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Visit to

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Murphy Morobe

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Mohammed Valli Moosa

January 1989

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UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT

The United Democratic Front is an umbrella organization of some 600 groups in with a combined membership of approximately 2 million people. In February of 1988 the Government prohibited the Front from "conducting any political activities whatsoever". Despite the banning and detention of most of the leadership of the Front, it remains one of the largest sources of opposition to the regime. Its leaders, while embattled, continue to be dynamic and active in the political life of the country. These people will play a large role in any legitimate attempt at creating a democratic South Africa.

MURPHY MOROBE, 33 became involved in educational protests against apartheid in the 1970s. As a member of the Soweto Students Representatives Council he was convicted of sedition in 1977. Following his release from Robben Island in 1982 he became involved in trade union and community affairs, organizing for the General and Allied Workers Union and helped launch the Soweto Students Congress and the UDF's Million Signature Campaign. In 1985 Morobe was elected Rural Secretary for the UDF, but soon assumed the position of Acting National Publicity Secretary following the detention of Patrick Lekota. He has been detained periodically since 1986, but continues to be actively involved in the democratic movement. He is married and has two children who live in Soweto.

MOHAMMED VALLI MOOSA, 32 was born in Johannesburg, but his family was relocated to the township of Lenasia under the Group Areas Act in 1964. He was a member of the South African Students Organization prior to its banning in 1977, after which he returned to teaching. He became instrumental in the formation of a community residents association, before becoming actively involved in a campaign against the South African Indian Council in 1981 and 1982. He helped revive the Transvaal Indian Congress in 1983 and was elected Transvaal General Secretary of the UDF in June of that year. In 1985, following the detention of Pope Molefe, Valli was voted Acting General Secretary of the UDF's National Executive Committee. He has been aetained repeatedly, despite this, he has remained active in the campaigns against apartheid. He has a daughter who is 3 years old.

VUSI KHANYILE, 37, is Chairperson of the National Education Crisis Committee, which was formed to help mediate the school boycott. He is currently an educator working at the University of the and is involved in efforts to build a democratic education system in South Africa.

These men dramatically highlighted the plight of South Africa's detainees in September 1988 by making a daring escape from detention and taking refuge at the U.S. consulate. All three men had been held in detention without charge for over 14 months. January 1989

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NY • NEWSDAY. THURSDAY. JUNE 4 197 U.S. Actions Anger S. Africa Rebels By Vivienne Walt A senior U.S. Embassy official last Newsday Staff Correspondent month told American journalists that Johannesburg - Officials of South the U.S. Agency for International De Africa's major antiapartheid coalition velopment program here was worth warned yesterday of increasing hostil- $25 million this year. Its exact nature ity toward the United States by the is kept under wraps in South Africa, country's black militants and urged where both radical organizations and their members to rejeit much of the the government regard the funding, private and federal U.S. funding of- which goes to antiapartheid groups, as fered for antigovernment projects controversial. In addition, private U.S. The United Democratic Front, foundationsextensive aid and to corporationsantigovernment provide pro which is believed to be supported by jexts. more than 2 million people in about Morobe said antiapartheid activists 700 labor, rural and civil associations, were angered by a Senate vote two resolved at a secret national confer- weeks ago to cut offaid to black south ence last weekend to reject any U.S. ern Alfrican nations unless they re funding that appeared to discourage nounce the guerrilla campaign of the economic sanctions against South Af- outlawed African National Congress. rica.oulwdArcnNtoaCoges group contends that some u "e Senate confirmed our people's The _s_ animosity towards U.S. policy, egpe corporations use aid to antiapartheid cially under the Reagan administra efforts as a justification for continuing tion," said Morobe. 'The vote ampli to do business in South Africa. fled a long-held view within the The resolution also opposed funding demrticr 0oXa L.t.l _ _t 90 from U.S. agencies that "supply funds percent of U.S. aid has always been to counterrevolutionary activities in given with the view to controlling other countries" or that "support pup- events in the country." pet structures, death squads and other Socialist-inclined movements work counterrevolutionary groupings." ing to end South Africa's racial poli "Events in Nicaragua and El Salva- ies long have been suspicious of U.S. dor have pointed out that U.S. aid has upports fr their cause. had potential to be used for counter- 8"The United States was always on revolutionary purposes," said the the side of South Africa," maid Nkwabi front's publicity secretary, Murphy Ng'wanakilala, information offlicer of Morobe wthe Southern African Development Co Morobe, who has been on the run ordinating Conference, under which from security forces since President the front-line states are grouped. In an Pieter W. Botha declared a national interview in Gaborone, Botswana, last state of emergency last June 12, came week, he said that seven months afer briefly out of hiding yesterday to meet U.S. sanctions were impoed against a small group of journalists at a secret souti, were theyd ad site in a white suburb of Johannes- S outhAfricat"weth.*ghttheyhadhd burg. a 6hange ofheart." He said that even though the orga- This report was prepared under nization has been driven virtually un- media restrictions which prohibit derground over the past year, 200 journalists from reporting and UDF delegates were able to meet to publishing news about antigo forge a program of action against the vernment violence and security government, force actions. A-i Established by The Americaon Corn itte on Africo. 1966 • (_ onri butto is (re tt i-dCidiittbl,. I I The Africa Fund * N 962-1210 Tilden J LeMelle, Chairman 198 Broadway ew York, N.Y. 10038 0 (212) Jennifer Davis. Executive Director

