months have seen a minority convinced that majority Nkomo. reversalintheprevioushighlevelof rulehadtocome. So,thedoubtersinRhodesia, immigration,largelydiuetothe There was the solid Rhodesian the new and anxious inside the exodus of Portuguese from MozamFront supporter who told her hus- Rhodesian Front, had nowhere to bique, with net outflows of whites band they had to sell ip and leave turn to and express their views. recorded in November and December because she would nothaveher And,themain backersofthe andonlyasmallnet gainof20in 17-year old son in the army. party, Rhodesian busipesmen, January. Another middle-aged grandmother were equally reluctant to expound The latest official estimate of in.Salisbury just collapsed in des- their oft-quoted views that they the number of blacks in Rhodesia is pajr at what she saw as the.awvul support majorityrule. One 6 110 000, compared with a white prospect ahead. , , "lesdilg bius nsaemn shied away jj ilatimn of pprot/ilftely frotm impresslvg-his views firstly on 278 000.

Ari-mperneIO I-saws ivsy I- alo fle Panic moves by white settlers WITH the continuing escalation bility for the protected villages is of the armed struggle in Zim- being transferred from the Ministry babwe, the Smith regime's of Internal Affairs to the Ministry armed forces are being expan- of Defence. dad at a more desperate rate A.new, I 000-strong unit, the thaneverbefore. GuardForce,isbeingbuiltupfrom Recent supplementary estimates retired sx-servicemen, mainly voted through the House of Assem- Africans, to take over the control bly in Salisbury mean that 20 per of the villages, thereby freeing cent of the total national budget is white troops and other European now being set aside for police and personnel currently on sentry duty defence spending. Recruiting for at the villages for more active milithe armed forces, both at home and tary service elsewhere. The Guard abroad, is proceeding furiously, and Force are receiving special refresher special English-language crash training under a former Rhodesian courses are being introduced into army officer, Lieutenant-Colonel the army to make fuller use of the Ramsay Pearl, who fought in large numbers of male Portuguese Malaya and the Middle East with who have entered Rhodesia in the British Army. recent months from Mozambique Over the country as a whole, the and Angola. breakdown of constitutional talks Since the beginning of this year, between the regime and the Nkomo the regime's 'operational area' has wing of the African National Coundoubled in size and a new front cil has sparked off an intense 'Operation Thrasher' has been security clamp-down. On March 22 officially opened along the eastern Mr Arthur Chadzingwa, a leading border, centred on Umtali and member of the ANC who was Chipinga and stretching southwards released from detention earlier this as far as the junction with South yeartotakepartinthesettlementAfrica. talks,wasrearrestedandcharged Forthe500000ormore withanalleged offence under the Zimbabweans who have been for- Law and Order (Maintenance) Act. ciblyremoved from their homes A few days later, prohibition into so-called 'protected villages' orders were issued by the regime or fenced concentration camps, against four top men of the subject to strict curfew and pet- Muzorewa ANC. Enos Nkala, rolled by armed guards, the security Acting Deputy Secretary-General, screw is being tightened yet further. Reuben Cyamweda, National As one indication of the intense Organising Secretary, Willie militarisation of the Smith regime's Machikano, Youth Secretary, and administrative apparatus, responsi- Matos Maliangae a National Execu- SA capital backs S] SOUTH Africa has substantial of self-deception as the Portuguese economic interests in Rhodesia, suffered from. But whereas it can as wellas its important politi- run the risk of losing a mere £400cal and strategic interest in the 500 million of nvestments in country's future. PETER Rhodesia, it probably cannot afford NICOLSONarguesthatnow anyriskswithatan-fold greater its attempt at bringing about a stake in South Africa, and nor can neo-colonialist solution in South African capital risk the loss Zimbabwe has failed, the of its proportionatelysimilar Vorster Government will at holding in Rhodesia. all costs support the status quo. This explains the total failure BRITISH governments and British of British governments to take capitalism would have liked to have moral stands on South Africa, and applied a nea-colonial solution in is why, in the end, the whole lot Rhodesia (hence the prompt appli- will probably be lost. It also cation of sanctions after UDI), and points up a dilemma for the South plainly the South African Govern- African Government which has been ment now feels this way also. largely ignored: although it is clear In this situation capitalism to Vorster that Rhodesia is indefenseems to be proving its own worst sible militarily, his capitalists may enemy in the long run. Although have made it