UDF SPELLS OUT AIMS IN FULL

JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 30 May 85 p 16

{Article by Gary van Staden]

[Text]

If a Cabinet Minister — or any

_ other senior State official for that

matter — stood up tomorrow and
blamed the United Democratic
Front for the spread of malaria in
Poffadder most white South Afri-
cans would probably believe him

| without question.

The UDF has become every Gov-
ernment spokesman’s favourite tar-

, Bet yet very little of what the or-

ganisation actually is or represents
has filtered through to the majority
of white South Africans. They seem

“only too willing to accept that it

consists of a bunch of communists

whose sole intention is the violent

overthrow of the State. :
Now, for the first time, the UDF

“has released a comprehensive state-

ment of what the organisation is
and is not, what it stands for and
believes in and what it rejects.

The UDF concedes that it has not
come out of the latest clashes with

Government spokesman very well. °

It attributes this to the fact that the
recent spate of detentions and ar-
rests of UDF leaders badly affected
the organisation’s ability to respond
quickly and effectively. .

“It has now reached the point
where virtually every attack on us
goes unchallenged which, in turn,
has resulted in accusations now
being accepted as fact,” a UDF
spokesman said recently.

“Born on August 20 1983, with
over 12.000 people present, the UDF
heralded .a new intensity and cohe-
sion in opposition politics in South
Africa,” the UDF statement says.

“Its formation came as a conse-

: quence not only of State initiatives

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to broaden its base thereby en-

_ trenching its rule (the tricameral

Parliament system), but mainly as

‘a result of the upsurge of resistance

to apartheid at various levels of our
community.”

According to the UDF the Rev
Allan Boesak, “realising the mas-
sive fraud that was about to be
committed in the name of our peo-
ple” called on all those who are op-
posed to apartheid and wanted a
South Africa free of racial discrimi-
nation, to join together in a united
front to fight against the new “rac-
ist constitution” and tricameral
Parliament. :

SOUTH AFRICA

“And so the UDF was born, and |

has grown ever since.

“The UDF now has a presence in
all major and remote areas of the
country. It manifests itself through
supporters and numerous organisa-
tions,” the statement says.

The UDF has always attempted
to involve as many people as possi-

ble in the fight against apartheid ©

and racial discrimination:

“We have, from inception, sought
to have the Front as broad based as
Dossible. This position was barn out
Ban understanding that to effec-
tively challenge the State we need-
ed to broaden the base of resistance
and avoid sectarian practices that
could only be in the interest of the
maintenance of apartheid,” the
UDF says. :

“It will be recalled that in the
months leading up to August 1983
serious attempts were made to con-

. Sult as.many organisations as possi-

ble. For instance, on more than two

‘ oceasions organisations like Azapo



JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

MACHEL INAUGURATES NAUTICAL SCHOOL IN MAPUTO |

Opening Ceremonies
Maputo NOTICIAS. in Portuguese 4 Jun 85 p 1

[Text] Yesterday, President Samora Machel opened the Nautical School of Mozam-
bique in Maputo, and officiated at the graduation of the first Mozambican~
merchant marine officers, at a ceremony held with great formality. In his’
remarks on the occasion, President Samora Machel stressed: "The importance
attached by people from the dawn of human civilation to the maritime resources
and communications is well demonstrated, since the sea hasbeen the lever of
mankind's progress." Previously, the merchant marine workers had named
President Samora Machel the first captain of the Mozambican merchant marine.

The head.of state arrived at the Nautical School at about 1530 hours and,
after having received the military honors associated with the formal occasion,
he reviewed the honor guard and the group of Navy cadets lined up on the site.

Then President Samora Machel cut the ribbon whereby the Nautical School of
Mozambique was considered to have been opened. He later received the school
pennant and drew open the memorial stone at the entrance to the building,
marking the event for history.

President Samora Machel made a lengthy tour of the facilities, and during the
tour made the most laudatory comments on the work, the cleanliness, the
neatness and the trimness evident there.

At a certain juncture, however, the Mozambican leader did not fail to comment:
"I shall return here a few months from now to see whether this will still be
so, or whether it. was just prepared now to receive me."

In 1991 We Shall Have Captains

As was explained during the visit of the President of the People's Republic of
Mozambique, the Nautical School was opened in 1977, at that time intended to.
train seamen for the coastal trade. Thanks to a.subsequent agreement between
our country and the Kingdom of Norway, in 1980.it was possible to lend the
school the dimensions that it has now, directed toward the training and
international rating of merchant marine officers.

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18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

REPEAL OF. RACIAL ZONING LAW SUGGESTED

Cape Town DIE BURGER in Afrikaans 4 Jun 85 p 11

[Text] The systematic dismantling and ultimate scrapping of the racial zoning
law as one of the guidelines for a national strategy of urbanization was envis-
aged by Prof S.P. Cilliers, director of the Research Unit for Developmental So-
ciology at the University of Stellenbosch.

He testified before the committee of the presidential council that is setting
up the investigation into the strategies whereby the process of urbanization
may be planned in such a way that the present social, economic and physical
problems caused by rapid urbanization can best be confronted.

Prof Cilliers said that it will be easy to do away with the racial zoning law,

because central business districts have already been opened up, and industrial

districts will follow shortly. In a subsequent phase, districts zoned for mul-
tiple use must be opened up for the right of occupation.

All the commissions of inquiry that have investigated that aspect of the ques-
tion have found that a strategy based on controlling the movement and settle-
ment of people is usually counterproductive. It is desirable, however, that in
place of it, a national strategy for urban growth be created as one component
of a national development plan.

Squatting

A development plan must consist of a strategy that furthers the realization of
the proposed objectives and does not contain coercive or restrictive principles
or measures.

Guidelines for such a strategy of urbanization will include among other provi-
sions the following:

1. The promotion of a deconcentration of business and industry within existing
urban and especially metropolitan complexes;

2. A review of the system of controlling and licensing business and industrial
activities;

3. A comprehensive housing strategy that among other things makes provision for
the control of squatting;

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PORT ELIZABETH FORMER FISHERMEN RETURNING TO SEA

Port Elizabeth WEEKEND POST in English 11 May 85 p 4

{article by Debbie Booysen]

[Text]

FORMER fishermen are
returning to the boats be-

cause.of retrenchments in“

other industries.

“Many faces we haven’t
seen for years are now
‘coming back to the boats,”
the chairman of the Port
Elizabeth and District Boat
‘Owners’ Association, ‘Mr
Bill Rankin, said this week.

Many fishermen left the

industry when South End.*

was proclaimed a white
area. Coloured families liv-
ing in the area Were ‘relo-
cated and .among them
were fishermen who found
* the distance to the harbour
too great to continue fish-
‘ing for a living. +
‘While local skippers have
welcomed the return of

fishermen, there are also ©

other.plans in the pipeline
to boost the local fishing
industry. These include a
“promise ‘of finds from.the
4 ment of Environ-
mental Affairs and Fisher-
‘ies for the restoration of
the Dom Pedro jetty, which
is in a bad state of repair;
an ice-plant to help meet
the shortage of ice locally
and elsewhere; and the pro-
posed small boat harbour.

‘The industry has, how-
ever, encountered prob-
lems due to legislation,
- trade agreements and regu-

cso: 3400/457

lations imposed on it in
recent years.

These ‘were the trade
agreements with countries -
like Russia, Japan. and:
Asrael, the quota system ;
and harbour security:

again, once one’s quota is
full, work’s over and the
crew is either laid off or’
taken line-fishing so as not’
to lose the men.”

Mr. Rankin pointed out
that one of the local trawl-

measures, ers, for instance, had only
“Russian factory boats ; . two weeks left to fish this’
have not been fishing with- «year before its annual quo-,
st Hl

in our waters for a number - ta was full.

of years, but Japanese ‘ _ He said after the moving’
trawlers still fish along our of fishermen and their fame
coast, although they stay ilies from South End to
mainly outside the 12-mile areas far from the harbour,

ag kilometre) limit,” Mr many. had looked for more
Rankin said. f accessible employment’
1 “the trade agreement a ‘elsewhere: «<. .
‘ows these “Consequently about 80% .
process-anything between of our four Tineboats" crews
30 to, 100 tons of fish daily) are now recruited from

ae: well at other tjpes of Fear Bay

‘as well as f “But we do hope the ice-

fish not subject to quota. plant will eventually pro-
“Over the last few years vide a strong drawing-card

we have’ only had i2 in-

for boats fr
shore trawlers and, if one jor boats from other places

to make PE their home-

of these managed a catch of base.’ an

three tons a day, it had done Due to harbour trading

very well’ regulations fish may no
The quota’ system has longer be sold on the jetty

also reduced the livelihood which means :that local

of local fishérmen consid-
erably over the past five
years. :

housewives pay up to 30%
more for readily prepared

“The industry used to be “An open-air fish-market
‘very much sole-orientated, l ‘would be the answer to this,
but this has virtually col- but unfortunately the local
lapsed because sole fishing health authorities have not
is not very economical. ‘been receptive to the idea.

“The target species has “With the help of spectal-

:-mow become hake, but here ly the Fisheries Develop-

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ment Corporation, we are ;
working towards improved
facilities and infrastruc-
ture. . .
“Tremendous resources”
like. pilchards, anchovies
and crayfish are still lying
untapped. .
“Locally we have only
four crayfish boats, while
there are about 20 freezer-
boats from Cape Town op-
erating in the area.”
According to Mr Rankin,
maasbanker, which sells at.

between RI and R1,30 a

kilogram, has virtually be-

“come part of the staple diet

of blacks and coloureds.
“But because we don’t:

«eatch enough, we have to

import from other

centres.”

A bigger fleet could
therefore provide employ-
ment for almost double the
number of people. at
present in the processing,
maintenance, selling and
backup services of the in-
dustry.

One of the fishermen
who have “come home”, is
Mr James Stevens, of Arca-
dia, who worked for a hotel
after he stopped fishing

--about two years ago.

“ He lost his job “and now

_T've come back to fish to

keep me. and my family
alive”.



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

LESOTHO

BRIEFS

DELEGATIONS DISCUSS BRITISH AID PROGRAM--Delegates from the Lesotho and
British governments met today in Maseru to review progress on the British
program of assistance to Lesotho. The Lesotho delegation was led by the
minister of planning, employment and economic affairs, the Honorable E. R.
Sekhonyana, while the British side was headed by the British High Commis—
sioner in Lesotho, His Excellency Mr P. E. Rosling. It was disclosed that
in the year ending 31 March 1985 a total of more than 8 million maluti was
spent. The principal projects supported were the road improvement unit at
Leribe, the Woodlots project, village watersupply schemes, and construction
of polyclinics. Expenditure on these projects together with a substantial
program on technical assistance will continue in the current year, when more
than 9 million maluti will be spent. [Text] [Maseru Domestic Service in
English 1600 GMT 10 Jun 85]

CSO: 3400/447

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The AWB of Mr Eugene Terre ‘Blanche was conspicuously absent, but his ideal of
restoring the Boer republics was a very lively part of the discussion.

From all appearances, the AV congress has proven one thing: In far-rightist
circles there has been a clearcut turn in the debate over a policy for the far-
rightist parties, with stronger support for the concept of a sovereign Afrikaner
nation.

8117
CSO: 3401/220

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During the 1984-85 agricultural campaign, the situation changed completely
from an organizational standpoint. Several factors contributed’to the failure
of this campaign which is.under way, among which we could cite the excessive
rainfall, and the extensive movement of peasants owing to the threats from
the armed bandits in some areas.

Yet, aware that agriculture is the basis for our sociéty's development, the
farmers from Angonia district have not given up their main activity of
combating famine.

Concurrently with the productive work, the population of some parts of Angonia
enlisted in politico-military training courses for self-defense, responding
to the decisions from the FRELIMO Party's, Fourth Congress, under the heading
of defense of the fatherland.

Concrete action was taken in villages and settlements to combat the armed and
unarmed bandits who were attempting to upset the populations on the collective
farms and in residences.

Forestation of Villages

The planting of fruit and shade trees in the communal villages and towns is
one of the work programs of the organizers in Angonia-district. ‘The Angonia
Agroindustrial Complex (CAIA) began introducing the forestation process in
the villages during 1984.

According to the program, by the end of this year over 500 eucalyptus and pine
trees will have been planted in the villages and towns, in addition to which
the planting of fruit trees will be extended.

Some potatoe production areas in the sector will be sprayed this year by the
Angonia Agroindustrial Complex. The director of that agrarian complex in
Tete Province said that, for this purpose, 15 brigades were formed, ‘which
will work in the towns, villages and cooperatives where potato growing is
done.

The technical backing to be given the family sector is aimed at raising the
production and productivity of potatoes in that region of Tete Province.

It should be recalled that the Angonia Agroindustrial Complex will be selling
seed potatoes to the family sector this year also. Hence, the organizers ‘have
already started working to mobilize the peasants for the expansion of their
growing areas. .

2909
cso: 3442/314

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DESPITE RELAXATION ON INFLUX CONTROL, VICTIMS SEE NO HOPE
Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 14 Jun 85 p 10
[Article by Sefako Nyaka]

[Text]

“MRS SN had a simple problem: either she stayed in Johannesburg, chancing
arrest and hoping for occasional work, or she could return to Estcourt, Natal,
cand wait hopelessly to be recruited for work while her five children starved.

MrsSN, whose : ws
n i by the Minister of Co-
held. as peer with: ‘operation and Devel-
tion, is a typical exam. 1 ‘opment Dr Gerrit Vil:
ple of the hundreds of joen, -that the Influx
cases dealth’ with at Control Laws are tobe
just one of the Black telaxed to give ae
Sash advice Offices greater mobility, does
d the country. “not come as a relief to
aq widow with five Mrs SN and the thou-
“children, ‘she became sands like her. The
the family’s sole bread- ‘only way they. can get

it work legally is through
ae te hus: the abour bureau —
ago. There being no and the urban prefer-
‘possibility of her earn- ence policy means they
ing any kind of living stan no chance, i
in her home town, she _ The Government 8
trekked to the “City of giving with one han

and taking away with

ole on eee the other. There will

“of gold at the end of

is definitely be a tighter
oem hi Id control on the influx of
be nepistered fi rural people into urban

not be registered for aarp e spokesperson

work in Johannesburg, i
but the prospects of of the Black Sash sai

it i ‘The central thrust of

ie fee rateotin Dr Viljoen’s proposed
" uch f ey. : reforms is to remove
baler toth Sad i all barriers to the free-
or Khotso dom of mobility of the

Office at-Khotso | me
‘House in De ‘Villiers © hat de op
Street, brought me ‘4 ‘gh ,
face to face with “clini- - (b) and (c) rights.

Seal depression” — as _ The reforms really
cone worker calls it. only ‘amount to en-
othe “announcement trenching rights which
: . in most cases have

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SOUTH AFRICA

existed for years.

i Section’ 10 qualifica-
tions are necessary for

; people to apply for
housing, look for em- -
ployment in the area
and move to another
area if a job and hous- .

» ing is available.

But most people ;
have no Section 10 -
rights because of cir-

* cumstances beyond ©

their control.

Married

Mrs X, of Orlando
West, was married to
Mr X and they were
staying in Soweto in a
tented house until her
husband walked out
last October. As she
was from Natal, she
qualified to be in’ an
urban area by virtue of
having qualified as a
Section 10 (i) (c) —
married to a holder of ,
a Section 10° (i) (a)

rights.

~~ She ‘has lost her pass
book and she can only
get a new one if and
when her husband
shows up arid is pre-
pared to sign an affida-



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

BOAT LINK BETWEEN MAPUTO, MARRACUENE REVIVED
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 31 May 85 p 2

[Text] The passenger boat making the connection between Marracuene and Macaneta
resumed operation last Sunday, to the gratification of that district's popula-
tion. On the same day, the vice minister of merchant marine, who traveled
from Maputo to Marracuene by boat, promised that a study would be made of the
feasibility of creating ocean and river ways along that route.

The vessel "Mestre Pires," which has acapacity for 70 passengers, began making
the crossing of the N'Komati River connecting Marracuene and Macaneta in 1972.

About 2 years ago, it showed the effects of age and had to be withdrawn from
the water for repairs. The latter, done by the Ship Repair Enterprise, were
finished last week, and the boat, completely rebuilt, returned to Marracuene
on Sunday morning.

To turn it over to the district authorities, the vice’minister of Navy, Isaias
Muhate, also went there accompanied’ by the commander of the Navy, Lt Gen Pedro
Gaivao Odalah, directors of enterprises associated with the Navy and other
guests.

The voyage, made first alohg Maputo Bay and then in the N'Komati River, evoked
enthusiasm among all those participating in it, because of the beauty of the
landscape all along the route. This is, -in fact, a potentially privileged
area from a tourism standpoint.

A Persistent Man

Delpate Ambaramo, also known as "augusto," is the owner of the vessel which
resumed operation, and also a dynamic businessman interested in tourism. He
is, in addition, the owner of a restaurant in Macaneta and has “for ‘many years
planned to build a hotel on that site, and another one in Marracuene, also
calling for the use of the former pavillion, a very. beautiful colonial building
from which one observes a magpificent view.of the river.

However, this businessman has not received sufficient backing to maintain the

facilities and progress with the plans, despite the fact that he is’congtantly
pressuring the agencies which should be providing it. He comments: "I have a

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

ACTION ON COLOURED HOUSING
Johannesburg THE STAR in English 28 May 85 p 4

[Text] -@ Coloured ‘people in the lower-

cso:

PARLIAMENT — Some white
local authorities have been ac-
cused of “daylight robbery” and
of forcing coloured communities
deeper into poverty by means of
discriminatory rental and hous-
ing policies.

A flood of complaints on such
lines came from MPs in the
House of Representatives when
proposals for a new rental sys-
tem and for wider powers for
management committees were
discussed.

The House unanimously
adopted a report of a special se-
lect committee, under the chair-

3400/455

manship of Mr David Curry,
Minister of. Local Government
and Housing, on aspects of hous-
ing in the coloured community.

The Government has already
indicated that the committee’s
recommendations will be ac-
cepted and that legislation on
some aspects will be introduced.

At the end of yesterday's de-
bate, Mr Curry told the House:

“The time has come to take ac-

tion.”

Complaints from speakers in-
cluded:

@In- some areas the poorest
eople were being forced by
loca] authorities to pay virtually

their entire incomes in rent.

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income groups were-in many
cases made to pay Considerably
higher rentals than whites in the
same category. t
@ Luxury amenities such as
swimming pools were being
built for whites only with funds
partly obtained from coloured
people. . . ‘

Several speakers called for
the early implementation of the
Curry committee’s proposals for
new rental structures and for
wider executive powers for
management committees.

Mr Peter Mopp (LP, Bor-
der)said: “It is laughable that we
have a Minister of Housing who
cannot even build a tin shanty.
He must ask permission from
the Administrator.” .

Mr Cecil Herandien (LP, Ma-
eassar) said the manner in
which some local authorities
were raising money from the
poorest of people amounted to
“daylight robbery”. ”

Mr Herandien called for an
investigation to establish what
local authorities had done with
the interest on large amounts of
money collected from coloured
people.

Replying to the debate, Mr
Curry said his committee had
accepted the principle that rent
als had to be based on income. .



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

‘MOZAMBIQUE

FIRST STEPS TAKEN TO REHABILITATE MARITIME TRANSPORT SECTOR
Beira DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE in Portuguese 30 May 85 p 16

[Text] Maputo--It is planned this year to begin the first phase of rehabilita-
tion for the maritime signal system, at a cost of $5.6 million, in an annual
program of the Ministry of Ports, Railways and Merchant Marine, also calling
for the reorganization of the passenger transport service. along the coast,
through optimization and expansion of the local ocean, river and lake traffic.

A source from this agency noted that, as part of the activities stipulated for
this year, there will also be a recovery of NAVIQUE's shipping units which still
offer guarantees-of profitable operation. However, the requirements for
renovating the fleet of this national maritime shipping enterprise indicate

the purchase of new vessels.

Making an evaluation of the last 10 years in the merchant marine sector, this
game source recalled that, in colonial times, this sector was “an elite institu-
tion," which "employed only the representatives of the ruling class," the
exploitation of which was carried out by five companies, all with headquarters
in Portugal.

After remarking that the traffic, both freight and passenger, had been operated
by private business firms, with the state confined to’ playing a bureaucratic
role, such as distributing import and export cargo for Mozambique among Portu-
guese long-distance ships and determining tonnage and security, the same source
emphasized that, with national independence and particularly after the first
national meeting on land transportation in February 1976, there began a reor-
ganization of the merchant marine services and creation of the maritime
transport sector and of a nautical school.

In this context, the coordinating center for coastal shipping exploitation
was created, as a first step toward the establishment of an organizational
structure for the coastal shipping services, taking into account the cargo
to be carried and its priority, based on the programming and movement of
the existing fleet.

