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NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA bna7 ANIARPTHEIDNEWS'a cls snt ta all nato1al r emnbeas of the AltI-Aparbid Moraitent sea membership trm an back page for DESIGNED by Rager Huddla, Artwakea TYPESET by Nancy Wbite PRINTED by East End ifsot Lid, Empsen Sweet, Bromley-by-Bow London E3 3LT ISSN M3-558 onternational etannhtiocSom deli-d :. ; reinted materialfoin bem exponetnd to Sonthi Afrc.a. Although resolution 418 O th, N'atibia-Angla border September 19 (1977) lame tote and ita traps -but there ara many more still totg tersfl wyre not comprehensive enoagh, if enfred World Campaign against and deal strictly it cild hve par- Military and Nuclear Cola- cases. lyed many of South Afriit's boration with SouthAfrica. proposal man wapon sti. The Front Line States iadvidui _awapos _yst _s and the liberation move- With byAbdul S Miaty men . were comulted and the ap Ilote cooperatin main- trying However, experience tatiedwiththem. keepo since has shown that, lile It was enpected that Mirage the earlier non-mandatory after some initial work by helicopt UN arm, embargo of 19631 the World Campaign the UN If the 64, most of the key western arms embargo committee more a governments have inter- could be strengthened but, compreh preted It narrowly and left with the coming to power devastati many loopholeswhich were of the Reagan administra- capabilit e aipltd hyretdria to tion, that became even more African obtain u large quantity'of its diffi-t1. (SADF) military needy from abroad. Since then, the Thatcher, is not s From the early t960s Reagan alliance has virtually producti South Africa began t o paralysad the UN machinery It is develop its internal arms and the World Campaign has paigning prodaction capability with had to continue its work other a the assistance of western companies. Thh 'mouledT 0oape tfirmsJapansus] aiaembling vaioas items ~ ~ l~~ mthr than making them www.nuance.com even day it doe. ot have uranium tb the industrial platform neceaaary to produce modemPDF military equipment. Create! FourJapaneseelectricpower partner, 5 Trial It developed close colla- companies are phasing out TheJ boration with Israel during purchases of South African is now athe mid-1971s and later and Nainibian uranium in a corporal with Taiwan and Chile for move that will halt sales discretic the joint production of arms from South African suppliers South and ammunition, andfromRTZ,whichcanIn1977, the UN Security tols the Rowing uranimm Council established a special mine in Namibia. SOVIE comnamittee to monitor the The Tohoku, Kansi, The AA arms embargo. It had very Chubu and Kyushu compa- approac] limited powers and all nies say theywill increase of the U attempts at effective nports from Australia, enrichit enforcement have been Canada and the USA instead. South blocked by the major ThegiantTokyo Electricfollowinwesternpowers. Companyis also considering the Fi Britainhasbeenthemain aban. informa culprit - in 1980 it entered Their decision follows Campaig a reserve on all 16 proposals the recent suspension of Uraniun made by the arms embargo sales of South African (CANU committee to strengthenthe productsbya numberof InIannaembargol Japaneseretail chains,and athe AAI The AAM has campaigned reduction in vehicle exports the Soi for an arms embargo since to South Africa by majorstrictp1960andmadenamerous manufacturers. enricm representations in Britain It reflects international processil and abroad to secure an pressure on the Japanese nating effective end to all forms of government to enforce sanc- Namibia military and naclea clla- ions, at the end o1 a year in Altbi boration with South Africa. which Japan's trade with with rei In 1979,at thesuggestion South Africaexpandedby USSR F of the United Nations 19% and the country in core Special Comnamittee Against replaced the US as the has bee, Apartheid, it initiated the regime's number one trading USSR d with a variety of It has submitted a to the UN and to ai governments. the help of Israel, arthoid regime is to modernise and erational very old and other aircraft, er, and submarines. embargo ia applied tricty and made ensive, it canhave a ingeffect onthe ty of the South Defence Force since South Africa elf-sufficient in the on of arms. vital that in cam. for economic and auctions, the arms embargo is not neglected if it is made more effective the Pretoria regime will not he able to carry out its military aggression and dostabilisation in the region and within South Africa, apartheids 'last line of defence', the SADF, can be seriously undecmined. World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa, PO Box 2, Lindeherg- Gaard, N-1007 Oslo 10, Norway Tel: 010-472 301345 Fax: 010-472 303381 Tel- 72314 AAM N Telogrammes: Antiapoarthaid Oilo ?ends ade Namibian and South African Japanese government uranium, this banapparently ncouraging Japanese does not cover uramnium ions to 'exercise originating in South Africa n' in dealings with and Namibia which has been Africa. 'hexed', Le converted into uranium hexafluoride. Both the AAM and the TUNION NamibiaSupportCommittee has made a further have obtained evidence that to the government uranium originatinginSouth ISSR over its role in Africa and Namibia is being g Namibian and processed by British Nuclear African uranium Fuels Ltd into uranium .g the publication in hexafluoride and then nancai Times of shipped to the USSR for tion compiled by the enrichment. The AAM has in Against Namibian again called on the Soviet Contracts Union to cease this practice. C). he past 12 months, BRITAIN i has been pressing The Namibia Support Conat Union to adopt a mittee reports that shippolicy banning the ments of Roing uranium ent or anyother to Britain have been greatly ng of uranium orgi reduced as a result Of n South Africaor boycott action through a- trade union blockades. ough in meetings In Liverpool the Mersry presentatives of the Dock Cowww.nuance.commpany iscontinuing oreign Ministry and its efforts to get the boycot spondence the AAM lifted, but TGWU dockinformed that the worker' stewards have been does not enrich standing firm. NamibiaPDF- independence Create! 5 Trial in 1989 Chester Cracker, architect of the US Policy since 1980 of 'constructive engagement in Southern Africa, is of appeasing Pretoria in order to extend US influence especially in Angola, is walking off with the media plaudits. The commentators gave him the credit for the S eneva agreement on a timetable for the withdrawal of Cuban too ps from Angola. What is the reality? The FAPLAs (Angolan armed forces) and Cuban internationalists gave Pretoria a bloody noew in early 1988, proving that no military victory could be achieved in Angola. For P W ftha to continue the war now would mean to lose more white soldiee. and mere planes - ireplaceable because of the arms embargo. The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), aimed wing of SWAPO, has sho a tenacity which has constantly stretched the occupying forces and upped the cost of the illegal occupation. Speculation of a South African debt default in 1989 is rift in tha City. The Botha regime is staggering under the impact of the combined effects of sanctions, disinvement, and the costs of sustaining the regional war, the occupation of Namibia, and the top-heavy apparatus of apartheid and repression in South Africa. As Anti-Apartheid News goes to press, South Africa has not yet endorsed the agreement reached between officials in Geneva. The Pretoria regime now has to weigh two unappetsing options. Either they can approve the Geneva deal, accept a new UN Security Council decision on a date for Namibia's independence, allow in the UN Transitions Assistance Group (U NTAG). and proceed to Namibia's independence late in 1989. The predictable outcome is a SWAPO victory in the 5Nsupervised elections, and the rapid disintegration of Unite as a mitrry surrogate for Pretoria's armed forces. Or they can reject the Geneva deal, continue the occupation of Namibia and the war in Angola by supporting Unite, risk much tougher international sanctions, and be forced to default on the foreign debt whose repayment is already obliging Pretoria to run gold stocks dangerously low. If Pretoria new goes for the first option, it will hope to salvage from the wreckage of its dream of regional domination ewe consolatioe prizes. In Namibia, by spending lavishly on the election campaign of the puppet groups, and sabotaging wherever possible SWAPS's campaign, it will seek to deny SWAPO an outright victory. Internationally, it will press its western allies to put a freeze on sanctions, or batter, get the US and EC measures withdrawn, and seek to renegotiate its debt on easy terms, RES 435 IN PRACTICE Initially, a formal ceasefire between South African forces and SWAPO will need to be signed. The sequence thereafter is laid down in the plan Which was adopted by the UN Secarity Council in resolution 435, as follows: Date X (still to be agreed) for start of implementation: SN Special Representative (UNSR) arrives with civilian and military staff. UNTAG forces (ultimately to reach strength of 7,500) to begin to daploy in Namibia, and to emitor policn forces. Release of political prisoners to comemenc. Two weeks after ceasefira: Demilitarised zone (DMZ) 50km en either side of the Namibia/ Angola and Namibia/Zambia borders to be esteblished, Within sic weeks of date X: South African forces to be reduced to 12,000. Within nine weeks; South African forces raduced to 8,000. Completion of release of political prisoners. Within 12 weeks: South African forces reduced to 1,500 and restricted to two bases Start of week 13: Official election campaign to start and ran for about four months. Thereafter, the olectioo of Coostitunat Assembly will take ple on a date te he ageed between the adwinictratoe general and the UNSD. Pressure needed to free Namibia Over 400 people crowded into November, which included the National Union of Teachers' demonstrations, meting and headquarterswww.nuance.com in London on 29 cohibitins around Britan October to attend the seminar The Free Nesebia Now' on 'Children, Apartheid and mat, lobby of parliamet en Repression in Namibia'. 