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YOUNEW AGE FACES A

CRISIS.The placing of a num­

ber of members of ourstaff under house-arrest,together with the continualattacks to which New Agestaff members and sellersare subjected, bas madeour task infinitely more'difficult than before.

The 24-hour house-arrest ofSonia Buntin g has had a cata­strop hic effect on our Ca peTown collections. The house­arrest of R ica Hodgson inJohanne sburg has been equal­ly serious .

The se two women between

them have been responsiblefor a very large part of thedona tions co llected by NewAge over the past years . NowSonia has been knocked outaltogether an d Rica's workhas been crip pled.

The remaining members ofthe staff are ba ttlin g as bestthey can to co pe with thiscr isis, but at the moment theyare simply not able to man ­age.

Some mon ths ago we wereforced by our financial diffi­culties to give notice to anumbe r of members of ourstaff. Those who are now leftto hold the for t are carryinga burden which is provin gtoo big for them.

As things stand now , WEWILL NOT BE ABLE TOPA Y OUR BILLS AT THEl~ND OF THIS MONTH. Wemus t have help from our sup­port ers if we are to keepgoing.

We need at least R l, 400 bythe end of the month to covel'o ur current conunitments. WewilI have no hope of obt ain­ing this sum by ourselv es.

We issue an appeal to allour fr iends and supporters, tonil who believe in freedom , tonil who value the wor k wehave been doing as spearh eadof the liberation movement:

DON'T HANG BACKNOW! If ever there were at ime when your help was

needed, it is now. We needyour money, we need yourvoluntary assistance in atho usand ways.

Let democratic Sout hAfrica reply to Vorster 's vi­cious below -the-belt attackwith a flood of suppor t forNew Age which will assurethe paper's futur e.

Let every anti-Na tionalistrealise that now is the timeto stand firm, now is the timeto hit back, now is the timefor each man to make hismaximum effort. The drive todictatorship must be ha ltedand the countr y cleansed ofthe Nat ionalist slime.

Th ere is no substi tute forNew Age. If the paper goes

under, the libera tion move­ment will be like a manblinde d, sightless in the desertof apartheid. Ne ver was theneed for New Age, thepeople 's paper, as great astoday.

Here are some things youcan do :

• Send money yourself;• Collect mone y from

your friends;Help out with REG U­LAR voluntary work inthe various New Ageoffices.

HE LP SAVE NE W AG E!IfELP US RAISE THA 'f.Rt,400. TOMORROW WIL LLITE RALLY BE T OOLATE !

c.P.c.MEMBERSWARNEDON SABOTAGE

The three young South West Africans, Messrs . Brian Basslngwa ite,Fer dinand Mororo and Peter Katjavivi, who were released from custod y

by order of the British author ities in Becbuanaland .

ing.The detective who was investi­

gating the case warned the menthat if they knew anything aboutthe case they should tell thepolice "otherwise you will becharg ed as accomplices." He alsosaid : "As you kno w, under thisvery good act (Sabotage Act) youcan get the death penalty so youpeople musn't think you knoweverythi ng when you know f •.•all. The Security Polic e knowmore about you than you knowabout yourselves."

This was the second time thata teleph one cable was cut. Twoweeks ago a teleph one cable wascut ncar Langa.

The four men, H oward Law­rence, William Bock, Rudy Ludskiand Abr aham August ine, werequestion ed a bout their move mentson Wednesd ay, Thursday andFrid ay nights ,

Mr. Bock was quest ioned athom e on Saturday mornin g. Theother men were not in at the timeand were asked to report toCaledon Square on Monday morn-

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CAPE TOWN.

F OUR members of the Col-oured People's Congress

were called in to CaledonSquare on Monday morningfor questioning about tbe re­ceut acts of sabotage in theCape.

On Wednesday evening , accord­ing to news rep orts in the dailypress, a telephone cable was cut inthe Ga rdens.

Alrea dy Nation alist polit iciansarc using the press-English andAfrikaans-to set the term s theSouth African Dep artment of Fo -re ign Affai rs will try to get Britainto agree to.

The Nats are furious that whileWelensky's government is depor t­ing South Africans found in th eth ree Federa tion countries, theBrit ish High Commis sioner usedthe letter of the law and the time­honoured principl es of politic alasylum to order the release of thethree South West Africans whowere being brought under escortthrough Bechu analand on thei rway back to South Africa.

Said Sir John Maud: the th reewere in illegal detention in Bechu­analand, so he ordered their re­lease. Since then the three SouthWest Af ricans have been giventemporary asylum while theyarrange to resume their journeynorthwards to take up overseasscholarships.

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Three young women students areamong the larg e batch of SouthAfr ican students who were de­ported to Becbuan aland by theSouthern Rh odesian government,after ser ving a te rm of imprison­ment for anteting Rho desia with­out documents. The y have beencamp ing in the open at Gaberones,where they were gran ted tempo­rary asylum, waiting for a planeto By them out to Tanganyika.

JOHANNESBURG.THE British Government-

and the British people- arcto be put to the test in theProtectorates over the Nation­alist demand that Britain actas accomplice in sealing allescape routes from the apart­heid police state.

She hopes to study law.

Thi s young woma n is a Fort Ha regraduate and wants to study

medi cine.

NEW AGE. TH URSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962

U.S. IMP RIALISM ANDN CLEAR WAR

Ie

R. EDWARD S

dee n affection and respect for it.The tragedy Iies in the fact that

when Ahab and the Pcquo d comeinto real conflict with the whalethings get out of hand and theship with Ahab and the entirecre w except one sink; the un will­inc crew suffers because of Ahab'sfolly. "Mob y Dick" apparentlyescapes.

The real moral of the story canbest be expressed by parodying awell-known line of poetry :"For Ahabs may come and Ahabs

may go,"Bu t Moby Dick (like that other

great object of the ocean;Mr . Vorster' s 'Iceberg') goes

forever."

Cape Tow n.

MI. ' OBSTER ond Moby Dick

AFTER the softening-up barr age>of radio and press propa-ganda . the Na tionalist assault on the "Communists" has

been launched. Men and women against whom no charge hasbeen proved or even alleged are subjected to the vicious punish­ment of house arrest. Banned people are slandered on the radioand forbidden by law to reply. A list of nam ed "Communi sts"has been published in the Government Gazette.

These are the slimy tactics of the fascist, who dirties every­thing he touches. All that is noblest and most progressive inour country is being dragged in the mud, while the pervertersof truth, the ap ostles of the vile creed of racialism, the adm irersof Hitler and the Nazi doctr ine of the herrenvolk, sit in highplaces and exercise power.

The "Communis ts" are being attack ed and subjected topenalties , not because of the crimes they have committed, butbecause they have been in the forefront of the resistance to theNa tionalist policy of apartheid, because they have pleaded andworked for the achievement of equal rights for all , irrespectiveof race, creed and colour; also beca use the Nationalists, liketheir Eur opean colleagues the Naz is a~d the fascists, need ascapego at who can be blamed for all the evils that are befallingthe apa rtheid re public, from bomb explosions in Cab inetMin isters' offices to sanct ions resolutions at the United Nati ons.

Just how evil is the Nationalist mentality is revealed by thepublica tion of the list of the 437 "C ommunists" in the Govern­ment Gazette. T his list was drawn up in 1950, after the Suppres­siori of Communism Act was passed, and purp orted to containthe names of peop le who had belonged to or actively support edthe Communist Pa rty when it was perfectly legal to do so.

Most of the 437 are no longer active in politics, but did notapp ly to get their nam es off the list because they had donenothing to be ashamed of and refused to turn informer inorder to buy themselves securit y. For this they are beingpunished, their na mes broadcast to the wide world so that theycan be ostracised and penalised by the -community as a whole.

