Angolan Towns Occupied!

Angolan Towns Occupied! The Anti- Movement calls on all its members and supporters to ensure that the campaign for sanctions against is pursued with new vigour in the face of South Africa's latest invasion of . Maximum support must be given to the Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and (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 , encircled the provincial capital of Njiva, and South Africa - page 4 completely devastated a village. The Westernbuilt and supplied apartheid air force mean- Free ! 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 the UN has named Barclays as before tax. This is almost a fifth of 'making a significant contribution to the total 1981 group profits for the maintenance of apartheicV Barclays from al its operations. WAE:CHOIRflC NCEDES, TOCMAGN PRESSRE 'AN7WEEKS f Adecidingfactorinthecampaign ffortsintheRhosOrpheus,whose con certed va-mag fot aigning by the Welsh Anti-Apartheid was the decision by the ruling Labour members, like those of Cwmbach, ovement reached a successful con- Group on the Mid-Glamorgan have been warned that they run the ision last monthwhenthe Cwmbach County Council to oppose requests risk of being placed on the Cultural Itle Voice Choir of Aberdare finally for leave of absence from teachers Boycott Register being prepared by ecided to cancel its proposed trip to who are members of the Cwmbach the United Nations outh Africa to take part in an apart- Choir to visit South Africa. This The Welsh AAM, which unites tid International Eisteddfod. immediately affected the Choir's local AA Groups in Wales and is Supporters of anti-apartheid conductress and its accompanist, sponsored by, among others, the iroughout Wales were mobilised in The Choir was unable to hold its Welsh Labour Party, Welsh TUC, ie drive to persuade the choir to call usual practices in the Cwmbach junior Plaid Cymru and the NJM, has meanft its plans. The National Union of school after public employees' union while received a large number of [ineworkers, whose President in NUPE had issued instructions to care- affiliations from trades councils, 'ales, Emlyn Williams, is also Presi- takers, effectively locking the doors, ward and constituency Labour Parties ent of Welsh AAM, played a promi- More than 100 miners and other trade and other bodies. The WAAM is also ent role in the campaign, as did the unionists picketed a choir practice campaigning to stop the import to abour Party, the Welsh TUC and and over a third of the members deci- Wales of South African coal and has ther organisations. Activities ded to pull out of the trip. produced a special broadsheet excluded pickets, public meetings, an Cwmbach's decision will undoubt- plaining the issues involved. Coal ternative musical event and appeals edly affect the thinking of the Rhos Mining in South Africa is available in om prominent personalities. Over Orpheus Choir of Wrexham, which both Welsh and English versions from ,000 people attending the National has also been planning to take part in the Secretary of Welsh AAM, Chris isteddfod signed a petition urging the South African Eisteddfod. Welsh Wilkinson, 33 Romilly Road, Canton, he choir to boycott South Africa. AAM will now be concentrating their Cardiff, Tel Cardiff 382486. Scotiand: Glasgow pays tribute to Nelson Mandela THE SCOTTISH Anti-Apartheid Committee are looking forward to GI -ooperation in future with the ac tigerian Deputy High Commissioner, M who is based in Edinburgh, following so he presentation of the Freedom of El he City of Glasgow to African n National Congress leader Nelson t Mandela. tb The award was received on Nelson ca Mandela's behalf by the Vice Presi- it lent of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, himself representing the Nigerian M President, HE Alhaji Sheha Shagari. tl The Chief Representative of the ANC M n Britain, Ruth Mompati, the h, DeputySecretaryGeneral of the w Commonwealth Secretariat and the A High Commissioners.or their Deputies Ia rom 16 Commonwealth countries a were among those present at the f ceremony in Glasgow on 4 August. PLAID CYMRU THE General Secretary of Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Williams, has called on the British government to use its influence to save tfle Pretoria Three from execution. The three ANC freedom fighters, Johnson Lubisi, Petrus Mashigo and Naphtali Mansn, were sentenced to death by the Pretoria Supreme Court YOUNG LIBERALS MEMBERS of the Young Liberals have been'urged to join the AntiApartheid Movement and to work with local AA Groups A detailed policy statement on South Africa issued by the Young Liberal Movement calls on the British government to support the call for sanctions against South Africa OR 15 OCTOBER Fill in this form and return to the AAM Office today. *INEu EEMENNEE E * NAME : NAME ...... IN ADDRESS ...... * Please send me: ...... (quantity) of the Boycott ll Barclays leaflet (£5.50 per 1,000 * * plus p&p) ...... Boycott Barilays Badge * (20p each) ...... Boycott Barclays Poster N * (20p each) Return to AAM, 8 Charlotte Street,LondonW1P2DQ(Tel01_5805311) U aml 020000,000 Emnd In thanking the Lord Pruvost or In thanking the Lordl Provost Of asgow for choosing Nigeria to cept the award on behalf of Nelson andela, currently serving life imprionment on , Dr kwueme said that Mandela's contiied incarceration 'further justifies e belief that the emancipation of .a suffering people in South Africa an be achieved only by armed ruggle'. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Dr ichael Kelly, has pointed out that ie award is not only a tribute to [andela's courage in opposing aparttid, but demonstrates the support hich the black people of South fries have in Glasgow, Scotland's egest city. Speaking at the cereasny, Dr Kelly called for support r the ANC. The award ceremony marks the i rs ieta heAChsbe first time that the ANC has been officially received by the City of Glasgow, and a significant step forward in building solidarity with the -Southern African liberation struggles in Scotland. bank merger action ALL local authotities in Scotland have been circulated by the Scottish AAM urging them to protest at the proposed merger between the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered -the second biggest bank in South Africa after Barclays. The authorities are being asked to withdraw any accounts with the Royal should the merger go ahead. The Scottish Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement can be contacted c/o John Nelson, Tel ir Alex .nwueme. sire rresenei us c1gena, -rcenisie m .'.,,,, City of Glasgow award from the Provost, Dr Michael Kelly. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL GROUP The Anti-Apartheid Movement has local groups in the following centres: Aberdeen Epsom Plymouth Banstead Exeter Reigate Barnet Glasgow Richmond Basingstoke Greenwich St Austell Birmingham Hackney Sheffield Borders Haringey Skelmersdale Brighton Huddersfield Somerset Bristol Isington Southampton Cambridge Lambeth Southwark Camden Leeds Stoke-on-Trenl Canterbury Leicester Sutton Cardiff Manchester Tyneside Croydon Merseyside WestLondon Edinburgh Norwich West Lothian Enfield Oxford York PeterbOrough "'I" 11-, -,1 1, 1 uaring autacKs oy guerrias in outn Arrica & Namibia put regime in a panic SOUTHAFRICAN Defence Minister Malan,openinga newarmy Claimsby SouthAfricathat camp south of shortly after a daring rocket attack by SWAPO guerrillas operating in ANC guerrillas on the central military headquarters and army camp Namibia are broken, demoralised and ANC grris osuffering from food shortages, and of Voortrekkerhoogte, was forced to concede that 'the revolution- that the ANC's armed struggle is ary threat against us has now reached an extremely dangerous inconsequential, are clearly contraphase'. More attacks by ANC fighters must be expected, he said, dicted by: a the announcement of a massive 30 against military camps, key installations, industries and transport per cent increase in the South targets. Africandefencebudgetforthe In Namibia, too, liberation fighters are striking at the heart of current year the South African militarymachine. In July, the Ruacana army E the more than one million rand a complex in northern Namibia, comprising a major air base, infan- day being spent on keeping the try camps and important communications installations, and one of in Namibia the main centres for launching raids into Angola, was attacked by a plans to construct a new huge SWAP gurrilas ithheay atillry.A SAPOarmy line in Namibia SWAPO guerrillas with heavy artillery. A SWAPOcommunique, 2theincreasinguseofthearmyin later confirmed bythe Angolan armed forces, said that the entire South Africa to crush protests and complex was devastated and that more than 100 South African demonstrations in the black towntroopshadbeenkilledorwounded, shipsandurbanareas. Both on the battlefield and in Since Malan's statement, ANC lunges against the people of Angola, winning political and material support guerrillas have destroyed a section of Zimbabwe and the other front line from the international community, the railway line serving the port of states, meanwhile, while capable of the liberation movements are presenEast London in another spectacular inflicting enormous damage on the tins an increasingly effective challenge raid. The apartheid regime has itself social and economic infrastructure of to the apartheid regime. The South admitted to 37 such attacks on key these countries, are nevertheless a African -government knows this full installations and military targets pointer to Pretoria's failure to con- well and is making every effort to inside South Africa so far this year. tain the situation inside Namibia and play down the significance of guerrilla TheSouthAfricanarmy's wild SouthAfricaitself, attacksinthepress andmedia. ASSASSINATION WILL NOT STOP THE PEOPLE 'We are proceeding with our struggle in the expectation that some of us will be struck down in the process.' - active in the ANC in Johannesburg. together with 11 other people - the During the State of Emergency Pretoria 12. ON 31 July, Joe Gqabi, the declared after the Sharpeville killings, Shortlyafter his acquittal in 1978 official representative of the in 1960, Joe was amongst the 2,000 Joe disappeared from South Africa African National Congress, was people picked up in a nationwide to join the external wing of the ANC. assassinated in Salisbury, Zim- swoop and held in detention for His appointment to represent the several months, In the turbulence, the ANC in independent Zimbabwe was babwe, by machine gunfire. ANC the Pan-Africanist Congress a mark of the esteem in which he was The first attempt to kill Joe and the Congress of Democrats were held in the liberation movement. Gqabi was foiled earlier this year proscribed. ByDecember 1961 the Quiet and unassuming, Joe when several kilograms of TNT ANC had decided to meet the showed orgnisational and diplomaexplosive were discovered planted challenge- of apartheid with armed tic skill during the short period in under his car in Salisbury, struggle and announced the forma- which he was in Zimbabwe. His The South Africanregine's belief, tion of its armed wing, Umkhonto superb ability and leadership qualithat killingofftheleadershipofthe weSizwe. tiesmadehimaprimetargetforthe ANC will weaken its fighting power Joe was to be amongst its first South African government, whose is proving to be a serious miscalcula, recruits. He left the country illegally, agents ended his life at the age of51tion,however, anoffenreforwich,onbeingarres- years. In 1978, Joe Gqabi was Acused ted, he was sentenced to two yeas' His murder brought strong conNo I in a lengthy trial under the imprisonment. Towards the end of his demnation from the Prime Minister South African Terrorism Act. It term, hewas charged afresh under the of Zimbabwe, who also reiterated his became known as thetrial of the Sabotage Act and sentenced to 10 government's support for the liberaPretoria 12 and prompted a powerful years' hard labour on Robben Island. tion movement in South Africa. campaign of solidarity by the