impossible for him to opposed to UDI, it rapidly decided escape defending it. to come to terms with it. So in- Clearly this is what Smith is stead of vigorous action to control counting on. With a £300-400 Rhodesian subsidiaries to make million stake in Rhodesia (including sanctions work and promote a about £100 million invested in neo-colonial solution, there was mining in the last 6or 7 years), widespread collusion in sanctions- South African capital desperately busting, back-door investment via wanted a negotiated neo-colonial South Africa, condoning of invest- solution, With this now ruled out, menat from domestic profits and so we mayexpect powerful pressureto forth. preserve the status quo instead. Despite sanctions, Rhodesia's The inescapable logic of the trade is probably not far from the situation is that South Africa pre-UDi level in real terms (although should cut its losses and apply a smaller proportion of the GNP). sanctions against Rhodesia: only The attitude of British capital to thus can it force a negotiated the Whoile of Southern Africa hso settlement and save something. been a mixture of 'make haywhije With Rhodesia's only rail and road the sun shines', and the same sort rlinks with the outpide wirld now tive member, have all been banned from entering the Rhodesian Mid. lands for a period of three months, The four had been planning to hold a series of 'meet the people' rallies at the Midlands towns of Gwelo, Que Due, Gatooma and Hartley - all of which were banned. At the beginning of April, at least 158 Africans were arrested for taking pert in what the regime described as an 'illegal meeting' They include two leading nationalists, Moton Malianga, National Chairman of the Muzorewa wing of the ANC, and'E'F Chitatate, National Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs. According to the police, fifteen other officials were also arrested. Meanwhile, the regime continues to make use of the 'law' courts to eliminate its political opponents by the illegal use of the death penalty. Since January, at least six Africans have been sentenced to death, while a further three have had their appeals against the death penalty dismissed mith restricted to ones via South Africa, the results could be quite dramatic. But with capital and the threat of a backlash making this impossible, South Africa continues to keep Rhodesia afloat For black people there is therefore the prospect of much suffering as the price for eventual freedom and economic independence. For the whites a certainty of the chickens coming home to roost rather soon. For Britain there is the horrifying realisation that we may have become trapped in Rur relations with South Africa to a similar extent to that in which South Africa has got trapped in Rhodesia. When the liberation struggle begins in South Africa in earnest, will Britain have a Conserveative Government? Or will capital force i. to defend 'our' interests in any case? Freedom radio for Zimbabwe WHITE racist domination of the Rhdeslan media has suffered a severe blow by the recent commencement of a daily English language transmission from liberated Mozambique. "tisteners tuning in these days at 8.00 pm on 25 metres shortwave can hear an English-language speaker urge Africans to leave the Rhodesian polilp and security forces and td join the forces on the other side Above: Smith's Security Forces are being forced to rely more and more on black trone. Here they are training with Second World War Lee Enfield rifles. Below: A young conscript slithers through the mud on his way round an assault course. A More freedom fighters condemned ON February 6, Kumbukayi Patrick, aged 18, Kenneth Nyakudya, aged 19, and Good lKanokunde, aged 22, ware sentenced to death by the Salisbury High Court on conviction of possessing arms of war. They pleaded not guilty, All three had been wounded by an army sergeant before being captured by Rhodesian security forces in September 1975. Passing santence, the judge said that 'youth, of itself ..could not4be a mitigating factor'. Six days later, an unnamed 17year-old guerrilla, who had had both legs amputated after being shot by security forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment on a similar charge. He had been found, badly injured, after a contact between 30 guerrillas and a patrol of South African Policemen in January 1975. The judge seid that there was no evidence that the security forces had been fired upon. On Fubruaryi25, Ben Gibson was sentenced to death at the and of a 6day trial. He was found guiltyof murder-as en accomslice by allegedly pointing out4 men, three of whom had subsequently been killed, to guerrillsesa 'sellouts'. On March 1, an appeal by Chereso Waini against the death sentence was dismissea, Waini had been sentenced in'Octobe 1975 for acts of terrorise" and murder. to hang The following day, Christopher Nhiri, a member of a guerrilla group captured following an engagement in which two members of the Rhodesian African Rifles