Yet in the very midst of their crusade against the "Co mmu­nists," the Nats are reaching out for new victims. The Ministerof Posts and Telegraphs, Dr . Hertzog. told a R andfonte in audi-

_ence recently that the sabotage in the Republic was the work,not of the "Commun ists," but of " liberalist agitators." Liberal­ism, which was the precursor of Communism, was the greatestdanger threate ning South Africa, even more dangerous thanComm unism for its methods were much subtler, he said.

Clearly the ta ctic of the witch-hunt will not be restricted tothe "Communists" but will be extended to "li beralists," pro­gressives and a ll who stand in the way of the Na tionalistjuggernau t. The whole country will be dra gged ever deeper intothe Nationalist slime.

The time has come when those South Africans who have notyet done so must get down off the fence and devote themselvesheart and soul to the struggle for freedom. Jus t as the resistancemovements in Na zi-occupied Europe durin g the last war becamea symbol of the unconquerable spirit of free peoples, so thefight for liberty and just ice in South Africa can now be clearlyseen as a patriotic duty .

We must rescue our country from the evil monster of Nat ion­alism which has got it by the thr oat. We must free our peopleof the aparth eid tyranny. We must open the. dungeons ofoppressi on and let the prisoners return to life. We must cleansethe air of fear, hatred and suspicion .

A new way of life must be built in South Africa.. And we,the people, mus t build it- and sta rt building NOW.

ANTI-CO UNISM -WEAPON OF FASCISM

EDITORIAL

Doesn't Mr. Vorsfer in his cam­'paign against Co mmunism bearcompariso n with. and for thosewho believe that such resem­blances can have a deep psycho­logical and socio logical Signifi­cance , very t ragic comparisonwith Captain Aha b of HermanMelville's "M oby Dick?"

Ahab, motivated by bitternessand a desperate desire for re­venge, ignores the real business ofwhaling (accord ing to Freudiantheory he has a castration com­plex. symbolised by his woodenleg) and drives the unwillingcrew of the Pequo d aga inst theWhite Whale. To be observed isthe fact that Mel ville. whilst em­phasising tbe power of this whale,expresses someth ing appr oaching

May I acquaint the reader sof New Age with the follow­ing words Ear l Russell wroteon Jul y 26. 1962. in his lette rto me:

" I was pleased to hear ofyour concern for the estab­lishment of a peacefu lworld. While T am not acomplete pacifist, T agreewith you that a war withnuclear weapons would bea terrible catastrophe,which we must do all inour power to avoid."I believe that these words

of Earl Russell. whom Com­rade Khruschov called "acoura geous fighter for peace,for the proh ibition of nuclearweapons tests and the proh i­bition of the use of theseweapons" are wort h universalattention. Let common senseprevail! Mv sincere hope is tosee the disarmame nt of allthe countries and to see allthe nations friends,

With very best wishes tothe younger generation ofAfrica, whose letters I love!

IGOR MIKHA ILUSENKO24 Gorky Street,Flat 10.Moscow, USSR.

LET ALLNATIONSDISARM

Tn fortv-five years' We built a new landWith no accent on tearsWith no military bandTo patr iotise,

Tn fort y-five yearsWith a profit-mad worldMouthi ng its fearsOur working-class scientistsConque red the skies.

Tn forty-five yearsWe've been asking a questio nThe world has not answered.We'll ask it aga in:" Hi, you! comrade, brotherWhat' s more importantMasses of money orMasses of men?"

J.D.T.

1917 -1962

Durba n.(There would be no victo rs in

a nuclear war: the who le of hu­manity might be wiped out.-Ed.)

OBSERVER

We who were nothingThe poor, the untu toredSlaving in factory, mineAnd the roadbedWith the exploi tedIn poverty nur ture dLiving and dying in struggleWe're bred.

imperialisms.The misery. fam ine and fear

that rules and is the everyday lifeof most of the world's peoplewould fade away like a bad dreaman d be forgotten foreve r.

Kh ruschov diplomacy wonpeace for the world and yet itmight seem that Castro andChi na would have preferre d ashowdown . Onl v the future cantell who was right .

Above all looms the A-bomban d yet time and again the humanmind has proved to have no greatspread of imagination. Only afterhe has been actuated by experi ­ence and fear docs man reactaga inst evils he cou ld easily haveforese en.

Typical is the atti tude. "Likegas in the last war the bomb is atwo-edged weapon and will neverbe used."

The y are now tur ning their at­tent ion to South Africa. If theirleader I rving Brown of the AF L·Cia is so keen on hi inging Ver­wotrd 10 his knees, why docs henot even trv to persuade his ownmembers not to handle anythingSouth African?

In spite of the ir dollars andthe ir underhand tactics the ICFTUwill fail in South Africa just as ithas fai led in other part s ofAfrica.

The time for nco-colonialismhas pawed . Africa has it, ownpro blems. desires and solutionsand will make its own decisionsand never take its orders fromthe ICFTU.

HANDS OFF AFRI CA!TUNGU RU HUARAKASWAN U Representat ive

Accra. G~1ana .

Freedom Fighters,Know Your Allies

It was with inter est we read theartic le on Cuba in the New Age.

It is difficult to account for thelack of world opini on against thedangerous U.S.A. mo ves, Could ithe that the prugrcs vive movementthrou ghout the wor ld were half ­honinu for a conflict?

Th~rc is no doubt of the ou t­co me in a clash between USAand U\"oiI)R It would he the end ofthe roud for UI) imncrial ism andthat would mean the end of all

Let those in South Africa andother countries who strueclc forfreedom and iust ice for all the irpeople, recognise who their truefriends arc. It was the Socialistcountries and Afro -Asian neutra­li~t, who voted a t UNO for astrun g line agains t Vcrwo erd, Tnlike manner thev have and arestanding on the side of the opp rcs­<eel in all coun tries. makin g thefullest posviblc con tr ibutio n to thesetting up of democratic institu­tions in the place of dictaorshipsand militar y juntas .

Such recognit ion i<; particu larlyimportant at th is time when bothBrita in and the U.S. are stenpingnn their efforts to huv Africa nleaders throughou t the Contine nt.and subvcrtinu vounc independentcovernrnents with enormous g i ft~

10 betray their own peoples andent er the Cold War on the Wes­tern side ,

The re is a erowinc suspicionhere. suoported by increasino evi­dence, tha t PAC wa s a brain-ch ildof the u.s. State Department fro mits inception . and that its fana ticalanti-cornmunism and narrow andsuicidal chauvinis m . . . parade da, "Pan -Africanism". . . arestereot ypes of the techniques usedto ca oture for U .S. imperialis m'the liberation movements in manycountr ies of South America. Asiaand Africa . Unlim ited funds at thedisposal of PAC and its allies arebeing investigated. and all presentindications suuzest that thev arebeing channelle d into SouthAfrica from Washington with thefull knowledce of the VerwoerdGovernment. -

REV. TREVOR BUSHCard iff, Wales .

._II "13·IlL....-S OFF

AGONYEast London.

Last Week's Donations :Cape Town :

D. Oldham (in memor y ofLouis ' Joffe) R20. Clothing(Fete) R2, Kon fyt per KatyR2, Cake (fete) 30 cents, DotR2. Rough Diamond R53,Pass R I. T. R25.50. N.M.P.90c, Mike R20. H ycel R IO,Elk RIO. Donny RIO,Watches R2, D othari (fete)R2, Unity RIO, Fr iend (perH) R 10• . v, d. WesthuizenR20, Norbas R IO, Jumble60c.Johannesburg:

In memory T. N . Na idoo& L. C. Joffe R4, OrangesR95.26, Mont hly R20, Month­ly R6, Old Friend R20, M.C.R25, Anon R40.Port Elizabeth:

Brother R1.05, Fruit R2.10,Doc R2, Also Ran R2, LexR4. Goo d Friend R6.10.

Grand Total: R438.81.