He went on to say: "In May of the same year, the first attempt was made to
establish a management unit of the state system, which was ‘to culminate, in

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FARMERS/WORKERS ASSOCIATIONS ETC.

holzer, Johannesburg
management committee
‘chairman: ‘The city
councils will not become
hollow shells.
‘There will still be a
_ local‘councillor to handle
=. local needs.”
lemo by residents as-
sociations of Parktown to
arliamentary standing
‘committee for constitu-
‘tional affairs: “When a
ocal ‘authority ‘represen-
itative joins-a regional
; services council he steps

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‘ over a clear line of sever-
f ance of answerability to
1 his electorate.
{° “The major part of
i .work now done by local
fgovernment {n'a region
* will be thrown into demo-
; cratic limbo.” :
ON PUBLIC SERVICES
Mr Steve Kgame, pres:
ident of the Urban Coun-
“ils Association of South
} Africa: “The regional ser-
‘vices council is a way to
overcome the frustra-
tions in black townships
because once the funds
are granted we will be
able to provide the ser-
vices which are so badly
needed.”
@Mr Chris Heunis, Min-
_ ister of Constitutional
’ Development and Plan-

‘ning: “We are establish- :

ing these regional ser-
vices councils to work for
all communities.

: -“The success of these
institutions will be tested
only insofar as they suc-

“ceed in enhancing the

_ quality of life in the com-

‘minities they serve.”

@ Memo by Parktown |

: residents associations to ©

: parliamentary standing
committee for, constitu-_
tional affairs: “This could
become a catch-22 situa-
‘tion where, to be able to
direct more public re-
sources to their area,
poor local authorities
have to have more public
resources in the first
lace.” ee

ON FINANCING
@ Professor Nic Olivier:
“Our major objection is
the proposed new tax sys-
tem; it is just another
i way of raising revenue
without the Minister of
Finance being account-
‘able to the House.” ° |
“@ Mr Gerhard Croeser,
“publi¢ finances director
wr the Department of Fi-
ance: “It is not necessar-
ily the worst possible sin
consumers end up pay-
“ing more; at ‘least they
“will benefit directly in
ithe form of better ser-
pWiees.” Oo a



vit that he is married to
her.

“There is nothing we
can do to help her.
These are the evils of
the Pass Laws I was
talking about,” Mrs
Beulah Rollnick, a
worker at the Black
Sash said.

Mrs X left the of-
fices in tears. How will
she be able to support
her child if she cannot
be registered asa
workseeker and urban
dweller?

The legal right of
women to live and
- work in urban areas “is
defined in terms of and
dependant on their
relationship to men,”
Ms Joanna Yawitch, a
Johannesburg re-
searcher saidina
paper prepared for the
Carnegie Poverty Con-
ference recently.

“This means that
women who come
from the rural areas
cannot leave or di-
vorce their husbands.

Should they do so, ©

they run the risk of los-
ing not only their ac-
commodation but their
rights to be in an urban
area altogether.”

Mr Y, a cripple liv-
ing at the Nancefield
Hostel in Soweto, is
near destitute. He is
staying at the Hostel il-
legally, although he
was born and brought

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up in Soweto. How-
ever he has no proof
that he was born in
Kliptown. His parents
died while he was still
young and after that he
moved in with neigh-
bours who later died.

Work

/ He worked at the
General Post Office
for five years before
his right arm was par-
alysed. But he could
still pull along the let-
ter-delivery trolley,
His legs became septic
and had to be ampu-
tated. Then his prob-
Jems started. Hé could
not get employment
and was then taken in

by a relative at the hos-

tel.

“The man is de-
pressed-and unless
something is done for
him, his condition will
worsen,” Mrs RolJnick
said.

The Black Sash Of-
fice says it had “to
force” the Cripple
Care Association to at-

. tend to Mr Y's case.

There are indica-
tions that the Govern-
ment accepts that it’s
influx control pro-
gramme has failed. It
has been unable to
stem the tide of people
in search. of work and
the urban lights,

The Government
has now accepted that

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the best way to break
the vicious cycle of
poverty and indiscrimi-
nate breeding is to up-
grade the standard of
living for all the coun-
try’s people. The most
reliable way of doing
that is via a system ‘of
planned orderly ubani-
sation.

And that, it seems,
is what the announced
reform Jaws are all
about. This new ap-
proach of the Govern-
ment is indicated by
the words of one ris-
ing-star Deputy Minis-
ter who said: “Now the
Government needs to
take its courage in its
hands and accept that
for orderly urbanisa-
tion to occur, influx
control must go.”

The Black Sash says
the legal difficulties
are only part of. the
problem. “Ineffi-
ciency, maladministra-
tion and corruption are
responsible for a high
percentage of cases
presented to the Ad-
vice Office.”

»Given the’ outspo-
ken calls by organised
Commerce and Indus-
try for the scrapping of
the Influx Control, Dr
Viljoen’s reforms ap-
pear rather meagre
and will directly bene-
fit at most a few thou-
sand people.



nothing. Durban port authorities say the area where the flare was sighted
ds about 450 km north of the Mozambican capital of Maputo, and that Southern
Air Command is awaiting permission from the Mozambican authorities to launch
an air-sea search. The Vollendam left its home port of Durban on 20 May on
a 2-week fishing trip. [Text] [Johannesburg Domestic Service in English
0500 GMT 13 Jun 85]

CSO: 3400/448

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JPRS~SSA~85~-063

18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

RULING INDIAN PARTY SUPPORTS REGIONAL COUNCILS BILLS

Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 20 Jun 85 p 4

[Text]

HOUSE. OF DELEGATES. — The ruling NPP
supported the Regional Services Councils Bill — the
Povemment 's Proposal for second-tier administrat-

. ot ih parties in the House rejected a Bill on Tues-
day which provides for greater decision-making
powers for Indian and Coloured management bod-
ies Feat local authority level.
Their rejection was based on the belief that the
legislation would entrench apartheid and provide
for autonomous ethnic local authorities.

Declaring his support for the Regional Services

Councils Bill, the Minister of Local Government,
Mr Baldeo Dookie, said the councils would be pure-
ly for the provision of services in the regions.

‘There was no provision for ethnicity, he'said.

“The Bill will initiate the provision of services in
undeveloped areas so we can start on another Te-
form initiative:in South Africa.”

‘Mr-Yunus.Moolla (Sol, Tongaat) said the two
Bills were related and he rejected them both.

"This Bill is based on the policy of racially segre-

This concept has been re-

Relationship

It was important that the relationship between
people of different colours should be developed at,
local level “if we are to secure a peaceful and stable
future:~

The conflict in South Africa was caused by the
forced separation and destruction of established,
stable communities on the grounds of colour...

Mr Moolla said no new measures should be im-
posed on communities ‘without the acceptance of
the true aspirations of the majority of the people.”

While the Bill had positive aspects concerning the
rationalisation’ of the provision of-services, these
measures were overshadowed by negative factors.

These were the creation of separate local author-
ities based on racial lines, the it ition of levies to
support these bodies and the fact that the chairman
would be an appointee of the State who. would be
influenced by the Government. | -

“The Government has no tangible reason for not
providing for local authorities that request a multi- -
racial character. It contradicts the essence of re-
form,” Mr Moolla said.

He rejected financial contribution as the primary.
basis of representation on thé councils and said the
population ratio should also be taken into account.



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Principal priorities of the plan of action

Study the currents affecting the movements of oil
products deposited in the sea

Draw up intervention plans in case of oil pollution
and supply the equipment required

Plan reception facilities on land for polluted
water

Evaluate the origin and extent of pollution
attributable to industry and agriculture

Effect a regional study for improving the treatment,
distribution and quality control of Fish

= Aid the promulgation and harmonisation of national
laws relating to the protection of the environment

Establish a surveillance network to monitor foreign
vessels fishing illegally in the region

Train environmental experts

Carry out a census of shrimp and prawn species and
aluate tune stocks

= Study the movement of sharks, particularly in
tourist areas

= Study ways of substituting for mangroves as a source
of fuel

- Evaluate the effects of fishing with explosives

'

(Source: UNEP report on workshop on the-protection and
development of the marine environment and coastal
zones of eastern Africa)



NIGERIA

Military Government's Economic Plan Reviewed
(TALKING DRUMS, 17 Jun 85).scccccsccccssccccccsccccccccees

SOUTH AFRICA

SOWETAN Discusses Disinvestment, Retaliation
(Editorial; SOWETAN, 6 Jun 85)..sscssccscccccccveccccsees

STAR Opposes U.S. Sanctions, Urges Reform
(Editorial; THE STAR, 6 Jun 85).ccscsscevccsccccccccsccece

U.S. Accused of Fanning Inflation by Increasing Wages
(DIE AFRIKANER, 22 May 85)sccccccccccnccccecesccccccecoses

France Threatening To Stop Future Investment
(DIE BURGER, 4 Jun 85).csccccccccccccescescccscccccccssnes

Slabbert Rejects Charges of Aiding Disinvestment
(SAPA, 8 Jun 85)sccccecssccccccccccccnsscccccccccrcssssces

Radio Comments on Kannemeyer Report
(Johannesburg Domestic Service, 12 Jun s) eee

Renewed Demand To End Conscription
(THE STAR, 28 May 85).ssccsecccccecccerccccccccccscesscecs

UDF Spelis Out Aims in Full
(Gary van Staden; THE STAR, 30 May BD) ccccccccccvcccccenes

Era of Consensus Journalism Viewed
(THE STAR, 31 May 85)..ecccccccccecccsccccccccccerccoccess

Indian Traders Criticize Government's Trade Area Announcement
(THE STAR, 31 May 85)scseccccccccccccesccsccccccccccccenes

Blacks as a Group Disapprove of Disinvestment
(THE STAR, 28 May 85)....--

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Action on Coloured Housing
(THE STAR, 28 May 85).ssccccccccceccvecscecccccccccscrcecs

Blueprint for Multi-Racial Regional Government Examined
(THE STAR, 6 Jun 85).scccccecccccccccccesscccvecevereceess

Repeal of Racial Zoning Law Suggested
(DIE BURGER, 4 Jun 85).sccccccveccccrececcscccccccccsssece

Rightists Criticize Presence of Non-Whites on TV
(Editorial; DIE BURGER, 4 Jun B5) scncccccccccccccesccccees

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He observed: "Algeria is willing to cooperate with Mozambique in the exporting
of lumber, preferably selling the product on the Algerian market. Moreover,
my country is willing to send technicians to MozambiqueTMto assist in the
company's programs."

He disclosed that, during these 3 years of existence of the Algerian-Mozambican
Forest Association, equipment has been provided, and several Mozambican cadres
have received the proper training.

As he said, SAMOFOR is obviously participating in Mozambican ‘development
programs, most particularly in Zambezia Province,where its headquarters is
located. The company is also making an extremely significant contribution
to the region's economic activity.

It should be stressed that, at the time of the establishment of SAMOFOR, in ~
February 1983, field activities were already under way to develop. the program;
with emphasis on the taking of a forest inventory in Zambezia Province, over
an area estimated at 3.4 hectares.

The inventory made it possible to execute economic feasibility studies for the
implementation of industrial projects aimed at the production of plywood,
particle board, furniture and other lumber derivatives.: As was established at
the time of the company's creation, 80 percent of the production is intended

for export.

We were told: "The holding of the third annual meeting of the SAMOFOR Council
of Administration made it possible to ascertain the current. status of ‘the
activities that are under way, and to determine future strategies for the
forest exploitation programs. This is an important program for the nation's
economic existence."

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JPRS~SSA-85-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

UNIFICATION OF RIGHTIST GROUPS ADVOCATED BY PROF JORDAAN
Cape Town DIE BURGER in Afrikaans 3 Jun 85 p 2

[Text] Johannesburg: A motion made at the Afrikanervolkswag (AV) congress on
Republic Day, to have far-rightist groups join forces against American liberal-
ism in Pretoria, placed the sensitive question of merging the KP [Conservative
Party] and the HNP [Herstigte Nasionale Party] once again in the spotlight.

Prof Gert Jordaan, who made the motion, would like to see the KP, the HNP, the
AWB [Afrikaner Resistance Movement], Dames-Kenkrag [Ladies* Knowledge (is} Pow-
er] and the Orange Workers all join forces in a single party, especially in
view of the voter strength to be gained.

Prof Carel Boshoff, the leader of the AV, was clearly not eager for the congress
to place its stamp of approval on such a decision, and he pointed out that the
executive committee would first have to deliberate such a proposal.

In his address, he mentioned the possibility of a white nation in which Afri-
kaners “and other Whites" would be entitled to their own geographical district
and government.

Expertise

KP leader Dr Andries Treurnicht, in his contribution, "Afrikaner culture and the
onslaught of liberalism," spoke repeatedly about a “white fatherland." He would
not confine it to Afrikaners alone, but feels that "the great challenge for the
Afrikaner is whether he is big enough to plan for his own fatherland.

HNP leader Jaap Marais feels, however, that the notion of a return to the Ver-
woerdian concept of apartheid is even more logical.

Prof Hercules Booysen of UNISA [University of South Africa], the president of
the Orange Workers, campaigns actively for an "Afrikaner nation," as he calls
it. In such a country the Afrikaner would have nothing to fear from American
disinvestment and could use his money, his expertise and his technical know-how
to his own advantage. "Investment and disinvestment are advantages and disad-

vantages for the Blacks, not for us," he said.

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BLACK STUDENT UNIVERSITY FREEDOM THREATENED

Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 19 May 85 p 5

[Text]

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WIDE-RANGING | pow-
ers are in the pipeline for
black universities which
allow .campuses to sack
students without giving’
them a chance to appeal
against expulsions.

‘A draft bill has been pub-
lished which will affect the

councils of the universities of
Zululand, The North, Vista

” students will

and Medunsa.

According to the proposed law,

cll

tion, .
They are _ specifically

: rmitted to’ expel stu-
* Rents believed” to be
* “troublemakers”..°

‘The four councils are
also given other important,
powers, which they can
exercise without the Co-
operation, Development

* and Education Minister's

approval.

These powers include
the right to appoint staff
and other committees as
well as deciding on condi-
tions of employment for
staff.” ue

not be able to appeal
against expulsion, and the coun-

Is are given virtually unrestricted
+ Power to canccl students’ registra- °

The_ new bill follows

_Several successful” cases

contesting expulsion
brought by © Durban's

Legal Resources Centre :

comes at timewhen

there is a major supreme *

court appeal pending by a
number of students who

want to contest their ex-
‘pulsion from Zululand

“university. :
‘Legal ‘opinion is that
their appeal will not-be af-
fected by the new law, be-
cause it was not in opera-
tion when they were ex-

pelled. _

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JPRS-SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

SWAZILAND

BHEKIMP1 URGES OAU TO SET POLITICS ASIDE
MB130835 Mbane THE SWAZI OBSERVER in English 13 Jun 85 pp 1, 5

[Article by OBSERVER Reporter ]

[Text] The prime minister, Prince Bhekimpi, has called upon the Organiza-
tion of African Unity to shelve political differences and instead attend the
hunger problem affecting member states of the continent.

Prince Bhekimpi said most of the time when the organization meets, political
differences are always on top of the agenda and wondered if it would not be
a good idea for the organization to seriously consider means of solving the

continent's hunger problem.

He reasoned that it would be better for the organization to sit down and
find means to feed its population since, he noted, there are plenty of
natural resources to feed the whole continent.

He said the organization should share views, including food supplies to help
countries like Ethiopia overcome their starvation problems.

Prince Bhekimpi was saying all this yesterday morning at his office to the
new Malawian High Commissioner to Swaziland, Mr J. B. Itimu [name as pub-
lished] who paid a courtesy call on him.

He told the high commissioner that Swaziland was still negotiating with the
Republic of South Africa on the border adjustment issue.

He said Swaziland lost those territories "through a mistake of history".
He said since then, the kingdom has engaged in a mutual dialogue to get back
the land. He then wished Malawian president, Dr Hastings Banda, long life

and noted that the countries have a common development interest by being
members of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference.

CSO: 3400/447

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MALI

Briefs
Japanese Aid for Wells

MOZAMBIQUE

Millions Invested in Railway-Ports Sector
(DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE, 29 May 85)..ccccccccccccccccecsceve

Machel Inaugurates Nautical School in Maputo
(NOTICIAS, 4, 5 Jun 85)..ccecccccccccccccccccecicccccccnce

Opening Ceremonies
Further Comments

CAIA Helps Farmers in New Agricultural Techniques
(DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE, 30 May 85)....ccecccccccccccccecccs

Guebuza Praises Cooperation With North Korea
(DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE, 1 Jun 85)....scccccccccccccccccccce

First Steps Taken To Rehabilitate Maritime Transport Sector
(DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE, 30 May 85)..cccccccccccsccecccccece

Railway Technicians To Complete Studies
(NOTICIAS, 31 May 85)....6-

Boat Link Between Maputo, Marracuene Revived
(NOTICIAS, 31 May 85).ccocccccccecccccevccccccccececsccees

Algeria To Aid in Exporting Wood, Rural Development
(NOTICAS, 3 Jun 85).ccesececccccccccccccecvccscccccceceees

Romanian Technician Praises Niassa Projects
(NOTICIAS, 3 Jun 85)seccccecsscsscsccscescccescscesonecees

Briefs
Spanish Aid
Iranian Donation
Agreements Signed With Sweden
Lost Fishing Boat Sought

NAMIBIA

Briefs
Water Affairs Personnel Withdrawn
SWAPO Says Former Official Returned

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JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

SWAZILAND

PRINCESS RECOUNTS POLICE INTERROGATION
MB121050 Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 9 Jun 85 p 4
[Article by Desmond Blow]

[Text] Swaziland Princess Mnangwase, 71, last surviving sister of the late
King Sobhuza II, this week told CITY PRESS of weeks of harassment by Swazi
police which culminated in her passport being confiscated two weeks ago.

Evidence is being fabricated against her and five others accused of plotting
to overthrow the Swazi government, claimed the princess speaking out for the
first time.

Despite denials by Swazi Police Commissioner Majaji Simelane, she confirmed
a report in CITY PRESS and later the TIMES OF SWAZILAND that police had
raided. her house.

"On April 14, policemen in three vehicles raided my house searching for
documents that have never existed as far as I am concerned," she said.

Mr Simeland jailed the TIMES reporter who had reported the raid until a
retraction was published in the paper.

“Later I was interrogated ‘before prosecutor Stephen Janson [name as pub-
lished] at police headquarters for four hours on alleged meetings to plot
the overthrow of the Liqogo," the elderly princess told CITY PRESS.

She says during the interrogation she was also harassed by "a short man"
who said he was a Sangoma [diviner] from Newcastle.

He accused her of being with one of the treason accused, former Finance
Minister Sishayi Nxumalo, when Dr Nxumalo had allegedly asked him for "medi-
cine to destroy the Liqogo”.

But the man could not tell her at which of Dr Nxumalo's houses he had seen
her or how she was dressed, she said.

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"This school materializes that term. It has no kilograms, it has no tons, it
has no weight, becuase there is no dimension for it; and hence, it has no price
either.

"Friendship is won. It is necessary to strive hard to win it. It is an
arduous, difficult battle.

"What the cooperants.are doing here, is in the name’af.their peoples, not in
the name of their governments. Governments pass, but peoples do not; they
remain forever. °

"What you are doing here is representing your peoples. You are representatives
of the culture and civilization of peoples. In essence, you represent the
historical and geographical knowledge of your peoples, and not of your
governments. When we look at you, we see your peoples, not your governments.

"'Priendship' and 'solidarity' have a different meaning in Mozambique."

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26



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

TRANSKEI GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING REVEALED

Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 2 Jun 85 p 5

[Article by Tebello Radebe]

[Text]

THE FULL evidence of how the Transkei
government overspent by R16-million
teads like a catalogue of administrative
bungling and gross mismanagement hy

some officials.

- Buta special Select Committce which investigated
the overspending this week called for the recovery of

only R9.

'y
On the whole the committee seems to have accepted the expla-
nations by officials of the 17 departments on how the R16-million
‘unauthorised expenses were incurred.

This means the bill will have to
be ,paid by South African tax-
payets~ since Transkei depends
entirely on South Africa for its in-

come. * :
"The R9 has to be paid back by Com-

therce, Industry and Tourism sccretary-general BB Pukwana —- whose depart-
ment was about the only one to admit to overspending.
‘The R9 was overspent in the department's entertainment budget — because of
a “junior officer’s inexperience”, said Mr Pukwana.
‘ut although the office of Prime Minister George Matanzima overspent its
R6-000 entertainment allowance by R276 — and had unsuccessfully as| ed for
more — it only got a mild admonishment from the committee.

The Prime Minister’s secretary, WZ.
Lesu, was told to “try in future to keep
expenses” for the Prime Minister and
President Kaizer Matazima’s “minor
parties hosted by their ladies and their
visitors”, and to keen caterine for
Cabinet meetings as low as possible to *
“create a healthy example for other
departments”.

jut the Select Committee — chair-
ran HH Zibi, Rev BN Dlamini, Chicf '
D Mlindazwe and CS Mda — recom-
ended that an inguity ‘be made into
R11 314 paid to film producer Dries
Alberts by Mr Pukwana’s department.

