February 1989

February 1989 The newspaper of the Ank- Movement / 30p Boycott apartheid in 1989! 'Every effort to isolate adds strength to our struggle. 'At all levels of our struggle, witinI and outside the country, much has been achieved and much remains tobe done. But victory is certainl' - iThe people of Southern Africa are -caUing onthe international community to take effective action against apartheid. In reponse, the Anti-Apartheid Movement has pledged to spread the message 'Boycott South African goods' to more people than ever before. The AAM has launched 'Boycott Apartheid 89', which aims to broaden the demand for sanctions against South Africa and to greatly reduce the amount of apartheid produce on sale in Britain by reaching all consumers, retailers and wholesalers. Other targets are: Shell, apartheid gold and coal imports, and tourism. 'Boycott apartheid 89' is expected to be one of the biggest campaigns ever organised by the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Nekin P311e* Ls he looks today a ner poster basad on the imprevsions of prison visitors is available from the AAth - - _ _ _ em i 1

2 ANTI.APARTHEID NEWS 6 FEBRUARY 1989 The Namibia independence plan ht ron into oem prohlems. The five permanent members of the UN Security Couccil, hewing to South African preure, hoie opened the door to reductions in the size of the UN Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG). Reducing the number of UN military personnel from the 7,500 agreed in 1979 makes no sneo - especially since the Nmnibian populaton hos increased by an estimated 30% since 1978, to about 1.75 millon. Any reduction can only help the Pretoria regime in its manipulation of the election process. Pretoria is undoubtedly hoping to salvage its influence over Nmibie's future by achieving oirtol bentustan status for the coet"y, Key to this strategy is the achievement of vtote over the constitution. This is to be laewn up by the Constituent Assembly, which will be formed by the elections currently scheduled for I November 1989. A thoreaqrtm mejority of the assembly hes to approve the constitution. Pretorie's psuppets therefore have only to secore 20% of the ots to force SWAPO athe majority party into compromises which could distort Nmlsia's fotum for a long time to come. Morel and materii sepport for SWAP thsughoat the election campaign is vital to fol Pretoria'a meoauwes. P W Bothe has already assured National Party leaders in Namibia that he will Intorupt the independence process if there is any 'violence or intimidotion'. Thoworst thing Namibisa friends can do now is watch pensively whilst Pretod stocks the cards against SWAPO's election prospects. I ledp daoe is coing, but opponents of apartheid must nout relan if South Afrsa's efforts to retain influence am to he thvarted TAKE ACTION AGAINST APARTHEID The British pubic has a very powerlul weapon egirst apartheidin its hands: money. South Afrcds trade with the U K is vital to its economy, end it is desperately efrid of losing that hsndsom. The Aeli.Apatrsid Movement is calling on every single parson who believes asartheid is wrong to s on that belief - by refusing to buy South Afcrien goods or have any dealigos with South African companes, sad by preserisig the British goerement to impose mssotla onngit the aparthaid mime. If enough poplejoin the Beycott Apartheid 89 campaign, Thatcher win have to rethink her anti-snctiomn stance. ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS The newspaperoflthe Ani-Apsrid Movement EDfOtIAMOND 13 MandelnStreeL London NWI 0DWTel: 01387966 EDIT09 Ma~g.Li Ug EDITORIAt.ASSISTiANTtfirael Genre ADVERTISINWCIRCULATIONVaOOOa Ey ANNUAL SUBSCBIPTIONS: Ildishdfuns: UI £0; Eumpe £13.50; outside Europse sutace) 0.50; outside Europe (air- £13.50 Insafons UK -t E10; Eu pea -EoM .e-U outside Europe Isudcol - 1Z50; outside Europe (air) Giro Account N 52 513 004 AN1I-APARTHIID NEWS is ait snn to ell valtni members Of0e Ant-Aplseid Movemeat - sae membership hue on back pape for details. DESIGNED by Reper Huddle. Aetloeans TYPtSET by Nancy White PRINTED by EOs End Oflve Ltd. Empena Stat.aremley-y.-low. London E33lT £I003am NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA WIT Early in January the World Campaign was informed by the West German government that it had cancelled the licence for the export of the electro-optical tracking system jointly made by the German finn MBB and British Aerospace. This means that the remaining two multi-sensor platforms cannot not be exported to South Africa. Of the those originally ordered, one unit was exported on 16 June 1988 - nine days after the first complaint from the World Campaig. This system can automatically track two targets simultaneously, including missiles, grenades and tanks, and prepare appropriate responses. It is used by the British Ministry of Defence for target trials at Royal Aircraft Establishrent ranges, and by other NATO countries for similar purposes. South Africa could use the system for testing weapons at well as battlefield deployment, but it has claimed it would only be employed to track weather satellites. This is a great victorysince South Africa was desperate to obtain the three units and some experts claim that at least three are necessary for the system to operate effectively. The World Campaign is calling for the return of theone unit already delivered to South Africa FINLAND Finland has decided to proceed with the purchase of the Crotale missile system made by Thomson CSF of France. This system was originally developed with direct South African involvement, and in the mid- 1970s Norway reversed its decision to purchase it due to this link. The World Campaign is appealing to individuals and organisations to send appeals to Finland not to proceed with this deal since it will also benefit Thomson CSF, which is notorious for its long history of military collaboration with South Africa. WESTLAND In November 1988 it was reported that several former Westland engineers were engaged on secret work for the Pretoria regime. The South African Defence Force (SADF) has several Westiand helicopters which are fairly old, and these engineers have obviously been recruited to update them and work on other helicopters. Westland officials say that they were not involved in the engineers going to South Afrfca/but that when they retu rn at th end of, this year they could he o-mployed by thecompany, AAM took up this matter with the Foreign Office, which insists that UK citizens ae free to take up employment in South Africa and that this does not constitute an offence against the am embargo. Paddy Ashdown, MP for Yeovil, where the Westland group is ba-d, is also pursung the cas. * yoetyPasasIsaon amsomeVSmnrstoeexutranlminen Sthe"Apartheid is o Holiday protest at the World Travel Ma"ko trom Patrick Heseltine of They were subsequently the Foreign and Common. ordered by Pretoria not to wealth Office attacking return to Britain to face Margaret Thatcher for her trial, while five British double standards on citizens who were also 'terrorism' and pointing out charged in the Coventry that Britain took no action case were convicted. The in 1984 when four South British government did Africans were charged for nothing. As Heseltine wrote, offences against the arms 'Mrs Thatcher failed to embargo. denounce Mr Botha's refusal A subsequent Guardian to surrender the four "terroreport charged that there rists".' had been British government collusion in getting the four back to South Africa just prior to the visit of P W W Botha to London in June World Campaign against 1984. They had been on bail Military and Nuclear and through a special high Collaboration with South court hearing were able to Africa, PO Box 2, regain their passports and Lindeberg Gard, N-I007 depart for South Africa, Oslo 10, Norway with the ball - put up by Tel: 010-472 301345 the first secretary of the Fax: 010472 303381 South African embassy in Telex: 72314 AAMN London - increased from Telegromms: Antiapartheid £100,000 to £400,000. Oslo. Apartheid's fellow travellers Anti-apastheid campaigners took the orgenisms f thu World Tre" Mdkdt at Olympia, London, by brprise on3 Deceombehers they staged both a picket und a sit-down protest. Their aim waste highlight South Africa's participation in the tourism exhibition, the'imgest of its kind in the world. In Boycott Apartheid '89, the AAM planst: * Ioate Sooth Africa from the international toad= scene byParsuadiog the company which rnsthe World Travel Market, Reed Exhibitions Ltd. to cse inviting the apartheid rgime. I Exposethe British tour operatorswho areignorn the switary ban an the 1 promsewonof toeeismto Soth Af rica. I SSth mit aitn of tseh c compaie"s for onsideration y tholemgleg eflhee Cornalthdsf Forign Ministeet conto group in Haoerem in February. Foglowing reprts in they lent honue of'Ant-Apartheid Onus' andsleerelon the media 'that the Associatin of Britis Travel Aye nto(ABTA) wassnsidaring holdhng a ceevemsian in Seouth Africa, floods of pretestletters veere met to ABTA end to the Btriiahgevement. Ina miguous reply, ABTA sengltte, eect criticisn byaying its nexconventin [would be i Meie, and implying that the protests were hued on misinfornation. But presed by persistent critis, ABTA hen refused to give an undertking that no future onmention will be staged in South Africa. Flying low Advertiements for South African AirNays shown by ITV prevoked a nomher of siewers to wrto to the Independent Broadcasting Atherity to complain. The chtir of the IBA. Lord Thomson, replied thatthaidert 'hs now finished its cycle of transmissions and I understand that it is unlikely to return in the form in which you saw it' in otherwords, the offending ad has heewithdrawn. He went on to say, 'I understand that it is the polity of oll the [TV companies to comply with the government's request fora voluntary ban by British bsinm on the promotion of tourism to Soauth Africa. 'In the cute of the advertisent to which you roter, themteppsrto have bun some doubt asto whether or notit was busine traul alo ore combination of business sod private travel which was being promnoted,' Lord Thosson's conduding commtens revealed that phone rolls and -Ier of protest are taken seriously: "1 em advised that the ITV ompaiels will be taking inteacount eaclions from viewersnthis aspect when consderieg future adertisig proposais,"

