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Angolan Towns Occupied! the Anti-Apartheid Movement Calls on All Its Members and Supporters to Ensure Th Angolan Towns Occupied! Angolan Towns Occupied! The Anti-Apartheid Movement calls on all its members and supporters to ensure that the campaign for sanctions against South Africa is pursued with new vigour in the face of South Africa's latest invasion of Angola. Maximum support must be given to the Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM), which has urged that protests be sent Jo MPs and to Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington. AAM Chairperson Robert Hughes MP has called for an emergency meeting of the UN SecurlgCuncil and urged Britain to provide all necessary assistance to the front line states an&atighbouring countries. On Wednesday 29 July a hagapertheid invasion force, comprising a South Africainfantry brigade, two battalions of mercenaries and South African troops, a South African mobile infantry battalion and armoured troop Axmed struggle intensifies carriers, and equipped with heavy mortars, inchuding the 155mm, extended range gust incldin th I55m etened rngegun Panic spreads in white South Africa as the acquired by South Africa in defiance of the African National Congress and SWAPO strike at arms embargo, marched into Angola from major military bases - a page 3 Namibia. The troops, supported by massive air m cover of Pumna and Alouette helicopters and y Homes ssashed idawn raids Impala jet bombers, mashed northwards over 100 miles into Angolan territory. They set up a The Crossroads Committee reports on solidarity command post in Mulemba, occupied six other action in support of black families attacked by towns in the Angolan province of Kunee, bulldozers and police outside Cape Town, encircled the provincial capital of Njiva, and South Africa - page 4 completely devastated a village. The Westernbuilt and supplied apartheid air force mean- Free Nelson Mandela! while assumed total control of the entire airspace over Kunene province. Imprisoned leader of the liberation movement is awarded the Freedom of the City of Glasgow As Anti-Apartheid News went to press, - page 2 positions iide the territory of the People's Welsh choir pulls out Republic of Angola were still occupied by South African racist troops and mercenaries The Cwmbach Male Voice Choir, under pressure with armoured cars and artillery. According to a from anti-apartheid supporters throughout communique isssed towards the end of August Wales, decides to cancel its proposed trip to by the Angolan Defence Ministry, the racist South Africa - page 2 forces were massacring the civilian population, burning houses, robbing the people's property, Apartheid disables killing cattle, occupying places from where the people get water, bombing and ambushing and Latest developments in the campaign to placing mines on the roads, exclude South Africa from international disabled sport -page 10 Meanwhile, inside Namibia and South Africa, the freedom struggles are eacalating, Free Ida Jimmy' with daring attacks on Ruacana, Voortrekkerhoogte and other military camps at the heart of The SWAPO Women's Solidarity Campaign the apartheidwar machine, explainswhat can bedonetosupport Namiblian 0 Support the campaign to Stop the War women fighting against apartheid - page 10 against Angola and Mozambique Plus E Demand that the British government condemns the South African invasion of Coal and oil - key elements in the apartheidAngola and takes effective action to force the economy - page 4; Is South Afrca helping apartheid regime out of Namibia with top secret Western naval exercise? - page E Build solidarity with the liberation 4; Message from South African women - page movements. 10; Students against Apartheid: priorities for the year ahead - page 11 1uusuut By the middle of August, a total of 7,500 people had signed the Anti-Apartheid Movement's National Sanctions Petition Isolate South Africa Now! The signatures need to low in far more quickly if we are to seach the target of 100,000 signatures by 21 March 1982, when the Petition is due to be handed in to the British government. It can be done! Alistair Chisholm, a 14-year olf anti apartheid supporter in Newhaven, Sussex, for example, has already collected 300 signatures single-handed. So has Heather Jordan of Swansa, If every AAM member followed these examples, we would end up with 750,000 signatures. So out target of 100,000 is in reality very modest. Keep the Petition circulating! Forms, suggestions and further information are available from AAM. Trd noit gisprhi 7 S? ptinhe.group pbrinnma Ab rd enseresof 'Southen Arica for Beginners' workshops. lsther workshops to evaluate present THE African National Con s hs I campaiging methods and consider p consgratulated a Scottish local atho-newstrategiesforactivistswill Mrityandutuversityfortheirstd1follow. ci