85

* Mr Alberts had to be paid R121 500
for a film about the Transkei, but re-
ceived R11 314 without submitting
any invoice.

he Select Committee made the fol-
lowing shocking resolutions: :
@ "That the salary of R67 334,60.paid
to former Transkei Defence Force
commander ‘on suspension for three
years be regarded as “fruitless expen-
_diture”.
‘ @ That R6-million “unlawfully ad-
‘vaiiced” to the Transkei Development
Corporation be paid back from the

SOUTH AFRICA



why the community
' should move to
Onderstepoort:
@ The new village
. was very fertile and it
was near Sun City
where tribesmen could
go and “enjoy” their
+ money.
© The place had
: been inspected by
- Agricultural Officials
and it was suitable for
planting of vegetables.
The people of Ma-
thopestad hotly con-
tested these points.
‘They pointed out that
far from being fertile,
‘it was doubtful
whether the soil could
support mealies, let
alone the variety ‘of
crops they have been
harvesting for decades
in Mathopestad. They
viewed the fact that
" Onderstepoort was
near Sun City — a
gambling place in Bo-

phuthatswana — with

contempt. .
With nothing sub-

stantial to offer, de-,
spite official sales-talk, -

the Mathopestad peo-
ple concluded that vol-
untary moving to the
new village would be
tantamount to signing
their own death war-
rant. .

In 1983 the then
Minister of Co-Opera-
tion and Devel-
opment, Dr Piet
Koornhof, invited resi-

, dents of Mathopestad
to set up a planning

committee to negotiate

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" the terms of removal
ofthe people...

But in Parliament
recently, Dr Viljoen
admitted that his de-
partment ‘has yet to
meet with the Matho-
pestad Committee.

Recently the Black
Sash sent telegrams to
Dr Viljoen, the State

| President, Mr P W Bo-
tha and Cabinet Minis-
ters, protesting against
the forced removal of
the Mathopestad com-
munity.

The people also ap-
pealed to the United
States Secretary of
State, Mr George
Schultz, for help.

“We think a big man
like you can try to ex-
plain to our Govern-
ment and stop them
from taking away our
land and forcing us to
move,” Mathopestad
sub-chief, Mr John
Mathope, wrote in the
letter.

More than 500 resi-
dents signed a petition
against the move to
have them resettled
and challenged Dr Vil-
joen to personally con-
sult the community.

Several organisa-
tions also launched
protests against the
pending removal.
However, Transvaal
Rural Action Commit-
tee (TRAC) field
workers were less cer-
tain about the security
of Mathopestad.

Even Senator Ed-
ward Kennedy’s visit

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‘to the village early this
year, could not allay
the fears of the com-
munity.

* TRAC has accused

. the Government of us-

ing strategies of per-
suasion to. move the
people, In June 1981 at
a meeting of the peo-
ple of Mathope, ‘the
Commissioner arrived
with a long list of non-
Tswana residents in
Mathopestad, and.
wanted to move them
out. Mr Rankoko, one
of the councillors, said
the commissioner
should come back and
talk to them about that
“when the Govern-
ment separates the
Boers from the Eng-
lish.”

Mr Mathope was
visited by the Security
Police after he had
held a meeting with
PFP MP, Mrs Helen
Suzman.

There have been
several claims of intim-
idation and recently
the Mathopestad law-
yer received a letter
from the Department
of Co-Operation ‘and
Development that the
Mathopes would have
to move.

No dates have been
given, or destination
confirmed,

Thisisseenas
another move by the
Government to
weaken the resolve of
the people that they
will not be moved un- -
less it is by force.



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regional organisaticns. They have even
created the Organisation for African Unity at
the continental level (See ADJ n. 52,
December). The shadow of nationalism,
often found in younger nations, and internal
rivalries have both contributed to limiting
the role of coordinator that such
organisations might be able to play, and they
have yet to become effective in many
respects. Some countries have also signed
complementary agreements with foreign
powers not present on the continent,
including the USSR, the United States,
France, China and Israel. These accords have
been characterized by successes and
failures, turnabouts and changes of alliance
(See AD n. 52, 54, December and February).
Nevertheless, the overall stability of the
African continent has been preserved. Wars
between nations remain limited and conflict
are often the result of internal imbalances
that have been awkwardly dealt with rather
than a real desire for territorial expansion
aimed at the conquest of a given country by
another. In fact, Africa has for the past 40
years not been the theatre of a long-term war
on a scale with the conflicts in Southeast
Asia, the Middle East or Afghanistan. This
situation of relative peace is the result of a
certain moderation on the part of African
leaders but also of the ability of the people to
remain more open to dialogue than is often
the case on other continents.

Today, the major threat hanging over
Africa is not political but economic. The OAU
has clearly perceived this new threat, and the
policy orientations it has defined are
designed to deal more effectively with the
issue. The future of Africa depends on its
ability to meet the challenge posed by
droughts, both in the north and the south,
along with the challenge of increasingly
rigorous economic constraints. The
continent benefits from a certain amount of
external assistance, but a major effort is
needed regarding the political maturity of
political leaders, their capacity to resolve
their rivalries through negotiations and their
willingness to finally give first priority to the
economic and cultural development
necessary to the survival and evolution of
the people they lead.


IPRS~SSA~85~-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

SLABBERT REJECTS CHARGES OF AIDING DISINVESTMENT
MB081205 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1109 GMT 8 Jun 85

[Text] The leader of the opposition, Dr Fredrik van Zyl Slabbert, today
strongly rejected government charges in parliament yesterday that the PFP
[Progressive Federal Party] had contributed toward creating a climate for
a disinvestment campaign in the United States against South Africa.

Dr Slabbert told WEEKEND POST the accusations were "unfounded" and the PFP
could not be blamed for such government policies as massive forced removals

and deaths in detention.

Replying to the third reading budget debate in the House of Assembly yester-
day afternoon, the Minister of Finance, Mr Barend du Plessis, said the
“exaggerated language with which the PFP and its supporting press" had
accentuated the "negative aspects in South Africa" was the "same language as
that used today by the proponents of disinvestment in their campaign against
South Africa."

The PFP had thus helped to create the "disinvestment climate," but Mr du
Plessis conceded that PFP MPS were now helping in the fight against dis-
investment.

In his reaction to WEEKEND POST today, Dr Slabbert said he found Mr du
Plessis’ speech "most unfortunate" and the allegations about the PFP
"totally unfounded".

Dr Slabbert added: "I think it is quite ridiculous to assert that the PFP
contributed to the disinvestment campaign in the manner in which we have
attacked the apartheid system."

The PFP was not responsible for massive forced removals, deaths in deten-
tion, arrests under the pass laws, prosecutions under the Immorality Act,
supporting the rebel RENAMO movement or the latest incident in Cabinda.

"It does not need an official opposition to make the world or the majority
of people inside South Africa aware of the disastrous consequences of an
official government policy based on racial assumptions," Dr Slabbert con-
tinued.

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Even the Trade Union Council of SA
came into the picture when it supported

reform calls early this year by some of the

country’s influential business and
employer organisations.

The nisations — Die Afrikaanse
Handelsietituut and the National African
Federated Chamber of Commerce,
among others — called for more oppor-
tunities for black workers to get a genyine
stake in the economy and meaning ar
ticipation in the country’s political dispen-
sation. s

‘As Camay says: “Multinational corpo-
rations will come under pressure from the
-unions, We would like to make sure that
“Inultinationals in South Africa don’t take
advantage of workers,

:, “We have said that we don’t want new
‘investment in South Africa or in home-
land areas.” ,

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This turning point came last November
during the massive two-day Transvaal
stayaway, says Cape Town-based General
Workers" Union general secretary David

._ Political involvement by unions may in-
crease, he says, “as long as union mem-
bers continue to be subjected to the
of violence and unrest that took place in
the Vaal Triangle and Crossroads”. °
“Andas long as the bosses take up posi-
tions that place them clearly in the same
camp as the State, they will continue to be
legitimate targets.” -

Mr Camay told the International Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions board in
‘Washington this year that there should be
strong, direct and immediate pressure to
embarrass the South African Govern-
ment.

He said there should be a campaign
against those governments, organisations
and agencies which help South Africa
spread its propaganda of peaceful reform.

It will be interesting to see how
employers and the Government handle
the unions in the next 20 years.

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18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

VICTIMS OF INCREASING VIGILANTE ACTIVITIES RECOUNT EXPERIENCES

Johannesburg THE SUNDAY STAR in English 9 Jun 85 p 2

[Article by Jo-Anne Collinge]

[Text]

THE young man lies face down
on the doctor’s couch shiver-
ing... his, back swollen with
purple weals and raw lacera-
tions, the folds of his knees a
festering mess.

He is a resident of Welkom’s
‘Thabong township and a prod
uct of a vigilante squad which
allegedly does its worst work
in room 29 of the Philip Smit
Centre — the headquarters of
the local town council.

Here, after dark and in the
room grimly nicknamed “Sec-
“tion 29” (after the Internal Se-
curity Act clause on detention
for interrogation) victims of
the vigilantes are allegedly
stripped naked and flogged
with sjamboks.

One of many scarred and
bruised youths interviewed this
week said the blows of 14 men
rained down upon him simul-
taneously. And other victims
claimed between three and 10
men had participated in their
flogging.

Wage clerk and freelance
journalist Hubert Zono (24)
laughed as he showed the weals
and lacerations criss-crossing
his buttocks. “I’m lucky —
there are others that are much
worse.” :

Like the man lying on the
surgery couch metres away,
from Mr Zono. Apart from the
surface injuries he appears to
have developed ‘epilepsy since
his beating on: May 26. “I be-

come dizzy and fall down. I
have fits and pass water and
my body goes rigid.” I never
had fits before, he explained.

And like Phule Daniel Ma-
benyane, who died in the Wel-
kom Provincial Hospital on
May 31, five days after a beat-
ing in the Philip Smit Centre
allegedly left him unable to
walk and reportedly caused the
police to have him transferred
from the police station —
where the vigilantes had left
him — to a hospital ward.

Ask anyone in the streets of
Thabong about the vigilantes
— variously known as the
“phakathis” or “The A-Team”
— and they'll know who you're
talking about.

But police, development
board and council spokesmen
are either unwilling orj unable
to discuss the reign of terror
that has gripped Thabong since
March, claiming at least three
lives and inflicting pain and hu-
miliation on hundreds of
others. i

The extent of the violence is
suggested by the regional
chairman of the National
Union of Mineworkers, Jo-
hannes Phate, who says jhe has
documented over 200 cases in-
volving union members or
their families. yo

Asked more than a week ago
to comment ‘on initial reports
of vigilante activity, the Police
Directorate of Public Relations

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said it was aware of two deaths
==2'thése of Teboho Bokapane
‘and Sello Mofokeng, both 15 —
which were being investigated.
The police added: “No charges
have been laid by arly other
persons against alleged, vigi-
Jante groups.” : i
However, the police director-

“ate has now instituted fyrther

investigations after being:fat
this week with additfonal
claims that: 1?
@ Many of the victims jwere
taken to the Thabong police
station by the vigilant and
were ferried to hospital {from
the police station. i

@ Daniel Mabenyane’ was
under police guard in hospital
for the four days before his
death and had spent the night
after his attack in the Thabong
police station, where the 'vigi-
lantes had taken him after his
flogging. His sister, ‘Susan, re-
called: “My father went th the
police station the day after the
vigilantes took Daniel td ask
about his whereabouts.

“He saw him behind! the
counter of the charge office sit-
ting on a cement floor and
shivering.” }

@ Formal complaints had al-
ready been made to the police
by some victims. Many ihad
since received letters from the
police’ advising them that: the

“public. prosecutor had declined



1979, with the creation of the National Directorate of Ocean and River Trans-
port, as a management structure for the ocean and river industry."

He subsequently remarked: "Starting then, there was mobilization of the process
to create the NAVIQUE enterprise, for coastal shipping; EMODRAGA, for dredging;
and EMANA,for ship repairs and hydrographic services."

Investments

Also in the realm of. reorganization and restructuring of the merchant marine,
the same source commented on the reasons which prompted the creation of the
National Cargo Service, considered "an instrument to mobilize the ocean-
going traffic and the relations between the various entities participating
in the movement of goods," and well as converting the captaincies, which were
still operating as colonial systems,into maritime administrations.

He explained: "At a seminar held in Quelimane, a beacon light and buoy setting
service was established and organized for the ports and services ‘backing the
National Directorate of Ocean and River Transport (navigation, hydrography
and buoy setting), which operated based on a brigade consisting of cooperants,
organized and provided with native cadres and facilities."

With regard to the investment made during this period, several projects were
carried out at an approximate cost of 1.26 million contos for the purchase of
five whaleboats, two dredges and four. general cargo vessels. for NAVIQUE, and

10 maritime inspection motor boats,andatso for the installation of maritime
communications centers in Maputo, Beira and Nacala, as well as for the Nautical
School project.

He said: "And, after independence, the ship 'Matchedje’ was acquired, and
although they have been integrated into the ports, four vedettes and two
tugboats were also purchased."

Our source from the Ministry of Port, Railways and Merchant Marine also noted
that, during this period, several workers were trained abroad for the areas

of ship inspection, hydrography and oceanography, as well as. beacon technicians
and ‘technicians to manage shipping enterprises.

In the area of international cooperation, he stressed the cooperation that
exists with Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, the World Maritime University
and Portugal, for the training of workers, the rehabilitation of infrastruc-
tures and enterprises and technical assistance.

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prices as well, resulting into payments
deficits of N260 million in 1976 and
N657 million in 1977.

And in place of money being no
constraint, Nigeria had to borrow
externally, some $2.0 billion between
1978 and before Ist October 1979, to
help pay for the plan. This was the
picture of the country’s economy on
the Ist October 1979, when Shagari
was sworn in as President! There were
debts and there were deficits.

Yet two accusations against the
overthrown civilian government of
President Shehu Shagari by the Buhari
military junta have stood out. One is
the allegation by the military that the
politicians had mismanaged the
country’s economy. The second
allegation according to the head of the
junta, Leko Buhari, is that ‘‘the
politicians had turned the country into
a beggar nation.”’ Let us pause for a
minute and consider the validity of
these allegations.

Analysing the entire four year period
of the Shagari administration, a highly
placed bureaucrat stressed that ‘“‘the
consequences of the civilian
administration were that most
decision-making — and, in general,
policy making — all tended to be
ex post factum, designed to deal with
past exigencies rather than anticipatory
and therefore designed to bring about
desired or preferred social states’.

In. other words, the regime was
mainly dealing with the problems of
the past government rather than
dealing with the problems of the
present and the future. For instance,
most of the loans taken by the previous
military government of Obasanjo
became due during Shagari and having
pledged to ‘‘uphold all past debts’’,
Shagari had no choice but to start
paying them. There were again the
huge balance of payments deficits left
behind, and as if that was not enough,
finance became a major problem
because of the global oil glut. Shagari
could have resorted to ‘‘desperate

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measures”? such as retrenchments or
battering the country’s crude-oil as the
Buhari junta is doing now.

But his: was a constitutional
government democratically elected by
the people and so all desperate
measures were ruled out. Prudent
management was the only alternative
hence Shagari’s introduction of
austerity measures and these were
beginning to yield positive results
before his overthrow. So who
mismanaged the country’s economy?

Agreed, loans were taken by the
civilian administration, but what needs
to be known is the fact that most of
these foreign loans were incured by
state governments who were
completely autonomous. The
Constitution allowed it and the federal
government had no authority to stop
state governments from borrowing.
And apart from the IMF loan request,
the federal government, for all I know,
did not sign any agreement for a
foreign loan (I want somebody to
correct me if I am wrong). So which
Nigeria had become a beggar nation in .
the eyes of Buhari and co? And how
many meetings have the Buhari
military junta had with IMF officials
both in Lagos and Washington since
assuming power?

There is one thing I respect about the
present military junta in Lagos. They
are all very clever. They know they live
in glass houses and they know too that
those who live in glass houses are not
supposed to throw stones. This is the
reason for holding the tribunals
probing the politicians in secret.

It is the one reason why they are
hesitant to bring Shagari or Alex
Ekwueme to trial because they know of
the devastating effects these men’s
revelations will have on the entire
military establishment. So now that the
whole world knows about the
military’s dirty tricks, it will do the
Buhari junta a favour if all detained
politicians are released without any
further delay. For, as the saying goes,
it is better to be late than never.



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

ZIMBABWE,

BRIEFS

MINISTER CRITICIZES NKOMO SPEECH, ZAPU--The president of ZAPU, Dr Joshau
Nkomo, says his party stands for peace, national reconciliation, social and
economic progress, and the respect for fundamental freedom of individuals as
enshrined in the constitution. . At’ a news conference at his Highfield home
in Harare this morning, Dr Nkomo said his party stands for the rule of law
and the maintenance of law and order. He said his party is in no doubt that
the people of Zimbabwe agree with him on these fundamental issues of
freedom. The ZAPU leader however, ‘criticized the government for using the
mass media to promote party interest as opposed to national interest. Mean—
while, the minister of information, posts and telecommunications, Comrade
Nathan Shamuyarira says Dr Nkomo's speech statement diverts attention of the
public from the central issue of peace in Matebeleland. Comrade Shamuyarira
said ZAPU is getting money from South Africa to finance its activities. He
said the ZAPU leader has neither disassociated his party from dissidence,
nor has he produced’ evidence of attempts on his part to promote peace in
Matebeleland, The minister said Nkomo should tell the people why his party
supports dissidents, obtains money from South Africa, and why it has brought
problems to the people of Matebeleland. [Text] [Harare Domestic Service in
English 1600 GMT 13 Jun 85]

SWEDISH AIR PLEDGE--The Swedish ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Lars Norberg, has
told a meeting in Gweru that his country has sent 150 million dollars in aid
to Zimbabwe within the last 5 years. He said another amount of about

43 million dollars in aid has been pledged to be spent during the next

2 years, according to an accord signed between the two countries recently,
Mr Norberg emphasized that Sweden would like to see Zimbabwe lessen its
economic dependence on racist South Africa, and added that 80 percent of
Swedish aid will go the frontline countries for the same reason. [Text]
[Harare Domestic Service in English 0400 GMT 12 Jun 85]

CSO: 3400/448 END

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18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

FRANCE THREATENING TO STOP FUTURE INVESTMENT
Cape Town DIE BURGER in Afrikaans 4 Jun 85 p 11

[Text] Paris: The threat of sanctions against South Africa by French Prime
Minister Laurent Fabius is an empty one, according to political observers here.

At a conference on human rights in the French capital last Friday, Mr Fabius
said that his government will forbid new French investments in South Africa,
unless the South African government takes steps against apartheid within 18 to
24 months. He added that such "progressive" movements as the ANC and SWAPO
can always count on French aid.

No one in France was impressed by Mr Fabius’ ultimatum, however. And here
everyone knows that by the time the deadline he has set for the abolition of
apartheid arrives, he will long have ceased to be prime minister.

Prisons

Next year elections are to be held once again in France, and unless something
drastic happens, it is almost a foregone conclusion, according to the pundits,
that the socialist party of Mr Fabius will be out of power. It is expected
that a coalition between the Gaullists of Mr Jacques Chirac and the liberals
of former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing will constitute the next govern-
ment.

The South African writer, Breyten Breytenbach, who also addressed the confe-
rence, caused considerable confusion. Mr Breytenbach said bluntly that he
does not like to appear at such a conference which is intended exclusively for
the advantage of certain politicians.

At the same time he caused a ruckus by attacking the French government for the
poor conditions in French prisons.

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JPRS~S8A~85~06.
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

SOWETAN DISCUSSES DISINVESTMENT, RETALIATION
MB121930 Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 6 Jun 85 p 4
{Untitled Editorial]

[Text] After years of patient attempts to understand, to prod and even
being supportive of the South African government, the outside world is at
last beginning to ostracise this country, not through rhetoric but through
deeds.

The moves that are beginning to blossom in America and other European
countries are going to hit us where it hurts most, our pockets, There is no
doubt that all South Africans are going to suffer, yet we think blacks will
suffer with a certain amount of grace, for after all the sacrifices will be
made with the ultimate aim of freeing their children.

Many black people have expressed the view that economic pressure will not
make their lives any more miserable than they are now. Perhaps these things
are said by people who will not lose jobs. Yet they are also the kind of
articulation that explicates the black man's experience because we know what
happens in our townships. We fear, however, when the process begins to take
more vigorous form, whites will suffer just as badly and we wonder if that
will not have some effect on government thinking.

While the investment debate takes its tortuous turns through the American
system of government, Australia has struck straight at the jugular. That
country has banned all future constructions with South African firms.

We can already anticipate a number of things, one of which has already been
vocalized by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Louis Nel. He said
yesterday that should foreign companies disinvest, then South Africa would
send away blacks from the neighboring black states who work here.