Anti- Joe was released in 1975 and sub- Condemnation of the apartheid Apartheid Movement and worldwide. jected to the standard restrictions of regime was also expressed at his Joe Gqahi, together with fivia other house arrest, with denial of freedom funeral by Mr- Joshua Nkomo, the accused, was acquitted,but the of movement and employment, leaderof the Patriotic Front (ZAPU., remaining six defendants were sen- Nevertheless, during the short 2'/-year The death of Joe Gqabi is very tened to between six and 12 years' spell of his release, he played a key much regretted by the Anti- Apartheid mprisnment, part in rebuilding the ANC organisa- Movement. The Movement's memJoe Giabi's career started in lion, the results of which were to be bem; and supporters were greatly South Africa as a newspaperreporter seen soon after the uprising impressed by the calibre of a ,man and photographer with the popular and in events inside South Africa since whose imprisonment, together with radical weekly New Age in the mid- 1976. The consequence for Joe was his colleagues, marked a high point in 1950s. At the same time he became to be ars ted and detained in 1977 campaign work., PROTEST TELEGRAM IN A telegram to Mrs Thatcher, AAM Chairperson Bob Hughes called on the British government to support moves to convene the Security Council to stop South African aggression and effect its withdrawal from Angola. Pointing out that recent events in. Southern Africa confirmed that the apartheid regime had no respect for international norms, the AAM telegram urged the British govermnent to provide all necessary assistance to Commonwealth and other front line states to enable them to combat apartheid aggression, Neil Marten MP, replying for Mrs Thatcher, has said that the British government feels 'encern over the recent esealation of fighting in Souther Africa'. The seoornment Joe Gmslat lae souat adjoiningi Multinationals with investments in apartheid are also targets for ANC fighters-the frontage of the McCarthy Leyland showroom in Durhan, shattered by a bomb explosion recently. SUPPORT FOR THE FRONT LINE STATES THE Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM) was formed this year in response to the escalating South African aggression against the front line states and the threat to world peace created by the anholy alliance of Reagan, Thatcher and P W Botha. SWAM is campaigning alongside the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Namibia Support Committee, the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR), peace groups and the churches to arouse Britishpubli opinion against apartheid aggression nd in solidarity with SWAPO of Namit and the ANC of South Africa. JOIN THE FIGHT! INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: " SWAM are now producing a regular newsletter on the situation in the fron line states and solidarity in Britain " Other publications, films, slide shows, exhibitions, etc, are available * Speakers can be provided and, in particular, a National Speaking Tour by representatives of the Angolan Youth Movement will be launched during a weekof activities to mark the sixth anniversary of Angola's miependence, 9-14 November. SWAM can be contacted c/o Kate Gifford, Secretary, 34 Percy Street, London WIP 9FG, Tel 01-636 7108. Zimbabwe, gives- hghist hnou 'WE ARE WITH YOU to the end.' a te Joe Gqabi's death, the Minister This was the pledge by the Zimbabwe -of Information, Dr Nathan ShamuyaPrime Minister, Robert Mugabe. to ria, reiterated the Zimbabwe governthe ANC President and other officials ment's strong support for the ANC who visited Zimbabwe for the funeral and the PAC for the'just fight they of Joe Gqabi. arewagingfornationalselfdetermiJoe'Gqabi,whowasappointedto nation: be the ANC's representatvly in Zim- 'The Snailt African people have babwe shortly after the country's defined their objectives. The inter.' independence, was given a state national community is solid Neighfuneral with full military honours by |bdoring countries have been tested, the Zimbabwe government: This is ome of them in war, so they do the firit time that ofe of the ANC's not take fright, These are factorsI n officials has been so honoured, any-- our favour.' where inthe world. - Oliver Tambo, President of In a statement issued immediately the African National Congress Inmates of'Sou th Africa House in London got the message from a picket ugaeise d by the Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM)Y. Over 1S0 people, representingsm wide range of organisations, called for the, West to evict the Soutk Afccmainvadeswfrom Ajmgolsoand e fulsaacioasnnw. Pictures by Carlos AagusrnlIFL

FAMILIES MASHED BY APARTHEID i nousanas nomeiess in UINETY TOURISTS from 15 different countries signed the Antiipartheid Movement's National Sanctions Petition recently, when t was displayed at a Vigil in St Margaret's Anlican Church, Westninster, London. The Vigil was organised by the Crossroads Coinunittee to show concern and support for squatters resisting apartheid aws in the Cape Town.area of South Africa. The Crossroads Cowmittee explains: At the beginning of this year the area. The latter has since been sent to snooped on the Deat of Cape Town. Lang, township near Cape Town, Since the vigil more tratic events evirting and arresing many women. have taken place: the police have dessome with thir babies, They had left troyedfthe fragile homes and left the barren so-called ho lands' to wma d children without shelter he with their husbands oking for in the crl£ and wind and hail. When 'whites in Cape T iar, and to seek a white Wori tried to bringthem fod better chance of survival for their and.arnoicine, they were refused perchidlren - who" wodd other-s,, mission and one white woman was prbably die of malnutritiw in the arrested. Ts taskei orCiskei. Theirhubads live When the British Lions were playi the degrading conditions in the ig rigby in South Africa, black hostels in the townships. 'children were being shot in Elsie's When the police attacked, many River, near Cape Town. While the people fled to a field near the Cross- Springboks play rugby in New roads squattercamp, at Nyanga town- Zealand, women and children are ship. In the bitterly cold Cape winter arrested in pass law raids. While the they put up makeshift shelters. In police are burning the fragile shelters mid-July, when we heard of their and refusing food and medicine to plight, the Crossroads Committee, people left in the open in bitter assisted by Southern Africa-The weather, when their only 'crime' is to Imprisoned Society (SATIS), held a want to be with their husbands and picket outside South Africa House in to give their children a chance to live, London. British cricketers are being offered On 30 July a 'sseeting' of people £10,000 a week to play cricket in concerned was held in Cape Town South Africa. Cathedral. Thanks to the kindness of The Crossroads Committee is Canon Baker of St Margaret's Angli- hoping to organise in the near future can Church, Westminster, the Cross- a much larger vigil, when we hope roads Committee, at very short that the churches and many others notice, organised a vigil of support, will take part, to show the South lI spiteof the fact that it was too late African authorities that we are well to publicise the vigil, 90 tourists aware of their inhuman actions and signed both the Isolate South AfriCa that we are determined to do all we petition and a message of support for can to bring freedom to the black the people suffering in the Cape Town people of South Africa. HUGE NAVAL EXERCISE THE US Secretary of State, General Haig, and the Foreign Ministers of 13 other countries have been asked to give urgent assurances that there will he no South African involvement in a top secret multinational naval exercise taking place in the Atlantic Ocean. 'Ocean Venture 81' is reportedly the largest naval exercise since World War II, involving 120,000 military personnel, 250,ships and over 1,000 aircraft. Launched on 1 August this year, it is being organised by "the USA with the participation of 13 other Western countries. The manoeuvres, which began in the South Atlantic and are due to extend to the NATO geographical area, continue. until October. Seven NATO members- Britain, West Germany, France, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands and Portugal-are involved in Ocean Venture apart from, the USA itself, together with Spain and five South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela). The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa has expressed its anxiety that the naval exercise will make use of the South African Advokaat naval communications system or other facilities provided by the Pretoria regime. In an urgent message to Halg and the foreign ministers of the other countries involved, Abdul S Minty, Director of the World tampaign, called for assurances that there win be no South African involvement of any kind in Ocean Venture, whether direct or indirect, and that no South African personnel, including South African defence attaches posted to any of the participating contries, will be involved in any way or informed about the details and experience of the exercise. Transnational criminals A LIST of key transnational corporations Which collaborate with apartheid, drawn up on the basis of research undertaken.by a member of the AntiApartheid Movement, has been published by the United Nations. The company boycott list includes 65 transnationas, 20 of them British, which have indulged in 'criminal collaboration' The profiles of the 65 companies were prepared by Bill Otto of the Southampton AA Group. They show that the transnationals listed are particularly involved in giving assistance to the South African police and military; supplying oil and oil products to South Africa; promoting and providing loans; and assisting the apartheid regime in its plans to withstand international sanctions. The British companies are: Associated British Foods Imperial Chemical Industries (tCl) Barclays Bank International Computers Ltd (ICL) BritishLeyland Lonrho British Petroleum (BP) Metal Box BritishSteel Plessey Consolidated Gold Fields Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Dunlop Holdings Royal Dutch Shell General Electric Co (GEC) Standard Chartered Bank Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Trafalgar House SSamue .....'Unfleve g, .... the pass law recent South Jfei polie operations- against squatters and alleged pass law offenders-and end up abandoned or in police custody., COAL: IN ITS constant effo usefulness to its Weste has turned its attention With estimated reserve million tons of coal, and of cheap black labour to apartheid regime and nationals are well-place the renewed interest in wide since oil prices start South Africa's coal reached 115 million tons which just over 25 p exported. At home, coal ing oil as the lynch-pt policy. Coal-based gener -tricitv is nlanned to enab KEY ECONOMIC WEAPON rts to attain self-sufficiency and increase its to keep up supplies of crude oil to tin partners, the South African government South Africa, The EEC alone is to coal ass key weapon. AA NEWS reports: absorbing two-thirds of South Africa's n - coal exports, and South Africa now A of 110,000 coal reserves, such as Australa and the supplies one-third of all French d a vast~pool USA, are taking a close interest in imports. French workers, Dutch steel draw on, the South Africa's oil-from- coal tech- workers and American coal miners the multi- niques. haveallhadoccasionto protest about d to exploit But it is direct coal exports which apartheid coal undermining their coal world' are doing most to increase Western domestic economies. ed to rocket, dependence on the apartheid regime. Britain, too, is being drawn into production South Africa's coal exports increased the web. At a time when the Coal t in 1980, of tenfold between 1975 and 1980, and Board is planning ever more shuter cent was are rising fast. The combination of downs, South African anthracite has is supplant- cheap labour, modem technology come to form over 20 per cent of n of energy and geological