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T MS Features ie A tory •separation ol power’ lo ‘power sharing* with the incorporation ol Coloureds and InJuns mio I he propi*scd sirueiure. Botha Our New considers ih»s %o necessary. thal he is prepared lo spin his own party lor it. It is a last-ditch attempt to co-opt the middle-, class Coloured' and Indians. Model Army Despite this risk, he has tailed to convince the oppressed that ‘W in their hearts and inindsand their bodies will lollow. .This has this power sharing is genuine. gradually become the ethos ol the S A D K Krom 1977. in response I hey see it as an aitm pt to divide to the political and economic crises, the SADK began to intervene them along racial and class lines. directly in total strategy Its new role was to'guarantee the svstem I hey see it as an attem pt to o f free enterprise, not A lrikancrdom '. I hus the war was seen as divide them along racial and W ( socio-economic and only 10* i military’. As Major General class Itnev Bosholf declared: ‘II we lose the socio-economic struggle then we need not even bother to fight the iiiiliiu ry struggle'. I he dem and for real political power has always been the This attitude was endorsed in business circles. As Harry central point of the struggles ol Oppcnheimcr commented: 'II you arc going to operate a business the oppressed lull represen successfully you want to do si* in a /wih cIu I utnunphcrc and the tation on all levels ol govern only way lo have a peacelul atmosphere is to enable black people ment. on a onc-pcrson-one-votc to d o better jobs and leel part ot the economic system.* Ihus. not surprisingly the SADI- and business hase begun to basis. tn SA this would mean the intervene directly in key decision-making political bodies. Until now they have had direct representation on six non-parliamentary abdication ol power by the cabinet committees. W ithin the State Security Council they have ruling clavs. coordinated and participated in the activities ol 15 interdepart Basic Demands mental committees. It is the SSC. rather than parliament that has become 'the most influential decision-making institution . Ihe New Constitution contra This situation will worsen with the constitutional proposals. dicts the basic demands lo the T he structure of the proposals deliberately shilts power to a non- people: parliamcntary executive: accountable only to the State President, • It was . undcmocralically not the electorate. drawn up by unrepresentative The power of the SAl)l- is even more astounding, if we look at middle class conservatives ap its role in the economy. Undoubtedly the spiralling defence pointed by the government, and budget is a drain on the economy: the I9K2 Kj budget was KJ 06* it was b u lldo /cd through par m illion, ic about KX m illion per day. But this is offset somewhat liament. by the profitable arms industry. Armscor is the third largest • It excludes 8(K r ol the Black financial undertaking in SA. and in 19X2 it delivered arms worth population. How can it therelore R I 400 m illion. In 1976. 75', ol the government’sdelcnee budget be called rclorm ? was spent in SA. 90' i ol this in private industry. Armament • It maintains (hc (jroup related industries employ o ver 100 IKK) workers. The SADF can also control the economy through 2 major Areas Act. the community pieces of legislation. The National Supplies and Procurement Act councils, the bantustans. allows the SADF to order any person or company deemed to • Government repression will produce ‘vital goods' to supply the SADF. I he National Key remain unchecked. W e have seen Points Act permits the Minister to declare any building a ‘key evidence ol this with the recent point" and to force the owners to meet stringent security spate ol detent ions and the ‘the security ol the state*, to that conflict at Fort Hare last year, requirements. which a fleets ‘other interests of very important. This strategy has been introduced primarily where authorities responded toa the Republic* as well, it could be through the Civic Action Programme (CAP) whereby 'service peaceful student protest by order used to prevent the disclosure ol men' are seconded to bantustan government, black education the police to beat up. sjambok corruption (eg Inlo Scandal) or institutions, or as engineers and technical advisors. I he C A P has and arrest students. alleged government activity out met with resistance eg there have been several Soweto schools • The Constitution introduces side SA (lor example, in Angola, enormous centralization ol boycotts against the use ol S A D f teachers. in Mozambique, the Seychelles South Alrica's intensifying civil war and the Namibia stalemate power. have also forced the SADK to introduce more rigorous , coup. or arms sales to • It ignores the redistribution ol conscription. I hus the 1982 Defence Amendment Act increased Argentina): or to hush up land and wealth and the pro the pool ol conscripts and lengthened their call-up period. detentions. I he government can vision o f services which are It is not surprising that the intention to call up Coloureds and now act without lear ol dis called for in the Freedom Indians is now being expressed. Already Africans. Colouredsand closure. Charter. Indians constitute a suable 10^ of the Permanent Force and by V tr \cw»i>uf>rr RcgiMrulittn { Ami'iutimni Hill increases con- Genuine change 1982 40rc o f the forces in the operational area were black. But as Transvaal NP leader FW de Klerk commented: ‘You can't ask a ; trol over the press. ) If the government is seriously man to light lor his country ,1 he can't vote. Thus the inclusion ot Coloureds and Indians into a racially weighted, undemocratic : . I he relative insignificance ol thinking about change and needs parliamentary system must be seen as a means ol credibly h these reforms, and opposition proposals that all the people accept they need only look to extending ihe SADK conscription. The expectation ol Coloured from both poles of the political new harsh the Freedom Charter. It was and Indian resistance partially explains the > scene have brought ‘T otal draw n up from views collected conscientious obtcctor pcnalnes c Strategy to a standstill. / by 50 000 organisers from • The C onstitutio n is the stale's m illions o f people of all races v latest attempt at political and classes in South Alrica. Ha* T restructuring. It has been a risky a more democratic proposal lor c venture involving great ideo- change ever been drawn up in logical leaps and a shill Irom S outh AfricaT • Nusas I9H2. The reform-repression strategy of (he South African state, outlined in the feature, affects every aspect of life in South Africa. Those who are unemployed have been shunted off to the Bantustans, where they stand little or no chance of re- employment. The state m oon *relorms' In the areas of education, health and housing. But the effect o f these reform] is merely to shift the state's social responsibilities into the hands of the private sector. Moreover, the reforms which have been implemented do not even go a fraction of the way towards an alleviation of these ills to m ention but a few: • A housing shortage so drastic that at lean R] 700 million n necessary to meet the current needs. • Livint conditions which give rise to diseases — bubonic plague, cholera, malnutrition and tuberculosis — which are almost unknown in 'white' South Africa. Afarfn Jochelson and Matthew Kentridge - the 83/84 •Crossly inferior education for blacks, whose protests against this are answered with lockouts and detentions.