OC'ro3JO 2l, 98 71E NE W I' OKI rIM) S INTERNATIONAL rJlkSI)AY 3 Apartheid Foes Leave U.S. Consulate

By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN Advice 'F-ont Comrade Nelson' Sic .(ahv INS. Y.r k Ihnms 'We decided to leave the con.itnati' JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 19 - Three after having had consultations with our anti-apartheid leaders who escaped family, fiends and several other from detention and took refuge in the prominent South Africans," their state American Consulate 37 days ago ment said. They specifically meitioned walked out today, apparently on the ad- "a communication from Comrade Nel vice of Nelson R. Mandela. I son Mandela" on Monday. I he South African Government, t "The suggestion of Comrade Nelson seeking to avoid a diplomatic confron- I Mandela was that we should leave the tation with the United States, had said z consulate as soon as possible," Mr. on several occasions that the three, Moosa said. Morobe, Vusi Khanyile and Mr. Mandela, South Africa's most Murphy been Mnohammed Valli Moosa, were free (o celebrated political prisoner, has ieing deltined again. Today it ap- recuperating from tubercilsis under ieared to be honoring its pledge. police guard in a Cape tfown clii. In a statement read at a news confer- There has been speculaliiin thai iresi ence this afternoon, the men said they dent 1'. W. Botha, who is under iiterit decided to leave the consulate because tional pressure to free Mr. Mandela, they had successfully publicized the might release him next month. of 1,300 other people who they The conduit between the three esca status was Witinie said had been detained under the Gov- pees and Mr. Mandela ernment's emergency declaration. Mandela, Mr. Mandela's wife, who ine' They had previously pledged not to ,with the men in the consulate Monday leave the consulate until other detain- after she visited her husbans! in cape ecs were freed and laws including the 'T'own over the weekend, emergency declaration repealed. There has been some criticismi of the spokesman for the United States tree fugitives within tlI( anti-apart A and a1 E bntassy in Pretoria, Barry Walkley. liiild movement, because they said the American Government did not " i(irth detainee, Clifford Ncgolbi, es negotiate the departure of the threi' caped while undergoing medi-cal care Mi. who sought refugeon Sept. 13. at a Johannesburg hospital. "They arrived at their decision inde- . Ncgobo left the consulate earlier. Their pendently," Mr. Walkley said. "Having escape had prompted concern that the prIovided them with refuge, we will of authorities might he eluctatt 10 at course remain interested it any devel- range medical treatment for others opments concerning them... ' I still being detained. old, and Mr. appeared that the fugitives had Mr. Morobe, 32 years It oifficials (if the dissuaded from staying on by Moosa, 31 are senii been anti they had taken refuge after others in the anti-apartheid nmovement United Democratic Front, the leaders leaving United States Consulate iii Johannesburg where thought that their stand ha t apartliid umbrella group. Mr. Khany Aflti-apartheid who From left were Mohammed Valli Moosa, Murphy Morobe and Vusi Ktlanvile. its usefulness. ile, 37, was chairman of the dormant esofapimg from detention. tived INational Education Crisis Committee, ,which was formed to mediate an end to a school boycott by blacks.