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 FEBRUARY 18 3 The doocrotic movement in South Africa o growing stronger and spreading wider eary day On the road to liberation In an address to mark the 77th 'The contingent of word annivrsaryof the ANC on forcs enpaged inthe anti8 January, its president, Oliver apartheid strugle has grown Tombo, declared 1989 the Year both in numbrandofMssActionforPeople's effectiveness.Increasingly,thePower. ANCis recognitd as th 'Today's anniversary ushers altereotis power. in taelast 12 ontheof. th depth of decadewichwe,toether, the nl-etbracmbn criis efflicting deignte asthe Decadeof theobapart d ln que. Its disnce we have travewled on progrommer have oneafter the rood to liberetin, we need amother crmbled in the foce of to set ourelves taskswhnse the people's rsoltoe march. For accomplitsmnts ll brio us the mist ngime, the 180swil never t this cherithed got. 9o don in history as decade 'Umkhonto we Siw (tis of ear-deapen g crisis, armed wingoftheANC)is 'The1980shaveseenus daveloping into an effective mostr the most gigntic, ermy of the people - its argaeed and active political cowbntts, together with the form for the liberation of our rnvofettonry mosses, deliverlg montherland. The townships tnd on and m eoffective blows the workiplaei, the schsols and against the regime. the universities.the cbuches, Free at last! Dan Tjongarere.SWAPO choir and Nowibian Commnictions Cetre director of iofonotio,, esbrece sJosn Angloc after his rlow an S December mosques nd tsmples, and the vsilanod forestbeecome important sitos of struggle for the eradication of racial tyranny. Turning to the internatioael conteat President Tambo said: 'A more favoureble climte has boo hceted by the victories that theps siveovent hs esaed with the siig of' the egraeoonts concerning Angola and Namibia. The very contrast between the perspectives contained in thoue agrneemants on the ane hand and the worsening situation in South Africa and the continuing aggression against the indepeendt states of our region en the other, ilustraes the urgeat ned for the world commnity to act to end the apartheid system now.' After 14 months in solitary confinement, Jason Angola, staff member of the Council of Churhes in Naissibla and SWAPO secretary forlabour, was released on 5 December. Angulla was imprisoned without trial in October 1987, under two security laws of South Africa's government in Namibia, AG9 and the Terrorism Act. 'They stole over one year of my life,' said Angul. 'They applied psychological torture. They tortured me with the cell, at Osre, their sort of concentration camp.' As a result he has lost weight and is suffering from severe rcurrgisghendaches. Angola was kept in an isolated 4ft by 8ft metal hut for the entire detention. He wns not allowed to se or talk to anyone except his guortds and interrogator. 'The conditions were bad. In winter I thought I was NEWS OFOM SOUmHERN AFRICA Keeping Namibian issues on the political agenda Delegstions fno all ever the country, same preventing constitaney petitions, took part in the AAM's'Frno Nemibia Nol' Lobby of Parliemant on 7 Decemaber. The Lobby wa aimed at ensring that the issue of Namiben independence maintain a high profile on the British padiamentary agenda. Thesoncens raised withMePs at the Lobby have not lessened in thik significanca Sice 7 Decimber: * South Africa must nt ressge an itha eosraotto inpoiseet the UN pin fer Nemilbia's indepeanece, and Briten and the international community Must act to ensure this. o gbuaoevigioomstkbe maintained when the Implementation of the UN plan nmmenco to ensure that South Africa strictly corrns out hts rspaondbilities. The Britith gveemnt mnst intersas effectively to soure tip hmmedwi.te release f oi Namibian political prisoners and detainees. 0 MPs mstsuppart Namibia's territorial integrity, and in particulre insist that the Britih government maintins its policy thot Walis Bay lan Integral part of Newibse in determined by UN Security Council resolution 432. * The and fora positive policy of British aid for a postindependence Naumbli. going to die& I felt the freezing cold in my feet coming up my body; I was surprised myself to find the next days that I survived.' Angula said that in the summer he sweated continually in thecrampedquarter. 'They did not even allow me any exercise, they just kept me there like an animal. The only thing that they gae me at least was a bible, which was my food all the time,' he said. Angela's lawyers had been wtrned continually that he was to be charged with involvement in bombings and other activities of PLAN, SWAPO's military wing. 'At last I am free again, but for how long I do not know, berause they did not say anything. Does this mean that now I am al free, or will they come again? I don't know.' Young people in Namibia demd that there ate no forther delays in the implnetatioan of roonatin 435 for their country's independence * These concens we echod by the issues of the Lobbyis still arange of speakers who otant: it is hGpe lecalAA ddrvesed lobbyist at the House groups and otherswho were of Commons, including David unbis to attend the Lobby in Owen MP, Roy Hattersiy MP, perso will vidt their Mls AAM president Archbishop sMgwy. Huddlestoo, SWAPO chief Responses arerequired by reprosentative Shapoa the nd of Februaryso that by Kakungua,andAnton thedate set for implementation Lubowski,alendingNamibia ofUNresolution435,1April,lawyer. alMPsbaebnnlobbied eand MPs' responses to their position identified. Extra questionnaires distributed at the copies of the questionnaia, Lobby will give a breakdown of briefing documents and further parlaenstary support for information am availblefrom Namibl's independence. Roing ,aren Talbot at the AAM HQ, Heroes remembered The annual' elebration of South African Heroes Day in London on 16 December paid special tribute to JohUtny Makaini, the director of the African National Congreas international affairs department who died in Lusaka on 3 December after a short illness. Francis Melt, head of external publicity for the ANC and editor of Sechaba said that 'the prestige of the ANC internationally has never been so high, thanks to the work of people like Johnny'. Personal fame and aggrandisement had meant nothing to Johnny, Francis Mel said, aentiment echoed by Mike Terry of the AAM,who recalled Johnny Makatini's tireless work, despise flineas, t an internstional coniference in Lagos only weeks before his death, Bishop Huddestos, AAM president, sent a personal message of condolence to the Heroes Day meeting, remembering Johnny's visits to speak at AAM national demonstrations in 198. and 1987. Ken Gill, MSF general secretary, brought the support of British trade unionists to the Heroes Day meeting, which was chaired by Nkozasana Dlamini of the ANC. ANC deputy chief repre. tentative in Britain Billy Masetisa gave the keynote speech, pointing Gut that the bet known of all the heroes of the South African strug5, Nelson Mendel., was now more isolated by his Iallers than ever before it hi longye r of imprisonment, despite alleged moves towards freedom.

4 ANTI-APARTiEIDNEWS 0 FEBRUARY 1989 NEWS OFROM SOUTHERN AFRICA ANC loses gifted diplomat Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makatini, known to the world as 'Johnny', was a longstanding member of the national executive committee of the African National Congress as well as head of the ANC's department of international affairs. He died on 3 December 1988 In Lusaka, Zambia, after being admitted to hospital with complications arising from a diabetic condition. Johnny, born on 8 Febmay 1932 In Durhan, South Africa, attended high school at , , and went on in train as a teacher. He soon became active in organised oppoitlion to the bantu education system, and resigned. from the teaching profession rather than serve under it. Johnny began to devote his time to the ANC as a youth and tudent organiser around Durban and in ral Natal. In 1962 he was among the first group of volunteers tom Natal lobe sent out of the country for military training, In Morocco, Johnnytook on the task of receiving new groups of trainees, so beginning a long and proud record of diplomatic work as ANC representative in countries around the world. In 1963, Johnny was transferred to the ANC's mission in newly independent Algeria, and in 1966 became chief representative there. In 1974, he became a member of the ANC national executive and in 1977 was appointed head of the ANC mission to the United Nations in New York. In 1985, two years after his appointment as head of the ANC international affairs department, Johnny was transferred to Lusaeka. From here, he continued to work tirelessly and to travel ceaselessly on the liberatlon movement's business. Johnny Makatini gave his whole life to the service of his country and people, and his death leaves a gap which will be difficult to fill. He is survived by his Wife, Valerie, and a 5-yer-old daughter, NandiL UDF go on international mission Theoely tWO United the sentas of the Sherpesilne Demosratic Front (UF) leaders Sis and the release of eme nt currendy detained or poltiis prisoers. restrirted vised d Londsn US lhs 'But our expeiene is quite beginnis of Ja ery as psrt of different. Reprenion inside a tour to brief the ltmUartioel South Africa is at its height, communityon the mas svsymouth it becomes harsher. democraticmovementinSouth BetweenChristmasandtheNewAfrica. Year,fourmore arganisations Murphy Mrohe, UDF ating were banned - the Western publicity secretary, and Cape Teachers' Union, the Mohammed Vali, U DF acting Democratic Techers' Union goaeral reorwry, were en their the Western Cape Studeats' way to the USA md hod already Congress and the National held meetings in Sweden and Detainees' Foun. Holand with forcin ministries, 'But this was not widely MPs snd soldWityerposwhions. reported, and the regime is very In the UK, Memohe end Vain deerly creting a false had an in-deptl discussion with impreso here. The pressure to Lynda Chelkr, minister fosto end apartheid mst continue In for foreign end commonwealth 1989 mo then asr.' sffkn, nn Bridth poliyto, rds He amphhnsed that Itwas Sethe. Africa. The UDF important as rslsethat Prateri isdenrn ad theywm gid to bad egpedto thehave e te briefP. Chalker, but that it was 'still eary days to think of policy changes. More matingm Ie needd for the Brfit governmt to chog their position, More optimistimly, Momhe added: 'Them is a grot das of trbulene at the le d Offreign pelicy diisons interntionally, perhps amarmlt of stless, is there shudd be someom initistives in l9B'" Mohammed Vain said that in Europe there was en impreiss n that the regime ws nodgaing some kind of liheralsta because of the commutation of "Marphy Mamnbe of the OFe implementation of resolution 435 for the independence of NamIbis 'net because of a change of hert, but because of iUternstionalprsmre and the struggles of the Nemiian peaple themselves'. Morobeand Valitook refuge from contine[ deotion in the US consulate in Durhan for five weeks during 1987 end were eventually allowed to walk res after an endertaking from the government that they mauM set he cedtaind. Aherdn they trvld ereand South Africa. 