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PECEnl bland statements about supporting the freedom of Namibia and conth African aggression against the front line states, the real face of oration with was exposed last month in a conference aimed ade with the South African regime. ,in the Uited States, the Reagan administration took its support for partheid to new heights with the disclosure that the resumption of US niched uranium, for 's nuclear power plant at Koeberg in nminent. Sof the publication of new Britain's ambassador in Pretoria, who had flown t Group proposals for a settle- to London to participate. Of evea greater ia, thet Confederationof British sigaificance, heading the Foreign Office delegswith the Uhited Kingdom i ton to t conference was SirLeonard Afnso, Trade Assciation (UKSATA), Asaistant tnder Secretary of State, who flew si propagandaorganiation in off immediately frn the conference to join dug a trade conference at the Chester Crcker as Britain's representative in 'oint headquarters in London. the Coatact Group, whose team was touriag Africaa vital muket for UK Africa asAA Newswent o pres. vestment', it involved not only Coming as it did on 20 October, just a few ritish industry but also represen- days before the start of the Anti-ApartheI ritish government. (See story on Movement's Trade Union Week of Action suefordetailu of who attended.) against Apartheid, the conference underwrites programme was Sir John Leahy, the argency of concerted action in the trade union and labour movement to implement TUC policy- on Southern Africa and impose sanctions now. All trade unionists employed by the many firms and companies represented at the CBI/ UKSATA conference must take the matter up with their magements and make sure that they will never dare to attend such a gathering of collsborators again. Already, many laoal authorities throughout Britain have taken the initiative and shown that sanctions can be made a reality. The. decision by Sheffield City Council to break all links with apartheid, together with the anti-apartheid actions taken by local authorities in London, Glasgow, Leeds, Derby and elsewhere (see page 3 of this Jsrue). point the way ahead for all supporters of freedom in Southern Africa-and all who understand that the long-term interests of the British people lie, not with the South African racists, but with the people of the whole of independent Africa. branch in the centre of Cambridge., anyone over 20 felt old! ares, with pla to bring three local aimedparticularlyat studentsand HighgateAA have also ben AA- Groups - Watford, Hemet others thinking of opening accounts holding a well-attended series of Hempstead and St Albians-together with apartheid's biggest bank. The workshops on 'Southern Africa for in a federation of South West f- letprotests were organisd by Cambridge Beginners', and plan to organise more fordshire Anti-Apartheid. AA Group to coincide with Barclays' on campaigning. The involvementof Watford -AA has anranged an own showing of a promotional ft-im theatre and art in the fight against exhibition of photographs at the to attract new customers. apartheid was discussed at a meeting local central libraryand organised a Cambridge AA also held a at the JacksonsLane Community stall at treWatford Multi-Cultural Techltin on Apartheid last month, Centre at the end of October. Festival. The Watford Borough with speakers Mike Terry and Chris Contact: Gloria (341 0144) or Ian Council has been asked to investigateChildfronstheAAMOffice. (2721683). itssuppliesandto supportthe Contact: Brian Huesite, Cam- boycott of South African goods. bridge242944. LutonLHemelHempsteadAAwasdueto ....i launch activities on 28 October with Old friends meetup - Stuart Weavng (left) welcomed the South African aeach-in for nes e-bers, followed ambassdor to Britain, Dawie de Villem, ant his wife to his Charnel nL T n c byajumblesaletoratiefusidsand Islands home in 1979. With them at the Bailiff's Chambesm is Sir FrankLtON Trades Union Coi l Ma contacts with local firms, the library Erut. the Bailiff of Jersey. Read more abont Jersey's collaboration with i . written to John Carlisle, MP for c tloafimheibry apartedonpage10ofthisisu. S1TUDENT- I l) ateingc Edinburgh Luton West, to protest at his pro and collage Torok, on p University Debatsng Society vote , apartheid stance in the local and Contact:MaryTurok,Tel alt 90-35 on a motion that 'The Was - nat rdnal media. has75d Wales: kick out Stuart W eaving !I nT Tnal sCu THE NEW Chairperson of the UN involved i67the campaign. shud mepose sanctions, against trade -"- st London SoothAfrica'. Th debatewaswon unioniststo register their pt agains'racism mnSoultSpecialCommitteeagainstApartheid, Meanwhile, businessman Stuart f Anti-Apsrthirperson protests against rac ,HE Alaji Maitama-Sule, has written Weaving, who acts as a front man for fo he nti-Aparthe ovefbyiawt MsTacer uo B dbughes NP, Cirn AfricawithSMrsNThatcherdLatccess- to the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Move- the South African government and AAM, andthe Nigedin HighC .n- MPs.thepress,theSouthAfrican WE LnOa h0aucIss- meat to congratulate them on their scraped together a substitute uloir isione Opposing aerr Teddy goh successfuleffortsto persuade tile last month with the help of liberal TaylorMp andMihaelIvensof Q uths~ halllstmonth.Notonlydid it raise Rhos Orpheus and Cwmbach Mate bribes and fringe benefits, has gone Airnit(formerlyArmsofIndustry). £50fortheMovementbutitproved Voice Choirsto callofftheirproposed further to set up a 'Friends of the um mi 2w n tobeaveryenjoyableaffairt.spe- tripstoSouthAfrica. Springbok JFoundation' in Johannes. eayapprc w h soisgof Hadthevisittakenplace,itwould burg.TheFoundationisintended to THIRTY aliti-apartheid supporters -aXmy Gilder, who brought t an guitar have contravened the UN's culturalwin favourablepublicityforapartpicketedtheParkHotelinSoth o ethe t a Ercords boycott policy and given confort to held abroad by distributing written StutGruprai' on the re rdt player. Evryone the apartheid regime, Mr Maitama- and audio- isual material, enrourag HE NW glit