ANTI=APARTHEID NEW9

ANTI=APARTHEID NEW9 The newspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement lopt Asthey gathered in Htyde Park fsdtdrty admt~sl People o o the snie, s At t freont of the n wer cro thent romtheAfrdistan N To a -ds~ w o S mth sfic SANROC an SWAPO- followed unioist mnnthm us Coby Iron andandTradei f AUEW, CPSA, I neaevenu i Staffs Fedari ihthe Trad Souncils from ica. No , Harrow, Btent Hackney and slington, Wertminster and Nigon. furty w= retlre-es nyneatonal rganisation of Labour Students and many local constituency parties, Other contingents casm from the Communist Pary, YCL, London Co-opPolitical Committee, Young Libeqrals, New Communist Party and thepartci Lea. Many IecaAnti-Nazi League groups wealso on the mrch. The PaxClwe gr p urrd placards callisg fm suport for thep pope Fof Crsesroads near Cape Town: 'Crossroads: No Eviction'. In Trafalgar Square Ansgolas* Ambassador in Brussels, Luis de Almelda, Pledged solidarity with the People of Southern Africa who are still strusggling for their free~ dom: 'We, the Angolan people, regard the struggle in Namibia, Zihbbwe and South Africa as a continuation of our own struggle.' Speakers from the ZANU secd ZAPU wings of the Patriotic Frorit, ZANU Director of Ediucation and Culture, Nathan Shamuyarira, and ZAPU's Chief Representative in Angola, East"r Nlweni, denouncad the atrocities of the Smith regi me and the manoieuvrrm of the Western powers. For SWAPO, Western European lat wit h aparth eid. Abodve:-o~m demenstrators on their way Trafalgar Square rally. action against British collaboration with apartheid. For thiberhal Party. Lord Avebury read a message from Party. leader David Steel MP; msages also caine f rm the Anti-Nazi League, Communist Party, Tory Reform Group, British Council of Churches General Secretary Harry Morton, and Ambassador Leslie Harriman, Chairman of the UN Committee Againist Apartheid. The rally was chaired by the outgoing Chairman of the Labour Party, Joan Lestor MP.

.. 5-5 VIV55N IMew5 November ivi/ ANTI- APARTHEID ACTION --NATIONWIDE Britain Manchester MANCHESTtR Anti-Apartheid Group will hold a one-day conference for trade unionists on November 11. The theme of the conference will be how the connections with South Africa affect everyone in Britain - how factory shotdowns,,unemployment, racism, fascism and press distortion here are all connected with what is happening in Southern Africa. The aim of the conference will be action: much of the day will be spent in discussing what concrete steps have been taken and can be taken. Involved in the workshops on the workplace and the Labour Party will be a representative from the Shop Stewards Committee at the Rover plant, Solihull, and of local shop stewards. The conference has been sponsored by the North West Region of the TUC and has support from political groups and trade unionists from Warrington to Preston and York. So, if you are reading this and are somewhere in the North-West of England, COME to the conference on Saturday November, 11, 10 am - 6 p. at Abraham Moss Centre, Crumpall. Manchester. Futher deteils: Manchester AA Group, 59 Tintern Avenue, Manchester M208ND. Tel 061-434 7549. Barnet BARNET Anti-Apartheid Group will hold a fund raising musical evening on November 11 at 66 Hadley Road, Barnet, with musicians from Goldsmith's College. Tickets cost £1. The Group ran a stall at the African National Congress Bazaar on October 7, selling home-made goods supplied by members and many sympathisers. It raised £70. Barnet AA holds street sales of AA NEWS at least once a month: offers of assistance are welcome. Contact: Liz Backhurst, Tel 449 1818, or Frank Edwards, Tel 446 4065. Leicester LEICESTER Anti-Apartheid Group held its annual general meeting on October 8, at which it planned activity for the coming months. The meeting was addressed by a representative of SWAPO. The Group holds monthly meetings - the next one on November 12. It also organises monthly street sales of around 50 copies of AA NEWS. On October 24 Leicester AA held a stall at the local UNA 'One World' Festival. During October it also sent speakers to a series of local Co-op branch meetings. Contact: Shantum Seth. 18 St Albanes Road, Leicester. Tel Leicestsr 548679. Wst London WEST London Anti-Apartheid Group held a public meeting on Zimbabwe on September 28with a speaker from ZAPU and the ZAPU Singers, The Group holds monthly meetings - with a speaker followed by discussion - to which all AA supporters are welcomne. The next will beon November 20 and Il discuss support for Southern African political prisoners. On Saturday December 2 West London AA will hold a social evening to raise funds for the AntiApartheid Movement. Ealing Young Liberals are planning to picket the Brent Cross branch of Barclays Bank on December 2. Contact: Peter Jones, Secretary, West London AA Group, 92A Heather Park Drive, Wembley, Middx. Tel 902 2117., Skelmersdale SKELMERSDALE Women's Action Group held a highly successful conference on Southern Africa in Skelmertsdale, West Lancashire, on Saturday September 23. Hilda Bernstein and Zola Zembe spoke in the morning session on the roles of women and trade unionists in the liberation struggle. Shirley Talbot pointed out what could be done locally aespart of the work of the Anti-Apartheid Movement., Four discussion groups in the afternoon session covered the role of women, trade unions, the church and youth in the solidarity movement. The conference asked the Women's Group to write to the Foreign Secreary, Davtid Owen, asking himf toi intervere on behalf ofSolomosrtvtphlangusentencedi tb death by thes apart id regime, and calling four British Government supportfor a UN oil emhbargo against South Africa Altogether the conference was attended by around 60 people and for many of them it raised for the first time the varied and complex links between Britain and South Africa. In the evening the Merseyside Unity Theatre performed extracts from Brecht's 'A Jewish Wife'and Athol Fugard's 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead', and a reading from a play by a contemporary Nigerian playwright. Skelmersdale Anti-Apartheid Group is now planning to hold its own inaugural meeting. Contact: Howard Smith, Skelmersdale AA Group, 19 Langtree, Ashurst, Skelmersdale Norwich NORWICH Anti-Apartheid Group has drawn upa full programme of activities - including monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. Its next meeting on November 14 will discuss the situation in Zimbabwe, with a speaker from the Patriotic Front. All meetings are held at the Labour Club, Norwich. Contact: Tony Trew, 169 College Road, Norwich. Tel Norwich 56405. Northwood NORTHWOOD and Ruislip Labour Party is campaigning against the decision by Hillingdon Borough Council to invest money from its Staff Superannuation Fund in firms with operate in Southern Africa. The Tory-controlled Council has announced that it will reverse the policy followed when the Council had a Labour majority not to invest in companies with South African interests. Ireland AAYear IRISH Anti-Apartheid Movement sent a delegation to meet Ireland's -Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Kennedy, on September 20. It discussed action to mark UN Anti-Apartheid Year - in particular the initiatives called for by the UN General Assembly resolution on the Year. Irish AAM has won two recent victories. A Dublin department store, Switzer's, has agreed to cancel its 1979 orders for men's clothing manufactured by a South African clothing firm. 'The World Tug-of-War Chanpionships took place in September as scheduled - but without South African participation. Trade unionists, led by the Irish TGWU, refused to erect marquees without written confirmation from the organisers that there would be no South African team. Irish AAM he also protested against the showing of 'Wild Geese' in Dublin and distributed leaflets about the film to cinema queues. Together with the UN Centre Against Apartheid it is sponsoring an essay competition for secondary school pupils on the subject of 'Apartheid - A Crime against Humanity'. Prizes will be awarded on December 10, International Human Rights Day. - Cork AA members are planning to hold a Flag Day on October 24 and hold a regular Saturday morning literature and information stall. Irish AAM will hold its Annual General Meeting on Friday November 17. ontact: Irish AAM, 20 Beechpark Road, Foxrock, Co Dublin. Tel Dublin 895035. New stAff member DEBBIE Gibberd has joined the full-time AAM staff as Administra. tive Secretary. She isa former worker with the Namibia Support Committee and was an AA student activist at Bradford University Students campaign on Barclays THE start of the new academic year has seen widespread anti-apartheid acti'ity in the student movement. Barclays Bank has been a special target - and the 'Appeal to Barclays Account Holdersa end fake credit slips have been widely distributed. New Anti-Apartheid Societies have been established at Napier College, Edinburgh; Birmingham University; Lanchater Poly echinc Leicester University; Nottingham University;and South Bank Pol". technic. In London a Central London Colleges Branch was established at p meting on>October 18. Its purpose is to coordinate student AA activities in London colegese, to encourage she formation of new AA societies in individual colleges and genrally promote a higher level of activity. It iv planning to hold 'a big student AA event in London early in the New Year. Anyone interested in joining the group should contact the AA office. The disinvestment campaign has got off to a good start, with activity planned at many colleges. Cambridge University Students Union is coordinating a campaign for the sale of shares isfirms with big South African imtere which will cover all the Cambridge colleges. In Manchester students are planning a campaign whichi will involve all the colleges in the area. A Seminar on Investment in South Africa - and the campaign against it - will be held at Warwick University on November 25, organised jointly by NUS and AAM. Students interested in attending the seminar, contact the AA office. The other main student AA activity is the collecting of material aid for the Southern African Anti-Apartheid Movement. Annual Report of Activities and Developments October 1977 - September 1978 Price: 25p From: AAM 89 Charlotte Street Lendon W1P 200 liberation movements. Ate meeting of the NUS-AAM Student Network on Southern Africa held on September 23 it was decided to produce leaflets and, posters explaining the liberation movements' need for material support. Students will be asked to collect for specific projects -schoolbooks and other school materilas, medidoes, ate, Further information: Garth Stracian, AAM, 89 Charlotte St, London WIP 2D0. Tel 01-680 5311. LONDON Student Organisation have distributed 20,000 copies of a leaflet calling on students to join the campaign for a total boycott of South Africa and Rhodesia, in London colleges. JOINT CONFERENCE AAM-North East Regional Council of the Labour Party SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 2.15 pm Mliners Hall, Barneley, Yorks 9pasikers: Nkoszana Dfamini (ANC), Hugh Bayley [AAMI, Mertin Flennary W L!!!!! ' AAM aa groups THE Anti-Apartheid Movement has groups in the following areas. For detai Is of how to contact them, contact the AAM Office. Aberdeen .Hasing ganstead Huddersfield Barnet Ipswich Birmingham Lambeth Blackpoel Leeds Bredford Leicester Brighton Liverpool Bristol Loughborough Burnley Manchester Camridge NewhansandSouthEssex Camden Northampton Canterbury Norwicd, Cardiff Nottingham Chelmsford OldTr,fford Crasnbok Oxford Colester Penarth COventry Poole Croydon ReigateandRedhill Dundee Rugby Eastheume St Austel Edinlsurgh Sheffield Epsom Skelmarsdale Enfield Highway Southampton Exeter Stoke on Trent Glasgow Sutton Greenwich .WestLondon Hackney West Lothian Haringay Anti-Apartheid Movement, 89 Charlotte Street. London WIP 2D0 Tel 01 -580 5311

