lJirst IInrlb .Mti- Apurl4tib 1'Tewsleti~r - JF'::r-~ s ~ E:: ::rr~~t s ripst 1I..ld R!sea.ch Association I Metis S!JlviGe P.o. Box 5208 ATLANTA. GA 30307. Uolu.e One~ NuRber Two_ "arc~April 1990 .la.paD--S Bedding D.a.wn IIit.b. Apart.heid tions ....ade long-terM contracts to iMport by Koji Shi..ura huge aMounts Or natural resources frOM South Africa_ Meanwhile they also began In 1961, two Nobel Peace Prize winners exporting heavy industrial plants to South and subsequent victims oF' racist Africa. The .Japanese governrtlent provided political assassination, Martin Luther the financial backing t.o the exporting King. Jr and African National Congress business. President Albert Luthuli, jointly called The Japanese presence in South AF'rica for comprehensive mandatory sanctions has steadily increased over the years so against r acist/fascist South Africa much so that today, .Japan has supplanted The subsequent DwithdrawalD of sol'lle the U_S_ and Western Europe as racist South European and American investltlent and Africa's leading trading partner. However, business due to - anti-apartheid the u.S. still holds the dubious honor of ressure, highlighted South Africa's the primary source of F'inance capital. acute dependence upon raw fWlaterials .Japan is South Africa's leading buyer of exports and manuF'actured products coal, iron ore, asbestos and andalusite. In imports. As such, the racist regiMe 1985, Japan iMported 55 percent oF' its sought to speed the path to a self­ chroMe F'rom South Africa, 68 percent of its supporting econortly_ Japan eagerly platinUM (for electronic parts and the moved in to fill this trade gap and essential catalyzer for auto exhausts), 54 thereby quickened South Afric~s percent of its manganese and 85 percent of industrial advancement. its panadiufll, the essential material F'or To placat.e the increased superconductors. n ....ber of!' Japanese business.en in Sout.h AFrica» the Japanese THE JAPANESE RAPE BRIGADE (Hall Of ShaMe). lIere ~clared ·honorary .....ites· At the present, alMost all the f artlous by t.he peruerse architects o~ large Japanese firflls are deeply involved in hat.e that. sa.e year_ the apartheid econoMY_ These include: Japanese multi-national corporat- (continued on page 3> News Brief ATLANTA, GA_- "ARTA BOARD NON-COftPlITTAL ABOUT APARTtEID_ Representatives of the AF'rican National Congress, the Southern Africa StLKly Group, The Coalition oF' Concerned WOrtlen, Concerned Black Clergy and other organizations, have urged MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority> to sever its link to the apartheid econol'l'l\j. At the MARTA Board rtIeeting on February 26, the delegation read a petition calling or the termination of MARTA contracts with the Goodyear Tire COfYlpany and Motorola, ...,ho have operations in racist South Africa in deF'iance of United Nations sanctions and world moral dict.ates. The delegation argued that MARTA is socially and Morally obligated to stop doing business with these companies because its ridership is (continued on page 4) oppressed Masses, who took optimal advantage of the recent presidential elect.ions .to promote the cause of t.he people_ 1. So far as the oppressed nasses of 4. South Africa and its allies would like to Sout.h AFrica are concerned, there is focus the attention on so-called no such thing as a liberal white party black-on-black violence, which the police versus a conservative white party.. instigate in order to direct attention away Ther-e is only the white/r-acist fascist frOf'/l the systerrlic violence of apartheid. milit.ary police state of South Afr-ica. Diff'erent white ethnic groups of Eastern Europe flatten each othcar und;r Militoary 2_ The only difFerence between deKleck tanks. and nobody screartlS dirty iMMoral and the so-called "conservative tribalislYl! Was dropping the A-BolYlb Right-Wingll is that. he is at least tribalistic:? srrJar-t enough to see that ralaalSDing Mandela, and the other so-called :5. The histor-y of the African lndependence/ liref'or-Il1S", will benefit the ailing South Liberation ~~veMent at.tests to the success African econo~. which is 60 percent of African unity over and against the dependent. upon its international Divide-And-Rule tactics o~ colonialis[l'l. It trade. Since deKleck mer-ely star-ted will continue to be so. Struggles for attending to Mandela1s release last national uniFic:ation have been historically Sept.eMber-. South Africa1s international violent.:. even under the gl-dse of' gold shares have incr-eased by 60 non-violence. percent. South AFrica and its western allies seek to yse Mandela's release 6. If white settier- colonialisM exist.ed and the so-called "ref'orrrJs" to before t.he apartheid syst.eM, white set.tler deMobilize the intemational sanctions colonialiSM can continue to exist in another moveP1ent. guise even iF apar-theid is "diSlYlantled'l. Black political c:ontrol does not.