Until this situation has been redressed, the very mention of BM nagHBaaaBgagaaaan^nnpw reform, let alone meaningful change, is laughable. Israel— Ciskei: Kar Niehaus and Jansie Lourens have been charged with treason ,,udem' *nd fiancee b a schoolteacher. Both have been detained in solitary confinement for almost two months. Katherine Hunter, who has not been 'barged, is also being held. SAUJS’ say Karl and Jansie are people who arc concerned about the The article headed ‘The Israel government plays no part in this injustice and inequality of their society. Link* on page 14 of W in Student and there is no Ciskei trade We extend our solidarity to them during their trial. Vol 35 No 17 combines fact and mission with official sanction in fiction to produce the usual Israel. Being a free and de m o Wits Student fully supports those journalists who came out in distorted picture of Israel. cratic society, private Israelis are protest against the actions of the East Rand Administration The thrust of the article is that free to conduct business w ith Board at Katlehong last week. links between the South African whoever they choose. and Israeli governments are not ERAB officials brutally attacked squatters, press and M ost am azing however is tnat only commercially sound but clergymen and ironically enough had to be restrained by the while the Ciskei is hardly recog ideologically bound through South African Police from further assault. nised by Win Student as being their mutual 'virulent anti credible on any other issue, their com m unism ’. This is a blatant This is the last edition o f Wits S tudent this year. It has been a ridiculous claims about Israel lie. particularly active year on campus, full of politics, jolling. music and the Ciskei are accepted at essays and m aths tests. One ot the panics represent face value. We all agree that ed in the Israeli Knesset (Par there is a debate surrounding the The main issue of the year was the Quota Bill afTair. A huge liament) is the Communist Middle-East, but surely we wa ve of student and academic protest followed the tabling of this Party. Israel has enjoyed diplo should try and elevate it to a level bill in parliament as it would have forced the university to activelv matic links with Communist both serious and accurate. Dis ~ i1CIi ? T " h" d ‘n ''5 *dmission Pol*'?- A general assembly was countries in the past and present inform ation can only serve to called (only the third in the university's history) and a NL'SAS ly enjoys ties with R um a n ia . In exacerbate the situation. national petuion got a hell of a lot of signatures. his recent trip to R u m a n ia . SAUJS Wits Committee This year has also seen the formation of the U DF, a national Israel’s Foreign Minister Yit- zchak Shamir called for in cam paisn * nd ,h * n w * « » * " > « e Ps on the way to the establishment of a creche on campus. creased ties between Israel and The article was not intended to be provocative. The information This year s election circus was arguably the most energetic in Eastern Block countries, includ was derived from a wide range of the history of the SRC and the SRC as a bod. has (believe it or ing the Soviet Union. This sources. not) worked so hard that even the Engineers are satisfied. hardly seems consistent with foreign policy of ‘virulent anti- The military and eco Wits Student says: Swot well, have good exams ana come oack Communism*. next year. nomic links between the Israeli and Ciskeian governments have The one accurate point in the been widely reported in the '.Contributors: anicle is about commercial links press. W e feel this is just cause between Ciskei and private for concern. Matt he* Kentridge Editor individuals in Israel. The Israeli The Editors Karen Jochelson Editor Peter Rosendorff News Cathy Stadler News Clive Claser Features Stew over review Janet Hersch Features Grant Gordon Arts I though a lew corrections and singer of the Motels. Derek S p in Arts comments on your Record Re It was nice to see Elvis Peter l.azarus S port views in the last Win Student Costello getting a good review Lizz van der Riet P roduction would not be out of place. This but to describe his lyrics as wealc Neil Abrams Business Is The Ice Age’ was not Martha shows a lack of understanding of Paul Jam m y Photography and the Muffins* second LP but Costello. Every line of a Costello their third. Their second was song has always got a touch of Debbie Abrahams Judy Beaumont ‘Trance and Dance*, which you irony or a clever word play or an Linda Berkowitz Karin Brodie were obviously not aware of. innuendo. His songs always Helene Joffe Janine Simon M artha Ladl> is not the lead drive home their point in a subtle Amanda Cohen Ivor Sarakinsky singer o f the Motels, as was manner, touching on everyday David Sadie Benina von Lieres stated in the review, but was the instances of hum a n life. Just David Bruce James Alexander former lead singer of Martha because you don't understand Karen Zw i Peter Cranko and the Muffins, who left the the lyrics doesn't mean they are Ed van Ammers group before ‘This Is The Ice weak. Age* M artha Davis is the lead Pu*e 14 D Towers LLB II IJ Ottoher I98J Letters Rhema:Just faith and personal gam structures th*i leave tnousands hch G o d loves you*, actually Christianity, they were anxious It was w ith great interest that we homeiess and starving. to move this 'political* activity went to hear Pastor Ray props up the lalsc values of a away from their meeting which MacCauley of Rhema Bible capitalist society where material O u r challenge to Rhem a is; was about ‘G o d ’. Church speak on campus. While gam is mo»t important, rather how is your faith in G o d than challenging the status uuo. manifested in sour dealings with not d o u b lin g that he believes W here is Christian love if it society? If they are not com what he is saying, we do doubt Pastor MacCauley's state ignores the state of affairs in this the scriptural and theological patible then what is your faith? ments that *vou must be born country? If it only prays for the leading lor what he preaches. Concerned Christian again to see the Kingdom of few and neglects to change the His primary message is tha. God* and ‘cast your burden on G o d loves you*; all well and Jesus and He’ll lake care o f you* good. but the emphasis he lays rcllect another erroneous view; Feathers fly over creche on this personalised God is not Jesus did come to save hum an the hasis ol Christian laith. Jesus ity. and through his death and !