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2 Anti-Apartheid Leaders Are Arrested

By JOHlN D. DTTERSBY Predecessors on Trial Fxploslon at Airport Although the United mlnor:atic CAI'E OWN. July 22 (Reuters) - A is nut ftomalty oulawed, it has' mil-t rmine damaged (aix' 1 own', in -JOHANNESBURG. July 22 - I sA Frti as an undergrouni early todauy I, the key officials of the anltiapartheld fu-ictoned largely lernational altrport organt/iation under the emergency i United Democratic Front, the hi.,g.t I tw S. "hird eiplosion in South Africa's see Internal groiping resisting white role, tnid loggest city in as many days. the Mr. Morobe has made several public were arresed by the South African ixP fxlce said. appearan: es sinc e he %%ent into hiding. lice early today in a pre-dawn sweep. Ni intiries were reported. but the and hs pctute has aplp.nred along;tde, Murphy Morobe, the acting national blim hidly datmaged the terminal. signed articles adv(Ka| t cup a no rail : publicity secretary of the Front who 1 roof, and shattered Al _n new,p; blew a hole in the s been working underground for, dirmo(raty in South more than a year, was detained in Porl Ipets. I windows, according to the police. Elizabeth on the eastern seab.ard lIe has emerged itihold news confler 1 he device, planted in a women's he aiddisec,,I along with the Front's acting gcneralt ti C(.S.and last wuekend lavatory in the departure terminal. ex f congrevs of the secretary, Mohammed Valli Moo a the fi national of passen Af plied js.t after hundreds Civil rights lawyers, who confirmd 70.000.trong Ctongress of South yers had left the airport on a night the arrests. said they were (cinsidt-i tog ri(an Trade Unions. the militant union flight lioJohannesburg. -applying to the cout ts for the relealse io federation ih:i has licen spearheading the two men. a P.- aati iheid act ra in recent months. lht other p:i son arrestcd (tXay. Mr The four-year-old United I'.nlo. , cratic Front, which claims a milia Va1:1 was i1t%c strKiv for the first thre, clal membership of more than two mil months of the vear as one of an esti lion, has been severely hampered by maletd 25.000 peeple thai ha.ve ixen the Intimidation, assassination and de held without ittat under the ener gency tention of leading officials dcccr. Mr Morolic and Mr.Valli hldil their posts tenporartly w4hile thei Program Aligned With A.N.C. p ide( .essrs, i'at rick -1oritor" Molefe, are tried fot rejects the use of I ekota and Pop.x Although the Front tr,ason violence to achieve its goals. it folluwS program closely aligned to a political Angry Reaction the outlawed African National (on gress, the main guerrilla-backed group Mr M.-.toi- wais detained fur !ix that is fighting toend white rule. ,tA'i s duilg Ihe first siate of emtr On Tuesday, a group of 40 mainly genky. di cliit-d in19s'i. alter ,ppa-, Afrlkaans-speaking South Africans re enily in tugr.it'ld iV .curity for( eS it hurned from a ten-day visit to West A( do% nlwn Juhannestburg. rka where they held talks with officials (iil rights itoips. trade uniooitl of the banned group in a bid to prepire anti youth otgantattions i -acted an-, the ground for negotiations between grily to the detentions tonight and the white-dominated Government and %.o',wed that detention and repression exiled black nationalists. would nut da.o; 'n resistanice to apart The state-controlled television heid. showed brief scenes of' neofascist demonstrators that Itrned up at Johan. nesburg airport to jeer At the ni-golta tors. The broadcast was followed with what was described as a documentary on the group portraying It as a "Marx ist-terrorist" organization bent on the violenit overthrow of the state. Mr. Morobe, who went Into hiding when a nationwide state of emergency was declared on June 12, 1986. had emerged as a key filgure in keeping the It1 oi antl-partheid resistance alive in the face of state repression. UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT - 44 NA rIONAL OFFICE K1 JDF (JNITE5I APARTHEID DIVIDES 42 OTSO HOUSE 09 VILLIERS STRE P.0iANNESUURG BOX 1O366 TEL 29-1916 1917