had been killed, also lost his appeal against the death sentence, The third man to make an ansuccessful appeal, John Hlangeni, aged 65, had been sentenced to death for allegedly taking three ssf his nephews into Mozambique for guerrilla training. On March 18, an unnamed 20-year-old guerrilla was sentenced to death for shooting end killing a white former. He received a further 25-year prison sentence for firing at a white tsetse control officer Luckson Tiriboyi received the death penalty on March 26 for possessing arms of war. He was also found guilty as an accomplice to the killing of a Rhodesian soldier flying overhead ina helicopter, Since executions toake place secretly in Smith's Rhodesla, there is no means of laowing how many of those condemnoedlo death have since been hanged. In 91U8, the British iGovemnent condemned the execution of Zimbabweans as murder - it is even more a orime against humanity today and every effort is needed to make sure that 'Silsth's hangmen are brfbasat't ,justice. -

'The death rate averages one person every secondday Forced labour for 'sick blacks THE Government of South Africa is not known for caring for the welfare of blacks. Sick care for South African blacks is minimal while whites benefit from the highest standard of medical provision in the world. Against this background one should pay attention to the care ofblack 'mental cases'. They break the pattern.... Over 8 000 Africans are confined to private mental care institutions - camps and other establishments-in South Africa, according to official statistics. There are strong reasons to believe that the true figure is much higher. The company which controls the camps - Smith Mitchell of Johannesburg - showed a profit of over £5 million in 1973. Those who end up in the camps have only a small chance of being discharged. Most stay until they die. South Africa has four kinds of mental hospitals - all of them under some form of state control. They are: state mental hospitals; state establishments for the retarded; a few private mental hospitals for whites: and a chain of privately-owned establishments for blacks which receive a Government grant. This fourth category iJ secret. It is about them that facts will be set out here - but they show only the tip of the iceberg. The establishments are in out-ofthe-way places and are camouflaged with false signs. Smith Mitchell does not allow any public inspection. In 1970 a spokesman for the company was quoted as saying: 'None of the patients are forced-to work, but everyone wants to.' There are government reguladons for the inspection of such establishments The Mental Disorders Act reuires that patients should be listed in an official annual report to Parliament Yet they are omitted from South African statistics. The Board of Enquiry provided for by the law does not exist. Telephone directories, hospital lists, annual reports - none of these includes any mention of the existence of the camps. Smith Mitchell has a government licence and an establishment .which is run under state licence can be visted by the mental health inspector at least once a year. There are, however, no records of any such visits, still less of conditions in the camps. It is often tle-police who send people to the camps. Perhaps a person under arrest does something which they can call, abnormal. He is then taken to Sterkfontein Hospital for observation. Some are then released, but every day 15 to 20 Africans are classed as mental cases and are sent to the Smith Mitchell network. So says an employee at the Rand West Sanatorium - his name cannot be published, Rand West Sanatorium is a camp surrounded by signs saying 'Admission Prohibited'. Its barracks are built of brick with roofs of corrugated iron painted red. Its inhabitants are 3 200 Africans who were moved there from a disused mine camp. From research we know of nine establishments or camps for blacks. Rand West is a typical one. The Internees make belts, paper bags, coat hangers, rubber protection clothing for miners. As 'occupational therapy' they are forced to work in the fields, to renovate deteriorated stock houses, tool sheds and barracks, and to weave the-fibre mats on which they sleep. An employee at the camp explained, that the patients were not-paid for their work, as its purpose is to prevent neurosis. If they were paid they would fight over the money and suffer psychological harm, The profit of the establishment: approximately £10 000 a year. Their food is often raw: soya beans, potatoes and cabbage, sometimes chopped meat, cold tea without sugar. Coffee is served A horrifying expos6 of the way in which South African blacks dubbed as 'mental patients' are being used as forced labour by private companies was recently carried by Sweden's leading daily newspaper DAGENS NYHETER, From an examination of official reports, death certificates, the returns made by private 'sanatoriums' and the annual reports of the compary invplved, the paper's Editor-in-Chief, PER