* would like to reply to Mr lishment. this project should be deemed a Right A. Xecnsity! said to us 'hive the Ijtrd your the Gospel values, people can Heat herstone’s letter about the (,tn l with all your heart, with all come to the Kingdom; but it daycare centre. Please ap Post G rad Sc M other your soul and all your strength. docs run take the responsibility preciate that lectures and visits and Zwvr your neigh hour u\ from us to live out those values to the library are presently y o u ru rlf. which is very different and transform our world until it unhampered by children's noises. from Rhcma’s 'accept the Lord is compatible with them. This is not due to any university It should come as no surprise to ruling but to the courtcsy and Mr Clilf Feathcrstone that as your saviour and iiw will be Evil is present in our society, tremendous inconvenience of apathy is rile o n W its Cam pus. saved. n w r sins will be forgiven’. but not as Rhem a says *the Devil parents. is doing the killing, the stealing No petition circulated here has „ h James 2; 14-17 ‘What good and destroying . . People are Back to M r Kcathcrstone: his ever got in excess o f 5 000 is it. my brothers, if a m an claims doing these things because of political knowledge seems to be signatures. Most stick at about to have laith but has no deeds? their sinfulness which is reflected reduced to the simplistic formula the 3 000 m ark. Can such faith save him ? in the evil structures like of democracy - majority rule. Suppose a brother or sister is In this context. 4 376 signa Apartheid, forced removals and without clothes ana daily food. However, ignoring the nghts 01 tures in support of a daycare so on. If one of you says to him ‘Go. I minority groups (old people, centre can be regarded as wish you well: keep warm and If we allow these to go children, homosexuals, women indicative ol widespread sup well led*, but docs nothing about unchallenged while we chase the etc.) is undemocratic. Further port. If we add to these signa his physical needs, what good is ‘ Devil* out o f the sick, we arc more. unless people like Mr tures the messages of support it? In the same way. faith by itself missing the point. Keatherstone actively oppose a received Irom 22 clubs and •f it is not accompanies by It was interesting to note tne caycarc centre, they arc agreeing societies, plus the endorsement action, is dead. reaction of Rhema people at the bv tacit consent. o f our petition by numerous academics, then Wits support Rhema docs not go further Great Hall to some Christians The argument a la heather- lor a daycare centre docs indeed than just laith and personal gain. who were petitioning against the stone is that only a m inority become ‘overwhelming*. Their philosophy of ‘if v.m>- new Constitution based on in supports (and is benefited by) justice and disregard for people poor, and you nave faith God this move, at the financial cost ol Students who signed the peti and therefore antithetical to will make you rich, and if you're the majority. In that case I am tion arc at last seeing the results: surprised that he did not ooject the University C oun cil has set up to the changes done on campus a sub-commiitcc-to-investigate . Doorstep converters for people in wheelchairs. Our the establishment of a daycare money is constantly used lor the centre! interests ol minority groups. Terry Shakinovsky keep away I he point is; m any reasonable SRC Daycare Centre Ad Hoc People who are practising a While waiting outside the librar> humane and ‘democratic* estab Com m ittee particular philosophy or religion recently. I was approached by obv io u s I v do so bccauc they find two young White female stu solace in it. II it dents who asked whether they Mime disappoints them they will go SMA misinforms could talk lit me about some out and seek som ething else. I aspccts ol their religion. I heir Can 1 please have the oppor and ass**c»ation. have noticed that you are tunity to correct the serious aim was to provide me with 2. Another extract from the directing this entire schcmc errors in a Student Moderate ‘some alternate v icvvpoint*, other Rand Ihn11 M ail contains two towards Hlaek and Indian Alliance pamphlet. ‘Disinlor- than my own religion (which is insertions which were not in the students m particular. Il you. lor maiion Campaign*.' not C hristianity). I let them original editorial. The pamphlet one moment believe that wc are I he pamphlet protests against speak because u seemed at that fails to note that these are the interested in your sermons, you the invitation extended by stu mom ent that they Iclt a great S M A ’s insertions. arc sadly mistaken. Perhaps vou dents to Mr Jacoho I imerman need to tell others about their are unaware ol who needs to be 3. Not content w ith merely experiences However thcv were to deliver the Richard hectham taught Christian principles. How distorting the Xtaifs views the in a vers subtle wav try ing to get lecture. I he material it uses about redirecting this campaign includes excerpts Irom the pamphlet goes on to attack us; me to attend one ol their serv ices Rami towards the Students* Moderate the Mail, it says, ‘just con and in so doing eventually I hnl i Mail. Alliance and towards right wing veniently forgets to mention’ convert to their laith. HI I: political parties w ho claim to be I. I he way in which a quo tation that Mr Timerman had not been I have some ideas which I leel Christians (in theory) but are from the Rand Ihiilx Mail to Lebanon to see lor himself. that these people oughi to know. actually b——ds in practice. II editorial «»l September 19 19X3 is In lact. M r T im erm an says in that fails irv to write another used conveys an entirely lalsc his book. ‘The Longest War*, All people are different in some Bible in Alrikaans which will picture ol what the editorial said: that he went to Lebanon. He inherent physical and psycho leach Christianity rather than the SMA has omitted the specifically mentions visiting logical wav. W hat ntav satisly incuualitv. Sidon. vou. may be totally unacceptable additional comment in the edi This letter is attack on torial which attacked the I suggest that if the* SmHent to roc. Therefore we should no Christianity as a religion, bui on Government's denial ol a visa to Moderate Alliance wants to nc*cr trv to impose our values those individuals ol \oinc de point fingers at anyone on the and beliefs onto others. I here Mr I imerman. nominations. who believe blind In lact. as readers o f the ground of abuse of the truth it arc aUo a large number of Jews. M ail ly that others have no suitable will know, even while criticising start by examining its own Muslims. and Hindus on standards. campus, but thcv don't usually values. Mr I imerman we have con Benjamin Pogrund go around trving to recruit Tolerance before fanaticism dem ned the visa relusal as a Deputy Kditor R and D a ily M a il people lor a particular church. M B B C h I curtailment of freedom ol speech