7 Deremberisintended to pressuisse the gavernmert no APDF multi-media presentartin Create! secue the indandence of was followed by5 an address Trial Namihoa. from Hsdipo Hamutanya, Lobbysponor,includethe SWAPO sereataryfar TUC, United NatianeAssoniati information and publicity. and the British Council of PrOfessionals with direct Churches knowledge of the plight of Speaers at meetings Narmibian children speaking at in the Grand Committee Rne thn seminar incloded Dn will include Robert Rhodes Solomon Amndhila,s eor James, a Conservative MPwho paedietrician from a hospital in worked in the S N seseetav the northern war zone of general'u office when Namibia; David Smuts, directoe resonatien 435 was adopted; of the pioneering Legal eavid Owen MP, foreign ciomic Assistance Centre; and Ignatius when esolatio 435ws Shigmameni, secretary general of edopted; Norman Willis, geser the Namibian NationalStudents' secretary oftheTUC; Lord eganisotion (NANS 0). Hatch, primeoever of Participants also h.eed first resolutions en Namibia in the hand reports from young Hese of Lords; elT emn r Nemibins who have played an Huddlest.., AAM p resident. actioe role in the struggle for Register for the lobby for. Namihia's independence, 2po et Transport Hoste r The seminar was one of the Smith Square, SWIwhere key events of the Namihia Week will also be achibitnois and of Action,27 October to 3 stalls. Legal rights centre aims to swamp apartheid courts The re ently-opened Human Koevoe, counate-insurgency including the raising of the bar 1988 ic an apparenthidRightsCentreinnorthern unit. issueintheBritishHouseoftoclosedownits wore Namibia believes that it David Smuts told the Lords, had forced the release The Centre. funded with could bring the court system seminar, held at the National of Naribiacs detained the help of age..evs in Sc in the llegally-occupied Union ,of reachers' head- during the Kars ga ssacre dinavi and others cuch as territoryto a standstill, so quarters on 29 October in 4978 and held without Ocfae, doe nc charge great is the volume of under the auspicesof SATIS charge for moe thansix clients foritshelpaitadtice Threeynag Namibiaswhe tak p potential claims by ciilians (Southern Africa The Impri- yas... wrk. Sitra its openicgit roop sr e assaulted and terrericed by sored Society), that interse World concern had also has taken on cose tnrotxixg. S e]T South African troops. tional support and action helped secure the release of students and the tradeniec c. .a Windhoek lawyer David Were vital. w.keresattheHuman Rights meementas wel asha on Clvillaia Smuts, who ct up the paa- International pressure, Centre detained in Seetem- rights issues legal advice centre in the South Afric troops ix northernwarzonesearlier .n - crepied Naihat ore 'lees- i this year, said in London that w trotad _cd indiseiplinad' thecentrefreddealtwith t, nir I 150 cases of ahese and other defeats in Angola, nd ore incidentsinvolvingaomede ntigthnei ftuctrati on - cd troops since July1988. agernNacihia'criitan i t One such case of assault tep pulati n. hadinvolvedover100 SAPOinfotio -d people,someofwhomwere p s y nowsoterrifiedofreprisalswww.nuance.com auliteyseatdy lodion that they were net prepared lhax aidix loian tobringtheirclaimsto Pthvtthypcyhlyg-v "ed court, despite severe injuries. w y OneofthemostdifficultPDF Create! 5 Trial ws ondheas problems tacing a human hiling rvehiea s fryth rights lawyer, he told dale- killin g in- by --e gates attending the 'Childen, cuiabe', ApartheidandRepressionin Introdueirgthe'Chdren, Nacibia' seminar, was tht ordinary Nacoibianshadfirst &secinarcc28Ortober,hv tobeconvincedthatthey Icoldlhvtthe combined hadarightnottobebeatenSff e-, f S oth M ,-', up by South African Human rights lawyer Said Swts addresses students at the Academy in Windhe an the tarse ax soldiers, police and the their fellow students who were arrsted for contravaning the Protection of Fudametal Pights Act i clitory ittdvawat [ton ts press won't 'Onhe student' tenn sehoolchidren have atigned dent and church-ms schools pnority; schoolchildren have centred on the two themselves with the libe- tried to provide an alterna- should not he expected to piltae of apartheid controt tton struggle and SWAPO. tine education more along retur to classes with the in Namibia: theitffuenee of The occupying army uses its the lines of independent very teachers who had v ayefillegaloeupation presence in and around the neighbouring states like allowed them to be taken and the use of an education schools to intimidate pupils, Botswana, most pupils had from school and interro. syctem designed to pepe to _rt them in the Soth to attend sate schools. In gated, beaten, detained or tiate eolonal dnmination. African army or as informers, the north these had become threatened. NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA Student 'proud' to join the fight for freedom Stdents protest at the detention of their clas matss 19 August 1988 Sixteen-year-old Errstus were remoaed from their school Hastengela fled into exile from and other schools as well. Namibia on 5 August this year He and other students were 'because it is useless staylg in a severelybeaten bywhite South colonised country'. African soldiers in an attempt to 'People are killed, detained, identify the main organisers of harsed .rt tortured daily in the boycott. Koevaoet troops in Nanibia,' he told the London Casspir armoured trucks hunted seminar on ehildren on 29 thestudents sod threatened to October. 'We are not living as burn them in their dormitories. human heingwith digity but 'As an honest Namibian and ther as slaves and robots,.' for what I har seen with my Eracts, who was t form own eyes being committed by liar a Oluoe econdary swhool SAOF mldiers to my people, I in northern Namibia when it decided to come and join mrs attached by members of SWAPO to take up arms, Sorth Africa's Koeset counter- Erastus said. ierrgency unit at the height of 'Since I joined SWAPS the whorl boycott in June, abroad, I feel veyproud tobe a described many ofthechildhood SWAPO memberand part of the experiences of brutality which struggle. SWAPO accepted me led up to his decision, with open arms and treat me as * His close friend, 28-year-old a human being. ThomasShigswedbe, was stabbed 'I fint that it is my to death by a Koevoet soldier in responsibility to free mycosutry 1985. Another friend, 19-year- through whatever means under old Johannes Shiatr, was run the leadership of SWAPO.' over by a Casspir armmeed vehicle the followiag year, www.nuance.com *Somenheteacherath Raped whool were white South African soldiers, armed and in military ca oflg.niom.Otrsby troo p s wersPDF black employees of theCreate! 5 Trial regime who acted as necritrmet Ten to 15 cases of rape by agents for the South African members of the South African army or tried to entice children security forces ham been to become informers. admitted to a single hospital in . He and a group of friends northern Namibia alone, were beaten with steel wires by participants at the 'Children, mldiers for allegedly beating the Apartheid and Repression in carfw. The boys had been Namibia' seminar heard. strolling around their whol A doctor at Oshakati premises at 5pim, one hour hospital, interiemed en videe, before the official strt af the said that many of the rapes by dusk-to-daw cufrm, soldiers,policeand members of - Keevet and 1.1 Bantlio the Knevoet unit had been creoe raided the girls'dormitory committed in front of relativrs. of his wheel in June 1,988 One 4-yearold girl had been pretendingto be SWAPO eaped in her mother's presence. members on a rcruitng trip The doctor described the Thegirls were token at gunpoint 'tremendously destructie' to their noanby miliary be, psychological effects on familis where they were beaten and split up by detentionseand death. raped, Delinquency, alcoholism and In early 1988, Erastus and other social diseases of poverty his fellow students decided to and lack of education were nw join the mass whal boycott, major problems in Namibia, she until the South African baes said.

