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ANTI=APARTHEID NEW9The newspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement loptAsthey gathered in Htyde Parkfsdtdrty admt~sl People o o the snie, sAt t freont of the n wer cro thent romtheAfrdistan N To a -ds~ w o S mth sficSANROC an SWAPO- followedunioist mnnthm us Coby Iron andandTradei fAUEW, CPSA, I neaevenu i Staffs Fedari ihthe Trad Souncils from ica. No , Harrow, Btent Hackney andslington, Wertminster andNigon.furty w= retlre-es ny ne atonal rganisation of Labour Students and many local constituency parties, Othercontingents 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 fmsuport for thep pope Fof Crsesroads near Cape Town: 'Crossroads: No Eviction'.In Trafalgar Square Ansgolas* Ambassador in Brussels, Luis de Almelda, Pledged solidarity with thePeople of Southern Africa who are still strusggling for their free~ dom: 'We, the Angolan people, regard thestruggle 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 andCulture, Nathan Shamuyarira, and ZAPU's Chief Representative in Angola, East"r Nlweni, denouncad theatrocities of the Smith regi me and the manoieuvrrm of the Western powers.For SWAPO, Western Europeanlat w it h aparth eid. Abodve:-o~mdemenstrators on their wayTrafalgar Square rally.action against British collaboration with apartheid.For thiberhal Party. LordAvebury 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, andAmbassador 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--NATIONWIDEBritainManchesterMANCHESTtR 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 withwhat is happening in Southern Africa.The aim of the conference will be action: much of the day will be spent in discussing what concrete stepshave been taken and can be taken.Involved in the workshops on the workplace and the Labour Party will be a representative from the ShopStewards 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 politicalgroups 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 onSaturday 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 musicalevening on November 11 at 66 Hadley Road, Barnet, with musicians from Goldsmith's College. Ticketscost £1.The Group ran a stall at the African National Congress Bazaar on October 7, selling home-made goodssupplied 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.LeicesterLEICESTER Anti-Apartheid Group held its annual general meeting on October 8, at which it plannedactivity 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 ofaround 50 copies of AA NEWS.On October 24 Leicester AA held a stall at the local UNA 'One World' Festival. During October it also sentspeakers to a series of local Co-op branch meetings.Contact: Shantum Seth. 18 St Albanes Road, Leicester. Tel Leicestsr 548679.Wst LondonWEST London Anti-Apartheid Group held a public meeting on Zimbabwe on September 28with a speakerfrom ZAPU and the ZAPU Singers,The Group holds monthly meetings - with a speaker followed by discussion - to which all AAsupporters are welcomne. The next will beon November 20 and Il discuss support for Southern Africanpolitical prisoners.On Saturday December 2 West London AA will hold a social evening to raise funds for the AntiApartheidMovement.Ealing Young Liberals areplanning 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. Tel902 2117.,SkelmersdaleSKELMERSDALE Women's Action Group held a highly successful conference on Southern Africa inSkelmertsdale, West Lancashire, on Saturday September 23.Hilda Bernstein and Zola Zembe spoke in the morning session on the roles of women and trade unionists inthe liberation struggle. Shirley Talbot pointed out what could be done locally aespart of the work of theAnti-Apartheid Movement.,Four discussion groups in the afternoon session covered the role of women, trade unions, the church andyouth in the solidarity movement.The conference asked the Women's Group to write to the Foreign Secreary, Davtid Owen, asking himf toiintervere on behalf ofSolomosrtvtphlangusentencedi tb death by thes apart id regime, and calling fourBritish Government supportfor a UN oil emhbargo against South AfricaAltogether the conference was attended by around 60 people and for many of them it raised for the firsttime the varied and complex links between Britain and South Africa.In the evening the MerseysideUnity 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, SkelmersdaleNorwichNORWICH Anti-Apartheid Group has drawn upa full programme ofactivities - including monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. Its next meeting onNovember 14 will discuss the situation in Zimbabwe, with a speaker from the Patriotic Front. All meetingsare held at the Labour Club, Norwich.Contact: Tony Trew, 169 College Road, Norwich. Tel Norwich 56405.NorthwoodNORTHWOOD and Ruislip Labour Party is campaigning against the decision by Hillingdon BoroughCouncil to invest money from its Staff Superannuation Fund in firms with operate in Southern Africa. TheTory-controlled Council has announced that it will reverse the policy followed when the Council had aLabour majority not to invest in companies with South African interests.

IrelandAAYearIRISH Anti-Apartheid Movement sent a delegation to meet Ireland's-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Kennedy, on September20. It discussed action to mark UN Anti-Apartheid Year - in particular the initiatives called for by the UNGeneral Assembly resolution on the Year.Irish AAM has won two recent victories. A Dublin department store, Switzer's, has agreed to cancel its1979 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 Africanparticipation. Trade unionists, led by the Irish TGWU, refused to erect marquees without writtenconfirmation 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 aboutthe film to cinema queues.Together with the UN Centre Against Apartheid it is sponsoring an essay competition for secondary schoolpupils 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 morningliterature 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 memberDEBBIE Gibberd has joined the full-time AAM staff as Administra. tive Secretary. She isa former workerwith the Namibia Support Committee and was an AA student activist at Bradford UniversityStudents campaign on BarclaysTHE 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 creditslips have been widely distributed.New Anti-Apartheid Societies have been established at Napier College, Edinburgh; BirminghamUniversity; 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 tocoordinate student AA activities in London colegese, to encourage she formation of new AA societies inindividual colleges and genrally promote a higher level of activity.It iv planning to hold 'a bigstudent AA event in London early in the New Year. Anyone interested in joining the group should contactthe 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 bigSouth African imtere which will cover all the Cambridge colleges. In Manchester students are planning acampaign 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 WarwickUniversity on November 25, organised jointly by NUS and AAM. Students interested in attending theseminar, contact the AA office.The other main student AA activity is the collecting of material aid for the Southern AfricanAnti-Apartheid Movement. Annual Report of Activities and DevelopmentsOctober 1977 - September 1978 Price: 25pFrom: AAM 89 Charlotte Street Lendon W1P 200liberation movements.Ate meeting of the NUS-AAM Student Network on Southern Africa held on September 23 it was decidedto 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 thecampaign 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 112.15 pmMliners Hall, Barneley, Yorks 9pasikers: Nkoszana Dfamini (ANC), Hugh Bayley [AAMI, MertinFlennary W L!!!!! ' AAMaa groupsTHE Anti-Apartheid Movement has groups in the following areas. For detai Is of how to contact them,contact the AAM Office.Aberdeen .Hasingganstead HuddersfieldBarnet IpswichBirmingham LambethBlackpoel LeedsBredford LeicesterBrighton LiverpoolBristol LoughboroughBurnley ManchesterCamridge Newhans and South EssexCamden NorthamptonCanterbury Norwicd,Cardiff NottinghamChelmsford Old Tr, ffordCrasnbok OxfordColester PenarthCOventry PooleCroydon Reigate and RedhillDundee RugbyEastheume St AustelEdinlsurgh SheffieldEpsom SkelmarsdaleEnfield Highway SouthamptonExeter Stoke on TrentGlasgow SuttonGreenwich . West LondonHackney West LothianHaringayAnti-Apartheid Movement, 89 Charlotte Street. London WIP 2D0 Tel 01 -580 5311