AA Grourased on recentlywhen British cnopayseered to enjoy both the chicke Sole said. He asked the WAAM to ing tourism to South Africa, and £5 1 a fund-raising gig i t October P&O Trave joined with South Africn and vegetale curries, no dubt convey his Commiittee's appreciation arranging family, cultural, sporting - a totaI refleting careful prepare- Airways in arranging a promoioeil helped by the hostler of wine on to all the organisationis and individuals and other exchanges. lion, includig research into which film show. The show was designed to sale. But the bottle of whisky and new groups were currently eing- introduce the 'Sooth Africn bo ofchocolateswerebothw y S otand stopby n opoly. discussed in the music scene fiollw Reunion Cli', for those with friends the same person, in spite of the S up by ask ing them to contribute or relatives living in South Africa, raffle ticket numbers drawn being THE Scottish Committee of the over of the Royal Bank of Scotland their talents. Tickets were low-priced and to encourage emigration and 57 and 76. We made several new Anti-Apartheid Movement hasjoined Group would not be in the public atL2,and Cty Limits,North tourism, contactstoo. with Scottish War on Want, End interest because of Standard's London and leftist papers responded Contact: David Hsdley, See- Contact: Betty Northedge, Tel Loans to Southern Africa (ELTSA) massive support for apartheid. It magnificently to being urged to plug tary, Tel Southampton 29363. 01-9953171. and the campaigning wing of rges the Mnopolies Comisin the event. The Highgate Group could Scottish Education and Action for not to grant approval to the- deal. educational events to increase aware- met committed itself to increasing Development (SEADCAT) in a sub- Anumberofotherorgausitionas.tiJuU nessoftheisland'splaceintheinter- political and economic pressure on mission to the Monopolies and including the Scottish Labour Party natidnal cison of support for apart- South Africa, in particular through Mergers Commission against Standard and the Church of Scotland, have crid. the application of the oil embargo, Chartered, apartheid's second largest raised Standard's apartheid links in THtEAntigu CaribbeanLiberation theintroductionofinvestmentlegis- bank, submissions to the Commission Movement(ACLM)hascailedon lationasinSweden,thelintationof The submission argues that opposing the takeover. supporters of the SouthernAfrican certainimportssuchas.coal,and Standard Chartered's proposed take-reedomstruggletocondemnmoves effortstoteriinate the en richment ILabour & Liberal conferences to ttablith"aSouthAtlanticTraty THE Federation ofConstractionofN ibnurambyD n Organisation (SATO) based on an Workers and Allied Trades of Greece Almelo, Netherlands. OVLR Io prople attended a fringe paigning for local authority boycotts alliancebetween apartheid S th hascalledonallitscomponentuni meetingogased byheAAMatte ofSoth fricngoodsandBarlays m rin rotest at the imprisomentond A LabourPartyConference,following and for the release of Nelson countries, trialofveteranSouthAfricantrade theunanimousadoption of a resol- Mandela TheACLMplayedaleadingrole omiorstOscarpetl ,b , andthcaln fothe imposiiti on A in big footgdten on TChrsan Movement or Peae is comprehensive mandatory United AN ediergeney retoutio n Angol tsd a stagig post forillegalhi freedom fighter of the African helpin to organie at intetational Nations snctins, the next Labour was unanimously adopted at tis mts of armsandprojectileato South National Congress. woskeasp lIFli rt'West governmentt dodfe ,a a lteeerAnother ..i.nlnt Goeekt h e to give direct fincial years Liberal A sem,-bly, and .it, ge

Anti-Apartheid News LabOur Club, members Of ffield Anti-Apartheid Group and Sr local activists. ooking ahead to 1982 - the nmemnrates its Sheffield's vsue of, ay by a civic by the Lord ,bly, and by ' Relitesesitaod Mayor', Members Libraey inS rople of Southern Mrk t, former Conservative I rd Mayor. ic 'WE AS A CITY are saying that we will have no truck with the inhumanity and degradation of apartheid.' Speaking to the City Council as it welcomed Ruth Mompati to its meeting, Council Leader DAVID BLUNKETT looked forward to the 'chain reaction effect' which Sheffleld's Declaration would have on other local authsorities 'tlrougboaattBritain. Earlier, he spoke to Anti-partheid ~es about the imlications of the Declarationi and the action already being taken to ensure that it is actually put into effeet Why did The Cit, Council decie t, b-cmsn issiolvd in exposing South adopt this D1ctsatmint African propaganda and what apart We wanted to show that Sheffield heid really means, We have asked our appreciates that events here amreele- educational advisers to look at how vant to what is going on elsewhere in history, geography and social studies the world and, specifically, that the are being taught and how attitudes to City's cnomic and cultural life is issue of race and apartheid are being bound up in certain ways with affected as a result, as part of an developments in South Africa. overall review of curricula currently The Declaration reaffirAs rho City in progress in Sheffield. Council's existing position on certain In September, the City Council issues and takes it further in areas imposed a ban on all South African which have not to date been spelt government propaganda in libraries out. It's intended to show that and schools Sheffield now has a working relation- Wha kind of links actually exist at ship with those in the forefront of the present time between the ory the liberation Struggle - astruggle Cnc ndthe,apartheltidgsnwhichordinarypeopleintheCity _,~ , _ - metropolitan authority raponmsble for adcnistering our pension fmd has been asked to take the issue aboard. Most apartheid-linked investments have already heen isposed of but -e have found that some Trust Funds are still invested in South Africa through various banke- this is. being clarified and sorted onit. What kind of power or influence does the City Co'nl hare over the Pfriate sector as far as collaboration with apartheia is tontnenal? The answer to that is that the Council