That is retaliatory action which it is hoped will eventually make the world
change its mind about investment and/or disinvestment. We doubt if it will
have that salutory effect. We believe in fact that should the black states
show less economic dependence on South Africa they might be doing themselves
and their countries a good turn.

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GENERAL FEELING OF OPTIMISM IN CISKEL

Port Elizabeth WEEKEND POST in English 18 May 85 p 4

[Article by Keith Ross]

{Text]

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_ optimistn.”

, EAST LONDON ~ Ciskei must be the only national state in

" Southern Africa with a net inflow of citizens, the country’s

: Direetor General of Information, Mr Wessel van Wyk, said
this week. —

.. Mr Van Wyk said the growing prosperity of Ciskei had
caused many contract workers to return home.

He said the school-going population of Ciskei was also |

growing because of the continued unrest in much of the
Eastern Cape. . . :

“We get regular calls from parents in places such as
Port Elizabeth asking us to accept their children because
of school boycotts and unrest there,” he Said.

“We can’t refuse because, after all, they are Ciskeians.

“This influx is causing a problem in the short term, but it .

just means we have to accelerate our school-building
programme, which is one of Ciskei’s top priorities.”

Mr Van Wyk said there had been no school boycotts or
unrest in Ciskei this year and attributed this to a general
feeling of optimism about the future. .

“This feeling is reflected in the schools, where the pupils
are aware that the new Education Bill is aimed at raising
standards to the same level as in-South Africa. .

upils are aware that Ciskei is building schools as

“The
fast as the country can afford, and this makes them willing

to be patient and give things a try.”

Mr Van Wyk said the stability of Ciskéi was’ being
bolstered by the numiber of contract workers returning to
the country. + . .

“The contract workers come home for a holiday from
places such as the mines and find new factories have been
built so they decide to stay,” he said.

“This makes for stability because family structures are
being restored.

“Tt is therefore one of the stated aims of Ciskei to make
jobs available within the country for all its citizens.”

He said Ciskei was a small country with few natural
resources other than its manpower.

: “We are therefore mobilising our manpower in a spirit

of free enterprise, and this has given rise to new hope and .

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

POLICE WILL PROTECT STAFF IN TOWNSHIPS

Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 12 Jun 85 p 3

(Text] POLICE have introduced tighf security control mea-
sures to safeguard the lives and properties of their
staff living in black townships.

This could mean policemen’s homes will be kept
under surveillance from time to time to see to it that
they are not attacked.

Reports have it that every policeman will be given
a two-way radio to take with him to his home as to
contact others or the nearest police station in case of
emergency. .

‘There will also be a special mobile unit that will ;
from time to time visit policemen’s homes to find
out if they had been threatened or if some people ~

- had threatened to burn their homes.

This comes in the wake of the deaths of four po-
licemen who were killed by mobs in riot situations
since the beginning of the year. : .

But the Police Directorate in Pretoria said the
decision of possibly guarding policemen’s houses
was a matter which could not be discussed.

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18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

ROMANIAN TECHNICIAN PRAISES NIASSA PROJECTS
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 3 Jun 85 p 2

[Text] Engineer Marenescu Gelu told the news service in Lichinga. that the
relations between the Romanian technicians serving in Niassa Province and
the Mozambican workers are very good.

He added that these relations were based essentially on exchanges of views
in various areas.

Engineer Marenescu, who is chief of the Romanian team assigned to the 400,000-
hectare project in Niassa, spoke with the reporter from RM in comnection with
Solidarity Week, which ended last Friday throughout the entire country; having
discussed on the same occasion matters associated with the cooperation between
Romania and our country.

In this regard, he said that Mozambique and Romania are cooperating in several
areas, stressing the agricultural-livestock sector.

In Niassa, the Mozambican-Romanian cooperation is taking place with the
implementation of the project involving 400,000 hectares on which, at the
present time, new experiments in the areas of livestock raising, bee-keeping
and farming are being tried by the Romanian technicians.

Asked to comment on the backing from the population in the work being executed
on 400,000 hectares in Niassa, engineer Marenescu said that the population's
participation in the project tasks has been quite positive, citing an instance
in which the population succeeded in saving several hectares of corn threatened
by grass at a time when the project was beset by a lack of fuel for the
mechanical hoeing of the cornfields.

With respect to cotton production which, during the past 2 years, has experienc-
ed failures, the Romanian cooperant said that the project involving the
400,000 hectares is currently having its work reorganized, with a view toward
the recovery of the production of that strategic export product.

He claimed that, in this connection, the production of cotton in the family
sector is being expanded as a major priority, and the peasants are receiving
the necessary backup already.

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FOOD CULTIVATION ON ISLES EXPANDING

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 6 Jun 85 p 1

[Article by Habbi Gunze]

[Text]

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THE food situation in Zanzibar
has improved following
increased production, the Isles
Minister’ for Agriculture and
Livestock Development, Ndugu’
Hassan Nassoro Moyo, told the
House of Representatives here
on Tuesday. 4

He said production of food
crops had increased during the-
1984/85 season. ‘Favourable
weather contributed greatly to
the successes in this sector, he
added.

Presenting his ministry's
estimates. of income and
expenditure for 1985/86, Ndi

loyo said prospects of self-
sufficiency in food production
were bright

He told the House that durin;
the period, the area under foo
cultivation increased

tremendously. The area under *

paddy increased from 21,479
acres in 1983 to 29,507 acres in
1984 for both Zanzibar and
Pemba, and the area under
banana plantations ‘increased
from 12,018 acres to 14,985

acres.
- The Minister said _-maize
acreage increased from:5,951 to

14,459 - while that of millet.

doubled: from: 6.874 to 8,992

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acres. . .

Ndugu Moyo said during 1984)
85 period, a total of 232.490
tonnes of various food crops
were sold at markets in Pem
and Zanzibar.

Production. of. the - major
foreign exchange earner —
cloves — increased from 6,843
tonnes in 1983 to 10,815 tonnes
in. 1984.-while: that of copra:
declined from 11,804 to 9,757, he

said.

Ndugu: Moyo | said ~ the
Government. -" was : now
determined ° -to increase’
production: of cloves ‘to reich a
record of 35,000 tonnes a year.

He said there ee an of
ex] of
cardamom, black pepper,
cinamon and establish orange
and mango plantations _

export:

roducing. of coconuts and
bananas should also be stepped
up to produce: enough for the
local market and for export.

The Minister. said the
Government aimed at improving
the small holder péasant
provision of inputs and oil
Tncentives: ai

ie louse was \jdurned:
until this morning: when the
debate on. the — ministry's
estimates continues. aa

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18 July 1985

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REPORT

ConTENTS

INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

New Efforts To Defend Environment, Fight Pollution Detailed
(THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER, 15 Jun B5) occccccccccccccece

French Strategy in Africa Discussed
(AFRICAN DEFENCE JOURNAL, Jun 85).+ecessssessccesecssesece

EACROTANAL Meeting Scheduled
(DAILY NEWS, 7 Jun 85)..cceccececceccccccccsencccvcccecess

CAMEROON

Briefs
Financial Agreement Signed

LESOTHO

Briefs
Delegations Discuss British Aid Program

LIBERIA

Criticisms Leveled at Doe
(TALKING DRUMS, 13 May, 10 Jun 3) Ree

Doe Compared to Tolbert, by K.P. Kollie
Mr, Dr, or General Doe

Briefs
Death Sentences for Bribery

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

BRIEFS

TOWNSHIPS WANT MORE POLICE PRESSURE--Eastern Cape communities want more
uniformed police in the townships. Member of the provincial council for
Walmer, Molly Blackburn, has been discussing the Kannemeyer report into the
Uitenhage shootings with community leaders. She says she hopes there will
be more of a visible police presence in townships in the future. [Begin
Blackburn recording] The future should be that there should be a complete
review of the role of the police. I believe the image of the police has
been very, very severely damaged. I feel very strongly that we need to
reinforce the role of the uniformed police in the community as peace offi-
cers. The people themselves are calling for that, and I think that that
aspect needs to be investigated. JI am very sorry that certain areas of the
police have damaged the role of the uniformed police in the eyes of the
people. [Text] [Umatata Capital Radio in English 1000 GMT 12 Jun 85]

ARMS COMPANY DEVELOPS MACHINE GUN--A new multi-purpose machine gun developed
by the Armaments Corporation of South Africa was unveiled to the press here
Wednesday. A company spokesman said the weapon, the SS-77, once again
showed how the country's arms industry could get round the United Nations
embargo on arms supplies to South Africa. He said the 7.62 calibre gun was
entirely locally-made and would cost a third of the price of currently
imported similar weapons. It could fire up to 900 rounds a minute, had a
range of 600 meters (yards) and was ideally suited to bush warfare. Full
production would probably start next year, he said. [Text] [Hong Kong AFP
in English 0133 GMT 13 Jun 85]

NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT RESTRICTS TRADE--The Norwegian Government has approved
steps to restrict trade with South Africa, including a total ban on imports
of South African fruit and vegetable products. The government said in a
statement in Oslo that it would introduce a compulsory register of all
Norwegian ships calling at South African ports. The Norwegian Ship Owners
Association has criticized the government move, saying that cargoes can be
sold many times during a ship's voyage, and that the limitations will also
disrupt shipping trade with other countries. [Text] [Johannesburg Domestic
Service in English 0500 GMT 10 Jun 85]

COMMENT ON INKATHA--Chief Minister of KwaZulu, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi,
has threatened to go to the Supreme Court for an interdict. against members
of the media for referring to Inkatha as a "Zulu" movement, [Text] [Johan-
nesburg BUSINESS DAY in English 29 May 85 p lj

102



credible to their
electorate. .

But these spokesmen,
including Mr Heunis,
are giving no

_, buarantees,, a

“All they will say at this
stage is that the new
system will work

. . because it has to work.
_And in an effort to make _

it work they intend ;

creating a new .
provincial executive
with an adininistrator
and a multi-racial
executive committee
appointed by the State
President.

These groups will define
and create the regions,
appoint members to“
the regional services
council and in fact be
the ultimate arbiters
over the new local
authorities. =:

But even they will be
able to act only on the
say-so of Ministers
such as Mr Heunis. »

Instead of the present ~‘
four, there are likely *
to be eight of these
administrative
executives: three in
Transvaal, three in the
Cape and one each for
Natal and the Free
State. :

The provincial executives

*, will be advised by
numerous boards arid

* committees of experts
in various fields of
local government such’
as water affairs, town
and regional planning,

. housing ¢ development
and roads.

These groups will control
all the functions
currently handled by
the provincial councils,
such as traffic, roads,
land purchase and
building projects,
horse racing, shop _
hours, trading licences, ;
public resorts and i
nature conservation:
anything identified as
general affairs.

But control of ae
community services
such as white

a

education,
hospitalisation and
local government.
(functions identified as
own affairs) will be
taken out of the
rovincial ambit and
Banded to the relevant
Ministers’ Councils in
Parliament."

For blacks, who have no
parliamentary -
representation, it will
be business as usual,
with whites continuing
to hold power over
black own affairs
through Government
departments such as
Co-operation and
Development.

his system might not
las{ for long, though. _

«Already government
4 planners acknowledge

that institutions such
as evelopment boards
will probably

phaged out once the
regional services
councils get into
action.

A regional services
council will provide
bulk services to its
municipalities rather
like a wholesaler
supplies retail outlets.

But in this case
municipalities will be
forced by law to buy
services such as
electricity or bus
transport only from
their regional services
council.

Their only income source’

free of regional
services council
control will be
property rates.

This implies that whites,
who traditionally live
>in the better developed
areas, will have to

' take a drop in living

: Standards while the

* regional services

council concentrates

its attentions and
funds on uplifting the
black areas within the

"government doesnot
intend leaving this to
» chance.

i has devised a complex
system of controls and
L safeguards governing
: _ the powers

individual local
‘authorities within
regional services
:.. councils,
ott amounts to a system of
5 2. financially-qualified
}.* franchise which is
». likely to leave the
balance of power in
white hands.

A local authority's voting
power in council will
depend on the amount
it pays for community
services within the
region, and not by the
size of its population.

But no local authority
may have more than
five representatives or
more than half the
vote in a regional
services council.

It is likely that
multi-racial
demarcation boards
will soon propose new
municipal boundaries
to provide less viable
authorities with
greater economic clout
within the regional
council.

‘Parts of Johannesburg’s
Industria, for example,
are likely to be
included in the
coloured township of ©
Bosmont.

What They are Saying...

as the ‘blacks have been
Il these years.”

This is what people are
@ Professor Nic Olivier,

saying about the pro-
posed new regional ser-
vices councils:
ON DEMOCRACY FF Party.member of the
@ Mrs Flo Bird, honorary |: parliamentary standing
secretary of the Park- |, committee’ on constitu-
town Association: “Wh: tional altairs “The gov-.
pay for a city council if it}
have no power?
“Democracy is only |
: worth ‘paying for if t
; Means something. -. . yet ey might not
| “We whites are going | “even get off the ground.”
to be in the same position. @ Mr Francois, Ober-

ils oll ‘still be able to;



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

U.S. ACCUSED OF FANNING INFLATION BY INCREASING WAGES
Pretoria DIE AFRIKANER in Afrikaans 22 May 85 p 2
[Article: . "Yanks Fan Inflation"]

[Text] American legislation is now directly aiming to worsen inflation in
South Africa.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure last week that obligates the
American embassy in South Africa to pay higher wages to its employees regard-
less of productivity or qualifications.

The congressman who introduced the proposal, Mr Mark Siljander, said that the
measure was intended to tighten the screws on American business interests in
South Africa. Up to now, they could drag their feet in paying equal wages in
their factories and offices by pointing out that their own embassy does not
apply the rule of equal wages.

Economists say that this American step to raise the level of South African wages
without a raise in productivity is more dangerous than the entire disinvestment
campaign. The South African Reserve Bank's approach of viewing inflation as
merely a monetary phenomenon in which productivity plays no role makes South
Africa very vulnerable to any type of action that further reduces productivity.
The American-inspired campaign to "narrow the wage gap >" which has enjoyed
official support since 1977, has significantly contributed to a reduction of
productivity and efficiency in the South African economy and thus fanned infla-

tion.

Economists wonder whether the entire American campaign is not first and fore-
most oriented towards impairing South African industry's long-term competitive
capacity on the world market. South Africa is still exploiting only the upper-
most layer of its mineral resources, has a large unexploited labor potential
and a qualified leadership corps. Compared to the exhausted mineral resources
of the United States, its inflationary labor union structure and the heavy bur-
den of an unemployable core of jobless blacks, continued inflation in South
Africa could possible eliminate a potential threat for the United States.

In the shock of the current depression, the "narrowing of the wage gap" has
over the last 2 years become less conspicuous. However, an action such as the
one against the American embassy in Pretoria can only stir it up again, it is
said.

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48



Despite the LP’s
ideological closeness
to the PFP, it has in
practice played. along
with the National
Party.

And this week the
leader of the LP, the
Reverend Allan Hen-
drickse, staved off an
onslaught on his lead-
ership. He had to exer-

. cise all his leadership .

qualities to quell the
open revolt in the
party over the flagrant
failure of the lead-
ership to consult the
caucus on’ major is-
sues.

sent

The Party’s national
vice-president, Mr
Charles Redcliffe, also
withdrew his resigna-
tion. He had earlier re-
signed after the‘ ap-
pointment of Mr Le-
wellyn Landers, the
MP for Mitchells
Plain, as Deputy
Minister of Population
Development. .

Both the LP and the’

PFP face internal dis-
sent and the possibility
of Natal and Transvaal
Labour Party MP’s
who feel left out in the
cold, joining the. PFP,
cannot be ruled out.

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Uneasy

PFP moderates, who
feel uneasy about the
“considerable” num-
ber of leftwing PFP
members who have
thrown in their lot with
the UDF, may be
forced out of the party
and link up with fellow
moderates in both the
LP and the Solidarity
Party. :

But there is also a
possibility that the rul-
ing Eastern Cape cli-
que of the LP could

| link up With ‘the Nats

—or at the most forge
some form of alliance,
The-hostility be-
tween the Western
Cape LP and the PFP
is caused by the latter’s’
rejection of the
colouréd management
committee system.

Some political ana-
lysts feel that the bulk
of the Solidarity Party
members, which bases
its policy on that of the
PFP, will join the PFP
when the Act goes.

‘The Nat's chief in- |

formation officer, Mr
Chris Rencken thinks
the NP will not admit
other races or enter

97

into alliances with par-
tics from other groups
when the Political In-
terference Act is

scrapped.
Policy

But the NP will con-

“tinue its policy of co-

operation and dialogue
with other parties, Mr
Chris Heunis, Minister
of Constitutional De-
velopment and Plan-
ning, has addressed
Labour Party meetings
and Mr Hendrickse
has addressed groups
of Nat MP's.

The only thing that
comes out clear from
the present political
cauldron is that there
will definitely be no
black faces — or even
coloured and Indian
faces — in the rightw-
ing Afrikaner parties
like the Conservative

People’s Organisa-
tion’s ranks.”

‘The rest of the par-
ty’s — save the UDF
— will definitely have
a complete change of
colour.



The work on remodeling and adaptation of the buildings and equipment cost over
266,000 contos, most of it paid in foreign exchange.

They informed President ‘Samora Machel: "Prom a practical standpoint, we shall
have captains and chief engineers by 1991." The 16 third officers and 23
officer apprentices who were graduated yesterday will begin their ‘careers
immediately, consisting’ of alternate periods of practical and theoretical
training, until they attain the maximum status: captain.

An Old Dream Come True

Before chairing the meeting with the workers, not only from the Navy but -
from all transportation sectors, President Samora Machel also signed the
book of honor at the school, leaving the following message there: ©

"As we open the Nautical School, the first one created in Mozambique, in
which Mozambicans have access for the first time in their history ‘to the
mastery of the science and. technology of maritime sailing, wé congratulate
all those who strove to have this splendid structure built. .

"This is an old dream’ of Mozambicans which ‘has now become’ a reality: seeing
their children learning, in their own country, and mastering the difficult
secrets of navigation techniques and the laws of the sea.

"It ig a good sign for our country and our people, as we celebrate the tenth
anniversary of our national independence.

"We wish you great success in your work."
Knowing How to Steer the Ship of Liberty

Later, on the school grounds, with scores of vessels of all types sailing in
the bay, and in the presence of hundreds of workers on the site, the vice
minister of merchant marine, Isaias Muhate, delivered an address, during which
he emphasized: :

"We pay to the Mozambican heroes the most profound homage, and we congratulate
in person, Mr President, the top-ranking party and state leadership, for the
persistence and determination with which they have known how to steer the
ship of our liberty, conquering the storms of international conspiracy, now
implemented with the insidious equipment and financing of the armed bandits,
and for keeping the correct course of our progress in the defense of the
fatherland, in victory over underdevelopment and in the construction of

socialism."

Next, President Samora Machel pinned the officer badges on the cadets who have
completed this first phase of their studies for professional careérs in the
merchant marine.



JPRS~SSA-85~063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

MILLIONS INVESTED IN RAILWAY-PORTS SECTOR
Beira DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE in Portuguese 29 May 85 p 4

[Text] Maputo--During the past few years, considerable investments have been
made in the railway-port area in order to provide the sector with the minimal
material and kumaninfrastructures required to respond to the national and
international needs. For example, concurrently with the acquisition of 142
tank cars, 60 platforms and 400 open cars from Cometal Momental, 15 baggage
cars were acquired from India, as well as 10 drilling tractors and 10 tug-
masters. At the same time, the coal terminal in Beira was.rehabilitated, and
its completion is anticipated as early as this year; as have the port of Beira
and the section of railroad between Dondo and Derunde, currently at a stand-
still for security reasons. Moreover, the Port School was founded, and the
personnel cadres geared to the concrete requirements of each sector; and
also, there was a reclassification of workers on the basic levels.

In an assessment of the main accomplishments in the railway-port sector since
national independence, particularly after the Fourth Party Congress, reporters
from DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE learned that, in addition to these activities, major
steps were also taken in the area of occupational training, with the revamping
of the Mozambique Railroad School, with technical cooperation from SOFRERAIL
[French Railroad Design and Construction Company], SEDES [Economic and Social
Development Studies Company]. and NORMA [expansion unknown], and the stream-
lining of admissions to the various occupational categories, restricted to
graduates of the National Educational System.