IJ (h n»bi-r I9KJ Pate 15 Letters ______‘Glaring mistakes’ in NUSAS campaign?
As the NUSAS petition cam and non-racial South Africa, paign progresses, one cannot but then a mere petition will not help notice the glaring mistakes provide the solutions. A few they have made in their thousand people may actually approach to the issues o f the sign, but the only meaningful referendum. way to have peaceful change in While political parties are South Africa is to actually gearing up for what will participate, to work from within probably be the most important the system and VOTE! The only political issue of our lifetimes, way to ensure that the proposals NUSAS is limiting its campaign are not accepted as the consti Kidson keeps watch to the signing of a petition, the tution is to actually vote on V a . I . ____•_ _ Your paper’s assessment ofthe relevance of which is question them. collectivist militarism. Appease Korean Airline disaster over able and the effect it may have on By abstaining one ment. such as unilateral dis looks an important point. the outcome obviously meaning achieves nothing; and one has in armament. merely increases the less. fact wasted the pnvilege only To summarise the events: the risk of war. as the bitter JOCo of the population has to Russians wittingly shot down an experience w ith another ty In a typical NUSAS stance bring about a better country for unarmed civilian airliner, lied ranny, Nazi Germany, showed. they would obviously prefer to all the peoples of South Africa. about it, and refused to apolo lie on the sidelines and criticize gise. The United States has fought rather than actually do some a number of wars this century to It is doubly ironic that The point overlooked is that thing about it. Though they have contain various imperialisms, N US AS condemns voting in any this event is entirely consistent ‘allow ed’ their supporters to vote with mixed results (eg World general election yet tries their with the policy of Marxist/ on November 2. if the ‘N O V win W a r II; although Hitler was utm ost to get high polls in S R C Leninist imperialism the world the day and a general election is defeated. Stalin, using military elections in government sub has been forced to live with since called N U S A S will do all in its power, extended the Russian sidised universities. the Russian revolution. It is no power to influence all students empire in Eastern Europe). They secret that *the com m unist party NOT to vote. It is high time that NUSAS may at times have erred in got their act together. As con of the Soviet Union, inspired by supporting the greater instead of Surely this altitude is contra cerned students we should all a missionary ideology, seeks by a lesser evils in places’ like El dictory? As students concerned offer our help now and on variety of weapons and tactics to Salvador and they may have with the future of South Africa November 2 in bringing true impose it’s doctrines and insti committed inexcusable agres and the evolution of peaceful reform and peaceful change to tutions on the other nations of sion in places like Cuba, but to reform, they should be the Tint our beautiful country. the world’ ("The New Imperial use these (relatively minor) to encourage students to use ism’ Hugh Seton-Watson. page Remember that bad laws are faults to distract attention from whatever privileges and facilities 120). M arxist/ Leninism , essen made by good citizens who don't the incomparably greater faults available to help bring about a tially a religion without God, is vote. If you are lucky enough to of Russia, the oppressors of over better South Africa. having its crusades against the have a vote, then use it well. Vote 200 million non-Russians, is infidel much like Christianity If they are serious in their •NO\ disingenious in the extreme. and Is k m d id a thousand years commitment to a democratic Peter Kidson, BA I Shawn Kopel ago; there is noth ing new or progressive about this This airline disaster typifies I am curious to know w hy as the totalitarian-left system- controversial and tumultuous an before-people attitude. Anyone event as the ’Former Swapo concerned with the future of Terrorist’ meeting on campus ALL STUDENTS SHOULD civilization, including demo went unreported in your esteem ANSWER THIS QUESnONNADtE. cratic forms of socialism, should ed organ. support attempts to contain this Peter Kidson BA I
I A r t you fad up with waiting for kfts h m friends and parents? □ YES □ NO Weighty problems
£ Would you tike the independence to In spite of the fact that the * o "h e r e you want, when vou want0 been ornaments on the wall for □ YES □ NO W eightlifting C lu b ’produces its months. Apart from the appal own scientific bulletin’ other 1 Do ycM o w n a car th af s Ot for the ling state of disrepair, other KJapyart* aspects of the Club are less questions about the running of □ YES Q NO exemplary. Since the beginning the gym arise. Most of the of this year a variety of impor- 4 A re you v w e res e d in a new car but apparatus is breaking due to age flunk ■ wtH be too expensive7 ■teCJLcxcrcising machines in the According to some members! □ YES □ NO gym have become broken. Some little if any new material has have been out of order for more 5 A r t you m tere s ed m a car thaTs been added for the last decade practical economical and fun to than a year. Complaints from tfrive’ In view of the fact that the various individuals to senior □ YES □ NO Weights Club has a very large members (who may or may not membership (if not the biggest), be directly responsible) such as and belongs to one of the better Mr Siff and Mr Hawkins, have Universities in this country, two V^Renault / Faralltka 5 achieved little. Recently the questions arise and are directed situation deteriorated to the to the person(s) responsible: extent that members have tried a) Why has the gym equipment to repair equipment and the BRESVSSMERS been allowed to deteriorate and dismantling of one item to fix "hy has it not 'BeeiTrepalre? another is c om m on. after repeated complaints? Due to the fact that several b) Why has no new equipment AJways good for a soft