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5. IT CONGRESS 9
End South African Sugar Quota
South African Airways
6. CONCERNING PORTUGAL
Does the Heart Fund Have a Heart?
Portuguese Like Americans Better?
That -allant band who so stoutly defend Western Civilization against "uncivilized"
hb.no in thc remoteness of Zimbabwe are going to have a constitutional referendum.
Less than one hundred thousand white Rhodesians will decide the constitutional future
ai country of four and a half million.
For decades this tiny band has defended Western Civilization against the dreaded
African lJority Rule. They have had to go to great lengths and some self-sacrifice to
hold this "communist-tinged" menace at bay. Hiding their racialism under endless new
disguises they hoped to seduce the British Government, as their only slightly reluctant
accomplice, to grant them independence and perpetual mastery over their black fellow
citizens. At last their patience snapped and they seized independence.
But the facades went on, in a stream of negotiations in which they tried to spread a
sheep's clothing over their racialist wolf. Ian Smith, their great white leader, could
not face even the remotest possibility of African Majority Rule and as a result could
not accept any of the wretched sell-outs that the British Government offered to him.
Unfortunately his own supporters, in their world of twisted illusions and greed,
could not distinguish the sheepts clothing from the wolf. Smithy had to battle for his
political life. As the referendum has approached he has nailed his true colours to the
mast. The racialist banner rides high. Smithy claims that this constitution will block
African Majority Rule for all time. The six percent of the population who are white can
relax. Smithy is a wolf. Good Ole Smithy.
PETITION TO U.N.
student protests are the order of the
day throughout the world, it is per
Death of Freedom haps easy to underestimate and dismiss
the significance of student protest in
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF South Africa. Thus I welcome this op
ACADE11IC FREEDOM portunity to point out the unusual
dangers and pressures that face student
Petition to the United Nations opposition in the Republic. I will begin by
outlining the most recent protests and the
At the height of student demonstra reaction of officials to this protest. I
tions in South Africa, which were will then discuss the matter that has brought
sparked off by the tenth anniversary about this protest, that is, the so-called Ex
of the passing of the Act to exclude tension of University Education Act, which was
Blacks, Coloureds and Asiatics from passed ten years ago. Finally, I will relate
white universities, a petition was information which illustrates the reality of
presented to the Special Committee on university education for students, and parti
Apartheid of the U.N. on April 18, cularly for African students in South Africa.
1969. The text of the petition pre
sented by Gail Morlan, Chairman of the I. Student Protest, April, 1969
UCI Southern Africa Committee, is re
printed below. Contrary to continued predictions that
student opposition would become weaker and
weaker, this past year has seen an increased
iH1r, Chairman, Members of the Committee, amount of activity on the part of students.
ladies and gentlemen: Students pay a high price for their involve
I want to begin by thanking you for ment in such protest. Three student leaders
the opportunity to bring to your atten have been deported, two have had their pass
tion the serious situation that exists ports confiscated, 21 African students were
today in South Africa. At a time when suspended from Fort Hare University Colleg,
and seven were arrested, tried and found ,iltY..
Protest
A!U this .nction in re::pCnse to .eancfuL, non and fight for ncademJ.c freedOm and hloif
.violent action ..:,i the part rf the students. rights finid no comfort, or support from this
April, 109 was chosen by tho National official opposition. According to the April
Union of South African Stuoents (',iUSAS) as an .12 Johanneshurc Star, ro-iniin is grow-ing in
or.-iate tii t, [-n .nc the yotests political circles thot the Cvnnel may have
against the C.vernimelnb S ecroac'hment on homan referred the matter to the Government, or to
rights and a,;ademi r' freedom. A ostion-wide the United Party hd erarchy, or to the police.
campai.gn of mass viils, teeengt, -ins
roac This merely underlines the f-ict that the op
nt non-violent d&'onstrations h.... -en 01anned, position is -in no wa. nro.,m-r
r -i.,, rffer an
to be -_ima:ed eTOivts
ch. on April. 1', the alternative, that it is either too intini
tooth :nmiivers3r-' ,f tie unvonsiten dated, too worried about its own image, or
stand or acaderic freedom, a stand made too bound to narrow white interests to
necessary by the passPing oi' the Extension counter the racism of the Nationalists. In
of University Education Act of l?59. (The fact, the opposition is a boon to the iUa
Cane Times, April 8, o,o) tionalists for it hel.os ther, perp~etuate the
This is the situationt Six students 1,,'th of democracy in South Africa. It offers
stand in the miidle of a traffic island on them no real threat and it offers g-enuine
Jan Smuts Avenue, an excellent. place to opponents no real option. The only, support
stand with posters, as one is seen by hun the students can hope for comes from ithose
dreds of passing cars. The island has elements in the society that arc more and
been a favorite place for such demonstra more invisible, silenced by the white power
tions for years, Suddenly, without warn structure which will stop at nothing to ma-in
ing, 30 policemen arrive, backed by police tain the Power and privilege of the whites
dogs, to arrest the six students. The stu in South Africa. That white power includes
dents are not requested to leave of their both the National Party and the United Party.