'We found that not only has the democratic movenset survied the meve repression of the hat three years undera ests of smergasy, but support for it has actually rs.' The UDOF leaders condemned the outcome of the Delmas treassn tria in which 11 people were fosnd guilty. The included Poop Moleft, UDF general secretary, and Patrick Lekua,UDF publicity secretary, who waye sentenced to 10 and 12 yam. The US government condemned the sentencing, but from the BriUth government there hes bean only silencer. They say they do not want to interfere in South Africars legal proesses, but this was not a fair trial, it was a political decision to find them guilty.' Cailing for British action on the cam, Murphy Morohe sadd, TheSherpovilleSix henopoisted the way in which sufficient poliead pressure does hrean effect on the regime.' jonosu rm ois e esne a m n s snme nrew demromlrmtion in October 1987 Message to PLO SWAPO has recognised and welcomed the independent state of Palestine and called on Israel to strive to co.exist with the new state in peace and good neighbouriness. In a congtttlatory message to Paestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) chair Yasser Arafat, SWAPO president Sam Nujoma described the PLO's preclamotion last November as 'wise and bold'. 'In particular it is a fitting tribute and crown to. the current phase of the struggle', or 'Intifada', in the occupied territories of the West Bank, Gaza and Jeru *am, Nujorom mid. Commission moves against South African gold The WorldGoldCommission massive profits of the goldwill be supporting Boycott mining companies and Apartheid '89 by arranging ancillary industries. for a selection of non-South This bonanza for the African gold products to be racist regime has not gone made available to jewellery unchallenged by the Antipurchasers. ApartheidMovement.The World Gold Commission by Peter Robbins was launched in June 1988 following a meeting in Designs fortheseproducts London of representatives will be chosen by a competi- of the African National tion to be arranged by the Congress, End Loans to Commission for art and Southern Africa (ELTSA), jewellerystudents. SWAPO and the British South Africa's revenue AAM. from the sale of gold The Commission has amounts to US$10 billion alaunched initiatives on year and represents almost several fronts. ftidetailed half of its total export research on the optimum earsings- methodsof imposing a gold A quater of the apart- sanctions against South held government's tax Aftriahas been circulated In revenue comes from the the United Nations, the European Community, the Commonwalth and to individual governments. US senatorEdward Kennedy has since instigated a research programme into possible US gold sanctions. The Commission was invited by the three Italian trades union federations to investigate the Italian jewelery industry, the largest in the world. It purchases almost a third of all South Africa's gold but buys almost none from the other major gold-producing countries. This investigation included a mecting with representatives of the jewellery factory owners and his resulted in an agree- ment to look for suitable newsosurces of gold. South African mining companies promote their gold sales througha secretive organisation called the World Gold Council. The Commirssion has received leaked internal documents of this organisation and has been able to expose its methods and history in international metal trade ouais. For a booklet on the aims of the Commission and the detoils of gold sanctions, priced at 1.50, and a report The Italian Jewellery lndastry - Apartheid's Bigest Causfover, at g1.00, please write to The World Gold Commission, 13 Mandela Street, London NW1 0DW. I ------

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 6 FEBRUARY 1989 5 ACTION OFOR SANCTIONS Cutting the links with South Africa While other countries have cut down their trade with South Africa, British imports from the apartheid state actually increased last year, Recently Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland have stopped buying apartheid produce, and the US has banned fruit, vegetables and other South African goods. In 1988, British imports from South Africa, which had been falling steadily since 1985, rose by 21% in value and exports rose by 18%. A large proportion of the growth in exports is made up of machinery, tools and electronic goods such as data processing equipment. Fruit and vegetable imports have risen by5% and textile fibres by a staggering 60%. But 75% of thr increase in imports is accounted for by the huge rise in the value of non. ferrous metal imports, parti. cularly platinum and copper. In a speech to mark the 77th anniversary of the ANC on 8 January, President said, 'It is of the greatest importance that the biggest possible campaigns should be launched in the major western coun. tries to oblige their governments to impose further and more meaningful economic sanctions, tighten the arms embargo and adopt other measures for the greater isolation of apartheid South Africa.' Now is the time to join Boycott Apartheid 89 and consumers can rnake a stand right away by boycotting South African deciduous fruit- apples, grapes, pears, plums, apricots, peaches and Consgold enquiry broadens its scope The two players in Britain's largest-oer takeover bid, Minorco an& Consofidatad Gold Fields, both gave evidence to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) in eady January es the commission unexpectedly broadened ther scope of its enquiry to cover issues raised by Minsro'sSeath African pareatage. The original grounds on which the takeover was referred to the MMC at the end of Omoher wers its monopoly plimgtieos fer the supply of the minerals, titanium and ziron. Atthat time analysis queslioned whether thiswas meely an csol a takover hidhich bad ecmve, a hne pqislaal entremseseet for the governmet because of the apartheid links of both companies. Consolidated Gold Fields controls the second largest gold mining boeuse in South Africa, while Minorco is part of the Angle American .Corporation of South Africa, the largest cnglomerate in the apartheid economy. The AAM had strongly opposed Minorco's £2.9 billion takeover attempt, aveng t e ea potentilly massive intrusion of South African capital into Britain tht would hightn the political influnce of Souh African interests end which would proide a base for The MMC's deciionto widen it enquiry demunarates the Soth Africas pelitical enacceptability has becnme a major factor in business equations, The dameq which disinvestmeet end bycot campaigns do to cnwpanies with apartheid links cannoth ignoredby firms end the government alike. Just such a prlen arose for Chemical Bok of re York, one of thefimnc houses which lent Minorco the oney to bunch its bid. Under pressure from the New York City penion fund, which theatened to withdraw its cosiderable funds from the bank, Chemical has given a commitment to 'not entr again into thistype of loan', a statement whck, dspite itsuwhiqigey, makesthehbank's scomfitureat bengasciated withMnorcnquit* n r. nectarines. Cape's promotional drive for these fruit starts in February, and its peak marketing period is March-April. Shoppers ae asked to monitor what South Atrican goods are available in their shops and pass the informs- Members of End Loan to Southern Africa (ELTSA) dressed up s doctoastorepreseto Swissehaks tion on to their local AA giving e lifieing iejectionta pW Baths. ELTSA was protecting outsde thle Swiss Valkshak in group and to the Consumer London whic is the paying agent for 10 Swim hanks making the first known Swiss export of csaitl Boycott Unit at AAM HQ to the South African governmeat for three yas. ELTSA can be contacted 0n tlh81-708 4702. which will keep a Report Apartheid Products (RAP) If she0osot M dlacnertprofits renister and a list of apart, cone rt pR1 heid-ree shops. Oneofthehigh f aga t theyearwillbetheycottlaid f against Apartheid 89 Festival on29JulyatAlexandra a artheid London. This will be a whole day of entertainment and political activity, including The huge Nelson Mandela So the surplus to date is Freedomat 70 Campaign, as prominent speakers from 70th Birthday Tribute at £1.2m, although some addi- well as being the most Southern Africa, susiciana, Wembley Stadium on 11 tional income is also due ambitious campaign ever comedians, stalls, exhibi. June was undoubtedly an during 1989. This surplus mounted by the Movement, tions, a far, and a concer outstanding event that has been divided between was the most expensive. The captured the imagination of millions across the world. But as well as its political impact, the cdncert was intended as a. ftsnuaising event. by Suresh Kameth From the outset it was agreed by Artists Against Apartheid and the AAM that any financial surplus would be split: 50% to the AAM to finance the Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70 Campaign, and 50% to children's projects in Southern Africa, to help those most affected by the horrors of apartheid. The total income frm the concert, including ticket sales, TV and radio fees and merchandising, came to £3.45 million. Expenditure, inchsding costs of the venue, advertising, bands' expees, production and administration, totalled £2.25m. the AAM and seven agencies. who, once they have reclaimed tax, will have benefited by £800,000. These agencies are; the Caitholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Christian Aid, the Save the Children Fund, Oxfam, IDAF (who will spend their sham on the Sol Plastje Educational Trust), War on Want and the Bishop Ambrose Reeves Trust (BART). Projects being funded include: the Fund for War Victims in Mozambique, Food Aid for Creches and an Abandoned Children's Centre in Angola. Freedom Productions, the company set up by the AAM to provide legal and financial back-up~ for the Wembley concert, In the other hand, has, no charit. able status. Once corpora. tion tax has beea paid, the AAM receives £390,000. . The -Nelson Mandela: Focusing on women The 1989 March Month of Executions'. Action is aimed to mobilize The Month of Actionwfll British women to take up include marches, pickets, the issue of apartheid. By conferences, public meetimaking links between local ings, fuodrising and AA groups and women's material aid collections, so organbaatinns, the struggles local AA groups should start ofwomen in SouthernAfrica planning now. These activican be publicised. ties will be followed up by a It is hoped that more national conference later in women than ever before will the year. A part-time become involved in AAM wolnrei'a organler is to be campaigns, focuasing thisr appointed tn back up the yea on Boycott Apartheid campaign. 