Since the end of the SecondWorld War organ isa tions operat­ing under var ious cloaks andrepresenting imperialism havedirected their tent acles towardsthe devel oping coun t) ies of Asia .Africa and Latin America .

One of these is the Interna­tional Co nfederation of FreeTra de Union s, better known asICFTU. It represen ts nothing butmonopoly interests in Africa anddoe, its work under the guise of" international working-class soli­dar ity."

Having been thwart ed at theconference in Casa blanca it hasnow called an all-Af rican tradeunion conference in Dakar inJanuary. Some of their organ isershave links with the notoriousAmerican CIA. Th ey arc trying tocounteract the AATU F, (the AllAfrican Tra de Union Federa tion)bv settin g up a rival organi sation,Although up to now their effortshave fai led, true sons and daugh­ters of Africa shou ld not under­estimate the malicio us works ofimperialism and colonialism.

I. .U.A

Tribal Ambassador isVery Touchy

What is it that is so embarras­sing about being a tr ibal ambas­sador?

It is trulv perturbin g to notethat "Di zarnahlcbo." one of thetribal ambassadors we have herein East London. is so violentlyopposed to being addre ssed as anambassador. He is so touchy thatvou might think it's an insult tobe called such.

In the past few weeks he hasQuarrelled with Mr. DouglasSparks and Mr. Mtshiza na forfaithfully addressing him as am­hassador.

Can it be that to accept such apost is to agree te and to acceptapartheid, white do mination andthe avowed purpose of the Na ­tionalist Governmen t to deny theAfr ican people the right to liberty.justice and a decent life? Docs hi,touchiness imply that his con­science is at war with his presentunn rincinled stand?

To sell your name to somethingessentially small and expect it toretain its forme r weight is to ex­pect too much.

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER '22, 1962

CRISISthe midst of negotiat ions on futurerelationships between the Republicand the High Commission terri­tor ies. South Africa can turn nastyand try exerting all kinds of pres ­sures, for the economies of thethree little countries are depen­dent on South Africa .

PRI NC'IPLEBut the principle at stake is the

right of the three countries to re­tain their political independenceand to continue to honour theright of members of a politiralopposition to apply for-and begranted-asylum, 0 r passagethrough the territory out of thereach of the South African Gov­ernment.

a prime factor in the close co­operatio n the two organisationsbuilt when they launched a strug­gle against a common threat, theSuppression of Communism Act of1950.

This same Act has been usedruthlessly to attack first Comrnu­nist Party opposition, then theAfrican National Congress. andnow threatens all outspoken op­position.

Mr. Kotane went to prison fordefying one of the first ordersbanning any South African fromparticipation in gatherings or thework of certain prescribed organi­sat ions; received a suspended sen­tence for his participation in theDefiance Campaign. was one ofthe accused in the Treason Trial;and represented the African Na­tional Congress at the Afro-Asianconference in Bandung in 1955.

SISULU AT FUNERAL

(Continued fro m page 1)

The case of the large party ofSouth African students waiting illBechuanaland to fly out to scho­larships i" the next big stick theNats will use to try to beat Britaininto an agreement that "he Willclose the Protectorates' bord ersand hospial ity within the threesmall countries to South Africanswho have been refused passportsand cannot leave except by slip­ping out through the Prot ecto­rates; and to politicals forced bypersecution by Verwoerd andYorster to seek political asylum.

South Africa's Department ofForeign Affairs is said to be in

Old Mrs. Alice Sisulu, mother of former African National Congresssecretary Walter Sisulu, was laid to rest at Naneefield Cemetery lastweek. Our picture shows Walter Sisulu at his mother's graveside-he

had to get Vorster's permission!

His order made him the fourthperson to be placed under 24-hourhouse arrest and the 12th undergeneral house arrest orders.

Mr. Kotane is probably the bestknown veteran of South Africanpolitical struggles for five decades.There has not been a politicalstruggle or campaign, from hisearliest days in the young Com­munist Party of the twenties. tothe most recent struggles, that hehas not been a part of.

His leadership in both the Com­munist Party and in the AfricanNat ional Congress, where, in hisown right as an experienced leader,he was elected year after year tothe top Congress committee, was

24-Hour House Arrest forMoses Kotane

"And the Governm ent hasach ieved only a stultified economywith the mass of the people livingIn a state of either semi- or com­plete starvation. It has ended therule of law and has made ourcourts impotent, It has violatedevery tenet of democratic rule andhas brought upon us the condem­natio n of the entire world.

"Yet, despite these restrictivepractices, more non-white workersarc organised into active tradeunions than at any other period inour history and these unions havewon de facto recognition fromemployers; more non-white peopleare politically conscious and arestriv ing for the end to 'Apartheid'and more whites come out daily inopen opposition to the Govern­ment.

now been added the sadistic re­finement of house arrest .

JOHANNES BURG.MR. Moses Kotane, former

secretary of the bannedCommunlst Party, and a for­mer member of the national:executive of the banned Afri­can National Congress, wasmade the victim of housearr est in the only restrictionorder served in this city lastweek.

Mr. Kotane lives with his wifeand sons in a small two-roomedhome in a yard in AlexandraTownship.

"Mr. Vorster has yet tolearn that not even gas cham­bers or concentration campscan kill ideas. Nor can theydefeat the will of an oppressedpeople to freedom."

SADISTIC

Honourable the Minister ofJustice to advise you asfollows:1. The Honourabl e theMinister is satisfied that youare engaged in activitieswhich are furtheri ng or mayfurther the achievement ofthe objects of communism.2. Information.

None of the informationwhich induced the Honour ­able the Minister to issue theabove-mentioned notice can,in his opinion, be disclosedwithout detriment to publicpolicy.

It is pointed out that theHonourable the Minister isnot by law required (our em­phasis) to furnish you withthe reasons and with a state­ment of the informationwhich induced him to issuethe notices in ter ms of sec­tions SO)e and 10 quat."

This letter is signed by theSecretary for Justice.

"In the fourtee n years of itsexistence, the Nationalist Govern­ment has ruled by bannings,arrests for high treason and incite­ment, depor tation and banishmentwithout trial, outlawing of orga­nisations, confinement of indivi­duals, censorship. To these has

"D oes he believe that by sealingoff these people in their homes orflats he will make Apartheid work­able and just? Does he think thatthe non-white workers will nowabandon their struggle for livingwages and their opposition to jobreservation and all discriminatorylaws?

"Does he think that if thesefew courageous voices are nolonger heard, the non-white peo­ple will abandon their struggle fora truly democratic South Africawith equal rights for all? Doeshe thmk that Bantustans willcome into existence with no voiceto say 'No '?

"And when he has turned SouthAfrican life into one vast unfunnygame of Rugby with every non­Nationalist Citizen 'marked' by amember of the Security Branch, I- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -what then? 'Apartheid' will be asunworkab le and as unjust.

SACTU Protest Against11Savage Sentences"

'THE South African Congressof Trade Unions in a state­

ment asks what the Ministerof J ustice thinks he willachieve by his savage sen­tences of house arrest on hismost outspoken potitical op­ponents.

VURSTER REFUSES TOIV E SONS

JOHA NNESBURG.

f~~r_ Min~~~;tel~f Jt~~~~~down a challenge, and then,when taken up on it , funks it.

This is the only conclusiontha t can be drawn from hisleiter to house arrestee Mr.Ahmed ('Kathy') Kath radathis week.

Ta lking on Radio SouthAfrica on the 'fac ts' of sub­vervive activities. the Minis­ter told journalists that hewas require d to give reasons,if asked. for banning confine­ment orders.

So Mr. Kathrada asked forreasons.

Th is i" the full text of theletter from the Department ofJustice:"REASONS FOR NOTICES

SERVED UPON YOU:With further reference to

your letter of the 31st Octo­ber -I962 I am directed by the

DURBAN.MR. Roley Arenstein, a well-

known Durban attorne y, isthe first Nat alian to be placedunder house-arres t by Mr. Yorster.He has been confined to his homefor 12 hours a day and for biddento leave the Durban magisterialdistrict.