Anti-Apartheid News November 1978ICL plans to BIG BOOM a !manufacture in SA ,IN SAI ,ICL has admitted that it is from 'a significant part of theconsidering manufacturing market'.computers under licence in It has also confirmed that it hasSouth Africa, in response to a sold two 2960 computers to the direct approach from the SouthAfrican police and says: 'ICLSouth A frican Government.,- lrs never sought guarantees or WhatAnd the British Government has its machines are or are not used for failed to make any commitment toinhee from South Africa users or stop the export of ICL computers te world.' to the South African policeforce or armaments industry. In September it was revealedIn reply to a questionnaire that ICL had sold a computer to submitted to it by Counter Informa- the SouthAfrican state-owned tion Services, CL says that it is Atlas Aircraft company, which conducting a survey ofthe manufactures aircraft under licencefeasibility 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 inGovernment passed on by ICL the new list of items which require

South Africa,. a licence for export to SouthIt also admits that it places no Africa, which was drawn up by the restrictions on the type of customerBritish Government after the UN with whom it is willing to do arms embargo against South Africabusiness - or on the Purpose for was made mandatory last year. which its computers are to be used. So farthe British GovernmentICL rejects the suggestion that t has not responded to a request made should consider dealing only with bythe Anti-Apartheid Movement the private sector in South Africa - that it should initiate a governmentsaying that this would cut it off enquiry into the use to.which ICL computers are put in South Africa.AGM resolutions slateLabour Government IA 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 theextension of sanctions to South Africa.The Furniture, Timber andAllied Trades Union deplores ICL's sale of a computer to the South African police and demands that theGovernment ban the sale of all computers to South A frica.A resolution from Norwich AAAAmeetingsplan actionTHE 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 antiapartheideducational work should be done in school - and that a specific schools information package should beproduced; 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 producefrom Co-op shops. The meeting also called for a national day of action on the consumer boycott in the NewYear.Trade unionists at the meeting in Cardiff proposed the setting up of a special trade union liaison committee.Group draws attention to the roleof the British Council and offerGovernment 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 UNinitiatives on Namibia and to publicise the struggles of workers in Zimbabwe in the British LabourMovement.On organisational issues, a resolution from Leeds AA Group asks the AAM to consider the appointment ofanother Field Officer, and one from West London AA Group deplores the low level of the Movement'smembership 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 intotrouble outside many cinemas.Protesters are trying to persuade cinema-goers to boycott the film or at least to watch it aware of some ofthe 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 arrangeprotests outside cinemas where it Is showing. I. It has also warned cinema managers not to resort to ployssuch 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 1200West Germany 350US 335

France 50Australia 35Austria 26Belgium -20 Netherlands 20Italy 21Switzerland 12Sweden 11Spain 9Canada 5SE TUCTO HOLDAA WEEKTHE South East Region of the TUC willhold a Week of Action against Apartheid, October 31 -November5.During the Week many of the Region's 134 Trades Councils Will leaflet outside shops which sell SouthAfrican produce, hold pickets outside Barciays Bank to protest against the role it plays in the apartheideconomy and hold ant-apartheid meetingsAmbng 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, orfrom the AAM.THE World Council of Churches' Programme to Combat Racism has made another round of grantstotalling $434,500 - to anti-racist organisations all over the worldThe biggest single recipient is SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organisation of Namibia) which willreceive $125oo0A further $55,000 will go to the ,African National Congress of South Africa, the Pan Africanist Congressof Azania and the South'African Congress of Trade UnionsThe 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: thisdecision 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 fromspecially designated gift. Contributions come priariy from churches, groups and individualts The Fund isalso supported by the goveriments of Sweden, Norway and the Netherlandsnv~ iv vOvAt OiLyave. ~ ~ ~z (1111Boc "o- Ba ,'rcl'Boycott Barclays!SOUTH African borrowers raised $206 million on international bond markets in the first six months of1978 - 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 ofInternational Investment in South Africa' that loan capital is increasing in importance to South Africa, asagainst other forms of foreign investment.Some of the biggest oversees borrowers are South Africa's state corporations - among them . ISCOR (Ironand Steel Corporation), South African Railways, SABC, SASOL (South Africa's oil-fromcoal project), theStrategic Oil Fund and the Corporation for Economic Development. ESCOM (Electricity SupplyCommission) 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 publishedthefollowing table:Fair-vized firms in SouthAfrica in which a significentshare is held by a company intie country indicatedNovember 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 onWant, 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 InWalsh 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, 302Pentonvilla Road, London N1. o AAM.Springbok Association gets the truth about apartheidTHE Springbok Association's potential recruits were left in no doubt about the realities of life in SouthAfrica, when they attended meetings in Coventry, Manchester, Leeds, Portsmouth and Brighton inSeptember.Anti-racist demonstrators were there tO meet them - handing out an Anti-Apartheid Movement leafletgiving the reasons why they should not travel to South Africa.In Coventry a picket was organised by Coventry AntiApartheid Geoup, with support from local tradeunionists.In Portsmouth Anti-Nazi League auppcrtere Picketed the Association's meeting - handing out ANL andMM leaflets.At the Metropole Hotel inBrighton People inside the meeting comPlained that their letters of invitation had been headed 'Friends ofthe Kiwis'. An American visitor checked out of the hotel after beingtold what was going on.A picket outside the hotel was arranged by the local GMWU. In Manchester supporters of the Ical AAGroup lined the pasement outside the meeting.TlSpringbok Association poses as a travelorgenisation which offers cheap flights to people with relativesand friends in South Africa.At its meetings it shows South African propaganda films, followed by a pep talk by its president, StuartWeaving, 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 supplynames and addresses of their friendsin Britain.Liberation movements to get funds from world churchesPage 3'STOP Banking Links with South Africa' is the theme of an international Day of Action called forDecember 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 theElectricity 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 duringI- CREDIT re a=TOP -"R-S- T oluvi~ P!I I