Coal bosses hoping to cý South African interesta may enorgy select committee), b the mein beneficiares of David Mudd, Michael Brown privatisation in the British and Neil Hamilton. electricity and coal indus- Mudd and Brown both tri.. representportronstituencies When the CEGB is sold which woauld benefit from off in 1989, South African any rxpansion in foreign mmirng companles are lock coal imparts. ladeed, ing for a massive inrrease in Michael Brown14thesponsor roat exports to Britain. of a bill rarrontly passng Thoy hae many allies in the through parliament which pawer industry and the wold allow or the bulding Conservative party. of a ner roal import Last April a top-leval terminal 2t Noith Kitlingdelegation of South Affrian bourno on te limber. mia ownera visited London Anothrr bill before to lobby the Foreign Office parliamer.is iinoternea to aad the Department of expand tk,e capacitia af Enorgy, rlaiming that South wvharveas t Port Talbot, African coal could undercut ImminghamandKingsLynn. roal produced by British Harboar atjortica on pits by oor half. theToasoroaloplanrvinga The visit followed a trip massiva £35 millan coal to South Africa by four port able to hanve six Tory MPa, Sir Ian Lloyd, million ton.es of cora a year. (chair of the Commons Private power generation Mitelll f Santh Afrira Doris McBride, mother of death raw prisoner Robert MaDride, is welconed to the Waies Ati-Apanh.id Moeent .a.ah ad rally on Namihia on 22 trober. Beside, SWAPO,ihe denadstratil. as addrssed by apparition leade Nail Kinnock MPand Denis Goldbaerg of the ANC. The SWAPO flag flew over Cardiff City Hall far a we alter the demonstration, the lrgst evar hold in Wales on Namihia. are sh in companirs are also looking at coastal sites for postprivatisatioa powex statimns. Equally disturbing is the poanibility of Soutu Afriran tutning interesta bymg into tho British coa esrustry if it is sold off as the governmeolwww.nuance.com intends. Mining giants like Consolidated Gold Fielda and RTZ woald rertainlo be in thePDF runaning to take over Create! 5 Trial pits. ConsGold's managing The iotorgade blockades the Shell garage ra Walwrth Ramd dirertor, Allen Sykes, was the author of a Centre for Policy Studios report on Around London with Shell oa l privatinslion. To lanach the International with Boyrott Shell barmer, cade first v1 Uonaoldas recent tahk a e oAtoagtthl over battle with the South WeekofActionagaltShe, and ANC ballon, set off Ha mroanmith & I Afvan rmay Mn theLondonAACommitteefrom theShellCentreto piketinFal migtt be o ny he firat orh together with Embargo bring the mewege, 'Shell ont Road and ended toasl as aay the firot mh oiganised a Boycott Shlt of Soth Afria and the tyuthwart tusaln as apartbebd ?T" Motorcade. Naiia,t the l.mooeta forUtiWalwmr paniesseektdiveesfy o0. the maraing ofofLondon. Oräroanrnaid a profitable Brittan com atudy1 oebri Wtlp t pentaleBriis ratSatuirday 12 Naomhor, a With teafleteer sproad Ont ade was a 'higlhl3 iodustry. convoyofvehiclesadoraedao~gtheroute,themotor- initiativo' Boxers fight on after cou inj unetion Controversyreignod over the The venue is ownedby National Unon f with o-pesonta boxing bout at the Elepbaant South~ware rounoi, whvh Employeae (NUPE) branob iIS cuntrion and Castle Leisure Centre has a strong anti-apartheid rent on strike on the day, areasdy nefaes on I November between policy, so this fight ahould mahing an important stand hont .Afriv-ns South Afiran Brian Mithell never have bera hooked. In ilsippor ofihebhoyótt reotÓior, lwt and Londoner Jim that rspert a lenn has Woll oe. 200 pp0-Plno ti ff ionei gh MeDonnell. heraproeidedshnwingthotboboet:ia pvelyh eht ane- t A World Boxing Associa- -" policie .tittspeitat t.å to;ýrne lihlito f tion title fight, it was monioringandstrongimple. gauntlet f protete d titt gai screened tive lo South mentation to hr effertive. The South Afrtanas may AIrvaa and Africa: a propaganda coup The roneil did finally have sauceede in breaking promoter, bonor for the rogime. Mitchell try lo get the fight ralled the aparta bryrott on tala who partiripate cialmed to be opposed to off, hat promote Mirkey orasion, hut withina matter: tare ii any apartheid, but tel his tror Daff oblained an in1urtion af dayI their euphoeia mtrt lnolving a So cooura shnw by suggeating forcing them to stick to the bave hera dahod boLred pramote thatPWBothahimselfwas contraet. Tho World Boolng hall to bareed enti-apartheid! 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MANDELA-THE TASKS AHEAD MeMsimoec e n, hidfrpremétative o the Africon National country. Our people look to you, and it is impotanet for the Anti. C - i Britaie, poe to A totiAparthd N ~eetly: Apartheid Movowt to cko, the osy no rar in building people's ,ofetion0 ood peoles oidtiy Whas4sl aaelM-dei: Freedl oat 70' The United State eleotison, as it will be ecalled, wt fought on s jq a li~r d>dgan what 0hold the -Tarepaitnt o-iscaes. Pewiet-eleot Bosh hat mod e it clear tbat he intede lo pi,i.,189e rb1.;, inthtfotnepsofR..nadReagen. owaollohl bh1'Gt tfj ei Tou.ched byth nt panheid The implicationofthis postanelethot the nem Bah e R 5 t -of.1 'bytheG9ftladmt htoecooat n.ealBesagai satSouth LodnFedm March Af cä. A ptsoss eoteeatininheoeets of Loodon, albmioaoia, PNerthelew. tho incrseod walorty Of the Demoratic party in kaat ly et Hy e Park, werked the climex of ne elngle both the Senate and the Hene of lepresentatives gives us hope that od ~d'nhy the epserdl d fghteg peopl ath Atrica the Bh admintate will b cufficitly preued t tspod to gaprte en 0a Mrytygo demndit0g the eluae of Noleot the cell for the imposition of ecenomic sanctlons egainst raciht ala act all behr kolitfeol prsönes and dataitets. Stuth Afric.. >Thåee ceynpaiqe b rokeo c~ groud in solidatit tt mees E ua ly, the solidarity mo veent ln this country hat to iteta se te flchl enkthnatboda, ot eilliöes, bota billion péeple aoend ls pressures on the British government so that it too san join in the ohie tok of reduceg the leegth and iet~eety ef the straggle in it r tinsa ttteyél reactid byathe people ofthe wold of all South Africa by be impoition of maedatoey comprehoesise aMa taseparhta Mhndela fro the struggleaf the black people secie-t. 0 South ¶'ioM, a t onal libloation. That st'oggle mst go eae ,aeetsa feleekattype ofoppoessio jeeots inBeat Afeica Do you think Nelson Mandela lo abost to bo ,1,aod? ictaust gom ontl all] the people at Bauth Afeica areahle to The ANC and the p opl f B.och Attlee bo- bet calling too tho heildda teldaty, danomomi and eor-pcial South Afrioi mlgase of Nelson Mandela ad tho other Rivonia triliots sic 1963 lticcc uoch ptoe, seelt eojey f.11 and equat ighth. een tKey aere fhett arected. We are eolling for the releae of all polticel psoer Whot is your otdicit of the csrent iptereationt l political The iete..nationl communty cook op the call for Mandela'sclimyte? telesewh0nthoUiedNaieonsadoptedaresolutionalso ealling Asthemedd ters 1989, the peopleet Soutl Africa will still be too their relsase. Mendi sim an livfiga, der asate stf aeergeesy. Thee ms organisations taein The trleosa et Neo Maedela is lanf oeetse is Organisation, Afrmcee teglet skosos oket it is ncapable of sor. international promi te eld ep behaet. the African Notiocal Congress, and his people continue to daeand relations. i ri e odt erfewse ersto rep pn albetot detaleces. Illegal his release so that be can agai take his tightful place in the strggle Yt such an aggressor state, a state that bat no respect foo human releoto d gerrijlp of the AfrianN atiooal CongressMh fto freet.m fom oppresion and apartheid, 'igtn a relies on terrorism for its souinal,www.nuance.com contintues o tda lId be g ked pdoatromo satustc nder tbe Beneno Conveeti[n The aclbve support ofthat struggl by the Ansti-Apartheid succour from Britain. me k g hedt. Movement is of cardal importance. The corent rumtors oer Appeasment of the most reactionary, carly ant.democraotc, TPDF tea eediti.midtio of peieol Create! acifyt remitos brutal and Mendela's release5 mst Trial tnotalod ctpespctiveso|rfot trestruggles, regimeme hare yet seen in South Afica a not led to devlopmeot aeo, A suaeosion of jodicial mudersaime attitimlatingour Orofrucistoppression,betintawaysof internal Oppression and .p1aphd et ionso am ogkatly teege continu to be What are the ANO's vis of the British governren'c eternal aggrewion which ean we who ht greom up under the meoodotikythereistregåe. foeinpoliry? hatedapartheid system could not here imained onea fe years ego. Tkhu kedtted inistratlo coeutia~ t, defeed that evil Britik p0liIy cowad racist eSouth Africa kw been of grave so ncer These horrors of apartheid must not be tolerated by your ,otr. T 'l Thetcef r ngonteemsent stnds ale i the m~tt osthe to the ANC. The oppemivet coditions maintained by brutt force in cousty We knamthatthepeopieofthiscountrydnotsupportsotho regime. . , SathAfricaosly lak desceiked at fteolt apartheid. your tovernmet must be preiled upon to sopport that URHES PUT THEIR FAITH IN A fCOMON STAND ,se kbtotot! bfro'rn reo1 tN.s 20g-r~ - e h .1,