touch machines are broken, users are been added to supplement out being inconvenienced by over J dated apparatus? Why is none of use. and congestion. At the the cash derived from member present time at least 3 items are ship fees being ploughed back _in need of attention, and 2 crucial into the Club? lateral exercising machines have Pvvr 16 Dissatisfied IJ Oi lither IVMj Arts Seven Oh! Too Bad What K the difference Yeah. well. A hometown kid between South Africa's big did write and perform IJ w On. gest independent music radio but have you really listened to it? station and a swamp inhabit* Carefully? It's meaningless, uninspiring, simple: in short, it's ed by frogs and insects? written to The Formula. N o n e ! America. hom e o f mass- W hen the country’s most production. is • the frame of wildly successful station is less relerence lor this song. Any of adventurous than its govern the countless rock clones, who ment controlled counterpans, go by the name ol Boston. Stvx something is rotten in radio. or Toto. could have tnlluenced C hannel 702 started out a* it. N othing identifies the song as I he Answer To R a d io 5. It was a South Alrican. And that is why new station that would play it can be such a hit on 702. mustc on its merits and not on Ironically, staid and boring government sanction. Radio 5 now plays an hour of To be sure. desperate homemade music a day. People measures were needed to shake like Karl Kikillus and Chris Radio 5 out of the complacency Pryor not only play the music, which had set in. Since it had but. like Neil Johnson, tell the taken over L M R a d io in 1975. listeners something about it Radio 5 had become a virtual They have a finger on the pulse parody ol a radio station: ol rock. Even though their plaving music only when it had colleagues at Five mostly share been played to death elsewhere: the kind ol mediocrity which relusing to play anything which makes 702 look good, they are might ollcnd anyone. Radio 5 playing the kind of music which put the Boring into the Beal. people are being starved of Capital Radio 604 promised elsewhere. Five even broadcasts an answer, but provided mostly programme formal. Johnson up comedian who manages to the National Student Radio hit static. manages to pack more infor strike a chord in the lowest parade! (Sundays. 10.30pm). And then came 702. With a m ation into a three-hour slot common denominator on the we re ail agreed /02 is a rip- signal as strong as the promise, than the other D J ’s do in the rest Witwatcrsrand. off. but you say. there's noiKmg and disc jockeys so slick that the of the week. Instead ol Johnson receiving a we can do about it. so why don't word 'professional* had to be Listening to 702 alter 10pm on medal lor his el Ions on behalf of we stop moaning, groaning, and redeuned for radio. a weekday is nothing less than an Local Music, the 702 hierarchy the rest? And the music was there too. education in rock music. Even it shunted his weekly ‘Home Brew' Bui there i» something you can S o u th Africa’s best were some you are only being told that the SA music show from Mondays do! — you the lone harranguer times given a lair hearing, with next song, by Toto. say. is a huge at 10pm to Sunday s at midnight. have got more power than you even the worst of Britain’s chunk ol wasted vinyl, lit lor the Freak Hour. The only people realise. . alternatives pounding over the garbage heap and nothing else. that listen to you arc paid to be Buy a postcard. Or buy two. air. I he potential was enormous. Johnson informs knowledge awake at that lime, or they're Send one to Gary Edwards. But success breeds com ably. and you can rely on his insomniacs. Programme Organiser. P O Box placency. and a complacent opinion, unlike Long John S outh A frican music is em- 23114. Jo u b c n Park. 7044. creature becomes a conservative Berks: w ho docs not even relate barassing to the playlist priests W ork out your own message, creature. A t the height o f its to rock music: who believes that who worship the American Top but consider telling him you're success. 702 became the most Frank Sinatra and Shirley' twenty. So the backyard boys totally bored wiih what you hear boring, irritating place to be on Bassey should be back on the arc banished to Freak Hour. on 702. and you're switching to the music radii* map. charts. If Berks had half the WAN A MIN LIE. MAIL! R a d io 5 where you can get some I’hc reason lies partly in the brains of Neil Johnson, he'd be PIERRE I)E CHARMOY variety and hear what’s coming target audience. 702 believes that one o f the best D J ’s around. REACHED NO I AND HE'S out ol your own damn backy ard. n n M ol its listeners are white Instead, he's a crude stand- LOCAL! Radio stations hate complaints upper-class males, earning over from listeners, and if they get R l 4ut> a m onth, and 16 to 34 enough, something eventually years old. Not your average gets done. (Get your grand teenager or your concerned mother to send a card as well!) student at that. And send one to Neil Johnson S o 702 aim s at the rising I address as above) idling him cxevumc and the rich-kid who what you want to hear or know. haunts Rallies, and thinks anv- I he ellect ol lanmail on a D J’s thing Made In South Alrica is status should not be under inlcnor. It's reached a stage estimated. where even the local musicians 702 has the potential to are starting to believe that change the lace ol South African many have stopped striving to music. But tney won’t shin off their reactionary butts until produce anthmg hall-decent. 702 activclx encourages that someone demands that they do notion, sticking to the sale and so. narr%>w path where all the road D o it today. By tom orrow signs point to the American hit even Freak Hour will be deemed parade and South African disco- loo good lor ihe backyard boys. tc q o o Ol course, there are excep R um our tions: the wise lools like Neil Johnson, who do the unthink • h hu\ In-cn uHi-’i i! that the SA able by actually trying to educate Znwrnnicni ttlirailv) />ro- their listeners. W ith in the Inhilctl ihc li< >/>hiilnl\uutUI~ narrow coniines ol a prc- huM'il 702 fnini Uihcl/inx un delei mined-by •someone-else nnlv/H’thlrni music \iuinw. 1.1 /v.t.f /Viet* 17 Arts Roger Lucey:
‘The War’s It's 4.30 on Comm the other side. The Gold Rush is over ut the houses remain. Crown Mines. It is afterwards. When we were happy When we made money When we had everything privilege could buy When we - but then we . . . lost hold of control The plunder was over What's After The Thunder.’