Anti-Apartheid News November 1978 ICLplansto BIGBOOM a! manufacture in SA ,IN SA I, ICLhas admittedthat itis from 'a significant part of the considering manufacturing market'. computers under licence in It has also confirmed that it has South Africa,in response to a sold two 2960 computers to the direct approach from the South African police and says: 'ICL South A frican Government.,- lrs never sought guarantees or What And the British Government has its machines are or are not used for failed to make any commitment to inhee from South Africa users or stop the export of ICL computers te world.' to the South African police forceorarmamentsindustry. In Septemberitwas revealed In reply to a questionnaire that ICL had sold a computer to submitted to it by Counter Informa- the South African state-owned tion Services, CL says that it is Atlas Aircraft company, which conducting a survey of the manufactures aircraft under licence feasibility of making computers in for the South African Defence South Africa in response to an Force. enquiry from the South African Computers are not included in Government passed on byICL the new list of items which require SouthAfrica,. alicenceforexporttoSouth It also admits that it places no Africa, which was drawn up by the restrictions on the type of customer British Government after the UN with whom it is willing to do arms embargo against South Africa business - or on the Purpose for was made mandatory last year. which its computers are to be used. So far the British Government ICL rejects the suggestion that t has not responded to a request made should consider dealing only with by the Anti-Apartheid Movement the private sector in South Africa - that it should initiate a government saying that this would cut it off enquiry into the use to.which ICL computers are put in South Africa. AGM resolutions slate LabourGovernment I A record number of resoutions have been received for this year's Annual General Meeting of the Anti- Apartheid Movement, to be held in London on November 5. Several of them condemn the record of the Labour Government - in particular for failing to implement effective sanctions against Rhodesia - and call for a campaign for the extension of sanctions to South Africa. The Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union deplores ICL's sale of a computer to the South African police and demands that the Government ban the sale of all computers to South A frica. A resolution from Norwich AA AAmeetings plan action THE Anti-Apartheid Movement held regional campaign meetings in seven ceptrea on September 30 Leeds, Norwich, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Candiff and Exeter. The meetings caame up with many new proposals. In London it was suggested that more antiapartheid educational work should be done in school - and that a specific schools information package should be produced; that an AA pamphlet should be prepared counteracting the 'media myths' on Southern Africa; that AAM should produce a new, more colourful badge. At the Leeds meeting members were urged to join the Co-op to work for a bn on South African produce from Co-op shops. The meeting also called for a national day of action on the consumer boycott in the New Year. Trade unionists at the meeting in Cardiff proposed the setting up of a special trade union liaison committee. Group draws attention to the role of the British Council and offer Government agencias in arranging exchanges of academics, scientists and technologists with South Africa. Other resli7tons call ori the AAM to exert maximum pressure on the British Government to support UN initiatives on Namibia and to publicise the struggles of workers in Zimbabwe in the British Labour Movement. On organisational issues, a resolution from Leeds AA Group asks the AAM to consider the appointment of another Field Officer, and one from West London AA Group deplores the low level of the Movement's membership and asks the Executive Committee to initiate a recruitment camissgns. Wil Geese - stay away! WI LD Geese - the big-star film which glorifies mercenaries who go to fight in Africa -is running into trouble outside many cinemas. Protesters are trying to persuade cinema-goers to boycott the film or at least to watch it aware of some of the real issues. Among centres where AA supporters have picketed the film are Cardiff, Manchester, Norwich, Southampton and London. The film is now on general release throughout Britain and AAM is appealing to all supporters to arrange protests outside cinemas where it Is showing. I. It has also warned cinema managers not to resort to ploys such as that tried i, Cardiff where the cinema advertised for former mercenaries to attend the first night. Further information about the film is asiailable from AAM. LOANS - UK 1200 WestGermany 350 US 335 France 50 Australia 35 Austria 26 Belgium -20Netherlands 20 Italy 21 Switzerland 12 Sweden 11 Spain 9 Canada 5 SE TUC TO HOLD AA WEEK THE South East Region of the TUC willhold a Week of Action against Apartheid, October 31 -November 5. During the Week many of the Region's 134 Trades Councils Will leaflet outside shops which sell South African produce, hold pickets outside Barciays Bank to protest against the role it plays in the apartheid economy and hold ant-apartheid meetings Ambng the Trades Councils which have already arrangepublic meetings are Southampton on November 1, Reading, Bedford on October 31. Tower Hamlets and Camden. A special leaflet is available from: SE Region TUC, 78 Picarudy Road, Belvedere, Woolwich, Daruford, or from the AAM. THE World Council of Churches' Programme to Combat Racism has made another round of grants totalling $434,500 - to anti-racist organisations all over the world The biggest single recipient is SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organisation of Namibia) which will receive $125oo0 A further $55,000 will go to the ,African National Congress of South Africa, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and the South'African Congress of Trade Unions The list also includes the British Anri-Apartheid Movement --which will receive $5000 - and anti- apartheid organisations in Japan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, West Germany and New Zealand. In August the officers of the WCC released a grant of $85,000 to the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe: this decision has now been endorsed by the WCCs Executive Committee. The grants come from the WCC's Special unsd to Combat Racism, which derives all its income from specially designated gift. Contributions come priariy from churches, groups and individualts The Fund is also supported by the goveriments of Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands nv~ iv vOvAt OiLy ave. ~ ~ ~z (1111 Boc "o- Ba ,'rcl' Boycott Barclays! SOUTH African borrowers raised $206 million on international bond markets in the first six months of 1978 - as against only $23.9 million in the whole of 1977. The amount raised in 1976 wa $84.5 million. The figures underline the conclusions of the new Anti-Apartheid Movement report 'Changing Patterns of International Investment in South Africa' that loan capital is increasing in importance to South Africa, as against other forms of foreign investment. Some of the biggest oversees borrowers are South Africa's state corporations - among them . ISCOR (Iron and Steel Corporation), South African Railways, SABC, SASOL (South Africa's oil-fromcoal project), the Strategic Oil Fund and the Corporation for Economic Development. ESCOM (Electricity Supply Commission) is estimated to have borrowed around £40 million so far this year. According to the Financial Mail many direct invetors - companias which have ubsidiaries in South Africa - are now extending their operations. The magazine estimates that there anow at least 200 foreignoweadflirsin South Africa and has published thefollowing table: Fair-vized firms in South Africa in which a significent share is held by a company in tie country indicated November to withdraw accounts from Barclays. Action is also planned in the US, Canada, West Germany and Switzerland. Further information about the Day of Action from: ELTSA (End Loans to Southern Africa), c/o War on Want, 467 Caledonian Road London N7. Tel 01-09 0211; or from AAM. Material now eravlable: 'An Appeal to Barclays Acount Holders'. £4 per 1000. From AAM (available In Walsh from Wales NUS). Barlays Fake Credit Slips. GOp per 100or£.S50 par 1000. From ELTSA. 'Barcay and South Africa'. £1 par 100 From ELTSA. Boycott Barclays' bedge. 15p. From NUS, 302 Pentonvilla Road, London N1. o AAM. Springbok Association gets the truth about apartheid THE Springbok Association's potential recruits were left in no doubt about the realities of life in South Africa, when they attended meetings in Coventry, Manchester, Leeds, Portsmouth and Brighton in September. Anti-racist demonstrators were there tO meet them - handing out an Anti-Apartheid Movement leaflet giving the reasons why they should not travel to South Africa. In Coventry a picket was organised by Coventry AntiApartheid Geoup, with support from local trade unionists. In Portsmouth Anti-Nazi League auppcrtere Picketed the Association's meeting - handing out ANL and MM leaflets. At the Metropole Hotel in Brighton People inside the meeting comPlained that their letters of invitation had been headed 'Friends of the Kiwis'. An American visitor checked out of the hotel after being told what was going on. A picket outside the hotel was arranged by the local GMWU. In Manchester supporters of the Ical AA Group lined the pasement outside the meeting. TlSpringbok Association poses as a travelorgenisation which offers cheap flights to people with relatives and friends in South Africa. At its meetings it shows South African propaganda films, followed by a pep talk by its president, Stuart Weaving, about the joys of holidaying in the Republic. Its lavish finances - and Stuart Weving's contacts in South Africa - suggest that in fact it Is heavily subsidised by the South African Government. Its current serie of meetings is part of a big recruitment canpaign - launched in South Africa with £80,000 worth of ads which asked. South African immigrants to supply names and addresses of their friends in Britain. Liberation movements to get funds from world churches Page 3 'STOP Banking Links with South Africa' is the theme of an international Day of Action called for December 1. In Britain Barclays Bank will be the main target -- with pickets of branches in major cantres. Barclays latest act of support for the apartheid regime is iti involvement in a loan worth £600 million to the Electricity Supply C mision to finance South Africa's first commercial nuclear power station at Koaberg. Barclays provided purchase credits worth £15 million and finance Credits worth around £2 million. Other main UK banks heavily involved in South Africa are Hill Samuel and Standard Chartered. Asa buildup to the Day of Action local authorities and other institutions will be asked during I - CREDIT re a=TOP -" R-S - T oluvi~ P! II