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 DECEMBER 1988/JANUARY 1989 Deisant township residents The many faces of repression The a partheid regime determined in 198f notto repeattheteassive blunder it made in 1986 and 1987 by detaining thousands of people under the state of emergency and thus paliticising and embittering countless more. Rather than have teenage store throwen educated lnt the iheration struggle by seasoned political activists in prison, and rather than hone the eyes of the world focused an the boundless atrocities of the security forces, P W Botha has fine-tuned other strategies. by a special correspondent First, the mass detentions hae given way to a more cancerous style of repression quieter, debilitating attacks on particular areas of resistance. Second, the new style of repression has been effectively hidden from the international community by the extension of police powers and media censoreship. If the South Africns are no longer detaining thousands of children, it is due to a change of policy, not a change of heart. If the media no longer report repression, it is because they have become a target, not becamuse the repression has stopped. For the most part, detainees hase not simply been released, they have been restricted, redetained, harassed by the security police, nisted from their homes, thrown out of their jobs, intimidated into leaving their community organisations or coopled (by bribe or threat) into the system's informer net uerk. There are still children arriving home from detention beaning scan and telling hdrror stories of toeture. Even those not physically abused suffer nightmares, sleeplessness, loss of concentration and other signs of post-traumatic stress. Their families and friends have often been threatened to extract information about detainees' activities and to dissuade them from becoming politically involved. While there are many fewer people in detention now than during the first two yee.s of the state of emergency - human rights activists in the country estimate perhaps a daily detainee populatioen of 1,500 with a hard core of 800 plus, and including about 5% children under 18 and 8% women - those remaining hose Often been incarcerated since June 1986. The 'core' of long-term detainees is made up of the leaders of civic associations, youth Organisations and student bodies. There are also trade union leaders, journalists, lawyers, doctors and ecademics. According to a member of the Human Rights Commission, the state has in its clutches many of the people it has identified as influential leadees capable of robillsing effective resistance,witheut having to justify its action and with no evidenoe to form the basis of a criminal cherge. Personal acounts from eadetinees highlight esery aspect of the state's network of epession. Typical is the Krugerdoep father of two, released on Mandeleas birthday after two years and a month in detention for organising a residents' association and coordinating a consumer boycott. While he was detained, security polic regularly visited his wife, telling her to 'leav that terrorist', He came home, was taoked from his job, and had tormove house three times in a fortnight to esapes police harassment A young lack Sash counsellor tells how when he was detained during a reid in July police offered him 111,01 to be an informer - and threatened to kill him if he did not. He told them: 'if I don't, you will kill me; if I do, my comerades wil kill me - I would rather die fas my comrades.' Se major complaint of detaineeswww.nuance.com is that they er. denied ecces to coun hearings to prove their itcnes, but even when they are charged, tried and asquitted, people find therselves redetained in the ery courtroom where they are discharged, A Kagiso boy, detained ie August 1986, when he was 17, was interrogated and assaulted for a month, taken toPDF ourt in 1987, acquitted andCreate! than redetained for another year, Sn his5 release Trial in September, hes restricted and security police come to his house twide a day to check on him. By diversifying its brutal methods, the regime can keep the prison popolation, and thus international outrage, low. However, they still cannot get over the problem of politicising their victims. In the townships today, eveyone expects t be detained, people te briefed on how to deal with it, and they know where to seek help when they aem released. The state will soon haoe to think again. ANC activist out in court 'Cape Town's city centre Is 'statement from the dock' cleared when the ANC come cenains one of the lost to or leave town,' commen means of expression still ted a South African lawyer allowed to thie pople. on the steps ofthe Cape Taking adoantage of this, supremecourt daringSeptember,Ashley We were witnessing a Forbes eaIcd foy boycott major security display for of the October municipal the benefit of 14 young elections, something for man, at they were whisked which h could hue faced back to prison in a large van, prosecution if otte.ed Out. in a convoyof cars ad sidethe walls of the"nct. motorbikes with sites Snstead, certait sectious of sceming through the city, the press- took adoa.tage of this immnity by citing the by a special correspondent boycott call as part of court reporting, Ashley Forbes and others During ceoss-examination have been convicted of onto evidence in mitigation various offences, some of of sentence, Forbes them of terrorism, some explained how ed winy ha under the Internal Security joined the ANC. Act and oneoffurthering The ANC, Forbes thenioooftheANC. explained in covet, favoured in an atmosphee of a non aoia ad democestic increasing reperession, the South Africa. Qoestiosedot The eaammoth e rsa. trial i Delm, South Africa - all the trialit nearly three years S e 18 N osaber with 11 of the cacsed fond . oil UDF geneaal seetary; Patrick Leta, UDF publicity seraetay; Met - ere found glty of teason and soes othens of tertoism, SWAPO leader i detained The Naeibia Sapport Committee and the Joint Campaign Against the fepression of Trade Unionist, in South Afri and Namibia have joined with four trade unions in demanding the releese of the SWAPO ,eosertay fte labour inside Nuaihia, Joso Angula. Angula, wh is an eploye of the Council of Churches in Namibia, has been detailed stithout tdal tine 6 octaher 1917. Public sector uniens IRSF, CPSA, NUCPS end IPCS are backing the campaign in Britain, for which a new leaflet is available from AAM H. The Confederation of Shipbuilding and E,ginreeing Unions is also insled in the Joint Campaign in produeing materiel about Moses Meykio and the rest of the 'Also Fiat' on trial in South Africa. Jesse Angola

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ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * DECEMBER 1988/JANUARY 1989 9 Early experiec es of confrontation with troops and police have prompted thousands of young South Africans to decare their support for armed liheration struggle ARMED STRUGGLE STILL NEEDED Sefore the Protoria regime will release Nelon Mandela, it has said many times, he most rnoucre violence As one of the fodrsn er and first commander-in-hief, of the ANCs armed wing, Umkhooto we Siewe ('he Spear of the Nation'), launched on 16 December 1961, Madela cannot lightly take such a decision. At stake is the whole issue of the role of armed struggle in the fight for freedom. by a special correspondent fotha and Thatcher occupy the some terrain when it comeg to tire amed struggle. Bath brand it as 'violence' and 'terrorism'. Indeed, the British governmen's definition of 'terrorism is rhe use of violence for political ends. The assumption here is that when governments practise such violence they are conducting war in the national interest. But when liberation movements do it they are guilty of terrorism. The equation violence = armed struggle is a propaganda trick. Nobody wams to admit to being in favour of violence, because violeoce is bad. To allowthe discussion about armed struggle to be turned into 'Are you fro' oagaistcvolence?' is to dask the serioas irssues at stake. The points of departure of ay serious discussion of the question of armed struggle in South Africa are two. On the one hand, the complete lack of constitutional channels for political expression for the disenfranchised majority. The cornerstone of apartheid is not the Grup Areas Act, as journalistic commentary often asserts, bt the constitution of South Africa, adopted in 1910. It excluded almost all blacke from voting rights to the Rational parliament. That exclusion was carried much further in the late 1970s with th removal of South African citizenship from those allocated to the 'independent' bantstaes. On the other hand, to repress the political demands that surge up inside and outside apartheid's institutions, the South African state her equipped itself with a horrific battery of repressive measures: * ceesorship of newspapers, books, filmsaod the broadvatiog media, now focusing especially Os the suppression of the 'altroatiae' press * banning of organisations and individuals * indefinite dateetion withot trial - a charter for stateorganiead tortare - now particulady affecting hundreds of activists held since the second stae of emergency was imposed in June 1986 * imprisonment for long periods for people convicted of political activity * exectioe of e sts for ' or sort reated' ie politically motivated) actions against the state and its agents and collaborators * has arrest, banishment and other restrictions silencing the spokespersons of the mass democratic moveme t Add to this familiar litany the daily brutalities of the police against black people, the reign of terror carried ot in the townships by the armed forms and paramilitary forms such as the 'kitskonstatels' ad intha'sthugs, and you hae the outline of the state violence of the apartheid system. Much of this apparatus existed before the ANC launched its aimed wing, Umkhonto we Size, on Heroes Day, 16 December 1961. Most of the rest has been created in the past four years i. the attempt to destroy the popular resistace that has spread so wide and deep thatwww.nuance.com it has been impossible for the gate to crush it completely. A key idea in the formation of Umkhonto weSimeturns on the difference between armed struggle (the organised use of armed force against the violence of the racist wol and generalised 'violenoe' in the way Botha rnd Thatcher refer to it. ThePDF ANC leadership recognisied