Before Independence

Fundamentally aimed at serving the interests of the colonizers and the neigh-
boring countries, their allies, namely, South Africa and the erstwhile Southern
Rhodesia, during the last 10 years of the colonial presence in Mozambique,

one witnessed a progressive deterioration in the sector's equipment and infra-
structures, for lack of investments. and careful maintenance. A member of

the Ministry of Ports, Railways and Merchant Marine remarked; in this connec-
tion, that this situation was not fortuitous, because there was already
evidence of the colonizer's awareness of the impossibility of emerging victori-
ous from the war of liberation being waged against him by the Mozambican
people. The same source explained: "The company's difficult situation, with
an annual deficit exceeding 700,000 contos, reflected the war effort of the

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

| SOUTH AFRICA

THREE HITMEN EXPOSED
Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 20 Jun 85 p 2

[Article by Ali Mphaki]

[Text]

THE MEN behind the
alleged “hit squad” to
eliminate Bishop Des-
mond Tutu and 14 other
prominent black leaders
have been unmasked —
they are two white men
andablackman, ~

‘The two whites were
identified as Mr West-
huizen and Mr Pieterse.
‘The black man has been
identified as a promi-
nent figure. His identity
cannot be disclosed until
he is arrested and
charged.

‘The hit list included
Mr George Wauchope,,
the Rev Joe Seoka, the
Rev Lebamang Sebidi,
Mr Percy Qcbera, the
Rev David Nkwe, Ms
“Amanda Kwadi, Mrs.
Deborah Mabiletsa, Mr
Saths Cooper, Mr
Khehla Mthembu, the
Rev Frank Chikane, Mr
Piroshaw Camay and Mr
David Niddrie. ",

The Divisional Com-
missioner of Police in
Soweto, Brigadier J C
Coetzee, said the police’
were investigating as

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there were people from
Soweto on the alleged
“hit list”. The matter
was under the Wit-
watersrand Divisional
Commissioner of Police,
‘who could only be
reached this morning,
he said.

At a Press conference
held at the St Hilda’s
Anglican Church in Sen-
aoane, Soweto, yester-
day, Mr George Wau-
chope, who chaired the
meeting, said following
their investigations the
“hit squad” was named
“Operation Demoli-
tion”.

“The squad members
— about 30 — do not
know each other, except
by code names such as
“BA”, Mugabe, Ma-
chele, Savimbi, etc.”

He said this informa-
tion was obtained from a
member of the orgainsa-
tion who has now con-
fessed.

Everyone inthe
group was given an as-
signment to check and
reportonthe

401

movements of the indi-
viduals on the hit list, he
said.

He said although the
aim of the operation was
not known, the would-:

‘be abductors were

trained by an ex-cop in
the basement of a build-
ing in Johannesburg.
The training involved
physical training and
methods of abduction.
Motivation videos of ab-
ductions were also
shown to the “hit men”.
After the people on
the “hit list” were ab-
ducted, they would be
taken to a farm in Parys,
and a Press release
would be made to the
State with the following
demands:
© That the US Congress
stop the disinvestment

campaign.
© The establishment of a
bi-national state.

Mr Wauchope said
apparently the white
men had their own mo-
tives while the black
man had his, hence the
diversity of names on
the “hit list”.



It should be recalled that, in June of last year, during President Samora
Machel's visit to the PDRK, joint agreements were signed’ for cooperation
between Mozambique and that Asian country.

The minister of the presidency, Armando Guebuza, disclosed: "Mozambique and
Korea are an example of south-to-south cooperation. The bilateral cooperation
between the RPM and the PDRK promises, this year, to undeftake further steps
in its course, as a result of the talks held recently in Pyongyang between
high-level delegations from the two countries."

According to the statements made by that party and state leader, it is
planned, this year, to create two enterprises in the civil construction
field in Maputo, with the participation of Korean technicians, and there
are agreements in existence for this purpose.

However, agriculture is a leading factor in the cooperation between the two
countries, the specific goal being to solve the problem of famine in Mozam-
bique immediately, guaranteeing self-sufficiency in food.

It has been stressed that the RPM and the PDRK are also engaged in bilateral
cooperation in other areas, specifically, the industrial and health fields,
which may be considered somewhat exemplary, with the materialization of the
principles guiding the south-to-south cooperation; something which, as
Armand Guebuza claimed in Pyongyang, has been regarded as a palpable reality
in recent months.

After visiting the PDRK, the Mozambican delegation, headed by the Central
Committee Politbureau member and minister of the presidency, went to the .
People's Republic of China, also for the purpose of debating topics involving
cooperation in connection with the visit to socialist countries of the Far
East. The return to Mozambique is anticipated during mid-June.

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“JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

ZAIRE

BRIEFS.

MNCR MEMBERS ARRESTED--Paris, June 11 (AFP) ‘Twelve Zairian opposition
activists have been arrested recently in the African country, an exiled
Zairian group said here today in a statement apparently linked to earlier
claims by Zairian officials that a "pro-Libyan terrorist group" had been
dismantled. The statement by the Renovated National Congolese Movement
[Congolese National Movement/Renewed] (MNCR) said the arrests were con-
tinuing, but did not specify the names of those arrested. On Saturday,
Zairian Information Minister and government spokesman Ramazani Baya said a
"pro-Libyan terrorist network" had been dismantled withthe arrests of four
people "holding passports from neighboring countries." - "Twelve Zairian
terrorists trained in Libya have been identified," he added. Mr Ramazani
did not name the neighboring countries the four arrested people were from.
Zaire is bordered by Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, ‘Uganda,
Sudan, the Central African Republic and Congo. The MNCR, headed by Paul
Roger Mokhede, is based in Paris. [Text] [Paris AFP in English 1232 GMT
11 Jun 85] :

NINE CADER ACTIVISTS CUSTODY--Kinshasa, 30 May (AZAP) According to a com-
munique issued to AZAP on Thursday by the Youth of.the Popular Movement of
the Revolution (JMPR), nine activists involved in the Masina incident were
dismissed and handed over to the law on Thursday, at a general meeting of
the Corps of Activists for the Defense of the Revolution [CADER] chaired

by Citizen Monkolot Makuta Manzongo, secretary of state for the party youth.
The nine are Kapenda, Kulemba, Bongongo, Moto Molamu, Banze, Mbale Mudubu,
Kassa, Kimbuta and Mayimona. In a talk delivered on the occasion, the
secretary of state for the JMPR recalled the role and mission of the
Mobutuist CADER to protect property and persons. Therefore, Citizen
Monkolot said, the CADER must -be the friend and protector of the citizen and
must not engage in destabilization. He warned every CADER activist against
uncivilized behavior like that displayed by those involved in the Masina
incident during which, it will be recalled, the nine CADER members killed a
peaceful citizen. Earlier, Citizen Mata Mokwa Ngozi, regional JMPR secre-
tary, stressed that as the JMPR was the avant garde of the MPR, it could not
tolerate indolence, indifference, or apathy on the part of: cadres. That is
why the executive members of the regional bureau, after examining the situa-
tion of the JMPR.in Kinshasa, decided to suspend Citizens Loshanga and
Vatufwa, secretaries of the Matete and Masina zones respectively, and to
transfer Citizens Libekele and Bongongo, secretaries of the Kinshasa and

111



RENEWED DEMAND TO END CONSCRIPTION
Johannesburg THE STAR in English 28 May 85 p 8

Text ‘ . sees
f } There has been a renewed demand for South Africans

‘to be able to choose whether to serve in the South
} African Defence Force following Pretoria’s latest in-
cursion into Angola. - ~
‘The call comes from the nationally organised End
Conscription Committee. . wot
“The reports from Cabinda confirm what many
have suspected for a long time — that the SADF is
: actively deceiving the South African public,” said Mr
; Michael Evans, on behalf of the national committee.
° He said this deception went back as far as 1975,
‘when South Africa initially invaded Angola. Pre-
; toria’s support for the Mozambican rebel group, Ren-
* amo, had also been denied until recently.
__ Mr Evans said the ECC’s demand that military ser-
‘vice be a matter of choice and not a question of
‘conscription was reinforced by the latest action in

+ Angola.
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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA



ZANZIBAR TRANSPORTATION REHABILITATION RECEIVES PRIORITY

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 7 Jun 85 p 1

[Article by Habbi Gunze]

[Text] _* THE Zanzibar Government will
*» rehabilitate all major urban and

tural :roads.and modernise the

“Zanzibar Harbour and Pemba

irport during:

1985/86

financial year, -the House of
Representatives was told here

» yesterday.
Presentint

of

‘income and expenditure of the
Ministry of Communications and

Transport, the Minister, Dr.

Ishau Abdalla Khamis; told the

House that the Projects were
aimed at improving surface,

marine and air transport in the

Isles."

He said the-rehabilitation of

roads ‘in’ urban areas, trunk and

. feeder roads in the rural areas, .

would be. financed by
Zanzibar Government at a cost

. of 22m/-.

Ndugu Khamis

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108

modernisation of . Zanzibar
harbour, construction of a new
berth at Pemba and.
improvement of — Pemba’'s
Karume Airport would be
financed . through external
sources.. :

He said for the modernisation
of the Zanzibar Harbour, the
Government had_. already
secured 10 million ‘ ECU
(European Currency of Units)
from the European Economic
Community for the project.
Negotiations were underway to
get donors for other projects, he
added.

Dr. Khamis told the House
that feasibility studies for the

_construction of new berthiny

facilities at Pemba Port woul
cost. 2.2m/-, — while the
modernization of Karume
Airport would cost 65m/-.

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18 July 1985

TANZANIA



“to prosecute in their cases. |

i’. One such instance is!the
-Thula family, where five p

“ple. were allegedly assaulted
without provocation while sit-
iting outside their home shortly
jAfter’8 pm on March 17. The
;Victims are able to identify {wo
yf the group of about 10 who
attacked them. One of the rnen
‘implicated is a community
councillor. {

The outcome of the police'in-
quiry through its Northern
Frée Staté Divisional Commis-
sioner and a public statement
are expected within days.

The chief director of the
‘Southern Free State Develop-
ment Board, Mr H P Scheepers,
said from Bloemfontein he was
unable to comment. “Thabong
is under the control of the town
council and I know too little to
say anything.” He described
the council as a separate juci-
cial body with which the board
could not interfere.

Asked specifically about the
vigilantes’ alleged use of the
Philip Smit Centre, which be-
longs to the board, Mr
Scheepers said: “The building

_Mmay technically be registered
‘in the name of the board, but it
is under the control of the
, council.” .

The same distinction be-
tween formal ownership and
effective control pertained to
.vehicles, he said. Victims have

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claimed that the “A-team” uses
Combis and vars with Bloem-
;fontein plates from which to
Taunch their street attacks or
in which to transport victims
to the Smit Centre.
* Vehicles. corresponding to
this description were séen by
The Star at the Evangelical
church which the gang is said
to use as its home. The number
plates — OB 117721 and OB
93749 — belong to vehicles
which human rights groups
have established are owned by
the Southern Free State De-
velopment Board. About 10
‘men and women were milling
around the Combi when The
Star passed the scene — some
were armed with knobkerries.

“The vehicles may still be
registered in our name but the
use of them has been transfer-
red to the council, We é¢an’t
control the use of these vehi-
cles,” he said.

Town clerk Mr James Ngake
refused to comment on the use
of vehicles and the Philip Smit
Centre and the alleged involve-
ment of councillors. “I have no
statement to make and would
object if any statement of mine

* appears in the Press. I am not

a politician — J am an admin-
istrator.” :

He also refused to comment
‘on the accuracy of minutes of a
meeting between businessmen

72

and the council in which mayor
Dr EB Tali is quoted as say-
ing: “Under the guidance of
council members patrols were
organised and inspired by the
old axiom, ‘Spare the rod and
spoil the child’

“All meetings of potential
stone throwers and arsonists
were broken up with no more
violence than the energetic use

‘of sjamboks and the result has
“been most satisfying. Thabong

has been scurged of rowdyism

-and we intend to keep it that
“way.”

In earlier contact with The
Sunday, Star, Mr Ngake denied
any link between the council
and the sjambok-wielding
gangs. Thugs had taken advan-
tage of thé disorder in the
township, he said.

But, the victims point out,
the targets of the vigilantes are
much wider ‘than potential
stonethrowers. Three-year-old
Godfrey Thula had his leg bro-
ken by a blow intended for his
adoptive mother, Mrs Grace
Thula (56). He was strapped to
her back at the time. The as-
sault occurred inside their
house. .

Daniel Mabenyane paid with
his life for having attended a
vigil at which a clash deve-
loped between students and
vigilantes and for having
worked for a trader. who
“laughed at the councillors”.


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18 July 1985

The Marshal of the Republic then remarked, concerning the school and the coope-
rant technicians working there: .

“the infrastructures that it has and the concept of the school have a quality
which impressed us. For this, I thank the merchant marine workers, and I
thank the foreigners who cooperated on the construction of this historic
building.

"The operation of the Nautical School is. an accomplishment which makes us proud
and attests to the capacity and initiative of the Mozambican. It is a good
sign for our country and for our people, as we celebrate 10 years of national
independence. For this, I thank you, young people."

"Come to See NAVIQUE'

President Samora Machél also said that the Nautical School must train "cadres

who are competent,efficient and proféssional, with high-level qualifications, for
the merchant marine, to direct this vital branch of our economy. It is necessary
to heighten increasingly the pride and uprightness that are typical of the seaman."

In the evening, President Samora Machel accepted the invitation to attend the
movable banquet tendered by the school for all those present. Before returning
to his residence, the supreme leader of the party and the state held a dialogue
with hundreds of people ‘who had been.waiting for him during all that time and
who asked him to continue the.offensive. "Come to see NAVIQUE," requested one
group persistently. After having talked with them for a short time, President
Samora Machel concluded by promising: "I must arrange a time to go there."

Further Comments
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 5 Jun 85 p 1

[Text] "The term 'friendship' in Mozambique has a different meaning. It is

not the one in the Portuguese grammar or in the dictionary of the Portuguese
language. It is not. In Portugal, friendship is an abstract noun. In Mozam-
bique, it has nothing abstract about it; it is a concrete noun!" This comment
was made by President Samora Machel, last Monday, at the opening of the Nautical
School of Mozambique. .

One of the first questions asked by the president of the People's Republic of
Mozambique upon his arrival at the Nautical School was to inquire about the
nationalities of the cooperants engaged in activities ‘there. 7

"There are Norwegians, Swedes, Bulgarians and Portuguese," they replied.
Then President Samora Machel commented on the great effort of cooperation that
foreigners: from all parts of the world have made in our country. He later held

a dialogue with several cooperants present, all of whom answered him in Portu-
guese.

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SOUTH AFRICA

DECISION TO SCRAP SECTION 3 OF PHYSICAL PLANNING ACT WELCOMED

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 10 Jun 85 p 13

[Article by Sheryl Raine]

[Text]

The Government’s deci- :

sion to scrap Section 3 of
the Physical Planning
Act of 1967 has been wi-
dely welcomed.

‘his section is an in-
strument of influx con-
trol and a barrier which
prevents the natural
growth of job opportuni-
ties in \metropolitan

_ areas,

But the law was so bad
to begin with and its re-
peal has come so late
that many industrialists
believe the impact of its
abolition at this stage
will be virtually zero.

The Riekert Commis-
sion recommended its re-
peal in 1979.

The Venter Committee
suggested it should go
last November.

This week Parliament
was told the section was
finally to be abolished.”

Mr Jimmy Thomas,
general secretary of the
Industrial Council for the

Clothing Industry, re-
flects the views of many
when he says Section 3
has done its damage.

Its removal from the
statute books is merely a

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formality.

Section 3 required in-
dustrialists to seek per-
mits to employ blacks in
urban areas or to employ
more black staff at urban
factories which were, ex-
panding. .

It was intended to pro-
mote decentralisation
and limit the influx of
blacks into urban areas
in relation to urban in-
dustrial development.

It pegged the growth of

‘urban industry and was

not effective in stopping
the flow of black people
to the cities.

It effectively robbed
Peter to pay Paul in
many industrial sectors
as companies shifted to
the homelands to escape
the need for permits.

Pages of testimony to
the Riekert Commission
in the late 70s showed
how unpopular the sec-
tion was with empleyers
and workers. .

_ Dr P Riekert found
pegging the number of
black employees of suc-
cessful urban businesses
' was indefensible and un-

‘realistic if political and

90

social implications of the
increasing black labour
pool were taken into ac-
count against the back-
ground of increasing un-
employment among
blacks in metropolitan
areas. | -

| For the past seven
years even the Govern-
ment largely ignored
Section 3 and most indus-
tries were granted spe-

cial concessions allowing

them to ignore it too.

Many employers who
didn’t get exemption sim-
ply broke the law.

The full extent to
which Section 3 inhibited
employment and curbed
business expansion will
never be known. .

But people such as Mr.
Thomas can explain how
it affected his industry:

“The clothing industry
in the Transvaal was har-
dest hit by Section 3.

“We employed 23 000
workers, Natal 15 000 and
the Cape 17 000.

“With the imposition of
:Section 3 the whole em-
phasis swung away from
the Transvaal.

-“The Cape now em-
ploys 60.000, Natal 55.000
and Transvaal 17 000.

“We have just gone
backwards as a result of

Mr Thomas says Sec-
tion 3 may have forced
decentralisation in the
early years and moved

_Some job opportunities to
regions outside the Pre-
toria-Witwatersrand- |
Vereeniging area. i

But it put a lot of exist-
ing businesses in the area
in weaker financial posi-
tions and that, he adds,

took its toll in the job
market.

Today, even though the
law is about to change
and urban industry will
be allowed to employ as
many blacks as it wishes,
incentives offered by the
Government to decen-
tralise are so attractive
that many industries are
planning to move out
anyway.

They leave in their
wake soaring urban un-
employment among,
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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

FRENCH STRATEGY IN AFRICA DISCUSSED
Paris AFRICAN. DEFENCE JOURNAL in English Jun 85 pp 65, ‘67-69

[Text] Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States or even Israel, France’s
strategy in Africa is part of a continuing flow of exchanges that date back

to more than a century ago. It is based on close historical and cultural ties

that give the French a privileged relationship with the African continent.

Since the end of the Second World War
and the beginning of independence for
African nations, French governments have
strived. to ensure the stability and
development of African countries. A
principal aim has been to avoid the forming
of zones of tension that might be detrimental
to France's interests. France first adopted a
reserved policy, limiting its military presence
and leaving the newly independent nations
to define their policies on their own. It
nevertheless maintained close cooperation
with most of them. Subsequently, France
adapted its policies and actions to the
circumstances that arose. It has more
recently expanded its field of influence to the
Portuguese and Spanish speaking areas of
the continent. Today, France counts as one
of the most influential powers present on the
African continent.

Cooperation

The fact that most French-speaking
nations remained in the franc zone, the
creation of the West African Monetary Union
and the Economic Community of Central
African States, the development of the Aid
and Cooperation Fund — all of these
measures were designed to favor the
development of the newly independent
nations and to ensure their economic health,
with the help of France.

For several years, their condition
progressed favorably and it was not until the
1973 oil crisis brutally increased the cost of
energy that the financial balance sheets of
non-oil producing African countries began to
deteriorate. As for cultural cooperation,
this area remained strong even with nations
who had more or less cut other ties with

France. The use of French as a language for
exchanges has always been considered as
indispensable in an Africa where ethnic

* groups are extremely diverse and where the

use of @ common language strengthens

national unity. France also maintained its aid

and support despite the reduction of its

military forces. It gave its strategy @ global_
coloring and worked towards preparing the

future of its friends on the continent.

Initial strategy

In 1958, when French-speaking colonies
held referendums to choose either
immediate independence or integration into
the French community, the government
defined its military objectives in Africa and
decided to maintain only a limited number of
support points. These sites were selected for
their strategic importance. Only Dakar,
Djibouti, Diego-Suarez (Antsiranana) and
Fort-Lamy (Ndjamena) were seen by the
French as justifying continued troop
presence in an Africa destined to become
fully independent in the near term. Port-
Bouet was later added to this list, reflecting
the economic importance that Ivory Coast
had gained in the eyes of the French.

With these key points serving as a
foundation, with an accent on maritime or
aerial access, French military authorities felt
themselves to be in a position to effectively
counter any external threats to the
independence of the newly founded states.
There was a rapid intervention force
established in France, along with several
armoured, airborne and naval units, capable
of shoring up existing forces on the African
continent. Transport equipment, both aerial



URBAN WHITES CONFIDENT OF POLICE SAYS POLL

Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 18 Jun 85 p 18

[Text]

THE majority of urban
White South Africans
are confident that the
police in the country
was doing a good job
and that the unrest in
the Uitenhage town-
ship of Langa had been
handled in a satisfacto-
ry way. —

‘According to the find-
ings of a Gallup poll —
conducted last month
among a sample of 1 000
urban Whites, prior to the
release of the Kennemey-
er Report concerning the
police action in Langa - 51
percent believed that the
police handled the Langa

situation in a satisfactory
manner.

Forty-seven percent of
the people questioned,
believed that the enquiry
held after the Langa
shootings, raised doubts

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about the police handling
of the situation, but re-
garding police ‘methods
towards unrest in general,
three out of four people
were confident that the
South African Police was
doing a good job.

The poll showed that
opinions about Langa dif-
fered significantly accord-
ing to the people's lan-
guage, monthly house-
hold income and residen-
tial area.