advantages has British imports in 1980, and in ation of elec- enabled South Africa to produce coal January 1981 about 35 per cent. DIe electricity at a pithead price of 87p per ton p~en hv, i",ee,,n MP C, nherir,,n to meet 30-40 per cent of the coon- (1978 figure) compared with £8 in in- Maythis year to ban South try's energy needs in the year 2000 Britain. This will bring in earnings of African coal and anthracite in the (it is now 20 per cent). Oil-from-coal neary 900 million rand this year UK, the Secretary of State for Tradetechnology,inwhichtheregimehas alone. claimedthatthisiwouldbe inconsisinvested vast sums in order to reduce South Africa's coal export tent with 'our international obligavulnerability to an oil embargo, will strategy is cleverly geared into the tions'. eventually supply over half the oil regime's plans to evade and erode the In fact, the opposite is true, and needs, growing international oil' boycott. the stopping of South African imports Foreign firms are heavily involved Shell, BP and Total have been lured would be an important step to take in financing and constructing these into participation in the coal export now. There is no lack of alternative projects. And other countries with big programme in return for guarantees sources, Whether domestic or foreign. briefing document A special four-page broadlieet, Coal Mining in South Afica, has been produced by the Welsh AntiApartheid Movement (WAAM). WAAM has been working closely with the National Union of Mine. workers (South Wales area) in the campaign to boycott South African coal Copies of the WAAM broadsheet, which is packed with facts and information about apartheid coal and What it means for workers, are available, in either English or Welsh, price 5p, from the Secretary, WAAM, South Africa in desperately trying to reduce its dependence on imported oil 33 Romilly Road, Cardiff. I and petrol-the SASOL II oil-from'col plant at Seenda in the Eastern No advertising link THE EDITOR of the London Times, Harold Evans, has promised the AntiApartheid Movemet that the newspaper will not in future permit itself to be used as an agent for 'objectionable' South African advertisements. Last Christmas, The Times carried advertisements for the South African Sunday Times, inviting readers to send festive greetings and messages to friends and relatives in 'sunny South Africa'. The Christmas messages were transmitted through the London offices of The Times on to Jo4anesburg. In reply to protests from AAM, Harold Evans has undertaken that this kind of arrangement with the South African Sunday Times will not be repeated, while pointing out that he The triel Power Station in South Africalone of thelbiggest coal-fired would not commit himself to 'impos- power stations in the world. It an supply scity four to five times bigger than ing any general censorship on advertising'.Johannesrg, 160k away Anti-ApartheidNews September1981 Rae5 THE NATIONAL GRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION Supports Anti-Apartheid's -Trade Union Week of Action and calls upon all trade unionists to boycott South African goods and support the sanctions campaign LES DIXON General President 'I JOE WADE General Secretary National Graphical Association 'Graphic House' 63-67 Bromham Road Bedford, MK40 2AG Suppose it happened here. South African Congress of Trade Unions calls for solidarity with freedom struggle iSOLATE APARTHEID! IN A MESSAGE TO British trade unionists on the eve of the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, John Gaetsewe, General Secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, makes a special appeal to British workers to 'end the decades of British support for apartheid'. 'The apartheid republic has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. But our people did not celebrate. For us the republic has meant 20 years of suffering - the removal of millions, banishment, ile and murder. bOur people arepad stmrvation wages and live in poverty. They toil in the fields, factories and mines of "white South Africa" to produce wealth from which they never benefit. Many of our children die before the age offive. Our people are denied the basic rights which are enjoyed by workers in Britain and all over the civilised world. Strikes and any demonstrations against the system ace effectively illegal SACTU is forced to operate underground. Many ot our leaders have been imprisoped, banned - - John Gaetsewe andshot. 'SACTU'sworkisnotanarrowstrugglefor 'Remember the massacre of our people in trade union rights alone. It is part of the overall Matola, Mozambique. Remember Comrade liberation struggle, led by the liberation Mahlangu at the Sigma factory and all the movement, the African National Congress. others who have been killed because of their 'There are many ways in which you can fight against this system, assist us. Above all, stand up and support us in 'Do not believe the propaganda that Botha is our struggle for the destruction of the apartheid bringing us freedom. How free can we be when system. we have no vote? How free can we be whenwe 'Today, Britain and the United States are cannot travel where we like bemuse of the pass determined to keep the Pretoria regime supplied laws? How free can we be when all around there with the money, oil, weapons and the rest that is racial segregation and facilities are inferior it needs to keep apartheid going. Every item because we are black? How free can we be whe they supply means a postponement of our the have made us foreigners in our liberation. Every assistance they provide to own country? Ourcitizenship as South Africans apartheid means more suffering for our people. has been taken away. We have no rights. We 'We therefore appeal to the people, and have only what we have won by our struggle. especially the trade unionists, of Britain to 'Despite all this, and in defiance of the make every effort to end the decades of British regime's "laws", our struggle is growing every support for apartheid and break the alliance day, in every part of South Africa. Thousands between Britain, the United States and South upon thousands of our people are Africa. Support the imposition of sanctions demonstrating their opposition to this apartheid against South Afripa. Support our struggle for system with courage and determination. freedom by doing all you can to isolate Amongst the workers, trade union apartheid and end everyBritish link with South consciousness is spreading and more and more Africa. of our people are realising that the trade union 'Your solidarity has been very important to struggle must be linked to the wider political us and we have valued Your support. Now our struggle against the whole system of apartheid, people need something more.' 'What meaningful trade union rights are ISOLATE THE SYSTEM OF poible while apartheid continues? Our oppression is caused by an economy based on APARTHEID the system of apartheid. We will only be free AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY when that system has been eradicated. TO ALL! LEYLAND SETTLES UNDER PRESSURE THERE HAS BEEN a settlement in the dispute between Leyland South Africa and ,the National Union of Motor Assembly, Rubber and Allied Workers (NUMARWOSA). The announcement came in late July and the dismissed workers - sacked after they Struck in May for higher wages - were due to be returning to their jobsfromtheendofthemonth, pressurefromBritishunions.Themass Joe Poster, Geg~eral Secretaryor dismissal of the workers was strongly NUMARWOSA, the strikers' union in South condemned by TUC General Secretary Len Africa, announced in late July that the union Murray and in early July Alex Kitson, Deputy had agreed with management that 170 workers General Secretary of the TGWU, Terry Duffy, would be reemployed at the two Leyland plants President of the AUEW, and other senior union before the end of July, with an additional 300 leaders met BL management in Britain to insist workers being taken on before 3 August 'when on their intervention. new vacancies will occur'. The remaining workerswouldbetakenbackasvacanciesarose. lend m Arln Under the rehiring, wages would be 'similar' to H- for those paid before the dismissals. blty The Leyland workers were clearly suspicious of management. A week before the eventual Thewoetim MtR agreement, a mass meeting refused to accept a on the emmKttY return to work on only slightly different terms. And within days of the announcement of an agreement, there were reports that Leyland was Pwa not holding to the agreement and that the .44-r union had accused the company of victimising :15-1 union members and being selective. Union shop * stewards and strike support committee members were being 'overlooked' during rehiring. AAM has asked to see BL senior manage- i mnt in Britain this monthandwillbepressing r V fortherehiringofallthedismissedworkersand OE 1 a, no 'selection'. The company/union agreement came 12weeks into the dispute and was no thanks to the" British government, which all along refused to intervene. 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Apartheid and the worker Under the apartheid cheap labour system: WAGES African workers are paid starvation wages. Whites are paid much more. Sample average monthly wages in 1979(R=56p):Industry Whites Africans Manufacturing R805 R188 Mining R899 R140 Construction R814 R149 Electricity R779 R184 Recent reports show that: ! Murray and Roberts women workers were paid less than RIO per week in 1980 Weenen farmworkers were being paid R4.5 per week as recently as 1979 The wage gap between African and white workers has increased from R127 in 1961 to R600 today * Inflation and living costs far outstrip African pay rises. In the last 12 months meat prices increased 60%; bread prices increased by 30% on 1 August 198 1. In 1980 the buying power of Africans working in Johannesburg fell by 20%. Food consumption in real terms is declining. CONDITIONS are appalling and scant regard is paid to safety: * 32,000 South Africans, 95% of them African, are permanently disabled or killed at work each year. * In 1978 there were 194,700 industrial accidents - but only 29 factory inspectors. * 877 African miners died in accidents and 24,700 were injured in 1978 alone. * Real safety legislation hardly exists and is rarely enforced where Africans are concerned. * Employers cannot be penalised for accidents caised by negligence. Domestic workers and labourers have no protection at all. * Dust diseases are a major hazard. But South Africa's official asbestos exposure level, for instance, is 10 times higher than Britain's. Accommodation provided by employers is often disgraceful. Workers often have to live in barrack-like hostels or compounds. It was revealed last year that 4,000 migrant workers in the Witwatersrand area were sleeping in 'concrete coffins' built in 1905. No blankets or mattresses. Bunks were so narrow that men said they could not easily turn over in bed. They were 'stacked like corpses in a mortuary'. JOBS 'Job reservation' severely restricts the jobs Africans are allowed to do. Removal of 'statutory job reservation' means little. Specific legislation is unnecessary. Other laws can be used. Most job reservation results from white union/ management agreements. Most skilled and managerial work is kept for whites. Africans are only allowed to do this work when it does not threaten whites. Even on the same job Africans are paid less and classified differently. Control of labour by the regime is tight - and has got tighter recently. African workers may not choose their jobs. Work is allocated by the labour bureaux, movement organised by conputerised 'influx control' and pass systems. Africans are allowed in 'white' areas only when the economy needs their labour. Unemployment is massive - higher even than in Britain, although the workforce is less than half the size. 79% of men in bantustans are unemployed. In 'white' cities it is a crime to be 'idle'. In 1979, 1,000 'idle' Africans in Pretoria were 'sentenced' to periods in regime 'work colonies'. 