really has no powers, beyond making sure that the right information and advice gets to the workers ad trade unions at the companies and enterprises cocerned. With unemployment in Sheffield standing at 13 per cent, it could hardly be a worse time to try to counter the 'pragmatic' arguments of the industrialists in fact. However, tie City Council has made it clear to the Chamber of Commerce that any proposed trade missions to or from South Afvica will get no help or it' attitude. What we dialogue with the ANC, of which, and within the financial and other rest we face, we car .pm commitment in practicsi Stheffield veapry cnt Day of Soliaarsr age wtil esrtppoirtd by sstibu, renessein 'r The isun of apartheid is a ver clear sne; it's about how a whole section GI of humanity are discriminated K, against, segegated, and degraded on A the grounds of rare - basically it's Br about how we relate to each otbrastohumanbeings. So We believe that oppression in Other Parts of the worid is affected Sul by attitudes to racism hee ir Britain pUr only when people Understand that set apartheid is abhorrent and unaccept- til able can Youexpect them notto Sul tolerate its continued existence 1, - ott, wosct was includ Council :in the Africa. never dearly Sheffis in effect lapsed. terms abigissueofthisevent es have been rlator eeoct clearly the witth it the will and s can isolate the colabosltinationals. et ofth yCoun ,fthe Tis It & eputy. Irs Represe, on manoesa City's Day toftheANC ANtC; Enid E Pictured at a Sally Smith, ampati, Chief esaenLtd we have to \J 'I (I controls the utinultion i981

Page 4 Anti-Apartheid Newse 1, qI VgntIfhI5Lf %P I 51VU%%AI61 %MVPlu% V11 .is powerful apartheidtroops,nearlyOCent- SWAPOs guerrillas do not operate. a... weapon and nobody will allow nion tanks and 2.50 atrmctured cars, iside. Aogola, but deep, inside N SSAC h ownpapertofiteathi ottomentionheavyfield guns and Namibia, -in small groups whose ... R IAI AFRICA ...... e.spapers.or.radi. jet fighters, needed to wipe out a members regularlygo to groundmn o o w m support hosenewspapersorradiosae pny200gu'rilas? Windhoekandeven farther south. i - pows controlled and censored bythe Even this vast South African force Their missions are bydefinition . same enemy we are fighting has clearlynot succeeded in its stated planned and executed with the i forAfrican N i adong ess against' -these comments bya m'issi.. as small items concealed in greatest care and discretion. To r N it lnai Field Commander of PLAN theSouthAfricanand Namibian quote the PLAN Field Commander * - Forty per cent o1 Aficanr surveyed by the Star newspaper n Johannes ,pressrevealAtthebeginnigof again: burg,CapeTownandDurbansaidthatthey would vote for the African (People's Liberation Arm-nsyof October, forcexaple, SWAPO's We aenot interested in fameor National congress it a parliamentary electionin South Africa-despite the Namibia, SWAPO's armed Wing) freedom fighters had long since been being in the spotlight. Our atiomn fact that the ANC is a banned organisation and openly showing support have been amplyconfirmed by mwiped off the tp of Africa, if we speak louder than anynewspaper. for it exposes a person to harassment and arrest. The black rspondents the press and media coverage of are to belseve South Africa' m..litary Strategieslly, frm a military who proclaimed their support for the ANC were almost as numerous as Sojuth Africa's aggressiont chiefS, the .e ,h r O- ..r r viewpoint, it is always better to . those supporting three rival organisations - inkatha, the Pan-Africanist reported thieS. civil sfgi ....rig firm keep qtate. Yau don't know wh a Congress (PAC) and the Azanian People's Orgahisation (AZAPO) - putaganstAngola. hadsecuredacontract t0 clear the, you provide hnformation to your * together. Tie survey also showed the overwhelming popularity of Nelson At the height of the August- both arosund th, Rjt ca Falls in enemy. For example, to release * Mandela 76 per ceant of the whole sample said that they liked him, 59 per September offensive, for e xaueld, northern Nanubia. Tha job had those photos, or to mention hos cent of theme"strongly'. the Financial Times hee led out the become 'imperative', the paper we fought, where and when we old storythat SWAP onlyhas 'two added, because of the 'continuous travelled, just for the sake of M More than 100 political orgaisations and tradeuniom in South Africa, or three hundred' guerillas in the attacks' by SWAPO saboteurs on the showing people that you are fight' as welt as many prominent individuals, last month endorsed the ANC's fieMI, and a number of 'half-trained' pipeline below the falls, ig, would eertainly be a grave U as a 'universal document containing our minimum recruits.SouthAfrichas,ofcourse, Thetruthis,ofcou,thatthe error. demands'.Those supporting the Charter, which was adopted in 1955 by been telling the world that its latest conflict inside Angola has been, Let the Bers do propaganda * the Congress of the People, include the Azanian Students' Organisation invaston of Angola was directed and continues to be, one between with their hystericl ts. We din't (AZASO), the South African Allied Workers.Union (SAAWU) and the exclusively against SWAPO'terrorits' South Africa and the Angolan army report when killiag a fly,' 'Congress of South African Students (COSAS). s hone rule ask, wecre I1I,0010 anti people, not with Namnibians, (The Combn, ll3 o =soway,one m,vol.5,o. UTheFreedomCharter has also featured prominently in the countrywide RNOW I E TTI cpag againstapartheidelectionsforthestooge South African Indian I NOaCommuiquetheCTATnM ENT e u seuncil IntheirfinailCommunique,theCommonwealthHeadsofGovernmen: E Industrial unrest has risen to levels not seen in South Africa for-many E reaffirmed their total and unequivocal condemnation of apartheid ad - -years even acordingto the figures released by the apartheid regime itself. urgent dgThe latest annual report of the South African Deportment of Manpower ir 'aufimaaedtheir1977GleneaglesAreementonaaurtheidadSport Utilisation shows that there sere twice as many strikes dring 1980 than E urged the Western Contact