Fifty-eight percent of
English-speaking Whites
believed police methods

"were not entirely satisfac-

tory, compared with 34
percent for Afrikaners.

‘Concern about police
methods was the greatest
mong these in the over
R3 500 income bracket
(63 . percent), and de-
creased steadily to 39 per-
cent for those earning less
than R1 250.

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SOUTH AFRICA

Dissatisfaction was
"greatest in Johannesburg,
Cape metropolitan
centres and Durban,
Reef/Vaal, Pretoria and
Bloemfontein were much
less critical.

Regarding unrest in
general, the poll showed,
74 percent believed the
SAP was doing a good
job. Support was stronger
amongst Afrikaners — 85
percent as opposed to 64
percent and lower income
Whites - 79 percent com-
pared to 58 percent for
top earners.

Respondents were also
asked whether they be-
lieved the unrest was like-
ly to improve conditions
in the townships, or make
them wotse. Some 71 per-
cent said conditions were
likely to deteriorate.
while 11 percent believed
the strife would have a
beneficial effect.



MATHOPESTAD FACES THREAT OF REMOVAL, VILLAGERS INSECURE

Johannesburg SOWETAN ‘in English 12.Jun 85 p 8

[Article by Sefako Nyaka]

[Text] ©

IT is more than a year

‘now'since Mogopa was

surrounded by police
were moved at gun-
point. The anger and
despair of the people
is still present. Yet
the threat of removals
as part of the “ground
plan” of apart-
heid persists and
the community of Ma-

thopestad waits for the .

sword of Damocles to
fall upon their heads.

Recent events have

caused people in Ma-
thopestad to stir un-
easily, for once more,
the pressure seems to
be. mounting on this
community that:has
faced the threat of re-
moval and the Govern-
ment strategies sur-
rounding this, for
many years. .
- Despite. the assur-
ance by the Govern-
ment that there will be
no more forced remov-
als in South Africa, the
people of Mathopes-
tad,-a village situated
in the Magaliesberg,
are not convinced.

A prosperous and
settled community, the
village has become a
test case for the pledge

79

~ by Dr Gerrit Viljoen,

Minister of Co-Opera-

‘tion and Devel-

opment, that removals
will be undertaken

with the agreement of

the people concerned:
The 3000 inhabit-
ants of the village are

* scheduled to be moved

to Onderstepoort,
near Sun City in Bo-
phuthatswana.

The people of Ma-

thopestad first had hint —
of their removal when .
numbers were painted :

on the doors of their’

houses in 1967 and
1968. .

- Subsequently, the
Mathopestad people
had various’ meetings

with officials. In 1980,

the people heard that

they were to go to:

Onderstepoort.

“In early 1981, offi-
cials sent a bus to show
the people of Matho-
pestad their proposed

* destination. Only SIX

people went to survey
that area.

Ata meeting of
March that year, the
following reasons were
put forward by Co-Op-

eration and Devél- :

opment officials as to

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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

NEW EFFORTS TO DEFEND ENVIRONMENT, FIGHT POLLUTION DETAILED
Paris THE INDIAN OCHAN NEWSLETTER in English 15 Jun 85 pp 8-9

[Text]

On June 22 representatives of nine countries bordering on the Indian Ocean
will be in Nairobi to sign a convention dealing with the protection, management
and development _of the marine environment of east Africa. The nine states
concerned are Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, the Comoros, Madagascar,
Mauritius, the Seychelles, and France by reason of its possession of Réunion.
At the time of writing, it has not been possible to ascertain whether the.
convention will also cover the coastal regions, although this appears to be
probable. The convention will be accompanied by two protocols. One relates to
the areas to be protected as well as the wild fauna and flora of the region,
the other deals with co-operation in fighting marine pollution if a critical
situation arises. The signatories to the convention will also adopt on the same
day a plan of action spelling out a series of urgent measures to be taken in
order to ensure a rational management of the marine and coastal resources and
encourage regional co-operation in the protection of the environment (see table
on page 9).

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has supervised all the steps
leading up to the signature of the convention, in particular two meetings of
officials held in Nairobi December 6-14, 1983, and October 29-November 2,
1984). Following the signature of the convention, the UNEP will continue to
play a_leading role, both as regards the provision of expert advice and the
initial financing of the measures envisaged. This last point will be one of the
major questions remaining to be settled by the conference of national
representatives which starts on June 17 and ends with the convention's
signature. It is already known that France will be asked to pay 25 per cent of
the spécially created fund, with the other states contributing another per
cent on a pro rata basis according to their respective gross national products.
In the meantime, before the fund is set up, the UNEP could meet initial costs
in whole or in part. Other institutions, such as the Kuwaiti Fund, the Arab
Fund for Economic and Social Development and the African Development Bank,
could be approached for specific projects.



Mr Janson also questioned her about "meetings" at District Commissioner
Majay Dlamini's home in Stegi.

"I said we had visited Prince Sozisa, who was recuperating there after an
illness and had also gone there to enjoy the Maroela, which were in season.

"I denied that we had met the police minister, Mr Msibi--he has never been
in my house.

"I also denied allegations that I had given the Queen Regent papers to
dismiss the Liqoqo and that I had forced her to sign by threatening blood-
shed, .

"The papers taken.to the Queen were sent by the Authorized Person asking

that Dr George Msibi and Prince Mfanasibili be dismissed from the Liqoqo
because of complaints about them."

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107



CSO;

Whether these suspicions are cor-
rect .or not, it is a perception they
share and believe.in. In fact so con-
vinced are they of it, that even the
US State Department has expressed
“friendly concerns” over attempts to
destabilise Southern Africa. :

It’s these vague statements, how-
ever,. which assure SA that the US
“understands” its dilemma over the
“communist onslaught”. With suspi-
cion and anger reaching the propor-
tions I have noticed in some of these
countries, the danger is that they will
eventually throw caution to the wind

and brazenly get involved in an open .

conflict with SA.

A. here lies the real danger. An
upheaval like that, involving several
countries in the region, can only be-
come a lucrative temptation for the
major powers to intervene — which
could plunge us into a holocaust. with

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untold consequences for all.
It would be the height of stupidity
for SA to believe that if this were to

“ become ‘eality, they could depend
on, Western support against inter-

vention by the Russians.

The mood in America today, and
articulgrly in Congress — which is
coming more partisan by the day

— ul frustrate any attempt by
Reagan to come to SA’s aid. The
French would certainly come out on
any sidé confronting SA and the

~politically embattled Iron Lady in

ndon would not dare lift a finger.

And that leaves SA standing alone
against hurmanity. And don’t ‘blame

_ it on agitators, communists or. what-,

have-you. Blame it afl on apartheid.’
It gives credence to the age-old
warning that the policy is not only «in

affront to human decency, but also a

threat to international peace. -

People who retused to heed that
warning are beginning to sce the
signs on the horizon.



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18 July 1985

SOFASONKE PARTY SUPPORTER ARRESTED-~A warrant of arrest has been issued for
controversial Sofasonke Party supporter Cleophus Oupa Motiana. Johannesburg
Regional Court Magistrate P.J. du Plessis issued the warrant after Mr Motlana
failed to appear in court last Monday on a car theft charge. Prosecutor

B. Sussans is also trying to convince the court to withdraw Mr Motlana's
R500 bail. Mr Motlana was arrested by Norwood police when they allegedly
found him in possession of a car belonging to a person called P.J. Draw

from Houghton. [Text] [Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 9 Jun 85 p 3]

MONITORING POINTS TO INCREASE--Parliament--The Western Cape Development
Board will set up further’ monitoring points this year to control the
movement of "unauthorised" Black people from Transkei and Ciskei into

the Peninsula, the Minister of Co-operation and Development, Dr Gerrit
Viljoen, said. Replying in writing to a question from Mr Ken Andrew

(PFP Gardens) Dr Viljoen said 64 651 Black people stopped at monitoring
points set up near Paarl and Strand last year "had no authority to enter
the Cape Peninsula." Dr Viljoen said new monitoring points would be set
up this year as soon as a bus terminal at De Doorns, near Worcester, became
operative. [Text] [Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 20 Jun 85 p 4]

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cso:

shocking report presented in their
parliament this week.

* Acommittee appointed toinves-
tigate the matter had the audacity
to ask parliament to condone most
of the overspending. The only ac-
tion taken in the matter was to ask
‘an official to refund to the govern-

‘ment R9 he spent without author- ;

city,

|. Here are but a few examples of :

‘how they spent our money:

‘eA salary of R67 443 60 was paid
to a former Trariskei defence force
member on suspension. This man
was suspended for three years —
and all that time he was sitting back

‘and getting his monthly cheque.

Now the committee asks that this
be regarded as “fruitless expendi-
ture”!

© R6-million was “unlawfully” ad-
vanced to the Transkei Develop-
ment Corporation. No explanation
is given of how the moncy was
‘spent — except to say the TDC has
a surplus of funds and must there-

fore refund, the R6-million. What

happened to the money? It seems
nobody cares.

© The very same TDC apparently
purchased’a helicopter. The com-
fnittee “complains of its “ineffi-
cient” use and asks that its “inhe-

' Fent high running costs” be looked

into.

© The only reasonable action from
the committee was to ask that ac-
tion be taken against “top Local

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88

Government and Land Tenure De-
‘partment. officials who have ig-

nored the findings of significant

malpractices and irregularities in
* the department”.

© An Interior Department Ac-
_countant employed a consultant to

do he should have done hig.

self. The committee says this must
be regarded “as a gross deriliction
of duty”. :

M.. you, I suspect that all of

this js just the tip of an iceberg.

‘The poverty that the majority of
Transkeians ‘suffer from should
have made the government more
sensitive to employing those mill-
ions constructively;

‘This poverty can be seen evenon
the outskirts of Umtata, The only

ple who have shown any, gain in

that country are the Matanzima

_ brothers and their political entour-
age at the top. .

‘Once again the taxpayer here
will see funds sorely needed in
Soweto and the Eastern Cape,
being used to write off these acts of

* misuse of funds by homeland gov-
ernments.

It infuriates me that a man like
Patrick Mphephu can, at the stroke
of a pen, just splash out State funds
to pay for a R127 000 BMW.

lore details of the Transkei’s
budget on Page 5.

g



cso;

and Fosatu and other unions who
are still not affiliated to the Front
were approched, but they chose (for
various reasons) not to be party to
this great historical move to launch
the UDF.” :

The UDF says it was “disapoint-
ed” by this fact but believes in the
democratic process, including the
right to affiliate or not.

“It was clear from the onset that
the State was going all out (directly ©
and through its agents)'to kill the :
UDF. Numerous fake pamphlets
were distributed either attempting
to create confusion about meetings .
or attacking the UDF,” the UDF .
says. . :

“More and more UDF meetings
are being banned, UDF leaders and
activists are being accused of high
treason...

“The State has embarked on a ;
massive propaganda drive aimed
largely at discrediting the UDF and
promoting puppets in the trica-
meral Parliament and community
councils. - . od

“Nationalist MPs have been at
pains trying to project the UDF as a
front for the ANC-SACP alliance
and even going further to make ri-
diculous statements alleging that

; the UDF receives instructions from
Moscow.” : ‘

The UDF. says that the basis of
the so-called link between it and the
African National Congress is to be

, found in the Freedom Charter.

“Some of these allegation stem
from~the-characterisation of the
UDF as a Freedom-Charter organi-
station. There are several thi

: that must be said on this. First,

. UDF itself, has not adopted the
Freedom Charter — ‘it is a broad
front. Secondly, the Freedom Char-
ter is not the sole property of any

. Single organisation.

“Tt was drawn up 30 years ago at
the most representative gathering
South Africa has ever seen — the
Congress of the People in Kliptown.

“The Freedom Charter was en-
dorsed at the time by several organ-
isations of the people including the
Natal and Transvaal Indian con-~
gresses. Today these two organisa- :

\ tions are UDF affiliates. ' -

“As the UDF we have'always

, stated our’ recognition of the Free-
; dom Charter as.an historic and un- »

pretentious document of the people, ,
} embodying their aspirations and de-

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56

_ sires and a blueprint of a future
, South Africa.
“Jt is because of this historic and
| progressive content of the Freedom
Charter that the Declaration of the
UDF — the basic document on
which participation in and affilia-
“tion to the Front is based — and the
Charter do not contradict each
other and therefore are not hostile
*to each other.” :
{ |. The UDF believes that the pres-
F ent tense situation between its sup-
porters and those of Azapo is the
result of attempts by the State to
* regain lost ground. :

The organisation claims that ever
since the attempt to discredit Dr
Boesak failed to have any signifi-
cant effect on the UDF ‘itself, the
State has increased its bid to dis-
credit the organisation in other

ways. ~
“Our activists have been subject
~-to_intense campaigns of violence by
agents of the-system. Some have
even lost their lives. Taking advan-
tage of the differences between us
and Azapo, reactionary forces have
dared to provoke hostility between
us which clearly can be in the inter-
est only of the State.

“We have also sent circulars to
our affiliates urging restraint.
We have sent an open letter to
Azapo stating our position on the
situation. Though they have not re-
sponded to our letter our patience
shall not be exhausted . ...

“P W Botha’s statement in Le Fi-.
garo that ‘conflict in South Africa
was between blacks who accepted
evolutionary change and revolution-

: aries backed by the ANC’ is the ulti-
mate in deception and disinforma-
ton,” according to the UDF. -

The UDF believes that it‘is im-
portant for all the peoples of South

:, Africa who oppose apartheid and
racial discrimination to find com-
mon ground. .

“It is imperative that all those *
whose interests are dissimilar from
those of the State’s come together
and take part in efforts to bring
about conditions which are condu-

- cive to the stepping up of the strug-
gle for national liberation.”

The UDF says it is the first or-

“ ganisation since the Congress: Alli-
ance of the mid-fifties to represent
a broad front behind which all the
“progressive forces” against apart-
heid can be mobilised “to defeat :
racisrh and exploitation”.



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RADIO COMMENTS ON KANNEMEYER REPORT
MB120920 Johannesburg Domestic Service in English 0500 GMT 12 Jun 85

(Station commentary]

{Text] After an exhaustive public inquiry a judicial commission has now
reported on the event that shook South Africa and the world--the police
shooting at Langa, Uitenhage, on 21 March, when 20 people died. The facts
have been established, the faults pinpointed, and the necessary corrective

measures clearly implied.

Note must be taken of the distinction between the particular incident and
the general circumstances that gave rise to it. With regard to the former,
the Kannemeyer Commission has found that the order to open fire cannot be
criticized. While the judge did criticize policemen for provocation in
their own behavior, they were being confronted by a large and evidently
aggressive crowd,

Two petrol bombs were found on the scene afterwards. He found that the
Jieutenant in charge had reason to believe that allowing the crowd to
proceed through Uitenhage would have put residents of the town at risk.

A substantial portion of the crowd had been reciting a chant about killing
the whites in the town.

In justice to that hard-pressed group of policemen, this finding must be
given due emphasis. However, the general circumstances under which the men
found themselves having to operate on that day are another matter. All
South Africans are by now well aware of the enormously damaging impact of
events of this kind on the country's standing in the world and hence, its
security.

South Africa is faced with a blatant double standard. Bona fide errors of
judgment resulting in tragedy are not accepted as such, as they may be, for
example, when Philadelphia police bombed the headquarters of an extremist
movement and killed 11 people. South Africa would automatically have the
worst possible motives ascribed to it. But that is something the country
has to live with.

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Master-Sergeant. In many ways I felt
that you were actually wearing that
rank with pride.

You can therefore imagine my dis-
may when in the end you not only suc-
cumbed to the témptation, you went
the whole hog and became a ‘General’.
Somehow it does not ring right with
me, after all, so-called Colonels and
Generals were saluting you when you
were still a Master-Sergeant. As I was
saying, if you had remained a Master-
Sergeant I would gladly address you as

such.

But ‘General’ really sticks in my
throat and I have a feeling that those
who call you ‘General’ do so with an
unexpressed smirk in their minds. And
so General is out.

The ‘Dr.’ also, I am not at all sure
about. I understand that this was some
honorary doctorate degree conferred
on you by some North Korean univer-
sity. I don’t know what reason they
gave to convince you..before you
accepted it, but I am suspicious of such
‘honours’.

Usually when white people want to
make fun of African leaders then they
do such things. And anyway, serious
people never use honorary degree titles
when conferred upon them, and you
are a deadly serious person.

Of course, I could call you ‘C-in-C’,
i.e. Commander-in-Chief, which is
your title because you are
automatically the Commander-in-
Chief of the Liberian Armed Forces.
Unfortunately even though I agree that
this is a title that you deserve, I don’t
think that in the present circumstances,
it will do you much good for that
aspect of your entitlements to be
highlighted. The same can be said for
your title as President of the Interim
National Assembly. Which brings me
to the main reason I decided to address
this letter to you.

The elections are coming and I know
you are determined to hold them by all
means to put your detractors to shame.

Since you have been insisting that
you will return the country to civilian
tule, I take it to mean that you want
your ‘civilian’ portion to be emph-
asised. I don’t know exactly how you
are intending to get over the little diffi-
culty of selling yourself to the elector-
ate as a civilian. I know that there are
examples in history of eminent soldiers

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who, having proved themselves on the
battlefield and won many laurels and
the acclaim of their countrymen, have
then joined politics and been elected to
serve as presidents. One readily thinks
of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower who, after
helping to defeat Nazi Germany went
back to become President of the
United States. Of course he was called
General and of course he capitalised on
his war record, but the fact is that he
was reaping the rewards from his past
glories. He was not a serving member
of the Armed Forces when he ran for
office, he did not try during the
campaign to give the impression that
he was a better and more credible
candidate because he had any influence
with the military. Such a posture would
have been deemed intimidatory as
doubtless your present situation is
looking to people.

It is difficult to understand why you
are insisting on remaining in the armed
forces and running for an office that
you yourself have called civilian.
Soldiers of course, are as much citizens
as un-uniformed, and they deserve to
become leaders of the country as
much. The trouble is that while
civilians can only come to power
through the expressed choice of the
people, you soldiers have an added
advantage. You yourself, on occasion,
expressed this quite eloquently and you
are in your present situation as Head of
State through the use of force.

Ex-President Shehu Shagari of
Nigeria made a very profound state-
ment in an interview soon after his
election to office in 1979, but because
the man was so modest and so self-
effacing nobody accorded it the
importance it deserved.

He said that at the end of the day in
Africa, there were only two parties, the
military and the civilians. In other
words he recognised that in the eyes of
Gens. Buhari, Garba, Idiagbon,
Babangida, etc, etc, he, Shagari, was
the same as Awolowo, Azikiwe, Rimi
etc. Such a pity that the various
political parties did not recognise this

‘act.

There is also an African proverb

which states that you cannot look into

+a bottle with two eyes, and if you will

pardon my saying so that is exactly
what you are trying to do. I forget for
the moment how the proverb ends, i.e.


JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

NIGERIA

MILITARY GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN REVIEWED

London TALKING DRUMS:in English 17 Jun 85 p 7

[Column: "Whispering Drums"]

[Text]

When Nigeria became independent on
the Ist of October 1960, the total
revenue of the federal and the three
regional governments combined
amounted to no more than £143
million. During this period (1960-62)
the only instrument of economic
management was the annual
appropriations bill known as - the
budget, which was not related to any
specified economic goal. But some
twenty-years later, the expectation was
that by 1981, the federal government
would derive, from oil alone, a revenue
put at some N21 billion. In other
words, -the federal government was
now going to be able to spend in one
day, almost twice as much as was spent
by the government in one month,
twenty years ago.

Based on these purely whimsical
calculations, Nigeria started
embarking on gigantic plans and
projects unprecedented anywhere in
Black Africa. There was the 1962-1968
First National Development plan, the
Second National Development plan
1970-1974, and the Third National
Development plan 1975-1980. The first
plan was under the first civilian
administration of Alhaji Tafawa
Balewa, Nigeria’s Prime Minister. The
plan embodied only three main
objectives — ‘‘a high growth rate for
the economy, a rapid development of
opportunities in education, health and
employment, and the establishment of
a modernised economy compatible
with the democratic aspirations of the
people’’.

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Two years into the plan, Nigeria was
engulfed in a political chaos which
eventually led to the collapse of the
civilian regime, and with the start of
the civil war, all talk of the plan
vaporized.

The second plan was formulated —
and was expected to be implemented —
under a military regime and was
radically different from the first in
terms of its ambitions. Four billion
naira (N4 billion) was put as the federal
government capital for the plan; an
astronomical sum compared to that of
1962-68 plan. .

Like the second plan, the third plan
was formulated and implemented (save

for the last year, 1980) by a military
regime. Covering the period
1975-1980, federal government
expenditure for the plan was put at
N33 billion. This figure was
subsequently revised and increased to
N43 billion. The huge sums allocated
to the over-ambitious plan reflected the
euphoria which followed the 1973/74
oil boom.