'Once you are efficially idle all sorts of things can be done to you. Your removal to a host of places and your detention can be ordered. You can be banned from ever returning to the area where you were found, or from anywhere else for that matter, although you may have lived there all your life. Whatever right to remain outside a special Bantu area you gained by birth, lawful residence or erstwhile employment is automatically lost. Perhaps you never broke the law in your life...it makes no difference.' - Department of Cooperation Commissioner, August 1981 Child labourers are widely employed on white-owned farms and estates "Trade unions cannot solely 'Workers in South Africa today concern themselves with bread and have shown the world that they can intter issues but must work hand in organise and confront the regime hand with liberation movements to with both economic and political bringaboutsocialjusticeinSouth demands...thingsthat(would)haveAfrica.' been accepted ten years ago by our Samson Ndou, President, 'peopleare rejectedtoday.' Johannesburg General and Allied Thozamile Botha, leader of the lgvdars Union (GAWU), 1981 1979/80 Ford's strike Thozamile Gqweta, President of the South African Allied Workers' Union (SAAWU) - detained four times in one year for opposing apartheid 'Instead of humbling us as is desired by the authorities, detentions only harden us and make us even more determined to strike for justice and democracy in this land. I am devoted to SAAWU, I am actually married to it and these petty and senseless detentions seem to be more beneficial than detrimental to the determination required in the struggle for a better life for black workers.' Sisa Njikalana, Vice President of SAAWU (South African Allied Workers' Union) on detentions lfrade Union Week of Ad ISOLATE AF THE Anti-Apartheid Movement is urging trade unionists throughout Britain to make the last week in October a special week of action on the theme 'Isolate Apartheid'. Make sure that your trade union considers now what action can be organised between 24 and 31 October to emphasise your union's opposition to links with apartheid - large or small - and its support for sanctions and the total isolation of apartheid. AAM can help. A detailed eight-page circular has been produced detailing suggestions for preparation, action during the week and follow-up, and setting the background to the week. Order copies now for your organisation. These are the priorities: AAM has produced special material for distribution in and before the Week: order copies (see form) and plan for the widest possible distribution of the material. = organise a meeting: invite an AAM, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) or National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) speaker. * find out the links between your workplace and South Africa, and approach employers now insisting that they sever any connection with South Africa, especially trade or investment. 0 consider some form of imaginative action or public event to secure extra publicity during the Week. * organise activity in support of the main themes of the AAM overall campaign against nuclear, banking, oil and other links with South Africa, and ask your local authority and canteen to make sure that they do not use South African goods. 0 press the British government to support sanctions and collect signatures for the AAM's National Sanctions Petition. M~kl mar 'A do I'LL Qua I'tie VkN Io the last 18 monthsh to its foundations. Guerrilla activity b3 Congress has intensified dramatically. campaign to free Nelson Mandela, nast strikes, sustained student protest and n the 'white republic'. Al-round resistan Militants in the fond and canning industry - recent strikes in this sector have But of all the developments, amongincludedtheimportantFattis&Monsdispute apartheidregimemustbetheincrea workers, the dramatic growth and poll independent, non-racial and African tr industrial upsurge of action by black m more than strike action. But it is the rr made the greatest impact. 1980, designated in advance by the ai South African Congress of Trade kt Unions (SACTU) as the Year for the ft Mobilisation of the Workers of South e, Africa, began with the walk-out at Ii Ford's Port Elizabeth plants. That d strike ended in almost complete victory for the workers. Later in the year Volkswagen, General Motors and b, Mass meeting of striking bus drivers, 1981 other car workers downed tools too. In at Cape Town the entire workforce in the 9, MTATI IS AN AFRICAN MINER meat industrycame out on strike S which involved 20 factories and lasted A THIS IS HIS ACCOUNT OF A DAY AT WORK for three months, together with its U 'We must wake up very early. We must be at the face to start work at 7.00 am. accompanying red meat boycott' by 'g If you want breakfast you must get up at 3.00 am. When we get to the face it the community in the . h is my job to spraywater to settle the dust. It is hard work. It is very hot and In August there was the biggest strike r. you sweat so much. Sometimes people just fall down. It's just too'hot. We against any single employer in South T have no tea time. No food. No rest time, we must work right through. We Africa's history when 11,000 African E stop work at 4 pm. Nine hours work. Back at the compound we have dinner, municipal workers in Johannesburg si It is pap and stew. It is the same every night. We get it twice on Sundays. struck for higher wages. A After eating you go to sleep. We only get public holidays. Easter, Republic Strikes in the textile industry V Day, New Year's Day, Christmas Day. We get no holidays. We get no sick led to street demonstrations and the ti leave. You just work or be in bed. One day I did not go to work. I was found erection of barricades in the townguilty and they gave me 20 days in jail. The mine magistrates sentencedme.ships. t; I had to spend 20 days shovelling coal and I get no pay. That only happened In the year 1980 as a whole, 40,000 t]ooceYouareamanwhenyoucomebackfromthemines.' black workers went on strike. There tl October1980 were207strikesandworkstoppages1 SSupport SACTU - Solidarity xv

Von October 24PARHIlIl 'IF YOU KNOW OF ANY LOCAL LINK WITH'SOUTH AFRICA MKE THIS THE WEEK TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST IT. Above all, make sure that there is publicity for what you organise and that as many trade union bodies as possible take some form of action. All this and more is spelled out in more detail in the AAM 1ocment. Order that and the other material now, using the form atached. PLEASE SEND: Quantity Item Price ...... 8-page circular on the Week of Action ...... Week of-Action Mobilising Leaflet (for distribution before the Week) Double-sided A5 leaflet ...... Week of Action Leaflet (for distribution during the Week) Double-sided A5 leaflet ...... AAM National Sanctions Campaign Petition Special AAM Week of Action Broadsheet Free £6.00 per thousand £6.00 per thousand Free SOp for 10 'AME...... kD D R ESS ...... Te l ...... o rRADE UNION ORGANISATION...... tMOUNT ENCLOSED ...... (I do/do not require a receipt) Please returnto: AAM 89 Charlotte Street London WIP 2DQ CK _AGAI.NST rHEID shave rocked white Sooth Africa by the African National ,. There has been a nationwideass consumer boycotts, rent I massive popular rejection of snce has reached a new pitch. ag the most worrying for the wd militancy of the black litical character of the trade unions and, above all, the workers. This has amounted to massive wave of strikes that has and 174,000 days' production was lost - more than in the whole period from 1974-1979. The strikes even encompassed agricultural workers, traditionally the most oppressed and difficult to organise section of the workforce. During 1981 there have already been 70 major strikes. At one stage, strikes were averaging one a day. Motor workers have walked out at Sigma and Leyland. The Motor Assembly and Components Workers Union (MACWUSA) brought two giant US multinationals to a complete halt in a sympathy strike for the reinstatement of Firestone workers. There has been a series of strikes in East London, including a seven- month strike by SAAWU (South African Allied Workers Union) members at Rowntree's subsidiary WilsonRowntree. I And although most strikes have taken place in manufacturing industry, there have beenfour major strikes in the mines, most notably at the President Steyn gold mine, where 10,000 men walked out. This only skims the surface. Journalists, bus drivers, construction men, labourers, delivery, men, warehouse workers - these and many more have walked off their jobs in protest against starvation wages, appalling conditions, victimisation, segregation, non-recognition of their unions, and often a combination of these factors. Despite the worst the regime can do, the militancy of the black workers is still growing. All around there is a new spirit of determination, and the unions are becoming more united and resolute. Last month, for instance, more than 100 leaders of 29 independent non-racial and African trade unions came together at an unprecedented and historic 'commit' to announce that they would oppose and ignore regime plans to outlaw strike pay. They are to set up ad hoc solidarity committees in different regions to coordinate opposition to the new law. Unions have attacked the Codes of Conduct with vigour. Company unions are now discredited as never before. There has been widespread rejection of 'parallel' unions. Resistance to union 'registration' with the state is increasing. Most important of all, growing numbers of black workers are openly identifying themselves with the liberation movement and the longstanding approach of SACTU that the trade union struggle must be linked to a wider political struggle against the apartheid system as a whole. These strikes are not the strikes of the hopeless, but the strikes of those who are striving for freedom. They have helped to change the whole political climate iii South Africa. They have hit at the very basis of the apartheid system. The regime knows that only too well. ith South African worker SI Apartheld and the unions WHITE UNIONS Some trade unions fit in well with apartheid and help to keep it going. TUCSA (Trade Union Council of South Africa) is offially non-racial, but in -fact serves only the interests of its majority of white members. Since 1973 it has promoted 'parallel' unions - unions for Africans but controlled by whites - and now 'mixed unions', also controlled by whites. TUCSA has always opposed genuine tradeunion rights for African workers and has welcomed government control on independent unions. It has 60 affiliated unions. SACOLA (South African Confederation of Labour) consists of white workers only and is openly racist. It expelled a union in 1980 for admitting Asians. It has fought consistently for job reservation and wage discrimination. SACOLA rejects the idea of African or non-recial trade unions. It has 18 affiliated unions. Polie srutinise the pss books of INDEPENDENT UNIONS Johannesburg municipal workers Neither TUCSA nor SACOLA serves the interests of black workers. Many black during the massive 1980 strike workers are not in any union. Migrant workers, for instance, are not allowed to join. Those that have joined unions have turned to the 'independent', non-racial 'I say that it does not matter that I and African unions. have lost what job I have and was The regime has hit these unions hard, especially the most militant. But it has taken to the . I am back failed to destroy them. Now it is seeking to control them, 'to prevent them here (Johannesburg) again and I am becoming prey to our enemies'. It wants the unions to 'register' with the state prepared to lose everything for this and submit to an array of restrictions. Minister of Manpower Utilisation Fanie straggle because otherwise even my Botha has warned that those who refuse will find that 'their lives won't be worth children will have to suffer like this.' living'. Many have refused and now he has introduced new legislation to make Dismissed Johannesburg municipal them comply with his rules anyway. Amongst his plans are proposals to worker, October 1980 prohibit financial support for 'illegal' strikers. 