ECC opens campaignCAPE TOWN — The End Conscription Campaign has launched a month-long “War is No Solution” campaign againat apartheid and minority rule.

Activities planned include meetings, lectures, a film festival, a concert, a pavement art exhibition and a walk.

The ECC is calling for the rem oval of troops from the townships and the dismantling of apartheid.

The ECC hopes the campaign will pro­vide forums for debate around these issues. - Sapa. Q ( H f

.Archbithop Tutu tinging with tome of the people at the Peace Pkok. .,

CP CorretpondentT H E normally tranquil white suburb of Bishops- court was abuzz on Sunday

"w hen more than 500 chil­dren attended the End

, Conscription Campaign’s . Peace Picnic.! r The picnic - part of

EC C ’s War is no solution campaign - was held at the residence of Cape Town’s Anglican Archbishop Des­mond Tutu. ,,

The suburb started to <?ome alive at about 11 am when several taxis carrying township residents arrived outside Bishop’s Court.

", A team of young major­ettes from the townships was the first attraction of

''th e day. *Hide-and-seek games in

potter.Anditw a Kholi of Nyanga In front of an ECC poi

the sprawling yard and;,' day-u kite-flying followed, while’; Shortly” before lunch, ECC marshalls regulated Archbishop *Tutu -arrived the “influx” at the sw im -. and blessed the Jood. ming pool. In an interview he told,

The swimming pool •-» City Press that he could the main attraction of the not be expected to live in day - was filled with laugh-V 17-acre residence alone. ;, ing children throughout “Let the people come the day. „ and share these facilities.

Under the watchful eye , Those who do not like this of the marshalls, groups of 1 should lump itf’?- he said; children were allowed into • Another, CP Correspon- the enclosure for 10 min- , dent reports that anony- utes’ swimming time. mous pamphlets discredit-

Families arranged them- ing the Peace picnic were selves under trees and on? dropped f in ^ u b u rb s s n r - the lawns for picnic rounding Bishopscourt. -.; lunches and impromptu.4 . The pamphlets,-appar- music sessions with flutes, , ently printed by the ECC,; guitars and recorders while; were dropped in the letter* children played cricket* boxes of houses in Bishops- and soccer; flew kites, or.; court and N ew lands'atthe

■tfsWi»!had their faces painted] weekend.'■i T h e ' pamphlets resem-

bled, copies of;„the , ECC invitation to the picnic.

The figures on the back had been inked in and the words “blacks only’Ahad

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ECC show opens amid tight security

. By Pat Devereaaxi t»|U'Security was tight a t the Market

T heatre in Johannesburg last night as the Knd Conscription Cam paign (ECC) launched its first cultural event since the la­te s t em erg en c y re g u la tio n s were promulgated.

F earing right-w ing a ttacks, ECC se cu rity g uards frisked m ore than 800 people a t the opening of the Prisoner of War multi-media exhibition.

Assistant general m anager of the M arket Theatre, Mr Mike Goldberg, said it was the biggest turnout of exhibition view ers yet.

“The car park was packed to capacity. We’re not sure if the m assive response was public support for the ECC or related ! to the a r t works,” he said.

He added: “The crowd m ay have turned up anticipating sim­ilar action to the teargassing of

. the Jodac “E m erge’n See" con­cert a t the M arket last year.”

Before the exhibition all work had to be vetted by lawyers to p reven t contraventions of the emergency regulations, accord- | ing to an ECC spokesman.

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This photographic ex­hibition, together with the painting and sculpture exhibition next door, is part of a larger anti-war state­ment.

This means that the photographs must at one and the ^am e time show specific examples of m ilitary violence and also hint a t the origins of this violence.

So we have photos of AWB rallies and por­tra its of stern m atri­archs that provide a clue to the oppressive and racist system that underlies m ilitary de- ployment in the town­

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ships as much as action on the border. Similar­ly, there are pictures of young children being taught to use weapons and to adm ire m ilitary hardware.

P arallel to these gen­e ra l pictures are specif­ic ones like Zwide cem ­etery with its headstones like grotest- que flowers flanked by four Casspirs. Or of fu­nerals in Alexandra and a forlorn ECC office­bearer staring a t her shattered and burnt-out lounge.