own free will. They are overwhelmed by
police force and taken into custody. WIhile
it is true that the students may have been
EDUCATI ON ACT
violating a municipal by-law, the injustice
of the police action is clear. Last year, II. Extension of University Education Act, 1P519
for example, during a previous protest, pro
government Afrikaans students stood on that -h1at was it that students were protesting?
veiy island and threw eggs, paint and toma They were protesting the Extension of Univer
toes at non-violent students from the Uni sity Education Act of 1959 which forced the
versity of the Witwatersrand who were en open universities to become segregated. Af
gaged in a protest demonstration. What was ricans, Asians, and Coloureds would each have
the action of the police then? They stood their own universities and the Government
by and watched, not making a move. (Cape would decide who would go to each university
Times, April 11, 1969) or college. This act was strongly protested
I think it is worth pointing out that when it was first introdaced ten years ago.
this action took place in Johannesburg. It Nonetheless, the Government went ahead.
was the City Council of Johannesburg that Segregated universities came to be understood
refused to give the students permission to by the Hationalists as an integral nart of
demonstrate on the pavement and traffic is apartheid, a logical extellsion of the ide. of
land along Jan Smuts Avenue. It is indica senarate development, it is p-erhaos easiest
tive of the extent to which freedom has been to get a clear idea of what this mans iy
hearing what the architoots ,, the idea sai
destroyed in South Africa that a council
which is not in the hands of the ruling Na alout it themselves.
tional Party, but rather is still dominated As early as 1954, in a now famous speccm,
hy the opposition party, takes this action. Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, then Kinister of iatjv, ,
The United Party controls the Johannesburg Affairs, made the following remarhs in tIe
City Council. The United ?arty theoreti Senatet
cally stands in opposition to the National
ists. The existence of an official opposi
"It is the policy of my Le:-ent -t
tion in South Africa gives the appearance of education should have its roos e%'-,-"
a democracy. However, those who believe in U the ,atie
in the Native areas aW .c!
Verwoerd
environment and Native community. There area and in an atnospjhere which irs
Bantu education must be able to give it totally foreign to the section of the
self complete expression and there it will population iihich ther have to serve...
have to perform its real service. The and when those trained leaders of the
Bantu mst be guided to serve his own non-white population have completed
community in all respects. There is no their training and wa-nt to get away
place for him in the European community from that unnatural atmosphere, they
above the level of certain forms of labour. have to go back to a society where they
Within his own community, however, all are frustrated, a society with which
doors are open. For that reason it is they are out of touch, and they regard
of no avail for him to receive a training it as humiliating to return to that so
which has as its aim absorption in the ciety. I can recall...a chief who sent
European community while he cannot his son to one of the open universities.
and will not be absorbed there. Up The result was that the poor individual
till now he has been subjected to a was not at home in his own kraal. He
school system which drew him away could not go back to be absorbed into
from his own community, and parti the White community. He was therefore
cularly misled him by showing him a frustrated individual. Is it to be
the green pastures of the European wondered then that such a person becomes
but still did not allow him to graze an agitator and takes part in distur
there... The effect on the Bantu bances such as we have seen in this
community we find in the much dis country in the past?... Psychologically
cussed frustration of educated Na he is frustrated and instead of becoming
tives who can find no employment a leader and a social asset, he becomes
which is acceptable to them. It is a traitor and a social evil. In addi
abundantly clear that unplanned edu tion to this, there is the well known
cation creates many problems, dis and from the point of view of the main
rupts the commaunal life of the Bantu tenance of the White race, the predo
and endangers the communal life of minant consideration that the non-IThite
the European..." (Verwoerd Speaks, population groups within our borders,
Speeches 1948-1966; Prof. A. N. Pel are regarded by the Government as sepa
zer, ed.; APB Publishers, Johannes rate groups and must be encouraged and
burg, 1966, pp. 83-84.) assisted as such." (Hansard, May 27, 1957)
"(1) Lazaro Navandare once held an impor (o) Lazar- Kavandame was als d.amssed
tant pocitS on in F'17L1O. He was apointed fro i the noct hr hcld il _'F.
1'T.]-OS
Provnci~I r3-crr'tary of' Cabo Delgado Pro 11P1W . s t 0t.