WASTBERG, has revealed the existence of a chain of camps from which the inmates are lucky to emerge alive. The report shows how Africans can be committed by police and doctors without any proper medical examination and without access to family or the courts. In the camps, work is described as therapy and the inmates kept docile by the lavish distribution of tranquilising drugs. from dustbins, in which the men dip their mugs, There is no trained cook. The internees sleep on the floor. Chronic patients, who are mixed with the ordinary forced labour workers, dirty the place. Their excrement is flushed away with waterhoses each morning. had been given orders to act as patients.' The treatment is tranquilisers - librium and valium. The order book at Rand West shows that on a set date (May 1 1974) for one section of the establishment there was an order for 3 060tablets of 25-50 mg Chlorpromazine and Melleril and 2Y. litres of lead and opium, to last for about a week, ECT is given without anaesthetic. To give aneasthetics to black people is too expansive and reaction too slow and too risky, according to Dr P H Henning, head of the Department of Health's Psychiatric Service. Sixteen patients escaped from Rand West in 1973 and got away: 17 were discharged. The death rate averages one person every second day. - Documents showing that brain operatioks are made to 'cure' patients have not yet been found. But according to an employee at Rand West, some internees have been forced to go through prefrontal lobotomy because of 'their violent nature'. So far it has been impossible to establish how many have been arrested in the African townships for being politically aware, and thereafter, because of real or imaghpd resistance to the police, have been punished with assault, drugging or operations. But it is enough that a policemen and a doctor agree that a black person seems unbalanced for him to go to a camp. There are n court proceedings, statistics or publicity. The state "pays Smith Mitchell a fee of around £6 ayear for every black internee. The company rents decayed mine barracks or deserted quarters in inaccessible areas. -Although the firms they trade with pay badly - for example for a coat hanger - the profits are good. The income of the Smith Mitchell Group from the camps was around £3 million in 1974-75. In 1974 the group received one third of its mental health care budget from the Department of Health: this amounted to over £ million. The company does not deny that it is in the business to make money: MWe are here to make money, otherwise we wouldn't be dealing with this,' its President told the Rand Daily Mail. Laborious research has unravelled the financial structure behind the camps. Smith Mitchell administers the various institutions, interviews the personnel, orders the medicine, inspects the camps and protects them from unauthorised attention. It is controlled by David Tabatznik, a multi-millionaire of Polish origin and Bachelor of Arts with psychology as his main subject. His hobbies, according to South Africa's 'Who's Who', are tennis and squash. Tabatznik is President of the board of Protea, a management company which controls the Smith Mitchell network. The biggest shareholder in Protea is the Standard Bank of South Africa, which in tarn is controlled by the Chase Manhattan Bank in New Passport rights for mercenaries? Parliament with the right of appeal against the decision. Patricia Hewitt General Secretary NCCL AUKcitizenhasnorighttoa Soviet backing passport. It remains the property of the Government. It is granted for M PLA under a floyal Prerogative and may I F, after the lessons of East be refused or withdrawn on the Germany, Hungary and Czechodecision of the Foreign Secretary. slovakia and the revelations of the NCCL opposed the Foreign Soviet prison camps, Peter Jones and Secretary's exercise of this power Francis Prideaux believe that Russia when passports were confiscated will intervene anywhere except in from the mercenaries returning self-interest and the extension of from Angola, just as we have their influence, wall, they will opposed the withdrawal of pass- -j believe anything. ports from others whom the - Many of us have learned, slowly Government considers 'undesir. andpainfully, that Soviet policy is, able'. Whether or not the understandably, orientated towards mercenaries should have been the interest of the Soviet Union allowed to travel is not the point: only and that the interests of the Government should not have working people elsewhere are in no beenabletoresorttoan wayaconcern of the Soviet rulers. unchallengeable executive power As a so-called socialist state tostopthemdoingso. SovietRussiaisagrotesquefarce NCCL is pressing for passports as many of its defenders - and for tbe issued as a right to citizens a very longtime I was one - have of this country. Passports should learned. be refused or withdrawn,it at all, ....Yours sincerely, - . only on conditions laid down ,,i., Harold