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"I o ,t know~, that I'm with you all the weayon this protest. fit couse - "I o ,t know~, that I'm with you all the weayon this protest. fit couse - -4 casnnot coi done violemne GKN for Cabora Bassa A "WILL THEY-WON'T THEY" mys- be used in building a dam". Investment kept in Rhodesia. They are thus put on stry has developed around the possible this year is expected to total R200,000. the same footing, in the eyes of British involvement by the giant engineering (f£17,000). law,asany home- grown Rhodeaian corporation Guest, Keen and Nettlefold Already the prospect of UK firms par- company. So co- operation between GKN in the C150 million Cabora Bassa dalh tieipating in Cabor, Bassa has provoked Mills (Mozambique) and the Rhodesian project. A reeent Reuter report from discussion that they might breach factories of Bolt Manufacturers Africa Johannesburg said that GKN had estab- British sanctions law, as much of the Ltd would put the sanctions legislation lished a new subsidiary company near supplies for the dam will come fron to a tough test. Louenco Marques in Mozambique in Rhodesia. So far the British goveroment If a Labour government is ever going order to supplythe Zamc consortium has taken the view that onlyif a com- to take a strong stand against British which is building the datn. According to pauy directly handles Rhodesian goods firms helping to build Cabora Bassa, it is this report, thenew companywould will it break the law. In this way it h-a unlikely to find temptation stronger than' work in conjunetion with GKN's exist- let Barclays Bank DCO, which is helping in the case of GKN. The company has, ing subsidiaries in South Africa and to finance the dam's constroction, off the for same years, been the biggest single Rhodesia. legalhook. industrialcontributortoConservative But enquiries in Londonhaveproduced Partyfunds.In1969itgave£33,000. a denial that GKN "has tendered for, or But even on this somewhat narrow And even though profits jumped last has been invited t tender for" any part interpretation of the law GRIN would be year from £31.5 million to £7.1 million of the Cabora Bassa contract. GKN does, sailing very clse to the wind. For most (before tax) aided by some lucrative however admit that it has taken-legal of thecement which will go into the dam government contracts, GEN chairman advice and that it believes it would not wall is likely to come from Rhodesia, and Raymond Brooket was moved to conbe in breach of UK sasctions law if it the.GKN-bilt equipment would directly demnthegovernmentlastmonthforitsdidparticipate. handle this cemept. Furthermore, if the "dismal retreat" from anti-trade union This admission will inevitably, provoke Reuter report does turn out to be true, legislation last year - "a retreat", said "pecsition that even if no formal deal then the co-operation by the new cod-' Mr Brookes, "from the responsibility to has vet been concluded betwesn>GKN pany with GKN's existing suteidiary 1n govern'. mos hit BARCLAYS BRANCHES it picketed on and around Ms Brighton (Sussex University Committee - SUSAC also Ih day's May Day fair, organid Trades Council): Portsmou AAM - Portsmouth will be next Saturday): Farnboro Hants.: Newport, Mon.: C bridge Freedom Fighei Huddersfield (Yorkshire Young Liberals): Manches and Cheshire Y.C.L.): Edisb University World Poverty Bletchley: Bristol and AparhLeid Societ,. r4 QUE AN ...-et ye1s., the number of non-South . iear living in the Republic hae btwreea half and three-quarteru of a I..-Mt of themse -called 'foreign' . "oe ontrt labourers on the and white-owned farms. Soms come Sow timeu, others Istle down in the o pmunently, but most upend gat"c pt of thesr working liesu tig back ad ferth between their and their jeo v m res Mocaahiuxe, Lesothie an, MluwI. Rhodeuu, Nueeibia. lad dd Angela - roughly in that Of nuesber, Meombique being the st Ilbgl sore. WiWy do they do it, anonymous trovellers, eadulng te and yen, s oseparation from their en. walking and riding hundreds us albg dusty uo.de roads., wtiog g.,.Id in the mines for a few shillings I Why thie life-long tread-miIl of Ly and physial baednblp? No choice truth is tbet they have no Choic. in the victims of e system opiltwiebtolin throughout Southern cthblnhud, bycolonialconquestndintheSemof ll di'Id a St is n opetm which has use only , black moo's labe., ond oone for ght. h alth appinous er needa Th, vdque Conve nti. between in, Poo esthoeltie, and lh SOoth Afeien -nt. iliotcteo the nuture of thi 0io - 1fr 0tleast 1b menths. tlderdcvelopmoent and exploitation take this extreme Ind harel form in Moeambiq e, but similar drives operate in the tee e-protcetorates and indeed througheet much If Southern Africa a . whole. Th, poll" which complements this push'" is the