Page 4 Anti-Apartheid News November 1978 Call for trade sanctions by Labour Party Conference AFTER another year of brutality and bloodshed in South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia, with Botha's selection clearly reaffirming the attitude of the Nationalist Party, and the Bingham Report as hot as a smoking gun, most delegates might have expected Southern African matters to be of major importance at this year's Labour Party Conference. Somehow, they were not. Perhaps it is the sheer unanimity of feeling about the issue that prevents the debates and activities from igniting. Labour conferences, like most other meetings, are at their most instructive and inspiring when there is disagreement. Or it may be that so much of the passion was directed into the debate on racism in Britain that there was little left for the older enemies. That is not difficult to understand either. LAST fmonth in Blackpool the Labour Party Conference called for a mandatosry UN embargo against all trade with South Africa and in particular for mandatory oil sanctions. NEIL KINNOCK MP reports Again, it might have been that the National Executive Committee's statement on Southern Africa was so comprehensively condemnatory that there was little left for the Confarenrce to do but urge action on the basis of its main propositions which embraced the AUEW ITASS) emergency resolution on the Bingham Report. - Such committed urgings have, of course, figured prominently in previous Conference decisions. Labour Party Conference, together with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the other organisations associated with the development of Labour Party policies on Southern Africa, can offer the saddest blood-soaked evidence that they have been right In most areas we have had to wait for tragic history to prove the accuracy of our assessments and the desirability of our policies But 'We told you so' isn't enough. It might be an intellectual -satisfaction, but it isn't an answer. If David Owen's forthright rejection of the Uncle Tom 'internal settlement' in Rhodesia is to stick, if Judith Hart's message of support FREEDOM SONGS LP record Saso Records Price: £2.50 From: AAM, 89 Charlotte St, LonigVslip 2q ., Left to right: Armando Panguene, Neil Kinock MP, Judith Hart MP, 'Cap' Zungu and Peter Manning at the meeting' held by the Anti- Apartheid Moagment and the Southern Africa Liberation Fund at the Labour Conference she intends, to be more than a gesture, if the reaffirmation of Labour Party policy towards Southern Africa or the demands for total exposure of sanctions busting are to be implempented, greater political action in Britain is vital. It Is not'mere Labour loyalty which dictates that such action begins with stopping Mrs Thatcher. Surely no enemy of racialism here or elsewhere can fail to know what her enthronement would mean for the cause of racial justice. Defeating her is a precondition of effective British initiatives against Smith and Botha over the next crucial few years. Michael Foot even went so far as to say in the Tribune Rally at Blackpool-that the necessity of Labour Government participation in any Rhodesian settlement was one of the factors justifying the postponement of the General Election. And whilst that may have been difficult to digest for some delegates, his other assertion - that the situation in Southern Africa threatened world peace - cannot seriously be contested. Beyond the need to prevent the election of a Tory Government, however, there remains the need to advance Party policies into implementation by Government. Part of the reason for a relatively quiet reception of Southern African matters at the 1978 Labour Conference may, indeed, have been attributable to the time and effort given to proposals to increase the accountability of Government and Parliamentary Party to Conference and constituency policies. They have as much importance for Anti-Apartheid as they have for any other grouping wbich seeks the enactment of Labour policies by Labour Goyernments. However the Labour Party Constitution is amended to improve the chances of that happening, it remains absolutely certain that the pressure for unequivocal hostility to Ian Smith, a stronger stance over Namlbia at the UN and fulfilment of the Labour Party's long-standing commitment to trade sanctions is vital. Taking strength from the historic certainty of their arguments, the campaigns to assist in the liberation of Southern Africa must continue unabated in the Labour Party. SA rejection of Namibia plan condemned THE following is the textof the Labour Party NEC statement made at conference: THIS Conference is deeply Petroleum and sts subsidiaries disturbed by the revelations that under full public control. despite UN sanctions being applied Conference condemns the to, Rhodesia, oil supplied by British oppression and denial of human companies, notably Shell (Petrol- rights within South Africa itself rum Supply) Ltd and Britiah and the complete intransigence of Petroleum, in which the Cvern, the South African Government. meat owns a substantial share, Conference condemns the ref 'sal continued to be delivered, of South Africa to accept the Conference congratulates the United Nations proposals for Governmest on having instituted elections for a free Nanibia, and the Bingham inquiry and on believes that this will seriously speedily publishing its findings but escalate the tensions of Southern feels that many issues of public and Africa. Labour Partyconcern have been In the light of these develop. raised but remain unresolved within meants Conference reaffirms its the narrow terms of reference of policytowards South Africa. the Bingham inquiry. Conference therefore calls on the It was not part of the remit of Government toapply effective : the Bingham inquiry to deal with sanctions to Rhodesia and to work the degree of information provided at the UN towards a mandatory to Ministers, or with the question ban on all trade with apartheid of political responsibility for South Africa, and in thefirst sanctions breaking when the instance to support the proposal at British Government has been the UN for mandatory oil sanctions informed. It is essential that all the against South Africa. factsbeknown. Conferenceismost gravely conWithout prejudice to any legal ceried that the human suffering in action, Conference calls on the the war between Rhodesia and the Government to institute a formal Zimbabwe liberation movements and wide ranging public inquiry as should be ended. It welcomes the soon as possible, and to release all recent commitment for a British the relevant Cabinet, official and -contribution to the UN force; oil companypaperctoit. welcomes the economic assistance Conference deplores the fact providedtuhe frontline states; that the management of the two calls upon all paties in Rhodesia companies and the tanker compa- and both liberation movements to nies, knowing that they were take part in an early A-Party breaking sanctions did not inform Conference based upon the Anglothe Government at an early stage. American proposals for a settieThis clearly demonstrates the need ment;,and expresses its appreciafor more public accountability of tion of the work of the Front-Line multinational companies. Confer- Presidents towards this end. ence calls on the Government to Conference commits itself to take all necessary action to corm- support of all the present efforts of pel companies to disclose full the Government to achieve a peace information about their operations fut, independent, free and non-racial abroad and to bring British Zimbabwe. Tories mark UN AA Year INTERNATIONAL Year Against He was followed by Richard Apartheid was marked at the' Luce MPI' Conservative Party Conservative Party Conference by a spokesman on Foreign Affairs. meeting arranged by the Tory The meeting took place the day Reform Group on October 12. after the conference debate on Former Rhodesian Prime Rhodesia, when shadow Foreign Minister, Garfield Todd, set out the Secretary was howled down by case against the 'internal settlement' Tory backwoodsmen demanding in Rhodesia. He called for all-party the lifting of sanctions and talks as the onlywayof bringirig immediate recognition of the peace to the country. 'internal' deal. Conference meeting slates press THE Western news media was sharply attacked for its reporting of ,vents in Southern Africa at the meeting heldtby the AntiAprtheid Movement and the Labour Party Southern Africa Solidarity, Fund-at the Party's conference on October 1. Armando Panguene, member of the Central Committee of FRE LIMa, said that every time a policemen was killed in Rhodesia there was an outcry against oralleged terrorse Butha wanton: 'The press thinks it is perfectly Snormal and respectable for the Rhodesiean army to invede our 5i country and murder our citizens.' He questioned the motives of Western governments in their manoeuvres on Rhodesia, saying: 'They have no great liking for Smith and sometimes he is an embarrassment for them - but of course they prefer Smith to the genuine nationalist movement. What the Weat really wanted was a neo-colonial settlement, where the settlers' economic interests would be preserved. FRELIMO considered it its'duty to make Mozambique 'a base for the liberation of Southern Africa,' he declared. 'We cannot consider that Mozambiqae is truly free until the whole of Southern Africa is free, and all the apaed and minority regimes have been overthrown once gnd for all.' Spaeldingn behalf of the African National Congress, its Western European Representative, 'Cap' Zungu, said that he brought the greetings of Nelson Mandele and the thanks of his orgenisation tothe British Labour Movement. He said that since last year's conference the balance of power in Southern Africa had shifted, so that now 'the initiative is firmly in our hands'% But he ritieised the British Government for still stubbornly refusing to use its power to stop collaboration by British companies and Interests with the apartheid regime, He reaffirmed that the ANC wanted to create a South Africa where them would be room for everyone, except for those who wanted to dominate and exploit. Neil Kinnock MP, newly elected to the Labour Party National Executive Committee, said that what was good enough for the trade unionists who were dragged off the picket lines was more than good enough for the oil companies which had flouted Rhodesian sanctions. He dedared that this nsat be the Anti-Apartheid Move. rent's message to conference. I Peter Manning, speaking on behalf of SWAPO, said that South Africa's rejection of the UN proposals for a path to independance in Namibia demanded a strong reaction from tse West. He rejected selective sanctions as inadequate and celled for comprehensive economic sanctions against the fascist regime in South Africa. There was alsa showing of the new film about the struggle in Namibia, 'he Liberated Zones and Beyond'. The meeting was chaired by Judith Hart MP.