Smith, - . The men are clean shaven and wear torn uniforms. They work outdoors even in pouring rain In the middle of the bedrooms are the lavatories. The dirty windows are locked with a four-inch opening for air. A camp official has defended the lack of beds and blankets by saying that Africans like living close to each other and that they have such difficulty keeping clean that it would be pointless to better their sleeping space. There is one guard to 300 committed. One of them says: 'One day a reporter came from the Star. It *was a big joke.' They only Photographed employees who We know of more camps like Rand West - for example Waverley, where in 1974 800 Africans worked for local industry in the surrounding Transvaal. Production: brushes. luggage cards for airlines, cardboard boxes. Wages: tobacco and sweets. The net profit of the establishment was around £10 OO. Its mortality statistics show an average of two deaths a month, At Randfontein Non-White Sanatorium, about 1 500 black women work in a deserted mine. They make carpets, toys and blankets. The treatment is tranquilisrs,'and when necessary ECT at the Sterkfontain Hospital. York - part of the Rockefeller empire. This system of internment and forced labour could not come about without Government approval and support. It is on the authority of the state that Africans are taken in by the police, and then classified as mentally ill. It is also the Government which records these people as discharged - from the state institutions where they stay for a short period for 'observation' - when in actual fact they have been transferred to privately run labour camps for the rest of their lives, LLTTLRS

REVIEWS Divde and Rule, South Africa's essential data about the Bantustans The qualityof life and the Zimbabwe Tragedy by Enoch excitinglife. Bantustans, by Barbara Rogers. is unavailable And that observers are appalling poverty obtaining in some Dumbutshea. Published by East Fleeting references to colleagues Published bythe International rarely allowed to visit them to see of the Bantustan areas is described African Publishing House, PO Bo will not endear him to many of Defence,&AidFund,60p forthemselves, inchapterthree - it is a harrowing 30571, Nairobi,Kenya. them.Hedoesnotexpandon THIS pamphlet is recommended to Thepamphletdealsin great story. Thechapteron political I READ-Enoch Dumbutshena's charges, where a little extra effort all who know little or nothing about detail with questions of economics control in the Bantustans reads in Zimiabwe TIragedye the same week- would enlighten his readers and the so-called homelands' or Bantu- and political structure of the some parts like the libretto of a end that a Sundaynewspaper strengthen his case. For example, ss, which are at the heart of the Banturtans, the qualityof life comic opera. The farce of the reported the story of the escape in his furious attack on political Sth African policy of 'separate within their borders, and how and Legislative Assemblies, which have from Rhodesia of former Schools figures whom he assumes are elopinent'orapartheid, for what purposetheyare all the outward trepping~f a Inspector DonWaters. tribalists,orthewise'frustrated The Nationalist Party Govern- controlled. Starting with an real parliament, but seem to come Reading about the problems men' who have remained in the ent is trying to use them as interesting review of the historical straight out of Gilbert and Sulllvan involved in escaping from Rhodesia employ of the illegal regime, he defence against their critics by background and the origins of the Elections, power struggles, without a permit raised a question only presents his case in a copple asserting that the Banta will have ideology of racial segregation white interference in Bantu politics, in my mind: why did neither of of sentences. But if his intention 'independence' in his own areas - (plans for a white 'Master'Race') - with support for the 'good cthief the escapees buy an old bicycle was to stimulate interest in the the Bntustans.Howfarthis whichistracedbackinmany willingtoplaythewhiteman's and pedal along the bush paths Zimbabwe case, then even these 'independence' goes can easily be details to the Nazi racial theories game - the whole incredible sham into Botswana. There must be apparent weak points will help gauged bythe fact that inside the of Germany's 'Third Reich', it of so-called 'independence' is laid some good reason whytheydid encourage the reader to look for Bntustans legislation is determined outlines the Nationalist Party's - bare for thereaderto digest, not. Indeed, in the case of information from other sources., by the State President of South segregation policies, Photographs of native huts and Dumbutshena, I was left wondering Durnbutshena concentrates the Africa, that in limited parochial There is a break-up of the Bantu- of people and cattle in what look why he.carried a suitcase, and not reader's mind on the tragedy of areas where the.Legislative Assem- stan