Page 4 Anti-Apartheid News November 1978Call for trade sanctions by Labour Party ConferenceAFTER another year of brutality and bloodshed in South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia, with Botha'sselection clearly reaffirming the attitude of the Nationalist Party, and the Bingham Report as hot as asmoking gun, most delegates might have expected Southern African matters to be of major importance atthis 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 fromigniting. Labour conferences, like most other meetings, are at their most instructive and inspiring whenthere is disagreement.Or it may be that so much of the passion was directed into the debate on racism in Britain that there waslittle 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 alltrade with South Africa and in particular for mandatory oil sanctions. NEIL KINNOCK MP reportsAgain, it might have been that the National Executive Committee's statement on Southern Africa was socomprehensively condemnatory that there was little left for the Confarenrce to do but urge action on thebasis of its main propositions which embraced the AUEW ITASS) emergency resolution on the BinghamReport.- Such committed urgings have, of course, figured prominently in previous Conference decisions. LabourParty Conference, together with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the other organisations associated withthe development of Labour Party policies on Southern Africa, can offer the saddest blood-soaked evidencethat they have been rightIn most areas we have had to wait for tragic history to prove the accuracy of our assessments and thedesirability of our policiesBut 'We told you so' isn'tenough. It might be an intellectual-satisfaction, but it isn't an answer. If David Owen's forthright rejection of the Uncle Tom 'internalsettlement' in Rhodesia is to stick, if Judith Hart's message of supportFREEDOM 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 themeeting' held by the Anti- Apartheid Moagment and the Southern Africa Liberation Fund at the LabourConferenceshe intends, to be more than a gesture, if the reaffirmation of Labour Party policy towards Southern Africaor the demands for total exposure of sanctions busting are to be implempented, greater political action inBritain is vital.It Is not'mere Labour loyalty which dictates that such action begins with stopping Mrs Thatcher. Surely noenemy of racialism here or elsewhere can fail to know what her enthronement would mean for the cause ofracial justice. Defeating her is a precondition of effective British initiatives against Smith and Botha overthe next crucial few years.Michael Foot even went so far as to say in the Tribune Rally at Blackpool-that the necessity of LabourGovernment participation in any Rhodesian settlement was one of the factors justifying the postponementof the General Election.And whilst that may have been difficult to digest for some delegates, his other assertion - that the situationin 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 advanceParty policies into implementation by Government. Part of the reason for a relatively quiet reception ofSouthern African matters at the 1978 Labour Conference may, indeed, have been attributable to the timeand effort given to proposals to increase the accountability of Government and Parliamentary Party toConference and constituency policies. They have as much importance for Anti-Apartheid as they have forany 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 remainsabsolutely certain that the pressure for unequivocal hostility to Ian Smith, a stronger stance over Namlbia atthe 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 ofSouthern Africa must continue unabated in the Labour Party.SA rejection of Namibiaplan condemnedTHE following is the textof the Labour Party NEC statement made at conference:THIS Conference is deeply Petroleum and sts subsidiariesdisturbed by the revelations that under full public control. despite UN sanctions being appliedConference 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 completeintransigence ofPetroleum, in which the Cvern, the South African Government.meat owns a substantial share, Conference condemns the ref 'salcontinued to be delivered, of South Africa to accept theConference congratulates the United Nations proposals forGovernmest on having instituted elections for a free Nanibia, and the Bingham inquiry and onbelieves that this will seriouslyspeedily publishing its findings but escalate the tensions of Southern feels that many issues of public andAfrica. Labour Party concern have been In the light of these develop.raised but remain unresolved within meants Conference reaffirms its the narrow terms of reference ofpolicy towards South Africa. the Bingham inquiry. Conference therefore calls on theIt was not part of the remit of Government toapply effective : the Bingham inquiry to deal with sanctionsto 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 inthefirst sanctions breaking when the instance to support the proposal atBritish Government has been the UN for mandatory oil sanctionsinformed. It is essential that all the against South Africa. facts be known. Conference is mostgravely conWithout prejudice to any legal ceried that the human suffering in action, Conference calls onthe the war between Rhodesia and the Government to institute a formal Zimbabwe liberation movementsand wide ranging public inquiry as should be ended. It welcomes the soon as possible, and to release allrecent commitment for a British the relevant Cabinet, official and -contribution to the UN force; oilcompany papercto it. welcomes the economic assistanceConference deplores the fact providedtuhe frontline states; that the management of the two calls uponall paties in Rhodesia companies and the tanker compa- and both liberation movements to nies, knowingthat they were take part in an early A-Partybreaking 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 appreciaformore 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 totake all necessary action to corm- support of all the present efforts of pel companies to disclose full theGovernment to achieve a peace information about their operations fut, independent, free and non-racialabroad and to bring British Zimbabwe.Tories mark UN AA YearINTERNATIONAL Year Against He was followed by RichardApartheid was marked at the' Luce MPI' Conservative PartyConservative Party Conference by a spokesman on Foreign Affairs. meeting arranged by the ToryThe meeting took place the dayReform Group on October 12. after the conference debate onFormer Rhodesian Prime Rhodesia, when shadow ForeignMinister, 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 asthe only way of bringirig immediate recognition of the peace to the country. 'internal' deal.Conferencemeetingslates pressTHE Western news media wassharply attacked for its reporting of,vents in Southern Africa at themeeting heldtby the AntiAprtheidMovement and the Labour PartySouthern Africa Solidarity, Fund-atthe Party's conference on October 1.Armando Panguene, member ofthe Central Committee ofFRE LIMa, said that every time a policemen was killed in Rhodesia

there was an outcry againstoralleged terrorse Butha wanton:'The press thinks it is perfectly Snormal and respectable for the Rhodesiean army to invede our 5i countryand murder our citizens.'He questioned the motives ofWestern governments in theirmanoeuvres on Rhodesia, saying:'They have no great liking for Smith and sometimes he is anembarrassment for them - but ofcourse they prefer Smith to the genuine nationalist movement.What the Weat really wanted wasa neo-colonial settlement, where thesettlers' economic interests wouldbe preserved.FRELIMO considered it its'dutyto make Mozambique 'a base forthe liberation of Southern Africa,' he declared. 'We cannot considerthat Mozambiqae is truly free untilthe whole of Southern Africa isfree, and all the apaed andminority regimes have been overthrown once gnd for all.' Spaeldingn behalf of theAfrican National Congress, itsWestern European Representative, 'Cap' Zungu, said that he broughtthe greetings of Nelson Mandele and the thanks of his orgenisation totheBritish Labour Movement.He said that since last year's conference the balance of power inSouthern Africa had shifted, so thatnow 'the initiative is firmly in ourhands'%But he ritieised the BritishGovernment for still stubbornly refusing to use its power to stopcollaboration by British companiesand Interests with the apartheidregime,He reaffirmed that the ANCwanted to create a South Africa where them would be room for everyone, except for those whowanted to dominate and exploit.Neil Kinnock MP, newly electedto the Labour Party NationalExecutive Committee, said thatwhat was good enough for thetrade unionists who were dragged off the picket lines was more than good enough for the oil companieswhich had flouted Rhodesiansanctions. He dedared that thisnsat be the Anti-Apartheid Move.rent's message to conference. I Peter Manning, speaking on behalf of SWAPO, said that South Africa'srejection of the UN proposals for a path to independance in Namibia demanded a strong reaction from tseWest. He rejected selective sanctions as inadequate and celled for comprehensive economic sanctionsagainst 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 NewsIT WAS the Canadian Ministerfor External Affairs, DonJamieson, who gave away the