Group to intenity efforta to seure the over the entire the years 1977-1979. Four times the nombar of workers implementationofUNResolution435onaNaidniaasettlement'without. were involved and teven times the number of shifts lost - a total of more modificationordilutionasearlyaspossiblein1982' , Uthanonemillion working houts. The pattern has continued in a single * called for a full and effective arms embargo epiat South Afriea week at the end of Septemberfbeginning of October this year, nearly *calledforanimmediatewithdrawalofallSouthAfricantroopsfron * 10,000 workers were involved in a nationwide wave of strikes, centred on Angolaandexpressedstrongolidaritywiththefrontlinestatesagaitt theNatalsugar industry, in East London and the TransaLal. SouthAfrianaggressilf ' : app Africplansforthestablishmentofaommorovaltheducationandi Abomb blast severely damaged a government office building in Durbar piningprogramme for South Afran refugees in neighbouring countries during October, injuring five people and damaging nearby buildings en trwa n ting ogram toe othd frien regee intenihourlsian ou cars. The previous month, parts of the railway line to Petermaritzbur U drew attention to the nerd for eengreaterinternoatihnal'smstinceto n weredestroyed when a goods train detonated explosives, A devastatini meet the emergeon t needs of the countries included in tie SootisernAfrican "Nemibia - anctions nowt' - U guerrilla attack on the Mabopane police station in the Bophuthatswans Development Coordination Conference(SADCC). SWAPOPresidentSamNujomaat ,only30km from Pretoria, left the office of the station 30 Melbourne, Astraia the Paris International Sanctions commander, a car and an inquiry office in rains. A group of 20 to 3C September 7Octobe 91 Conferencein Maythis year freedomfighters thelargest ever reported inside South Africa-killed twc L policeman and a civilian in the lightning raid. These are just some of the *CU C Ereported incidents in the growing armed struggle inside South Africa, most CHURHESCLOS ACOUNTVIT COLABO of which are attributable to the ANC. THE World Council of Churches In addition, Union Bank has been by the WCC to identify banks which . EEEEWUUUl llE llll..llU lUil anouns1ed in G;eneva during Sap- managing a portfolio of 20 mdllion underpin apartheid and which cme tember that atwas breaking off links francs for the WCC almost S0 per into effect in February this year. ith tre Swis banks and one in cent of its total investment. These The criteria refer to banks which IWest Germany, because of their funds will:now be withdrawn. The maintain facilities or subsidiaries in extensive involvement with the apart- WCC accounts with the other two South Africa, or which are involved held regime. banks, vith which it currently has no in loans, grants or bond issues, The banks involved are the Union funds deposited, are also due to be particularly for military or nuclear Bank of Switzerland, the Swis Bank closed purpo ses. Corporation and Wesc Germany's Although this is not the first time All three of the banks affected Dresdner Bask. At the time of the that the WCC has withdrawa funds have offices in . Dresdannouncement, the WCC had one from banks involved in South Africa ner Bank is heavily involved in million Swiss francs on deposit with' (it closed its account with the Midland Namibia, where earlier this iyear it the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1974), it is the first decsi rto be acquired a majority shareholding in a S 10 peecnt of its total funds based an a set of five criteria desed local bank, Swabank. IS |* nnnnn.n .Un*nnnunnn~un.. I) M, iterand urged THE Chairperson of the AAM, Bob Hughes MP, has appealed to President Mitterand of France to halt French assistance South African s clearreactorsnearCape I ot Hughes,AAM Executive ...... ay-Mike and Frank Reagan to send uranium supply AS AA NEWS went to press, a new nuclear accord between the United States and apartheid South Africa was reported to be in the:offing, following the arrival in South Africa of a delegation of four US nuclear experts- for top-level talks on uranium enrichment. Reagan has been straining at the leash to resume sending supplies of enriched uranium to the Koeberg nuclear plant near - crucial for the apartheid regime's* strategy of developing nuclear weapons. The supplies were suspended in 1975 in an attempt to pressurise South Africa to sign the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty. It has never signed the treaty-and six years later it is clear to the world that it possesses nuclear armaments and is fully prepared to use them. to halt nuclear build-up Dobson MP met the Minister Pleni- for the Koeberg nuclear reactors with potentiary at the FIench Embassy in a predominantly French consortium London at the end of September. were to be honoured. Concerted The meeting was a follow-up to a efforts are needed to halt French letter from Archbishop Huddleston support for the apartheid bomb. to President Mitterand expressing The meeting also discussed the grave concern at suggestions that new French government's policy on outstanding construction cootE strNami AN anti-apartheid activist from against local RTZ, Central Electricity Japan will be in Leeds on Saturday Generating Board, ' British Nuclear 14 November to help step up the Fuels and Department of Energy *campaign against the Rio Tinto-Zinc premises. Please contact the AAM Corporation and Britain's illegal and the NamibitrSupport Committee * contract to import Namibian for details. ouranium. The Campaign Against the Note: the Namibia Support Coe * Namibian Uranium Contract mittee hasmoved to2A Brewery (CANUC) is holding a National Road, London N7. Tel 01-609 1258. ActivistsConferencefrom10,45am 4N hand -outs to 4.30 pm on that dayat the Leeds h a uts * University Students Union, Graduate international Voluntary Service (IVS) Lounge, adopted policy at this year's AGM R TZmade £56 million profit under whichit will refuse toaccept from its Rossaing Uranium mine in any donations from multinational Namibia last year - part of a con- collaborator Rio Tinto-Zine. *erted strategyof plunder on the IVS 'is part of the British part of the multinationals which is Volunteer Programme and has * threatening to leave the Namibian projects in Botswana, Lesotho, * people, to use SWAPO's words, with Swaziland and Mozambique. During nothing but 'empty, open pits and August this year it joined with the * piles and heaps of hazardous material'. Namibia Support Committee in A ctivists are making plans for organising a two-week Solidarity * CANUC's National Day of Action on Camp at the Africa Centre in Covent * Saturday 12 December, when pickets Garden, for 15 volunteers from 12 and othfeeitlon are- being eganised ifeen.oit . ummumumum.muuu.uuuvuw..uminummu.u.~muuupuu. v'' B, aas ill'C,-', air 1991

