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ANTI APARTHEID ANTI APARTHEID The hewspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement men' was o the won They Afr4 upit Wasan that intry.' o 7.30 pm ae to be announced - Appeals for clemency have come frommany other international organisations, including the International Commission of Jurists, the World Council of Churches, and the World Luthera ederation, as well as from the UN Commissioner for Na mibia, Sean McBride. In Britain the Methodist Church and the London Division of ASTMS are among tl o who have joined the the protests. SATIShas called on over 50 antiapartheid orgasnisations all over the world to join the international campaign for repreve. Campaigns were.immediately launched in Ireland, the Netherlands and Canada, wh toramibian Bishop Richard Wodhas been invited on a special saino tour. 15311 ,,-,,0, ou erioe Namibia IN. Lodis W1 .5 5311 SATIS Emergency Campaign, page 3. The Rt Hoe James Callaghan MP j Prime Minister 10 Downin Street Londo n SW 1 ; I call upon lar Maje ty's Government to intervene immediately to nave the liven of Anto Mushimba, SWAPO NationalOrganiser. and Hendrik Shikongo. SWAPO member, sentenced to death under the i ntorous Terrorism Ace on 12May 1976 by the illegal South African v occupiers of Ndamibia. Signed ........................................ Date .............. amd ea .............................. I ACTION-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Britain Barnet BARNET Anti Apartheid Committee held a fund-raising social evening on May I with folk singers Chris Roman, Brian Reeves and Kathy Heath.' The event raised £:t120for the Anti-Apartheid Move ment. On May 16, oner 40 supporters of Barnet AA Committee walked 10 mifes on a sponsored walk to raise more funds for the AAM. (The amount received will be announced in the next issue of AA News. ) On Saturday June 5 Barnet AA Committee will se'l AA News in Ballards Lane and collect signatures to the SATIS Emergency Petition The group is also planning a forum on Zimbabwe which will be jointly sponsored by Finchley Constituency Labour Party, Barnet Borough Liberal Perty, and Barnet Anti-Apartheid Committee. The speakers will include representatives from the political parties and a Zimbaebwean, Date and venue to be announced, Finchley Comservative Party have declined an invitation to participate in the meeting. Contact Joan Darling, 51 Dollis Park, London N3, tel 346 7740. West London WEST London Anti Apartheid Group is planning a membership drive tojecruit more "mbers for the Acti- Apartheid Movement, to take place In June, The Group has donated £20part of the money raised from its Portobello Road market stall-to the Anti- Apartheid Movement. OnSaturday June 19 members will collept signatures at Notting Hill Gate to the SATIS Emergency Petition for an end to torture in South Africa and Namibia. They are also planning to sell AA Nes More information about the Group's activities and offers of help: Betty Northedge, 19F Ennismore Gardens, London SW7, tel 589 8243 4eveningsu, 580 5311 (day). Bristol BRISTOL Anti-Apartheid Group will hold a public meeting on Namibia at 7 pm on June 8 at Central Hall, Old Market, Bristol.. The speaker will be Colin Winter, exiled Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia) and there will be a performance by a West Indian Drama Group and the showing of a film on Namibia, Contact: Ron Press, teLBristol 426608. Leicester LEICEST:ER Anti-Apartheid Group recently held a sh~wing o a film on Angola which was attended by around 60 people. The Group has decided to function autonomously, instead of as part of the Leicester Inter-Racial Solidarity Campaign. AAM members and supporters in the Leicester area contact: Sher Samford, 82 Hbward Road, Leicester, Equity ban EQUITY, the actors' union, is to hotd a re~mmisdues on wh~tlbr its members sOUld DO Danneoosrum working in South Africa or Rhodesia, A resolution passed at Equity's annual general meeting, held in April, asked its Council to issue a standing instruction to members not to work in the two countries. Explaining the decision to hold a referendum,'Equity General Secretary Peter Plouviez said that the union's Council considered that the question of a ban on members working in South Africa and Rhodesia was 'too important to be made at a poorly attended and unrepresentative annual general meeting'. He reaffirmed the Council's support for Equity's policy of banning the sale of television programmes to South Africa, Equity members who wish to work for a full boycott of South Africa and Rhodesia are asked to contact the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 89 Charlotte Street, London W1P 2D0, tel 01-580 5311, AUEW AUEW (TASSI Kitson Committee held a successful meeting on Southern Africa on May 5 at the union's annual conference in Bournemouth. The meeting was addressed by Hugh Lewin, who spent 7 years in a South African prison with Dave Kitson, an AUEW (TASS) member who has now served12 years ofa20-year gaol sentences imposed for his part in the South African -liberation struggle. Members of Dave Kitson's family werepresent among the 250 people who attended. 