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The detentions of Murphy Morobe and Mohammed Valli means that almost all the senior remaining office bearers of the UDF have now been detained. For months now we have withstood a systematic and sustained assault against all levels of our membership from the local committees to the national leadership. The DPSC estimates about 75 percent of all detainees are linked to the UDF. The UDF has Continued to grow In strength and popularity yet the Botha government continues to attempt to crush us,

This is despite the fact that the UDF is a legal mass-based organisation committed to non-violent means to end apartheid. Claims by Stoffel Van Der Merwe and other government "diplomats" that they are prepared to talk to all leaders pursuing non-violent means, "even from the UDF', have been throughly exposed by this latest action. We challenge Stoffel Van Der Merwe and indeed Chris Heunis and PW Botha to disassociate themselves from these detentions!

The vicious attacks on our leadership make us extremely concerned about the safety of Murphy and VailI. This concern is heightened by the fact that they have been detained in the Eastern Cape, an area notorious for its brutality. The fact that the security police have continously tried to hunt Murphy for over 14 months gives us cause to fear that retribution will be taken against them. We call on all democrats here and Internationally to camapign for the

release of Valli and Murphy and all our leaders and members.

Release our people! Hands Off UDF!

AZHAR CACHALIA UDF NATIONAl TRFASURFR UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT NATI ONAL OFFICE

JF UNITES! APARTHEID DIVIDES! 42KHO 0 T$O HOUSE I VILLIERS STRI lOHi ANNESOURG P.O. BOX 10366 TEL: 2-1916 I17 REPRESSION OF THE UDF Leadership detained

it is widely recognised that members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) have borne the brunt, and contine to bear the brunt of repression. The Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC) has estimated that consistently 75 percent or more of detainees have belonged to the UDF or one of its many affiliates. UDF members have not only been detained, but assaulted, abducted and assasinated. Families of UDF members and detainees have been constantly harassed.

To give an idea of the extent of repression against the UDF, we list below some of the leading UDF members and office bearers who remain in detention, or prison, many since 12 June last year, some for much longer. It should also be noted that a number of other UDF leaders had been held for the entire year of the emergency and only released on June 12 this year.

1. Terror Lekota ...... National Publicity Secretary 2. Popo Molefe ...... National General Secretary 3. Murphy Morobe ...... National Publicity Secretary (Acting) 4. Mohammed Valli ...... National General Secretary (Acting) 5.Stone Sizani ...... Publicity Secretary (Eastern Cape) 6. Edgar NgoyI ...... President (Eastern Cape) 7.Henry Fazzle ...... Vice-President (Eastern Cape) 8. Mkhusell Jack ...... Executive member (Eastern Cape) 10. ...... Executive member (Eastern Cape) II I.Paul Mashatile ...... Assistant General Secretary (Transvaal) 12.Paul Maseko ...... Labour Secretary (Transvaal) 13.Raymond Suttner ...... Education Officer (Transvaal) 14. Amos Masondo ...... UDF civic leader and trade unionist IS.Jacob MtshalI ...... UDF administrator 16.Arnold Stofile ...... General Secretary (Border) 17.Zoll Malindi ...... President (Western Cape) 18.Chrlstmas Tinto ...... Vice- President (Western Cape) 19. ...... General Secretary (Western Cape) 20.Joyce Mabhudafasl ...... General Secretary (Northern Transvaal) 21.Frans MohIala ...... Executive Member (Northern Transvaal) 22. Moss Chikane ...... Transvaal General Secretary UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT NAT rONAL OFFICE KHDTSO HOUSE JDF UNITESI APARTHEID DIVIDES! 42 EE VILLIERS STRE! ION ANNESBURG P.0,,BOX 103 TEL: 29.1916 917 UDF DETAINED LEADERS PROFILE- • PIIRPY MOROBE UOF ACTIIG NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY D3etained 22 July

The firt experience Murphy, 33, had of South African police brutality was when he was dragged by his heir to the cells of John Vorster Square after protesting outside a courtroom in 1975. A student at the well-known Morris lsaacsonHigh School in Snweto in J ne, 1976, he swiftly became Involved in the educational protests of the time. He was a member of the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC) when in 1977 he was convicted of sedition along with several other student leaders.