Long a target for Nationalistpersecution, Mr. Arenstein playeda leading role in exposing the kid­napping of Anderson Ganyile andin securing his release.

Twenty-eight demonstrators whoprotested against Yorster's orderoutside Mr. Arenstein's home lastSaturday were arrested. They ap­peared in Court on Monday, whentheir case was remanded to De­cember 1. All were released onbail.

ROLEY ADENSTEINUNDER HOUSE

ARREST

'H USE ARREST CAIVorster's Victim I IDS' I

IT SEEMS THAT, FOR THE TIME BEING ATLEAST, MR. BEN BELLA HAS UPSET THEAPPLE CART FOR THESE PLANNERS.

difficult for the US to emphasise the salutary charac­ter of their mission and simultaneously to create abasis of "mutual obligation" which any future regimemay have to take into account. These tactics can beexplained by the American desire to influence thecreation of a regime which would suit them most.

First of all, the US tried to prevent the creationof a "national front" a~ this would harden Algeria'snationalist aspirations and raise its resistance to out­side influences. In view of this, the US fears especi­ally a closer alliance between Algerian leaders andleftist elements which would be dangerous to westerninterests. .

Therefore, it is natural thatWashington would like to seea regime in Algeria whichwould give preference to fo­reign investors' interests andwould not embark on indus­trial development projectsba sed on the country's reve­nues from the oil industry.

In fact, they would likeAlgeria to follow the linetaken by King Saud in thismatter. The Sahara oil com­

panies could then he relied upon to influence per­manently and effectively any future Algerian Gov­ernment.

HALF-OWNED OILPossibilities to exert US influence in Algeria are

being searched for in the economic field as well.Some Algerian leaders are known to place theirgreat hopes for their country' s prosperity in oil andgas development.

But this i<; the very point on which they mayexperience more disappointment and trouble fromthe United States than France could ever havecaused them.

Companies half-owned by Americans have drawnup a plan of Algerian oil production calculated toserve European needs only and also meant to securea second strategic resource of fuel in case an unex­pected situation in other oil areas especially in theMiddle East, would occur.

The US project would follow the principle thatAlgerian oil production should not impede the busi­ness of the ARAMCO oil concern and would thusnot cause instability of oil prices in the traditionalmarkets.

WASHINGTON HAD, TFIEREFORE, SETGREAT HOPES ON A CERTAIN TENDENCYOF SOME ALGERIAN LEADERS TOWARDS ANAUTHORITARIA N REGIME WHICH WOULDNOT BE ABLE TO RESIST WESTERN PRES­SURE. American representatives in North Africa­the prominent US trade union envoy Irwin Brownis named in this connection-have been known forsome time to investigate which of the Algerianleaders would be most suitable for these purposesand on whom they could count,

u.s.EYES ON ALGE A

It is true that the distribution of tents among thehomeless and of American bread among the starvingchildren was a very humanitarian act. It was ~ot

PREVENT "FRONT"

But in his speech he madeit clear tbat the credo of hiscountry's diplomatic and poli­tical action will be the "elimi­nation of colonialism in itsclassic or disguised formthroughou t the world." Worsestill, his first action uponarriving in New York was toshow his affection for Cubaby a well-publicised embraceof President Dorticos, andafter having had lunch with

President Kennedy, on which occasion no embraceswere recorded, he flew to Havana for talks withPremier Fidel Castro.

These facts have led to some sourness in Washing­ton where the political atmosphere is at present thickwith anti-Cuban hysteria. But they must also havesobered up some policy planners who are behind anew attitude to be taken by America in NorthAfrica.

On their advice, WASHINGTON INTEN DS TOFOCUS ITS AFRICAN POLICY ON ALGERIARATHER THAN ON THE UAR OR THE CONGO.The new trend ot a step-by-step "replacement" ofFrance in her former dependencies in Africa-similarto what has happened in Indo-China-is to be pur­sued With particular energy in Algeria.

Tlus country seems to provide good chances forthe rapid enhancement of US influence on the samepattern as has recently happened with such successin Libya.

And the very first stage of Algerian indepen­dence is considered to be the most appropriatemoment for American interests to fill thevacuum left by France.

SOURNESS

AN OCTOBER REVOLUTION reception was held recently in Algiers to mark the 45th anni­versary of the 1917 Revolution in Russia. Seen above is the Soviet Ambassador, M. Abramov,

greeting the Muphti of,Jerusalem who attended the reception.

A MERICANS have not concealed their dis-appointment in Mr. Ben Bella. It is true

that the Algerian Premier carefully avoidedany references to Berlin, Cuba or any otherdirect cold war topics in his address to the UNGeneral Assembly.

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~ The U.S. is planning to 'take over' ~~ from the French in Algeria just as it did E§ in South Viet-nam, but until now the ~

~ Ben Bella Government has blocked their ~~ way, says a leading article in AFRICA ~

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NEWAGE, THURSOAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1962--- - - -------- --- - -------

CAPE TOWN.

ALEX LA GUMA'S

BOOK SEIZED

Mr. Alex la Gurna has re­ceived notification from thePostmaster in Cape Townthat 15 copies of his book "AWalk in the Night" sent tohim by Mbari Publications inNigeria have been seiztd inthe post and forwarded to theCustoms Department for cen­sorship purposes.

The spirit of the workersthroughout the strike was magnifi­cent. Indian women syrnpathisersjoined the strikers and organisedtheir own placard demonstrationoutside the factory. Seventeen ofthem were arrested but later re­leased.

The Union alleges that the vic­tirnisation arises as a result of amemorandum of demands forhigher wages and better workingconditions submitted by the Unionrecently.

After three days all the workerswere reinstated without any lossof benefits and the managementhas promised to discuss theirgrievances shortly. Overtime paywhich in the past had been paidat the rate of time and a third onbasic salary new includes cost ofliving as well.

have been victimised.

Armed police, members of theSpecial Branch and a Saracen sur­rounded the factory and inside thefactory the police took charge of

- - - - -, all departments.

OVERWHELMING

voters of Ward Six were not pre­pared to be steam-rollered bythese tactics into supporting acandidate of who se poli tical poli­cies they disapprove.

The Desai Election Committeeis aware of the sugges tion thatMr. Essop IS being used "to splitthe Non-White vote so that Mr.Phillips could win with a Whitemajority vote. This could beachieved if polling is weak, whichit generally is in a by-election.

Leaflets warning the votersabout this danger will he distri­buted this week.

on Thursday, after 400Indianworkers walked out of the fac­tory in sympathy with 32leading members of their tradeunion who were alleged to

So far. suppor t for BarneyDesai has been overwhelming andhis <uppor ters are confident thatMr. Essop and Mr. Phillips willsuffer resounding defeats.

Mr. Ebrahim Satardien, a mem­ber of the Desai Election Com­mittee, in a statement to NewAge, said: "We are confident thatthe people of Ward Six will vote

OTHER CANDIDATES solidly for Mr. Desai. They areThere are two other candidates. aware of the fact that if Mr.

Mr. E. M. "Babs' Essop, who is Essop gets into Council it will bebeing supported by an apartheid the first time that a pro-apartheidgroup in the City Council, and Non-White man will serve as aMr. George Phillips. a White Councillor for Ward Six.businessman of Woodstock. "The people of Ward Six have

Canvassers for Mr. Essop, who demonstrated to us in our can-is viewed by Congress as the rnain vassing that they are solidlyopposition, have been active in against apartheid, that they detestthe Ward wrth statements that it and want to ~et rid of it as"Mr. Desai is banned and cannot soon as possible. That is wby weattend meetings," hoping. through are confident. A vote for Desai isthis, to gain the support of the a vote for freedom."voters for Mr. Essop. Desai can- Mr. Desai, incidentally. is billed

vassers found, however, that the as the "Freedom Fighter."