89 and 'No Apartheid A report prIeened to the campaign cost approximately £400,000, including the costs of the Glasgow and Hyde Park rallies, the Freedom March, publicity adid advieftising, adiionial staff and administration overheads. At a ceremony in the Africa Centre on 15 December, attended by Mandela's lawyer Ismail Ayob, Arch. bishop Huddleston handed over cheques to representatives of the seven agencies and the AAM. All the speakers stressed that the campaign for the unconditional release of Mandela and all other political prisoners and detaiineesamust conutinue. Suresh Kamy hs a vice-chlroftheAAM asechia of Freedom PNduti.ona Ltd. AAM AGM, aswell assetting out these plans, examines the role of wonen in the AAM. The report criticises the lack of equal representation in many of the structures of the Moveent, and urges all AA struc. tures to consider how to Invlve mor men in the decision-rbaking processe. Co ie of the 'Mobtllsing Women Againat Apartheid' report are available free fromf the AA?4. !------

6 ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS FEBRUARY 1989 ISLAM'CALLS FOR FREEDOM force in boUtt ArIce.Antd in the last five years aMuslim grouping has emerged that identifies with the oppressed, not in degree but in principle, and works with all Muslims and nonMuslims whose ideal is a free, non-racial, non4exist, united, democratic and nuclear-free South Africa. The Call of Islam has spearheaded this movement, describing its role as enabling Muslims in South Africa to help build 'the house of national democracy [within which] there is room for the family of Islam'. It was formed in 1983 (taking Its cue from a shortlived namesake of 1961 which -united Muslims In protest at the Group Arms Act) by Imram Hassamo Solomon, Ebrahlm Rasool, Mouana Farld Eack, Adi Jacobs and Shamiel Manie, in Cape Town. Since the enforced flight from South Africa of Imam Solomon in 1985 and the detention of Rasool, the energies and eloquence of Moulana Farid have been in global demand. At just 31, and known for his work as vice president of the National Union of South African Students and as the only Western Cape UDF executive member orestricted ('they think .l I ever do Is talk'), be forcefully articulates the Calr of Islam's rdical perspective no the struggle for liberation and for justice for all life on earth. When he delivered the Canon Colhs Memorial Lecure in London inDecember(atthestartofa10- week international tour with Jacobs), Moulana Farid acknowledged the crushing system that is. omnipotent. We are at this very moment> in the process of winning.. Not only are we going In some future sense to see a new South Africa, but it is being built right now! Interviewed- In Cape Town last year, Moulana Farid explained how important It was that progressive Muslim movements confront questions about ecology, conservstion,sexual equality, peace and wildlife protec tion. Such questions are 'burning, not bourgeois', he said, because religious and political leadership must help the masses establish what this new South Africa is going to be. 'For example, the idea of the freedom of women is alien to most of our women, especially in the rural areas. If you want to say the masses must determine the whole nature of the struggle, then the masses still desire the oppression of women; even women don't all want women's rights. 'If, because of social onditions, people have become used to oppression, if the liberation of women is not on the agenda of the people, that doesn't mean you must not put It there! Political leadership means marrying the highest ideological principles with realities.' An holistic approach to religion, politics, society and the environment is one of the major offerings of Call of Islam to the struggle. Working through the Koran In the townships of the Western Cape, or through the universities and political organisations across South Africa, it hasachieved an influence disproportionate to its numbers. o-ai rop _ m, me -ul sn DRIVE FOR UNITY IS UNCHECKED The apartheid regime's state of emergency wastargeted at opponents of apartheid. But in spite of eatensiee repruesion, guerrillaettacksareatenall-time high, the mass democeatic movement has wn ever new allies and white politics ae mare pelrised than aver. by a special correspondent TheSouth African authritis have admitted that neary 300 guerilla attacks taok place in 1988, almost one attack every day of the year. In October last year, during the boycott of the rstionwide municipal elections, an attack took place every 14 hours. Government statistics are sstoaously unreliable, hawever, and the real figures arm almost certainly higher. The number of guerrillas infiltrting late South Africa has subtatally increased. The ANC ays that nearly 400 members of its aray, Umkhoto we Slime, erssed the border during the first six manths of last year. The same numberwee trained inside South Afria. Extre-pariamatary apposien activity has nt oppaed, despite the media silence. The acting geanmi scretary of the United Demrscrati Front (UlF), Mohammed Valli, aend the acting publicity secretary, Murphy Morebe, say that although the UOF structures have basa werakeed hy tha state of omeegeesy, they me- smlaehd a the streqth of contilng suppoa for the movement. Thee giuated to the arganited opposition to last year'smusniipal dections (rsetling in only a 10% toent), the July staywoy and the preparations for a hroad sati-apartheid conference in September. The Septemh conference was tohave hen held in Cape Tmou, but ws henned before it arted It premised to beoa mihstone In eti-aperthid activity. The COSATU oranisers plenased to draw together as wide a mnog ef oppsition groups as pssile, fees the UOF and its affiliates to the white MPs of the National Demeoatic Movement. One week before the asnss, 20 activists were detained end at lea sven trade union offlciis had restriction orders served on them, in a bid to %wreck' the conference, as police sources put it. The 79 orgniutions invited included church groups, youth and student groups, civic associations, eand trade unions, including the Post and Teleso mmunisatios Workers' Associatie (POTWA). The two federations, the Congrss of South Afrien Trade Unions (COSATO) and the Nationl Congress of Trade Unions (NACTU),would she have taken part, Delegates from the Transkei, Bophuthatswana and KaNgwane hertosuas planned to tend, s wll as onsecrte business orgeniations like the National African Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC) snd the leas African Black Taxi Association (SAeTA). The caonmacems to baan focusd on two themes: unity eand rgnetiesion ageinst repression, end eas person, ane vote in a demeceatic South Africa. Isses which would hem heen discussed included the oeutlwing and crimiaisstion of the mass democratic movement, igileauts end death squads, the assault on trade union rights from the new Labour Resations Amuedment Act, the municipal elections and the hoesing crisis. In spite of the banning, discussion an weysof building unity were hold at a large number of aaoa is the Western Cape. At a press conferenahld after the banning, repfseatatives from many of the otgeokntins committed themseve to contining to strive for unity. The eliese of Nelson Meadela is central to a current religment of anti-aparhid forces, There are pleas to set up reception committees in anticipation of his relsse. Activists ae plannig to make Moadela's release the foces of a broad eeti-npothaid elliasce, providinge replasment for the banned Cape Town madhossiMc I Wis defection to the far right and growing unity o atfiracist forces, the apartheid gevesnmeut is in trouble. Bathe has to releaso Nelson Meadola if he wishes to encourage black fignm like Bothai to take part in his ew censtitutional planning body, the National Statutory Council. Bothi' supporters Thatcher and the US Republicans - will then be able to claim that Mandeb's release vindicates their heads-off approach to South Africa. But Maadela's release will provide tremendous mpats to the unity and slgour of antiapartheid forces, and m* wll accelerate the modus of whites to the for right. -L ad ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 FEBRUARY 1189 7 WOMEN SAY 'WE'LL FIGHT TO THE END' Change is coming from many directions in South Africa, and one of the strongest forces for greasroots change is the growing number of women's organisations: In a small garage in , one of Johannesburgs black townships, we met some 20 women with five sewing machines and a small bucket of home-made cakes they sold to raise f.ods. One explained to us: 'We are here to unite our. selves as women. We are here to make ends meet. If you are only one, you can't think constructive thoughts, but you have to mee together and share ideas. We started with nothing and had to ask