There’s peanut butter on the table, breadcrumbs. Dies, acidic apricot juice. There's M ar* on the wall, daughter Amanda asleep in the next room, and dogshit outside — there's always dogshit on the outside. Inside there's Roger L u c e y . _
‘We used to listen to Bill Cosby and Martin Luther King at school. My maths teacher. Tim Dunn, provided the initial stimulation. We agreed that if I produced something worth* while, maths could take a backseat. I started writing poetry. It was always political. 1 got kicked out. ‘Eighteen in Durban; things started happening. I started So how
IJ (h -fh rr I'M* P u k c /V I Arts (and this album is rich in lamthat m baqanga) and u ltili/ing it in one’s ow n style (il M M has a Festival Mac Quacks style)? Malcolm McLaren — Roughly a year ago. - MM I think in this case. yes. Duck Rock (Charisma) fcreator ol Sex Pisols and Boss Because ol this country's musical fiasco Cuba. Dominican Republic Wow Wow) and Trevor Horn stagnation (and at limes regres The idea of a Jam es B o n d New York City. Columbia.' (half of The Buggies and pro sion — Solt o ld Shoes). I think Film Festival (advertised on Espanola. Kwya/ululand. Soweto ducer of ABC) graced this land. one should welcome any attempt campus today) is a long way at popularising homegrown and East Tennessee. You name They left a week later, having ■way from the true Film it. he’s done it. music. Som eone is alwavs •found' their sound. Ih n k R ork F e stiv al. needed to open the door for the Duck R in k crosses every is the product. . . . 'found'.’ My I he purpose of a film festival intci nationalization ( le crack the boundary, skips every border, ar>e! is a competition for new films. American market) ol a country’s enters every realm. It's a hotch The largest festivals are those One must seriously consider music. The Beatles did it lor potch. mish-mash of cross- held in Cannes and Venice. A the merits and demerits of Britain. Men At Work are doing cultural inlluences. Malcolm true film festival involves the allowing the 'plundering' of il for Australia. McLaren has come up with an film makers who are present to indigenous music. Can one be Duck R tnk is the very defini exciting. if not dangerous, explain or defend their films. justified in stripping off part of tion of innovation, and MM package tour. Festival films are usually shown this country's musical wealth must be respected for his indi viduality. guts and conviction. on T in t release’ bases and are noc intended to be commercial. Technically backed by experts (Thomas Dolby and Trevor Where docs James Bond fit in? H orn) this a lb u m is a classic. I here arc a num ber o f ‘ F ilm Not one track on the album Festivals* on the go at the (except perhaps Merengue) is moment but none of them are overshadowed by another. Each true to the definition. The has its own aura, flavour and French Film Festival a I the charm. Never have so few songs Picadilly. for example, includes draw n from so far. placed so a number of commercial French close, been so different. And films. Why then are films thrown throughout, the jabbering (and together under the ‘festival* often irritating) D J ’s of the label? The answer seems ob World's Famous Supreme Team, vious: the limited screenings play thread the diversities together. to full houses who pay more There’s rarely a moment's silence money (no student discounts!) to between songs. see the films largely because they ‘Linda, him- Itmg have you heen are o f ‘festival’ calibre. listening to the W orld* FumtttisT One only has to think back a 'Oh. ahoui six weeks now' while to remember all the ‘How do you manage to stay u/t ‘limited-screening’ festival films at 4 o'clock in the morning.*' which were subsequently re ‘Aah. To much o f that Snow leased commercially for long- W hite' runs at other cinemas: Interestingly enough, all the The Three B un hers and From M ao m hits generated by this a lb u m , are are examples. A very those based on our mbaqanga. M ozart good marketing plot indeed. Makes you think, doesn't it? . One can’t deny that many of GG the films shown at these Recordsu/>f»/iet/hy Street Record W h a t’s On with the Wits Orchestra Festivals are excellent and conducted by Prolessor W alter one should he prepared to pay At the Wits Theatre: M ony. more for that reason. But why October 4 15: C hun h itl O ctober 31 - November 4: Equinoxe call them ‘festivals* at the a one-man Hnd Man of Fk-stmy' expense ol the real lilm festivals stage portrait devised and aeted o j Year Recitals by senior students ol the School ol Music eclipse which involve far greater by Prolc»or David Horner (as part requirement ol their cxnensc (Head ol School of Dramatic Lquinoxe dance company A rt) final examinations). was one of the highlights of I he costumes, sim ple, lunc- October 11 15: Brecht's Film Society (in SH6) at I7h30 tional and elfectivc added to the *77#«* Arts Week earlier this term. < um asiun ( hutA Circle’ Kred and 20h00. overall effect. The dancers not Magenta nn will direct students October 17: The Big Sleep Performing in the Great Hall, only dance but have a capacity to ol the Sehool ol Dramatic Art. (H ow ard Havvkes)(Usa 1946) surprisingl) poorly attended, mime adding another dimension O ctober 9 17: Students o f the O ctober 24: The Poln rinun these innovative dancers cap- to the fluid dance movements. Sch(H>l o f D ram atic Art will be (E p hraim Kisluin) (Israel 1971) . tured different moods in the At the top canteen different presenting a final production lor O ctober 31: -I Bl.mil in Jj>ve. three original movements per angers and bands performed to the year. (Milo» Kirmjn) (C/echoslo- formed. i an appreciative audiencc. vakia 1956) Choreographed by Corinna In the (ireat Hall: la s t 2 weeks ol October A Lowry and Gray ham Davies, the The Music School contri- Octobcr lb; \ II Beethoven butcd to Arts Week with a Season of Japanese Films will dance company consists ol six C oncert — Featuring Piano coincide with I lie Japanese Arts members. namely Natasha number of different students Concerti No and N o 5. Soloist: } Festival to be held bv the Pincus. Martcllo Garner. Staccy playing various instruments all Mare Kaubcnhciiner (the cele over the cmapus. This is the lin t University Art Galleries. Watch Maw. Corinna Lowry. Eugene brated South African pianist) press lo r details Berry and Gravhnm time an Arts Week has been