'Although we have been denied " "RIGHT" TO STRIKE those rights (freedom of movement, Almost all strikes by African workers are 'illegal'. There has only been one legal free bargaining, democratic rights) strike - at Pilkingtons in 1976 - and that was broken ruthlessly, with police our African people since the turn of arresting all the strikers. Police are called into many disputes. Until 1973 all this century have worked for true strikes by Africans were illegal and strikers could be fined up to R500 or trade unionism and we find imprisoned for up to three years. Now it is technically legal for some Africans to ourselves bound to do the same.., strike. But that right is so hedged about with restrictions that it is practically Joe Mavi, President, Black meaningless. And workers in 'essential services' are still banned from striking. Municipal Workers Union of The Minister can declare any activity an 'essential service'. Yet strikes have continued and increased in frequency and scale. 1973 saw a Johannesburg massive wave of industrial action. In 1974 and 1975 there were 317 illegal strikes. In 1976 there were massive 80% effective stay-at-homes in Johannesburg and Cape Town. - Today strikes pose such a threat that the army has been called in. In May 1980 troops were flown in to put down a strike by 4,500 Transvaal miners. In June 1980 at Uitenhage the army fired on strikers. In March two miners were A shot and killed at a mine in the Eastern Transvaal. STRIKERS "DISMISS THEMSELVES" Employers assist willingly in breaking the strikes. Often strikers are judged to have 'dismissed themselves'. As soon as the workers strike they are fired by the management. 1,500 Firestone workers were 'deemed to have fired themselves' after striking in January 1981 2,000 Leyland workers who struck in May 1981 for higher wages were all ~dismissed 500 Rowntrees workers were sacked by their company - again for going on strike. These are only a few examples. In the year up to July 1981, an estimated During 1980, thousands of m s 36,000 workers have been fired for going on strike, 4,000 in the have gone on strike alone. On being dismissed, many workers lose more than their pay and their jobs. They also lose their 'residence rights' and must 'return' to their 'homelands'. In August 1980 1,000 Johannesburg municipal workers were 'deported' to the bantustan by police when they were sacked after striking for higher wages. PRICE OF RESISTANCE The most active trade unionists may have to pay a still higher price. Thousands have been banned, detained, jailed - and worse. SACTU was forced underground after massive repression, including the detention of 160 orgaisers and the execution of three key leaders. Five years ago, 24 leading officials were banned for five years (making their trade union work impossible). In the next year three trade unionists 'died in detention' and five SACTU activists were jailed for life. In 1280, the year of Pretoria's trade union 'reforms': . three key leaders of the Johannesburg Black Municipal Workers Union were charged with 'sabotage' for leading a strike, five meat workers' leaders were detained and the Ford strike leader was detained and bnned * 19 leaders of the Allied Workers, Food and Canning Workers and General Workers were detained and 125 SAAWU members arrested for attending a mass meeting * veteran unionist Oscar Mpetha was held in solitary confinement for almost five months without charge, despite his age (7 1) and poor health. Riot police confront strikers There are many more examples. But in 1981 things have been even worse. From January to July between 140 and 210 trade nionists (according to different reports) were detained, some more than once. Others were banned and jailed. Some examples: Fanie Botha . at least 121 members of the Allied Workers (SAAWU) detained, including the union's President and Vice President 'Blacks are nor yet ready for *22 motor union activists detained, including the Motor Assembly Workers today's technological labour world, (MACWUSA) Chairman and three leading officials because of their cultural back- * President, Acting President and four other leading figures in the Media ground, rsral heritage, immaturity, Workers Association (MWASA) banned, some house arrested and lack of motivation.' a four postal workers detained (after attempting to form a union) 26June1981 *SecretaryoftheMunicipalWorkers(BMWU)detainedagain. (Pani Botha is Minister of The regime has not hesitated to use its 'law' against the workers. And there Manpower Utilisation) has been mounting harassment and intimidation. Sigma striker Petrus Mahlangu -was shot dead. A FOSATU official was shot at earlier this year, a Durban textile workers shop steward assassinated on a street corer in 1980. Union leaders' houses have been stoned and bombed, their meetings banned and offices raided. lq

Page-8 Anti-Apartheid News September 1981 BRITISH LEYLAND:COMMITTED TO APARTHEID II- WiE South African subsidiary at Blackheath. will be transferred to of British Leyland (BL), Elsie's River over the next 18 months Britain's state-owned motor and production of the Renault 1500 group has announcedthesale willbeginin two yearn' time. Existing rp productionoftheMini,Roversand of its largest assembly plant in Range Rovers will continue and,. South Africa. a fresh round of although the total Leyland workinvestment and major expan- force will decline, the operation at sion at its remaining plant. Elsie's River will expand massively. Leyland South Africa's site of the The workforce is to be increased to Blackheath commercial vehicle plant more than double its present size, to the Chrysler and Anglo American production will increase to 45,000 controlled Sigma Corporation, South vehicles a year and altogether some Africa's biggest motor group, is for £9 million will be spent on expansion. £8.5 million and will be completed The sale of the plant is an exerciseinbyDecember1982. assetdisposalandgrouprationalisaland ion,notasignof withdrawal, and But the sale does not mean Leyan Leyland's commitment to South are pulling out of South Africa. In fact, Leyland Will be spending almost Africa remains strong. exactly the lame amount as it gets At one stage BL was said to be fromr the Blackheath sale on the considering withdrawal from South expairoin of the remaining Elsie's Africa. Leyland car sales have been River plant in South Africa. Bus and faling and presently account for truck assembly presently carried out only 1.6 per cent of the market. But EQUITY MEMBERS TAKE STAND ON SOUTH African television viewers government and broadcasting authomissed much of the Royal Wedding rities are operated within the context service in July because of participa- of apartheid'. The Musicians' Union tion by Equity and Musiciand Union has a policy 'of completely boycotting members. Equitymade clear in a South Africa. statement that they 'refuse to allow - The BBC pressed Equity to make television programmes involving an exception for the Royal Wedding Equity members doing Work covered so that the whole ceremony could be by Equity contracts' being shown in. seen in South Africa. But the Union South Africa 'as long as that country's decided to stick by its policy and the' COMPUTERS: BRITISH REDUNDANCIES, SOUTV A BRIEFING produced bythe North ICL workers in Britain face the West Trade Union/Anti-Apartheid threat of redundancy. One reason, Liaison Committee (NWTUAALC), the briefing points out, is that ICL is in cooperation with a number of working on plans to expand shop stewards and representatives of manufacturing operations in South the West Gorton plant of the Africa at the mine time as it is computer giant ICL, urges ICL massively cutting jobs in Britain. workers to boycott all equipment Anti-apartheid activists in ICL and and spares being sent to South Africa the North West have been urging ICL the car operations have recently come back into profit, and the more significant bus and truck production continues to be highly profitable. On the basis of the increasing profits and increased sales in 1980 (10.8 per cent increase in trucks, 17.5 per cent in cars, 16 per cent in tractors, 9.4 per cent inLand Rovers and 100 per cent in bus sales) Leyland had been planning a new investment in South. Africa of £7 million even before the announcement this month and substantial sums have been invested already. Only last year Sir Michael Edwardes, BL Chairman and himself a South African, reaffirmed that the South African subsidiary was so profitable that there was no question of closing it down, and Leyland has also recently announced further new investment in the Atlantis Diesel engine plant. PRINCIPLE South African Broadcasting Corporation did not transmit those parts of the service involving the members of the two unions. Technicians at SABC headquarters had to fade out much of the wedding. AAM Chairperson Robert Hughes MP has written 9o both unions congratulating them on their stand. I AFRICAN EXPANSION company's overall production plans and to oppose the transfer of prodhtion to South Africa or Namibm, both in solidarity with the struggles of black workers and to protect their own jobs and livelihoods. The NWTUAALC can be contacted at 59 Tintern Avenue, Manchester M20 8ND. THE NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN is totally opposed to the apartheid regime in South Africa and believes that the international community, especially Britain, has a responsibility to help end racism and apartheid there. It calls, therefore, for the total isolation of the regime, including the issue of mandatory UN economic sanctions against South Africa. The NUR will be impressing upon the TUC and the Labour Party the need for an effective policy of mandat,.ry sanctions and also the need for a campaign to stop military and nuclear collaboration. General Secretary SIDNEY WEIGHELL Unity House Euston Road London NW1 2BL STOP THESE TRADE MISSIONS! ELEVEN trade missions are planned February 1982; Coventry Chamber from Britain to South Africa in the of Commerce: March 1982; Thames period September 1981 to March Export Club: March 1982. 1982. Of the 14 trade missions from The United Nations General Britain to the whole of Africa in the Assembly has specifically called for a rest of 1981, eight will go to South halt to trade missions and other forms Africa and all will receive the finan- of trade promotion with South cial support of the British Overseas Africa, but there were no less than Trade Board (BOTB). 22 such missions between October The missionsare: 1979andOctober1980,andinthe Nottingham Export Association: first six months of 1980 they August/September 1981; Bitnning- accounted for three-quarters of all ham Chamber of Industry and missions to Africa as a whole. Commerce: September/October Sheffield AA, supported by local 1981; Manchester Chamber of Coe- trade unionists, last month picketed meree: October 1981; The Engineer-.a BOTB inward trade mission of ing and Building Centre: October South African hand tool manufactu1981; The Engineering Industries rers when they visited the home bf Association: November 1981;WalsaB British steel tool and cutlery producChamber of Commerce: November tion. AAM appeals to all members 1981; London Chamber of Cum- and supporters to do everything macer: December 1981; The Engin- possible to oppose both inward and earing Industries Association: outward missions. MUSICIANS VOTE TO KEEP BOYCOTT rHE Musicians'.Union annual confer- ments of work in South Africa and ence, meeting in Coventry in July, there is still an embargo on sales of agreed to retain its existing boycott TV material involving MU members. policy. Moves spearheaded by enter- Many singers, such as Cliff tainer Donald Swann to scrap the Richard, who are breaking the cultuban on members appearing in South ral boycott and appearing in South Africa were defeated. Members of Africa, are not covered by the policy the Musicians' Union (including all since they are not members of the professional musicians) are therefore MU. still excluded from accepting engageTrade unions to urge disinvestment TRADE unionists employed by trans- national Collaboration, heldin Geneva national corporations, with invest- in July, included this as one of a ments in apartheid have been urged series of recommendations. to act to secure the withdrawal of Vella Pillay, Vice Chairman of the those corporations from South Africa. Anti-Apartheid Movement, and Mike A United Nations seminar on Terry, Executive Secretary, attended Effective Measures to Prevent Trans- the seminar on behalf of AAM. SOCIETY OF CIVIL AND PUBLIC SER VANTS Pledges full support in the fight against apartheid and calls for sanctions now GERRY GILLMAN General Secretary Society of Civil and Public Servants 124/130 Southwark Street London SE1 OTU 51