VICTORY FSTRIK

Overwhel ing Su port ForBarney Desai

Ward 6 By- Election

A demonstration of the Durban workers who marched from their offices to the factory-a distance of fourmiles-to demand the re-instatement of their leaders who were dismissed. Soon after this demonstration a

settlement was reached.

CAPE TOWN.WITH one week to go for

polling day, canvassersof Barney Desai, Congress­backed candidate in the WardSix municipal by-election, areworking practically round theclock to finish off their secondcanvas of the voters in theward.

Polling day is on Wednesday,November 28. from R a.m, to7 p.m, at the Lieberman Institute,Muir Street; Drill Hall. DarlingStreet; St. Luke's Church, AlbertRoad, and Wood-tock TownHall.

The by-election resulted fromthe imprisonment of Cl'C leaderGeorge Peake who I ~ servingprison sentences for incitementand an offence under the Explo­sives Act.

DURBAN.THE Durban Confectionery

Works at Mobeni, Durban,looked like a besieged garri­son last Wednesday night and

GROWS

JOHANNESBURG.ALLEGATIONS by Potlako LebalJo of bad treatment

in jail have been denied in a press interview by PACleader Robert Sobukwe.

The allegations were made by Leballo in an article in theBritish press. He said both he and Sobuk we were brutallyassaulted by warders, who attacked them with batons and pick­handles. Sobukwe was so badly battered that he could not movefor a fortnight.

"When I left Pretoria prison," wrote Leballo, "Sobukwe wasliving in a filthy vermin-infested cell. When it rains, Sobukwe isforced to stand in water throughout the nigbt until he can mopthe water out In the morning."

Leballo alleged that they had been kept in solitary confinementfor four months, were not a llowed to change their clothes, werenot allowed to wash themselves and were not allowed any visits.

"A reporter of the Johannesburg Sunday Express was allowedto interview Sobukwe i'n prison with the permission of theMinister of Justice. Sobukwe denied all the allegations. "I havenever been assaulted or ill-treated during my prison sentence," hesaid.

The only criticism he had was of the food. which he said "isnot the kind I would choose outside, but is sufficient to keep meof sound mind and body."

Sobukwe told the reporter he would like the truth to bepublished in case Leballo voiced these false accusations at theUnited Nat ions, as he had said he would do.

LEBALLO REPUDIATED BYSOBUKWE

spiritually indefensible'?" (a re­ference to the characterisation ofApartheid made by the Britishdelegate, Mr. Patrick Wall, inputting the British case before theUnited Nations Trusteeship Com­mittee on the South West Africanissue).

Countering Mr. Wall's conten­tion that the thirty Buccaneermarine bombers purchased bySouth Africa from Britain weredesigned to protect South Atlanticsea routes and were unsuitable formeasures of internal repression,the editorial states that althoughthe Buccaneers would be highlysophisticated aircraft to use inputting down an uprising, theycould be so used.

RACIALIST CITADEL"The sale of the Buccaneers in­

creases the power of the SouthAfrican Government to defend itsracialist citadel against ideas ofequality from the North and onthat ground it must be condemned. . . There has been further evi­dence this week of the SouthAfrican Government's suppressionof the individual rights even ofpeople of its own race.

"BY ANY ABSOLUTE STAN­DARD THE SOUTH AFRICANGOVERNMENT IS NOW RUL-

negotiations between SWAPO andSWANU. Kerina, acting alone,advocated a new party, the NamibIndependence People's Party, thiswithout consulting his SWAPOcolleagues. Kerina'sexpulsion fromSWAPO and his resignation fol­lowed fast on one another.

UNITY TALKSUnity talks between SWAPO

and SWANU on a formal organi­sational basis are still on the SouthWest African agenda but reportedto be proceeding slowly and en­countering many local obstacles.

an export market worth £150million a year, and investmentsworth £1,000 million would bejeopardised.'

Then it goes on to ask the ques­tion, "Why should South Africabe made an exception?" "One an­swer given," the "Economist"states, "is that its particularoffence of racial oppression is nowalmost universally condemned asno political system is.

REVOLUTION"Ultimately, the decision must

take account of a revolution inSouth Africa in which the blackinsurgents might be armed andbacked by the communist powers,the whites by the West. Sales ofarms to South Africa might wellbe tbe first link that will have tobe cut; it is a link tbat tbe UnitedStates has already cut."

The "Guardian" in its editorialof November 14, 1962 poses thequestion: "Should offensive wea­pons be supplied to a Governmentwhose policy is 'morally abomin­able, intellectually grotesque, and

JOHANNESBURG.II,"E former SWAPO Presi-

dent, Dr. Mburumba Ke­rina, whose credentials asUnited Nations petitioner forthe Herero people were recent­ly withdrawn by Chief HoseaKutako, has decided to comehome and has applied to theSouth African Government (ora re-entry permit.

The letter to the Governmentsays Kenna WIshes to return to r------- - - - - -------­South West Afnca WIth his wifeand three children in January1963. He recalls in his letter thathis South African passport wascancelled by the Government onaccount of his oppo sition at theUnited Nations to the South Afri­can administration of his country.A copy of the letter to Soutb Afri­ca requesting a re-entry permit hasbeen circulated by the UN FourthCommittee. This was done onNovember 7.

OPEN LETTERKerina says in an open letter

circulated to "friends" that hisdecision to return arises from "ourmen in exile despairing of comingto. grips with the real enemy whoappears too far away and toosecure, turn around and fall topetty bickering among themselves.The energy which should bedirected to organising our people'snational unity i ~ dissipated in use­less wrangling."

The Kerina decision to try toreturn to SWA was clearly takenagainst the background of the dis­pute within the SWAPO leadershipIn which Kerina was in the mino­rity and also after sharp diver­gence among petitioners overtactics to be followed over theCarpio episode.

It was this which led to ChiefKutako withdrawing Kerina's cre­dentials. There has also been asharp difference within SWA~Oover the current attempts at unity

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NEW AGE, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1962

KERINA RETURNING TOSOUTH WEST AFRICA

Disgusted I By House Arrests

ING ILLEGALLY AS WELLAS IMMORALLY, AND ASMR. WALL TOLD THE TRUS­:rEESHIP COMMITTEE '1'1'SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE INANY ORDE RED SOCIETY.' ButBritain continues to help to keepit in place."

The united stand of the Afro­Asian States on sanctions againstSouth Africa has caused a flutterin the dovecotes of the capitals ofthe Western world and their gov­ernments are beginning to feel thecold blast of the charge levelledagainst them that their non­support for sanctions is an act ofhypocrisy which belies all theirprotestations of being the up­holders of freedom and democra­cy. The Western countries findthemselves in a predicament whe­ther to implement the UN resolu­tion and lose economic benefits asSouth Africa's major customers, orflout it and incur the displeasureof the whole of the Afro-Asianworld (excluding only Japan).

SERIOUSAs the Observer (November II,

1962) put it: "The question of theWestern role is serious, If theWestern countries are genuinelyopposed to apartheid and can pro­duce a better way of applying

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - , pressures on South Africa thansanctions, they should disclosetheir hand. If they have no alter­native, it is irresponsible and dam­aging to Western interests to op­pose sanctions. And it is particu­larly irresponsible that Britainshould continue to sel l arms tothe rulers of the apartheid coun­try, which, happily, the UnitedStates now refuses to do."

More tha n that, the Westerngovernments are called upon toface the rising tide of indignationof the labou r and trade unionmovements and the democraticforces within their own countries.The feeling of the common peoplehas been appropriately voiced bythe "Daily Worker" editorial(November 14, 1962) which statesin categorical terms that the re­fusal of the British representativein the United Nations to supportsanctions against South Africa is"both mora lly abominable andhypocritical behaviour, and it istime the Go vernment was forcedto change its' attit ude."