Anti-Apartheid News Novembjr 1981 te invaders aying footish media a tsolutely isent Guaerdian the South ended us all to is were arriving 3and, still with * - (\AA ie UC explains' its EMBER of the Anti-Apartheid BBC Secret ment who complained to the use of the, about biased coverage on the the Argoh epad any an a week. r - when foread1 reisaway Britishsisrare. anotherby the After Ad aheady faded, as staled Charls the intere ress Se ally .,h ietontne runup flPK M itt 4UIII IUU 1ii1i1iUI] is..epoecinely WAVf ON WANT have responded to THE c6lunnist fox the Daily ard )aophly and the the South African invasion of Angola Sunday Telegraph, Peregrine Worstant proudly by cheannelling funda for refugees and home, has been given a pat On the apprch ... other displaced persons through the back by the South African embassy of the South Angolan Red Cross. The money will in London for his coverage ofevents is very widely be used to buy medical eauipment in Southern Africa. A commentary reas the nature and other supplies for both Namibian by Worathbore in the 6 September onuent is t , 1 and Angolan victims of the condflict issue of the Sunday Telegraph, War on Want have also produced a headed 'Weal's illuaions on South leaflet about the invasion and the African vices', is being distributed by history of Angola's liberation R W Sherwood, Counsellor aiforstruggle, for distribution in Britain. lion at the embassy, on the grounds Written but' the arguments and analogies used are also highly 'relevant'. In his article, Worsthorne cam. mended South Africa's invasion Of Angola as a 'perfectly legitimate act of self-defence' and went on to arge that 'it is the West that must change, not the Soauth Africans . . separate developneat . -,is no worse nlsofally than mstot of the ondej,__j,,. The eartooa about the Unita puppet leadee Jonas Savhbi F taken front a booklet published by the Angolan'information services. IHw 11111 large in SI Tb able, ie-- ut otuu©ngs

OFFENSIVE NOW that the subject has been 'dropped' by the British pres and other media, even greater efforts are calledfor on the part of anti-apartheid supporters to focus attention on th aprhid regime's continued aggression against the frontinest APes, notably Angola. Many people are undoubtedly under the impression that the fighting is all over in Angola. The very opposite is the case. The Angolan defence ministry revealed in a comnamunique on 6 October that apartheid troops ha& launched a new offensive into the country with the aim of recapturing the important towns of Ngiva .(the capital of Kunene province), Xangongo and Mongua. These had earlier been regained by the Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) after intense fighting. This offensive is continuing- as AA News went to press, all three towns were back in South African hands. The Angolan authorities said that ie South African forces were conentrated around Cuamato, 45 miles est of Ngiva and visited by a represntative of AAM in February this ear (see March issue of AA News). Apartheid troops and their Unita uppets were massing at Eenhana silitary base in northern Namibia in reparation for a large-scale attack n Kanene province with a view to istalling Unita in Ngiva. Intensive air ttaeks Into Angola were in progress, acked by troops in armoured ehicles, patrol cars and troopanspotting helicopters, cavalry and The communique said that the Guth Africans controlled the main ,ads leading into Xangongo, the own's airport and a nearby crossing r the Kunene river. Earlier on in the ivasion, during August/September, his particular river was the scene of massacre by apartheid forces, who tot Angolan civilians and VAPLA oldiers attempting to retreat by ximming across, The town of .angongo has already suffered severe amage and losses; others such as ahama (where the overseas press 'ere bound when they were attacked y a South African Impala jet on September) have been razed to the *oand. ,Nevertheless, despite the enormous amage wreaked by the apartheid egime in Angola, the massive looting f cattle, private cars, trucks, bulozers and other technical, social and :onomic means of production, it ould be wrong to de.scribe events as military victory for South Africa. he main effect of the invasion has -ena to 'mlake"'the -Ango4jt p opte -hate e South African aggressor even more. People are naturally frightened by the sudden bombing raids by jets which fly so high that they cannot even be sen until the bombs are falling, by the many atrocities committed by the apartheid forces and their puppets. The human tragedy, with hundreds of civilians killed or missing in the bush where they have fled for refuge, relatives and children split up and lost, is on a vast male. But the people are angry and determined to fight back. Recent reports from eye witness at who have travelled to areas of Angola which only shortly before had been the scene of intense fighting confirm that the morale of the people gets progressively higher towards the south of the country, and there are many heroic stories of resistance, of hand-to-hand fighting and tank battles in the streets of Ngiva and Xangongo. The most striking thing about the invasion, in fact, is that the South Atiean advances have bero totally dependent on the supremacy of the apartheid regime in the air. On the ground, Angolan resistance has been quite extraordinary. The situatiOn contrastssignificaetty with that in 1975/76, when a smatter (6,000 as compared to more thian 11 ,000 troops inside Angola) and tess heavily -armed (this time nertly 100 Centurion tanks invaded Angota, plus at teast 250 armoured cars and heavy artillery) South African force was able to strike far north and almost reach Luanda. In 1981, the South African ground troops have been unable to get out of Kunene.province...... Refugees from the occupied zone" gather in the Cahana area.- .. Many famsiess forced to flee'from invading trOopsohave been split up. 'HTERS IN