RON NETHERCOTT, REGIONAL SECRETARY AND THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE .. .TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION REGION 3 - BRISTOL EXPRESS THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE AIMS OF AAM'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST APARTHEID TGWU, Region 3, South West, Transport House, Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6AY FRATERNAL GREETINGS FROM THE MIDLANDS REGION OF THE TGWU TO THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT AND ALL THOSE WHOSE AIM IS THE EQUALITY OF THE RACES BRIAN MATHERS Regional Secretary TGWU, Transport House, 9 Victoria Street, West Bromwich B70 8HX ACTT the film and broadcasting union is opposed to apartheid and all forms of racial discrimination Alan Sapper General Secretary Association of Cinematograph, Television & Allied Technicians 2 Soho Square London W1 ZIMBABWE: PAYING APARTHEID'S PRICE THE expulsion of 20,000 black Zim- their work contracts would not be babwean workers from South Africa renewed on expiry. by the Pretoria regime is part of the The Zimbabwean government price which the Zimbabwe people itself cancelled the South African will have to pay for Africa's libera- labour bureau's licence to recruit, tion, according to Zimbabwe's Mini- mineworkers in Zimbabwe in ster of LabourandSocialServices, Februarythisyear,andhasmadeKumbiraiKangaL clearits intention to phase out The migrant workers, who are labour migration to South Africa employed on South Africa's mines as Commenting on the latest move labourers, waiters and domestic ser- by the apartheid regime to put the vants, were warned last month by the economic screws on Zimbabwe, South African 'Department of Kumbirai Kangai accused Pretoria of Cooperation and Development' that ta laterally breaking legal contracts. nalgo is affiliated to AAM and has taken part in many of its campaigns on behalf of black trade unionists and others fighting for the rights which NALGO members take for granted. nalgo believes that mandatory sanctions on all trade with South Africa, imposed through the United Nations, represent an effective form of pressure on the South African government to grant those rights, nalgo has asked its branches to support the 'Isolate Apartheid' campaign and in particular the trade union week of action starting on 24 October GEOFFREY DRAIN General Secretary National and Local Government Officers Association 1 Mabledon Place London WC1H 9AJ Poverty line TWO THOUSAND of the 6,700 black workers on Lonrho's South African mines are .paid wages well below the poverty line, according to information submitted by the company to the Department of Trade and Industry. One hundred and eighty four British companies with operations in South Africa reported to the DTI on the wages paid to their black workers, compared to 205 companies in last year's survey. The number of workers covered by the survey rose by 13,000 to 118,000, however. South African stake A SOUTH AFRICAN construction company, LTA, is buying a major stake in the British quarrying and civil engineering group, Bath and Portland. LTA's finance director said that buying share stakes in overseas companies was 'the most appropriate way' for South African firms to expand abroad. AUEW(TASS) Supports the AAM and, in particular, campaigns for * the release of Dave Kitson and all other political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia * the total isolation of the apartheid regime including the imposition of United Nationsmandatory sanctions President: D Helliwell General Secretary: K Gill Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Technical, Administrative & Supervisory Section Onslow Hall, Little Green, Richmond, Surrey WESTERN TRADING i OFFICIAL South African statistics published recently show that the United States was the apartheid regime's leading bilateral trading partner during 1980, with Britain following closely behind. West Germany, France, Japan and Importsfrom Exportsto Total value Country SouthAfrica SouthAfrica oftrade UnitedStates 1,648 1,952 3,600 Britain 1,387 1,139 3,124 WestGermany 800 1,860 2,660 Japan 1,206 1,291 2,4917 Switzerland 1,240 France - 542 (Figures art in millions of rands) S ource: Johamesburg Sunday rimea, 12 July 1981 Journalist banned ANOTHER leader of the Media Workers Association of South Africa has been banned by the South African regime. CHARLES NQAKULA, acting president of the union and a senior reporter on the East London Daily 4 Dispatch, has been served with a 2 J-year banning order and placed under house arrest under the Internal Security Act. Under the banning order he is forbidden to write for publication, attend gatherings or take part in political or union activities. He joins three other officials of the association Joe Thloloe, Marimuthu Sisulu and Mathatha Tsedu who were banned and house arrested earlier this year. No reasons have been given for any of the banning orders. How to get rid of unemployment... TOO MUCH black unemployment "employed in agriculture". could be embarrassing when apart- 'A man who indicates the occupa heid's rulers are trying to convince tion and industry of his last job, but the world that 'their' blacksare better who is unemployed, has to be classioff than those in the rest of Africa. fied as "employed" in the industry So enumerators in the South African specified. census have been given some ingen- 'All females of 16 and over in ious directives. Circular No 14/17 rural areas who are unemployed,] advises that: have- to be classified as 'farm 'A male who describes himself as workers" unless they are the wives of unemployed and who is living in a household heads.' rural area has to be classified as I

REPORT FROM STOKE MANDEVILLE INTENSIVE campaigning by, disabled members and supporters 'of the Anti-Apartheid Movement MORB AND MORE nations ate together with the Movement's Health Committe, paid off recently when the -call for the expulsion of boycotting the International Stoke South Africa from the international disabled sports movement received nationwide publicity. In July, Mandevlle Games each year becase a men her of the British national team pulled out of the International StokeMandevilleGames in of Sounh Africas participation. Ftinland, Jamaica Kenya and protest'against South Africas participation, and the South African Non-Racial Olympic dommittee Ethiopia stay away every year, and (SANROC) and the United Nations were asked to place the Secretary General of the organising body were joined ibis year by Egypt, of the Games on the register of sports collaborators. Meanwhile, 50 people mounted a successful Sudan and Trinidad. The Dutch ic toutside the Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium on the opening day of the international games. basketball team also boycotted the picket oGames because of South Africa's The publicity generated by these still takes part when it has been apartheid regime, and that in reality presence. activities, which included national expelled from almost every able- to be black and disabled in South Sudan and Trinidad also pulled TV, radio and press, has given a bodied sports organisation. There is Africa means grinding poverty, out of the recent junior disabled tremendous boost to the campaign to growing awareness that black humiliation and oppression. exclude South Africa from the inter- disabled people are being used, with The campaign for South Africa's gamesheldinGateshead.Againthe on h national disabled sports scene. People the help of Stoke Mandeville, in a exclusion has grown steadily over the taking part. mae. are asking why it is that South Africa cynical propaganda exercise by the past 18 months and has drawn in mate. increasing numbers of both disabled and able-bodied supporters. Three Disabled swimmer forfeits chance organisations of disabled people - IN JULY, disabled swimmer Bernard taking part in the Games, Bernard the Union of Physically Impaired Leach gave up his place in the British wrote to the organisers saying that he - Against Segregation, the Liberation team and the chance of competing in had no option but to withdraw. Network of People with Disabilities the major event in the disabled Bernard gave up not only his place and the National League of the Blind sports calendar, the International in the British team and months of j 'j " and Disabled -have supported the Stoke Mandeville Games. After arduous training, but almost campaign throughout, learning that South Africa would be certainlyhis future athletic career. Disabled sport is finally in the poitical limelight- weurgeallAAM Screamsofragefrom thepress members and supporters to become involved in the campaign so that we 'BAN HITS GAMES OF HOPE' cried the AA protestors: 'You don't know canwinthe demand: the front pageheadlineofthe Dotty whatit'slike beingcrippledand OF Mail on 25 July. In an article forced to live in a wheelchair.' You SOUTH AFRICA OUT dripping with self-righteoumess and should try to attend the events you DISABLED SPORT ! indignation, Andrew McEwen report, Mr Pratt -the ten people in paintedapictureofpoorJoan wheelchairswholookpartinthe A group of disabled and able- Scruton who had spent almost her demonstration are well aware of bodied people ft being esrablished to entire life helping these poor 'what it's like'. ~ coordinare future actieity. Pleaseger unfortunatedisabledpeople,being in touch with theAAM Health attacked bythat ogre Sam Ramsamy, BLACKLIST SCRUTON! Committee, 89 Charlotte Street, Chairpersonon SANROC. JOAN SCRUTON IS Secretary 'Out, out! was the message for the London WIP 2DQ, Tel 01-5805311, McEwen just happened to forget General of the International Stoke InternationalStoleMandevilleGames. ifyouareinterestedinthecampaign. tomention in his article that Scruton Mandeville Games Federation, the had banned disabled athlete and body which organises the interti-apartheid supporter Maggy national games each year and of SOLIDARITY WITH NAIBIAJ WOMEN IN STRUGGE onres. which South-Africa is a member. WHEELCHAIRHEROES'said TheAnti-Apartheid Movement Npetition: Free Ida Jim my' theDailyExpreso27July,the hasrequestedboth SANROC and the A year ago, in October 1980, IDA JIMMY was sentenced to seven dayafter the protest outside the UN Special Committee against years' imprisonment by an illegal court in Namibia for making a stadium. In his article Colin Pratt Apartheid to consider Scruton for ... nsa*nfl"iiTlt, CUT~ AD^rfliUIh 1'C11"lS ADi'i'V quotedadisabledathleteassayingto inclusion on the sporting blacklist. CAMPAIGN explains what can be done in support of Ida Jimmy and other Namibian Women fighting against apartheid. ida Jimmy, who has been a roleinthe struggle for national SWAPO activist for many years, liberation. urged people at the rally to support On 9 October 1981, SWSC is the freedom fighters of PLAN (the launching a petition demanding the People's Liberatiou.Army of release of Ida Jimmy and all political Ntamibia, SWAPO's military wing), by prisoners in Namabia. The British giving them food and shelter, and government, which. has failed to put condemned South African atrocities effective pressure on South Africa to against the Namibian people. She was withdraw its illegal occupation army Ellen Muialela, Assistant Secretary seven months pregnant at the lime of from Namibia, beam a large for Finance, SWAPOWomen's hertrialand gave birth to asonin responsibilityfor the continued Council,whoworkedasamilitary