ANTI-APARTHEID NEW ANTI-APARTHEID NEW TI " newuinpa" of the Ati-Apartheid Nlwemt 10 Police shoot demonstrators dead as they say 'Kissi, Go Home' 1i ote dm ,ve right) entrelpages. Kissinger buys time for whites campa ui moveme . La South wl .s i EC wil 'a nion recognise Transkei AT a meeting in September that what the Foreig Ministers of the carrythe nine EEC countries announced hole labo r that they wbuld not extend rebognition to the Transkei ramm Bantustan when Suth Africa rgrants it "independence on iOctober 26. KADER ASMAL, Vice Chairman of ,tment the Irish Anti-Apartheid has adopted Movement, explains the back0s5is for a ground to the decision, page 8 stment in )support SWAPO rejects SA i move on Namibia 11 1r. ai -iusive nerview witn AA NEWS, PETER KATJAVIViSWAPO' s Western European representative, sets out the liberation movement's case, page 9. Smith dismisses death appeals SO far this year, at least 37 Zimbabweans have had their appeals against death senfenee 2 . ACTION-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Britain Haringey HARINGEY Anti-Apartheid Group has held two suCjcessful house meetings and discussion groups on the Soweto crisis and after, and is planning for a major public meeting in October. Solly Smith and Ronnie Kasrils addressed groups in Crouch End andMuswell Hill on the implications of the current wave of strikes and protests in South Africa and the role of the African National Congress. On October 21 the Group is arranging a follow up to the Labour Party Conference in the form of a public meeting at which the main speaker will be Hornsey Labour Party's recently adopted Parliamen tary candidate, Ted Knight SACTU THE trade union and labour movewent must give overwhelming support to the Labour Party NEC call for a freeze on investment, mandatory economic sanctions and the halting of sales of any equipmant which enhances South Africa's military capacity. That was the call from Lawrence Daly, General Secretary of the Nationa Union of Mineworkers, speaking at last month's South African Cngrss of Trade Unions meeting in the Conway Hall. The mneeting had been caailed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of thstrike of 100,000 black mineworkers* in South Africa. There was much to p, Lawrence DayQdnd far too mainy had died already. Trade unions in Britain, realed the importance of internationalism and solidaity. Now they mustunite arouand this Programme of effective solidarity action in support of those engaged in a liberationtruggle tfhat would triumiph soon er than we thought. Jhnaps etseem General Secretary of SACTJ, underinsed the THE NOS isto launch a major ' campaign on Southern Africa in the coming academic year. During the summer research has been carried out into university investments in the top 60 British companies operating in South Africa, and students' union Presi dents have been informed of the extent of their university's investment. This will form the basis of what the NUS believes will be the biggest ever student campaign for distinvestment-aleady many unions have importance of the British public realising that the struggle was not a question of a sudden outburst this summer. It had been going on since 1946 and would continue. On this day, e said, we needed to remember all our struggles, and prepare for freedom in South Africa. Other speakers at the meeting included Ken Morgan, NUJ General Secretary, Dave Bowm n, President NUR, Ctoney Braam, General Secretary of Netherlands AA , Thabo Mbeki, ANC Executive member, Gordon Craig from th Scottish TUC and Zola Zembe of SACTU. Norman Willis Assistant General Secretary of the TUC, wa-s also present. The Mayib ye group performed at the end of the meeting, which heard messages of supportfroq the TUC, ICPTU, WFTU, World Con' federation of Labour and the International Mineworkers Federation, ILTF F deration Cup THE UN Committee Against Apartheid has accused the ILTF of a tota disregard for human rights, following its threat to fine co ntries wshich refused to play against South THE DEATH SENTENCES vw film about the two SWAPO leaders sentenced to death in Namibia 15 mins Hire charge: £2 plus postage From: Anti-Aparthelid Movement, 89 Charlotte St, London Wl, Tel 01-58056311 ANAMIBIAN EVENINGFridayOctober29 7.30pm The Africa Centre, 38 King Street, London WC2 Film: "Namibia-The Liberation Struggle" Namibian foodJ-traditional music-crafts-photo exhibition Also Jackson Kaujela singing sonags from Namibia begun to laytheir plans for action. Students at polytechnics and other colleges are being asked to work for a boycott of South African produce, taking the issue up not only in their colleges but also in the local community. The other major-imphasisrof student work will be for solidarity with the liberation movementssolidarity stemming from a real understanding of the struggles in which they are engaged and manifested in a major fund raising drive to be launched in late October/ Africa in the Federation Cup in Philadelphia in August. Flee countries withdrew from the competition rather than play against a racially selected South African'team, Ireland