Reagan's go-ahead., Did the United States give South Africa the go-ahead fer its invasion of Angola? Earlier this year US military officers visited Unita camps in northern Namibia as the guests of the South African 'Defence Force, while a strange assetenent of US 'experts' and others have becn travelling around Namibia while the latest aggression has been in progress. President Reagan's personal public relations officer Peter Hannaford was given red carpet treatment when he visited Naraibia at the end of September as the guest of the PROSWAfNamibia Foundation, an apartheid front orgaeisatiom. He was introduced to many prominent white businessmen and politicians, including the managing director of the Rossing Uranium mine, Craig Gibson. Two other Americana, ostensibly in Namibia on a 'fact-finding mission' shortly before, adopted a much lower profile. Dennis Keogh, Coun-. sellor for Political Affairs at the US Emlebassly in Preorita, was acespasted by a Miss, T Bryamt, described as a 'research officer' attached to the US State Department in Washington. The US Senate has voted to repeal the five-year-old Clark Amendment banning US support for the Unita puppets. Lifting the ban, assuming its repeal is endorsed by the House of Representatives, would - enable Reagan openly to publicise the massive aid already being given to Unita and its South African masters. THE double standards and hypocrsy the confessions of British aeventuri displayed towar4s the apartheid Trevor Edwards as a mercenary uni regime by its all' arc -el illustrated The South African Air Force i by the hysterical arguments abosut a large number of mercenary pitlo Soviet and Cuban forces allegedly who are believed to havespecifightininAngola contractswhichincludeaclam TIhe truth is that no overseas unssdertaking to evacuate them in th trops have been involved i. combat event of their being shot dow, on the Angolan side This is the con- The South Africans in fact go t sequence of a deliberate political extreme lengths to remove, all i decision by the MPLA governmant, evidence of theai planes and oti plus the fact that the Angolan armed eqanpesent and arms being destrye forces, FAPLA, are fully capable d inside Angola. Speteally-t1ean .,.FOR MERCENARIES defending their own country. Angola salvage teams fly in with heavy Sup, has, nevertheless, whined of its rights Frelonheficopters eveflinder intent as a sovereign state to invoke Chapter Angolan fire, to airlift or dynam 51 of the. UN Charter regarding inter- all wreckage. During 'Operatic national assistance. Protea' - as the invasion has bee The disciplined position of the dubbed by South Africa at least I Angolan government is in marked South African aircraft wee h contrast to that of apartheid South down by A olan forces and Africa, whose invading troops ar nmber of Centurion tanks dss riddled with mercenaries and inter- troyed. The SADF claimed that ond national criminas of every shape and one helicopter was hit. size. Throughout the invasion, radio A full account of the invasion o messages amongst the apartheid forces Angola - the largest conventiona in Italian, Portuguese and French as military operation ever to take pie well as English have been intercepted in Southern Africa - is included i by FAPLA, for example. Xangongo the latest issue of Resister, ih itself was occupied by.32 Battalion, Bulletin of the Committee on Sout, exposed toallearlierthjs yearthrough African War Resistance (CUSA WR, Resister's well-informed corerag includes an interview with Lt CI Foquetao, head of the 5th Politlec Military Region of tre Angola, forces in southern Angola. jResiste No 16, OctoberDecember 1981, 1 artailable from AAM, price 20p, FIERCE Cahama clinic--now a ruin. Picture by MPLA Department of informatic SIX YEARS AGO, ON II NOVEMBER 1975. the People's Republic of Angola was born amidst fierce fighting between the MPLA and South African and mercenary forces. In 1981, the pagrthei invaders are back again, intent on destroying all the efforts of the Angolan people and their government to build a peaceful new society. . .. . To commemorate the sixth anniversary of Angola's independence, a massive show of solidarity is called for from all supporters of freedom and self-determination in Southern Africa. Anti-Apartheid Movement members and local groups are urged to support the initiatives of the Campaign to Stop the War against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM). Organise a public meeting, a film, exhibition or other educational event. Distribute information setting out the real facts about the situation in Angola, the liberation struggle in neighbouring Namibia and the growing aggression of the South African regime. Raise funds for those bearing the brunt of apartheid's armed forces and nunnet .tirons. SWAM, Newsletter - now being published bimonthly and including'up-to-date information on apartheid's war against Angola and Mozambique and campaigning responses. Send a donation of £5 and you will receive regular information on events and activities as well as a year's subscription. Read and circulate South Africa's Record of International Terrorism, by Tony Gifford, published jointly by SWAM and AAM in cooperation with the UN Centre Against Apartheid, and available at 40p (2Up,~or paid-tspAM. membslta)_ . . Order and readStop the War against Angola and Mozambique, published by SWAM with a Preface by Judith Hart MP and Foreword by Abdul S Minty, Hon Secretary of AAM (price 75p). The history of South African aggression Hire the SWAM photo exhibition showing.the effects of South African raids