ourselves as women what we can do to build ourselves up.' bye special correspondent In another group nearby, where thewomen made blouses for political rallies and decorative bags from cabbage sacks, we were told: 'Nearly all of us have preschool children. We have to learn together and it's very interesting. When we started it looked as if we didn't have any confidence. But when you say "let me do this and finish it", you can get your own feeling of reward and satisfaction.' These sewing groups, along with crechesforbabies and children of working mothers, are part of a range of community activities in Soweto organhed by the Federation= of Transvaal Women (Fedtaw). The grasroots groups, reaching out to thousands of as yet unpoliticised women across the country, ae a response by community organiations to increased repression, includlitg detenstion of commumity leaders and hamming of any peacefll organisations.Womenare at the forefront of moves to widen and strengthen opposition to apartheid across the generatios and to new people unused to direct action. The Soweto women elsn organlue help when one of their members is unemployed, destitute, or attacked. They visit children in detention and death row prisoners 'as a group of mothe'. And morale is high - the visit to the sewing group ended with the group, grannies and all, dancing into the street loudly hymning Umkhonto we Stow. South Africa's church women are adding their support. At Bloerfontein, 2,000 attended the launch of the Ecumenical Decade for Women whose slogan, 'The Churches hn Solidarity with Women', indicates its aim to coordinate with women in trades unions and the community. British charities are helping with this work. For example, Christian Aid last year gave £25,000 to the training and literacy programmes of the South African Domestic Workers' Union. A further £10,000 went from Christian Aid to provide a vehicle and literacy trainfg to women fannworkers in the white-owned farms of the Orange Free State. The formworkers and their children depend entirely on the will of their 'beas' for health, education, food, accommodation and saps contact with the A side world. The apartheid state has already recognised the key role women are playing in the struggle and reserved some of its most vicious repression for women. Women detainees often fare extra problems such as cape, sexual assault, lack of sanitary provision and worries about who is looking after their families. Women have even had to give irth in jail, or suffered abortions as a direct result of torture. Cape Town church worker Buyiswa Jack, who worked with many threatened squatter communities, is typical. She has been held, with no visila from family, lawyer o her own doector, since 15 November. She is bringing up her children on her own, and her 2-year-old son is now nearly frantic. Despite such repression, the women of South Africa are on the mov again in their millions. Through traes u ios, throughccm. as Fedtraw and the Natal Organisation of Women, and through ever-growing church unity, a force for change has been relesed that noamountofrepression will ever stop. ELECTION THREAT The Uniter Natlans pln for rhe independenea of Namilbie may he jepas isa by discauseins among the fie permanent members of tie Serity Council. Cumaet proposals coulM lead to cats in the numbers of UN forces monitoring the implesentatlon of the plan. Soth Africa, with British and US ceaeneane, is spearheading a MW te tat the militery campanent of UNTAG (theUN Transitianal Assistance Group responsible for owreeing Preteria's military withdrmal) from the 7,500 agreed in 1978 to a mere 3,000. A paring down of the UN civilian team for the elections, supposed to tetal at least 1,000 plus 360 police, is also a possibility. A leen diplmatic battle, virtealy ignrod by the Briidsh media, has been wagnd in the UN. Strong opposition by SWAPO, the Fros Lia Stae and Ceia stived off any cats snd rPr deced n temporary compromse.On 16 Jaay the UN Secnuriy Conilppmnd resolusion 639 which mratfiraed UNSCR3aexpre coaniern at theicsrease in police ad paramilitary form, and referred specifically to the South West African Territory Forme (SWATF) which the regime established after the UN pln was agreed in 1978. Bnt the same resolution se opened the doer to reductions, by reqaesting ths UN secretary general, in reporting an implementation of UNSCA 435, to: 'Raeasamine reqairements necaesy for UNTAG in arder to identify wherever possible tangibla cost-saving measures without prejedice t his ability fnlly to carry out its mandate..' The AAM has written to the foreign ministers f the fire permanent members opposing any proposed cuts and seeking meatings with their diplomatic repsatarone Maunwhile, South Africa is continuing to conscript thousands of Young Namibias into the SWATF, despite widespread prtss. Under resslutin 435, South Africa is required te withdrew from Namiba and the SWATF isto be disbanded. David Smuts, lediag Namibian lawyer, said the reent cag-ap was'ldicro. One questies whether this conescrption is fer political (sm m - to that young Namibis ca eshbjectled to military propagasea.' In another ominous move, US president George Bush has written to Jones Saimbi of Unia promising continued military and diplomaticsspport Mr oabw rethat his gnvernmet wand 'cantinue al epprepriatesd effective ssista"ce't Unita until e negotiated settlemeat had besn reached in Angola. Aides to Bash admitted that this 'assistens' wauld include a continuation of USarmsahipments to Unita worth $5es a year. The nheadoubt that Prtriawilli ain its poerto make SWAPOs election campaign as dif lt sp b by intimidation f voters end deteatisn ef ectvisa. It is essantial that themidest possible support for free and fair aetions is asebilisd internationally, end that any violations of resolution 436 by South Africa are exposed. Solidarity rgaisoerns will need to makemanive efforts to raise the money necessary to fund SWAPO'selectian caompigln. A key issue is that Wels Bay must be established as ea integral part of Namibia as confirmed by US Security council resalution 432. South Africa illegally anexed Weih Bay, Nanibia's anly depwster part, In 1977 and maintains a military base there, if Prtors's occupation is allowed to continue in independent Namibia, South Africa's presence would poew a formidable threat to the terrisary's sovereignty. Representaties trees the ANC ad SWAPO were praesews h abequres for £S,B hb at Ealing AA's celaseata oft Namtwts Women's Day on 10 Decembser. The money was manly raised by th Southllfetival in Jue pluscoanntrosfro e ars n d~* loeal orgassations. itwi l help fund a school in Tanzania mad os in the CePo.

I ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * FEBRUARY 19089 SOLIDARITY *WTH THE WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA & NAMIBIA State ignores contradictory evidence Threemembersof the South Africa Transport and General W orM , Unoend an Wqhe, naimlm - a unemapoyed formaeber of theTGWUanewsittinqon deth raw in Seth Africawich sno right of appel, evethough thieyww. cenicted on John h ias hai. Bellied Sabdo and Willmm Khsmayu, were found guilty of murdering a bus driver during the October/ Novesher 1986 P.te bus strike. The state clits that three of the drivers hired the unemployed Khuolwayo to kill a the following day. He had driver whowasw oring during already reortedthistothethestrike ile.Afirearmfoandat Oespite contradictory iSabeale' house did not match up evidence. the judge decidedtha with billts and cartridg s Khomayofiled the foar fatal involved inthe crime. shots. Thefacttht the three The International Transport others did notpullthetrigger Workers' Federatien has issued a did eet make thee gey los orldwide appeaon beafef guiity, accordi toJstie Van thefour. LewyererepetitioningHilsuden. againstthejudge's refusal to A polirewiteess claimed to allew an appeal. note the registration numb" of In another case an appeal by Nguibo's car at the tcone, but a Commesrcial Catering aend Allied teacher noted a different Workers' Union of South Africa number. Ngubo s car was stolen member William Ntomhela at the tioe and only covered einst the death senn.n ha Sttersld NUbo, TGWU Johannes Bthalezi, TGWU shop member steward Mystery death of activist Hzuzwana Yure Mdyogolo, the general secretary of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU), died recently under mysterious ciemstances in a 'fall' from the fifth floor of his flat. Yule had along record of trade union activism. He joined NEHAWU in 1980 and participated in the Wilson Rowntree strike which continued for over two years. He served in a number of union positions before becoming general secretary, and served on the executive of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Disinvestment victory for AAM Following reprtentatlons owned by the union, is from the AAM, NALGO has closely aesociedte with it. sold shares worth around The companies ar GEC, £7 million in 10 companies. Plesey, Racal, STC, BTR, Of this, £3.8m was in the BOC, IC, Trafalgar House, union's own superannuatton Guardian Royal Exchasge find and the mst in NALGO and BAT. Insrance which, while not failed. His union has latuched an international campaign to stop his execution. Already the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in this country hes been in contact with the AAM trade nion cemittee and SATIS Joint Campaign Against the Repreesion of Trade Unionists in eth Africa and Namibia in order to step op their efforts on behalf of Ntomlel. For further details about both cases please contact the Joint Campeigne at 13 Mandela qr-t_ BethuSokel, TGWU member VusummziWilliam Kiaawyo International campaigns win releases HARRYGWALA announcedthattheANO After more than 10 years in had honoured him with its prison, trade union veteran highest awatrd, the has been Isitwalandwe-seaparankoe. released. Harry, who is suffering from the terminal ALEXANDRA FIVE motor neurone disease, was In D-cember 1988, the the subject of a najor cam- defendtis in the Alexandra psigo, hoth inside Sooth Five trial weere pranted bail. Africa and internationally, This is an important cmoe to obtain his release. In this and itvolves the general country the campaign was secritary of the National taken up by Rail