On his release from Robben Island prison In 1982 he became involved In trade union and community affairs. Murphy spoke on many student platforms, and his dedication to promoting non-racialism is evident in the co-operation between student organisations today. He was an organiser for GAWU (General and Allied Workers Union) when he helped launch the Soweto Students Congress (SOYCO). In the first part of 1984 Murphy became an organiser for the UDF's Million Signature Campaign.

In 1984 on an overseas tour to publicise the plight of the UDF leaders who staged a sit-in at the Durban Consulate, Murphy met various international leaders in Europe and the United States, including UN Secretary-General Perez du Cuellar. He was detained shortly after his return under the Internal Security Act and held for several months. Murphy also received the RlO0 000 Swedish 'Live and Let Live" prize on behalf of the UDF.

In March 1985 Murphy was elected rural secretary for the UDF, but rol lowing Patrick Lekota' duLeiLium In April 1905 Murphy stepped Into the breach as acting National Publicity Secretary.

He was detained under the state of Omergency regulations on 22 January 1986, held in solitary confinement at John Vorster Square, and released when the first state or emergency was lifted on 12 March. At the time he said he was full of energy to continue his work in the UDF, saying: "I didn't go inside to fetch a resignation form from the police*. With the re-imposition of the Emergency on 12 June 1986, Murphy went into hiding. From that time until he was detained he tirelessly continued the work of the UDF. Among key campaigns during the past twelve months were the Campaign for National United Action with Cosatu, the Christmas Against the Emergency, the calls for the unbanning of the ANC and the protest,%against the whites-only le¢ttfon4. Murphy adapted to the restrictive conditions, and journalists became used to meeting him in the most unusual conditions. Murphy emerged from hiding to speak on public vIdLaui ma at L Il,,i U,',l,'r, 4,f61,Pawplieps Caftlepmaee a~d mono recently ot the Cooatu conference.

Murphy's astuteness and sense of humour has often been remarked upon by the many journalists with whom he came Into contact. He has a wife and two young children who live In Soweto.

In an Interview In August last year Murphy said the UDF expected an ongoing crackdown by the state, but that "they will have to Imprison a whole nation to stop us*.

Barely two wookc bofore his detention Murphy appeared live on Radio 702's talk show speaking from underground. The show's host asked him "Why are the security police looking for you?" It is worth recording Murphy's answer: "At the present time the state seems to have come to the conclusion that there is no way in which they can deal with the demands of the democratic movement ... therefore the only resolution they seem to have come to is that they would need to incarcerate people like myself and the thousands of other detainees who have been incarcerated over the last two years ... they are working towards getting me behind bars and ensuring that I no longer work for UDF and for democracy."

WE DEMAND HIS IIMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASEI JNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT NATI NAL OFFICE. JDF UNITESI APARTHEID DIVIDES! KHOTSO HOUSE 42 DE VILLIR5 STREI JOH^ANNESBURG P.O. a OX 103" TEL: 2$-1916 29-191;7

UDF DETAINED LEADERS PROFILE: MOHAMMED VALLI MOOSA ACTING NATIONAL AINERAL SECRETARY OF THE UNITED

Detained for th. second time this year on 22 July

Persona! backg_ ound Mohammed Valli, 30, was born in Johannesburg but In 1964 his family was forced under the Group Areas Act to move to the township of Lenasia outside Johannesburg which was designated for so-called Indian people.

While at the University of Ourban-Westvllle Valli participated In the activities of the various community organisations In Ourban which took up the problems of high rent and inadequate housing. In 1978 he graduated with a BSc, and then worked as a school teacher, first In Durban and then in Lenasia. He also worked as a course writer for the SA Committee for Higher Education (Sached). Valli has a one-year-old daughter, Kim.

Political bckground Valli was an executive member of the South African Students' Association (Saso) when It was banned In 1977. He was first detained under the Internal Security Act during the 1980 school boycotts while working as a school teacher.

On returning to Lenasla, he became Involved In Time to Learn, an organisatIon which provided tuition to children from nearby Thomsville. Later, moved by the appalling conditions under which the ThomSville people lived, he was Instrumental In the formation of a residents' association which won rehousing. Vall Increasingly became convinced that the problems of the community around housing and education were linked to the political situation in this country.