Create! that the regime's brutality and absolute5 refusal Trial to offer any constitutional options were already driving people into spontaneous acts of visos. Maodela and his colleagues took the view that if this process were allowed to spread uncontrollably, a bloodbath could ensue that would set back the cause of freedom hydecades. It was imperative to channel the urge to violence prevoked by the regime into orgarised forme deployed under political leadership for political goals. Until and uroasn the Botha regime renotes violence, by, amoog other things, lifting the state of emergency, releasing all detainees and political prisoners, repealing the laws allowing for indefinite detention and hearings, the rationale for the use of fyoe by the liberation movement remaios as valid as ever. PRISONERS OF WAR IN DANGER IN SOUTH AFRICA AsAnti-AparthrdNew goat against ... racist regimes in Cases or, heing hoard to preas, there are over 80 the exercise of their right to now, and more -l soon be mon and women awaiting self-detriatien' hrd,agart vctivists of exction in South Africa as The struggles waged by Umkhot we Stvwe who o rtetut of political actions the ANC vod SWAPO fall hone ,en captir dby the taken in opposition to the into this extended cviegary ogiwe. Most of thro apartheid regime. of warfare. Their gueril prisenes hae hbe sevecoly There have been at lest fighters are entitled to b totured in order to entract 16 exocatiorn of potitical granted the statas of confessions fovea thom, prisoners since 1979. cod prisoners of war. Totry MK cmiatawts as evidence was led in court The ANC is a signatory comemon criminals, and to that eight of these were to the Protocols, but the punish them, is to conit Members of Urnkhn to we South African regime has one of the ost serious Siwe, the armedvwngef the rvfuaed to ratify them. The crmes in oterational low, African National Congres. 1977 Protocol clearly acrime that was emmitted As teained sco c ts, confcrs on natronal libra- b the Nazis ad lter the eight wen all rtitted to tio aooteents the right to decihed as a war crien at ri0oner or war status, become a part to the Con- rho Nureburg trials of ventions and thyProtocols. Naz war criminals. bySonia Bonting The signiicance ef It i thydotyof all those prisoner of war status is that who support do ocrary, Thy Geneva Conventions it preventscaptored freodvat those who respoct ioternc of 1949 relate, inter ala, to fighters from being relegated tional law, the duty of the the treatment of prisoners to the status of criminals, international cosmmunity of war. These Conventions Any cioltovofthilelog awdgoovnvtseveywmhv have been ratifiedbymor status of o atoots toemo- that the South states than any ether struggling to sorthrow Atricf n regime should sarry international treaty - and apartheid and racism is out the tocms of the GenevSouth Africaisone of the deacribed bytheProtocol as Convotiots. signatories. awr crime'. Itisthedutyofallofas In1977,afterseveral All membes of toonvrpressure on this years of negotiation, Proto- Umkhonta we Siwe who rgi-e to ensure that it cols to the Geneva Conven. are organhsed fa r guerrilla treats raptared vombatarfa tions of 1949 were agreed, actmities are combatants by of IK as prisonors of war. Protocel I applyiog speif- deflaition, and are eligible caly tc. '.. .arted onliots for tho status of prisnerof Akvlvdgemotn- towhichpoearer0hting wvr,. Iohha m~rican Tores CIVILIANS Extract from a Statemet nOf the Hewer National Executi Committee FExe..tive of the Africao National Congress eoprrv17August1g8g spateofat targets. So 'TheNationalExecutive haceae Committee further reaffired of the pov the centrality of the armed ateSiowe. straggle in the national lnspire democrtic revolution and the regime's cr need to further acalte armed against the actions and transform our dmseoati, offensive at0 a goneralived ad outsid Poople's we certair its It noted that them has beeo cirovestarwww.nuance.com a significant aod wmeloome vointede escalation of this offensive, in The AN keeping with our perspectives. tdat it is co

APARTHEID '89 TO FREEDOM IN IERN AFRICA Open:PDF 9.30am-5.30pm - closedCreate! lunchtime and weekends. 5 Trial Books: The shop stocks a wide selection about South Africa and Namibia, both fiction and non-fiction, including children's books and poetry. Also: Tapes and records NcT-shirts I0 Jewellery Badges No Posters 00 Exhibitions INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE & AID FUND FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA Canon Collins House, 64 Essex Road, London N I P FREE CHILDREN IM APARTHEID t WorkofDefenceandAid wthern Africa )efence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa -the national affiliate of the I Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa needs your help. f children has been our special concern. Children in South Africa and Namibia mpt from apartheid state violence. They are instead its particular target and face I and brutal onslaught by the armed forces and police. Many have been beaten, p ed, teargassed and killed. Some have witnessed the- death or the imprisonment nts, relatives and friends. ,nd legislation have hidden the scale of executions, imprisonment, detention and ed removals and bannings. This rising scale of repression has placed increasing the wolk of the Fund. in 1958, the objects of the Fund are: lefend and r'ehabilitate victims of unjust legislation, oppressive and arbitrary res .rt their families and dependants the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake in Southern Africa in the development of a non- racial society based on a democratic way of life. is: the legal defence of those accused under apartheid legislation I funds for the families and dependants of political prisoners and detainees to th rent, food, clothing, the education of children, prison visits and medical care political exiles, forced to flee harassment and terror refugees from South Africa and Namibia living in camps in independent African s work in Britain includes: unds to assist in the implementation of the above objects nal work on apartheid, particularly amongst young people, in schools and with * campaigning for the release of political prisoners and detainees in South Africa and Namibia * distributing factual information on repression in these countries. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please complete and return to British Defence and Aid Fund far Southern Africa at the address below. I enclose u donation of £5 L]£10 E £20 £50 E £100 1 Other £ ...... I I would like a receipt 0 I would like more information about the work of the Fund 0 'Please lick b...s National Giro Account No 5 11 7151 I would like to pay by Access/Visa. Please charge the following amounttomycard/account:£.CardNo:l I I I I I I I I I I I II Expiry date ...... Sig nature: ...... I am able to give regular support through a banker's order (I-as co plet a-d retur t W u , o your b-k.) To (your bank's name) ...... At (your bank's address) ...... Please pay BDAESA £ ... every month/year* starting on (date) ...... until further notice Signature ...... A/c No ...... Name ...... www.nuance.com .Address...... d..l. ., ne...... r, For BDAFSA office use: To Lloyds Bank plc. 19 Upper Street, Islington London NI OPJ (3094-57), AccountPDF No 0385561 Create! 5 Trial British Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa 22 The Ivories, 6-8 Northampton Street, London Nt 2HX ------J

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * DECEMBER 1988/JANLARY 1989 11 SOLIDARITY *WITH THE WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA & NAMIBIA gemaners on the couth trican eomest i Workers' Union (SADWIU) launch their living wage campaign in Johannesburg, September 1988 Breakthrough for garment workers South Africa's Garment & Allied coordinated workplace Workers' Union (GAWU) ha stoppagemthefirstc reefleticn wom an unprecedented victory strike action had been used in ater intense negotiations with the industry.Thisresultedinemployers, theuionswinoingannurese Terms agreed in October of almootthreetimestheawon included a minimum wage first offered. increase of 20%, 16 June GAWU currentlyhas observet (Bewae Day) as a paid holiday, status within COSATU pending six months' moternity leave, and its amalgamation with the other recognition of union shop textile union, ACTWU stewards. In addition,wage (Amalgamated Clothing and negotiations are to be annual Textile Workers' Union), as part and not biennial as before. of COSATU's one union per The Sisters of the Long March, an all-omen singing and dancing GAWU has 103,000 industry policy. group, are on tour in Britain to build solidarity for sacked BTR members, mainly in Natal and Textile workers are still Sarmonl workers in Sout Africa. In Leicester, members of the the Cape, 80% of whem are poorly paid - even with the 51251 branch of the Transport & General Wokers' Union presented women. U ntilrecently,itwas newincreasestheminimumthemwithachequeforEl00. seenasa sweetheart union with wage is only £20 per week. But norecordofwilitancyanda GAWVUsvictoryiuimportanta tio ofresolution435for tradition of compliance with the forthe CUSATU Living Wage L Namibia's independence. hosses, campaign. reto mentproposlsto tDut,likewnyotherunin, Itisalsoalcar.e..amgtod e m an d C further gag press reporting thc past few years ham brought Pretoria that the rntly freed o m of political trils wer..e.c growing politicieation and introduced LabourReltios freedo m demandnsanotheratempt organiationalstrength:as AmendmetAut,themost Nelson M ndela was appoin- to hide its brtality trom general secretary Desmond repressive anti-trade anion ted hnorarylife president the eyes of the world. Sampson said, 'A giant has legislation in South Africe yet, of the National Association NADEL also called for a awoken'. will nat stifle rho trade unins' of Democratic Lawyers moratorium onallpending .mployersworaforcedto taleinthe liberation straggle. (NADEL) at its second general council meeting in Johannesburg on 5 Novemher. Formed in 1987, NADEL brings together several regionally-based progressive South African lawyers' organisations. The meeting called for the immediate end t ncodi tional release of Mandela, the other Rivonia trialists. political prisoners and detainees; the eaancing of the ANC and other political organisations; the immediate lifting of the state of emeegency; and the implements- execoutions and the inedate abolition of the death penalty. Summit The Congress of South Africanwww.nuance.com Trade Unions (COSATU) and the smaller National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) have agreed jointlyto host a summit on South Africa's new Labour Relations Amendment Act. The summit would discus ways in which workers can resist the represive new law. COSATUPDF Create! 