Against Union of Metalworkers of Apartheid. South Africa, Moses On his release Harry Mayekiso- The five had stated that he was com- spent over two years in mitted to the aims and custody. The trial reconobjectives of the African mences in February. National Congress. He was first imprisoned from 1964 POTWA to 1972 for promoting the In addition, three members aims of the ANC. On 30 of thePost and Telecosmun November 1975 he was nicatios Worker' Associaarrested on similar charges tion (POTWA), who had and sentenced to life been detained, were released Imprisonment. Before his unconditionally. POTWA imprisonment he was an paid tributes to efforts of executive member of the the National Communica. ANC in Natal and played a tions Union (NCU), the leading role in recrusting Society of Telecom Etecu. members inthe Pietermaritz. tives (STC) and the Unionburgarea. ofCommunicationWorkers Following Harry~s release, (UCW) in obtaining their President Oliver Taai relae. New angle of attack on trade unions A now pattern in the hendling of labour disptes is emerging among some South African companies. Their strategy is to disss workers en masse and then to sue the union for damages for losses suffered as a result of'illeger industrial action. The recent Labour Relations Amendment Act has severely restricted the parameters of egBi aion. Three ulonethat have been singled eot far action are the Food and Allied Workrs Union (FAWU, the Transport end GeneraleWorkers' Union (TGIWU) end the Comanercil Catering and Allied Worker ' Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA). All ar affiliates af the Congress of Soth African Trade Unions (COSATU). The maeson for this common approach is not difficult to find. Each oes of the companies retains the smne industrial relations cnsaumant who allegedly told a TGWU arganiser that hehad clem links with the I FAWUUnd TGWU are heiag sued for R2 millifn and CCAWUSA for R5l00,0 (there are roughly R4 to £1). Despite being sued under the new Act, the FAWU dispute took place two months beforeitwas psed. If the companies succeed, they am unlikely to recover nl their money. British multinationtDlunlop used the some Act to stop a strike in their plants av the secking of bOngani Mkhungo, a shop steard with the National Union of Metalworkersof Soth Africa. Zos Zehe, Western Eumpean cso-ordinator of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), recently called on British trade unns to step op their action to ensure that the pernicious Labour Relations Amendment Act is repealed. The wage gap between black ad white workers widened in almost every sector af the economy during the 12 months up to June 1988, despite claims by both private awd public sector basses that they have abandoned racial discrimination in the warkplace. This emerges fbm recent Staistical Serviecs reflectng. average wages for lack and white workers, Between 1979 - when trde union rights mere first exteaded to black workers - and 1986, the racial wage gap increased from just over R600 to R1,000, and since then this trend has continued. ------I ------=I

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 4 FEBRUARY 108 9 DELMAS TRIAL OUTRAGE As you read this, three leaders of the United Democretic Front will have spent nearly four years in prison in Pretoria - having served just two months of the 12. year sentences they received in December at the end of the marathon Demas treason trial. Jailed for treason with Patrick 'Terror' Lekota, the UDF publicity secretary, Popo Molefe, UDF general secretary, and MossChihane, UDF Transvas secretary, was a Soweto church worker, Tom Manthata, sentenced to six years. Seven of the remaining 15 trlalists were jailed for terrorism and eight were acquitted (three of the original 22 tiesists were released In 1986). by a special correspondent 'Terror' Lekota, in a message from the court, wrote, 'We shall be very proud If you will tell your countrymen- and all those who will car to listen that we are the generation that has been spawned by Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. No price that we are called upon to pay can be above the value of our freedom. 'We carry no regrets, nor bitterness for those who choose to be the obstacles on our path to liberty.' Although there was an international outcry at the sentencing of the Delmas trialists, the British govern. ment has refused to intervene, despite their professed support of non-violent antiaparthad campaigning. Representatives of the UDF in London recently condemned the trial as 'in no way fair', and described the sense of'outrage' widely felt in South Africa The press in South Africa and in Britain reported that the sentencing was 'lenient'. It is bard to know what is lenient about a judicial system that can try people for high treason without a juryand that can find them guilty of plotting to overthrow the state without any evidence of violence or conspiracy on their part. It is hard to know what is lenient about a judge, Mr Justice Kees Van Dijkhoret, who is a member of the secret and who sacks his assessor beceuse he signed the IUD's One Millio Siganatusre canpadgn. This was a judge who referred to"the prosecution as 'our government', a judge who interrupted the defence summing upto ask questios the prosecutors had forgotten during argument. Justice Van Dijkhorst presided over South Africa's longest trial - B1, years, 25,000 pages of documents and 14,000 exhibits of it and then ordered the defence teem to cut short oral argument to meet his deadline. The state argued that the trialists had instigated violence in the Vaal region in 1984 gnd caused the spread of unrest throughout the country as part of a UDF-ANC-Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government by violent revolution. The People's Education for People's Powercampaign was seen as a major threat to law and order, although the UDF argued that its aim was to equip people with the skills and organisatios they would need to contribute fully to a free South Africa, since beat education and the current political structure provide for the opposite. The Delms trialists were sentenced in the same court where Nelson Mandela and his comrades were sentenced to life imprisonment. The judge called the UDF'sdemandsforan end to apartheid a declaration of war on the state. Just as 25 years ago, the court failed to see the defendants were reallymaking a declaration of peace. Long before judgment was passed, the trialisi showed they were happy to -follow in Mandela's footsteps. In a letter from court, the UDF three said, 'It would NO CONSCRIPTION FOR APARTHEID WAR! RELEASE IMPRISONED SA WAR RESISTERS! P.OW STATUS, FlORCApTURED COMBATANTS! WHAT YOU CAN DO 1 Join the pickets in Glasgow on )0th February and in London on 11th February - see Campaign Diary I Phone the SA Consulate in Glasgow2 041 221 3114 and the SA Embassy in Lono a 01-930 4488 Demand a end to conscription in defence of apartheid. Demand the releese of Impdisanel SA war melten . Demand Prlon r of War atatss for Captured gueillss. anecampign Dtary for addresm , 1 01 htene lausa WNW&t cosw, SM Bom rise, London acts 3XX9.w 278 691/1AAM, 13 sI St London NW1 Wla. ft 01W 76/ ABC Sesilal Conntsll, 266 rds S, Gllagow G1 4J8 '041-221 1ns In thelast ten years thousands of British people have madea difference.1 in Central America. X yl-5 _ ...saidArchbishop Romeoonthe W day in March 1980 when he was assassinated, standing up for the rights of the poor and oppressed in Cenral America. In his final sermon be celebrated the fact that everyone, everywhere, had the power to bring about real change. He left the world with a hope and a challenge. Yes - We can all do something! Find out how in Central America Week '89 - April 1-9. r------aPlesesendassderailsoflocaleveatsforConsulArcaI Weekandafelnformatinpat I OLIewlreadewafgt I I I I s.,I I Ceaaloseramadonof 82 5MargsreaSue, Lod WIN &LHPh.ee 06315173 ~ L ------be good for our families and our organistions if we could be released, but that is no longer our immediate conern. Our determination is to see our people take part in the government of our country. 'We shall just keep relentlesly pushing for victory. Them can now be no interest, task or obligation that can or will be allowed to supersede this one goal.' MENDIS PROTEST Following the AGM s unai- minorities committee mous resointion opposing strongly condemned the any attempt to deport AAM government's action. 'Black member Virej Mendis chair people everywhere, in person Bob Hughes MP Britainand abroad, wil see wrote to the home secretary these actions as an attack on asking for a meeting to them - and furtherevidence present the cme for Mr of the racist character of Mendis's right to stay in the Britain's immigrationlawsUK. andpractices.' In an urgent letter to Mr Meeting the day after the Hurd, the committee urged seizure of Viral Mendis from that he stop the deportation the Church of the Ascension, and allow Mr Me to stay the AAMs black and ethnic in tbis enuntry, WHY are food exports a disaster for black people in South Africa? WHICH poisonous chemical is contaminating South African fruit sold in Britain? WHAT official contacts do the South Africans have with the EEC Commission in Brussels? Find out - in February's EVERYWOMAN, out now. £ in your local newsagent or radical bookshop. Everywoinl THE current affairs magazine FORwomen BYwomen. 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10 ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS * FEBRUARY 1989 NEWS 0 'in the Prison of his Days -a Miscellany for Nelson Mandae an his 70th Birthday' is a collection of writing brought together by the Irish AAM. It includas poemn, fition, an intoeviea end e .ays, Many af ticoentributars are Iriskh but thaem ar aisowrits trmEngland, Frnce, Germany, Hungary, Nigeria,the USSR and South Africa. Wrk from Samuel Brkett, Edward Sond, China Achbe, Guntr Grrass and many more aem linkd bythethmm Of imprisamnan, brtality and racism, and the writae's responsibility in a worldwhere state repression seems limitless. Publishod by the Lilliput PrFss, Irland, at £4.995. ISBN 0 94664033 5. 