SA boyott THE Irish Anti-Apartheid Move went has called a day of solidlarity on Saturday October9 to mobilisa Irish public opinion in aolidarity with the uipsurg of African opposi. tin to apartheid. ft wili bye the day to promote the boycottof South African goods and t," demonlstrate its condepmnation of businesses with apartheid asociations. The Movement held a public meeting in Dublin on September 10 to -ally support for the demonstrators in SouthAfrica. Austin Flannery spoke -n action in Ireland anl Kader Asmal on current events in South Africa. Irish AAM is also planning a conferesce for trade unionists "Workers Againt Apartheid" on Saturday September 25. Ireland'sNationdi Cycling Association hes rejected an~ invitation fromt South Africa to send an expanses- paid team to take part in a competition there in October. DOI'T M ON i ticm~ ug - u pm-1 am T Tickets £2 (including foodi - £1 after 10.30 pm iNamibia Support Committee, 21/25 Tabernale St. London EC2, BYCT BR LTel 01.688 1878 BYO T U HARINGEY ANTI-APARTHEID GROUP pote e from A. Poster available from AA PUBLIC MEETING 89 Charlotte St, London NUS international Dept, "Crisis in Southern Africa-Britain's Responsibility" 3 Endsleigb St, London ThursdayOctober21 8.00pm . Pricelop. Osborne Grove Luncheon Club, Upper Tollington Park, N4' (Finsbury Parktube;W2,W3&W7buses)" PHOTOCRAFT Speaker: TED KNIGHT, Parliamentary Labour Candidate, J 4 Heath Street Hornsey LondonNW3 Film: SOWETO - as shown on Thames TV "This Week" Photographic dealer ChairmanfromAAM photographers ..... ...... ....1"' early- November. A campaign manual providing a detailed background to this work and'other areas such as emigration and Barclays Bank's-operations in South Africa-has been produced, along with posters andstickers. Copies of these and further information are available from International Dept, NUS, 3 Endsleigh St London WC1, or from the AntiApartheid Movement, 89 Charlotte St, London WI. Irish AAM condemned the invitation as an attempt to treat Irish cyclists as "sporting nercenaries" and congratulated the NCA on "providing a heartening example for other Irish sporting bodies". In September a South African impresario, Warick Ofsowitz, was forced to cancel auditions for Irish singers to performhin South Africa, after they were disrupted by Irish AAM supporters. The Movement wiil h ld its AGM on Friday November 19: cloiring date for resolutions is November 1. Irish AAM. 20 Beechpark Rtoad, Foxcock, Co Dublin, Tel 895035, Canada 'SA go home' A Souti African team which toured Canada in July met with demonstratiOns and protests from anti apartheid groups, which forced the cancellation of three of its matches and disrupted another. The team's match in Edmonton, Alberta, was cantelled after opposition frq the Free Southern Africa Committee and iniToonto protesters from the ANC's Toronto Commit'ee, TCLSAad 'Canadians Concerned about Southern Africa orgarrjsed a demonstration at the ground; Further protess led to the calling off of matches in Ottawa and Montreal. I The teams was subsidised by Harry Oppenhemer and the President of Canadian Pepsi Cola: its captain claimed that it was "just a group of friends out on a holiday to see the Olympics" who "decided theymight as well play a little cricket". 'Don't profit from apartheid' say students CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Public meeting October20 7.30pm St Pancras Town Hall, Euston Road, London NW1 Speakers include: Col Mbita Executive Secretary OAU JAVS Liberation Committee, Abdul Minty, Hon Secretary AAM, Charles Clarke, PresidentiNUS, Peter Hain, Chairman BYC, and representatives of the youth, sections of MPLA and the Southern African liberation movements Wl, or Organised jointlyby tie British Youth Council and the VCl. Anti-Apartheid Movement Angola Solidarity Committee ANGOLA: NEW REPUBLIC I Fortnightly discussion forums at The Roebuck, Tottenham. Court Road, W1,.at 7.30 pm: . s and Friday October 8 - Women's revolution in Angola Thursday October 21 - Angola and African and Caribbean , , , ii rt.. PEN SA stays in PEN-the international writers' association-rejected a motion that it should expel the South African PEN Club from membership, at its meeting in London this summer. Instead it decided to "collect facts" on the situation in South Africa. The resolution was put forward by the Dutch PEN Club, which had earier heard black South African writer, Lewis Nkosi, c8lI for South Africa's expulsion from international PEN, at a meeting in The Hague last May. Lewis Nkosi told the meeting that although the South African PEN Club claimed that it did not practise racism and that there was nothing in its rules which prohibited black membership, the majority of black and progressive white writers in South Africa had no confidence in it. He said that South African PEN had failed to carry out its minimal obligations to writers who had been victimised by the racist minority regime, France SATA THE South African Tsuraist A ..ociation has bean forced to eicel a conference theat it planncedto 'hoI at DeaugviII, Septsmber 6-10, after Protests froth teren Anti.