Vince, anr i~s :.n charge of commercial a'
tiv.1ties i1-n (,hay,: Provlince.
Defection
(c) Also, contrary to what the
"(4) The defection of Lazaro Kavandame to Portuguese say, Lazaro was never a
the Portuguese will not have any effect on' tribal chief in Mozanibique. The
our liberation struggle, because: only influence he had on the people
derived from the position to which
(a) Contrary to what the Portuguese FREL UI0 appointed hin.
announced, Lazaro Kavandame has never
had any military position in FRELMO, (d) He is ignorant of the present
having held a merely administrative state of the military struggle, as
position. he has not been in Mozambique since
December 1967.
(b) He was denounced by the people of
Cabo Delgado themselves as being an "The Portuguese claim that "Portugal is
exploiter and counter-revolu poised for a breakthrough in Iozambicpe as
tionary; therefore, the people a result of the defection of Lazaro Kavan
are now well aware of his criminal dame" is therefore completely valueless,
character and activities. and mere colonialist propaganda."
\1,0
,*n Aan6 10, Congressman Jonathan "United Nations. - Just before midnight
wgham (ii- Lf') oan Scnator Edward IM. Kennedy on a cold Feb. 23rd, a jet aircraft of
(D-:aass) rosoctiJvely, introduced Amendments the South African Airways landed in the
L;o th Sua;arc A;t calling for the revocation snow at New York's Kennedy International
of -, s gav' nucta bo South Africa. Both Airport.
Congrc- rsme condemned the sugar quota as a "By allowing this plane to land, the
subsidy to South Africa and likened it to United States has thumbed its nose at
foreign aid. S'en,.tor Kennedy commented uoon the United Nations resolution of 1962
introducl -g the bill, "At a time when other which requested all member states not to
types of disengagement from South Africa are grant landing rights to any aircraft,
finding increarsingly bro--id support in this public or private, operated under the
country. I believe we in Congress can at flag of the racist South African regime.
least reach T-Jde and bipartisan agreement on "And by not acting to repeal a Civil
the nrincile that the United States shou-t-d Aeronautics Board decision to grant land
not now be co ferring a direct economic benefit ing rights to South Africa, President
on a nat-iJ a whose basic nolicies are at war Richard 11. Hixon has insulted the entire
with the fundamental values of mankind." non-wnite world.
"However, it is to the credit of the
black co mmunity of New York and the Ameri
Write now to your Senators and Congress
men. Call 'or support of the amendments.
can Committee on Africa that they "greeted"
In the Senate S. 1850, in the House HR 10239. the plane with a picketline.
Send copies of your letters to Bryce N. Har PLACA R DS
low, Assistant to the President, the W'hite
house. For more infor.nation, write ACOA, "For three hours about 100 black youths,
164 Madi son Avenue, .few York, N. Y. 10016. joined by a nurber of white supporters,
picketed in the slushy street in front of
t-he airport's arrivals building.
S.A.A. "Placards denounced the U.S. assistance
to the regime that has become infamous f'or
South Mric.aan Airwuays its anti-black police state laws.
'The shameful spectacle of in ai-r'.raf.
Congressnn Sanuel IT. Priedel (D-M d) was landing in New York from a country that o,
the onT% e!-l ten official to partake in the rei.hse admittance to all black- Aenricarn re
Joys of the ;VOaT'?l SoutJh African Airways' sted from cooperation betwee-n the U.S. and
nTight to Soutith Africa. He was accompanied Brit ain.
hy a rltitule of travel journalists, right "British Overseas Airways Corporation
wi&ng Ar. ty;pes (Generals l3ark Clark and furnished facilities at the air terminal
.L.A arshal) a few businessmen and two :r r the South Africans.
erbers nf the Civil. Aeronnutics Roard. "Tt was the outgoing ,Tolrs-n Advini,r.
-iedel sh'ckci his consi-,tuents by acccting tie-1 that pushed th- U.s.-S~-- African ,e
the )ou th African propagand pitch and Ifs cieion otrcigh CAB 1.17secret beari .
action belied lis high ADA rating. Friedel re r,
shuudhear from -"r': his address is 2233 17n ovember, President Wiohn1:on si,7ed
tRayburn 'rol'ose Office uilding, ashington, . d . .•cisi
o,, apithorizin g South Alf'in,3 to
D.C -ary persons, property and nai1 betwee,)
-T0 ohn~sblrg and !4w yora ,Y of , d0
Charl!es C~h'r1p-
C. 'Dig?-I , r
J-. hairl
,h n of the
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IHoise of ,threel,0iives sih.-olmittee or .I "Tfhus
0, I no w -, six1 years P ter. g
-ac ~o
Afr'ca) hi-) ile f-'it). Ln remort concerning
South Africa' rLi -. 'y2 1 included in the Congre
-sonal dccr'r 91., ,ri 169 ',[;t
s :v,. 4b 4 . , os .
