Newspaper' of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Price 5p. November 1973 Newspaper' of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Price 5p. November 1973 Asml, asemge gin th r~y~o o 0e a £4L.7 solemnlyIprcaI h S a gf G ina iesu. 24hSetmerI7 Howthepeole f Gine Bisauprolaied hei inepedene: enrpg es. ACTION-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Britain Manchester MANCHESTER Anti-Apartheid Movement is to hold a public meeting on Friday November 9 at 7.30pm at Town Hall Basement Theatre, Manchester. The main speaker will be John Hosey who recently returned from attending the trial of the Pretoria Six in South Africa. On Friday November 30 Manchester AAM will hold its Annual General Meeting at 8pm at the Lass o'Gowrie, Charter St., Manchester. Peter Hilldrew of the Guardian will speak on his recent visit to South Africa. The group is planning to run a market stall selling white elephants and good-as-new clothing in December and January to raise funds. Saleable contributions to Manchester AAM, 565 Wilmslow Rd., Manchester 20. Phone Manchester 445 2940. Conference A CONFERENCE on 'South Africa and Us' was called by Norwest Cooperative Society, Manchesfer and Salford Trades Council and Manchester Anti-Apartheid Movement on Saturday October 13. It was attended by an audience of about 100. Dick Seabrook, ex-President of USDAW, outlined the danger to British workers of Britain's close involvement with South Africa, where cheap and controlled labour promised quick returns. for big business. Ben Turok ofthe -African National Congress of South Africa pointed out the fallacy of the cry that boycotts hurt the Africans, He said that trade boycotts operated mainly against South African fruit which was- produced by prisonlabour or contract workers who were paid a pittance. He called for pressure to isolate South Africa in investment, culture, sport and trade and said that the Ca-operative Movement could lead the way. Discussion centred on how to forward the campaign atreadyunderway locallyon investment andtrade. Leading Co-operators present expressed strong support, but also pointed out practical problems they face. It was -agreed that further cooperation on these issues was necessary and that the three organisations would continue to work together. Barnet THE GOVERNMENT should be asked to act over the growing volume of trade between Israel and South Africa, Peter Hellyer stressed at a meeting in October of Barnet Anti-Apartheid Committee. He said that South Africa's links with Israel -especially over polishing diamonds -were of great importance to it. Peter Hellyer revealed too, that Israel is alleged to be training.white women in Rhodesia and that they are working with Portugal. He suggested that pressure -should be placed on the British Government and that the matter could be raised with the Zionist Federation. Coventry COVENTRY Defence Committee have called a picket outside South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London on Saturday November 3 Il am-I pm. The picket is tp support the appeal of Pretoria Six trialist Sean Hasey, whilc is to be heard in South Africa'on November 8' The Pretoria Six were all found guilty on charges under the.Teroorism Act last June. The four Africans accused were sentenced to fifteen years inprisonment, Alexander Moumbaris to twelve years and Sean Hoiy to five years. Scan Hosey was the only one of the six given leave to appeal. , Sean Hosey's mother and sister, Kay and Noreen Hosey, are hoping to go to South Africa to observe the appeal, it was announced at a meeting of the Coventry Defence Committee held on October 11. In a report of the extensive activities of the Committee since itsformation it was announced that over £2500 had been raised, including over £500 from Transport and General Workers Union members. Contact: Coventry Defenece Committee, 115 Yarningale Rd., Willenhall, Coventry. Holloway ROYAL HOLLOWAY College Students Union has passed a motion deciding to withdraw its account from Barclays Bank because of the bank's involvement in Southern Africa. The motion also urges all union members not to bank with Barclays. SART SART (Stop the Apartheid Rugby Tour) is calling for support for a picket of the England v Australia game at Twickenham on November 17 to urge the British Lions to cancel their 1974 tour of South Africa. The Australians have already severed sporting relations with South Africa and they have been asked to raise the question of the planned 1974 tour with the English team. SART is also asking opponents of apartheid in sport to write to tfayers who may be selected for the ions touring team asking them to deeare themselves unavailable for selection. A list of the names-and addresses of prospective team members is available from SART. Further information and leaflets frorin: SART, 18 Hilton Avenue, London N. 12. Leeds LEEDS University studentsmounted a three-day picket of the university branch of Barclays Bank in October. Many first-year students told picketers