5 Trial goes on growing South Africa's Post and Telecommunications Workers' Association (POTWA) has decided to affiliate to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The move will boost COSATUs membership by Strike figures are up Figures for the third quarter of Itwas etimatod that noer 198 reealthat industil unrest meo million workers participated inSouth Africa is en the inrease. in this three-day staymay. This is despite the Labour Relations Amendment ACt, ctor No of Manwhich seeks to curtail the stikes days campaigns of the non-racial Manvufatrn 1 n25noo democratictradeunion Path, n roo moementforalivingwageand T4ayors 4 1071Q union recognition. 5e,1ice 4 05 Thefigures alsounderline Coetraction a 026 theIadingroleoftheCongress Real 3 8,390 ofSouthAfrican Trade Unions AIcu.ltre 22440 (COSATU) in workers' struggles ietrihutse t 1 2,0 astheovewhelmingmajorityof Mining 1 300 unionstakingactionare Union Noel Mao' affiliatedtoCOSATU. strikes days According to official lost statistic, 432,881 days were NUMOA t4 2'in89t lIstthraghindastrialactionin CCAWUSA 0 10.050thisperiod,Heer.many gAHAU 4 06.600 mresinal TGWU 3 10,410 moe.dyswe6through c u 9,40 workers'participationin FAWU '.3 7400 smayaways, sack at th one s-Wiu 2 2 S 7nt organisedagainsttheLahour PPWAWU 2 12,160 Reltios Amrendment ACt. H-esU 2 3515 between 22,000 and 26,000 and will make it easier to consolidate trade union strucmtors within South African government departments, COSATU already has aohct 29,000 members in transport, health and edocation, and should now fad it easier to fight public sector issuestech no privatistion, T, the wage freeze and the of absenceoftradeunionrights eforworkers. Lto

IRMATION AND RESOURCES erk available from SACTU. Is, nation oald be welcomed to defray postage and packing) caifrainpaper N [O A D[ '87) FREEDOM AT 70 (50 mc p&P CONCERT MERCHANDISE (500) £1incp&p etiogs)t s £0.50) Iea PicEsoelTITnnoned. er.aposrien or5.0 Ocsm,-marin .12.50 terwww.nuance.com 4.UETOL AOUE nsa er aleem,esranssea+orWhiteSmallMedium LargeXLarge £5each oaneaa.0r nocslaaa £1.50 so 0 £1.00PDF each (metal) Create!-r s 5 Trial £0.50each(loather) LeoteaIen enm an s rde a 00r50 Baartman)p&p £1,50 ns for which I enclose £...... SMews. off Anhay Ooe.O Upper Holoway, London N193TB IATERIAL FROM THE JOINT CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE REPRESSION )F TRADE UNIONISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA QUANTITY TOTAL JA ONAGLA SWAPOSretaryofLabour Setof3postcards Ipioedrin Namriba, whereaboutsanknown an a0perb0set Leaflet £1,00pr 100 - £f ALEXANDRA FIVE Set of 3 postcards Politial talof5actvistfromAexandratownshp ft10Ope0bse a £ including Moses Mayekiso, General Secretary Leaflet of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa £1.00perc00 £ A idGWL LetertaPWlBotha Tradeunionveteraninprison FREE suffering from motor neurone disease Fact sheet FREE TJELUVUYOMGEDEZi Leaflet SouthAfrican activist ondeath row 1.00per1a0 WIUMNTOMBELA Commercial. Catering & Allied Workers Union of Set of 3 potcards South Africa: shop steward on death row f 1.00perlOsets a OSCARMPETHA Tradeunionveterancurrentlyimprisoned Leafletricat fiouelo £1.0Oper I(X PROMOTION LEAFLET FREE H cosarUPOSTER(Ioa 91.00each a HANDSOFCOSATU(Blackandwhite) 50peach a o- STO....REPRESSION OTRAE UNIONISTS Poster3peach TOTAL £. I/Wewish to campaign forthe release oftrade unionists facing repression in SAfricaand Namibia Please send me mare information about the Joint Campaign F E I/We enclose a donatio n of a to the Joint Campaign AL E /- enclose a donaIo of £E - for the relief of South African and Namibian trade unionists El Please send details of affiliation rates to the AAM I enclose total £ - (cheques payable to AAM) . - NAME _ c NON " . BRANCH ADDRESS Retain ta the Joint Campaign, 13 Mandela Street London NW1 ODW

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 DECEMBRER 1988IJANfEARY 199 13 *V1EWS&REYIEWS W 'A World Apart - Film Study Guide' gives background information to help students who have seen the film and been inspired 'o find out more about apartheid. The booklet examines the history of the liberation struggle, the shooting of the film, and interrogation, tenoure and death in South Africa today. These sections are intereut with ideas for activities and discussion topics, whrm students are asked to examine their own reactions to issues raised by the film. This attractive and welldesignedwww.nuance.com guide is available from SDAFSA, 22 The Ivories, E-8 Northampton Street, London NI 2HX, at E1.00 intl pllp, 20% discount on 10 or moe. copies. 0 'A World Apart' - the sound track album of the film - is now available. The album's evocative tracks include 'NkosiPDF Sikelal'i Afrika', 'ZlphuielaCreate! Mama', 'Amndla', 'The Pennywhistle 5 Song', Trial 'Let's Twist Again', 'Molly's Theme' and the 'A World Apart' suite. The record, which combites the synthesisers and computer music of Hans Zimmer with the African sounds of the Messias Choir and Loverore Majaivarn, is out on the Milan label or through the Cartel at £6.59. 0 The n-w film, 'Mapautsuic', is one of a very small number to be made in South Africa thia deals with the black experience under apartheid. 'Mapantsula', a South African term for wide boy, centres on Panic, a cynical, strent-wise con man devoted to drinking, dancing and thieving. out when he is thrown into prison and lands up in a cell full of political activists, Panic everntully begins to wonder if there in eore to life than mere enjoyment of the moment Filmed in Soweo and banned by the South African regime, Mapantsuls opens at the Metro and the Screen on the Green in London on 6 January, and a the Cornerhouse, Manchester, on 9 January. It will play around the rest of the country in early spring. Although this is not exactly a campaigning film, its gangsterland setting and subject matter may atract a rather different audience from recent antiapartheid films. So local AA groups could consider leafleting outside cinemas screening the film. Finding a voice Nelson and Winni Mandela, all the children who have been Margaret Thatcher, the ANC killed, maimed, orphaned, choir, South African Nazi imprisoned and tortured by the Eugene Terre Blanche and the apartheid regime and, equally, security police all shared the to the way they have so often same stage in London in October heroically fought back. to bear witness to the suffering Satirist and impersonator and strength of young victims of Pieter Dirk Uys and the Spitting apartheid. Image team both gave rather Of course, most of those more accurate and honest people were unable, or unwilling, accounts of the behaviour of to appear in person, but actors, P W Botha and Margaret satirists, puppets, authnrn, Thatcher than the later do politicinsand musiciansstpped themselves. into their shoes to make yore Albie Sachs touched the everyone with a role in South audience by portraying himself, Africa got the exposure they remarkablyrecoveredfrom the deserved. assassination attemptwhichcost him his right arm. by Deborah Ewing Antony Sher demonstrated that he can be actor or artist The event was 'Two Dogs with equal success - his original and Freedom', staged by the bill design for the programme British Defence and Aid Fond raised an extra £1,900 in an for Southern Africa, at Sadlers auction conducted by Labour Wells Theatre, to pay tribute to leadr Neil inocl MP. Creating one nation in South Africa The dovetailing of theory and practice is a prerequisite for any successful political struggle. It is precisely that which is the aim of The National Question in South Africa (ed Maria van Diepen for the Govan Mbvki Fund, Zed, London 1988, ISBN 0 86232 795 4, £7.95pbk). The question of nationality and race are central to the struggle for a democratic South Africa. While there ace alternative fors of analysis of South African reality, notably class analysis, it is clear, as the contributors to this book argue, that the role of the national question cannot be ignored. As Harold Wolpe states forcefully in his chapter: 'It is the racial structure which guarantees the dominaoce of all white class fractions... It is race which unifies each of the blocks across class lines and it is the dominance of the alliance of white classes which signifies colonialism of a special type.' The lesson to be turned into coonorete policies is that nonracialism must be the AAM goes on th( Gerard Omasta.