'The collection totalled E120. ASTMS AN Anti-Apartheid Movement meeting was held at the ASTMS annual delegate conference at Eastbourne on Saturday May 8. On the platform were ASTMS National Officer Roger Lyons, who was in the chair, ex- Marconi employee Jock Hall, Edward Ramsdale representing SACTU (South African Congress of Trade Unions), and Tim Webb, ASTMS National Officer and representative of the AAM Trade Union Committee. The main speaker, Jock Hall, gave an analysis of the possible military uses of the tropospheric scatter equipment now proposed to be exported by Marconi to South Africa. " The problem of the large number of British cormpanies which refused to reply to the questionnaire sent out by Christian Concern for -Southern Africa was also raised. The attitude of the companies was discussed and it mas agreed that ASTMS members who were employed by those companies would be contacted with a view to their raising it with their managements. ASC OVER 70 people attended the Angola Solidarity Committee Workshop held at the Africa Centre, London, on May B. The Workshop included sessions on the problems facing the new Angolan People's Republic, MPLA policies, Avqola's role in the rest of Southern Africa and the history of evets in Angola since the Apr 1974 revolution in Portugal. In the discussion on future solidarity work, which wound up the meeting, it was agredd to mount a campaign against the recruitment of mercenaries. NUS-AAM THE NUS-AAM Student Network will hold its fifth annual cdinference on Southern Africa at Sheffield City College of Education, July 911. Speakers at the conference will include Labour MP Bob Hughes and Abdul Minty, Hon Secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. The programmewill include sessions on recent developments in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa's military strategy, Western interests in Southern Africa, and anti-apartheid work in the student movement. The purpose of the conference is to frame a campaign on Southern Africa within the student movement for the coming year and to equip activists with the information they need to implement it. Registration forms are available from the AAM office and students interested in campaigning on Southern Africa are urged to attend, Registration fee: £12 per delegate. Durham THE Principal of Durham University has circulated all University Princ pals with suggestions for collective action over University investments in firms with interests in South Africa. The recommendations suggest that Universities should be prominently involved in ensuring that British influence in South Africa is exerted against apartheid Thie'policy is divisive in that the AAM/NUS has campaigned nationally for many yeats for total disinvestment from firms with South African interests. At Aberystwyth, students are calling for the resignation of their Principal, whose reply to the Durham circular can only be described as pro-apartheid. He said that at its last meeting the University Coancil refused to take action on disinvestment motions and among the reasons given were that 'There has been. no explanation of some of the possible consequences to this country of supporting anti-South African action. South Africa has an important strategic position, profitable British investments and rich reserves of minerals including uranium which are significant for the maintenance of the energy supplies on which our long term material standards of living will depend.' No debate REQUESTS have been made to British Universities from the University of Capt Town to host a debating team at the end of this year. Both NUS and AAM are opposed to the visit, andall Universities have been circulated asking them not to host the team. Many Universities have already refused to accept the debating team, Liberation AFRICA Liberation Day was marked in London at a rally on Saturday May 22, sponsored by the West Indian Standing Conference at the Conway Hall. Organe nersfepP684td, - ,Bernet Anti-Aparthei d Group napper for the Anti-Apartheid Movement or pledged by sponsors. Many of the a Barnet College-among them were 9old Brian Kraal included the Caribbean Labour Solidarity Party, the African National Congress of South Africa, the Zimbabwe African National Council, SWAPO, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Squash FIVE countries-Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Egypt and Kuwait-refused to play against South Africans at the international squash tournament held at Wembley, May 16-24. Earlier, South Africa's all-white team was excluded from the team event-the World Squash Rackets Championships- held in Birmingham, but Minister of Sport Dennis Howell and the British squash authorities refused to take any action to stop individual members of the South African team from competing at the individual event at Wembley. In a statement the Anti-Apartheid Movement said: 'The British squash authorities' refusal to exclude the South Africans makes it appear that they are more concerned with expressing solidarity with the white South African squash federation than with the principles of nonracial international sport.

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