From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo

LONDON.~E news of the wave of

house arrests now takingplace in South Arica is causingsuch widespreadindignation inBritain that support for theUN resolution on sanctionsagainst South Africa is appre­ciably growing among an sec­tions of the British people.

The Anti-Apartheid Movementhas called upon the British Gov­ernment to stop immediately allarms shipment to South Africaand to co-operate with other UNmembers in examining how effec­tive sanctions can be imposed.

The "Economist" in its issue ofNovember 10, 1962, commentingon the boycott resolution, states:"Britain's position in regard to aboycott of South Africa is ob­viously unique, if only in that aboycott would cost Britain morethan any other participating state;

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NEW AGE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962

Fined For HouseArrest Demonstration

sponse was moderate."Urnsebenzi" described the tra­

gic events of that day in Durban."The meeting began at 11 a.m.

and continued into the afternoon.It was enthusiastic but quiet andorderly. Passes were handed inand collected in bags. At this mo­ment a large force of the DurbanBorough Police marched on to theFlats and attacked the meeting."

Johannes Nkosi, a young Afri­can Communist, had been standingon the platform trying to controlthe crowd. The police were armedwith revolvers. While he wasappealing to the crowd not to be­come violent, the police shotNkosi and struck him down withtheir pick handles.

They packed him into a lorryand there was a trail of blooddripping all the way to the policestation. Nkosi had been most hor­ribly mutilated by the police be­fore he died the next day.

For most of its years until itwas replaced by "Inkulu leko" in1960 "Urnsebenzi" was edited byE. R. Roux, through all the diffi·culties of lack of finance and pro­duction facilities. It was a smJ IIpaper-4 pages- but it takes Jmost important place among thenewspapers that built the traditionof South Africa's fighting press,

(Next week: Newspapers andPeople's History)

JOHAN NESBURG

The fifteen women arrested andtried for holding a public gather­IDgwithout permission in front ofMrs. Helen Joseph's house werefined in the Johannesburg Magis­trate's court last week.

Twelve were fined R20, and two,who admitted previous convictionsR40 each.

The women told the court thepurpose of the gathering was toshow sympathy for the secretaryof the Federation of South AfricanWomen, Mrs. Joseph, when shewas placed under house arrest.

"Um'sebenzi"It was to meet this need of a

workers' paper that would reachout to the lowest paid industriallabourers, the Africa ns, that "Um­sebenzi" was launched, early in1930, from a tiny upstairs officein Hanover Street, Cape Town.

Perhaps the most exciting andthe most tragic news reported by"Umsebenzi, " was the great pass­burning of 1931 at Cartwright'sFlats in Durban.

There had been a country-widecampaign to burn pass es on Din­gaan's Day. December 16, andtension was mounting as the daydrew nearer. Suppor t for the cam­paign was particularly strong inDurban, while in other centres re-

In 1926, on January 1, the "In­ternational" changed its name tothe "South African Work er," thefirst issue of which stated that thenew title would "emphasise theCLASS basis of the Party's objec­tive, for it is only by virtue ofcommon class interests against acommon class enemy that unity ofthe working-class-international orinter-racial the world over-s-canbe attained, and without unity wecannot win."

But the "S.A. Worker" did notreally devote its interest to theAfrican, Indian and Colouredworkers. It turned for news main­ly to issues of international social­ism and the Labou r Party, al­though it gave full coverage to theICU (Industrial and CommercialWorkers' Union-a tremendous _organisation of African workers).

"Conquerors 0/ RacePrejudice"

Krishna Shah, the young Indian producer who gave us "The King of the Dark Chamber," is back in SouthAfrica again, working on another pl~y which is to open in Durban on December 12. The play is basedon "Sponono ," a story by Alan Paton dealing with juvenile delinquency. Members of tbe cast includeCocky Tlhollha as Sponono, Ruth ' Nkonyeni as Eliza beth, Joe Ngoetjana as Walter and Philemon Hou as"Ha'panny." Our picture shows Krishna Sbah demoostrating to the cast how the fillht scene should be

performed.

The efforts of men like Jones,Bunting, Clarke, and in Durban,L. H. Greene, and later W. H.Andrews in Cape Town to reachout to the Africans and drawthem into the I.S.L. was by nomeans plain sailing, but they didshow considerable progress.

Meetings were called to whichANC and APO speakers were in­vited. In March 1917 an historicmeeting was held in the TradesHall, Johannesburg-the first poli­tical action taken by the socialistson a matter not directly linkedwith the white workers. It was apolitical protest against a lawaffecting the Africans-the NativeAdministration Bill which placedAfricans at the mercy of the Na­tive Affairs Department withoutrecourse to the courts.

At the meeting the "Interna ­tional" reported Jones was' chair­man and Saul Msane was themain speaker. He opened hisspeech With the words: "I hail youas conquerors of race prejudice."S. P. Bunting and Horatio Mbelleof the ANC also spoke.

In its erudite way the "Intern a­tional" established itself as a sup­porter of the African cause, andas representative of Whites whosought equality for all.

There was a singular lack of"journ alese" in the newspaper.The articles were written in goodliterary style and the standard oftheoretical material was high. And

Freedom - 3

"Not till we free theNative . . ."

From the Notebooksof

LIONEL FORMAN,with additions bySADIE FORMAN

An editorial in an early numbermarked the first bold steps towardsa truly Socialist policy:

"An ' internationalism whichdoes not conceive the fullestrights which the Native workingclass is capable of claiming willbe a sham. One of the justifica­tions for our withdrawal fromthe Labour Party is that it givesus untrammelled freedom todeal, regardless of political for­tunes. with the great problem ofthe Native.

"NOT TILL WE FREE THBNATIVE CAN WE HOPE TOFREE THE WHITE."In almost every subsequent issue

of the "International" Jonesstressed this new-sung theme.strongly supported by S. P. Bun­ting.

Many years were to pass beforeSouth African socialists-includingof course, the Non-European so­cialists, whose numbers grewsteadily over the years-began to

It was "Abantu-Batho" that car­ried week-by-week news of thecourage and determination of theFree State African women.

During the 1920's the newspaeprbecame less and less of a politicalmouthpiece of the African people.

~td[n: ::t~~~fsiS~ot~~ ~~~to~~t~~~of "Black Foiks' Who's Who,"Saul Msane and Selope Thema, itwas finally bought out by theAfrican and Indian Trading Asso­ciation in 1931.

It is a tragedy that "Abantu­Batho" is one of those papers thatseems to have been irretr ievably

lost. No library in South Africahas copies of it prior to 1930, andall attempts to trace a collectionof copies have proved futile.

"The International"While "Abantu-Bath o" was at­

tempting to find a firm footholdin an African consciousness, theSocialists during the First WorldWar were having trouble with theLabour Party. The left-wing Lab­ourites had broken away to formthe War-on-War League. When r------------- --- - ---------- - - ­that disintegrated, the splinter sec­tions came together in the Inter­national Socialist League, the fore­runner of the Communist Party.

On September 10, 1915, the firstissue of the "International" ap­peared ~s their organ, under theeditorship of David Ivon Jones.Though the "International" wascrystal clear that on the world

G:~~a~~1 ;~i~i~h~ w~~~n~hoth:~dItalian alike, and should be bound

~~~~~~et~~nn~es~n~~~ ~0~I~gkO~~~~1African workers' party of Briton.African, Afrikaner, Coloured andIndian, was something which eventhe most advanced of the whiteSocialists had to discover and laybare with an immense effort.

"ABANTU-BA HO"- ORGANunderstand that tbe very opposite the dedication to the cause of so-

OF CONGR S was true, that it W35 tbe Africans cialisrn was unquestionable.wbo would bring freedom to the

~~~~:i~1 N~~:~~~le~n Ivi~p~~~e:; Themilestone. "South African Worker"

Newspapers in the March to

Women Against Passes"Abantu-Batho" played a vital

part in the years of the fight ofthe Free State African womenagainst passes.