-Milsom has recently been appointed as the Anti-Apartheid Movement's first field officer. As s.eetary of Bristol AA forwww.nuance.com five years, and a student AA activist before that, Gerard is very knowledgeable about local group work, which should prove coinerstone of political action. Appeals purely on class lines or racial lines will not serve to unite all those who wish to destroy apartheid andPDF will not form a strong Create! foundation on which to build a democratic 5 South Africa.Trial As the editor of the collec. ion argues, 'the 1912 ANC call to give up ethnic loyalty in favour of creating one African nation is still valid'. The book attempts to define a basically Marxist approach to the national question in South Africa. But, as Joe Slovo of the South African Communist Party admits, 'the Marxist theory of the national clues' tion is perhaps the least developed ic our revolutionary science. It offers few propositions which can be used as starting points for an analysis of concrete situations.' It is within this light that the book must be viewed as step towards the building of a coherent theory of nationality in South Africa which will serve as a sure wide to ction. road invaluable experience in his new position. Gerard will be working closely with the local groups organiser, Mick Flynn, and plans to visit a great mony local AA groups during 1989. He would welcome being contacted by local groups onO -87 7966. A scane from 'The Biko Inquest', 'Two Dogs and Freedom' Music, songs, donc and evening was about. He recited poetry interspersed the more schoolboy Moagi's poem, serious and sombre items. witten when he was eight: Butitwasleftto young 'When IamnidJames Quashietoremind I wouldliketohan everyone, finally, of what the A wife and two children, Britons fight for apartheid Almost 60,000 British European companio volun citizen are curnctly fight- tartly supplement the wages ing in the South African of conscriptd employees. Defence Force (SADF), and This tvp-p paymnt cn be a further 90,000 an obliged up to 88% af normal vrty to serve t local militias, wages and rffectivelyaccordingtoEuropeanM? amn tstoawage subsidy Dr Almaon Metten. to tho SADF of £26 million In a report for the pan- peranm (BCUOmillon). ]linmentsofthe12EEC The partconrlades by countries, Fightiofor ,c1ing fora5-nng 4 Apartheid: ajob for life, the wage supplevfi to c9 j Dutch MEP estimates that a scipts fnom Eopeao total of 178,000 European compans, the withdrawal citizens are completing their of ritenship rights from nationa service in the apart- European nationals who herd armed forces, despite hve served in tho Suth the UN arms embargo, and African aried fore, and I despite a eoolotio by the European Commounity not to 'ooperate in the military sphere'. In 1984 South Africa amended its citizenshrp laws, compelling foreign nationals to take out South African citizenship and hence making them. liable for national service in the South African armed forces. The report estimates thug 'over one-third of these fomes consist of whrtes why possess or are entitled to ac EC pasport'. Several European countries, including Britain, are in the paradoxical situation of sopplying limited militay aid to protect developerent projects in the Front Lina States from South African destabilisation, while at the same time their citizens me taking part with impunity in these campaigns of destabili. sation. The report also points Univeroity of Cape Town stcdents p out that the vast majority of End Conscdptin Campaign it Augi ANTIAPARTHEiD NEWS * DfiBEMBER isggFaANItARY i9 ' NEWS OVIEWS&R IEWS

ANC Dinner Dance on New Year's Eve at Stoke Newington Town Hall Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 Saturday 31st December 1988 8pm-lam Live music < Bar available £10.00 concs £5.00 REMEMBER JUNE 11? www.nuance.com WEREYOU ONE OF THE 800 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THEWORLDWHO JOINEDTHE BIGGESTBIRTHDAY PARTY EVER. THE TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA CONCERT rict BROUGHT THE STRUGGLE AGAINSTPDF APARTHEID Create! TO A 5 Trial NEW LEVEL lent Nowyou,anbuythebookoftheday.Packedfullof porlrits ofthearIsts involved and photos coveringeveryPO spect oftheday. Pieass sand me copies of the Free Nelson Mandela - Fstial concert book at £7 99 each. I eclosonoooal of (include 10% p & p). Chenqun ond postal orders code onabin to AvA pleasen Address Pontcode 24 Returnto:JacquiCollison,Concert Book,Anti-Aprtheid 14ZH Movement,13Mandela Street,LondonNW1 ODW SOUTHWARK AA na presents a benefit for :per ts! MedicalAidCampaignfor Southern Africa (MACSA) Sunday 11th Dec 6pm till late S to China since experience and cabaret* food * music* bar* stall * video clusive tours for Rockingham Community Centre, ition to the well- Rockingham Street, SE1 stivals, remoter £3,2 cones ourse in Beijing. £3,-£2__oncs act: Politicalprisonersin "U SouthAfricaandNamibia. Our solidarity and support is with you. )URS on NW ONt Southwark AA Group hrs) tel. 01-582 7375 NUPE sends greetings to the Congress of South African Trade Unions on the 3rd anniversary of its foundation and calls for the release of all South African and Namibian political prisoners. Free Oscar Mpetha! Free Harry Gwala! Free Jason Angula! Free Moses Mayekiso! National Union of Public Employees Rossendale AA Group sends warm greetings to all Namibian and South African political prisoners and detainees and prayers for their release from persecution. AMANDLA! The London Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement sends solidarity greetings to all political prisoners and detainees and theirfamilies in South Africa LAMBETH AA GROUP Free Nelson Mandela and all Political Prisoners Sponsored demonstration on Saturday 27th December at midday Rally: St Matthews, Brixton 3pm I i The Glasgow North West AA Group solutes the ANC and SWAPO and all political prisoners and trade .ni.....n A, ; :. C,, Further details and sponsorship forms and Namibia from BCM LAAG, London WCIN 3XX or Africa and Namibia phone 582 1702

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 4 ANTI www.nuance.com APARTHEID GROUPS The AAM has local groups in the following places: LONDON REGION amet,PDF Brent, Camden, Chiswick, Create! Croydon, Ealing, Earls Court & Chelsea,5 Enfield,Trial Greenwich & Bexleyheath, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow & District, Hillingdon, Hounslow and District, Islington, Kingston & District, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Notting Hill, Pimlico & Westminster, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth. There is a regional committee for London. REST OF ENGLAND Aylesbury, Barntley, Basingstoke & District, Bath, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn & Darwen, Bradford, Bridgwater, Brighton, Bristol, Bumley & Pendle, Calderdale, Cambridge, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chesterfield, Cotswold, Coventry, Crawley, Darington, Derby, Diss & District, Doncaster, Durham, East Dorset, Eastleigh, Exeter, Furness, Glossop, Gloucester, Halesowen Harlow, Hartlepool, Hastings, Hamel Hempstead, Herefordshire, Huddersfield, Hull, Hyndbum, Lancaster, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Leicester, Leighton Buzzard & Unslade, Lichfield & District, LongsighttLevenshulme & Rusholme, Loughborough, Luton & District, Malvern, Manchester, Mansfield, Matlock, Medway, Merseyside, Milton Keynes, Newark, Northampton, North Devon, North Manchester, North Shropshire, North Staffs, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Norwich, Nottingham, Nuneaton, Oldham, Oxford, Peterbormugh, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Redditch, Redhill & Reigate, Rochdale, Rossendale, Rutherham, Salisbury, Sheffield, Somerset & West Dorset, Southampton, South Devon, St Albans & District, St Helens, Stockport, Sutton & Epsom, Swindon, Tameside, Teeside, Tyneside, Wakefield, Walsall, Wafford, Welwi afield, Winchester, Windsor & Slough, Withington, Wrekin, York. There are regional committees for GreaterManchester Wessex, West Midlands Yorkshire A Humberside ,SCOTLAND Aberdeen, Ayr, Central Region (Stirling), Clydebank, Cumbernauld, Cunnioghame, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dundee, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Fraserburgh, Glasgow East, Glasgow North West, Glasgow South, Hamilton, Inverness, Midlothian, Paisley/Renfrew, West Lothian. Scotish Commiffee:contact John MacKinnon, 266 Clyde Street, Glasgow G1 4JH; tel Glasgow (041) 221 1276. WALES Abergavenny, Barry, Blaenau-Gwent, Bridgend, Cserphilly, Cardiff, Cynon Valley, Deeside, Denbigh, Gwynedd, Lampeter, Merthyr, Mid-Powys, Newport, Pontypridd, Rhondda, Rhyl, Rhymnay Valley, West Glamorgan, Wrexham. Wales AAM: Contact Hanrif Bham jee, 43 Glenroy Street, Roath, Cardiff CF2 JX, tel Cardiff (0222) 499769. NMANFJ Leonard Fenton, who plays Dr Legg in TV's 'East Enders', draws the prizewinners' names for the AAM's Grand Raffle. With him is Catherine Meek from SACU China Tours who donated a 24-day holiday for two, which was won by Elaine Fowler from Manchester For a full list of prizewinrnn, please send a SAE to Tim Walker, AAM HO. Tribute to Machel Over 200 people came to hear the newly-appointed Mozambican ambassador to Britain, HE Armando Panguene, pay tribute to President Samomr Machel on the second anniversary of his death. The audience in Hammersmith, west London, was given a succinct analysis of the political and military situation in Southern Africa by jounalist Victoria Borittan, and was the first to view Toni Strasburg's new film on the fate of the children of the region, Chain of Tears. The meeting was chaired by Margaret Ling of the AAM. After a lively discussion and a short break for interma tional fcd, the evening ended with the Mozambicn band Mathla. The meeting also raised at least £400 for village selfdefence in Mozambique and was the first event jointly organised by the AAM London Committee, through the west London gronps of Chiswick, Ealing and Hammersmith, and the Mozambique Angola Com mittee (MAC). War on Want and the union GMB also gave active support. The ad hoc conmittee which coordinated the commemoration hopes to organie a second event in the spring on Angola. In the meantime, look out for Chain of Tors on Channel 4 in January. O Barnet AA combined their annual general meeting on 13 October with a public meeting addressed by Geoffrey Bindman, chair of Southernwww.nuance.com Africa The Imprisoned Society (SATIS). Geoffrey Bindman spoke on the sham of the 'legal system' in South Africa. Bamet AA presented SATIS with a cheque for £500 - part of the £2,500 sponsorship collected for local resident Nadia Joseph who took part in the Nelson Mandela Freedom March from Glasgow to London. DodgyPDF money Create! 