against apartseid. In a mesage to the It is also organisig two fund- M Univsity and City of Aberdeen, Ms raising events for AAM a concert di Ruth lompati, ANC Chief Repe- and dance, and a stall at an Inter- S sentative in the UK, has said that national Fair, both in October. Full hI Aberdeen has 'set an example to the details of all events appear on the world'in holding its International back page of this issue. ti Festival of Music and Performing Contact: 01-3410144orthe th Artslastmonth. AAMOffice. o0 The Festival was planned after the M successful culmination of a long cam- oW patgbyAberdeenAAagainstthe dt Internatinal Festival of Youth Orestras which was held in Aber- £220was collected atameeting Ls deen for a number of years with Oxford Town Hail to sed to workers South African participation. The on strike in South Africa, including in City antd University agreed to hold an those at Brith Leyland factorses. 'apartheid-free' festival with no South The meeting, called by Oxford Trade African participation. TradesCouncilandsponsoredby I OxfordLabourParty,wasaddressed ElbyspeakersfromtheSouthAfrican tI I Congress of Trade Unions and AAM. THE Yorkshire Purchasng Authority Surr he, been directed not to repeat its orders for South African goods after T protests from students at the North- T ern College in Barnsley. The students TH, OUR AA Gou I refused to eat peaches for dessert AA Federation joined together in when they realised that the fruit orgamring a stall at this year's South came from South Africa. The college Suburban Co-operative Fete. t has a policy of boycottingSouth CROYDONAAreportsanupsurgeAfricanproducts, of interest in Southern Africa among membersofthepublicafterorganisFinchie ingasuccessfulpicketofSafeways EPSOM AA raised £60 for AAM at a garden party and curry supper, FINCULEY Constituency Labour attended by George Johannes of the Party has protested to the Indepen- African National Congress. dent Broadcasting Authority at the BANSTEAD & REIGATE have continued advertising of South held two public meetings, on South African Cape products on indepen- Africa and Namibia respectively. dent television. The IBA has been Contact: Marguerite Simmonds, urged to stop the apartheid advertise- c/o Ruskin House, Croydon. Tel ments and to explain to viewers that 689 5794. this decision is in protest at the exploitation involed in growing and TyneWear packing the fruit. Highgate ITH Labour-cotrolled Tyne Wear county council has voted to dispose of all its shares in Rio Tinto Zinc A NEW Anti-Apartheid ioup in and not to invest anymore of its IHighgate, north London, will be pension fund in any firm with South launched at an inaugural meeting on African links, Norwich: Campaigning memorial to activist AN anti-apartheid activist in the strong ideals fora just society. Norwich area was tragically drowned Simon's death will not stop work earlier this summer. Simon Bottle, with Anti-Apartheid at the Univerthe chairperson of the University of sity of East Anglia but will renew and East Anglia Anti-Apartheid Group, regenerate activity. He was loved and died in the Broad at UEA. will be missed. The struggle contiBy the end of his first year, Simon nues. was already very committed to working for Anti-Apartheid, and his con- University of East Anglia cern,interestandenthusiasm in Anti-Apartheid Group organising fund-raising discos and (Nearly£60 has been collected for collecting moneyfor the SWAPO AAM bythe U iversityof ast Anglo Maternity Clinic were immeasurable. Anti-Apartheid Group as a Simon He had time foe everyone and held I Bottle Memorial Fund.) BARCLAYSPICKETS - ORGANISE F BOYCOTT BARCLAYS- that *Barclaysisthebiggestbankin isthecalltheAAM willbe SouthAfrica itisnottruethat'all making throughout Britain on the banks are the same'. Barclays is much more involved than any of the 15 October, the Nafional Day others. Its South African subsidiary of Action against Barclays. holdsover one-third of all bank On that day there will be pickets deposits there. and leaflet distributions outside a Barclays continues to make major branches of Barclays all over the loans to the regime and state corporacountryurging the withdrawal of t accounts from Barclays. But there tions - over£520milionisonloanneedtobemanymore. at the moment for just two projects If you can organise a picket or * Barclays has had increasingly close distribute leaflets outside your near- links with the military and has conest Barclays branch (perhaps in the sciously identified itself with the lunch hour), complete and return the regime. form below. A special leaflet has * Barclays continues to expand in been produced and the AAM also, illegally-occupied Namibia. have posters, badges and booklets on And it is all very profitable. Last Barclays. year, Britain's 'apartheid bank' made Remember estimated profitsof£53msillion
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