In July, 1913. 600 women inBloemfontein marched to the mu­nicipal offices and asked to seethe Mayor. They handed him abig bag. When he opened it hefound it crammed full of thewomen's passes, They told himlthey would not be using them anymore.

The biggest demonstration tookplace at Winburg where 800 wo­men marched. Many were arrestedand dispersed throughout the jailsof the Free State. " Abantu-Batho"tells that ANC leader Solomon J.Plaatje visited the women in theKroonstad jail and the tears rolleddown his cheeks when he saw theterrible prison conditions. But allthe women vowed that when theycame out they would never carrypasses.

A T an historic meeting inBloemfontein on January

8, 1912, the South AfricanNative National Congress wasborn. It had been summonedby P. ka Isaka Seme who hadbrought together all the Vigi­lance Associations, representa­tives of nearly every Para­mount Chief in the country,church organisations-practic­ally every existent Africanbody- and they had amalga­mated in one Congress. Thiswas the direct antecedent ofthe African National Congress.

The Co n g re s s newspaper,Abantu-Batho , set out the 21 ob­jects of the organisation in its firstissue, which called for the removalof the colour bar in the political,educational and industrial fields.

Its first editor was Robert Gren­don, who also distinguished him­self as being the first African toaddress a. Socialist meeting inSouth Africa. He spoke at an In­ternational Socia.list Leaguegathering on, "The link betweenBlack and White."

But "Abantu-Batho" did notprove very militant in its firstyears and during the early part ofthe 19114 war it was particularlydocile. It dissociated itself entirelyfrom the industrial struggles onthe Witwatersrand, but this isreadily understood as the Africanworking class was still small andcompletely unorganised. There wasin fact no visible reason for theAfricans to support the whiteworkers of the Rand who werefighting tooth and nail to maintainthe privileges that a white skingave them.

Then in November 1916, thereappeared an article 'Native Drud­gery' in "Abantu-Batho" whichrevealed an awakening of theAfrican nationalists: The articlesaid:

"The unskilled labour and drud­gery of all kinds, both at themines and in the urban areas, aredone by Native people •• , Theyform the major population of thecountry and they belong to theworking class. Tbey are the main­stay of the country's industriesand the backbone of the land'sprosperity • • _ And they are themost worked and the least paid•• • A European thinks more ofhis dog than he does of the blackman who does a ll the work forhis comfort."

NEW AGE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962~~~~~~~-------- --- ----- - - - - - - - - -

INDIANTROOPSON THEMARCH

Hamlet: " , .. I see/The imminent death of twenty thousand men,IThat, for a fantasy and trick of fame,I

Go to their graves Like beds; fight for a plot/Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,/Which is not

tomb enough and continent / To hide the slaui"Hamlet. Act IV, Scene IV.

BOR- Call by World

TPeace Council

FURTHER VIEWSON THE

INDIA· CHINABORDER DISPUTE

Brituinare FanningPALMEDUTT: U.S. unthe Flumes

pR~YDp~~t:h~e~~~:~e~Oi~m~~editorial yesterday, said: "Thething to do is to cease fire andwithout advancing any terms sitdown at the round table of nego­tiations."

Relations between India and theSoviet Union are "a good exampleof the successful application of theprinciple of peaceful co-existence,'Soviet President Brezhnev said inMoscow.

He was speaking after Mr. Tri­koli Nath Kaul, for mer IndianHigh Commissioner in London,had presented his credentials asnew Indian Ambassador to Mos­cow.

IN MOSCOW

NEHRU REPLIES TOKHRUSHCHOV'S

CBASEFIRE PLEA

WIFE: "And you keep te llingme there's no life on MaTs!!l ..."

• Pro-imperialist reaction­aries in India, with lavishU.S. finance, were seeking towork up war hysteria. but wecould be confident tbat themasses of the Indian people.with their deep anti-imperialisttradit ions, would quickly re­cognise the present alignment.

SPIRIT OF BANDUNG

all friends of both countries wasthat the proposals of the Afro­Asian powers and of the SovietUnion for a ceasefireand negotia­tions should bring peace to theborder.

"In this situation, the massivepouring of arms into India by tbeU.S. and Britain is not helpful topeace," he said. ''These are notarms for the defence of India."

CHINESE OFFERMr. Dutt pointed out that China

" ad continuously offered a cease­fire and negotiations without priorconditions, suggesting that botharmies should retire to 12 mitesbehind the 1959 frontiers.

"Nkrumah has protested againstthe imperialist supply of armsand

Offers of negotiation have been made. The first necessity isan immediate ceasefire, after which negotiations should betaken up on a mutually satisfactory basis, as urged by the headsof certain non-aligned States in Asia and Africa.

These should lead to a settlement in the spirit of Bandung,which would be in the interests of the peoples of both coun­tries, .•

We urge all peaceluvers throughout the world to further suchan outcome.

SUPPORTERS of peace everywhere are deeply concernedwith the tragic conflict involving the two great Asian coun­

tries, India and China. Both peoples arc by tradition devotedto the cause of peace and national liberation from colonialism.

The hostilitiesarising from the imprecisefrontier demarcationare now verging on open war.

Their continuance can give aid and comfort only to theenemies of peace. If prolonged, they may tend to spread to theextent of endangering world peace.

T HE United States and Bri­tain are trying to fan the

conflict between India andChina, Mr. R. Palme Dutt,

veteran left­wing cam­p a i g n e r forIndian inde­pendence andtoday editor'of La b ou rMonth ly,warned hisaudience at arecent meet­ing in Britain.

Mr. Du t~

R. Palme Dutt ~~~ ~ishe~f

Til e [ollowlnv statement hasbeen releoscd by Plol. I . D.Bernal, chairman, 011 he/ICIII of theWorld Council of Peace:

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:: " It is well known to us and :§~ the whole world that you and §§ your country arc devoted to §§ peace and to the principle of §§ solving problems among §§ people and nations in a §§ peaceful way which would §:: lead to an honourable so lu- §~ tion of this problem to your §§ country . . . I firmly believe §:: that well-intentioned Inltla- ~§ tive of some of our mutual §§ friends from non-aligned §~ countries could contribute in §§ findin!: out a solution of this ~§ problem," §

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8 NEW AGE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962

IN MEMORIA MIn loving mernorv of Louis.Joffe. a very dear- friend andtrue comrade, who devotedhis life to the greatest causein the world-the liberationof mankind. David Oldham

DEATH OF LOUISJOFFEJOHANNESBURG

MR~f ~~~i~e~o~~a~~ ~o~~~~~~f~l/I~o~~~s A~~}~~e d~~~ Ir~~~~VC~~~peared on the list of namedCommunists.

Louis Joffe is perhaps best re­membered for his sterling servicefor the African Mine Workers'Union and for the African Mineworkers' Union Organising FundCommittee which bore the bruntof providing defence to the miners,workers, trade unionists and demo­crats who were prosecuted after~~~6~isto ri c mine strike of August

He rallied to every financialcrisis of New Age. and, beforethat of the Guardian and Advanceand was a valued and highly efli-cicnt fund raiser. .

1 he following arc Damon ­selections for Satu i dav:Wynberg Open Handicap:

I . AFLOAT2. Kingswell3. Involved.

W ynbcrg Handicap (H) : QUAR­TER DECK. Danger, PIinceAlfred.

Kenilworth H and icap (~I)U Div) :QUICK RESPONSE. DangerFair Brother. '

Matun ty Handicap: M I N~TREL

CALL. Danger, Dol l,u Prmce,Wynbcrg Progress Stakes: RI f ­

ORNELLO. Danger. Lord SIJII­ley.

Maiden Plate. 5 furlongs: PAR-VONET. D an g e r , Court sAppeal.