prison. sufferingofIdaJimmyandothersin nursewithSWAPO'sarmedwing Asapolitical prisoner Ida has Namibia, and must be urged to beore.takiku on hee present duties, become a symbol of the many intervene to obtain their release. Namibian women fighting forthe A major part ofSWSC's work is to freedom of their country from South raise material aid for Namibian African rule. She is one of many women in thle refugee settlements. women in Namibia, their names Ellen Musiaela, Assistant Secretary unknown, who aresuffering forFinanceofSWAPO Women's imprisonment, detention And torture Council, stressed the desperate need under South African occupation, for the most basic essentials when she Namibian women have organised visited Britain inFebruary 1,8 t. in the SWAPO Women's Council SWSC has launched a campaign to (SWC), which mobilises women inside raise money for a literacy project to Namibia and carries out a number of buy books, blackboards, paper, projects in the refugee settlements in pencils, etc, and to send badlyAngola and . SWC runs needed items such as sanitarytowels, agricultural projects, literacy schemes underwear, clothes and medicines. and schools, and health centres. It is For petition forms to collect in constant need of international signatures for Ida Jimmy's release support,bothfinancialandpolitical, andfordonationstothematerialaid , >i: InBritain,theSWAPOWomen's campaigncontact:SWAPOWomen's Solidarity Campaign (SWSC) was set Solidarity Campaign, c/o 188 North Pendukeni Kanlinge, Secretary of the up in 1§75 to respond to the needs Gower Street, London NWI 2NB. SWAPO Women's Council, who left of SWAPO Women's Council. It has - Tel 01-388 5539 Namibia to join the liberation been working among women here to straggle ten years ago, at the age of raise understanding of the nature of ...... ,-.. - Namibianwomen'soorressionunder l " , - - Dirban, South ArsiaeTh'e women us Jiu1roso1 ie0n uge semeves to uaso togner is em cotsion equal pay for equal workffor. the rfght-ta fOAidemuetie trade unions,-foradeqate loaaing, ads Message from the resistance THE 25th anniversary of South what theywant; and we are not alone. African Women's Day on 9 August We have ftiends from all races, and was celebrated both in London, where we think of'the friends who are with a packed public meeting heard us in the struggle. We have to fight speakers and rhessages from the these terrible laws, and the exploits. African National Congress; SWAPO tion of the oppressed people, but we of Namibia, the Anti-Apartheid Move, have a hope that the time of peace and ment, the El Salvador Human Rights harmony will come. The time is near Committee and a wide range of trade when the refugees come home to their unions and political groups, and inside country, and those who still have South Africaitself, someyearstolivewillseeeachother This- message, to friends and again. supporters sof the liberation struggle, 'O4u children have -no privileges, from a leader of the women's reas- no, houses, no education, no work of tance inside South Africa, was read their choice. They are victims of the out to the South African Women's pan laws. The dirtiest,and heaviest Day meeting in London work is for them Those who are weak 'Nothing can stop the straggle fall on the wrong aide, But in time Things become worn, it- hardships the strength of the people, will force must be faced before the people get them to, fight -with us.' AUGUST 9 NATIONAL WOE' DAY o toa resarnen o aw-t people 01 Soatis Arica, for r toigwag and nanapoet, anad agaist the pass lawsa anuS all unjust, lawsi. --

Facts and figures on Apartheid The United Nations Centre Against Apartheid publishes a series of Notes and Documents about different aspects of the apartheid system and the struggles taking place in Southern Africa. Many of these are very useful as sources of background information for anti-apartheid activists. Those available for sale from the AAM Office are listed below. Although their sire and quality is variable, for the sake of administration convenience all are priced at 20 pence. (Reference numbers must be given with orders.) ARMED FORCES AND THE BOMB 41/78 South Africa's Military and Nuclear Build-up Abdul S Minty 3/80 Mercenaries and Southern Africa Deborah Jackson 5/80 Mercenaries: A Threat to International Security in Southern Africa... Robert Schware 10/80 The status of combatants of the liberation movement of South Africa under the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977 KaderAsmal 2/81 Acts of aggression perpetrated by South Africa against the People's Republic ofAngola: Report of the International'Commission of Inquiry TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND SANCTIONS 35/76 The Case far Economic Disengagement Abdul S Minty 12/78 Oil Sanctions against South Africa... Bernard Rivets and Martin Bailey 35/78 Transnational Corporate Involvement in South Africa... Seidman and Makgetla 5/79 Bank Loans to South Africa 1978-1979 Corp Data Exchange 9/79 International Conference on the European Community and South Africa 12/79 The European Economic Community's Code of Conduct SACTU 24/79 Transnational Corporations and South African Military-Industrial Complex... Seidman and Makgetla 4/80 The Sullivan Principles: Decoding Corporate Camouflage. 13/80 Fuelling Apartheid ANC 15/80 Oil Sanctions: South Africa's Weakest Link Martin Bailey 16/80 The Sullivan Principles: no cure for apartheid A public statement 23/80 The Case for Mandatory Economic Sanctions against South Africa ANC 28/80 Transnational Corporations: Allies or Instruments of Apartheid? 29/80 United Nations Security Council resolutions on apartheid MASS REMOVALS AND THE BANTUSTANS 44/78 Forced Removals in South Africa... IDAF 27/80 Mass Population Removals in Apartheid South Africa (1978- 1980) WORKERS 21/76 The South African Miner' Strike 1946... M P Naicker 25/79 The Wiehahn Report... M Shafer 26/80 Apartheid as a collective form of slavery WOMEN 7/78 The Effects of Apartheid on the Status of Women in South Africa 7/80 The Role of Women in the South-African Trade Union Movement 20/78 African Women and Apartheid in Labour Matters CHILDREN 21/79 Children under Apartheid Report on ParisSminar 1979 HEALTH 11/77 Apartheid and Mental Health Care WHO 18/77 Implications of Apartheid on Health and Health Services 7/79 Public Health Problems in Apartheid... Anne Fullerton 8/79 Apartheid: A Threat to Public Health in South Africa... C Roth 17/80 Health Situation in South Africa Today... Aziza Sedat POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THE STATE Oct/77 (1948-1977) 1/78 Ms Winnie Mandela 3/78 South Africa's Internal Security Act No 44 of 1950 19/78 Rob Bartlema and John Kortenray 2/79 State Criminality in South Africa... A Sachs 4/79 Treatment of Political Prisoners and Detainees 27/79 Repression of Conscientious Objectors in South Africa 6/80 Repression in South Africa The Imprisoned Society SATIS SPORT 8/80 Racial Discrimination in South African Sport Sam Ramsamy (SANROC) 11/80 Isolate South Africa from all International Sport... Sam Ramsamy 12/80 Racism in South African Sport... M N Pather All documents 20 pence each, available from AAM, 89 Charlotte Street, London WIP 2D Classified CHALLENGE, monthly paper of the Young Communist League. Price 15p. Subscriptions £2.20 pa. Send to 28 Bedford Street, London WC2. SANITY, bi-monthly newspaper of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Subscription £1 annually, or specimen copy (free) from: CND, 29 Great James St, London WCIN 3EY. PEACE NEWS, fortnightly paper covering the growing peace movement from a radical viewpoint. News, views and analysis helping to knit together the opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. £9.50 for a year's subscription, £5 for six months, £1 for 4 issues (trial sub). From: Peace News, 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham 3. RESISTER, bulletin of the Committee on South African War Resistance. Up-to-date news on apartheid militarism and resistance to it. £2.00 pa from COSAWR, BM Box 2190, London WCIX 6XX. LABOUR'S independent monthly LABOUR LEADER - for socialism and the Labour Party. Annual subscription £3.50. Send for a sample copy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds LSI I OLW. Norman and Jenny Buchan ask all AAM members and supporters within reach of Brighton to bring paperback and other books to the Labour Party Conference at the end of September to raise funds for AAM at a Book Sale in Glasgow in late October. For details please contact Chris Child, AAM Office. NEW ZEALAND ACT POINT THE WAY AH New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon found that he could not escape anti-apartheid protests when he arrived in London to attend the Royal Wedding. More than 100 demonstrators waved banners and chanted slogans at a picket of Marlborough House orgaoised by the London-based New Zealanders Against Racist Tours, as Mr & Mrs Muldoon arrived for a garden party. More than 200 demonstrators against the Springboks had picketed New Zealand House in London the week before, while a delegation from the Anti- Apartheid Movement met the New Zealand High Commissnoner in a final effort to stop the tour. Break college links with THE TENTH ANNUAL Southern Africa Conference, jointly organised by the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the National Union of Students over the weekend 11/12 July, came up with an ambitious progranme of campaigning for students and student unions over the coming academic year. CATE CLARKE, Campaign Organiser for AAM, reports: The 1981 Southern Africa Conference was attended by 100 student activists from over 50 colleges and universities, with keynote speeches from the ANC and SWAPO. The conference agreed on a number of campaign priorities for she coming year, which will lend support to the AAM's major campaign Isolate South Africa - Sanctions Now! The first priority for student activists will be to organise protests at Barclays Bank's continued support for apartheid, particularly on 15 October, the AAM's Day" of Action against Barclays. This will be followed by a series of nationwide protests at the bannings, detention and harassment of students in South Africa, to take place on 19 October, the anniversary of the banning of the South African student organisations SASO and SASM. 