For instance, it was thought that oil
production would rise to about 3
million barrels a day by 1980 to yield
the large balance-of-payments
surpluses which, it was expected,
would pay for the cost of the . In
fact, the planners emphatically stated
that “finance is unlikely to be a major
problem during the third plan period.”
But that was not to be, and far from
the optimistic predictions being
realised, oil production sharply fell and
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JPRS-SSA-85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

STAR OPPOSES U.S. SANCTIONS, URGES REFORM
MB122002 Johannesburg THE STAR in English 6 Jun 85 p 16
[Editorial: "Ignore the Sanctions--and Start Reform"]

[Text] The big bogey of sanctions, used so often to frighten businessmen
and politicians, has finally taken on a specific form. The bill approved by
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not to be sniffed at, but neither
is it reason for over-reaction. It includes aid for South African blacks
through educational and business grants--a $15 million bonus which is very
welcome indeed--and the punitive measures are not so harsh that they cannot
be weathered.

No doubt Japanese and European computer firms will be delighted to hear that
America will .stop supplying computers to security services; Swiss bankers
will rub their hands in glee at the ban on new U.S. bank loans; the price of
the Kruggerrand may even rise because of the ban on sales. Yet the govern-
ment cannot afford to be too sanguine about either bills before Congress or
about the continuing disinvestment campaign outside of Capitol Hill.

THE STAR has always opposed sanctions and disinvestment. Even the threat to
impose Kennedy-style sanctions within 18 months unless substantial progress
toward eliminating apartheid is made seems a nebulous condition: who is to
judge "substantial progress" and according to whose definition of apartheid?

Another reason for opposing any threat of sanctions is that the action has a
predictable reaction: it gives the Government undeserved domestic support
and creates a chauvinistic attitude inelegantly known as "Up Yours". South
Africa will have to guard against the pro-apartheid effects that the Ameri—
can resolutions engender. The South African Government should ignore
Capitol Hill and respond positively to pleas at home for faster reform.

The Cabinet should tackle the sanctions, boycott and disinvestment campaign
by stressing the changes already made, and declaring its firm intention to
finally rid South Africa of the odium of apartheid.

CSO: 3400/459

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JPRS~SSA-85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

QOBOZA FEARS MAJOR POWER CONFRONTATION 1N REGION

Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 19 May 85 p 5

{Commentary by Percy Qoboza in the "Percy's Itch" column: "What Now,

Comrade?"] ‘

[Text] p
‘ .H OOR Samora, The

Ikomati:, Accord, it seems.
was designed ‘to solve his
country’s internal problems.
But far from that, it has just
become a literal kiss of death.

Reliable sources tell me that if
Machel’s government __ lasts
another 10 days, then it will rep-
resent the only miracle Mozam-
bique has experienced since the
Portuguese were sent scuttling
across the border into South Af-
rica. :

Reports indicate that the road to
Maputo is wide open for a final and
deadly assauit by the Renamo move-
ment which has been waging a re-
lentless war against Machel.

Renamo has enjoyed dubious sup-
port from sources in South Africa to
overthrow the government. The SA
Government has also admitted sup-
porting Renamo in the past.

However, SA says this ended
when the Nkomati Accord was
signed. Obviously Machel does not
believe support for Renamo has
‘stopped. He said so recently.

What mystifies me is not whether
SA did support Renamo, or still
does, but why Machel was naive
enough to think Nkomati would sud-
denly make him popular with Pre-
toria when SA’s vehement denunci-

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sions. expressed his commitment to
socialism.

If that is so, then SA may be

equally. committed to continue
stage-managing the myth that it
‘stands as the last frontier defending
Africa against “communist
onslaughts”.

That keeps Ronald Keagan happy
since he seems to share the paranoic
diseases which have blinded the SA
Government as to what constitutes
the long-term security of this nation.

I. was significant that Africa’s re-
spected statesman Julius Nyerere, in
a report which appeared in our first
edition, warned: “If SA succeeds in
overthrowing the Frelimo govern-
ment, Machel will go back to Tan-
zania and the real liberation struggle
will begin involving Frelimo and the
African National Congress to libera-
tion South Africa.”

This is a frightening prospect.
More so if one considers that the
patience of Southern African coun-
tries is running low. There is, with-
out any exception, anger at what
they percieve to be a deliberate, cal-
culated SA campaign to destabilise
their nations ind therefore increase
the prospects of these countries be-
coming permanently dependent on
Pretoria for their economic survival.



EACROTANAL MEETING SCHEDULED
Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 7 Jun 85 pl

THE Administrative Committee
{text} of the  Zanzibar-based East
African Centre for Research on
Oral’ Traditions and African
National’ Languages (EACRO-
TANAL) will meet in
Antarianarivo next month to
discuss the Centre's operation.
The Deputy Principal Secretary
in the Prime Minister's Office,
who is also the Committee's
Chairman Ndugu Wilfred
Mwabulambo, said in Dar es
Salaam on Wednesday that the

Committee also expected to ©

discuss the Centre's budget for
1985/86, Shihata reported.

Ndugu Mwabulambo said the
Committee would also discuss
and examine. the Centre's new
streamlined-organisational — struc-
turé intended to. reduce
operational costs.

The Centre has been plagued
by financial problems since its
établishment in 1979, thus
making it impossible to undertake
its activities effectively.

Ndugu Mwabulambo said most
of the member countries: have
been either slow in remitting their
dues to the centre and some have
not done so for a long time.

However, the Deputy Principal

Secretary said some of the mem>.
ber states have shown interest to *\

pay their contributions adding
that the Organisation of African
Unity (QAU) would also‘ con-
:tribute a certain amount of
money towards the centre.

Ndugu Mwabulambo said the
Centre envisaged to receive
« 3,348,000/- (US ‘dollars 186,000),
but it only received about 1.8m/-
(US dollars 100,000) during the
1984/85 financial. year.
++ The recommendations to be
- adopted by.the committee, would

be ‘forwarded to the Centre's *

‘Council'of Ministers for approval.

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18 July 1985

INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS



"In fact, the PFP for years warned that if the government persists with such
a policy, external pressure in the form of disinvestment would inevitably be
the result. Those chickens are now coming home to roost."

Dr Slabbert said the PFP leadership had not yet had time to meet to decide
on any possible action against Mr du Plessis' speech.

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Cabinet Reshuffle Includes 2 Non-White Deputy Ministers
(Editorial; DIE BURGER, 3 Jun > Bo

Unification of Rightist Groups Advocated by Prof Jordaan
(DIE BURGER, 3 Jun 85)sssecsececceesvcccceececsccsccsorees

Victims of Increasing Vigilante Activities Recount Experiences
(Jo-Anne Collinge; THE SUNDAY STAR, Q Jun 85).ccccececoees

Urban Whites Confident of Police Says Poll
(THE CITIZEN, 18 Jun 85).sssccceseescccccecccescecccverees

General Feeling of Optimism in Ciskei
(Keith Ross; WEEKEND POST, 18 May B5) ocveeeeccoes

Port Elizabeth Former Fishermen Returning to Sea
(Debbie Booysen; WEEKEND POST, 11 May 85).ccccvcccceccvecs

Qoboza Fears Major Power Confrontation in Region
(Percy Qoboza; CITY PRESS, 19 May 85) .cecccecccccccccscece

Black Student University Freedom Threatened
(CITY PRESS, 19 May 85).sceceesccscccecccsscosccceres

Mathopestad Faces Threat of Removal, Villagers Insecure
(Sefako Nyaka; SOWETAN, 12 Jun 85)sssecececsececesecceeres

Azaso Asks Police To Stay Away
(Sefako Nyaka; SOWETAN, 10 Jan BD) eocccccccccccscscccccees

Regional Services To Apply Policy of Apartheid Says PFP
(THE CITIZEN, 18 Jun 85)..eeees errr rr rrr reer er errr

Ruling Indian Party Supports Regional Councils Bills
(THE CITIZEN, 20 Jun 85)...ceesccccrsccveecccccccscceseees

Police Will Protect Staff in Townships
(SOWETAN, 12 Jun 85)..scevecsceccccccccescccvccsecccsesees

Transkei Government Overspending Revealed
(Tebello Radebe; CITY PRESS, 2 Jun 85) cccccccccccccccvece

Transkei Government Overspending by Callous Officials Condemned
(Percy Qoboza; CITY PRESS, 2 Jun B5) ecaccccccccvceccececes

Recession Hitting Blacks Worst
(Joshua Raboroko; SOWETAN, 21 Jun B5) acvccccccccvccccvcces

Decision To Scrap Section 3 of Physical Planning Act Welcomed
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‘Black local government. will henceforth fall under the jursidiction of Minister
Chtis Heunis, whereby a further push can be given to the constitutional changes
being tackled and implemented under the leadership of the minister of consti-
tutional development.

On the whole, the ministerial renewals and shifts serve to strengthen the im-

pression that the government is purposefully and methodically continuing its
initiatives for reform.

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It Seems Impossible...

The ceremony continued with the reading of the message from the merchant marine
workers, which began by underscoring the importance of the proclamation of
national independence 10 years ago.

"Many may say: ‘It seems as if it were yesterday," because to many this first
decade was experienced with fever, with the passion and total surrender of a
first love.

"But, after we reflect a little, it is more natural for us to‘ have the notion
of saying: 'It seems impossible that there is stillso little.' And we
inevitably think of what we were or how were were, only 10 years ago, or
slightly more. : :

"It seems impossible that there was colonialism in Mozambique only 10 years
ago, or slightly more. It seems impossible that, only 10 years ago or slightly
more, we were discriminated against in our own country, because of the color
of our skin.

"It seems impossible that, only.10 years ago or ‘slightly more, we could not
speak freely in our own homes, because colonialism had ears even in the walls
and told us what we were thinking; and this was sufficient to have us jailed,
beaten and murdered. And so, only'10 years ago or slightly more, fear inhabited
our every-day thoughts and even our dreams."

A Good Sign for Independence

The presentation of the national flag and the Nautical School banner, by the
school's administrators, was the next ceremony at which President Samora Machel
officiated.

The final speaker was the Mozambican leader who, after opening his address, :
praised the heroism of the transportation workers in the struggle against the
armed bandits and for economic development.

He mentioned the importance of the sea, which he considered "the preeminent
connecting bond between peoples, the place which the jet age in which we live
has not.managed to unthrone." .

President Samora Machel did not. fail to stress the value’ of the sea to us
Mozambicans.. In this connection, he stated specifically: .

“Our country, with its expanse of seacoast, with 11 operational ports for. .
coastal shipping, three international ports, several rivers and lakes which
are navigable, has excellent conditions for the development of ocean, river
and lake shipping.

"These features, associated with the fact that colonialism has not left in

the country effective, economical, north-south land connections; have determined
the merchant marine's fundamental role in the country's economic development."

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

RIGHTISTS CRITICIZE PRESENCE OF NON-WHITES ON TV
Cape Town DIE BURGER in Afrikaans 4 Jun 85 p 10
[Editorial: "Escapist Thinking"]

[Text] The mentality of the far-Rightists was clearly demonstrated at the con~
gress of the Afrikaner People's Sentinel from objections raised to the appear-
ance of non-Whites on television programs. Among the examples mentioned were
the Black hero in a television series, non-White station announcers, Teletien
"in which Indian and Colored ladies address White children from the [television]
screen" and non-White preachers leading religious programs.

This is all allegedly part of a conspiracy between American liberals and SABC
[South African Broadcasting Corporation] to indoctrinate Afrikaner youth.
Speakers were afraid that this would make integration and the downfall of the
Afrikaner people acceptable and even attractive to children. Even the' Year of
Youth came under suspicion because it supposedly aims to make youth conform to
the standards of international liberalism.

This is how people think when their thinking becomes muddled by racial preju=
dice. They flee even further away from South African reality and dream of an
Afrikaner state. Coloreds are wished away into a Colored homeland, and the
Indians into a heartland this side of Stanger or wherever. Disinvestment and
arms and sports boycotts are out of the question in this White state. Answers
are sought in isolation where the rest of the world cannot get at them and the
realities of Africa and South Africa are not in force.

The real reason that these people object so strongly to the presence of non-
Whites on television is in fact that it reminds them of the reality from: which
they want to flee, from a South Africa in which people of different population
groups and races live together and will have to share with one another: in the
centuries that lie ahead.

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18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

BLACKS AS A GROUP DISAPPROVE OF DISINVESTMENT

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 28 May 85 p 8

[Text]

DURBAN — No mass meeting of black South Afri-

. cans had ever approved of disinvestment as a strate-
gy against apartheid, said a petition handed to the
United States Consul-General, Mr Harry Geisel, at his
Durban North residence yesterday.

The petition, handed in by members of the In-
katha’s central committee and about 2 000 supporters,
had 10 000 signatures, of which 967 had been collected
by Inkatha.

Me stated that no democratically elected leader ina
membership-based organisation of any importance
had ever been given a mandate to accept disinvest-
ment as a viable black political option.

“On behalf of black South Africa we petition Presi-
dent Reagan, the senators of the United States of
America and its congressmen to reject all pressures
exerted on them to express abhorrence of apartheid

: through disinvestment in South Africa,” it said.

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@ Disinvestment would minimise positive Western in-
fluence needed in South Africa to speed up the pro-
cess of change.

@ Disinvestment would further the politics of vio-
lence and damage the politics of reason.

@ Disinvestment was advocated by those who could
not see that economic progress gave rise to inter-
group dependencies which favoured the politics of

. non-violent negotiation.

@ Existing black poverty would be greatly increased
if effective disinvestment campaigns deepened al-
ready very problematic unemployment levels.

@ The US, as the world’s leading industrial democra-
cy, should do everything in its power to foster the

* economic development of the whole of Southern Afri-
ca.

This obligation to Africa and to the Third World
would not be served by damaging, not only the South
African economy, but also improvished neighbouring
economies, the petition stated.



IPRS~SSA~85~-063
18 July 1985

LIBERIA

BRIEFS

DEATH SENTENCES FOR BRIBERY--Gen. Samuel Kanyon Doe has recommended to the INA
(Interim National Assembly) that any Government employee who recieves bribes
openly or secretly should be jailed for life. Gen. Doe also recommended to
the Assembly that thereafter any individual who recieves a bribe should face
the firing squad and that any alien who is caught offering bribes should be
sent out of the country and his business be confiscated by Government. Gen.
Doe made the recommendations in a joint Assembly chamber at the Capitol Build-
ing where he addressed members of the INA and briefed them about a bribery
case involving four customs officers at the free port of Monrovia. Gen. Doe
told the Assembly members that their failure to approve the recommendations
will make it impossible for Government to resolve the nation's economic prob-
lems. The Liberian leader also made it clear to the INA members that in spite
of the stringent economic measures adopted by the Government to improve the
nation's economy, the dishonesty of some people continues to frustrate this
effort. [Text] [London TALKING DRUMS in English 13 May 85 p 23]

CSO: 3400/496

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JPRS~SSA-85-063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

RAILWAY TECHNICIANS TO. COMPLETE STUDIES
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 31 May 85 p 8

[Text] Yesterday, in Maputo, Ferreira Mendes, national director of Mozambique
Railroads [CFM], remarked: "The first. railway technicians will soon be completing
their training at the National Railroad Training School in Inhambane." He

was addressing the workers from CFM-South, at the meeting which marked the
occasion of Railroad Workers Day, held yesterday in connection with Transpor-
tation Week which is under way.

The school in question has the participation of France and Portugal in assisting
the Mozambican personnel who will soon be working in this area of transportation.

Directing his remarks to those present, Ferreira Mendez began by making an
analysis of the progress of the railroads throughout the 10 years of indepen-
dence, stressing that, despite the existing difficulties, "there has been

- advancement, there has been progress."

He said: "We have purchased more locomotives and more coaches, among other
equipment."

The CFM national director took advantage of the occasion of his speech to alert
the workers to the need for performing their duties on the job, and stated that
no one must seek excuses in the country's difficulties for not doing his duty.
He commented: "To attain our goals, we must also eliminate lack of discipline
on the part of certain workers."

Because this is one of the sectors which has most suffered from the armed
bandits' activities, a minute of silence was observed in memory of the workers
killed in the full exercise of their occupation.

Also in this connection, some workers, including locomotive engineers and fire-
men who survived the treacherous attacks by the terrorists were invited to
describe to the other colleagues those times of terror which they experienced,
and how they managed to free themselves from the murderous rage.

Near the end of this meeting, which took place in the general office building,
some films were shown, depicting the development of the French railroads.

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Its potential for harming the national interest makes the proper use of
crowd control measures all the more important. It is clear from the Kanne-
meyer report that there are serious shortcomings in two areas of riot
control strategy.

One concerns communication and sound judgment in assessing and responding to
tense situations. The judge expresses his conviction that, had the funeral
to which the people were going not been cancelled in the manner adopted by
the authorities, it would have proceeded normally. Thus, the tragedy could
have been averted.

The second area embraces the range of riot control techniques--understanding
what is appropriate in particular situations, ensuring that policemen have
the right equipment, and implementing the policy consistently in all unrest
situations. Here, the judge found that the men on the spot had not been
given the correct equipment, as a result of a decision taken at a higher
level. Once again, the tragedy could have been avoided had they in fact
been properly equipped.

The kind of unrest South Africa is now experiencing in many of its urban
black areas, widespread and continually breaking out afresh, is a fairly new
experience, not only for the country, but for those who have the task of .,
maintaining law and order. Errors in formulating and implementing the most.
effective law enforcement measures were no doubt to be expected. Once
identified, however, as they have now been, the errors must be corrected as
a matter of the greatest urgency.

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colonizing country against FRELIMO, diverting to this area the financial
resources which were in short supply for productive investment." He stressed
that’ the situation of the railway-port workers during colonial times was.
not the best, with the administrative and technical management posts filled
by Portuguese colonists, and orily the unspecialized categories of jobs
reserved for Mozambicans.

He continued: "The volume of the work force in the railway-port sector stood
at about 42,000 workers, 16,000 of whom were longshoremen."

The Changes

This was the situation encountered upon the establishment of the People's
Republic of Mozambique, which had to be changed in order to fulfill the
national goals. A member of the Ministry of Ports, Railways and Merchant
Marine remarked that the changes which were made in the sector ‘could be
divided into three phases:that from national independence until the Third
Congress; from the Third Congress to the starting of the Political and Organi-
zational Offensive; and that extending from the latter to the creation of the
SADCC [Southern African Development Coordination Conference] and up until the
Fourth Congress. :

Noting that, after national independence and the consequent creation of the
then Ministry of Transport and Communications, and particularly after the
national-: meeting in Inhaminga, it was decided to cut the umbilical cord with
colonial work methods and thinking, and to establish the importance of collec-
tive work, our source added that, it was with the holding of the Third Congress
that the necessary conditions were established to form a powerful working
class aware of its responsibilities in the construction of a new life in
Mozambique and the sector's development strategy was reformulated.

For example, the first management groups were created and the statute on
reform forall workers was executed. He emphasized: "Moreover, various types
of action were taken in connection with the abandonment by nearly 8,500
Portuguese technicians, through widespread training on the work site and in
centers based on specific areas, the launching of the national literacy and
adult education campaign and resorting to international cooperation."

With regard to the Political and Organizational Offensive started by President
Samora Machel personally, beginning with the Beira railway-port complex, the
same source said that various organizational mistakes and shortcomings were
detectéd as a result of which the decision was made.to create the Ministry
of Ports and’ Land Transportation, as a fundamental measure to achieve a
unified management of the sector, with the National Freight Service, the
Control and Discipline Office, the single management of the ports, the
coastal .shipping zone in the port of Maputo and the opening of the ports of
Inhambane and Angoche.

Sanita Attacks and Investments

The member of the Ministry of Ports, Railways and Merchant Marine added that,
after national independence, South Africa triggered acts of economic aggression

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} Accountant’s employment of aconsul-

surplus of’ R6-million shown in the
TDC’s books.

@ That the “inefficient use” of the
TDC helicopter with its “inherent high
ruining costs” be looked into.

@ That disciplinary action be taken
against top Local Government and
Land Tenure Department officials
who have “ignored” the findings of
“significant malpractices and is-
regularities” in the department.

@ That Transkei’s Durban Consulate
be‘made to respond to audit queries

‘which it has “ignored”, ° ~
@ That an’ Interior Department

tant to “do a job he should have done
himself” be regarded as a “gross dere-
liction of duties”.

The highest unauthorised expenses
were incurred by the Education De-
partment — over R13,5-million,

Education secretary-general M B
Potelwa gave these reasons:

@ An ongoing trend to replace lesser
qualified teachers with “expatriate”
personnel — a trend which could not

‘be “anticipated”, he said.

