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Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Southern Africa, Vol. 3, No. 6 Alternative title Southern AfricaSouthern Africa News BulletinRhodesia News Summary Author/Creator Southern Africa Committee Publisher Southern Africa Committee Date 1970-07-00 - 1970-08-00 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Southern Africa (region), United States, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, United Kingdom Coverage (temporal) 1970-00-00 Source Northwestern University Libraries Rights By kind permission of the Southern Africa Committee. Description South Africa's propaganda machine. Inside South Africa. Inside Rhodesia. Namibia. South Africa's Neighbors. Portugal and the Portuguese colonies. British Resumption of Arms Sales to South Africa. International conference in support of the Peoples of the Portuguese colonies. Book Review: "Africa: the Dialogue". Student Protests. Sport. Percy Sledge sells "Soul" to South Africa. Major Papers Run Series on Southern Africa: Liberation Struggle often ignored. Anti-Corporate actions. U.S. Ambassador's Appointment Decried. Format extent 34 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nusa197007 http://www.aluka.org SOUTH ERN SOUTH ERN nAFRI A A Monthly Survey of News an o n Published by the Southern f r ca Co e-L637 West 125th Street - ew York, N. Y. UbUra ry Vol. III, No. 6 July-August IR7% CONTENTS PA 1. Editorial: "One S 11 Step Forward: Two G nt Steps Bac 2 2. Feature Article: S 0QWINE 3 3. INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA The Case of the Twenty-Two 6 Protest Around the Trial 7 Zulu Territorial Authority Established 7 Transkei Demands More Land 8 Nuclear Know-How 9 South African Films 9 Urban Bantu Council Powerless 9 U.S. Official Kidnapped 9 4. INSIDE RHODESIA: A Summary of New§ and Events 10 5. NAMIBIA 11 More U.N. Deliberations 11 Sam Nujoma's Testimony at the U.N. 12 Hosea Kutako Dead 13 6. SOUTH AFRICA'S NEIGHBORS 13 Lesotho: British Recognition and Resumed Aid 13 Botswana: Entangled by world capitalism 14 Botswana: Relations with South Africa 14 Malawi: A policy of political realism? 15 7. PORTUGAL AND THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES 16 South African Troops in Angola 16 Benguela Railway Dispute 16 PAIGC Advances in Guinea-Bissau 17 U.S. Link With Cabora Bassa??? 17 CONTENTS (Portugal and Portuguese Colonies, Continued) Rogers Visits Madrid, Lisbon, for Bases Talks Interview with Marcelino dos Santos More Attacks in Angola Portugal's Gratitude Portugues6 Upset: Pope Gives Audience to Liberation Leaders More Withdrawals from Cabora Bassa Portuguese Losses Admitted Schools Bombed in Guinea-Bissau Atomic Energy in Southern Africa Liberation Movements Supported at World Food Congress Bombs Discovered at Portuguese, South African Offices Other Guerrilla §uccesses 8. British Resumption of Arms Sales to South Africa: Background and Implications 9. International Conference in Support of the Peoples of the Portuguese Colonies: A Report 10. Book Review: "Africa: This New Dialogue" (U.S. Department of State) Student Protests 12. Sport 13, Percy Sledge Sells "Soul" to South Africa 14. Major'Papers Run Series on Southern Africa: Liberation Struggle Often Ignored 15. Anti-Corporate Actions: A British Assessment 16. U. S. Ambassador's Appointment Decried EDITORIAL "One Small Step Forward: Two Giant Steps Backward" For the first time, the United Nations has held a World Youth Conference and has invited for participation some representatives from the liberatory movements of Southern Africa. These-delegates were asked on several occasions to interpret the implications of two recent events in iope: the reception and blessing of representatives from the liberatory movements of the Portuguese colonies by the Pope in Rome recently, and the news that the new conservative government in Britain will-soon cancel the Labor government's ban on arms sales to South'Africa. The former was heralded as an important event, representing as it did a rather revolutionary stance for the Roman church leader. Mr. Antonio Condesse of the MPILA (Angolan Popular -Movement for Liberation) stated that it is not expected that the Pope will take any further steps in this matter, but-that his reception and blessing themselves were quite important in their implications to all the Catholic world--especially the Portuguese part. One small step forward, PAGE 19 19 19 20 2020202021212222 22 25 I -3- But comments regarding Britain's move towards selling arms to South Africa are not so positive. Many young Africans at the U.N. Youth Assembly have interpreted it as both a direct insult to black Africa a, a whole, and as a tremendous demoralizing effect on the United Nations itself. Britain's seeming lack of concern about the U.N. embargo on ai sales to South Africa represents a lack of respect for that body which becoming increasingly great on the part of many of its members. To many Africans, Britain's move is interpreted as forming a strong alliance with the white racist regimes of Southern Africa against the people's movements and desires for freedom and self-determination, but it also represents a major erosion of their faith in the United Nation. The lip service given to maintenance of peace and security by the move is undone by the inevitability it places on a violent revolution being the only way out of the situation for the Africans. Two giant steps backward. What the Western world cannot see is that it is WE who are taking t] giant steps backward, and the movements for liberation in Africa who a: taking the small steps forward. WE HAVE MOVED t. Readers: Please note our new address on the masthead. In the future, please address all correspondence (and donations!) to our new address. Also, if you have a change of address, BE SURE TO INDICATE BOTH YOUR OLD AND YOUR NEW ZIP CODE!! feature article : SOUTH AFRICA'S PROPAGANDA MACHINE Ten years ago, South Africa's foreign policy and image-building attempts overseas were crude and unsophisticated. Eric Louw, then External Affairs Minister, was a dogmatic white supremacist who hurled racist epithets from the platforms of the United Nations, to the delight of his fellow Nationalists at home. Then came Sharpeville--a diplomatic disaster of massive proportions for the South African government--followed, a year later, by South Africa's virtual expulsion from the British Commonwealth. The economic crisis created by the flood of money out of the country following Sharpeville and the loss of Commonwealth economic preferences brought about the realization by the South African government that it would have to do some intensive face-lifting if it were to counteract its image as the world's polecat and again attract foreign investment capital into the country. Slowly, over the years, a skillful, well-planned and massively financed propaganda program has been developed which, it must be admitted, has performed wonders. South Africa has never been strote economically and militarily, powerful friends speak for her in all parts of the western world, despit her continued and intensified repression of the majority of her people. Dr. Louw's boorish foreign polic, has given way to the quiet and soph. isticated approach of Hildgard Muller, an Oxford-educated, modern -4- day diplomat. Exhaustive and detailed memoranda flow from Dr. Muller's office as attempted rebuffs to attacks on apartheid. Muller travels constantly through the capitals of the Western world, building bridges, avoiding confrontations with demonstrators, stressing South Africa's supposedly strategic role in the Indian Ocean, apparent contribution to the fight against communism, and unlimited opportunities for foreign investment. Since Dr. Louw's demise, South Africa has launched a propaganda onslaught using many different approaches. In the mid-60's, Radio South Africa began broadcasting in many different languages to all corners of the globe. Nightly on the 25 meter band, it preaches its low-key racism to North America, interspersed with music and chatty South African anecdotes. Over the years, too, South Africa's propaganda publications have become more elaborate in format and, more skillful in content. Three such magazines circulate in the U.S.: South African Panorama (published by the Government Department of Information, Pretoria); Report from South Africa (published by the Department of Information in the South African Embassy in London); and South African