To this end, he became actively Involved in the Anti-South African Indian council (SAIC) campaign In 1981 and 1982, and helped revive the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) In May, 1983. In June that year he was elected Transvaal general secretary of the UDF which was launched nationally on 20 August. Despite being forced Into hiding following the government repression after the successful UOF campign against the government's unjust tri-cameral parliament, Valli continued to fulf ill his responsibilities as a UDF leader.

In 1985 following Popo Molefe's detention, Valli was voted in as acting general secretary of the UDFs National Executive Committee.

Valli has also represented the UDF In visits to Europe, the United States and Canada.

At the beginning of this year Valli was detained under the Emergency regulations, and was held until April. His lawyers were on the point of bringing an urgent application when he was released. The application had noted that many of the Minister of Police's reasons for holding him were either inaccurate, or based on perfectly legal activities such as calling for the unbanning of the African National Congress.

On his release, Valli threw himself back Into the activities of the UDF. His position as acting general secretary was reconfirmed, and his dedication to his tasks recognised at the UDF's National Working Committee meeting in May, held In secret and attended by 200 delegates.

Despite the Emergency and continual state repression the UDF is growing in influence and popular support. This reflects on the leadership of the UDF of which Valli is a part.

WE DEMAND HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE. able s t dwellers outy ea cusc ia a. c...... Its statemeat ays that the Be acmowledged that masy mlgrants to pal orde4 peddledoes not. knew what the uramn areas squashed to acquhi sem to jobs or Mr Grtflths' comments cme an Saps report Mr Nkala said that AC said 'about violence ... beame from the Informal teet r- opporul. ed e an Usheu Foundation cal to Goeemt among reasons for ex' ahout while particplation h,a ies tit emnryside did net always offer. to help provide sobeed, low-cost housieg tending the state of Iuare Seth Afra ...abu Ur Griffiths said the poresbe was directly e There was no way Governmnt cmd avoid emergenc was the pos =Imorty rights" speatble for setleuenls egt-de s adependent thin responsibility, sense Pommudide chaima blty of sanctons alanst "We dodt really know very loeal authorites. These Included rnl eomual Mr Ja Steyn In a spofdal edition of Isodmup South Atdca. nmuch at all about the Dakar ties sod areas formerly aduabtered by She magazine to celebrte the Famndatio's 10th year The lender of the all discssions became the Gev pel-orban board. of operatlos. white Conservative AiU ersmet denieans the right to The lack of land - particularly serviced las He wrote "The challenge In to give the poorer ance of Zimbabwe, Mr knew. We find It disturbing that - fur bck settlement was a major stumbling classes access to affordable bhousg. Mark Partridge (Ma. all South Afrleas are ct off black In the formulatle of a constructlve policy "Existing shelter most be preserved. With the zowe-Mutoko), said al itom hearing viewrpoins fuida an squaters. Mr Griffiths said. enoumnos housing shortage. it is Indefensible for though his party comple menial to their llvetibood and Where possible, be said, dhe proviace would as to break down any dwelling which affeods tely opposed violence and AUI met eviet people aid demolish shacks if there some shelter." any attempt to unlawful RETURN AIRFARE The statement also aks that was me alternative houslng. Mr Steya said a second challenge was to in ly overthrow the govern the ANC be "allowed to speak He added: "We most find lasting solutions to volve financial Intitutins to finding a way to ment, It still opposed the PERTH R3454 SYC for itself witbnt going thougk whet we're doing. There's anuse In just breaking make loans available to people at the lower end renewal of the emergen One way alrfares a Gove rnest cems". up shmacks." of the scale. cy powers regulations. SPECIAL ATO SUPEI 8 10 Day Hong Kong 5 Boy (12) detai ned for 10 months for stoning 10 Day Taipei R2683 * By in-Ams CoAlit On July 9 last year the ho y in question. referred The Department of Justice has given the following N 10 Day Hong Kong, * Why should a -year-old il hrto spend 10 to as John although that is nlot his real name, was explanation for the failure to release John immedia mootlw In detentd=n - in a toa hr removed from held as an emergency detal ine. He was taken to tely he was charged: "The case was postponed for 10 Day Singapore. B his family - before befog brougt to court to face Potchefstroom where he was held as a detainee. On procedural reasons and the possible joining of fur a 10 Day Singapore R: charges of public violence reladng to the stoning of a May 25 he was transferred Ito awaiing-trial status tber accused (which occurred on Jute 4). vehicle In which Rlfl damage wasdame? and appeared in court In Par] s next day. "The accused was remanded in custody after sub INCLUDED IN THE T And if this could happen, what was the public to During the 10-month dete etlon his parents were missions of a serious nature were made by the State " Return Air Transpo make of the guaratee given by Law and Order Min able to visit him only twice, his lawyers have been prosecutor. The probation officer's report also re " Cty Sightseeing Toi ister Mr Adriasa Viok tkat deteutions were being told. Neither earrs much oney and they simply commended the accused be remanded In custody." cotinually reviewed? could not afford to travel back and forth. The Police Division of Public Relations has not INDEPENDENT ITIN Detainees' Parents Support Ceimmittee spokesman John's detention was offici ally confirmed in writ- responded to questions about the length of detention Dr Max Coleman posed these questions at a public Ig to his Johannesburg lawye es . The letter from the before a statement was taken from John and before meeting of the Release the Children Alliance in Ministry of Law and Order in February gave several he was charged. Please contact youi Johannesburg an Tuesday. reasons for his detention. When John appeared In It has stated: "We do not comment on emergency The question4 be made lear, wore. not bypoheti court on May 26 the only char ge was public violence, detentions and in fact we do not confirm such deten Assct cal. They related to the experience of a child from The charge sheet makes It el .earthat the allegation -ions or releases." tke Parys township of Tuahole. relates to the stoning of an o Ificial vehicle to which The police abo state that they are not prepared to The boy may not be asmed as miami facing trial RO0Odamage was caused. "discuss the merits of the case as it is sub judice" may not be Identifled. le aed thre others, aged At John's first appearance his mother was there- and it is not theirpolicy to identify minors. (011)786-51 between 14 and 16 years, have been charged with But he was not released Into the custody of his par- Finally, the police warned The Star that their re TREX 4-24898 r public violence and are to appear in the Parys Mag ent as is usual with childre a accused in court. He sponse does not clear the paper of "ensuring that the istrate's Court later this mouth. None has yet en remained in jail for another month before being re- stipulations of the emergency regulations or any PO BOXM 6266 tered a plea. leased into his parents' coustodryon June 25. other regulation or law have not been trarsgressed". JHB 2000