Anti-Aparthed News IT WAS the Canadian Minister for External Affairs, Don Jamieson, who gave away the real motive of the five Western UN Security Council powers in their latest round of talks on Namibia in Pretoria. He said tihat as a result of the talks the 'imminent threat' of a call in the Security Council for an oil embargo against South Africa had been lifted. The 'compromise agreement' with South Africa, which Jamieson hailed as 'a significant breakthrough', is in fact no compromise but an endorsement by the West of South . Sout fri c Africa's plans to set up a Bantu- compound contains the to'naes of i stan-style puppet state in Namibia. Nujob - end a South African arm The West has agreed that South Africa go ahead with the elections clearly be to 'modify' the Secretary it is planningto hold in December General's recommendationson the this year: South Africa has agreed number and composition of UN 'in principle' to a second-round of personnel needed to ensure the elections under UN supervision holding of free elections. next year. But if the South African ragime THE Anti-Aparthld Movement is really willing for free and fair has bitterly attacked the agreeelections to take place in Namibia ment reahed on Nambia under UN supervision, why hold its between thefiveWesternUNownelectionsfirst? SecurityCouncil powers and At the same time the West has South Africa on October 19. backtracked on the UN proposals It stated: 'This comps'rnise for a transition to genuine inde- agreenteet has been heraldedby pendence. In the report which he the West as a breakthrough: but laid before the Security Council in in reality itis a blatent abdicaAugust the UN Secretary General tion of their responsibilities as recommended that a UN military members of the UN Security force of 7500 men and a 360- Council. strong civilian police unit be sent to 'The racist regimes are Namibia to create the conditions preparing for all ut war in under which free and fair elections Southern Africa: Smith's attask could take place, against Mozambique and in Nose the F'oreign Ministers hae Zambia are proof of their told Prime Minister Botha that intentions. The whole world South Africa will be consulted over must be mobilised to confront 'the composition and size of the UN South Africa.' military force and that the functions of the police in Namibia will No one should be fooled by the nout be affected by the transitional elections which the South Africans arrangements. will hold in December. And theyhae asked that the Everypolitical grouping in UN Secretary General's Special Namibia has announced that it will Representative return to Namibia boycott them except the Demofor more talks with the chief South cratic Turnhalle Alliance and the Afltcen official in the country, far rightvwing AKTUR group. Administrator- General Steyn. To hold elections in South The purpose of these talks would African-occupied Namibia is rather like holding an election in NaziSWAPO Publications InformationonSWAPO:AHistoricalProfile 30p Information on the People's Resistance 1976-77 301p Massacre at Kassinga 15p Namibia Today Vol 2 No 3 (Official bi-monthlyorganofSWAPO) 30p I~s4. evuse3lp Aso available: Inside the Liberated Areas and Beyond Book of photographs taken by Per Sanden of the semi4iberated areas of Namibia Namibia: SWAPO Fights for Freedom Interviews with SWAPO militants. Edited by Liberation Support Movement SWAPO Postcards Coming won: Namibia Support Committee newsletter (subscription details from NSC officl £1.75 65p - or 10p From: Namibia Support Committe e 188 North Gower Street, London 'lW1. Tel 01-388 539. November 1978 Page 5 r HOW IT HAPPENED ON September 20 the South African regime rejected the proposal negotiated by the five Western UN Security Council powers for independence in Namibia. AA NEWS sets out the key events in the long- drawn out negotiations. P-'UV Fur meem 5o snip in as many voters as they can provide transport for. In order to register, people who cannot sign tlir names a required to make a thumbprint - suggesting thatea fingerprint expert will be needed in every polling booth, if the true identity of voters is to be checked. Black Namibians living or working in Walvis Bay will be disfranchised, as South Africa claims that Walvis Bay belongs to South Africa, This is the farce which the Western Foreign Ministers have agreed should go a iead in Namibia - making it dear that they are concerned to keep talks going at all costs, to give themselves an excuse for rejecting demands for real action. FOOTWEAR APPEAL THE Namibia Support Committee has made an urgent appeal for Wellington boots and other -eter proof footvear for children in SWAPO refugee carrps in Angola. It nedf £10,000 by the end ofI Novrmber to airlift a first batch of footwear to the UNHCR office in LuandaThe rainy season is now due to start apna the boots are needed to prev'tparasitic infearvons, eg rinfsck specially in young chilren, Thue Cis appealing for good quality Wellington boots of all s.ze and for cash to pay transport coals to Angola. Further details: The Organiser, Refugee Footwear Appeal, c/o NSC, 188 North Gower Street, London NW1. Tel 01-388 5539. April 28-30 Ambassadors of the five Westarn powers on the UN Security Council initiate talks with Prime Minister Vorster in Cape Town June 8-10 Talks between the Western 'conta t group'and the South African Government resume in Cape Town July 19 South Africa inaugurates 'Legisl tive Council' in Namibia -constituted on a tribalbasis July8 South Africa announces the appointment of Justice Steyn as Administrator General for Namibia August 17 SWAPO and the Western powers issue statemsent saying

~e AM-Ap~1d Néws Nmombar 1978

Amt-AsfleM ws Nov.u*w lS7 I 7 -o o~I o 0 LD ~E .2 ~- 0 ~, * 44.C ~ E0C t~ >*i ~ 0 oø~ .,øø .r > ø - ø I~04 0z~ 0** ø ~j~i 044-> 4.4 0 4.4 -ø c~ 0 -C æ ~ ø 0 -~ 4.4044.4 E :2 z .. >~i E~CL~ >. ., ó .2 0 E >U. 0.4 0 CL~ L. ø> ~*. ~ 040 .4- C 04- ~ <*~ t~ .- ø t 4-- 4o .~ ~ '0 -i . ~ .C -~ 444 o$0~ *<~ ø0 C .2~ E.~ ~ .2='0 4-0 .0 4- - CO -D "44 0 .4 04*0 44' C - 04 0 ø o o~ .4- 0. æ ~ .E ~.2 ø- -'-I~0 444 04 ~ E ~ ~ i '~ ~ Oo ~ .~O ~ 4-.- C Antl-Apw~ No=

Pa* 8' At'i Ajsrthelcfltiws ni 'u s SMITH TROOI PULL OUT 0f WHITE FARML THE Smith regime's decision to - once again - ban ZAPU and ZANU, purge the press and to place large tracts of Zimbabwe under martial law is a graphic illustration of the crisis of white power. It is known that the clamp-down in September against the internal political organisations Of the Patriotic Front - in which over 600 people were arrested - was not sanctioned by the Rhodesian security police or army leadership. but was ordered by the regime's political leadership in a desperate attempt to calm the white electorate. The Smith regime's top military commanders are well aware that such moves can at most only temporarily delay the final victory of the liberation forces. The armed guerrilla struggle being waged by the Patriotic Front has moved past the stage where it can be seriously damaged by the rrest and detention of prominent supporters and officials. The resort to martial law, too, must be seen as a sign of weakness. While the mseasures are extremely harsh, and can only further increase the sufferings of the black population, they are essentially an attempt to legalise a situation already in existence on the ground. Black Zimbabweans are no strangers to repressive military rule and scorched-earth security tactics - 22 hour curfews, the destruction of animal and plant life, the poisoning of water supplies, fqrced removal into concentration camps and the like. It seems that the Rhodesian security forces have now adopted a strategy of withdrawing troops from more outlying areas and of concentrating them around towns and other key economic centres. Military units are teanding to stay in position on the mountain tops and are calling in heavy air support before attempting any kind of attack. 'Law and order' in many areas appears to have been left in the hands of the thugs and unemployed riff-raff Who have been recruited into Muzorewa's and Sithole's . private armies. The martial law orders, which were first implemented on September 23 after being announced by Smith a fortnight previously and extended to a further nine areas on October 4, cover about one-fifth of Zimbabwe, including the strategic South African border region, white farmland on the periphery of Salisbury and the key towns and white farming villages of Umtali, Cashel and Melsetter in the east. Under the terms of martial law, special courts martial consisting of 'suitably qualified persons' can be set up anywhere in the country to try supporters of the armed struggle, Their proceedings can be in camera, there is no appeal to the civil courts and little prospect of even an apology for legal defence. Execution by hanging can be carried out virtually on the spot, None of this is anything fundamentally new, of course. It is A JOURNAL FOR BLACK AND THIRD WORLD LIBERATION VOLUME XX AUTUMN 1978 NUMBER 2 IN MEMORIAM ORLANDO LETELIER 1932-1976 Multinational banks in Chile by Isabel Letelier and Michael Moffitt Indictment for conspiracy to murder Orlando Letelier Asia women in Britain by Amrit Wilson A. Phillip Randolph: Socialism and black nationalism in the U.S. 191741 by Jeff Hendersor Pattern of racism: interviews with NF mernmbrs by Mick Billig Repression in Colombia: Repression in East Timor QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE RACE & CLASS a now a4,-b50 .ed-daalsat gsa If cperannum i 1S 1 £7.00 tar nsat tansl. I enlsie 5501E[ 4.50 to, eve sea 's ascnvitios startingwih ithe correct issue, Name Addtress ...... ZCe ..... Please send cash wt-h ortder, 0,,q.. wade psable to The Isstitte of Race Relatens', 247 '111- 1, Ruad. Londons NA , U .K 'We don't want racists here'- Smith told in US ANDS US anti-racistgroupshaveconA S demnedtheStateDepartment's decision to allow Ian Smith into the counry and have made sure N D thatheknowsheisunwanted, As Smith arrived in Washington doubt as to who really represents crowds outside the UN building in the aspirations of the Zimbabwe , New York denounced the US people for freedom and majority administration and called for rule. recogoition of the Zimbabwe In Untali for example, the Patriotic Front, announcement was followed by a In Britain the Anti-Apartheid large-scale civil disobedience Movement sharply criticised the campaign, in which leaflets were US decision as 'a great morale pinned to trees urging black, booster for the racist regime in workerstostayat home. Salisburywhich canin noway It i clear that the regime can help being about peace', achieve little more than a holding If Smith tries to visit London. operation at this stage: Schools planned in / an1 ,', slaring two blackboards and with no paper, peicils or books between them - a teacher's nightmare? This is the situation at Toronga refugee camp near Chimoio in central Mozambique, according to Sister Janice McLaughlin, who has recently returned from a study tour as a guest of FRELIMO. Sister Janice, who was deported by the Smith regime in September 1977 for helping to reveal the truth about thewar in Zimbabwe, told AA NEWS that Toronge houses 15,418 refugees in all 2000 of these had arr'ived from Zimbabwe only the week before her visit. l The camp, one of three set up in Mozambique by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, is run by a committee of four membars of FRELIMO and four elected Zimbabweans. Each camp aims to be self- sufficient in essentials such as food and clothing, but there are many practical problems - Toronga had a number of sewing machines, for example, but no thread. Many other Zimbabwean children and students are now studying in schools run directly by ZANU Front-ZANU camp in Mozambique (Patriotic Front). Sister Janie learned that plans are well in hand to provide education for the estimated 300,000 children living in those parts of Zimbabwecontrolled by the liberation movement. Teams of freedom fighters have been living and working in such areas for up to two years, becoming involved in the day-to-day life of the local community. In the neighbourhood of the Avila Mission, in the Inyanga mountains, for example, local people have not come into contact with Smith regime ground forces since 1976, although helicopters continue to be used. 