real motive of the fiveWestern UN Security Councilpowers in their latest roundof talks on Namibia inPretoria.He said tihat as a result of thetalks the 'imminent threat' of acall in the Security Council for anoil embargo against South Africahad been lifted.The 'compromise agreement'with South Africa, which Jamieson hailed as 'a significant breakthrough', is in fact no compromise but anendorsement by the West of South . Sout fri cAfrica'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 SouthAfrica go ahead with the elections clearly be to 'modify' the Secretary it is planningto hold in DecemberGeneral's recommendationson the this year: South Africa has agreed number and composition of UN 'inprinciple' to a second-round of personnel needed to ensure the elections under UN supervision holdingof free elections.next year.But if the South African ragime THE Anti-Aparthld Movement is really willing for free and fair hasbitterly attacked the agreeelections to take place in Namibia ment reahed on Nambia under UNsupervision, why hold its between the five Western UN own elections first? Security Councilpowers andAt the same time the West has South Africa on October 19.backtracked on the UN proposals It stated: 'This comps'rnisefor a transition to genuine inde- agreenteet has been heraldedby pendence. In the report which he theWest as a breakthrough: but laid before the Security Council in in reality itis a blatent abdicaAugust theUN Secretary General tion of their responsibilities asrecommended that a UN military members of the UN Securityforce of 7500 men and a 360- Council.strong civilian police unit be sent to 'The racist regimes are Namibia to create the conditions preparingfor all ut war in under which free and fair elections Southern Africa: Smith's attask could take place,against Mozambique and inNose the F'oreign Ministers hae Zambia are proof of their told Prime Minister Botha that intentions.The whole worldSouth Africa will be consulted over must be mobilised to confront 'the composition and size of the UNSouth Africa.' military force and that the functions of the police in Namibia will No one should be fooledby the nout be affected by the transitional elections which the South Africans arrangements.will hold in December.And they hae asked that the Every political grouping inUN Secretary General's Special Namibia has announced that it willRepresentative return to Namibia boycott them except the Demofor more talks with the chief South craticTurnhalle Alliance and the Afltcen official in the country, far rightvwing AKTUR group. Administrator-General Steyn. To hold elections in SouthThe purpose of these talks would African-occupied Namibia is rather like holding an election inNaziSWAPO PublicationsInformation on SWAPO: A Historical Profile 30pInformation on the People's Resistance 1976-77 301pMassacre at Kassinga 15pNamibia Today Vol 2 No 3(Official bi-monthly organ of SWAPO) 30pI~s4. evuse3lpAso available:

Inside the Liberated Areas and Beyond Book of photographs taken by Per Sanden of the semi4iberatedareas of Namibia Namibia: SWAPO Fights for Freedom Interviews with SWAPO militants. Edited byLiberation Support MovementSWAPO PostcardsComing won: Namibia Support Committee newsletter (subscription details from NSC officl£1.7565p- or 10pFrom: Namibia Support Committe e 188 North Gower Street, London 'lW1. Tel 01-388 539.November 1978Page 5r HOW IT HAPPENEDON September 20 the South African regime rejected the proposal negotiated by the five Western UNSecurity 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 transportfor.In order to register, people whocannot sign tlir names arequired to make a thumbprint - suggesting thatea fingerprint expert will be needed in everypolling booth, if the true identityof voters is to be checked.Black Namibians living orworking in Walvis Bay will be disfranchised, as South Africa claims that Walvis Bay belongs to SouthAfrica,This is the farce which theWestern Foreign Ministers haveagreed should go a iead in Namibia- making it dear that they areconcerned to keep talks going at all costs, to give themselves an excusefor rejecting demands for realaction.FOOTWEARAPPEALTHE Namibia Support Committee has made an urgent appeal for Wellington boots and other -eter prooffootvear 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 inLuandaThe rainy season is now due to start apna the boots are needed to prev'tparasitic infearvons, egrinfsck specially in young chilren,Thue Cis appealing for good quality Wellington boots of all s.ze and for cash to pay transport coals toAngola.Further details: The Organiser, Refugee Footwear Appeal, c/o NSC, 188 North Gower Street, LondonNW1. Tel 01-388 5539.April 28-30 Ambassadors of the five Westarn powers on the UN SecurityCouncilinitiate talks withPrime Minister Vorster in CapeTownJune 8-10 Talks between the Western 'conta tgroup'and the South African Governmentresume in CapeTownJuly 19 South Africa inaugurates 'Legisl tiveCouncil' in Namibia-constituted on atribal basis July 8 South Africa

announces theappointment of Justice Steyn asAdministratorGeneral for Namibia August 17 SWAPO and theWestern powers issuestatemsent saying<that Possibilitiesexist fos a negotiated settlemient September I South Africaannounces thatWavis Bay will in future be administered as pert of CapeProvinceSeptember Talks resumed 22-26 between Westerncontact group andPrime MinisterVorster: talks endwithout agreement. October 17 Talks resume inPretoria: no state.mentDecember 2 More talks inPretoriaWestern contact group holds separate negotiations with South African Foreign Minister Bths and SWAPOWestern powers present their 'final proposal' for a Namibian settlement South Africa announces that it'accepts' the Western proposal: bsot Vorster says that the issue of South African troops in1978 SFeruary11-12March 30April 25Namibia would be determined by theConstituent AssemblyMay 4 South Africamassacres over 800Namibians at a SWAPO refugeecamp at Kasainga in May 8 SWAPO breaks fftalks - saying tht itlias to assss itslosses at Kassings April 28 SWAPO asks forfurther talks onthree elements ofthe proposalMay At least 58 SWAPOofficials and membersdetained, includingevery memberexcept one of theNational Executive June 26 South Africa beginsregistration of votersfor elections inNlamiibiaJuly 12 SWAPO agrees toproceed to the UNto implement the Western proposal July 27 UN Security Councilasks SecretaryGeneral to appoint a Special Representative to ensure freeelections in Namibia, August 6 UN Special Representative MarttiAhtisaari arrives inNamibia with a survey mission August 30 On the basis of theSpecial Representative's findings the

UN SecretaryGeneral reports tothe Security Councilon the personnel needed to imple ment the WesternproposalSePsansber 7 SWAPO offers tosign a formal ceasefire agreement withSouth AfricaSeptember 9 S th Africa rejectskey sections of thereportr- includingthe size of theproposed UN military force September 20 South Africa.annouses that it wiIl go head withunilaterally arranged elections in Nambia,I tw/*

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Pa* 8' At'i Ajsrthelcfltiws ni 'u sSMITH TROOI PULL OUT 0f WHITE FARMLTHE Smith regime's decision to - once again - ban ZAPU and ZANU, purge the press and to place largetracts 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 PatrioticFront - in which over 600 people were arrested - was not sanctioned by the Rhodesian security police orarmy leadership. but was ordered by the regime's political leadership in a desperate attempt to calm thewhite electorate.The Smith regime's top military commanders are well aware that such moves can at most only temporarilydelay the final victory of the liberation forces. The armed guerrilla struggle being waged by the PatrioticFront has moved past the stage where it can be seriously damaged by the rrest and detention of prominentsupporters and officials.The resort to martial law, too, must be seen as a sign of weakness. While the mseasures are extremelyharsh, and can only further increase the sufferings of the black population, they are essentially an attempt tolegalise a situation already in existence on the ground.Black Zimbabweans are no strangers to repressive military rule and scorched-earth security tactics - 22hour curfews, the destruction of animal and plant life, the poisoning of water supplies, fqrced removal intoconcentration camps and the like.It seems that the Rhodesian security forces have now adopted a strategy of withdrawing troopsfrom 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 supportbefore 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-raffWho have been recruited into Muzorewa's and Sithole's . private armies. The martial law orders, whichwere first implemented on September 23 after being announced by Smith a fortnight previously andextended to a further nine areas on October 4, cover about one-fifth of Zimbabwe, including the strategicSouth African border region, white farmland on the periphery of Salisbury and the key towns and whitefarming 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 upanywhere in the country to try supporters of the armed struggle, Their proceedings can be in camera, thereis no appeal to the civil courts and little prospect of even an apology for legal defence. Execution byhanging can be carried out virtually on the spot,None of this is anything fundamentally new, of course. It isA JOURNALFOR BLACK ANDTHIRD WORLDLIBERATIONVOLUME XX