~ in itself, 3. We need to be wary enough to rule out. whit.e econof'l1ic dOlYlination, realize that the changes in South especiallt.::j when virtYally the whole world is Africa today are happening in spite of invested in South Africa. the South ~frican "governlW1entII and not because of it. The opening of' the 7. Whatever the answer to the situation in borders and other- lilV1ited social South Africa. it would be brought for-th privileges were forced upon the r-acist priMarily through the continued activiSM of regiMe thr-ough the recent and the oppressed masses of South Africa. cont.inuing DeFiance Campaign of the Already, the struggle inside South Africa has becOf'/le lV10re all-per-vasive wit.h Africans FIRST MO~LD ANTI-"APARTHEID in the rur-al areas now openly rejecting t.he NEWSLETTER_ Bantustan systefll (the Reservation SysteM). Uol..e One Nu..ber Two_ "arch' April 1990_ 8. If Africans were self-ruling and econo­ Mically viable before the Europeans carrie, Published 6 t.i.es a year by Africans can be selF-ruling and econordcally First. World Research viable in the post-colonial era. Association.. P _0_ Box 5208 9. Strategic political assassination of Atlanta:. I;A 30307 ant.i-apartheid leaders in South AFrica has been on the r-ise right. in the Midst of this lJ so-called new wave of' whit.e "liberalism • For the ANC to walk "Freely" through deKleck's cc:) 1990. "open door-u bt.::j showing up in South Africa in Per.ission is granted For nulYlbers. rrlay be yet. another golden other progressiue groups and opportunity for white settler colonialism indiuiduals t.o quot.e or reprint over time. articles herein", prouided credit. is given to First World Research 10_ 80th the ANC and the South African Associat.it;m and the author_ (continued on page 4> ~ I I I I (JAPRN __ continued FrOli page 1> <~",,0ol!? tt'rf:W the ANC, in South AFriCa I AjinoMoto~ Itochgu, Japan External snot.hEr Najar Jiberat.i«1 JtWtJeRent _q-ri4Je$ Trade Organization~ Happy World. K~do JtJitis litr,hr ar nf:'I J!"anf'ElrI? in cali1bat.ing the --.((oMMUnications~ MarUfYliya~ Toyota Aut~ NaI~JG1Ent. rarce..~ Or JtJhit.e rae-iSH ,and Jeiwa Industry~ Osaka Merchant Uessel $E'ttJer calanialJ"-tVd Wn.l daQ"t Ale dJ.l J.:ncw Mi tsui. NichiMen~ Nishowiwai, Sanyo about t.h.is group ouf...",,°ol!? Or South Africa? Electronics. SufllitOfllO COf\1f11erc:ial FirI'Jl~ MJo i$ re5pOn-~e rar t.M-~ can...t:::;piracy or TBS, Toyoda COfIlfllerce~ Hino Autofllobile _""1ence abot,;t t.hL~ potent. rarceF:) First Bridgeston, Fanack~ Hitachi Constr­ World Researcher Soter IrlASota contacted uction Mecha, Malden S_A.~ MatslAShita the Pan Africanist Congress ~ Azania Electronic Trade~ Mi tsubishi COIll/WIerce (South Africa) United Nations Observer Firlll. Moritani~ Nisan Diesel, SharP7 Mission in New Vork. OlAr conversation with SUMit0f\10 Electronic Manuf'ac::ture7 the Chief' Representative Mr_ Count Toshiba~ Fuji Electronic~ Hitachi Peterson follows. Factory. Kakinai Coflllllercial Fir~ FWR: Tell us brierly about the PAC's history KOll1atsu F actor-y, MarubQni. M_tsoud~ and philosoophy. Mitsui Products, NGK~ Nissan AutoMobile~ PAC Rep: The PAC was Forflled in 1959. OUr Saf'marine. SukihaMa~ Taiyow Proc:luct~ lIlain objective is the return of the land to TorMen~ Isuzu Auto and Nihon Product~ the indigenous people. It was forflled to to naMe but a few! r ally the oppressed African people under The Japanese Anti-Apartheid Co fII IIIi­ the banner of ~rican NationaliSM_. We are ttee sent open letters to these cOl'l1Mitted to the real concept of a United cOMpanies and asked their opinions States of A~rica and the transf'orfllation of about the issue of econortlic sanctions the Azanian econOfllY into a socialist one_ against South Africa. Most of .the FWR: Who is the leader of' the PAC? cOMpanies refused to answer or stated PAC Rep: OlAr President is Zephenia that they were following the off'icial Mothopeng who also spent the better part policy ~ the Japanese governrtlent_ The o~ 30 years in the infaMOUS Robben Island governlllent in turn has taken the prison~ ~rofll which he was released last osition tha~ IIWe cannot restrict the year. .Jction of' the companies because this FWR: Why is the PAC not well known in the is a liberal society." West? The Japanese governMent has repeat­ PAC Rep.: There is a conspiracy in the edly violate_d United Nations Security so-called liberal press in the West based on Council resolutions prohibiting the their paranoia about the PAC ideology which exporting of COfllputer technology and they consider "radical". The press would nuclear materials to racist South pref'er to prOMOte other groups they Africa.