In the end, however, the exhibition is unsa­tisfactory. It feels in­complete. Whether this is due to the S tate of Em ergency that dic­ta tes what m ay be shown or a shortage of photographers brave enough to be associated with a show like this, one will never know.

As a statem ent the exhibition is too muted, not savage enough. A few pictures, like that of Zwide cem etery or the EEC m em ber, are

mright and

worth seeing. But one misses a coherent vi­sual argum ent. .

A nagging question: Why are all the photo­graphs anonymous?

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Smear campaign against us,saysTHE End Conscription Campaign yesterday ac­cused the Government and several Right-wing groups of launching a “systematic smear, cam­paign "against it with the intention of “setting a cli­mate to justify a crack­down” on the organisa­tion.

At a Press conference in Johannesburg the ECC’s publicity officer, Mr Gavin Evans, said much of the information in four Aida Parker news­letters against the ECC and distributed widely was drawn from docu­ments seized from the. or­ganisation by the Security Police.

Mr Evans said that dur­ing the past three months the ECC had received re­ports that the Aida Par­ker newsletter of April 8 1986 had been distributed/ to national servicemen and to White

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ECCchildren.

“Six months ago the unanimous finding of the Media Council was that this edition of the news­letter was grossly inaccu­rate and had violated the council’s code of con­duct,” Mr Evans said.

He added that earlier last month an anonymous , group calling itself Vete- j rans for Victory released a six-page “diatribe, full from beginning to end with defamatory state­ments,” calling for the banning of the ECC.

During the past year the ECC had received copies of at least 13 anonymous anti-ECC publications distributed within the South African Defence Force and else­where, while several Right-wing groups had re-

' printed the discredited April 8 1986 Aida Parker newsletter. — Sapa.

FakeECCpostersSMEAR posters pur­porting to be published by the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) have, been pasted over authen­tic ECC National Day of Concern posters.

The fake posters which carry the ECC logo and the words: published by the ECC and printed by Esquire Press have been condemned by the ECC as a "blatant attempt to ( discredit and undermine" its work.

A spokesperson for Es­quire Press said they "definitly" did not print the posters.

One poster carries a picture of a soldier hold­ing a rifle and says: "N ationa l Day o f Mourning for deceased servicemen". The other, I which has a picture of a gorilla which looks like a human and a baby with a tyre around its neck, says: "National Day of Mourning for civiliansmurclc'rcfl hv itv> A K C "

Posters bid to ‘undermine and discredit’ ECC

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THE End Conscription Campaign denied issuing posters bearing its nam e which appeared through­out central Cape Town today, saying it was a bid to discredit the organisation.

A spokesman for the company which is purport­ed to have printed the posters also denied involve­ment. o

The posters call for the observance tomorrow of a national day of mourning for dead ‘‘national ser­vicemen, civilians m urdered by the African Na­tional Congress, and victim s of terrorism ”.

They bear the logo and address of the ECC and the sm all print says they w ere issued by the ECC and printed by Esquire P ress (Pty) Limited, of Athlone.

HAMMER AND SICKLEThe posters depict a man, arm ed with an AK-47

rifle, with a red ham m er and sickle on his head, standing above a m an with a burning tyre around his neck.

Esquire P ress spokesm an Mr B P ate l denied tha t his company printed the posters.

ECC spokesman Tracy Clayton said the organi­sation was again the victim of a sm ear campaign.

“The posters a re not ours and will not fool any­one. The ECC is appalled by this blatant attem pt to discredit and undermine the work it does.”

, She said the ECC had called on its supporters to observe tomorrow as a national day of concern in an attem pt to draw together all South Africans to reflect on the cost of the “apartheid w ar”.

“DEVIOUS, UNDERHAND”“ Such devious and underhand m ethods used

against us a re disturbing but not unnerving.“The ECC is an organisation working openly

w ith public events. Why can’t these people chal­lenge us openly in debate instead of using such tac­tics?”

She called on all South Africans to join the ECC in its “F ast against Apartheid War” between 8pm today and 8pm tomorrow.

“The fast is a non-violent action that demon­s t r a te s ou r co m m itm en t to c o n s tru c tiv e and peaceful alternatives in South Africa,” she said.

The day of concern will s ta r t a t 8 tonight with a com m em oration in St George’s Cathedral featur­ing choral singers, dram a and poetry.