5 Trial Contcoversy rckd the village of Staverton in Devon when an anti-apartheid eampaigner clashed with Shell who arrived to make a 5500,000 television commecial on location. Residents were hired as extras and most passed the money on to their parish Showing Shell wh Hammersmith & Fulham Providing you lean AA now have 70 weeks' paving wrdth clear o experience ofeanningaShell the garage, tIbe the picket, and David Hillman cannot say you are c and Sophie Trenchell hae an obstructioe. written to Anti-Apartheid It is esnential t h Nec to share the secret of least one big hann the group's secess. is easy to need teor road, plus placaeds. Our aim is to inform as useful entras include manypeople as possible of Tshirts ( rhO0) end the link between Shell and umhrellos (£10.00), the aparthlid regime. We aailablr fom Hlnamer decided to pickL the garage & Fulham AA. Il i.3 in rash hour, as the ears pas, hae someone oIiin morn sowly Ibn andhone woking narhy wlmono time to d r willingInstoetheha: bannerse. Oli.. It is a goad iea hoese I Tla tio 'phone or a Shell station which has of eceyone who eon another garage in sight piket ,o that yon Approach drivers a they remind them the nxt enter or when thry snup. The minimum numb A surprising nune of preple needed is thil people will go on to the nt two In hold the bunor garage and also pledge nol one to hold a in lihe to use a Shell station again, pour horn if yon aspo Quick reactions Vigil for Nai Lambeth AA starter Namibia Week of . When studrnts 0t Ball (27 October to3 Nove College, Ontond, disconened byholdng a si-bonn at 8po n Octber enening B-on. At thr sigil, that Sir Geoffrey Htwe wa motion on Namibia at the college aing adianne haaded ou o ),al party, they aoted swiftly. end red arntions men, A petition calling fn the raining o Ver £125 immedrote imposition of SWAPo. sanctions ugainst South Later in the we Africa was take. amand college, and 200 paople Learning ab signed it wthin an hose. The petiton wa handed A daysohool pencidint to the forig secetanyand, m rtion and practical bythe time he had finished f'r yoth old coer his dinrer 150 .alirge warhers was attended members had asembld for people on 7 Non, a silent demontration bald- giving workers a for ing banners which read davelnp ideas und il 'Isolate aopartheid' and reated to antiaparthl 'Sonctions now., anti racist work withi: council, which war also given £800 by Shell's fill unit. Local teacher Sue Mae spoke out at a meeting held to disces the -sue, and asked the village In distance itself from Shell sod its involvement with apartheid. mu~lsandw youag people. 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ACTION *NATIONAL& INTERNATIONAL South Africa in -kets www.nuance.com Going through the year, the first arrivals are stone frnits (pluns, peaches and nectarines) in January and February. White grapes appear mainy in February/ March with black grapes a month or so later. Peace and apples begin to be inportedPDF in Marh/Apri. TheCreate! scarce for South Afican citrus products 5 stirts inJune/July/Trial August. Cape and Outapan launch annual sales drives to coincide with those seasons. Cape's main promotion starts in February and March, involving nationwide advertising, sales tours by reps, and distribution of sales materials to retailers to persuade them to display Cape goods. A similar aies campaign is conducted by Outpan centred on July and August. UK fruit impors from South Africa 1887 sihia andltodestroy aparbeldan L.-.1w1ora1:: ..... SM OVEEN loclu ried grs ...... nt,s colleges,sro s, Stone fruit - ...... a p bli lfor an end to all form s of G apefr uhr ...... rtheld regie and for spport for autnoaisg beon remere ...... ; slunaially barons ma pars...... lhayara-aahdbytheAAMHQ bers'naw sletterlOtim es year Grsa s ...... O nges ...... l, peas. gt in touchwih AAM AA g -n p i y area. Fruit& cuts ...... 9pins is Mynededathe Accus W1. Rf vI an gie same spare P 01"387796 1 ;! 1t 2 1 1.. . . 0 5 50 15 20 2030 35 40 -l l l l l - million ....' Customerscan .m. address,,03,00 take control Shopkeepers may tell you 'There is no alternative' to buying apartheid produce. There is one very obvious alternative: not to expect to eat plums and grapes in January, peaches in Feb. mary, pears in March, apples in April and oranges in May, Other southern hemisphere countries have in fact been moving in on the market, most notably New Zealand and Australia, to provide alternatives. In early spring, Dutch peace may be available and in April stored French Golden Delicious can rival South African. In midsummsser. a fast. growing market in avocados is developing which the South Africans interestingly no longer dare to promote under one high-profile brand name like Outspan or Cape, but instead use many different brand names. AntiApartheid Neo will publish reminders of these nearer the time, but meanwhile be prepared to look instead for avocados from places like Florida and Kenya. If you are addicted to oranges it is difficult to avoid apartheid in the late summer. But look around and insist on alternatives. One warning: 'Valencias' can not be assumed t come from Spain. They are a variety and very likely to be South African, Alternatives include: Argentinian Pindaboy, Eloido, Tauterys; Brazilian - Cutrale, Mushot honey tangerines, Blue Mill, Sul Brsil; Urgnuay - Sun. zest; USA - Valley View (Californian). In 1988 for the first time Zimbabwean oranges were avaduble in large quantities in October under the name of Oceanic, but referred to by some traders as 'Zimbos'. We cannot break the dominance of seasonal apartheid fruit in the market at one go. While pressing retalers to cut back substan. tially, urge them to give a significantly larger slice of the market to the rivals of apartheid. With imports of South African fruit running at over £100 million a year in foreign exchange for the apartheid war machine, con. ceted action is needed in the year of Boycott Apart. heid '89. CAMPAIGN DIARY ar Thursday I December: Canonwww.nuance.com Collins Memoial Lecture, Maulana Farid EsackSouth African Muslim leader and 8SF mecurth. Institute of Education, London WC1, 7pm. Details BDAFSA. 01-354 1462. * Saturday 3 December: Man picket against South Afrlca participation in World Travel Market, Olympia. London. Organised by AAM London Committee. Details David Kennyn, 01-550 7188, or John Bowling. 01PDF-892 3527. Create! 5 Trial * Wednesday 7 December Free Namibia Now! National Lobby of Parliament to ensure action by the British government to secure Namibia's independence. Join the lobby, House of Commons, 2.30 - 7pn. . Wednesday 7 December: 'SWAPO's Programme in Exile', educational workshop organised by North London Namibia Support Group, North London Polytechnic, 6.3 O-pm. Details 01-507 6383. 1 Saturday 10 Deceamber: Namibisn Women's Day and UN Human Rights Day. Annivrsary of 1959 Katutua massacre, Windhoek. A Saturday 10 December: Ealing AA Namibian Women's Day Celebration. Workshops and discussions, Ealing Civic Centre, 12 noon - 4pm. Social event - Sherman Hall, orset Road, South Eslig, W13, 7pr. * Friday 16 December: South African Heroes' Day and 27th sniaersary ofthe formation of Ukhanto we Sizwe. armed wing of the ANC. Public meeting on the legitimacy of the armed struggle; speakers include Billy Masethls of the ANC, 7.30pm, Friends House, Eustn Road. London NW1. N Monday 19 December: Social and cultural evening to mark Namibian Women's Bay. Music and speakers to include Gertrude lfandaiya. SWAP0 Women's Council, 7-10.30pm, Islington Central Library Hall, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London a1. U Thursday 22 December: Christmas benefit for SACTU, The Fidge. Brixtn, organised by AAM London Committee. Details 01-885 4702. 1 Thursday 22 December - Monday 2 January: AAM Hd closed. U Sunday 8 January 1989: 77th anniversary of the foundation of the African National Congress. ar Sunday 5 March 1989: London AA annual conference, MSF H9, Camden Road, NW1. Details 01435 8977. Fair trade One World which aims to trade fairly with Third World producers and act as an out. let for their crafts, has now opened a new shop in Leeds. Goods on sale include a large selection of antiapartheid merchandise, including books, T-shirts, music, and coffee and nuts from the Front Line States. Customers, and anyone willing to volunteer to staff the shcp for a few hours per week, should hurry along to One World, 61 Merrion Centre, Georgian Arcade, Leeds. AMf NM.S The copy date for the February 1989 issue of AntiApartheld News isWEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY. Copies rfthe February issue will be available far collection from 13 MIndela Street from Friday 27 January. COpy dates for the rest of 1989 are: March - Wednesday a February April - Wednesday 8 March May - Wednesday12 April June - Wednesday 10 May July/August - Wed 14 June September - Wed H August October - Wed 13 September November - Wed 11 October Dec/Jenuary -Wed 8 November

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