areas, showing how they are like landscapes of desolation, give a much more manageable rucksack, Zimbabwe. There is the tragedy ot blies have competence the State surrounded bya sea of white South an idea of the barren lives the Enoch Dumbutshena's life family bereavements in the absence President has the right to veto any African territories. Communication Bantustans offer to their inhabi- story is an illustration of progress, of the younger and economically measures taken, that administration between the various Bantustans is tents - many of whom are being in spite of all sorts of impediments, more dependable members of the is controlled by whites seconded by virtually impossible without white deported to them against their to a chosen goal. Certainly families; the tragedyof families the South African Government, and South African control. will. nothing his white compatriots did, divided by escapes from the illegal that no provisions have beenmade The tables of the areas and Full marks fqr the extensive individually as in the case of the regime and trying to reunite with for Africans to take over the senior populations of the various Bantu- references of sources given in a whitepolicemanwhoattackedhim thetemporarypassportsthatposts. stansare very helpful indeed and special appendix, neatly arranged for no reason on the mission farm James Callaghan introduced in In its introduction, the pamphlet the whole of chapter two: Outlines under the headings of chapters. where he was broughtup,or 1968forZimbabweanrefugees;the points out that millions of blacits of the Bantustans, should help An excellent booklet, which collectively through the bureau- tragedy of hostility in Zambia - an are, in any cae, omitted from this readers to get a fairly clear picture probes beyond the bare statistics cratic obstacles which stopped him itis not difficult to imegine it in 'grand design' as no provisions have of population, legislation and distri- into the heartof the matter, leaving the country, seems to have other places too. been made for Coloureds, Asians bution of peoples in the eight Nadia Fowler prevented him from leading a very Edgar Moyo and other minorities. Also, that Bantustans. . 'Is Muldoon a racist?' pickets ask Joan Bell NEW Zealanders in London - compliance with apartheid in participation in the Softball tourna- closing its border with Rhodesia. ON Thursday 8 April Joan Bell -''ornedabouttheracist,undemo refusingtoopposetheproposed ment. Atarecent press conference, died at the age of 78. This short cratic policies being pursued by 1976 All Blacks rugby tour of South Now, more serious action by the Muldoon even went so far as to announcement marks the end of a their country's new National Africa, and also attacked his racist African countries against New indicate that 'white Rhodesians' remarkable woman whose whole Government - tookadvantageof immigrationpolicy. Zealandisintheair.Twodays expelled from Rhodesia Would be 'life was dedicated to the progress the recent visit to London of In Febiuarythis year, the first before Muldoon's arrival in London, welcomedinNewZealandas ofmankind. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon South African sports team to visit Abraham Ordia, President of the Ugandan Asians and Chileans had Until her retirement in 1958 tostagetwopickets. NewZealandinoverthreeyears SupremeCouncilforSportinAfrica, beet, while adding, on further Joan had played an active role in The first was held outside New was allowed to take part in a World in an interview with the Canadian questioning,that e didn't think youthwork. Shealsowasand Zealand House in Haymarket, Softball Tournament in Lower Hutt. Television Network, stated catego- Black Rhodesian would bie 'very remained vitally-connected with while Mr Muldoon and 400 guests Under the previous Labour Govern- rically that if the All Blacks do interested' in coming to New the World Development Movement were attending a trade reception ment there was no possibility tour South Africa in June he will Zealand because 'theyseem to and Christian Action. For the pas inside.Placards reading: 'If that the SouthAfricans would definitelyrecommend that the have so many friends in surrounding 18 years Africa has attracted her Muldoon hates Pores, guess what have been allowed visas to enter the African countries do not attend the countries'. considerableandunselfishinterest. he thinks of the Blacks' and 'Is country, but Muldoon has repeated- Montreal Olympics unless New New Zealanders at home and For7yearssheworkedwiththe this man a racist' (with picture), ly stated that his government will Zealand withdraws or is expelled. abroad are also concerned by Mul- African Circle in Bristol and for the were reported In the British press, not 'interfereinsport'. Asthe newAustralianGovern- doon's attitude to the racial ques- past 11 years Anti-Apartheid-has while New Zealand papers, TV and This refusal actively to support ment has perhaps realised more tion within New