Make sure that the badges and posters now available from SWAM are widely distributed and displayed. Organise a fihn show using the new film available from SWAM or The Other Cinema -Angola under Attack, a 45minute, 16ram montage of Angolan television footage Details and orders for all the above from: SWAM, 34 Percy Street, London W1P 7FG. Tel 01-636 7108. Further information and material is available from the Mozambique, Angola and Giiine Information Centre (MAGIC), the Namibia Support Conmittee (NSC) - see back page for addresses - and from the AAM Office. AID ANGOLA NOW! War on Want is taking direct action to support the victims of South Africa's aggression in Angola Your donation will get straight to the heart of the problems caused by the South African invasion Send now to: War on Want (Angola Fund) 469 Caledonian Road London N7 For more details of what War on Want is doing in Angola, phone mtcaure eyA FLA Diepartment of lnfornation W1 I

0 A ti-parhei.Nes...... 19& traoe unions nave reacted angrilyto the news that the I tin of British Industr which as recently as June voted for economic measures against South Africa representatives attended the International Labour S, On conferencein Geneva has beencolludingwiththe A front Organisation UKSATA to boost apartheid rade B Pagestory~). A t, assistant general sere- axed 10o,000 jobs in Britain over the ti ain's largest engineering last year and exported them to B AUEW, called on AUEW South Africa- EMI Music was another B iployed by GEC Turbine firm represented at the Centre Point in o protest immedlately at junketings. UKSATA itself claims to C 'any's presence at the have 300 of the largest British com-' o 'The TUC should also panies as members. ind give substanceto the Speakeris at the c"onee ased,' he said. included the South African ambassa- Aliller transport union dor to Britain Marais Steyn, the UK 'I nretary for the oil and ambassador to South Africa Sir John p idustries, also reacted Leashy. Mr R Collins from the [I teasing a that the sane- DepartmentofTradeandMrGS c g BP Oil Ite enational Safer from the South African I ited at the CBI/UKSATA embassy. Sir Leonard, Allinson and b released by Use Africant exports to the r, rities for the first fell by R67.6 million this year show that million contradicting th uth Africa's biggest assiduouly phed in with the United Telegraph and other Imports to South independent Africa is r, ope over the period and more heavily on at ,atety 23 per cent to food and commodis whil exports to South Africa from the re by R373.3 millioin ose by R16.7 million on. n weekc Ot Action against Apartheid. ilan ckets, vigils, torchlight demonstrations an( of information aaterial in factories and vi of the Week and the days following is Our of Britain and Ireland (where Irish atuing aresr action to usate Souttl nut toe oerate is on, Lat month Africa'. In a memorandum, the AAM a proposed visit to South Africa by points out that British IMF unions the British section of the IMF was hae 'a very specialo ntribution to cancelled followiag igorous antimake in providinggensane solidarity apartheid protests and clear condemwith the non-racial trade union nation by SACTU. The president and movement in South Africa', secretary of the British section, Terry Up to now the picture has been Duffy and Bill Sirs, were persuaded very different, as the IMF has along that such a 'fact-finding' trip would history of collaboration with apart- only serve to give aid and comfort to heid, including active opposition to the apartheid regime. sanctions aqsnirSouth Africa, giing= Terry Duffy is president of the Teachers' union warns against emigpatior sel a parallel TU WeekofActaon)byANDREW THENationalUnionofTeachem ITSANE, a leading activist of the South African Congressi turned down an invitation to attend ie Unions (SACTU). aconferenceofblackteachers in AAMTradeUnionWeekofActionhasbeensponsored SouthAfrice a national trade unions, together representing thousands of U the African Teachers Association of workters. Further reports on-casipaigning in the tradeE South Africa to celebrate its movement will appear in the next issue ofAANews diamondjubilee. In amessage of mi"u=IEN EEEMilEu MMM. m MMal lIifraternalgreetingatotheAssoclatioif,theNUT explained that it did not consider it appropriate for trade unionists to attestd conferences in The NUT has also circulated all its branches warising of the cureent efforts by the apartheid regime to recruit skilled white workers to South Africa and the opposition of the Trades Union Congreas to such emigration, Local secretarie~s have been asked to alert any British teachers thinking sf taking ip employment in South Africa to the tact that emigration will mean accepting the reginse's racist r ed to South Africa fro during 1980, according to ures released by the apartheid figures for 1981 are expected o than double this total at 4,500 British subjects urn to South Africa, having ete before, plu 600 shortritish contract workers who as South Africa each month. nRITUARY MumiUMn Lraie union SWAPO's Secretary for Labour,JASON ANGULA, has been sentenced to a year's imprisOnment for trying to escape from Namibia. He and I I others were arrmted near the Botswana border and convicted under a South African law called the 'Departure from the Union Regulation Act' - although Namibia is not nists lumnd wito other ss a Vigil on the steps of St to demand the release of in South Africa and N 151seflencea Pak part of the Union of South Africa A and in anycase all South African was laws are applied illegally there. Nine of the 12 accused received the one-year sentenees, of which six Tre. months were suspended; the other all ' three got totally suspended one-year thresentences. . Kobl British electroncs sits for illegally rla: occupiedterritory I TT"' The British cmputer firm CL selling ecrtni-c data pfocess nge0 equipmeint to the Windhoek City antiCouncil through the Briti govern- Pr ment's export credit guarantee whirl department's leasing scheme. MP Modern electronics have enabled Comi oge peak g worker beventy etha is o, par~ge 8 Anti-Apyartheid News .: maber+ts&!