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The Honorable Pie ter Botha The President Republic of South Africa Dear President Botha: In the name of peace and justice, we, the undersigned Members of the U.S. Congress, appeal to you to release from detention two officials of the United Democratic Front-- Murphy Morobe and Mohammed Valli Moosa .

The United Democratic Front has throughout its existence consistently worked for peaceful change within South Africa and has rejected the use of violence to achieve Its goals. The seizure and jailing of these two representatives sends the signal to those in and outside of South Africa that the Government of South Africa is not interested in a peaceful solution to the present conflict. Rather, it promotes the notion that there is only one avenue for meaningful discourse with the W*Government, &"ELP that MEMBEof violent OFOSCONGRES confrontation. EKR EAO

IeJOW SPAM.JLin the U.S. Congress are deeply concerned with the continuing escalation of violence within South Africa. If the Government of South Africa is serious about ending the violence and of moving toward a multiracial society, as it publicly professes, it must begin a dialogue with those in a leadership position who espouse non-violent solutions. The detentions of Messrs. Morobe and Moosa only fans the flames of violent conflict and renders futile the efforts of those working for peaceful solutions. We urge you to release Murphy Morobe and Mohammed Valli Moosa amd other political detainees. We call on the Government of South Africa to negotiate with the United Democratic Front and other representatives of the black majority. It is extremly important that reconciliation. South Africa start, without further dela , down the path to national SVWO. O N Since eLO The yonorable Pieter Botha July 29, 1987 Page 2.

PAYIL SIMON, U.S. SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, U:S. SENAT

MERVYN M. DYMALLY, U.S. MEMBER OF CONGRESS JO ILLER, U.S. MEMBER OF MGE