'The people said they felt much safer inside , Zimbabwe than Mozambique, where they are exposed to continuous attacks from Rhodesian security forces.' ZANU lPatriotic Front) is now hoping to reopen schools in these 'liberated areas', using the old teachers under the guidance of the freedom fighters. Material and financial aid for Zinmbabwean refugees in Mozam-bique can be channelled through the London office of ZANU (Patriotic Front), PO Box 106, London N1. Tel 01-2780105. the Movement pledged, it will seek a citizen's arrest. At the UN the Security Council met at the request of the African group to discuss a statement expressing international disapproval of Smith's presence in the US, As a rasult of the decision to grant Smith a visa the ZANU wing of the Patriotic Front has rejected any further participatlon by the US in negotiations on Rhodesia. ZANV's C~entral Committee stated: 'We are now compelled to state that in all future conferences on Rhodesia, US Government participation should be excluded. They have by admitting Snith and his gang exceeded their jurisdiction as mediator.' Women shot dead by soldiers MORE eyewitness reports of atrocities committed by the Smith regime security forces have been given by refugees escaping from Zimbabwe. A black farmer, Gilbert Mutas, told reporters in Zambia how he saw 32 women shot dead by soldiers. The incident took place at Ndaba village, 27 km west of Shaba township, Gilbert Mutass said: 'What actually happened on that day was that we were approached by fredom fighters who asked for food from us. 'We greed that the entire village should slaughter a goat for them as it was nowa common practice among vi lagers to give food to the freedom fighters. 'But what we did not know was the fact that within the village there were some rebel Rhodesian informers who wanted to go and tip the rebels about what was happening in the village. 'So after we had slaughtered the goat, we gave it to the women to cook both the meat and nshima for them. 'But before the women could finish cooking the food, the entire village was shaken when they saw six rebel soldiers walking towards them and shouting to the villagers not to move. 'I then saw the six soldiers approaching the women and ask them why they were cooking food in abundance. 'When the women failed to answer properly, the Rhodesian soldiers opened fire and shot all of them dead.' . Gilbert Mutae said that he was still surprised that he had escaped: 'Up to now I still don't believe how I managed to survive,' In another incident, Smith's troops massacred 15 African civilians on August 3at a township in the Inyanga area. They were attending the funeral of a local school-teacher. Troops arrived and accused them of collaborating with the ZIPA (Zimbabwe People'F Army) guerrillas Then they opened fire, killing eight people outright and injuring seven more who died later in Umtali hospital.

Anti.Apartheid News .,. November 1978 , Page 9 Rhodesian economy I collapse THE crisis which has gripped the borrow co RhOdesian economy for the last ca'pital c four years has shown signs of deficit di worseningin recent months. In ma It is difficult to be sure, because sanction the regime chooses which statistics effective to publish, and those that do come access to out are anyway suspect. But it is markets quite clear that the war, plus world channelle recession, plussanctionshave taken loans Rh a veryheavytoll. have repi The annual budget, presented in unfavour July,-showed something of this. With rapidly, 1 RHODESIA'Seconomyis times tigl neartocollapse.The ofmone problems caused by half- them. Th hearted sanctions have been illicit sm increasedmanytimesby prosecut the warwhich nowcovers members most of the country. ment is a RUPERT PENNANT-REA theicebe reports on the current crisis. The foreigne Last year the'country's national one of I income fell by 7 per cent (in real prbablf terme), and the regime admitted probably that it was expecting a similar fall the July this year. That will mean that real 1 announ income per head has declined by $15milli roughly 25 per cent since 1974 - the first which-according to UN figures UDI, thc gives Rhodesia the unwelc6me Whicl be distinction of heading the negative- would a growth list by a very large margin. uncerta Therehavebeentwomajor Thee weaknesses in the economy. First. ne5 has the shortage of foreign exchange: skilled m1 despite the import-substituting caused b industries that have been estab- war takii lished as a reaction to sanctions, at least h the economy has never been free of natory p a foreign exchange constraint. years hai The country has always relied on of gettin a large surplus in visible trade to When cover the large deficit it runs on its whitas ea invisible account (freight, travel, money fi insurance, etc). Last year the Coupled visible surplus was roughly £100 defence million, but the invisible deficit was cent of a £132 million. This year the gap last year seems to have been widening. Exchequ When world commodityprices Soth fell back after the boom-of 1971- an inon 74. Rhodesia was suddenly very with a 11 exposed. After the numerous than£75 sanctions-busting middle-men had per cent had theirshare,raw material In the exports ecame very marginal. As three yei the war has intensified, several the gove mines and more farms haveclosed choosedownaltogether. quiteem Unlike many developing count- with the ies, Rhodesia has not been able to civilisatii SOUTH Africa Freedom Calendar 1979. Graphics and quotes from * South African leaders and international organisations. Produced by the American Committee on Africa in cooperation with the UN Centre Against Apartheid. Price $5. From: ACOA, 305 East,46th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA. SANITY, hi-monthly newspaper of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Subscription £1 annually, or specimen copy (free) from: CND, 29 Great James Street, London WC1N 3EY. aces r attract much foreign cover its current account uring the last few years. ny respects the financial has been the most of all. No aid, no formal the world's capital (though South Africa has ed some of its foreign odesia's way, the terms rtedly been very able). white emigration increasing Ihe regime has several htened up on the amount emigrants can take with at has only increased uggling; the recent ion of three senior of the Smith establishpparently just the tip of rg. eal size of the country's xchange reserves has been he most closely-guarded fat, but they are now at rock- bottom. In budget, the regime ,d that it would be raising on in the Euromarkets official borrowing since 'ugh it is not at all clear anks outside S outh Africa tualfy lend money to so na regime. cocomy's other main weakbeen the shortage of anpower. This has been y a combination of the ng whites into the army for alf the year and discrimiolicies which over the ve denied blacks the chance g the right skills. -they are not working, rn les - which means less or the regime to tax. with the ever-increasing budget (it took 28 per 11 government spending ), this has stretched the er beyond breaking-point. is year the regime imposed se tax surcharge: anyone 978 tax liability of more B hes to pay an extra 12% of their tax bill. sory this will be repaid in ars' time: it is unlikely that rnment of the day will O do so. It will have ough on its place coping mess that Western on' has been upholding, PEACE NEWS for non-violent struggles and making alternatives. Information, analysis, strategies for change. £5.50 for 12 months subscription. £3.00 for six months. £1 for 5 issues (trial sub). From: 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham. LABOtJR'S independent monthly - LABOUR LEADER - for socialism and the Labour Party. Annual subscription £2.00. Send for a sample copy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds LS11 9LW. CHALLENGE, monthly paper of, the Young Communist League. Price 15p. Subscription £2.20 pa. Send to 28 Bedford St, London WC2. Reprinted from 'Militant, 425/29 September 1 978 HOW APPEASEMENT -FAILED -WILSON INTERVIEW THE now famous interview in which Sir Harold Wilson told the Canadian Television Corporation's cameras to stop filming when he was askled about his tofe ilbsting Rhodesian oil anctions isa giveaway on the attitude which governed all Wilnon's policies t Swars Rhodesia, Asked 'Do you think you should have done more to work out se solution?' Wilson replied: 'Idon't think I could.' And he went on: 'I think I went s ar, and perhaps too far, in trying to get Smith's support.' No suggestion hee that concessions were not thse anwr-that Smith could onlybef Fd x Wilson's next reiarki that he acceptusthe 'internal settlement' as a way forward to majority rule. Falling over back- wards to ow how'reasonable' he had b - in his negotiations with Smi , he said that what he was prepared to settle for would have 'meanta much longer period to majority rule' than that provided for in the 'internal settlement'. The bloody massacres perpetrated by Smith's troops, which have marked the years since UDI, seem to have escaped Wilson's notice. We might, he said, have had to send in troops if Smith had started 'massacring a lot of black Africans, which of course he never looked like doing'. In fact: 'We never did really consider it.' But it is in his attitude to the liberation movement that Wilson shows most clearly whose side he was really on. He describes the war - in which the vast majority of the people of the country have shown that they stand firmly in support of the guerrilla fighters - as 'a forceful solution from outside'. And if the people of Zimbabwe 'want something based on external force', he says, 'we'd have to recognise it as a fact', But - 'I doubt if they would.' Oil sanctions, according to Wilson, were frustrated because 'a lot of French oil was going there' and because Britain did not have the strength to sustain a foi-scale cohfrontation with South Africa. He argued that Britain would not have the support of other countries in this. Maybe he has forgotten that it is the British 'Labour Government that has consistently vetoed other countries' attempts to impose sanctions against South Africa at the UN. THE Patriotic Front of ZAPU and ZANU has launched a joint ttudy into the manpower requirements of independent Zimbabwe. Research has been commissioned to identify the main areas in which Africans, as a result of the discriminatory job reservation policies pursued by the Smith regime, have'not been able to acquire essential skills and qualifications. Ignatius Chigwendere of ZANU (Patriotic Fronti told AA NEWSr that the project was also trying to assess how many whites would be likely to stay on after independence. 