Posters ‘appal’ ECCTHE End C onscription Campaign said yesterday it was “ap p a lle d ” a t the two bogus posters which had been pasted next to ECC posters advertising today’s Day of Concern and fast against the “ap a rth e id w ar”. The bogus pam phlets entitled “N ational Day o f M ourning” for “Victims of T er­ro rism ” and for “Civilians M urdered by the ANC” a p p e a r on a black-and-red poster depict­ing an arm ed guerilla with a ham m er and sickle <In P n a n d a " n p p H a o o "

\ ECC service X'W\ THE Grahamstown branch of the End _> Conscription Campaign will hold a service

today in the Cathedral o ’ t Michael and St 1 George In High Street.

In the pipeline for April 29, is a public j meeting at St George’s Chambers. Mrs• Sheena Duncan, past-president of the• Black Sash and the Rev Torquil Paterson ' are expected to address this meeting.

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AN emotional service for the victims of civil war was held at the Grahamstown Cathedral last night, under the auspices of the local End Conscription Campaign branch.

About 50 people attended the two-hour service. A one-minute candlelight vigil was held outside afterwards. Earlier people lit candles for relatives and friends in exile, or those doing their national ser-

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Cathedral defaced! GRAHAMSTOWN residents awoke on Thursday to find several j buildings, including the Cathedral in Church Square and further •.afield, defaced with slogans spray-painted in red and black.

Slogans were painted on the east and south side of the Cathedral, a commercial bank, supermarket and clothing store, in Fitzroy Street and the Queen Street area as well as Dundas Street.

The' Dean of the Cathedral, the Very Rev Roy Barker, said it was 'sad to see the Cathedral defaced.

The slogans would be scrubbed off the stonework, but the plaster surface on the South side would probably have to be repainted, the dean s a i d . • .

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Fake ECC postersSMEAR posters pur­porting to be published by the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) have been pasted over authen­tic ECC National Day of Concern posters.

The fake posters which carry the ECC logo and the words: published by the ECC and printed by Esquire Press have been condemned by the ECC as a "blatant attempt to discredit and undermine" its work.

A spokesperson for Es­quire Press said they

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One poster carries a picture of a soldier hold-

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, servicemen". The other, which has a picture of a gorilla which looks like a human and a baby with a lyre around its neck, says: "National Day of Mourning for civilians

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IN the coming elections the Nationalist Party is offering the whtie electorate a ‘final solution’to our country’s problems. They call it security. For thousands of South Africans it means civil war.

The first casualty in any war-the truth - is long since dead and buried under a barrage of press laws and regulations.

T h e E nd C o n s c r i p t i o n Campaign believes all South

Africans bear the costs of the governm ent’s failure to find peaceful solutions to this country's problems. We pay economically the war (or defence, as the government calls it), costs South Africa RI3 million per day. We pay politically - every step the government takes intensifies the climate of w ar.and reduces the chances of a /Jpe£ce. We pay psychologically - the youth of both

sides are being brutalised a n c . maimed in body and spirit. The cumulative social costs of civil war are devastating.

, T h e 'E n d C o n s c r i p t i o n Campaign is currently engaged in a national campaign, stating “War is- not compulsory” and urging “Lets; choose a Just Peace". On Thursday April 23 at 7.30 pm a church service will be held at the Cathedral of St Michael and St George as

part of a national Day c Mourning and reflection for tli costs in human lives and sufferir in this civil war. All are welcome t attend and to express their suppo. and sympathy for the victims of th Nationalist Party's civil war.

Fiona AdamsChairperson End Conscriptio Campaign (Grahamstown)56 B Beaufort Street, Gtn.

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Campaign for a just peaceCAPE TOWN — The End Conscription Campaign (ECC) will launch a nationw ide cam paign next week under the banner, War is not Com pulsory — Let's Choose a Ju s t Peace.

Beginning with a day-long fast on Thursday, April 23, dubbed A Day of Concern, the cam paign is set to run to the end of May and will fea tu re an anti-wnr film festival, a fair and a rally, among

The cam paign, aim ed to highlight “th e choice v - ( j f i betw een peace and w ar”, will also focus on two

-•'jj other^events — In tern a tio n al C onscientious Objec! to rs ' Day on May 15 and the s ta rt of the tr ia l of a

P ort E lizabeth conscientious objector, Mr P hilip W ilkinson, who fa c e s ,c h r 'os of refusing to do m ilitary service.