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OutBefore you do or don't vote in the coming referendum, make sure y o u see G o in g D a rk at >% ^ the M arket Theatre. It reveals all the horror of the things that are not going to change under the ‘new dispensation', and all the hypocrisy of those th a t are. Going Dark is about tw o women who are forced to confront each other both at the personal and political level. The play was conceived by Bo Petersen, who plays Emily, after a scries o f incidents which heightened her awareness of the devastating reality of South A frican life. Her ideas were workshopped. taped and even tually scripted. G oing Dark is neither an intellectual condemnation of the A shot in the dark ‘a pan he id regime*, nor is it an emotional rave. It is a sensitive W h e n Wits Student w ent to mainly on your instinctive thing. do som ething — be seen, portrayal of the profound dis interview the cast and direc knowledge when you conceived be heard. . tress am ong those w ho are your characters, or did you tor of ‘Going Dark*, we Bo: I think it runs parallel with trapped — not only by their do research of any sort? discovered that we had expert her whole obsession. She sud sensibilities, but also by their Bo: Yes. we did research. For assistance. Contemporary denly comes to a realisation, and own experiences. example, initially the Zinzi suns to wonder why she had South African Drama option character was far more radical, Zinzi. played by Clare Stop- never challenged her husband students were on their weekly but that wasn’t really feasible in ford. is such a person, trapped in — instead being effectively kept outing and they stayed after terms of South Africa, and a deafened world. She needs where she was by him. and seeing the performance to chat to the where the South African white E m ily, an actress w ho leads a life that as quite romantic. But ja. cast. And so the ‘interview' left is at the m om ent. W e felt that sim ilar to those o f the people she there isn’t an oven feminist took the form of a group a lot of the people who have portrays, to provide her with a statement. done strange, and often very voice. And. crazy as her method discussion and question and Neil: I think that the whole play violent things have been people of protest might seem, it has a answer session. is inform ed by the fact that they without a political framework. poignant logic o f its own. Ms Geder (a Wits student): How are both women. I d o n ’t think They’ve been forced into a did you actually choose the title that it would have turned out as The pertormances ot both situation which is often quite ‘Going Dark? it did had they not been women women are stunning, and extra horrific. Because they d o n ’t Neil: It's a theatrical term which who were struggling, both in ordinarily direct. They depict a know how to deal with it. or how is applied to a theatre which has their very different ways, to situation which is as real as the to work it out properly, they closed down, or has been shut come to terms with their sexual ‘boys* on the border, and deten resort to something extreme. up. We wanted it to somehow roles. But that’s implicit in the tion without trial. It’s still a question in my mind express the theatrical aspect of play. The director. Neil McCarthy, why it hasn’t happened in South the whole event. Also, it has who recently appeared in Africa because it happens every broader ramifications. Another Country, succeeds in where else in the world. WS: Som e people feel that the his aims to show the play as ‘an Joseph Sherman (Wits English way the play moves from a Wits Student: How important citort to understand and com primarily political focus to one D epartm ent): For how long did was the feminist aspect to the municate firstly our guilt at which is much more personal you work on the play? political message which you being implicated in the violence, detracts from its im pact. H ow do N eil:W e’ve been w orking for were trying to get across, and to you feel about that? and secondly, our struggle to over two m onths. Initially we the play as a whole? cope with the violence that it worked mainly on character and Bo and Clare: The political Clare: It’s interesting that you bring> out in us. in the hope that background. Through the pro message is shocking, but it’s wc will progress beyond them.