'The crucial period will be the transition,' he said. 'Many skilled Zimbabweans, both black and white, are likely to be Out of the country when the Smith regime finally crumbles yet we shall have to keep the economy functioning until things settle down.' Although the pressures of the war and white conscription has forced many companies to begin PHOTO CRAFT 4 Heath Street London NW3 Photographic dealers and photographers training Africans for jobs formerly reserved for whites, he said, the new Zimbabwe was still likely to be short of people with supervisory experience and those with intermediary skills, such as electricians and machine operatives. The Patriotic Front has already set up a number of training schemes with the help of organisations such as'the International Labour Office and the UN Food and Agriculture Orgenisation, A group of black Zimbabweans are being trained as railway enginears and fitters in Egypt, for example, whild others are receiving advanced training as engineering instructors in Italy. A seminar due to be held in Dar, s Saleaam in November this year will help in working out a joint Patriotic Frontamanpower policy. An analysis of the figures for white emigration from Zimbabwe sincethe beginning of 1978 shows that the biggest losses occurred among engineers, draughtsmen, motor mechanics. conistruction workers and electricians - all key skills as far as Zimbabwe's industrial and commercial performance is concerned. Patriotic Front plans for manpower in liberated Zimbabwe APARTHEID REPRESSiON TORTIRE WOULD you like to offer practical help to those students who have suffered from these inhuman practices and have sought refuge in the United Kingdom? If you have a roam/flat to let from time to time, whether in your-own house or as a landlord, would you allow us to vId your name and addresson an accommodation fist so that we can contact you whenwe, have a student,'in great need of accdmmiodati0n? The International University Exchange Fund isa nongovernmental organisation which provides educational assistance to refugees from Southern Africa and Latin America. If you think you can help please phone or write to: IUEF, Parnell House, 25 Wilton Road, London SW1V 1JS. Tel 01-828 2966/7.

, Page 10 - Aiii-Aparthea News -' NoiewiieeriA 8 VORSTER'S retirement from the South African premiership has proved a nine-day wonder. In fact it is devoid of political significance. The press in South Africa and abroad has done its best to make a mountain out of a molehill, but without success. We may accept that Vorster did indeed retire because of ill health. Three ambitious men stood as candidates in the election to replace him, butthe differences between them were personal, not political. The ranks of the Nationalist Party are as solid as - ever in their adherence to apartheid. There was perhaps more significance in the subsequent election for the position of State President. Again there were three candidates - Vorster for the Nationalist Party; Sir de Villiers Greaff, the former leader of the now defunct United Party, for the New Republic Party; ancdProfessor G R Bozzoli for the Progressive Federal Party. In view of the Nationalist Party's enormous majority In Parliament, it was merely to show the flag that the other candidates allowed their names to go forward. Vorster got 173 votes (170 fromthe Nationalist Party's Senetors and MPs and three from the neo-Nationalist South African Party), Graaff 19 and Bozzoli 12. The real meening of these two sets of elections is this: when it comes to the question of power, only Nationalist votes count and the opposition is irrelevant. The Nationalists have been in power now for over 30 years and the white electorate, far from getting tired of them, is falling more and more-under their influence. The result of the election last November was: Nationalist Party 135 seats. PFP 17, NRP 10 and SAP 3. It is a matter of some debate whether the English vote is swinging to the Nationalists. Their share of the pol was just over 64 per cent, which approximates to the proportion of Afrikaners in the white population. True, the Nationalists won more seats avd Moevotes than ever before,bu this is probably due more to te rush back to the eager of Afrilaears who formerly voted United Party than to avastly increased measure of support from Englishspeaking voters. Certainly, in appointing only one English-speaking Cabinet Minister (Horwood), Vorster was displaying no sign of gratitude to Englishepealking South Africans. Nevertheless, support for the Nationalist Party from South African whites is manifesting itself in other ways. The recent series of Nationalist Party provincial congresses showed that the rank and file are as racist and bloodyminded as ever. In recent weeks its authority as spokesman for the Afrikaners has been enhanced by a split in the ranks of the ultra-right Reconstituted Nationalist Party, which has parted company with its founder Dr Albert Hertzog following a pettifogging dispute over money ad premises. Not a single parliamentary party stands for majority rule based on one man one vote, and recent congresses of the Progressive Federal Party show that the leadership has shifted to the right following the absorption of elements from the disbanded United Party. Young progressives AS Vorster steps down as Prime Minister, the Nationalist Party is closing ranks around his successor. BRIAN BUNTING argues that white politics in South Africa is moving right and that the new situation poses the greatest challenge ever to the Anti-Apartheid Movement. have been so disillusioned that some are thinking of breaking away. Even the Black Sash, which has accepted the principle of one man one vote, prefers to call it 'universal franchise' because, in the words of a spokesman interviewed by the Rand Daily Mail: 'I think people may have felt that one man one vote has become a bit of a dirty word in South Africa.' Most disillusioning for liberal' whites has been their arch-priet, Alan Paton, who has abandoned the principles of his old party because he thinks they are unrealistic. He no longer believes in majority rule in a single integrated South Africa. 'Afrikaner Nationalists would fight it to the death and I do not want to see my country destroyed,' he said in an interview in America. He has become a supporter of 'federalism', which is the 'liberal' euphemism for Bantustans. In essence Paton is reflecting the sentiments of the new Prime Minister P W Botha, who said shortly after his election that he would never follow a path leading to majority rule. Those wio asked for majority rule in South Africa were asking for bloodshed and revolution, he warned. Vorater was chosen asPrm Minister in 1966 because o the reputation he had established as Minister of Justice with his detention and torturelaws. Botha is chosen in 1978becauses Minister of Defence he s in charge of the most expensive and highly sophisticated army on the African continent, able to threaten his neighbours with death and destruc. tion if they step out of lin. Botha was in charge of the abortive Angola adventure in 1975/76. He has learned nothing from his defeat and proclaims himself ready-for more. Those who ask for majority rule in South Africa are indeed asking for revolution, because it is only a social revolution which can bring peace to the subcontinent. It is Botha, Kruger and their minions who reply with violence and bloodshed, banning, jailing, exiling and murdering their political opponents. At the very moment when Vorster stepped down and Botha was elected in his place. South Africa threw down the gauntlet to 'PIK' BOTHA the world over Namibia. The burning question today is: will the world take it up? The Smith visit to America and the Tory clamour in Britain show that powerful forces backed by big business are working for a policy of appeasemeet and eurreeler to the uwiSe racists of Souathsernl Afriae. The Anti-Apartheid Movemnsst is facing its greatest challenge a the clouds of war lower threateningly over Southern Africa. Support for the liberation movements must be unequivocal and effietlve if another Munich is to be averted. Capital Radio in the Transkei CAPITAL Radio is helping the Traskei to set up its-own radio station which will broadcast 'as far as the edge of South West Africa'. Capital says that it is providing 'a bit of advice and expertise although we are not involved financially' Blacks and whites can't eat together THE South African Government has rejected all 15 applications for multiracial permits in the city centre of Johannesburg. It has als refused to grant 'international' status to a further five licensed restaurants in the city. Township built for Crossroads squatters WHITE POLITICS NO CHANGE A BLEAK new township is mushrooming on the banks of the Kei River -apparently for the residents of Crossroads; the squatter settlement near Cape Town. The township is being built hurriedly an secretly by the South African authorities on land which has been expropriated by the Bantu Trust for eventual transfer to the Transkei. The South African Government has said that it will bulldoze Crossroads to the ground before Christmas, as part of its policy of clearing squatters from the Western Cape. But the residents of Crossroads have refused to move - saying that the only way wives and children can stay with their menfolk is by living in the squatter settlement. For the last two months the authorities have been harassing the people of Crossroads by mounting pass raids in the early hours of the