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Anti-ECC men escape police inhigh-speed chase

By CHRIS STEYNP O L IC E y e s t e r d a y “lo s t” four u n id e n ti­fied m en in th e ear ly h ours o f th e m orning a f t e r q u e s t i o n i n g them in a M owbray s t r e e t w h e r e t h e y w ere p utting up p ost­e r s w h ic h o p p o s e d th e End C onscrip tion C am paign (ECC).

A P e n in s u la p o lic e spokeswoman, L ieu ten­an t D enise Benson, said the men droye off a t high speed aft^r being asked to accom pany the police to the MoWbray police s ta t io n . T h ey d i s a p ­p e a re d an d have no t been traced.

Police w ere continu­ing efforts to find the men, but the hunt, said Lt B enson , had b ee n ham pered by the fact th a t the getaway vehicle had false num ber plates. “We had the reg istration num ber, but we have a l­ready estab lished th a t it was false," she said.

A descrip tion of the bakkie has been given to

Mr Richard Griffiths of Exclusive Books in th e city c e n tre r e ­m oves anti-ECC p o s t­

ers.the police patro l n e t­works, which la st night w ere still on the lookout for the vehicle. She said a d o c k e t h a d b e e n opened and charges of m a lic io u s d a m a g e to property w ere being in ­vestigated.

Lt Benson was unab le

to give new spapers a de­scrip tion of the bakkie. But the ECC said it was a white Isuzu with the reg­i s t r a t io n n u m b e r CY 137437.

T h e ECC y e s te rd a y condem ned the attack as “crude and underhand .

T h e d ra m a s ta r t e d w hen a m em ber of the ECC sp o tted th e four men putting up posters in Clarem ont and Mow­bray which said: “ECC m em bers a re yellow , “ECC does it from be­h ind” and “ECC believes in fairy tales".

Dr Ivan Toms of the ECC told the Cape Times h e h a d b e e n to ld a t1.45am tha t the posters w ere being put up in C larem ont, and he spot­ted the m en a t the Wyn- berg end of Clarem ont s M ain Road and inform ed the police.

W hile driving around to remove some of the posters about 2.15am, Dr Toms again saw th e ir vehicle. . 1U

He then w ent to the C larem ont police station in L a n s d o w n e R o a d

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I w ere rad ioed about the incident.

On D r T o m s’s w ay home, he saw the bakkie again in D urban Road, Mowbray, and im m edi­a te ly drove to Mowbray police station.

Two policem en accom­pan ied him to the scene w here they found two m en in th e cab of the bakkie and two on the back. Two red buckets of glue w ere on the back of the bakkie and piles of

I pam phlets could be seen in the front.

Raced awayDr Toms said th e men,

who w ere all in the ir ea rly 20s, “looked suspi­c io u s ly l ik e o ff-d u ty policem en or m em bers of the Defence Force. T he m en dem anded to k n o w m y n a m e a n d asked me why I was do­ing th e po lice’s work. I don’t th ink they expect­ed to be caught”, he said.

T h e m e n , w ho h ad “ s t r a n g e ly - c u t s h o r t , h a i r ” , w ere ask ed by police to drive to the p o l ic e s ta t io n — b u t w h e n t h e b a k k i e reach ed the in te rse c tio n , o f D u rb a n an d M a in 1 roads, it raced away in th e opposite d irec tion and the police and Dr Toms eventually gave up the chase. ,

The ECC’s press o fn-| cer, Ms Tracey Clayton, sa id yesterday the orga­n iz a tio n w as p le a se d some headway was being , m ade in finding the per­petra tors.

“ We h ope s in c e re ly th e SA P f in d s th e s e people so th a t we can lay c h a rg es ag a in s t them. The ECC feels th a t it is v e ry im p o r ta n t th e se people be m ade to state th e reasons for th e ir at­tack in an open court,” Ms Clayton said.

“ T h e la te s t r a sh of sm ear posters is crude and underhand , and the ECC views very seriously any attem pt to d iscred it it. Such sneak attacks canno t obscure the le­g itim ate and im portant work th a t the ECC does and we rem ain commit­ted to our cam paign.”