AUTUMN 1978NUMBER 2IN MEMORIAM ORLANDO LETELIER 1932-1976 Multinational banks in Chile by Isabel Letelier andMichael MoffittIndictment for conspiracy to murder Orlando Letelier Asia women in Britain by Amrit Wilson A. PhillipRandolph: Socialism and black nationalism inthe U.S. 191741 by Jeff Hendersor Pattern of racism: interviews with NF mernmbrsby Mick BilligRepression in Colombia: Repression in East TimorQUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS AND THETRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTERACE & 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, NameAddtress ........................... . ....................... ...........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 USANDS US anti-racist groups have conA S demned the State Department'sdecision to allow Ian Smith intothe counry and have made sureN D that he knows he is unwanted,As Smith arrived in Washingtondoubt 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 ZimbabweIn Untali for example, the Patriotic Front,announcement was followed by a In Britain the Anti-Apartheidlarge-scale civil disobedience Movement sharply criticised the campaign, in which leaflets were USdecision as 'a great morale pinned to trees urging black, booster for the racist regime inworkers to stay at home. Salisbury which can in no wayIt 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 SisterJanice 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 truthabout thewar in Zimbabwe, told AA NEWS that Toronge houses 15,418 refugees in all 2000 of these hadarr'ived from Zimbabwe only the week before her visit. lThe camp, one of three set up in Mozambique by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, is runby 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 anumber of sewing machines, for example, but no thread.Many other Zimbabwean children and students are now studying in schools run directly by ZANUFront-ZANU camp in Mozambique(Patriotic Front). Sister Janie learned that plans are well in hand to provide education for the estimated300,000 children living in those parts of Zimbabwecontrolled by the liberation movement. Teams offreedom fighters have been living and working in such areas for up to two years, becoming involved in theday-to-day life of the local community.In the neighbourhood of the Avila Mission, in the Inyanga mountains, for example, local people have notcome 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 tocontinuous attacks from Rhodesian security forces.'ZANU lPatriotic Front) is now hoping to reopen schools in these 'liberated areas', using the old teachersunder 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 seeka citizen's arrest.At the UN the Security Councilmet at the request of the Africangroup to discuss a statementexpressing international disapprovalof Smith's presence in the US,As a rasult of the decision togrant Smith a visa the ZANU wing of the Patriotic Front has rejectedany further participatlon by the USin negotiations on Rhodesia.ZANV's C~entral Committeestated: 'We are now compelled to state that in all future conferenceson Rhodesia, US Governmentparticipation should be excluded.They have by admitting Snith and his gang exceeded their jurisdictionas mediator.'Women shotdead bysoldiersMORE eyewitness reports of atrocities committed by the Smith regime security forces have been given byrefugees escaping from Zimbabwe.A black farmer, Gilbert Mutas, told reporters in Zambia how he saw 32 women shot dead by soldiers. Theincident 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 fighterswho asked for food from us.'We greed that the entire village should slaughter a goat for them as it was nowa common practice among vilagers 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 informerswho 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 rebelsoldiers 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 inabundance.'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 Imanaged to survive,'In another incident, Smith'stroops massacred 15 African civilians on August 3at a township in the Inyanga area. They were attendingthe funeral of a local school-teacher.Troops arrived and accused them of collaborating with the ZIPA (Zimbabwe People'F Army) guerrillasThen they opened fire, killing eight people outright and injuring seven more who died later in Umtalihospital.

Anti.Apartheid News .,. November 1978 , Page 9Rhodesianeconomy IcollapseTHE crisis which has gripped the borrow co RhOdesian economy for the last ca'pital c four years hasshown signs of deficit di worsening in recent months. In maIt is difficult to be sure, because sanction the regime chooses which statistics effective to publish, andthose that do come access to out are anyway suspect. But it is markets quite clear that the war, plus worldchannelle recession, plus sanctions have taken loans Rh a very heavy toll. have repi

The annual budget, presented in unfavour July,-showed something of this. Withrapidly, 1RHODESIA'S economy is times tiglnear to collapse. The of moneproblems caused by half- them. Thhearted sanctions have been illicit smincreased many times by prosecutthe war which now covers membersmost of the country. ment is aRUPERT PENNANT-REA the icebereports on the current crisis. TheforeigneLast year the'country's national one of I income fell by 7 per cent (in real prbablf terme), and the regimeadmitted probably that it was expecting a similar fall the July this year. That will mean that real 1 announincome per head has declined by $15milli roughly 25 per cent since 1974 - the first which-according toUN figures UDI, thc gives Rhodesia the unwelc6me Whicl be distinction of heading the negative-would a growth list by a very large margin. uncertaThere have been two major The eweaknesses in the economy. First. ne5 has the shortage of foreign exchange: skilled m1 despite theimport-substituting caused b industries that have been estab- war takii lished as a reaction to sanctions, atleast h the economy has never been free of natory p a foreign exchange constraint. years haiThe country has always relied on of gettin a large surplus in visible trade to When cover the large deficit itruns on its whitas ea invisible account (freight, travel, money fi insurance, etc). Last year the Coupledvisible surplus was roughly £100 defence million, but the invisible deficit was cent of a £132 million. Thisyear the gap last year seems to have been widening. ExchequWhen world commodity prices So thfell back after the boom-of 1971- an inon 74. Rhodesia was suddenly very with a 11 exposed. After thenumerous than £75sanctions-busting middle-men had per cent had their share, raw material In theexports ecame very marginal. As three yei the war has intensified, several the gove mines and more farmshave closed choose down altogether. quite emUnlike many developing count- with the ies, Rhodesia has not been able to civilisatiiSOUTH Africa Freedom Calendar 1979. Graphics and quotes from * South African leaders andinternational organisations. Produced by the American Committee on Africa in cooperation with the UNCentre 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, orspecimen copy (free) from: CND, 29 Great James Street, London WC1N 3EY.acesr attract much foreign cover its current account uring the last few years. ny respects the financial has beenthe most of all. No aid, no formal the world's capital (though South Africa has ed some of its foreignodesia'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 hasonly 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 whitesinto the army for alf the year and discrimiolicies which over the ve denied blacks the chance g the rightskills.-they are not working, rn les - which means less or the regime to tax. with the ever-increasing budget (ittook 28 per 11 government spending ), this has stretched the er beyond breaking-point. is year the regimeimposed se tax surcharge: anyone 978 tax liability of more B hes to pay an extra 12% of their tax bill. sorythis will be repaid in ars' time: it is unlikely that rnment of the day will O do so. It will have ough on itsplace coping mess that Western on' has been upholding,PEACE NEWS for non-violent struggles and making alternatives. Information, analysis, strategies forchange. £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 samplecopy to: ILP, 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds LS11 9LW.CHALLENGE, monthly paper of, the Young Communist League. Price 15p. Subscription £2.20 pa. Sendto 28 Bedford St, London WC2.Reprinted from 'Militant, 425/29 September 1 978HOW APPEASEMENT -FAILED-WILSON INTERVIEWTHE now famous interview in which Sir Harold Wilson told the Canadian Television Corporation'scameras to stop filming when he was askled about his tofe ilbsting Rhodesian oil anctions isa giveaway onthe 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 Icould.' And he went on: 'I think I went s ar, and perhaps too far, in trying to get Smith's support.' Nosuggestion hee that concessions were not thse anwr-that Smith could onlybef Fd xWilson's next reiarki that he acceptusthe 'internal settlement' as a way forward to majority rule. Falling overback-wards to ow how'reasonable' he had b - in his negotiations with Smi , he said that what he was preparedto settle for would have 'meanta much longer period to majority rule' than that provided for in the 'internalsettlement'.The bloody massacres perpetrated by Smith's troops, which have marked the years since UDI, seem to haveescaped Wilson's notice. We might, he said, have had to send in troops if Smith had started 'massacring alot 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 reallyon. He describes the war- in which the vast majority of the people of the country have shownthat 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 itas a fact', But - 'I doubt if they would.'Oil sanctions, according to Wilson, were frustrated because 'a lot of French oil was going there' andbecause 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 itis the British 'Labour Government that has consistently vetoed other countries' attempts to impose sanctionsagainst South Africa at the UN.THE Patriotic Front of ZAPU and ZANU has launched a joint ttudy into the manpower requirements ofindependent Zimbabwe. Research has been commissioned to identify the main areas in which Africans, as aresult of the discriminatory job reservation policies pursued by the Smith regime, have'not been able toacquire essential skills and qualifications.Ignatius Chigwendere of ZANU (Patriotic Fronti told AA NEWSr that the project was also trying to assesshow 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, arelikely to be Out of the country when the Smith regime finally crumbles yet we shall have to keep theeconomy functioning until things settle down.'Although the pressures of the war and white conscription has forced many companies to beginPHOTO CRAFT4 Heath StreetLondon NW3Photographic dealers andphotographerstraining Africans for jobs formerly reserved for whites, he said, the new Zimbabwe was still likely to beshort of people with supervisory experience and those with intermediary skills, such as electricians andmachine operatives.The Patriotic Front has already set up a number of training schemes with the help of organisations suchas'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, forexample, 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 PatrioticFrontamanpower policy.An analysis of the figures for white emigration from Zimbabwe sincethe beginning of 1978 shows that thebiggest losses occurred among engineers, draughtsmen, motor mechanics. conistruction workers andelectricians - all key skills as far as Zimbabwe's industrial and commercial performance is concerned.Patriotic Front plans for manpower in liberated ZimbabweAPARTHEID REPRESSiON TORTIREWOULD you like to offer practical help to those students who have suffered from these inhuman practicesand have sought refuge in the United Kingdom? If you have a roam/flat to let from time to time, whether inyour-own house or as a landlord, would you allow us to vId your name and addresson an accommodationfist 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 educationalassistance to refugees from Southern Africa and Latin America. If you think you can help please phone orwrite to: IUEF, Parnell House, 25 Wilton Road, London SW1V 1JS. Tel 01-828 2966/7.