morning. In these raids at least two THE African National Congress of South Africa has issued a full statementon the clash between its guerrillas and South African forces in the Transvaal in August, it which it says that guerrillas killed 10 South African soldiers in a fourhour battle (October AA NEWS). The ANC statement reported that a unit of its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, clashed with the South African Defence Force in the Rustenburg area of the Transvaal, less than 100 miles from Pretoria.. This is the most serious clash yet reported inside South Africa's borders. There have ben several reports of other clashes in the past year. In April Brigadier C F Zietsman, head of the security police, said police 'had clashed several times with terrorists of the banned ANC in the Eastern Transvaal' since June 1977. At least two Policemen were reported wounded in these clashes. Another skirmish - near the border with Swaziland - seas reported in lat February. According to the Sunday Post agroup of guerillas Crossed ieto South Africa and ambushed a police patrol. Two policemen were shot and the incident was hushed up until midApril while folloW-up operations continued. In an interview at the beginning of June Zietsman said that of the young blacks who had fled the country after the June 1976 upriings, 4000 were undergoing military training. He estimated that 75 per cent of these were in ANC camps and that 'most of the remainder' were incamps run by the PAC. Two black South Africans believed to be connected with BOSS have been killed this year. In April a KwaZulu Politician Lloyd Ndaba, was assassinated by an unknown group of men outside his house in Soweto. He was the head of the extreme rightwing 'Shake's Spear' Party of KwaZuJu, and had been accused of having BOSS connections, A black member of BOSS, Bkakthemba Mayeza, was found shot dead inn car near Durban in late July. OnJune 25 this year a man described by the Rand Daily Mail as 'Soweto's moat feared poliee. ean' was shot outside hisseain SoWeto. Although he weas officially a member of the Brixtos Murder and Robbery Squad, he was widely known as someone who had played a leading role in assaulting students and demonstrators arrested during the last two years. The man was Detective Sergeant 'Hiubl' Chaphi. Venda homeland chief locks up the opposition MEMBERS of the Venda Indpen- seats In the Assembly and he was dence Party - which won 31 of the only able to ensure his election as 42 elected seats in the Venda 'Chief Minister' by locking upthe 'Legislative Assembly' - boycotted opposition the Assembly's farcical opening in Vendaland is scheduled to September. Twelve of them had become - after Transkei and already been locked up by the Bophuthatswana -the third Bantustan's stooge 'Chief Minister' 'independent' Bntustan. It Patrick Mphephu. cosists of2300 sure miles of Even by Bantustan standards poor landsinsthe far north eastern Mphaphu has few supporters: his Transvaal. Venda National Party won only 11 T men - and a young baby - have already been killed (October AA NEWS). The authorities in the Transkei - the Bantustan to which the South African Government wants to sent many of the squatters - have said that they will not accept them. Hence the new township where the squatters can be shipped without fear that the.Transkei will refuse thnem. At the site scores of psarallel streets have already been bulldozed through the void. Stacks of corrugated iron roofing and prefabricated tin walls are stockpiled at the construction camp. The work has not been p t out to tender: it is being done with Government personnel and equipment. A photographic exhibition showing conditions at Crossroads has been on display at Bristol Polytechnic and Bristol Central Library, BOSS AGENTS SHOT DEAD IN TOWNSHIP

REVIEWS Pamphlets NOW. Special Issue on Apartheid. November 1978. Published by the Methodist Church Overseas Division 25 Marylebone Road, London NWl. THE Overseas Division of the Methodist Church has for many years published a monthly magazine NOW, covering the many activities of the worldwide church. As a contribution to Internetional Anti-Apartheid Year, and in pursuance of a resolution of the Methodist Conference in June 1978, the November issue of NOW is devoted entirely to the subject of. apartheid. It is an outstanding production, which lcan thoroughly recommend to my fellow Methodists, and indeed to everyone concerned about the evils of apartheid - and to those who are not, but should bel On page 4 there is a striking tabulation of the economic consequences of apartheid: land allocation 87 per cent to whites, 13 par cent for blacksl The ratio of doctors to population is 1:400 for whites, 1:44,000 for blacksl Anyone who thinks that apartheid is just a weird racial doctrine should look at this table and memorise it, for the figures prove beyond any dispute that apartheid is a ruthless system of economic exploitation, a form of industrial slavery. The magazine contains articles by Nkosazena Dlamini, a young medical student in Bristol, finishing the course she began in Natal, pleading for Britain to boycott South African trade, culture and sport, to stop arms sales and to disinvest. Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, writes: 'The Government may be able to kill people, to harass people, to arrest people, but it cannot arrest their thoughts, it cannot ban their thinking, it cannot ban their new attitudes.' There is an excellent account of the impact of apartheid on women and the family by Ilva Mackay, who was herself detained under the Internal Security Act in 1976 and again in'1977. The Anti-Apartheid Movement itself is clearly and concisely described by Ethel de Keyser, and material from an interview with Canon John Collins sets out the work of the International Defence and Ad Fund and the humanitarian aid the Fund has provided to the victims of racial injustice But this issue of NOW is more than a group of articlesabout apartheid. It is an eloquent appeal to Christians and non-Christians throughout Britain to recognise their own responsibilities and their own obligations in the international struggle against apartheid. It is a worthycontribution to International Anti-Apartheid Year. Frank Hooley MP Copies-of the NOW special issue on apartheid are available from AAM, top plus postage, Prisoners of Apartheid. A Biographical Ust of Political Prisoners and Banned Persons in South Africa. Published by the InternationalDefence and Aid Fund in cooperation with the UN Centre Against Apartheid, £3. IDAF has published this book as part of its contribution to Internetionsl Anti-Apartheid Year. It contains two lists -one of knownSouth African political prisoners and one of those banned or banished for their political convictions - both with biographical details where these are known. The book is a window on the history of the resistance movement in South Africa and a revelation of the depth and breadth of the liberation struggle. The list of names includes those who were imprisoned in the early and mid-1960s - most of them gaoled for their part in trying to implement the historic decision taken by the African National Congress in 1961 to launch armed struggle in South Africa. Here are not only the leaders sentenced to life imprisonment men like Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki - but also the rank and file militants: Laloo Chiba sentenced to 18 years' gaol, PAC member Samuel Chibane, serving life, Thompson Dawete, serving 14 years, and many more. Then there are those who kept the struggle going in the difficult years after the arrests of the mid1960s and before the new mood of mass militancy which climaxed in June 1976. Among them are James April, sentenced to 15 years on Robben Island in 1971 for trying to set up an ANC underground network, and the Pretoria Six, convicted In 1973 for bringing weapons into South Africa. But the biggest category of prisoners are those who have been sentenced in the last two years for terms ranging from five years to life. The scale of this list leaves no doubt that for every activist who is caught, convicteldand locked away, more will come forward to carry on the fight. Among those imprisoned are four women - and they deserve spatial mention They are borothy Nyembe, sentenced'to 15years' imprisonment in 1969 and for some time South Africa's only woman political prisoner; Esther Maleka, serving five' years for recruiting twqmen to undergo military traning; Happy Mashambe, who has two young children and was convicted with her husband, who is serving five years; and Edith Mbala, srving five years for repro u ing ANC leaflets. The book will be of practical use to organisetions which want to 'adopt' a South African political prisoner Into the Liberated Ares and Beyond - SWAPO of Namibia. Directed by Per Sanden. 40 rains. Available on hire from: The Other Cinema, 12 Little Newport Street, London WC1 THE most exciting thing about Per Sanded's recent film on PLAN, the -People's Liberation Army of Namibia, is its message: it vividly depicts the growing might of SWAPO'e araed struggle - the reality of control over the expanding liberated areas in northern Namibia and the increasing strength of popular support. The first film of its kind, it was madewith the hel~pof PLAN comhatants, who escorted a film control, and aTo e Angola, The ease with which they are able to move in and between these zones is indicative of the suces of the guerrilla war, Per Sonden has seid: 'It is not ore dangerous to cross Namibia's northern borders than to stroll across strpats in mijor Western cties.' The relationship between PLAN and the Namibian people is more obvious than ever in the sc es which depict the dependence of civilians on the guerrillas for medical aid, and the extent to which PLAN combatants cooperate with the people in the production of food. The film concentrates on Namibia's new reality: that of an army which has developed through ICA Theatre RED EARTH A new play by David Lan Directed by John Burgess October 25- November 11, Tuesday to Saturday, 1,15 pm 75p plus membership ICA Theatre, Nash House, The Mail, London SW1. Box Office: 930 6893 CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTEANATIONAL INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE DISINVESTMENT CAMPAIGN by Simon Clarke A challenging analysis of the changing character of overseas investment in South Africa and the implications for the international solidarity movement Price: 50p Published by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 89 Chelotte St, Loedon Wl popular support, and is now able to reciprodate by helping to meet the material needs of the people, The footage on military operations is equally informative. The film deals with methods of communication on the front; the nature of the weapons now being used; the integration of military strategy with political education and various aspects of logistics. It is impossible to ignore the sophistication of the South African. army and the nature of the oppression which has driven the people to take up arms. Shots of captured weapons confirm the fact that South Africa relies for military supplies on the NATO countries. The motivation for the struggle is articulated on another level in interviews with refugees, including schoolchildren who fled from Odibe earlier this year. But the overall impression is one of hope, and the film reinforces our confidence in the inevitability of the victory of the Namibian people through their effective armed struggle. TRIBUTE TO FENNER BROCKWAY AT 90 FENNER Brockway will be 90 years old on November 1. He remains almost as active as ever an intellectually stimulating man, who knows that the fight against imperialism in its new form and the attack on racialism must be waged constantly. Born in 1888 in Calcutta, the son and grandson of missionaries, Penner became a dedicated socialist end journalist, and also a pacifist," He served three years' imprisonment with hard labour in the 1914-18 war. In 929 he was elected to the House of Commons (the year before I wasbornl) and his autobiography Towar l Tomorrow reads like ahistory of the Labour Movement - only perhaps better, sincese seem to have managed not to go astray. There must be virtually no newly emergent country whose leaders in the struggle for liberation were not personal friends of. Fenner. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawarlahal Nehru, Gamel Abdel Nasser, Haile Selassie, Kwame Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda and countless others have been known to him, and he to them. Fenner has known at first hand every Labour Prime Minister from Ramsey MacDonald to Jim Callaghan, and people such as thi Pankhursts, Keir Hardie, Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Bertrand Russell, George Orwell and Oswald Mosley His political life spans the turn of the last century, the two world wars, the t ansformatiQn of whole continents and the last two decades of this century. Reading Fenner's autobiography I conclude that he is a realist and an optimist - why else Towards Tomorrow? He is an inspiration to us all, He epitomises the struggle that has to be constantly made to defeat the evils socialists are committed to end. Arthur Latham MP A 90th Birthday Celebration for Fenner Brockway will be held on Saturday November 4, 7-11 pm, ar the Commonwealth Institure, Kensington High Street, London WS, Entrtainment wi/l include Aklosau Mayapi, Workers Music Association Choir, Mayibuye, Tara Raikumar and Pandit Manikaro Popatkar. There will be a free buffet. Tickets: £3 single, £5 double. Everyone welcome. Tickets from: Liberation, 313-5 Caledonian Road, London NI. Tel 01-607 0465. Prisoners of Apartheid A biographical list of convicted political prisoners and banned and banished people in South Africa, and detainees known to have died in security police custody since 1963. An invaluable reference book, for groups involved in the campaign against apartheid. '/e owe a debt of gratitude to the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa for publishing this book as one of its contributions to the observance of the International Anti-Apartheid Year.' His Excellency Leslie 0 Harriman, Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid Published by the International Defence and Aid Fund in cooperation with the UN Centre Against Apartheid.180pp Price£3includingp&p From iDAF Publications, 104 Newgate Street, London EClA TAP

Wrn SA:No hanging' -Western Five urged 'SPEAK out for Solomon Embassy In London to dtimand after joiningthe African National Mahlangu'wastheappeal Mahlngu'srelease. Congrm,andlaterreturnedwith sent to the five Western Meanwhile Solomon Mahlangu is arms and explosilve. Foreign Ministers in Pretoria still in a death call in Pretoria The Anti-Apartheid Mov ment is by anti-apartheid organisations Central Prison waitingto hear the still sekingthat David Owen interin eight western countries on outcome of his appeal to the South vene directy with the South October17. AfricanSltatePresldest. AfricanGovernmenttosecure ThegroupscaledtheForein Hewas sentenced In March after Solomon Mallangu's release. Ministers sking tham to intervene being convicted of the shsooting of Petition for . are availeble from with PrimeMinister Bothaon twowhite aragemechanicain AAM. Mahlangs's behalf. JnnerglastJune. ,vi....miin p twrite metnBian lah olnoccuradas diirecttotheSotAfiaauthorimnsinBriainld,West Masab and two companions ties.Postcararssed to p~rime Gerany th Neherand, Blgi m ere running away from plolice. Minister Botha are alio availabmle Canada, U andFranc .e Theywere altIformer school anad a n ncellor studeUtn who ha4 left Seuth Africa A bedge 'Save Solomon Mahlangu' WestGeran auscforis also available from AAM. withi the South Africa GovemMoant asking for a repr-lava for Malianqu. The President of Francs, Gisqard d'Esaing, and the Government of the Netherlands had already appealed for clemency. Every Wednesday lunchstime since last June the Anti-Apsartheid Movement has bean htolding a picket outside the South African Three more on murdercharges AT least thrse more people are facing charges under the Terrorism Delhi conference marks UN Year v. A BIG aniti-aprtheid conference Was heldin Delhi, September 28Ocober 1 It was organised by the Inin Pe.e and Solidarity Committee, AAPSO and the World Peace Council. The British AntiAparthid Movement was represented by Abdul Minty, who led the discussion On Western military collaboration with South Africa. UN International Year Against Apartheid is being marked in many different ways all over the world. AA NEWS reports on some recent events. CANADIAN anti-apartheid groups are collecting signatures to a petition to the Canadian Government calling for the total economic isolation of South Africa. it will be presented on the last day of UN Ant - Apartheid Year, March 21 1979. A PAN-African Trade Union Seminar was held inLibreviile,N Gabon, September 26-30, on 'Problems of apartheid and ways and means for its eradication'. Apartheid UNICEF (UN Chlrn' ud is to make available an additional £500,000, over and above its regular budgt, for refugee children from South Africa. CUBA and Jamaica will issue special postage stamps to make International Anti-Apartheid Year. THE Governm~ent of Kenya haa invited the Chairman of the UN Special Com itteeAgnst Apartheid, Nigerian Ambassador Leslie Harrimn, to deliver the Tom Mboya Memorial Lecture on 'Racism. Apartheid and African Development' in November 1978. THE Nigerian Committee for the Dissemination of Information on the Evils of Apartheid has organised a poster competition to mark AntiApartheid Year. THE Internationalece Hockey Federation hasbanned South Africa froms playing in any international matches. Te d on was that no South African tam would be allowed to compete oer eas 'until apartheid was eliminated'. Prisoners lose news appeal POLITICAL prisoners held in Pretoria Local Prison have lost their appeal against a court judgement that they were not entitled to receive newspapers, magazines and journals. The appeal was brought by eight prisoners - Dennis Goldberg, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia trial in 1964; Dave Kitscr, serving 20 years; John Matthw~s, serving 15 years; Alex Moumbaris; Ray Suttner; David Rabkin; Jeremy Cronin and Anthony Holiday. So the prisoners will continue to be deprived of allnews of the outside world And their lives from now on will be even cougher becauseof the recently introduced ban on all studies beyond 'matric'level. to the West'. Public meeting. House of Commons. 7.30 pm. AA iary nOrgPnisedbyAAM November 8 Picket for release of November 4 Partyto celebrate Solomon Mahlangu. South Lord Fenner Brockway's 10th African Embassy, Trafalgar birthday. Commonwealth Square, London WC2.1-2 pm Institute. Kensington High St, November 11 'Britain and SouthLondon WS. 7-11pm ernAfrica'. Abraham Moss November 5 Anti-Apartheid Centre. Crumpsall, Manchester. MovementANNUALGENERAL 10am - 6 pm. Organised by MEETING. New Ambassadors Manchester AA Group Hotel, Upper Woburn Pic, November 11 Musical Evening. London WC1. 10 am -.30 pm BarnetAAGroup.66Hadley November 7 'Confrontelt in Road, Barnet. Tickets £ Southern Africa: The Challenge November 14 Meeting on Special Anti-Apartheid Movement Meeting CONFRONTAHION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: T HE CHALLENGE TO THE WEST TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7 7.30 PM HOUSE OF COMMONS Speakers: Bob Hughes MP and Abdul S Minty All welcome Details from AAM 89 Charlotte St London W1 P 2DQ Tel 01-580 5311 Zimbabwe. Patriotic Front speaker. Labour Club, Norwich. Organised by Norwich AA Group November 15 Picket for the release of Solomon Mahlangu. South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, London WC2. 1-2 pm November 18 Irish AAM Annual General Meeting. Details: Irish AAM, 20 Beechpark Road, Foxrock, Co Dublin November,22 Picket for release of Solomon Mahlangu. South African Embassy. Trafalgar Square, London WC2. 1-2 pm November 25 Seminar on 'Investment in South Africa'. Warwick University. Organised by AAM and NUS November 29 Picket for release of Solomon Mahlangu. South African Erpbassy, Trafalgar Square, London WC2. 1-2 pm December 1 International Day of Action against Banking Unks with South Africa. Details: AAM December 2 Socal Evening Venue to be announced. Organised by West London AA The Anti-Aparthid Movemenit As well as publishing Anti-Apartheid News monthly, AAM has a wide range of pamphlets, posters and other information material about the situation in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Literature list available on request Speakers AAM will send a speaker to any group which wants to discuss any aspect of British involvement in Southern Africa Local Groups AAM has active local groups in most majo centres. List. page 2. Contact addresses evailable on request Affiliation As wall as individual mambers AAM has affiliated organisations, including local political parties, trade unions, church groups,and student organisations. Affiliation fees for local organisations E5; for student unions £25; trade unions-sliding scale from £15 depending on membership Join the AAM I wish to join the Anti-Apartheid Movement and receive Anti-Apartheid News and regular information about AAM activities I enclose £ ...... NAM E ...... ADDRESS ...... ;...... ,...... ,...... Minimum annual membership fees: £5; students/apprentices £3; school students/pensioners/claimants £1 Subscription to AA News only: UK/Europe £3; outside Europe-surface mail £3 (USS5.25), airmail £5 (USS8&75) Anti-Apartheid Movement 89 Charlotte Street London W1P 2DO Tel 01-N0 5311