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ECC meeting tom orrowA MEETING on militarisation will be held in St George’s Hall tomorrow night at 7 JO pm. Organised by the Grahamstown branch of the End Conscription Campaign as part of a national campaign around the theme “War is not compulsory: Let’s choose a just peace”, the meeting will be addressed by former president of the Black Sash, Mrs Shecna Duncan and a local Anglican theologian, the Rev Torquil

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ECC puts welfare of SA before that of the Nats1 WAS appalled to read of Magnus Malan's unjustified attack on the End Conscription Campaign during his election meeting in Grahamstown.

The Black Sash has always supported-the principles of the ECCand feels that the public should know that1. The ECC seeks to serve South Africa by working for a just peace through negotiation rather than a shaky security through military action; . .2. The ECC is neither naive nor cranky in striving to save the country from a waste of time, money, talents and above all, lives; and to gain recognition of every man’s right, according to conscience, to choose non-combatant community service in place of military national service.

Far from being “Mommy’s boys”, members of the ECC have revealed courage and integrity in standing up for their principles of non-violence and putting the welfare of South Africa before that of the National Party. _ , „R Smith C_5>€>C<£>'t]S lU jsC l I ,Co-chair, Albany Black Sash319 High Street - I 4 & /

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SOUTH Africa was crying out for a moral principled stand from a political platform, Mrs Shecna D u n c a n , f o rm e r N a t io n a l President of Black Sash, said in Grahamstown last week at a meeting organised by the End Conscription Campaign.

Asked to comment on the war beyond South Africa’s borders, she said “the recent visit to Livingstone” made her speechless with rage.

She said it was clearly part of the N a tio n a lis t P a r ty ’s e lec tio n

Speaking on the (iovei smear campaigns. Mrs cited the Chris Hall affair

“ Here was a private in raising an overdraft for a 1 legal advertisement paid I perfectly legal organisation no business of the State", > The government’s respoi been a promulgation pn any further advertisement nature and an invesliguiim private and legal transacti

To repeat a lie often caused it to become the

campaign to go into another * some people’s mind country and kill its people. indicator of iheall-pervasi'

“ I am also angry that thei* secret control by the Stau Opposition political parties seeing ' There were good thing to have swallowed “hook line and the reform process but th sinker" the government line", she introduced for the pui| said- ^ c rea tin g another aspect oft

She called for a m oral.' principled stand "even if it cost some votes”.

The second speaker. Rev T o rq u il P a te rso n , said the presence of cadets, at Church schools seemed to indicate that the Church’s influence was not that great. While Church schools were increasing the number of black pupils there seemed to be no serious attempt to change the political and social outlook of the pupils. ■

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Mrs Duncan said: “ Per not cease to demand one 1 one local government..one the Whites do not. cannoi not see this".

. She said the ECC was people a better way: that t the right to choose, that ' not compulsory.

“We must never be trapi thinking or behaving as tl were", Mrs Duncan said.

(Report by Jill Joubert, 49 / Street Grahamstown)

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suspend freedom in order to protect the freedom of the State, the State President, Mr P. W.' . Botha, said jn Port Elizabeth last night.

Addressing about 2000 people at a National Party election rally in ihe city, Mr Botha said he was the one man in South Africa who knew what the onslaught was facing the country “because I have the machinery to inform me".

He said the government was not in favour of a fourth chamber for blacks because “ we cannot accom m odate all the blackminority groups in the country".

The government will move towards economic and social

relorm. We will foster the spirit of nego tia tion and cooperation between the different peoples of South Africa, because we want peace and stability”.

But the government would not surrender the rights of white South Africans to any of the programmes proposed to it.

Mr Botha said the government would enter into negotiations with any South African group which renounced violence.

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1 By P a t Devereaux Wpmen artists, photogra­phers and perform ers have focused on w ar psy­chosis and m ilitarisation in an exhibition entitled “Prisoners of War” which opened at the M arket Theatre a t the weekend.I More than 800 people packed the theatre com­plex to attend the open­ing on Sunday evening of this project, which began a year ago when a group of concerned artists,

, many of whom had been involved in the 1985 Womens’ Festival, ap­proached the ECC (End Conscription Campaign).1 The initial idea snow­

balled into a mini-festi- val including perfor­mances and an “installa- tion” — the reconstruc­tion of a suburban lounge. »f‘War psychosis and

m ilitarisation?,« It’s af­fecting us all,’* said a rtist arid organiser Ms Karen Harber.