0 'Response tn ti Suth Afrian Escalaiam isathrieae-hour Cuirn docmaNa film af *i victory won by Angolan farces, rappoad by their Cuban allies, over invading South African troops at Cuitn Cuannea in sotrm Angla ealia thisycer. The victory forced the South Africans back to the negotiating tableand lad to the ye-to-hw nimplemented agreement na the Namibian independence plan. The film is available an video in either English or Spanish from Pathfinder Press, 47 The Cut, London SE1 BLL, tel 01. 2611354. Book fund The trustees of the Judy Kimble Memorial Fund have decided to use the annual interest from the fund to buy books forSouth African exiles, to be purchased and distributed by the African National Congress education department. The books will be primarilyin the fields of politicsandwomen's studies, Judy's most abiding interests. Judy Kimble, a member of the Anti-Apartheid Movesient niatio committee and a founder member and activist in the AAM women's committee, died from cancer In November 1986. Funds have been coileated from Judy's friends and colleagues at Cambridge and the Open University, Leeds and elsewbem. The Memorial Fund remains open for contributions for the ANC, and the trustees will be glad to provide further details. Contact Pat Bardfil, 23 Sutton Way, Ieston, Middx TWO OJA. Solidarity more vital than ever, say ANC and SWAPO At the 198 AAM Annual Gnenral Meting, George It of SWAPO called upon 'our friends in Britaia n continue to lend supprtta tthefraedom and paaca-loving popIe of Namibia until independence is achieved. 'South Africa is still maintaining mdsremassqnads to kill SWAPO leader, and ther is a campaign of intimidationto for. our paopis to vote for their surrogates in Namibis.' Francis Mali of the AN C said that South Africa had been hit by sactions imposed by some western cauntim. 'The mraggle against a weakened enemy means les blond flowing in the strauts of South Africa. But the people will continue to struggis, and onn of yar task is as defend and protect tihe ANC.' Tie 425 dlegates at tie meeting adopted a wide ranga of resolutions rlating to the many areas of the AAM's work. An emergeacy mation on Namibia called far 'maximum International prm re on South Africa to mum that it do not renge on the agroemsats machad'. The maeting speed th the campaign to save all thow on death maw for their opposition to apsartheid should ie one of the highest priorities of the AAM. Future devnlopmet of the AAM itaslf was examiand in a detailed reprt, 'liut the 199B1', and a popular nw femur of the AGM was an informal workshop an fandnnralg which provoked a lively disussion. For details of reports and molutions adapted by the AGM, send a cheque or postal order for £3.00, payableto ti AA$, to 13 Mandela Street. No peace for the children 'Chain of Tears' dltdirct, Tonl Strasburg), rmuntly shawn an Chenmi4,4s * ibm ing aceant tof1hewe- tomlime at apartheid's youngat vistins. It shows the plight of Individual chidron from Angola, Mozambique and South Africa in a way that is diffisul to watch without flinching. by Joni McDougall Children am being tortured, maimed and murdered by the apartheid regime on an unimaginable scala. The images mesal the true pain of war ftr children who are derad the right to survive and the cntinning hovor for these who do. The cildran of Southern One World have produced anw ant of campaigning ateriulb on the thne 'Trada Unionists in Danger'. Te campaip foas an trade union activists in Colambisa, South Africa, the Fhilippines and Malya. Packs include spally designed putcards, posters, leaflesand fact sheats, and are aviiabis tram Oe World, I Deol Road, London N16 BEP, E2.J per pack or E1.50 enach for orders one 25, plus 10% p&p. The Intrteatioetal Dfence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa lOAF) now has its 1989 catalngae availble, liting a wide range tof resores aallams m far anti-aparthaid cmpoigpors. [ These iulda: now books and dinsic roprion inting papu-, racords, postpne, photo exhibitions, films and videoa. To aider copies contact: IBAF, Canan Calig lleaa, 64 Essex Road, London Ni. Africa are deprived of their innacnca; the true cosc is their chdldhod.Systrnoticly, trgeted bytheogimear cmgrt in tie crossfir, the film thsw children as young as six who wil never recover from the ravages of war. Children have not only witased aets of barbarity but ht also been farced by Unit and Raeman handits to carry them ot toscarn. Alhongh a vey powerful fllm,'Chainpf Tod lacks a dear political analysis and explanation of the complexities of apartheid. Another flaw is the remuitus rataence to invading Soviet troops in Afghanistan'. But it is a film that will neverthelass lae its audience stanned. Itwasnotcesytwan "the [,tia film. It clanes with Gros Barnaburn;Ta of the National Union of Namibian Worke, guast Machal sadiy expliing tithe speke at thAGMalk d for incsad trda union soidaty with ppoaabfiloasnkbiqlhaveot, Naib ianwor . Thswining "Iinst aottheWorld Unitl" in erd the oatrage of the been gains far a few decades naw-whenam weobgta practis it?' nintmational community and tint wint tinarhiqag maode ns is nt statements condemning South Africa, but action. I think 'Chain of Tears' maid in usad eftectielyhby iscal erraa into provkigsuch action oeas a starting paint to stimulate interest. 'Mister Mandela' Oh, Mister Mandela, The people outside know your name, Oh, Mister Mandelt, Their singing, it drives me insane! Tell me, Mister Mandela, Why do they call out so loud? Your're old, Mister Mandela, Why aren't you stooping, with head lowly bowed? Oh, Mister Mandela, Young people, all over the earth, Gather together in concert, to show us what your freedom's worth. Damn them, Mister Mandela, They can't beat the might of this state, They think all their love, and support from above, Will conquer our fear and our hate! Oh, Mister Mandela, so long have you been in this jail, mich a very long time, and committed no crime, Why isn't your memory stale? Well, Mister Mandela, It looks like you'll get home for tea, We're damned if we know what the fuss is about, you're only a black man, walk free! Extract from 'Mister Mandela' by Mike Brennan, 1988

ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0 FEBRUARY1989 11 The AAM has local groups in the following places: LONDON REGION Barnet, Brant, Camden, Chiswick, Croydon, ESaling, Earls Court & Chelsea, Enfield, Greenwich & Beoxleyeath, Hackney, Harmersmith, & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow & DIstrict, Hillingdon; Hounslow and District, lallngton, Kingston & District, Lambeth, Lewslaham, Menton, Newhe, Notlng Hill, Pimlico& Westminster, RdrrdgeRichmond, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth. There Is a regional committee for London. REST OF ENGLAND Aylesbury, Barnsley, Basingstole & District, Bath, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn & Daein, Bradford, lidgwater, Brighton, Bdisto, Bumley & Pondle, Calderdae, Cambridge, Cantrry, Chelmsord, Cheltenhar , Chmterleld, Cotswold, Coventry, Crawley, Dasflngon, Dery, Dis &District Doncaster, Durham, East DorsetExetrGlosop,Olouceaer,talessaowolarlow, Hartlepool, Hasings, Hernel Hempstead, Hereforhi , Hudderefield, Hall, Hyndbum, Lancaster, Leamington Spa, Lees&, Leceter., Leighton Buzaard & Unslade, Llchfield & District, Longsightleaenahulme I ahoml, Losgthocogh Lue & Distri, MoeM chl, Mansfield, Mattock, Medway, Merseyalde, Milton Keynes, Newark, Northampton, North Devon, North Manchester, North Shropsbir, NorthStaft,North Tyneslde, Northumberland, Norwch,Notingham, Nuneaton, Oldhan, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Redditoh, Redhill & Rlgate, Rechdale, Ros ,nla, Rotherhnm, Salisbury, Sheffield, Somerset & West Dorset, Southampton, South Devon, St Alhans & District, St Helens, Stuckport, Sutton & Epsom, Swindon, Tamenide, Teeside, Tyneside, Wakefield, Walsall, Watfod, Wewyn/Alflald, Winchester, Windor & Sloug, Withingon, Wrekn, Yorl Thereare regional commirttees for GruelsAbocheote, Rteses, West Mid/ermd Yorkgske & Hmbffl* SCOTLAND AberdeenAyrentrl Regio(Sliting)Cydebark, Cumberald, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Fraserburgh East Glasgow North West,GasgowSouth, Hadlton, Inverness, Midlothian, Paiuley/tenrew, West Lothian. Scoth Commite. e:contact John MacKhnon, 26 Clyde Street, Glasgow GI 4JH; tel Glasgow (041) 2211276. WALES AlergavenryBarry, BamauG sertBrigend, Cardif, Cyn.0 Valley, Deek Denbigh, Gwynedd, Lmeetar, Merthyr, Mkd-Powys, Newport, Ponlypridd, Rhondd, Rhyl, Rhyumey Valley, West GlamorgiWexhem. IWMAAl: ConleactHanlf Bhmjee, 43 Glenroy Street, Roath, Cardff CF2 3JX; tel Cardiff (0222) 409760. Charmaine Warior of Artists Agaist Apartheid presented a cheque for £5,00 to Archbisuop Trevr Huddieston on Neson atendela's 70th birthday. The impressive sem was raised by an nactics of works by local painters and sniptors. An auctioneer and soliitr gaem their wiayoes for free, and the manapnet of the Acorn provided a venue n ch-arge. This was nam of the most successful fondrisig events in 1988 - contact Tim Walker at lhe AAM HQ wish year own moneysnaking deas. ACTION ONATIONAL&INTERNATIONAL Women learning about women A women's dayschool about the women of South Africa and Namibia was organised on 19 November by the AA Women's Committee and the London AA Committee. of the ANC Women's Section and Tui Mevava Nghiyoonanye of the SWAPO Women's Council spoke about the part women am playing in the liberation of the people of Southern Africa. Workshops concentrated on women and social conditions, the law, education, health, working conditions, and the physical and mental torture women experience in apartheid prisons. The day ended with a lively discussion about future anti-apartheid activities organised by women. The dayschool sent a message of solidarity to Ivy GCits, president of the Port Elizabeth Women's Organisation, who has been detained for over two years and was denied permission to attend her son's funeral. Legal right to picket is upheld Lewisham AAare celebrating Tesco pickets that any the acquittal from Green- members of the group sad wich magistrates' court of been so much as threatened two of their members on with arrest, which they charges of obstructing the attribute to the fact that it highway during one of the was the first time that only group's weekly Saturday two members had attended morning pickets of the the picket - they suspect Tesco Superstore