* cess of improvisation, we came ask that because we cut out a alienating, and I don’t think A C J H up with various different chunk of the improvisations people would walk out of this situations. Then we tried to work where we spent a lot of time theatre with any more insight out how to get a play together reminiscing and sharing. The about why people get up and from those situations. two women met on some son of carry guns, unless we explore feminist level in our previous their political motivations, what JS: Did you actually improvise drafts. But we realised that in drives them to d o it. with dialogue? fact it wasn’t helping the plot. It Clare: One of the most difficult Neil: Y cv W c worked stage by wa** actually keeping us from stage. We divided what we things to handle in fantasy; real developing it. imagined the action to be into play (fantasy because this spe stages, and then improvised M’5: In a way what vou’re doing cific thing hasn’t happened; real around them. We ended up with is talking about experiences because it’s so possible) was the about 8-10 hours of dialogue on which are quite specific to tact that it hasn’t happened and tape, and then went through w om en in m a n ) wavs. but you’re why. Therefore what was the each tape taking out what we felt never really making any overt white lelt doing? There’s been no was most effective. We ended up feminist statement. It’s a very violence from them in the last with a two hour script and used personal statement. few vears. So w ho would do it? that as a foundation for what Clare: For me. there's a gentle T hat was what we had to we’ve got now. feminist statement running explore. undcrneatn Zin/i s whole jour Neil: It’s people whose personal Martin Orkin (Wits English ney: her passivity as a wife, and lives have been contaminated by D epartm ent): D id you rely then her need to become some a specific political situation. Yes folks — Iff true, Wits. _N union's anguished m nth Nurden-is dead! The SMA stopped painting sort of thing by the University •Stuff the humanistic approach,* the wall and their orange white Players. The first we heard of it was on I thought, took the lift to the and blue minions joined the Prostrate in front of the Sunday night when a distraught top of Senate House andjumped search. Muscle Gristle phoned unfortunate reporter was Nur- Mrs Scatoma phoned Wits off. I decided that death was a far Schmo Pheer. who in turn den; still more unfortunate. And Student offices to complain that better option than pressing the contacted the Prime Minister, dead. her son hadn't been home for Politics department for an ex who 'regretted that he was A note addressed 'T o w hom it two weeks and that she was tension. unable to shine any light on the m ay concern’ was found on his getting sick and tired o f setting a "Sorry if I dirtied m y clothes.’ matter'. corpse. place at the dinner table for It read: Little Nurc nothing. The SRC drew up a motion regretting Nurden's disappear •Overburdened with the bore It was a wonderful funeraL •Where is my little Nurd-, she ance and calling for an intensi d o m o f having to tell people that The Vice-Chancellor dug up all wailed. It took two solid hours of fication of the search. It was I don t know what I'm going to the grass in front of the Physics convincing argument to explain rejected unanim ously. do after mv BA: humiliated by Block 'to make a really fine to her that no lecture could be The editor of ordered the sneers ot Commerce and ?r?,ve'' burden was buried with extended from 50 minutes to Torque that the Wench of the Engineering students. I took the lull civilian honours, and. in a 20 160 minutes without the next Torque the plunge. symbolic gesture, his copy of of kin being notified — especially M o nth be issued with black F ou m ay ask 'W hyT W ell, it's General Prologue' was buried oyer the Jewish New Year. nipple-caps as a sign of their a long story, but here it is. with him. together with a note Finally she accepted that the ‘deepest respect' Even Zimsoc 'Last Tuesday I was walking signed by the Secretary of the chances o f her little boy being was not unaffected, cutting a lo n g c ontem plating the essence Department of. English which engrossed in a marathon lecture down consumption so drastic ally that SAB began to suffer of humanity. The absence of a stated that he had an indefinite on *the abnorm al behaviour of serious losses. humanistic approach to moral extension on his Chaucer test. household appliances' were slim. Meanwhile, a determined crises upset me no end. Soon The Vice-Chancellor then A further 2 hours were spent Wits Student reporter, clad only after I bumped into one of the ordered that N urden’s grave be 'persuading her that even the in a gas mask, prowled around students in my Politics class bricked up. and handed round a longest meetings in the Great the backside of the university. Rupert Hegel. After a short newsletter to all those present. ‘I H all seldom extend over a week Suddenly, she screamed. She discussion on the negation of the see life as an ocean.’ he had At this point the entire Scatoma screamed, yelped, howled and particularity of one's embodi written. ‘We each choose a household broke down. Scha- shrieked. Nobody noticed. They'd ment. he told me that we had an particular ocean, and dive in and chat Cullem are investigating. heen innoculated against this essay due for the previous day. swim like hell. Unfortunately, The Wits Student office was some of us drown.* thrown into a panic at the news of Nurden's disappearance. Fearing that circulation would Is this really the drop from a healthy 20 000 to zero over the space of one end? edition. • the editor emerging briefly from his/her alcoholic Why is the author stupor sent out staff members in all directions to find the little of Nurden allow chap. F or the next few days there ed to walk about was panic at Wits. Rumour of freely? Nurden's absence from campus spread fast. Sociology students boycotted classes and S A U JS What happened noted in the sukkah. The to the original Muslim Students Association declared a day of mourning and story line of this the Vice-Chancellor called a General Assembly, at which he saga? and members of Council (most of whom had been hurriedly What story line? recalled from the operation area) reaffirmed their dedication to a Just who the hell principle aaopted in IY27 which stated that all people, even is Peter Kidson Nurdens. would be adm itted to Pagt 22 BA I?
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