IMPOTENCE‘ Explaining the link

With the ECC, the organi­sers said: “We aligned ourselves to an organisa­tion whose aims are close to all of us.”IjThe theme raises ques­

tions of public and pri­vate violence and pres­ents the possibility for a whole range ofy artistic expression.

(Two women involved i n i th e p r o j e c t , M s R o b y n O r l in a n d Ms Lulu Davis, spoke about tljeir feelings concerning

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the exhibition.“If you are a true a rtis t

living in this environm ent of escalating violence you can only reflect what is ‘happening in society,” said dancer and choreog­rap h e r Ms Robyn Orlin

A rtist Ms Lulu Davis agreed and said her col­lage currently being ex­hibited dealt with night­m ares in an apparently serene environment.

“I think South Africans have a lot m ore night­m ares than people in

other countries. The vio­lence comes out in our subconscious even if we suppress it,” she said.

Ms O r l in d is c u s s e d politics and the contro­versy surrounding South African art. “We are iso­lated from the in terna­tional community. Dance teachers have been boy­cotting this country for the past 15 years. It makes me feel out of touch,” she said.

Her perform ance deals with the concepts of pes­simism, loss of control and loss. i

Both women said there had been a recent up­surge in political a r t and that the issue of violence could not be avoided — even in suburbia.

One exhibit which re­lates to this

(TOP) SO FAR SO GOOD: Artist Michelle Raubenheimer adds the finishing touches to one of

her works entitled "So far so good" which is currently being exhibited as part of the POW (prisoners of war) mini-festiva) at the Market

Theatre.(ABOVE) ART AND REALITY: Living in an environment

of escalating violence, dancer and choreographer Robyn Orlin and artist Lulu Dayis believe they reflect w hat is happening in this society. They are currently

performing at the POW (prisoners of war) *'• ’ ,f mini-festival.

“The Installation” a rep­lica of what appears to be a .no rm al lounge in a suburban home.

INVADEDCloser inspection re ­

veals that it has been in­vaded with m ilitaristic nuance.

On the banning of cul- tu f\al even ts, Ms D avis said: Bannings indicate that cultural activities and a r t must be succeed­ing in conscientising peo­ple — otherwise it woulij

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R oddy P ayne is th e new End C o n scrip tio n C am paignJE C C ) ch a ir He s e e s ECC's role on c a m p u s a s ex p o sin g th e role of th e m ilita rv in all a s p e c ts o f o u r s o c ie ty • e c o n o m ic , politica l an d so c ia l, a n d re p re se n tin g th e c o n s c r ip t fac ing call-ups and cam ps. "W e w ant to a s s e r t th a t ECC cam paigns to re fo rm th e law s o n c o n s c r ip tio n a n d is n o t an ti th e c o n s c r ip t" h e s tre s s e d . O ther ECC ex ecu tiv e m em b ers a re J o h n T u rn b u ll (V ice C h a ir); C la ire L offle r (N atio n a l C om m ittee rep) and Karin Fine (S ecre ta ry an d T reasurer).

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10. Malevolent,11. Orders, 6. Conscripts13. Sadism, 7. Knock14. CO, 9. M arch15. Hardcore, 12. Secret 17. Free, 16. Reunite 20. Copse, 18. Enemy 21 Lunatic, 19. Fly22. Embassy, 20. Cobra 24. State, 23. Son 26. W eapon, 25.TV

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Janet Cherry released from detentionJOHANNESBURG. - Miss J a ­net Cherry, the End Conscrip­tion C am paign (ECC) office­bearer, has been released after nearly a year in detention.

Miss Cherry, the ECC’s Port Elizabeth leader, was released la st night. She had been held under em ergency regulations.

She was im m ediately served with an order preventing her from taking p art in ECC activi­tie s o r those of the E as te rn Cape Adult Learning Project, where she has worked as a lit­eracy co-ordinator since 1984.

M iss C h e rry , 26, w as d e ­ta in e d w h ile v is i t in g C ape Town last August. F or the last 10 months of her detention she w as held in P o rt E lizab e th ’s North End Prison.

She was not allowed visitors other than her im m ediate fam ­ily and until last month could not receive le tters from ■peoide other than her family#* iv&t

The ECC’s pub lic ity secri£, ta ry , M r G avin E vans, w e P

corned her release, but asked why she had been detained in the first place and why she had not been tr ie d .— Sapa. |

ECC's Apartheid Out campaignTHE End Conscription Cam paign (ECC) this week launched an "Apartheid Out — SADF Out" campaign.