Zealand, The received the main benefit of her radio all covered the event fully, the isolation of Suth Africa on clearly, poor sporting and cultural resumption of dawn raids to check devotion. The main, larger picket the next the sports field (as well as in other ties can only hinder New Zealand', the visas of Polynesians working in She carried on an unbroken e-ning at Downing Street, coinci- areas) has already cost New Zealand diplomatic and trade links with New Zealand, reduced and ioreas- correspondence with wives and ding With Muldoon's talks with one malor sporting event, when these countries. inglyscrutinised immigration, and families of political prisonersboth Prime Minister Callaghan, was better Filbert Bayi, the Tanzanian athlete, In connection with this, the New statements by Mulddo6 indicating in South Africa and Zimbabwe. attended by New Zealanders, many refused to visit the country in Zealanders were also disgusted that an intention to force young unem- She visited both these ountries as of whom bad been incensed by January this year (to take part in the new Government has reneged on played Maoris 'back to their marras' well as other countries in Africa, Muldoon's comments in British an" eagerly-awaited clash with New the agreement, made at the last in the rural areas where there are even making a host of friends and papers and television interviews. Zealand athlete John Walker), Commonwealth Conference, to fewer jobs, are not signs of a racially doggedly resisting any atterepts Both pickets attacked Muldoon's because of the South African compensate Mozambique for healthy society, topreventherseeingforherselfthe horrifying results of acial oppressi Calltoban squash- team SANROCcallsforboycott ndijutibecame a landmark in Barnet. SOUTH Africa's all-white-squash athleticswhereSouthAfricais of bipora ionS Her hmeat Meadows ide becme team will not be taking part in the barred from participating Inter- corbig I from such discrimination. The World Squash Rackets Champion- nationally as a team: and overseas SAN ROC(South African Non- Racial sponsored whites-only cricket, bicycle she rode with its antiships to be held in Birmingham - teams are not allowed to participate Olympic Committee) has called for SAN ROC has appealed to its apartheid slogans such as 'Boycott but it seems possible that its mem- withtheracists. aboycottoffiveinternationalcor- supporters in Africa to 'spread the Outspan Oranges' epitomised her bars will be allowed toparticipate .However, in April a team of poratons-which have sponsored message for a boycott of the hatred of apartheid in the World Individual Champion- British athletes - among them racist sporting events in South Africa. products of these companies'. She became a member of the ships at Wembley, May 16-24. VeronaElder,LizSutherland, Thefiveare: Ithas also asked African Govern- Barnet Branch of Anti-Apartheid The reason put forward bythe Donna Murray and Ann Wilson - e Colgate-Palmolive, which reents to warn thi firms that they and her youthful vigour inspired Minister for Sport. Dennis Howell took part in the South African sponsored the South African cannot support racism in South, all the members of that Branch. MP, is that the Individual Athletics Championships. Athletics Championships; Africa and expect friendship from Joan has left us, and on 5 Maya Championships are open to all irrespective of colour, creedorrace. Mexico refuses GeneralMotors,which independent African countries, memorial service-will beheld at the promotedtherecenttoural BarnetChurch,butthemostfitting InSouthAfrica,individsal Davis Cup tie SouthAfricabyanArgentine FIFA movesto memorialforherwouldbethe members of the Sqush Rackets Football team; expel ending of apartheid in South Afric Association -bytheir collective MEXICO hasrefusedtoplaya e DatsunNissan, which has South Africa nd the ending cf ill forms of vote - block black applications white South African team in the financed racist cricket com- SOUTH Africa is expected to be racial discrimination in this countr for membership. The white South Davis Cup competition. As a'result petitions in South Africa; expelled from the International It would have given her great Africans who will be participating the US Tennis Association has e Coca-Cola, which has put up Football Federation (FIFA) at its happiness to know that the solidaare the chief perpetuators of threatenedtopull outofnext moneyforwhiteprofessional meetingin MontrealinJuly. rity movements in this country are racial discriminationin South year's competitionif Mexicoisnot football andracistswimming A special F I FA Commission taking all steps possible to win the Africansquash, expelledatameetingtobeheldin, events; re- -recently visited South Africa to maximum support in thirpotntry Asimilarsituationexistsin L ondn,iJl GilletteRazrwhithai.....makeafirst-.hand reort"forthec~h ivmentoftHhk Iiche d t On y, ..:p . I' ._,. .: ...... ' ," L'u '* ...... P

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