U THANT GUN CONTROL
:'%m . ' he I'rnr the. ''out~h African ser
V LaKS l SoAr.,
3o -' : ,. ha iL Ic cuLarly thinking c, terrorist
orcrar-nda infiltration across our borders
Wt/he ca n lt.',
n "-' pip- anda value and the changing pattern of
of 5,0Y white Aiericans, rany if whom will crime where increasing use is
undoubtedly be racists, visiting South Af made of firearms in crimes of
rica every year? robbery and the various forms
"South Africa's racist message will have of homicide."
another outlet, and the moral isolation im South Africa's crime rate is one of
posed by the United Jations will have been the highest in the world. During
broken. 1966-67, the last year for which
i,;:t as the ,] 1 . ."'< ra ion -olice figures arc availahle, 8,900
sner1ked bliro " L1"- 1-o' of all ra-, 61 a -i result
Rs
"-rig rights, the airport :iais n the of what the police classify as "cri
night of Fee. 23 thoe S -ih African
tl:':d ninal acts of via cc."
..- .rnd ito p"":j nr -. ,' -cal.
PORTUGAL
A -,s *- th. c9:-. irn-q - the plane 00JiTCE IG P(O)TUGjU,
can -eat 139 - ?n(.3 fcri.C t-,he, directly to
a secret customs :-ocess.-. Does the Heart Fund Have a Heart?
"Ona youth, a-apparently out of anger and
f.r-ustrtion, snatched the South African flag Mrs. William C. Langley (former radio per
"
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te- n'a - :1 n-. aari ed it sonli t--. Jane ?i ,<,ros ) v
-d lortugal re
L'h<!<]'c ' his[ ,' . . .
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"ov. on1e i;orri '. ' - - 'net' r. f TQit (1ha1J'3an 0) L nce, £orl. 1eart Asso- 1
the flew York papr tb >h, da, c-! t on "Hea't. o " C.airity Ball, irs,,
.s"
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ings' and 'sendof:is' are carried out by the o.ced .-I .. Us theme and in,
vited Portuguese government and social dignii;
black community, President Nixon will have taries to attend the affair. (President !
to reconsider his decision and the South Caetano's son was in attendance.) Normallyi
African jets will have to sneak out as the Heart Fund appeals to smaller nations
cowrdly as the first one sneaked in. interested in promoting U.S. tourism as
collaborators in their fund-rai sing eventS,
The charity banl ,7aq held odiOTlay 7 a- the.
1ew York Waldorf-tAsLnil '7 "1ron7,
wall- i r fron rr'.e' ., r )n~p b 1
-?.I-
-eanin- that the Senate would have power Washington. According to these, a Russian ship
of veto. docked at Mozambique and began to take on
The (r-aft provides for a racially chromium ore - this had been transported from
se~re-ated voters' roll and eventually Rhodesia in cars marked with the Rhodesian rail
racially segregated provincial Parlia road emblem, and examination indicated that the
nts with a multi-racial Senate. There ore was of Rhodesian origin.
is no provision for eventual African Evidently the Soviet Union and Rhodesia have
majority rule Jn the National Parlia the largest sources of supply of chromium ore
ment - only the possibility of racial in the world - chrmium is so indispensable to
parity at some indefined date in the re stainless and other alloy steels essential to
mote future. defense, he says, that chromium ore and the
The NewvT York Times (3/27/69) gives American-based industry to convert it to ferre
indications of increasing legislative chrome have been declared by the office of emer
backing to the proposed constitution - a gency preparedness as essential to national se
special committee of the Rhodesian Front curity.
party met to draw up further proposals. The mines in Rhodesia are owned by two Ameri
Amongst these is one which would confine can corporations. Before sanctions, these mines
the four main racial groups to their own were the major "free world" competitors to Russia.
residential areas, and would define white Since embargo, the American companies have beer
and black business areas. Separate areas denied access to their $8 million worth of stock
would be provided for mixed-marriage fa piled ore, and American industry has been forced
milies! to turn to the Soviet Union for their supplies.
Blacks would not be allowed to trade The Soviet Union meanwhile raised the price 4%
in white business areas, and vice-versa, ---so it seems that Russia now is buying ore
unless the controlling authority felt it from Rhodesia t s American-owned mines and selling
was in the best interests of the other it at considerable profit back to the United
race group, States!
I II
Chromium: Rhodesia Contribution to Big
Power Trade
!4ay 1969