"Young men are forced to participate in a war without being given a choice," said ECC member Gary Cullen at the launch in Durban. -

"They are told that they will fight a frontier war against outside communist forces, but the truth is that they will be sent to Namibia to'defend'South Africa against a guerrilla force" which represents the majority of the population.

"They will be sent to patrol the townships. They will be fighting against the citizens of South Africa."

United Dem ocratic Front president Archie Gumede said the future belonged to the youth.

"W hite youths should make up their minds whether they want to kill to further the ambitions o f certain individuals who happen to be inpositions of power or whether they want to be part . . . , ,of the forces striving to find a solution to the JANET CHERRY: R eleased . Kl problems which beset our nation," he said. daily from 8am to 8pm. 1 '

ECC member M ichael G raaf will fast for 23 A placard demonstration will also form part o f days as part of the campaign. the campaign.

"A public fast is a message to others," he said. M essages of support were read at the Durban"It enables us to identify with conscripts who launch from Black Sash, D iakonia, National

are denied the option of community service, and U nion o f South A frican Students and Natal to identify with the oppressed and suffering people University's SRC.of South Africa." • The ECC 's Port E lizabeth chairm an, Janet

Several people will fast for one-week periods in Cherry, was released from detention after 11 a relay fast at Durban's Central Methodist Church months last Thursday.

T wo Cape students' freedCAPE TOWN - Two students, one of whom has been in detention for more than a year, have been re­leased. University of Western Cape student Mr sell MacGregor, who has been in detention ranee June 12 last year, was released on Thursday after­noon. ,Ms Janet Cherry, a student at the Univer­sity of Cape Town and Eastern Cape chairman of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), was released in P ort Elizabeth late on Thursday night. — Saturday Star Correspondent.

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THE successes of the End Conscription Campaign (ECCJ should nol be undercsti- mated, the President’s Council Committee on social AtTairs said yesterday.

But it said, discouraging young people trom doing national service was ‘-a form of undermining of authority".

In its report on (he youth of South Africa which was debated yesterday, the commit- tee said the trend, towards reducing au­thoritative guidance and the overemphasis on freedom could promote lack of disci­pline and lead to permissiveness.

The discouraging of national service in- ■ creased with the advent of ECC in 1984.

‘ The aim of the ECC is to bring an end to compulsory m ilitary service and it is con­ducting a propaganda campaign against the SA 'Defence Force and the SA Police. :-

..‘.‘This organization with its well-planned programme operates throughout the coun- • try with young people as its prim ary target and the successes achieved should not b e :-

' underestimated,1 the committee said.'- , . '• In th is •• connection^;it’- re fe r re d r lo ' aV AIemorandum;on lEnd Conscription Cam-r-

pajgn’,'’ whose author was “unknown”.’., :v '. l - * . . s°.,s,aid. y it was of the u tm ost’

ECC activities ‘undennining authority’ v

CT I f / i ^im portance that the image of the South A frican security forces should be ‘•project­ed in a highly positive m anner”.

The Ministry' of Defence had stated in a w ritten subm ission to the committee that young people arc being exploited in an

attem pt to create a revolutionary clim ate in South A frica”.

□ The P residen t’s Council should ad- dress the problem s of young people ra the r than attack an organization which offered , some help, an ECC spokesperson said last night. , •• . v

• It was “utterly rid icu lous” to blam e a ant* popular campaign like the '

t-CC for the lack of d irection experienced by young people in South Africa.- - There, was nothing sin ister about the:.

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ECC leader for talksEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC) national secretary Miss Adele Kirsten and two other women left for Ireland yesterday to address a War R esisters In ter­national conference in Dublin.

Miss Kirsten, Miss Anita Kromberg, of the Fellow­ship of Reconciliation, and a representative of the F ederation of T ransvaal Women w ere am ong 100 delegates invited;to the week-long conference.

The ECC leader will talk on the role played by women in opposing conscription and m ilitarism in South Africa, and subsequent repression.

She will also call for support for two detained ECC members, Miss Janet Cherry and Miss Sue Lund.