, Page 10 - Aiii-Aparthea News -' NoiewiieeriA 8VORSTER'S retirement from theSouth African premiership hasproved a nine-day wonder. In factit is devoid of political significance.The press in South Africa andabroad has done its best to make amountain out of a molehill, butwithout success.We may accept that Vorster didindeed retire because of ill health.Three ambitious men stood ascandidates in the election toreplace him, butthe differencesbetween them were personal, notpolitical. The ranks of theNationalist Party are as solid as- ever in their adherence to apartheid.There was perhaps more significance in the subsequent election forthe position of State President.Again there were three candidates- Vorster for the NationalistParty; Sir de Villiers Greaff, theformer leader of the now defunctUnited Party, for the New RepublicParty; ancdProfessor G R Bozzoli for the Progressive Federal Party.In view of the NationalistParty's enormous majority InParliament, it was merely to show the flag that the other candidatesallowed their names to goforward. 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 twosets of elections is this: when itcomes to the question of power, only Nationalist votes count and the opposition is irrelevant. TheNationalists have been in powernow for over 30 years and thewhite electorate, far from getting tired of them, is falling more and more-under their influence. Theresult of the election last November was: Nationalist Party 135seats. PFP 17, NRP 10 and SAP 3.

It is a matter of some debatewhether the English vote isswinging to the Nationalists. Theirshare of the pol was just over 64 per cent, which approximates tothe proportion of Afrikaners in thewhite population. True, theNationalists won more seats avd Moevotes than ever before,bu this is probably due more to te rush back tothe eager of Afrilaears who formerly voted UnitedParty than to avastly increasedmeasure of support from Englishspeaking voters.Certainly, in appointing onlyone English-speaking CabinetMinister (Horwood), Vorster was displaying no sign of gratitude to Englishepealking South Africans.Nevertheless, support for theNationalist Party from SouthAfrican whites is manifesting itself in other ways. The recent series ofNationalist Party provincialcongresses showed that the rank and file are as racist and bloodyminded as ever.In recent weeks its authority asspokesman for the Afrikaners hasbeen enhanced by a split in theranks of the ultra-right Reconstituted Nationalist Party, which hasparted company with its founderDr Albert Hertzog following apettifogging dispute over moneyad premises.Not a single parliamentary partystands for majority rule based onone man one vote, and recent congresses of the Progressive Federal Party show that theleadership has shifted to the rightfollowing the absorption ofelements from the disbandedUnited Party. Young progressivesAS Vorster steps down asPrime Minister, theNationalist Party is closing ranks around his successor.BRIAN BUNTING arguesthat white politics in SouthAfrica is moving right andthat the new situation posesthe greatest challenge everto the Anti-ApartheidMovement.have been so disillusioned thatsome are thinking of breaking away.Even the Black Sash, which hasaccepted the principle of one manone vote, prefers to call it 'universalfranchise' because, in the words ofa spokesman interviewed by the Rand Daily Mail: 'I think people may have felt that one man one vote hasbecome a bit of a dirtyword 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 hethinks 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 inan interview in America. He has become a supporter of 'federalism', which is the 'liberal' euphemism forBantustans.In essence Paton is reflecting the sentiments of the new Prime Minister P W Botha, who said shortly afterhis election that he would never follow a path leading to majority rule. Those wio asked for majority rule inSouth 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 ofJustice with his detention and torturelaws. Botha is chosen in 1978becauses Minister of Defence he s incharge of the most expensive and highly sophisticated army on the African continent, able to threaten hisneighbours with death and destruc. tion if they step out of lin. Botha was in charge of the abortive Angolaadventure 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 socialrevolution which can bring peace to the subcontinent. It is Botha, Kruger and their minions who reply withviolence 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 threwdown the gauntlet to'PIK' BOTHAthe world over Namibia. The burning question today is: will the world take it up? The Smith visit toAmerica and the Tory clamour in Britain show that powerful forces backed by big business are working fora 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 overSouthern Africa. Support for the liberation movements must be unequivocal and effietlve if another Munichis to be averted.Capital Radioin the TranskeiCAPITAL Radio is helping the Traskei to set up its-own radio station which will broadcast 'as far as theedge of South West Africa'. Capital says that it is providing 'a bit of advice and expertise although we arenot involved financially'Blacks and whitescan't eat togetherTHE South African Government has rejected all 15 applications for multiracial permits in the city centre ofJohannesburg. It has als refused to grant 'international' status to a further five licensed restaurants in thecity.Township built for Crossroads squattersWHITE POLITICS NO CHANGEA BLEAK new township is mushrooming on the banks of the Kei River -apparently for the residents ofCrossroads; the squatter settlement near Cape Town.The township is being built hurriedly an secretly by the South African authorities on land which has beenexpropriated 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, aspart 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 canstay 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 passraids in the early hours of the morning. In these raids at least twoTHE African National Congress of South Africa has issued a full statementon the clash between itsguerrillas and South African forces in the Transvaal in August, it which it says that guerrillas killed 10South 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 SouthAfrican 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 ofother clashes in the past year.In April Brigadier C F Zietsman, head of the security police, said police 'had clashed several times withterrorists of the banned ANC in the Eastern Transvaal' since June 1977. At least two Policemen werereported wounded in these clashes.