'Students attending the Southern Africa Conference were deeply concerned at the repression of their fellow students in South Africa, and it is planned to set up an urgent action scheme whereby student unions all over Britain will undertake to organise protest campaigns whenPhotographer THE news of the death of the noted trade unionist and photographer of the South African liberation struggle, Eli Weinberg, was received with much regret by the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Eli died in Dar es Salaam in July at the age of 73. Born in Latvia, Eli came to South Africa under the influence of the socialist struggles of contemporary Russia. Soon after his arrival, he involved himself in building up the trade union movement and by 1932 had joined the Communist Party. He became the photographer for the radical newspaper New Age (later banned) and won prizes for many of his photographs. Amongst his student photographers was Joe Gqabi, assassinated in Zimbabwe shortly after Eli's *own death. An impressive book of photographs of the South African freedom ever students in South Africa are detained for political offences. The AAM and NUS have called on every student union to set up a special committee to investigate each college's links with South Africa. It is also stressed that students should not campaign in isolation but should seek the support of trade unions in their colleges, and of community organisations, thereby creating the broadest possible basis of support. Other initiatives planned for the first term of the academic year include a Day-of Action against the Namibian Uranium Contract. A campaign which it is hoped will be taken up much more widely this year concerns the efforts of South African companies to recruit British students to go and work in South Africa. As the regime faces a serious shortfall in skilled white labour, it has been making major efforts to recruit new graduates from Britain, particularly in the fields of minerals technology, nursing, treaching and engineering. The campaign aims to stop visits by companies to universities to interview applicants and to stop advertising apartheid! material being provided by Careers Services where this promotes employ ment in South Africa or Namibia. The other major area Where students are being urged to campaign with renewed vigour is in raising material aid for SWAPO and the African National Congress - and at the same time to educate others about the reasons for, and justness of, the lilleration struggle. Students are being asked in particular to raise aid for SWAPO's education campaign and the ANC's Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College. British students are faced with many difficulties brought about by the policies of Mrs Thatcher and the Tory government, such as unemployment and the cuts in educational expenditure, which will place great demands on their time However after a successful Southern Africa Conference we are confident that we can build the support that is needed. The student movement in Britain has a long history of involvement in anti-racist and solidarity campaigns, which now more than ever before must be harnessed in support of the growing liberation struggles of the people of Namibia and South Africa. Student readers are urged to contact Cate Clark at the AAM Office for further details of activities and campaign materials. of freedom struggle struggle as captured by Eli was published earlier this year by the International Defence and Aid Fund and reviewed in AA News. Paul Joseph *PortraitofaPeople, by Eli Weinberg. IDAF. 1981. Price £4. Documents THE South African Communist Party, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of' its foundation on 30 July this year, is the oldest Communist Party in Africa. A special anniversary meeting in London in July was addressed by the President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo; the SACP General Secretary, Moses Mabhida; and the general secretaries of the British and Irish Communist Parties. A commemorative collection of historic documents, South African Communists Speak, 1915-1980. has been produced to mark the occasion and is available from Inkululeko Publications, 39 Goodge Street, London WIP IFD, price £10. Writer, lawyer HARRY BLOOM, who died in Canterbury on 28 July, spent much of his life defending the oppressed. A writer and journalist as well as a lawyer, he covered the Nurembarg War Trials as War Correspondent with the British forces before returning to South Africa to resume his legal practice in the anti apartheid cause. His other interests included sport where, as a delegate for the black South African Soccer Federation to FIFA, he assisted in the initial stages of getting South Africa suspended from world soccer. Harry Bloom went into exile in 1963 after being detained, 5, , isis - ,,- 5'

Wuht's New from MWTHE j ftAnti-Apartheid Movement - ,OI Str h Prt r TeiZ E eaflet: Save the Pretoria Three 60p per 100 ESticker: Save the Pretoria Three 20p for nine t ostcard: Save the Pretoria Three 20p for four 2p the Apartheid Bomb eflt, punlhed by the World Campaign agoait Military and Nuclear C borato, with South Afries, £10 per 1,000. Oerature onti-,Apartheid News Special Supplement: Isolate South Africa S ions Nowt 20p each Masaa aessey Arms Apartheid -a description of the role played by the ey Corporation in wipplying the apartheid war machine. AAM, May , rr aN Sthi15 Paleasua l~.30P______31natures for Sanctions needed MEMBERS OF THE Labour Group tures from all sectors of the anon Camden Council and of the munity in Britain are needed to Executive Committee of the Com- present to the British government masss Party (GB) are Just some of on 21 March 1982, the 22nd ann*the hundreds of prominent repre- versary bf the Sharpevile massacre. saenatives of the trade onion and Please'keep the Petition cirulalabour movement who have signed ing at festivals, meetings, rallies; at the AAM's National Sanctions work, i your union hranch; church Petition - Isolate South Africa group, , political party, student Now! union; and amongst your friends. Hundreds of thousands of signs. Kateka saved from hangman AFTER A lengthy campaign invol. imprisonment: ving thousands of people all over Kateka's co- defendant, Hendrik the world, Nanibian farinworker Kariseb, sentenced to ten years' MARKUS KATEKA has been saved imprisonment on similar charges of from the hangman's noose. The assisting SWAPO freedom fighters Bloemfontein Appeal Court in who attacked their employer's farm South Africa ruled in July that he in northern Namibia, had his sen. should instead serve 17 years' tence reduced to seven years. the Anti-Apartheid Movement Fa Fsedom in SouMh ea WONa~!o.1r p For The AAM works in political parties, trade unions, religious 1 :goups, uhiversities, colleges, schools and with the general public for an end to all forms of collaboration with the Iouth African apartheid regime and for support for those * struggling for freedom and independence. U What it nvolves: I E publicising the factssabout apartheid in Southern Africa 0 N U campaigning for the total isolation of apartheid Sooth U - IAfrica 0 exposing British collaboration with the apartheid U r gime N mobilising political, moral and material support for the leration movements of South Africa and Namibia 1NAME ADDRESS STELEPHONE NO.______E Miniesum annual membership fees IN- ndividuals- £7,50 10 students/apprenties-f£5 10 school students/pensioners/clamants£2 1nloeal organisations- £7,50 U IAffiliation rates for national trade unions are on a sliding scale E mfrom£160to£25,dependingonthesizeoftheunion U . !Subscriptions to AA News only I'UK/Europe-£4.50 1 outside U i Europe: surface mail-£4.50; airmail- £6.50 0 .0 U Membership fees and subscriptions can be paid directly into the E n AAM'sGiroAccountNo525130004 U0 3, iThey can also be paid by Banker's Ordet-qrsn avalahlefrom , N Sth AA*,Oqfflce. 1 '. U" ' 'r....' mmm ommm ome m ,-... Use this formto Wi moremembers f'o l,M ... ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Sunday 1 November 1981 l0am -530 pm Westminster Cathedral Conference Centre London SWI pen to paid-up membe, of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Latest date for submissio qf resolutions and nominations to the National Committee: 18 September Latest for amendments: 16 October Fund-raising DON'T FORGET1 that the AntiApartheid Movement still needs your MONEY. The Movement's financial position continues to be an extremely serious one. Please make a special effort to organise some special fundraising event for the Movement, or take a collection among your friends and colleagues, so that AAM can look forward to the *autumn campaigning period NI utzo ri l Monday 7 September: Inaugural Meeting, Highgate AA Group, London 7.00 pm at Archway Development Education Centre (ADEC), 173 Archway Road, London N6 (Highgate tube). All in area welcome. Further details from 01-341 0144 or AAM Office. Monday 5/12119 October: 'Southern Africa for Beginners' Workshops, Highgate. 7 pm at ADEC, 173 Archway Rd, London N6. Three meetings to discuss the issues of apartheid and Southern Africa solidarity work, organised by the Highgate AA Group. All welcome. Further details from 01-341 0144. Saturday 10 October: Benefit Concert and Dance, Highgate, London. 7.30 pm at Caxton House, NI9. Organised by Highgate AA to raise funds for AAM. 23 SKIDOO plus MYSTERONS plus support groups, disco and bar. £2 per person. Sunday 11 October: Fund-raising Lunch, West London. Curry, music, raffle and entertainment to raise funds for AAM, organised by West London AA Group. 1.15 pm at All Saints Church Hall, Powis Gardens, Wl I (off Westboume Park Rd, nearest tubes Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park). £2 per person, £1 for OAPs, children, claimants tickets (in advance please) from a Northedge, 21 Marlborough Rd, W4, Tel 995 3171; AAM Office or any member of West London AA. Sunday I f October: International Fair, Muswell Hill, London. Fundraising Bring and Buy and AntiApartheid Bookstall, organised by Highgate AA Group. Details from 01-341 0144 or AAM Office. Friday-Sunday 6-8 November: Material Aid Workshop, Frankfurt, West Germany. International Workshop on material aid to the liberation movements in Southern Africa and the refugee settlements established by the ANC and SWAPO. Open to representatives of solidarity groups, anti-apartheid movements, humanitarian organisations, churches, students and youth, trade unions, women's organisations and others. Organised by the International Committee on Southern Africa (ICSA), 30A Danbury Street, London NI 8JV (Tel 01-359 4640), Tie copy date for the October issue of AA NEWS is Wednesday 4 September nI dreportsofloi:A tion 'ajwa-t apartheid and, Britisl -4llaboration to the AAM Office. ETuesday 8 September: 'ISOLATE APARTHEID' MEETING, Blackpool: Fringe meeting at the Trades Union Congress, organised by AAM, with Ken Gill, Jack Jones, South African Congress of Trade Unions, Bob Hughes MP. 8.15 pm, Lobster Pot, Market St. E Friday 18 September: 'SOUTHERN AFRICA-THE TIME TO CHOOSE', Llandudno: Fringe meeting for delegates to Liberal Assembly, with speakers from SWAPO and AAM. 8.00 pm, The Marine Hotel. E Saturday 19 September: BENEFIT CONCERT, London: Fund-raising event at Islington Town Hall for the Namibia Support Committee. Details from NSC, 188 North Gower Street, London NW1 2NB, Tel 01- 388 5539. 0 Tuesday 29 September: 'ISOLATE APARTHEID' MEETING, Brighton: Fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference, organised by AAM, 'Sanctions against South Africa - what policy for Labour?' 5.15 pm, Royal Pavilion Hotel, Old Steyne. E Sunday 11 October: SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS: National Day of Action in solidarity with South African and Namibian political prisoners - in London there will be a vigil on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, focusing particularly on trade unionists in detention and in prison. Details of activities elsewhere and further information from AAM Office, 89 Charlotte Street London WIP 2DQ, Tel 01-580 5311. U Thursday 15 October: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST BARCLAYS BANK: Pickets, leaflettings and activities throughout the country. Information, further details and campaign materials available from AAM Office. M Monday 19 October: SOLIDARITY WITH SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS: Day of Action in colleges and universities in support of students suffering detention, banning and other repression. Details from Cate Clarke, Campaign Organiser, AAM Office. E 24-31 October: TRADE UNION WEEK OF ACTION: Week of activity by British trade unions against apartheid, in support of the call for sanctions and in solidarity with back workers in South Africa and Namibia. Details from Chris Child, AAM Office. .I * Saturday 31 October: APARTHEID & THE BOMB, London: One-day event to mobilise opposition to all forms of nuclear collaboration with South Africa and to stop the import of uranium from Namibia and South Africa, organised by AAM and sponsored by CND. University of London-Union, Malet Street, London WC1. Invited speakers include Sean MacBride, former UN Commissioner, for Namibia; films, action workshops,,information exchange. E Wednesday 11 November: ANNIVERSARY CONCERT, London: Organised by the Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM) at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, as part of a national Week of Action (944 November) to mark the sixth anniversaiy of Angola's independence. Other activities include a National Speaking Tour of Britain by representatives of the Angolan Youth Movement, films, exhibitions and new publications. E Saturday 14 November: Uranium Activists Meeting: Organised by the Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contract (CANUC). Further details from Namibia Support Committee (address and tel above)