voracious need of the great mining com,nles fr cheap black lahour. Outy its nvallabiltty outside the borders of South Africa hon enblod the mines to oontinue to operate preitobly despite the fixed price of gold io the past three decades. In this purled the proportion of oon-South African bloek labour employed on the mines has rien from 48 to 66 per coat - eloquent trntlmony to the reluotance of South Africs to work for negligible wgs on 'the deeperatios of their brothers outuldo the country to ied work at oay price. Reel wcges for Africaso on the mines. have 0o increased since 0911. And the gap between African and white muiers' wageu has risen inthe.same period from ot1. to 1:17.6. Exploitation Thus the migratory lobour system which brings no many Africans into the .mbit of The aartheid statc can be ,ecn as a process which beneits the Portuguese Government and the Sooth A rican mine-owner. But it uchieves only the exploitation oS the black man. since he gine by it a miserable (in real terms, diminishing) pittance, which allow, him fl chance to acrumulate wealth, purebose property or escape the pressures of the ystem On a huge scale, South Africa n, punderig Soothern Afeict of its ment dfal uset - its manpower, and the ecposes of 'ndependent African states to this situation reflect, how far they are usee.ng a genuine independence, or much they are trading their own people's lives for ahbot-te m cash gains. Tanziala has ended the recruitment of her nationals for. employmeas on the mines; Malawi is prometing the recruitment of hers. SIn many ways, the gulf between white SUth, Africa and her black hinerland reseh01e that between the Third orid and ls Wet. Bloch means poor, migrant, rural, exploited. White means rich, stable, urban .ad exploiting. The black man whu comes to Seeth Africa has less choice even than the Jamaican er Pakistani coming to Britain. Both are victims of elninllsm, d wn by the msanet of industrial employmoet away f5om their homes. But for the hIk moo .in Southern Africa it is a case of o of the frying p.n into the fre". Te sno -hops of emaeplag from either ,ntil the armed liberatioo struggle has b*rcd ath a ndfineand putl. theisr hert of soeiety which bI not nd on the inhuman eport of Its own speality is Cllod'. ee. they prertt re in Vietam and rise Over the very minds of the employees in the offices and factories of Milwaukee,' So speaks the Milwauk Committee of range programme of attack on Muftinati . I orporatlions headquartered in Milwaubee and involved in South Africa. Their campaign Ia sentred en American ' big huoinem' that is intent on sustaining the '-statue quo' by their involvement in'the South African eonomy. An eleetrical fel, Cetler-Hammes Igranie Ltd, Johannesburg is a jolat venture with British and South.African capital, and beasts that It is now 'the largest producer of electrical controls in the fast growing South African Industrial market'. The Milwaukee CRV aim to present the reasons for this * suceessa' -.O.... OPEARS that some Amnerian firms holdings in South Afria are finding tuation a little awkward, to say the This was also Indicated In a report rded from the Department of Urban es at Shaw University, North Carolina. asked why his company preferred to n unnamed in an article on South a In a local newspaper, an official of ompany explined: t out -nO -O r11 Otteitiub t- anr Bradford 0t 0stcr. urgeo Ito mem-er's "to use all reaonable means at their dispoal" to stop the forthoeming all-white cricket tour. The resolution. which was inally pased Overwhelmingly, called un students be lobby local Councils and tread unionists "to stop public transport and services to grounds where matches against the South Africans e to be played". For the first time. the NUS has offernd full moral support and materiel help to the leading liberation movements in Southern Africa, including ANC and ZAPU, This move was opposed by uome pocfsts. but the vast majority of the delegates accepted the inevitabelity for violence in the South African situation. A campaign is to be launched in conjnction with the Anti- Aparthuid Movement against British educational involvement in Southern Africa. An elected committee will sek information from Students' Unions ehout thclr colieges' contact with the reit t egimee. Another, section of the resolution dealt with the role of Barclays Bank in the UNA condemns Cabora Bassa AT ITS GENERAL COUNCIL I. York In April, the United Nations Assoclation (UNA) passed resolution. of support for the liberation movements in Southern Africa, called for the halting of trade and investment with South Afcisa. and resolved to work with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Stop the Seventy Tour committee in its protests against the visit of the all-white South African cricket team.