inthe policehad been waiting Lewisham's shopping centre for the opportunity. in south-east London. Undaunted,the pickets Police allegations that a continue and members pedestrian had been'forced' refuse to be intimidated, to wralltsithe road toavod,,, only now they, make sure fthe picket were rubbished in that at least three people are court byan independent present. Lawyers Against ,witness. Apartheid prepared the case It wasthefirsttimeinand represented theover eight months of 'Lewisham Two' in court. Putting policies into practice Sheffield City Council and the London Borough of Camden are jointly establishing a Resource Unit to provide local authorities with an information and advice service to help them implement anti-apartheid policies. Over 200 local authorities have taken a public stead against apartheid, and the Resource Unit will make their work more effective by pooling limited resources and enabling an exchange of information. The project hasthe support of 70 councils who attended the last biennial conference of Local Authorities Against Apartheid in 1987, and a number of authorities have already become members of the unit. Enquiries may be made to Jamie Wooley, tel 0742766755, or Steve Howell, 0742-735195. Copies of the prospectus and farther information are available from Mick Flynn, AAM HQ. Both the London AntiApartheid Committee and the Southern Africa Resources Centre in Sheffield have begun producing their own news bulletin: London AntiApartheid News and SARC respectively. - Comments, suggestions and contribulions welcome. Blackburn & Daeen AA held a successful vigil outside Blackburn shopping centre en the Thursday hefre Christmras. Load anti. apartheid activists ae out leaflets scres of shoppers and shopworkers queued tm sign a giant greatings cardto Neeon Mandela and All Prisoners of Apartheid'. Swimming Acting with for SWAPO I authority Local swimmers am invites to join Stockport AA': sponsored swim to rais, funds towards the purchase of a landrover for SWAPO For details of the swim oc Saturday 4 March, telephone 061-477 1552. Women are invited to an afternoon about the women of South Africa and Namibis with speakers from ANC and SWAPO, on Saturday 18 March from 2pm at Stockport Labour Club, A street collection held in Handsworth on 5 November raised £98.95 for SWAPO of Namibia. This sum was rounded up to £100 by the organisers, Birmingham AA, who were very pleased with the collection. Throughout February and March, Birmingham AA will be carrying out a concerted leafleting campaign outside the Tesco store in Monseley to promote the consunmez boycott. For further details telephone 021440 2623. The 4th Biennial Local Authorities Against Apartheid (LAAA) Conference is to take place on 16-17 February 1989 in Sheffield town hall. The LAAA National Steering Committee is elected at this conference to coordinate and initiate local authority anti- apartheid activity. Local AA groups should raise the matter with ttrix authority to ensure they aiay represented. For further' inf orsato ont-t-&OvFlynn at AAM HQ. The newly-forned Jam Against Apartheid will play: Monlay 13 February, 8pr The Jazz Cafe Newintnon Green, London Tickesaapprox E5.00 Wednesday 2 March Brinol University Contact Ian for details. tel 0272-661968 Sunday 13 March The Jaza Cafe Newlngton Green, London AA ENTERPRISES is moving and wishes to announce its new address: PO BOX 533 LONDON N19 4SS IT 01-281 7878

12 ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS 0FEBRUARY 1989 ACTION ONATINAL&NTEMATIONAL BOYCOT FRIDAYFEB 24 APAT IEID TABERNACLE 891 Powis SquareTaotRd Lcmdue, W11 7PM TILL LATE AAM, ANC, SWAPO speakers Music - RUFF, RUFF & READY (unique Ska / Hip-Hop I Jazz crossorver) + DJ. Fozzie + Films Hot Hot Food & Late Late Bar ADMISSION: £4 £3 (concs) BENEFIT FOR AAM OtyuaieebyNmn"IufllAl9111Candeidgo Grdens, WIG *ANTI APARTID MOVEMENI nbms~a urAl aand Namdtedtoye tpwed en w yourhadp. JoIS uwl TheAAMworkswtapotkal pw trandeiusluscdwsid eaigu the wsme's movemmden dimoso Ske pati ae groups andtheerl public for an d t all forms of collaon wththe SouthAa apte regime and for sepport for &*as sruglingfar feedomn ad indapeuxlence. A NATIAl WAL MEMBERS mically beaembrs ofthee ecseAA group i ter arm. They a servied bytheAAM HQ and reve of AA e fetM and a mmnnm wsl'newne 10thisayes pluedinl maing Itojoiknaa LOCAL MBERI phase get in tchwithAAM Wh(or detailsofth news roorsAA groupie Insurane" ,Voluntow'help n a wide range of mpan rias a"noeeded at the AAMdHQu13MmdeW SbroLooclon NWIl Uyou can give sme spone im ,mdeWm ieJsqueei em1-3877Wi I E] m r Uum F Nation eershiprats (per arum)v 0 jointmmbashp (two peoplp ach addroWL13A 311)(11, tlappfb. MO S sjstawdentipmwpepMlntmegeds dmf U50 I joesatckwichveafte aoveIsoatrda") 3 * Issetd hequs/petalkMe ft(membrMsp) f L J 30-8-8, uditAn8Apeh emeit Acs Addrs of y I Iomt de I *Addre aks______I[] few epid I Ws I IGiro Account No W 613k Retur tin form to Anydss ertme ki Mer , 13 I fiandele Stret, iliick fi iiiW miiiim0ii4im7 Get on board the boycott bandwagon Boycott Apartheid 89 will involve every member and supporter of the AntiApartheid Movement and the rampaignwfllbebrought to the people of Britain by the boycott bandwagon, a c po bus which will tour the rountry fromMarch o December. Its mobile stall will be parked with campaigning merchandise and information about the fight against apartheid, To give Boycott Apartheid 89 a flying start, a large number of regional meetings will be held to brief local people on how they can fight apartheid in their area, and to discuss ideas for action throughout the year. Thecamp isaimedat consumers, retailers and wholesalers, and will publicise the alternatives available. Other targets during the boycott year are: Shell, gold, coal and tourism. The AAM will be promoting a Boycott Apartheid Pledge form which asks individuals to pledge to do all In their power to boycott all products of apartheid. Regional conferences SUSSEX: 18 Feb, 10-4, Unemployed Workers Centre, Tilbury Place, Brighton. Contact: Jim Titmarsh 0273 778026 SOUTH WEST: 18 Feb, 11-5, Albemarle Centre, Albemarle Road, Taunton. Contact: Ken Martin 0984 56824 KENT: 19 Feb,10.30-4.30,CanterburyCentre,St Alphege Rd, off Palace St, Canterbury. Contact: Maurice Mason 0227 4643488 (before loam, after 9pm) OXFORDS1IRE: 22 Feb, Spun, Oxford, Contact: Diana Tickell 0865 61840 LANCASHIRE: 25 Feb, 11-4, Blackburn Tradee Club, St Peters Street, Blackburn. Contact: David Heaton 0254 774526 SCOTLAND: 25 Feb, 1-5, Glasgow College ofTechnology, Cowcaddes Road, Glasgow. Contact: John McKinnon 041 221 1276 WESSEX: 25 Feb, 2-5, Friends Meeting House, Ordnance Road, Southampton. Contact: David Hoadley 0761229363 LONDON: 4 March, 2-5, MSF Office, 79 Camden Road, London NW1. Contact: Jeremy Shepherd O1-435 8977 NORTH EAST: 4 March, 10.304.30, St Mark's Methodist Church, Durham Rd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. Contact: Alwyn Shaeldeton 091477 5575 YORKSHIRE & HUMBERSIDE: 11 March, 10.30-5, Sheffield Town Hall. Contact: RIchard Hallett0742 739147 EAST MIDLANDS: 18 March, 10- 3.80, International Community Centre, Mansfield Rd, Nottingham. Contact: MariOn Hunt 0602 299234 MERSEYSIDE: 18 March, 12-4, TGWU Transport House, Islington, Liverpool L3. Contact: Helen Dlckson 051 727 3586/051 709 6858 (work) DETAILS TO BE FINALISED EAST ANGLIA: CAMBRIDGE Maureen Hackett 0223 60108 'CILTERN': HEMEL HEMPSTEAD. Jean Seymour 0442 55536 GREATER MANCHESTER: MANCHESTER. Bernie Gibbons 061225 5611 WALES: CARDIFF. Hanif Rhamjee 0222 499769 CUMBRIA: CARLISLE. Colin Paisley 0228 33252 WEST MIDLANDS: BIRMINGHAM. Andy Chaffer 021440 2623 Further details from Gerud Orasta-Milsom, AAM EtQ CAMPAIGN DIARY 0 Saturday 4 February: 'A Luta Continua', a cunpalining nfmmes to provide information an the strugle against apartheid auressian in Mozambique and AnliS, 9.30am to 5.30p., Cc may HlO, Red LionSqur, London WCI, £6O/V/2,0 ccesions, Details: Mozambique Angals Cosmmleas (MAC), 01458 0277. U Friday 10 Ferusry: 'Na Conscription far Apartheid War' picklt of the South Afrisa consulate Against tie Febuary call-up of over 20,000 Young white people int the South African army, Nelson Mandeli Piece, 01egOw G1. Orpnilsedby the Committee on South Aftican Was Reshacm (COSAWR) and the Scrtsish AA Committee. Detiue: 041-221 1276. 1 Saturday 11 ebriuay: Picket of the South Arican webasy, Trafalgar Squre, London WC2, temark the South African arey all-sp and to lanh a lstesvwriting smpulln spinal conscuiption, 12-2pm. DeaNS: 01-278 6928/37 79606. * Thursday-Friday 16-17 Februsay: Loesl Authorities Against Apartheid Bienial Conference in Sheffield. Details: Steve Howell, 0742-735195. * Friday 24 February: Boycott Apartheid 80 meeting and benefit, 7pm tlate, at 'he Taernacle', Powis Square, London W1. Oruanked by Notting HIl AA. I Sunday 26 February: Cabaret Might for Women in South Africa and Namibia, orgaeihd by the AA Women's Committee, Red Roeo Club, Seven Sisters Road, London N7. Creche available, Details: Larrinea Carver, AAM HO. ! MARCH MONTH OF ACTION ON WOMEN i Saturday4March: London AA annul csfnees MSF H, Camden Road, London NW1. Daais: 01435 8977. n Sunday 5 March: Annivarary of the foundation of the South Afran Conre ofTrade Unionsin 155 I Wednesday8 Mar: London AA Picket of Seuth Africa Houe, 6.30 to 7p, to launch Month of Action on Women * Thursday 0 April: 10th anniversary a execution of Umlkhoast weSihwe (ANC) member Salomon Mahlanu A Wednesday 19 Aprl: Assiversary of foundation of SWAPO ig 1900 1 Thursday 4 May: Asnivearsay of Kesalnge macre in 1978 I Saturday 6 Ma: Natioinal Day of Action with m- picketsf Shell arges Cabaret Night for the Women of South Africa and Namibia Sunday 26th February 1989 Red Rose Club, Seven Sisters Rd, London N7 3,50(12cones) Ticketsatthedoorfrom 7pm opmtisedbydwe onorn sCite&A~AJ4Womren eCosmittee The esp date for the Mrhk 1989 issue of An i-Apardeid News is WEDNESDAY S FEBRUARY. Cpeas of the Marh issubewl he aailiabe for collection from 13 Mendela Strest from Friday 24 February. Capy dates tor the rest of 199: April - Wednesday 8 March May - Wednesday 12 April Jun - Wednesday 10May July/August -Wedensday 14June September - Wed 9 August October - Wed 13 September November- Wed 11 October Dec/January - Wed 8 November