Another skirmish - near the border with Swaziland - seas reported in lat February. According to the SundayPost agroup of guerillas Crossed ieto South Africa and ambushed a police patrol. Two policemen were shotand the incident was hushed up until midApril while folloW-up operations continued.In an interview at the beginningof June Zietsman said that of the young blacks who had fled the country after the June 1976 upriings, 4000were 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 aKwaZulu Politician Lloyd Ndaba, was assassinated by an unknown group of men outside his house inSoweto. He was the head of the extreme rightwing 'Shake's Spear' Party of KwaZuJu, and had been accusedof 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 shotoutside 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 demonstratorsarrested during the last two years. The man was Detective Sergeant 'Hiubl' Chaphi.Venda homeland chieflocks up the oppositionMEMBERS of the Venda Indpen- seats In the Assembly and he wasdence 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 scheduledto September. Twelve of them had become - after Transkei andalready been locked up by the Bophuthatswana -the thirdBantustan's stooge 'Chief Minister' 'independent' Bntustan. It Patrick Mphephu. cosists of2300sure miles ofEven by Bantustan standards poor landsinsthe far north eastern Mphaphu has few supporters: hisTransvaal. Venda National Party won only 11 Tmen - 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 thatthey will not accept them.Hence the new township where the squatters can be shipped without fear that the.Transkei will refusethnem.At the site scores of psarallel streets have already been bulldozed through the void. Stacks of corrugatediron 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 andBristol Central Library,BOSS AGENTS SHOT DEAD IN TOWNSHIP

REVIEWSPamphletsNOW. Special Issue on Apartheid. November 1978. Published by the Methodist Church Overseas Division25 Marylebone Road, London NWl. THE Overseas Division of the Methodist Church has for many yearspublished 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 MethodistConference 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 toeveryone concerned about the evils of apartheid - and to those who are not, but should bel On page 4 thereis a striking tabulation of the economic consequences of apartheid: land allocation 87 per cent to whites, 13par cent for blacksl The ratio of doctors to population is 1:400 for whites, 1:44,000 for blacksl Anyone whothinks that apartheid is just a weird racial doctrine should look at this table and memorise it, for the figuresprove beyond any dispute that apartheid is a ruthless system of economic exploitation, a form of industrialslavery.

The magazine contains articles by Nkosazena Dlamini, a young medical student in Bristol, finishing thecourse she began in Natal, pleading for Britain to boycott South African trade, culture and sport, to stoparms sales and to disinvest.Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, writes: 'TheGovernment may be able to kill people, to harass people,to arrest people, but it cannot arrest their thoughts, it cannotban their thinking, it cannot bantheir new attitudes.'There is an excellent account of the impact of apartheid on women and the family by Ilva Mackay, whowas 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 materialfrom an interview with Canon John Collins sets out the work of the International Defence and Ad Fund andthe humanitarianaid the Fund has provided to thevictims of racial injusticeBut this issue of NOW is more than a group of articlesabout apartheid. It is an eloquent appeal to Christiansand non-Christians throughout Britain to recognise their own responsibilities and their own obligations inthe international struggle against apartheid. It is a worthycontribution to International Anti-Apartheid Year.Frank Hooley MPCopies-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 containstwo lists -one of knownSouth African political prisoners and one of those banned or banished for theirpolitical 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 thedepth 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 fortheir part in trying to implement the historic decision taken by the African National Congress in 1961 tolaunch armed struggle in South Africa.Here are not only the leaders sentenced to life imprisonment men like Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu andGovan Mbeki - but also the rank and file militants: Laloo Chiba sentenced to 18 years' gaol, PAC memberSamuel 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 andbefore 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 thePretoria 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 termsranging from five years to life.The scale of this list leaves no doubt that for every activist who is caught, convicteldand locked away, morewill come forward to carry on the fight.Among those imprisoned arefour women - and they deserve spatial mentionThey are borothy Nyembe, sentenced'to 15years' imprisonment in 1969 and for some time South Africa'sonly woman political prisoner; Esther Maleka, serving five' years for recruiting twqmen to undergo militarytraning; Happy Mashambe, who has two young children and was convicted with her husband, who isserving 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 prisonerInto the Liberated Ares and Beyond - SWAPO of Namibia. Directed by Per Sanden. 40 rains. Available onhire from: The Other Cinema, 12 Little Newport Street, London WC1THE 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'earaed struggle - the reality of control over the expanding liberated areas in northern Namibia and theincreasing 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 isindicative of the suces of the guerrilla war, Per Sonden has seid: 'It is not ore dangerous to cross Namibia'snorthern 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 whichdepict the dependence of civilians on the guerrillas for medical aid, and the extent to which PLANcombatants cooperate with the people in the production of food.The film concentrates on Namibia's new reality: that of an army which has developed throughICA TheatreRED EARTHA new play by David Lan Directed by John Burgess October 25- November 11, Tuesday to Saturday, 1,15pm 75p plus membership ICA Theatre, Nash House, The Mail, London SW1. Box Office: 930 6893CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTEANATIONAL INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THEDISINVESTMENT CAMPAIGN by Simon Clarke A challenging analysis of the changing character ofoverseas investment in South Africa and the implications for the international solidarity movement Price:50pPublished by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 89 Chelotte St, Loedon Wlpopular 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 communicationon the front; the nature of the weapons now being used; the integration of military strategy with politicaleducation and various aspects of logistics.It is impossible to ignore the sophistication of the South African. army and the nature of the oppressionwhich has driven the people totake up arms. Shots of captured weapons confirm the fact that South Africa relies for military supplies onthe NATO countries. The motivation for the struggle is articulated on another level in interviews withrefugees, 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 thevictory of the Namibian people through their effective armed struggle.TRIBUTE TO FENNER BROCKWAY AT 90FENNER Brockway will be 90 years old on November 1. He remains almost as active as ever anintellectually stimulating man, who knows that the fight against imperialism in its new form and the attackon racialism must be waged constantly.Born in 1888 in Calcutta, the son and grandson of missionaries, Penner became a dedicated socialist endjournalist, 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 Towarl Tomorrow reads like ahistory of the Labour Movement - only perhaps better, sincese seem to havemanaged not to go astray.There must be virtually no newly emergent country whose leaders in the struggle for liberation were notpersonal 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 tohim, 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, GeorgeOrwell and Oswald MosleyHis political life spans the turn of the last century, the two worldwars, 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 TowardsTomorrow? He is an inspiration to us all, He epitomises the struggle that has to be constantly made todefeat the evils socialists are committed to end. Arthur Latham MPA 90th Birthday Celebration for Fenner Brockway will be held on Saturday November 4, 7-11 pm, ar theCommonwealth 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 bea 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, anddetainees known to have died in security police custody since 1963. An invaluable reference book, forgroups involved in the campaign against apartheid.'/e owe a debt of gratitude to the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa for publishingthis book as one of its contributions to the observance of the International Anti-Apartheid Year.' HisExcellency Leslie 0 Harriman, Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee Against ApartheidPublished by the International Defence and Aid Fund in cooperation with the UN Centre AgainstApartheid. 180 pp Price £3 including p & pFrom 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 NationalMahlangu' was the appeal Mahlngu's release. Congrm, and later returned withsent 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 isby anti-apartheid organisations Central Prison waitingto hear the still sekingthat David Owen interineight western countries on outcome of his appeal to the South vene directy with the SouthOctober 17. African Sltate Presldest. African Government to secureThe groups caled the Forein He was sentenced In March after Solomon Mallangu's release.Ministers sking tham to intervene being convicted of the shsooting of Petition for . are availeble from withPrime Minister Botha on two white arage mechanica in AAM.Mahlangs's behalf. Jnnerg last June. ,v i .... miin p t writemet nBian la h oln occurad as diirect to the Sot Afia authorimns in Briain ld, WestMasab and two companions ties. Postcararssed to p~rimeGerany th Neherand, Blgi m ere running away from plolice. Minister Botha are alio availabmle Canada, Uand Franc .e They were altI former schoolanad 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, Gisqardd'Esaing, and the Government of the Netherlands had already appealed for clemency.Every Wednesday lunchstime since last June the Anti-ApsartheidMovement has bean htolding a picket outside the South AfricanThree more on murderchargesAT least thrse more people are facing charges under the TerrorismDelhi conference marksUN Year v.A BIG aniti-aprtheid conference Was heldin Delhi, September 28Ocober 1 It was organised by the IninPe.e and Solidarity Committee, AAPSO and the World Peace Council. The British AntiAparthidMovement was represented by Abdul Minty, who led the discussion On Western military collaborationwith South Africa.UN International Year Against Apartheid is being marked in many different ways all over the world. AANEWS reports on some recent events.CANADIAN anti-apartheid groups are collecting signatures to a petition to the Canadian Governmentcalling 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 ofapartheid and ways and means for its eradication'.ApartheidUNICEF (UN Chlrn' ud isto make available an additional£500,000, over and above itsregular budgt, for refugeechildren from South Africa.CUBA and Jamaica will issuespecial postage stamps to make