that they had decided not to bank with Barclays and thousands of 'Boycott Barclays' leaflets were handed out to passers by. The student newspaper 'Leeds Student'refused to accept a full-page ad from Barclays and instead carried an editorial setting out the facts about Barclays involvement in Southern Africa. The film 'Dumping Grounds' was shown at the university's freshers conference. Leeds students are now planning to step up their campaign to persuade the university authorities to sell all its shareholdings in companies with South African interests. Last year Leeds University sold its holding in ICI became of the company's South African involvement. ASTMS A GROUP of ASTMS membersat ICL's Reading plant have donated a day's pay to the Anti-Apartheid Movement as an expression of their disgust at the company's sale of a computer to the South" African Department of Bantu Affairs. The computer has been reported to be being used in the administration of the Pass Laws. At another ICL plant at Kidsgrove, Staffs, union members have written to the company's Chairman, Tom Hudson, protesting against the computer sale. Norwich NORWICH. City Corporation has sold its shareholding in Consolidated Gold Fields because of the company's exploitation of African miners in South Africa. The Corporation's Financial Committee decided to sell the shares after the question had been raised by a Labour member, Councillor Norman Huke. RIBAMeeting ABOUT 50 people attended a meeting at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London WI on October 18 to discuss the severance of RIBA's links with the South African Institute of Architects. The film 'Dumping Grounds' was shown and the three main speakers were Bernard Adams of RIBA's Council, who stated the case for maintaining links, and Rev John Davies and Rusty Bernstein, who argued that links with South Africa should be broken. Rusty Bernstein said that every link with South Africa made white South Africans feel thattheir society was tolerable to outsiders. He argued that 'bridge-building' has proved to be an utter failure and said that to ignore the majority of South African opinion calling for a boycott of white South African institutions expressed by the African National Congress and the South African Congress of Trade Unions, was 'arogant'. Bernard Adams showed his true position and earned the wrath of the audience-composed mainly of RIBA members-when he stated that 'RIBA as an Institute is concerned with architecture and not with the policies of foreign governments'. The overwhelming feeling of the meeting was for severance of linksas Rusty Bernstein said, bridgebuilding should be discussed in connection with cross-channel trasportation, and not in relation to Soutk Africa. UNA OVER 70 people attended a United Nations Assocation meeting in Marple, Cheshire to discuss Britin, Portugal antd Africa on September 12. Speakers were Polly Gaiter, Secretaryoof the Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guine and the local.Tory MP who defended Portugal's wars in Africa. The meeting was attended by a small clique of fascists (calling themselves the Action Party but ming National Front slogans)*who handed out Portuguese, South African and Rhodesian propaganda. They left early after the rest of the audience had shown their overwhelming hostility to them. The film 'A Lutta Continua' was also shown. Earlier Marple UNA held an exhibition of photographs about the struggle in the Portuguese colonies. UN SA Credentials REPRESENTATIVES of the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress addressed the UN General Assembly's special political committee at the beginning of October. The move to invite them to speak to the committee was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and France, but their objections were overridden. Thami Mhlambiso, ANC spokesman, told the committee that South Africa was heing fragmented and plundered by the white minority, supported by those who traded with them and sold them arms. PAC representative David 8ibeko welomed the General Assembly vote which delayed an addriss by the South African Foreign Minister, Hilgard Muller, and said that the privilege which the white minority regime had in representing South Africa at the UN was being brought to an end. Earlier when Foreign Minister Muller tried to address the General Assembly at the opening of this year's session, a resolution calling for the session to be suspended until South Africa's right to take part could be examined by the Credentials Committee, was carried by 80 votes to 26. When Muller finally began his speech in the Assembly, after the Credentials Committee had voted 5 to 4 in favour of accepting the white South African delegation, the representatives of 100 countries, out of 134 who were present, walked out in protest. Later the General Assembly accepted by 72 votes to 3 7, with 13 abstentions, an amendment moved by Syria reversing the Credentials' Committee's recommendation that South Africa's credentials were in order.