1 31.8 emergency detainees named

By BARRY STREEK Political Staff CT , -

THE nam es of 1318 em ergency detai(i<jes \iere tab led in Parliam ent yesterday by the M inister of Law and Order, Mr A driaan Vlok.

The lis t o f d eta inees does not contain the names o f those held for less than 30 days but it does include the nam es of all those who have been de­ta ined for m ore than 30 days since Ju n e 11 this year when the sta te of em ergency was reim posed.

It gives no indication w hether any o f 'th e detain­ees are under the age of 18.

The Progressive F ed e ra l Party spokesm an on law and o rder, Mrs H elen Suzman, sa id the lis t was “an

■ astonishing com m entary on the governm ent’s in ­ab ility to ru le the country w ithout reso rting to d ras­tic m easures unknown in dem ocratic countries".

She said if should be rem em bered tha t some of the 1 318 people had been de ta ined w ithout tria l for m ore than a year.

Y esterday’s list contains the nam es of J a n e t Cher­ry of the End Conscription Campaign in Port Eliza­beth and Russell McGregor, the 1985 SRC P residen t at the U niversity o f the W estern Cape, both of whom were released last week.

But it does not contain the nam es ot' Murphy Morobe, the acting publicity secre ta ry of the UDF, and Mohamed Valii, the acting genera l secretary of UDF, both of whom w ere deta ined recen tly tn Port Elizabeth.□ List of nam es, page 6

some of the frustrations young people experienced, especially those faced with conscription, she said.

The ECC was successful becausc it a t­tempted to replace blind obedience to an unjust society with constructive and viable alternative forms of service.

C The ECC said yesterday that the num ­ber of people detained for reasons rela ting to their participation in the organization was almost SO, and not 23 as stated by the Deputy M inister of Law and Order, Mr Koeir Meyer, in Parliam ent th is week.

A spokesperson for the ECC said: “In fact the num ber of ECC m em bers who have been detained is closer to 80. Nearly ha lf of those detained were issued with restric - tion orders on the ir release.

“Two ECC members are s till in deten­tion: Janet Cherry, who has been in deten­tion for almost 11 months, and Sue Lund.

;• These ECC members were detained for being part of a legal organization which legitim ately campaigns around the issue of conscription. - y -;V •! .. “On the other hand, attackers of the ECC have broken several laws and still rem ain free.” . ... .

Cherry detention is a ‘moral and

outrage’TFrom PETER G MOLL (Rosebank): 1 'JA N ET CHERRY has been in deten tion for ten m onths in a Port E lizabeth prisou, and la st week her app lica tion for re lease was dism issed with costs.

A ccording to the Cape Times repo rt on the judg­m ent (June 18), the m ajor accusations against her by the police w ere that she “taught M arxist doctrines" and was in “constant contact" with the ANC. The judge ru led that to these “factual allegations” (a con trad iction in terms!) Cherry had m erely offered den ia ls , and so dism issed the application.

Constant contactIn any case, teaching Marxism is not illegal. Marx­

is t thought form s an in tegral part o f economics, sociology, politics and history courses in all univer­s ities in the W estern world — as it must, because it is p a r t o t'our in te llectual heritage. One might equal­ly lock up anyone who dares teach Adam Smith or M althus! So why the hullaballoo?

The o ther accusation is equally ridiculous: That she was in “constant contact” with the ANC. It is not illega l to contact the ANC — even prom inent NP m em bers have done so. Gavin Relly and Tony Bloom not only contacted and visited the ANC in Lusaka — they even discussed the m anagem ent of the country u n d e r an im agined future ANC government. So why not round up these personalities?

Ah — the answ er will no doubt be given — be­cause all this Marxism, this constant contact, sug­gests illegal activity.

A m a s se d e v id e n c eH ere, precisely, is the rub. These fatuous phrases

and insinuations are being used to m islead, the public into thinking Cherry is guilty of something — w hich she is not until proven so. I f she has been involved in illegal activity then she should be tried in open court.

The accusations against her are anything but fac­tual. I f the police had am assed evidence which they thought would stick they would have charged her long ago. Tne very fact that she has been detained for so long suggests that the police have no case against her. They do not even have "factual allega­tions” as the judg** avers.

All they have is a misnmash of hearsay and idiotic claim s which am ount :o guilt by association.

1 ho deten tion o: Jan e t Cherry ha.; become a mors! and legal outrage. Sr.e should be charged or re­leased. -j

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