International Anti-Apartheid Year.THE Governm~ent of Kenya haa invited the Chairman of the UNSpecial Com itteeAgnstApartheid, Nigerian AmbassadorLeslie Harrimn, to deliver the TomMboya Memorial Lecture on'Racism. Apartheid and AfricanDevelopment' in November 1978.THE Nigerian Committee for the Dissemination of Information onthe Evils of Apartheid has organised a poster competition to mark AntiApartheid Year.THE Internationalece Hockey Federation hasbanned SouthAfrica froms playing in any international matches. Te d on was that no South African tam wouldbe allowed to compete oer eas 'until apartheid was eliminated'.Prisoners lose news appealPOLITICAL prisoners held in Pretoria Local Prison have lost their appeal against a court judgement thatthey were not entitled to receive newspapers, magazines and journals.The appeal was brought by eight prisoners - Dennis Goldberg, who was sentenced to life imprisonment atthe Rivonia trial in 1964; Dave Kitscr, serving 20 years; JohnMatthw~s, serving 15 years; Alex Moumbaris; Ray Suttner; David Rabkin; Jeremy Cronin and AnthonyHoliday.So the prisoners will continue to be deprived of allnews of the outside worldAnd their lives from now on will be even cougher becauseof the recently introduced ban on all studiesbeyond 'matric'level.to the West'. Public meeting.House of Commons. 7.30 pm.AA iary nOrgPnised by AAMNovember 8 Picket for release of November 4 Party to celebrate Solomon Mahlangu. SouthLord Fenner Brockway's 10th African Embassy, Trafalgarbirthday. Commonwealth Square, London WC2.1-2 pmInstitute. Kensington High St, November 11 'Britain and SouthLondon WS. 7-11 pm ern Africa'.Abraham MossNovember 5 Anti-Apartheid Centre. Crumpsall, Manchester.Movement ANNUAL GENERAL 10 am - 6 pm. Organised byMEETING. New Ambassadors Manchester AA GroupHotel, Upper Woburn Pic, November 11 Musical Evening.London WC1. 10 am -.30 pm Barnet AA Group. 66 HadleyNovember 7 'Confrontelt in Road, Barnet. Tickets £Southern Africa: The Challenge November 14 Meeting onSpecial Anti-Apartheid Movement MeetingCONFRONTAHION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA:T HE CHALLENGE TO THE WESTTUESDAY NOVEMBER 7 7.30 PMHOUSE OF COMMONSSpeakers: Bob Hughes MP and Abdul S MintyAll welcomeDetails from AAM 89 Charlotte St London W1 P 2DQTel 01-580 5311Zimbabwe. Patriotic Frontspeaker. Labour Club, Norwich.Organised by Norwich AAGroupNovember 15 Picket for therelease of Solomon Mahlangu.South African Embassy,Trafalgar Square, London WC2.1-2 pm

November 18 Irish AAM AnnualGeneral Meeting. Details: IrishAAM, 20 Beechpark Road,Foxrock, Co DublinNovember,22 Picket for release ofSolomon Mahlangu. South African Embassy. TrafalgarSquare, London WC2. 1-2 pm November 25 Seminar on 'Investment in South Africa'. Warwick University.Organised by AAMand NUSNovember 29 Picket for release ofSolomon Mahlangu. South African Erpbassy, TrafalgarSquare, London WC2. 1-2 pm December 1 International Day ofAction against Banking Unkswith South Africa. Details: AAM December 2 Socal EveningVenue to be announced.Organised by West London AAThe Anti-AparthidMovemenitAs well as publishing Anti-Apartheid News monthly, AAM has a wide range of pamphlets, posters andother information material about the situation in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Literature listavailable on requestSpeakersAAM will send a speaker to any group which wants to discuss any aspect of British involvement inSouthern AfricaLocal GroupsAAM has active local groups in most majo centres. List. page 2. Contact addresses evailable on requestAffiliationAs wall as individual mambers AAM has affiliated organisations, including local political parties, tradeunions, church groups,and student organisations. Affiliation fees for local organisations E5; for studentunions £25; trade unions-sliding scale from £15 depending on membershipJoin the AAMI wish to join the Anti-Apartheid Movement and receive Anti-Apartheid News and regular informationabout AAM activitiesI enclose £ .........NAM E ...........................................ADDRESS .. ....... .............. ;....................... ,.....................,...................Minimum annual membership fees: £5; students/apprentices £3; school students/pensioners/claimants £1Subscription 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