Above; Residents of the Crossroads squatter camp outside Cape Town ,also exposed to intense harassment a d eviction-have developed their own community and self-help organisatins. Left: The end of the journey for those thrown out of their homes by apartheid-a resettlement camp at Morasgat, Western Transvaal, The pieturh is from Women Under Apartheid (IDAF 1981). m RELE~TLES S'"LOG IC'0 'AM TOO oistheproblem,'saidS4b or Congressional vistors. Entry into The total number of African incomes bya staggering 764 per dent. MinisterofCo e a dDevelopmns t,OrPietKool)f thebantusansisbypermitonly, unemployed in South Africa is any- In Johannesburg, where wages are explaining in parliament his attitle to tie mass eviction 1d frequently refused. But on this where between 2,500,000 and four higher, they can increase their occasion some journalists penetrated million - nobody really knows incomes by 870 per cent. Even if an deportation -of African squatters from the Nyaga township the bantustan curtain. A Rand Daify because there are no statistics. But 'illegal' is caught and spends nine near Cape Town. Mailreporterwrote: mostofthemareforced into the months of the year injail. his income He claimed the evictions were carried out with 'consideration 'At least three babies were separa- . willstillbethreetimeswhat -he and compassion', while oneof his officials denied tht te ted fromtheir families as 1,000 Progressive Federal Party MP would receive in the bantustan. An regise was following a deliberate policy of turning families out Nyanga squatters were deported Philip Myburgh reported, after tour- 'illegal' who managed to find work intothe wet andcold of a Cape winter,pointingout tht they fromSouth Africa on Thursday. ing the Ciske, that he had been for onlyone month in the year evictedfamiliesinsummertoo. BRIAN BUNTING shows that As the squattersarrivedinUmtata sickened by. what he saw. The would increase his income by nearly the regisse's war against the squatters is the logical outcome of . driving rain yesterday they resettlement camps were 'festering 0t h per cent. therime y's tea ersselo gicalo m o crammedintothe Catholic and sores' of suffering, soil erosion and The Botha regime, by a process-of theaparthesipolicyof'separaedevelopment'. Anglican churchesforshelter despair.The people iving there had evictions and also by redrawing The attempts of the Botha regime much about but were so wanting to while they searched frantically for no food or firewood - there was not bantustan borders so as to include to force 'illegal squatters' in the disbelieve,' said their leader, Howard missing relatives, even anygrass in evidence.'All they some African townships, has succeeWestern Cape to go to the Transkei Wolpe. 'We saw the human cost of 'Amongthem wasa woman have is thelittle moneysent backto ded in reducing the number of and Ciskei bantustam, the so-called apartheid.' Another in his party, Mr who was hustled out of Cape them by contract workers in the Africans in the 'white' 87 per cent of 'homelands' of the Xhosa-speaciTg Berkley Bedell, said: 'I have travel- Town so fast that hex breast- cities,' he said. Some camps designed - 'he countTy. Whereas in 1960 only Africans, have aroused anger in led about the world and I have never feeding baby stayed behind to accommodate 5,000 people arc 40 per cent of the Afrscan populaSouth Africa itself asd thrughout been so shaken before.' while two small babies turned up already holding up to 50,000. on lived in the bantustans, by 1980 the world. Wives have been torn The point is that the Nyanga in Umtata without their mothers.' Why do Africans keep on return- this figure had risen to 54 per cent. from their husbands, children from evictions were nothing unusual in Back in Nyanga a tiny bundle was ing to the cities when theyare On paper this is a victoryfor the their parents, in the interests of South Africa, except in the extent of found lying in the open, 'small, repeatedly arrested and punished for policy of 'separate development', 'influx control' and Ithe maintenance their exposure in the medla. Similar enough to contain a pair of east- illegal squatting? A'J)979 university even though Africans still far out-.ofwhite domination, evictionsanddeportations aretaking off shoes. But the bundle stired study showed that Africans who number whites in the 'white' aress, Thousands of men, women and place all overthe country all the time, and a seven-weekold baby began Ileve the Ciskei to work 'illegally' in But what an achieveeent in the children have been exposed to the According to a report bythe South' displaying hunger pangs. Cpe Town can increase theirannual miaie of white civilisation. pitiless winter storms as police era African Catholic Bishops' Depart- Nothing beut desoltion awaits the .I-EARLY half the people of the of whom lived in I Iresettleentdestroy their wood and sacking ment of Jttice ae keeonoti tion 'illegals' uhn they arrive in the KwaNdebele bantustan in South camps qs a result of mass foreed shele. in midnight raids. Protest- last year, two million Africans have bantusnas. The JohannesburgStar l reoasfo.te p ing rowds ,re dispersed with the ben moved sice 1948 in the iusple- reported that a 10-day investigation Africa live n res69 tlement campso w.roa from thea par of SothI aid of teargas, baton charges and mentation of the regime's policy of by a team of journalists had found Population aside fro mn self- bantustan's inhabitants is, even tuary in nearby churches were stated that a further one million stains 'without agricultural or indus- 'homnd' gtoernet stfsticlo,a mAr R1338 arrested, peoplewrescheduledforremoval trial bases, and dsthowls . . * in In 1980', the population of w- Per hed Per year about £200. A delegation of visiting Congress before the process of 'consolidation' Transkei at le