Maiden Plate. 9 furluugv.FLIGHT CAPfA IN. Dangel.Ash Leopard.

Juvenile Plate, 5 fu i longs: GAR­BORETTO Danger, Tr ue Sol­dier.

BREAK UP CAPEDEMO STRATION

RACING ATKENILWORTH

CAPE TOWN.

POLICETOWN

CAPE TOWN.

M'1;~~ ~~b~~a , ~~n~ :~~~ordered by the State President toleave Cape Town and exile them­selves in me area controlIed bytheir enemy Kaiser Matanzima inthe Transkei (see New Age lastweek) have fled the country andsoy ght asylum in Basutoland.

Tbe two men were due to leaveby train from Ca pe Town lastThursday night and to report inCofimvaba by Monday of thisweek. On Thursda y night a largenumber of their friends gatheredat Cape Town station to bid themfarewell, and sang freedom songswhile they waited for the train todepart. A number of SpecialBranch men were also present.

Neither of the two men turnedup, and the train eventually pulledout without them. One of theircolleagues then an nounced to thecrowd that they had decided notto comply with the State Presi­dent's order that they return tothe Transkei.

At 3 a.m, the following morningthe homes of the two men illLanga were raided by the SpecialBranch, but by this time it wastoo late. Messrs Ha ni and Mpern­ba had arrived safely in Mafeteng,where friends were providing themwith temporary accommodation.

pLACARD S protestingagainst house-arrest and

deportations were displayed bydemonstrators who lined aportion of Adderley Street,Cape Town, last Saturdaymorning.

Among the slogans were thefollowing: " House Ar rest i ~ LivingDeath"; "The P<l st is Vorster\ .The Future is Ours"; "FightApart heid, Fight House-Arrest,Fight Banishment" ; " House-Arrest- First Step to ConcentrationCamps."

Special Branch men, accomp a­niel by a police photographer,were soon on the scene, takingdown the wording on the posters,and asking the demo nstrators fortheir names and addresses.

A number of demonstratorswho dec lined to give the informa­tion asked for were taken to Cale­don Square and later released.

One of two Special Branch menwho approached Miss SylviaNeame called her a liar when, inresponse to a query. she told themthat she was a student.

The police confiscated theposters and broke up tbe demon­stration after it had been in pro­gress for just over quart er of anhour.

. A spectator, shocked by thisprovocative rudeness, remonstratedwith the two policemen and askedthem for their Dames. They reofused to give them and told himto "b-il1f."

JOHANNESBURG

Trying to note an appeal againstpass law conviction in the NativeCommissioner's Court, Brain So­mana, New Age reporter was told:No appeals are made from thiscourt. If you insist I will increasethe sentence"

Mr. Somana was arrested whilephotographing Mr. Kathrada re­porting to Marshall Square underhis house arrest order, and washanded over to the Special Branchand subsequently charged underthe pass laws.

In' court he was fined R30 or74 days imprisonment on twocounts : failing to produce areference book. and failure toregister at the Non-EuropeanAffairs Department.

Somana argued that the regis­tration and payment of servicelevies was the responsibility not ofhimself but of his former employer.The magistrate said that he shouldhave known that the trade unionfor whieh he worked had not paidservice levies.

Special Branch ManIs Matanzima's

Ambassador

SOMANA FINED

FOR PASS OFFENCE

QUEENSTOWN.AN African Special Branch de-

tective Mr. Mabunu, told anaudience at Queenstown that hehad been appointed Kaiser Matan­zirna's ambassador to this town.The meeting had been convened,and was presided over, by Mr.Mabunu himself.

The hall was surrounded byarmed police while the meetingwas III progress. Mabunu tooknotes and wrote down the namesof opposition speakers while sit­ting as chairman.

One of his supporters, Mr. B.Myataza, claimed that the meetinghad received blessings from Man­dela, Sisulu and Lutu li. "Theya llow us to carryon in this way,"he said. "as they arc still busy­attending tu other matters."

This was too much for thea udience. They walked out.

Parker and Monk. To Chris too,goes the distinction of being "Theonly group leader who takes anactive promotional interest inother musicians' compositions."

BEST NUMBERSThe " Blue Notes" rendition of

Dollar Brand's powerful, butheart-rending "K ippie" was, in myopinion, the best number of theevening after Charlie Mingu's"Shuffle."

Because of the difficulty ofspace ] have singled out Duduand Chris but congratu lations goto every member of the group.The y were outstanding. All ofthem.

The other two groups "The JazzAmbassadors" and the "RonnieBeer Quintet" were B[G surprises.Only two months ago word leakedout that Chris McGregor was run­ning a workshop at the " Mer­ma id." Most peo ple brushed it offas a "wasre of time." They atethe ir words at the Weizmann­those who were there. To under­stand the tremendous improvementin men like Ronnie. Goodwin,Ternba (both piano), Sammy Ma­ritz (b,I\S) and Danyila Dlova(alto) listen to Freddie Gardne rbefore you listen to Charlie Par­ker. There's no other way to ex­plain it.

AlI of these, with the exceptionof Ronnie (who's abo White,incidentally) were trained at diffe­rent stages by both Dollar andChris, Ronnie owes hi, polish toChris who seems to have an un­canny patience with newcomers.

Of course. Cup and Saucers (heneeds no introduction or praisebecause he's an accepted piantfact on the S.A. scene and ChrisColumbus (baritone) were alsothere. As usual, the crowd doubledup after the baritone solos. Idon't know what it IS. but there'ssomething about Columbus thathe just can' t avoid. He seems tobe a 24·hour fun-loving soul.Even with his horn.

STREAK OF RACIALISMSo there you have it. Pity a

streak of racialism has been builtup bv some unscrupulous promo­ters who for profit's interest, havedivided the jazz fans into Whitejazz suppor ters and Black jazzsupporters.

Seems [ike Chris and Dudu'smulti-racial group will defeat it.

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The Residents' Committee candidates working to oust Mpanza in the Orlando Advisory Board elections.From left to right: Mr. J. B. Hashe, Mr. P. J. Matthews , Mr. D. J. Hlongwane, Mr. T. H. Mathiso.

CAPE TOWN .'''THE Jazz Scene" at the

Weizmann Hall, SeaPoint, last week, was anothermagnificent example of whatracial co-operation on thebasis of merit can achieve.

There was no doubt left in any­body's mind that this concert wasthe best thing that has happenedto South African jazz since DollarBrand and Kippie Moeketsismashed the cosmos in December1961 at the Rondebosch TownHall.

The art istry and creativity ofChri-, McGregor's group whichamalgamated with the sensationalDudu Pukwana "Jazz Giants"after the Johannesburg jazz festi­val last month, was undoubtedlythe nearest thing to internationalclass that South Africa has pro'duced since Dollar Brand's " J .IZZEpistles."

FULL.TIMERChiis. a young former Univer­

sity of Cape Town music studentwho gave up his studies of theclassics to become a full-time(starving) jazz musician, has suf­fered many financial and domesticset-bach and rejections by Whitejazz musicians and fans because ofhis insistence that "if I play mygroup plays." This has landed himin the sou p with many jazz showpromoters but 'T he Jazz Scene,"I am certain, compensated for allthis. Although a modest youngman, I am sure Chris is proudtoday after experiencing the powerwhich his multi-racial group gene­rated at the show.

Incidentally all of the musiciansin the "Blue Notes" (that's thenew name of the McGregor-Puk­wana team-up) were trained byChris.

Dudu Pukwana. who won the1st prize for the best alto-solo atthe festival. displayed a verystrong Ornette Coleman influencebut fortuna tely (and miraculously)he has managed to retain a uniqueoriginality in his phrasing. Chris'sapproach to the modern idiom hasalso been influenced by Coleman'sattit ude and he has found a wayof blending this beautifully withthe altitudes of his two other idols,

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