@ The increasing number of teachers
who have'to be appointed. .
@ Underestimation in the costs of fur-

{| niture and school books bought by the

department — ~ furniture _ alone
amounted to over R3-million.
@ Many teachers had to get huge in-
creases — in some cases 300 percent —
after upgrading their qualifications.
Works and Energy chairman V K
Dube told the committee he overspent
R18 000 building car park shelters for
Supreme. ‘and Magistrate’s Court offi-

ALTHOUGH the Transkei Deve-
lopment Corporation showed a
massive loss of R839 009, the
special Select Committee investi-
gating Transkel’s overspending
accepted a séries of explanations
by former TDC managing director
But it has called for R6-mil-
lion “unlawfully advanced” to the
‘TDC to be recovered from the
R6-million on the corporation's

books.

“One of the most bizarre “ex-
planations” for the loss incurred
concems a cement-mixing plant -
worth R34 900, reported by the

‘Auditor General to be “missing”
from the TDC’s books.
Mr Tarr'told the committee =
it was not missing, but had been
“sold for only R5 000 to King

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Transkei Disaster Corporation?

wiles ‘Town'company Triple
completed project for almost two
years and had deteriorated to “a
poor condition”.

The gist of Mr Tare’s
was that the TDC had to carry @
number of loss-making companies
simply to keep the Transkeians
‘employed in their jobs.

Bad
included in the TDC’s creditors’
added to the huge loss.

The losses of R939 009 were
made up from TDC Project Con-
trot, Illenge Aircraft, Bag Factory,
Corp-Air, Umtata Motors, Tyre

Contre, “Geui
Pottery, Merle’s Market, Hilmon
Weavers, six coastal hotels and a
number of foans to individual
‘}_ companies. :

lists

86

cials — because the Treasury took
three months to approve the expense
and he had the job done in the mean-
“time, oy
Foreign Affairs secretary-genéral H
« B-Tsengwa said his department spent
R51 540 more than the R2 147 al-
lowed because:
@ Unexpected expenses were in:
curred for officials whu nad ty us teal
led from overseas missions such as
Washington and Vienna.
@ “Due to unforseen circumstances
these officials. — when in Umtata —
have to be accommodated in hotels for
periods up to three months.”*-
,@ Hotel accommodation had to be
i inisters and high ranking of-
its to Pretoria and other

icials on vi
laces, F
A high increase in the nuniber of
‘claims for petrol and private transport
by an increasing number of field work-

crs.
Brigadier D'G Mkhalitshana of the

police said:

@ An excess of R416 703 was due to

salaries paid to new expatriate officers

“imposed by higher authorities who

were now paid as officers in the depart-

ments”.

@ R876 562 was duc to more subsis-

‘tance claims paid to men “combatting

rime”. 5,

The brigadier said the “expatriates”
were from Zimbabwe and “it was
found some were never in the police
force there” and came to Transkei with
ranks already given to them by the -
higher authorities. He paid them be-
cause he did not want.to embarrass the
authorities.

as it had been left at a

debts and doubtful debts

Cinema, Isandia



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

BRIEFS

SPANISH AID--The Kingdom of Spain, through its ambassador in Maputo, Alvaro
Castilla, has pledged to give aid for an indefinite time to the areas .
affected by natural calamities. In a protocol signed by that diplomat and
by Francisco Masquil, secretary of state for supplies, it was agreed that
the funds to be granted would depend on the Spanish financial possibilities.
A donation of 3,000 tons of maize was announced in 1985, [Excerpt] [Maputo
Domestic Service in Portuguese 1030 GMT 12 Jun 85]

IRANIAN DONATION--More than 6,500 metric tons of foodstuff, medicines, soap,
and a minibus, a gift of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Mozambique, were
handed over this morning at Maputo port by Ahmad Maghamar, Iranian charge
d'affairs in our country. Thanking him for the gesture by the Iranian
people, Aanda da Silva, minister of home trade, stressed the good relations
existing between the two countries. The Iranian people, though facing
difficult moments, understand our difficulties and that is why they are
supporting us. The Mozambican people say thanks for the gesture, Home Trade
Minister Aranda da Silva concluded. [Text] [Maputo Domestic Service in
Portuguese 1400 GMT 12 Jun 85]

AGREEMENTS SIGNED WITH SWEDEN--Mozambique signed nine agreements yesterday
with the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Six of these
concern bilateral cooperation between Sweden and Mozambique, while the other
three are accords of multilateral cooperation involving the other Nordic
countries as well. The agreements cover agriculture, fisheries, the reha-
bilitation of industry, civil aviation, energy, roads, education, telecom-
munications and the import of consumer goods. They will be implemented over
two years (1985-87). For this program, Sweden has made available to Mozam—
bique around 540 million Swedish kronor (about 59 million U.S. dollars).

The agreements were signed for the Mozambican Government by the Minister of
Industry and Power, Antonio Branco, and the Secretary of State for Inter-
national Cooperation, Antonio Sumbana, while for Sweden the Assistant: Direc—
tor see Lars Edstron, signed. [Text] [Dakar PANA in English 1100 GMT 9
Jun 85

LOST FISHING BOAT SOUGHT--Fears have increased in Durban shipping circles
that the fishing boat Vollendam, with 14 people on board, may have
foundered. Another fishing vessel, the Tina, has returned to port with the
news that it picked up a distress call from the Vollendam, and also sighted
a flare. A 3-hour search in the area where the flare was sighted revealed

40



AZASO ASKS POLICE TO STAY AWAY

Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 10 Jan 85 p 2

[Article by Sefako Nyaka]

[Text]
THE Azanian Student
Organisation has ap-
pealed to the police and
the army to “‘keep away
from all our commem-
cso: 3400/453

orations, seminars, dem-
onstrations and other
gatherings.”

Meanwhile the divi-
sional commissioner of
Police in Soweto, Briga-

‘dier J J Coetzee, has
; warned that soldiers on
- horseback could be used

in Soweto if there is un-!

rest in the township on
_June 16.

; In a statement re-
"leased by Azaso’s na-
tional secretary, Mr
Confidence Moloko,
yesterday, Azaso. says
June 16 this year will be
remembered at a time
“when there is a deep-
‘ening conflict between
the racist regime and
‘ our people.”

“Our townships and
residential areas have
been turned into opera-
“tional areas and battle-
grounds.”

Azaso also called
upon all students and
‘the youth in general to
observe the period start-
ing from yesterday to
next Sunday “as a time

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SOUTH AFRICA

for us to rededicate our-
selves to the struggle.”

.““We also call’ upon

,our people to display
maximum unity and to
raccord to such gather-
sings the dignity and dis-
cipline they. deserve,”
the statement said.

Since early last week,
soldiers and their horses
have been on excercises,
moving outside Soweto,
Lenasia and. Eldorado
Park. .

Brigadier G Murphy,

_the army commander on

the Witwatersrand, said
the cavalry was on a
“routine training excer-
cise” around Soweto.
He’ said the excercise
would last for as long as
there was unrest in the
townships throughout
the country.

Brig Coetzee said the
cavalry had not been
brought in because of

‘June 16 but the “use of
horses might be consid-
ered, depending on cir-
cumstances and the
availability of men and
horses if there was un-
Test.



JPRS~SSA-85-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

INDIAN TRADERS CRITICIZE GOVERNMENT'S TRADE AREA ANNOUNCEMENT

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 31 May 85 p 4

[Text]

Indian traders have slammed the Government
announcement that any trading area may be
open to all races subject to approval by the
local authorities and Group Areas Board inves-
tigation, as “bogus talk”. : ae

Reacting to the news, the chairman ‘of the Mer-
chants Association in the Oriental Plaza, Mr Yusuf
Bhamijee, said: “Government talk is always with a
forked tongue. Indian traders will not benefit as
white interests are constantly safeguarded with Gov-
ernment legislation.”

The chairman of the Old Asian Bazaar Tenants
Traders Association in Pretoria, Mr Anver Osman,
argued that by taking into consideration thé local

. authorities which were
. often “verkrampte”, very
few trading areas would

be open in South Africa.
The traders claim they
have been hard hit by the
double-edged sword of
the recession and Gov-
ernment legislation
which has forced many of
them out of prime busi-

ness areas.

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58

Their plight was re-
vealed through a spot
survey by The Star in ~

. the Diagonal Street area...

‘of Johannesburg’ and
around Boom Street i
Pretoria. ,

Storeowners said ‘sales ~’,
‘had recently dropped by’
as much as 50 percent, ©
forcing them to reduce
stocks. _

Although prospects
were bleak, businessmen
said they could see no al-
ternatives. ae

“If we close, what
would we do as there aréTM’
no jobs anywhere,” said’
‘one. .

The traders are caught
in a vicious circle. Many
of their customers are
unemployed, and cannot
afford to pay the new,
12 percent General Sales
Tax.



REGIONAL SERVICES TO APPLY POLICY OF APARTHEID SAYS PFP.

Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 18 Jun 8 p4'-

[Text]

HOUSE . OF

tion of regional services
councils was to enable the
Government to apply its
apartheid policy at local
government level,
Colin Eglin (PFP Sea
Point) said.

Opposing the second
reading of the Regional

Services Council’s Bill, he’;

‘said the Government's

“obsession with racial ;

‘divisions” would result in
a mass of small, non-vi-
able, poorly-serviced and

inadequately staffed local -

authorities.

Mr Eglin moved as an
amendment that, while
recognising the need for
adequate services and fi-
nancial arrangements at
local government ‘level.
the House decline to pass
the second reading of the
Bill because it:

Decline’
@ Failed to provide a
sound basis to meet the
needs of local authorities

cso: 3400/484

AS- *
SEMBLY. — The main’
reason for the introduc- _

“had to be seen

and’ was designed to
implement apartheid poli-

cies;
@ Undermined admin-

“istration at local level and

gave authoritarian powers
to the central govern-
ment; and .

@ Introduced two new
forms of taxation while
the’ Margo Commission
was still investigating the
country’s tax’structure.

"Mr Eglin said the PFP

would have had “very
little. difficulty”’ in sup-
porting the Bill if its pur-
pose had been merely to

“ensure that adequate ser-

vices and finances were

“rotten foundation” of
the Government’s plans

for the future of local gov-

ernment.
There would be no
need for regional services

councils to coordinate the.

ision of services if
lodal authorities were not

82

forced by the Govern-

ment to operate on racial-
ly-segregated lines, Mr
Eglin said. .

“The Government is
putting its political preju-
dices at local authority le-
vel ahead of the interests
of the country.”

The PFP also opposed

the establishment of re.

jonal services councils
Because they would be
elected by the local auth-
orities and not by the

for whom. they

would have to provide »

services. :: ~

Mr Eglin said the Bill
put “extraordinary and
autocratic powers” in the

hands of the central gov-.

ernment.

Coercion.

This would “create an
element of coercion over
local government”,. lead
to uncertainty and weak-
en accountability. i

“People must feel they
control local government
and not that it is control-
led by the central govern-

IJPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985 -

“SOUTH AFRICA

ment,” Mr Eglin said.

Asa result of the scrap-
ping of provincial: coun-
cils, management .com-
mittees would no longer
be politically accountal

abnormal: - power
would be vested in the
provincial administrators,

‘who would have to act in

concurrencé only with the -

bi ?
oa Oininistrators would
be able to take away from
or give new powers to
local authorities “without
their approval, ~

In addition, ‘a two-
thirds majority vote of the
regional services councils
could be overruled by the
Minister of Finance or an
administrator on’ appeal
by any loéal authority.

“What kind of democ-

Tacy is this when outsiders

can reverse a d
without carrying the con-
sequences?”

The measure would
also prevent elections be-
ing held in September for
Indian » and : Coloured’
management committees.



JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

CAIA HELPS FARMERS IN NEW AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES
Beira DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE in Portuguese 30 May 85 p 4

[Text] The Angonia Agroindustrial Complex [CAIA] controls the family sector's
production on a large scale. This enterprise has been instilling among the .
peasants of Angonia district new agricultural techniques enabling them to
expand their production areas.

The farmers of the family sector settled in the localities of Tsangano,
Ntengombalame, Damue and Calomue, among others, are receiving technical
and moral support aimed at. improving the agricultural activity.

Nevertheless, throughout the past 2 years, CAIA has been starting an effort to
train organizers, forces which are currently addressing the problems affecting
the peasants.

To effectively control the productive activities, Angonia district was divided
into five zones of influence. Each one has its respective chief, with the
necessary facilities for properly performing the work to back the peasants.

At the present time, the CAIA enterprise has 255 organizers equitably distri-
buted among the zones of influence for which the enterprise is responsible.

In Angonia district, the organizers have already taken a survey of the existing
number of collective farms for the population, their areas and the leading
crops produced in that region of Tete Province. The survey of the peasants
who up until now have used animal hauling for farm activities was also taken
by the organizers, so as thereby to calculate the exact capacity of the family
sector producers, inasmuch as this sector is predominant.

All the organizers were given bicycles to ensure the publicizing of agricul-
tural techniques, in addition to mobilizing the peasants to.introduce new
crops. Meanwhile, the chiefs of zones of influence were given motorized
vehicles for better control of their zones.

Angonia district has favorable conditions for growing corn, potatoes, beans,
wheat, sunflowers, tobacco and other types of crops.

In the previous campaigns, there were reports in that northern region of Tete

of sizable amounts of farm products from the harvest which were subsequently
sold to the enterprise responsible for marketing in the province.

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Somalia:
Kenyat ¢

Tanzaniat

Mozambiquet

Madagascar:

Comoros:

Meuritiues

Seychelles:

Resources for combatting oil
pollution

——-

Nothing

Mombasa port (the sole port in the region
with an anti-pollution plan): one 1,500
metre confinement boom; 20U litres of
dispersant with a further two tons
available; portable sprays; barge; tug.
Mombasa refinery: 200 plastic bugs; four
tons of send; 200 litres of dispersant.

Dar es Salaam port: one recuperator (out
of order); one confinement boom
(unusable); 100 200 Litre barrels of
dispersant.

Dar es Salaam refinery: nothing.

Maputo port: nothing
Maputo refinery: nothing

Toamasina port: 400 litres of dispersant;

pump
Toamasina refinery: nothing

Ports: nothing
Storage tanks: nothing

Ports: nothing
Storage tank farms nothing
(Anti-pollution unit projected)

Victoria port: Two foam generating units;
1,500 litres of dispersant
Storage tank farm: nothing

(Sources UNEP yFeaionel seas report .N° 10, published
1982



JPRS~SSA~85~-063
18 July 1985

NAMIBIA

BRIEFS

WATER AFFAIRS PERSONNEL WITHDRAWN--The secretary for water affairs in South-
West Africa, Mr Jan Jordan, has announced that his department has withdrawn
all its personnel and equipment from the Calueque dam site in southern
Angola. Approached for comment in Windhoek, Mr Jordan said the step had
followed the withdrawal of South African forces from the area. The Calueque
scheme is part of the Ruacana hydroelectric project and supplies water to
central Ovambo. Mr Jordan made it clear that there was no danger of a water
shortage as alternative arrangements have been made. [Text]. [Johannesburg
Domestic Service in English 1115 GMT 13 Jun 85]

SWAPO SAYS FORMER OFFICIAL RETURNED--SWAPO sources in + Northern Namibia say
the former vice president of SWAPO has arrived back in Caprivi. Gwen Lister
reports: . [Lister] The sources say that the former exiled SWAPO vice presi-
dent, Meshak Mayongo, who now heads the Caprivi National Union, arrived in
the Caprivi about a week ago in order to lead a cessionist movement, A
constitution for the Caprivi has been drawn up and it is presently with the
administrator general for ratification. The Caprivi Strip, as it is known,
is rife with tension between SWAPO supporters and supporters of an ethnic
government,-and is also under tight military control. Both police and
military permits are needed for visitors and residents to enter the area.
SWAPO sourceés’claim that elections will be held in September for a new
government, and they add that Mayongo has arrived back in order to head a
movement which will call for the independence of Caprivi. ~ [Text] [Umtata
Capital Radio in ‘English 1900 GMT 13 Jun 85]

CSO: 3400/447

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@ Lumps of tar and industrial pollution

Despite this activity, it is odd that the western Indian Ocean has had to
wait such a long time for arrangements to combat pollution to be made, when the
area has the highest density.of oil tanker traffic after the Gulf, and where
other causes of pollution such as oil refining and above all prospecting are in
full swing.

Around 475 million tons of oil from the Middle East pass through the
Mozambique Channel every year, bound for the ports of western Europe and the
Americas. In 1982 the UNEP put at 5,200 the number of passages by oil tankers
though this part of the Indian Ocean every year. On average 224 such ships, 50
of them supertankers, meet each other every day. The annual wastage of crude
oil into the sea in normal circumstances is put at 32,500 tons, not counting
fuel lost from other ships. The Comoros suffer in particular from this
situation, as the main shipping lane used by the tankers passes between two
islands of the archipelago. Somalia and the Seychelles see parts of their
coasts invaded by lumps of tar formed from oil slicks floating offshore. The
very strict legislation in force in the Gulf means that those ships not
equipped to treat the water they use to rinse their tanks dump it at sea
beforehand. The Indian Ocean's numerous currents, which change with the
seasons, spread the oil slicks so formed across thousands of kilometres. During
the monsoon period, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique are also badly hit. .

Up to now, no_serious accident has caused an environmental disaster in this
area of the world. That is fortunate, when one realises that the countries of
the region are totally lacking in resources for tackling rampant pollution (see
table overleaf).

The regulations which will come into effect from June 22 will change the
situation radically. Common legislation, cohesive plans for Tntervention based
on the exchange of information between countries, and clearly defined
procedures with regard to responsibilities and financial reparations should
enable oil ‘pollution to be limited. Tourism, on which these countries depend
more and more to increase their foreign currency earnings, can only benefit
from such measures.

Marine pollution caused by the by-products of industry (slaughterhouses,
tanneries, sugar refineries, etc.) dumped directly into the sea or leached out
through the soil, and agriculture (pesticides) will also be subject to special
regulations in the future. To give some examples of cases, until recently the
Mogadishi slaughterhouse threw animal remains into the sea, attracting crowds
of sharks just off shore as Somalia was trying to develop tourism; this week
the Dar es Salaam authorities had to forbid sea bathing because the water was
contaminated by human excrement. Several countries of the region (Somalia,
Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar) have the common feature of their populations
and industry being concentrated on the coast. Under these circumstances, it is
clear that the fight against pollution can not be effective without a programme
to educate the people and make them aware, coupled with technical improvements
to installations and services.



lawsuit this size," extending his arms over 30 centimeters. At the ceremony
turning over the boat, Augusto expressed readiness to continue making -his
contribution "to the country's development, especially in the Marracuene area,"
and he also donated a check in the amount of 25,000 meticals to support the

25 June celebrations.

He also said that he was ready to purchase boats and to keep a navigation line
open for passengers and cargo between Maputo and that area.

The vice minister of merchant marine pledged full support in the feasibility
study on the project, the type of vessel to the introduced and the setting
of priority in the purchase of equipment.

Isaias Muhale also visited the ferry boat that is making the crossing with
vehicles in that area, and is immobilized for repairs. This transportation:
unit is essential to the area's development and’ belongs to the River Enterprise.
According to the technicians, its repair on site, in addition to being delayed,
is insufficient. In fact, the entire structure of the vessel is completely
rotted and requires special care which only a capable enterprise will be able

to provide.

Hence, the vice minister of merchant marine informed the local authorities that
an immediate study would be conducted to make these repairs possible and to
find alternatives (while these are going on) for continuing to transport
vehicles between the two shores of the N'Komati. .

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what it says will happen when some-
body does try to look in a bottlé with
both eyes but I am sure our elders can
finish it for you.

Since you are trying to do the un-
thinkable and it looks like you are
going to pull it off, the least you can do
is to ask to be called ‘Mister’. We in
civvy street are quite satisfied with it
and it has a leveller tone which appeals
to the classless nature in us. Mister has
the added advantage of temporarily
camouflaging the in-built and weighted
advantages that you have over your op-
ponents in this most unequal contest.

And you know of course that in the
medical field, ‘Mister’ has an elevated
ring to it. A man qualifies as a medical
doctor and is called ‘Dr.’ and when
from there he qualifies as a full-fledged
surgeon, he becomes a ‘Mr.’

You can take it that the ‘Mr.’ is your
crowning glory, ‘Mr. President’ has a
more authentic ring than Gen. Presi-
dent or whatever, and you can be sure
that nobody is trying to make fun of

you.

Ido admit, however, that there is the
bizarre case in Ghana when after he
had been overthrown in a palace coup
by his colleagues, as PUNISHMENT
for his crimes against the nation, his
colleagues decreed that Gen. Kutu
Acheampong should henceforth be
known and called ‘Mr. Acheampong’.
We in civvy street never could make
that one out and we felt quite angry
that the title we carry with so much
pride was being used as a punishment.
In your case of course, it would be a
totally different thing, you would have
decreed it yourself.

I am sorry I did not get very much
beyond the subject of how you should
be addressed, but I will write again. -

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Ohene.

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JPRS~SSA-85-063
18 July 1985

CAMEROON

BRIEFS

FINANCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED--Two loan agreements involving the sum of ‘about
11 billion CFA francs were signed this morning between Cameroon and Switzer-
land. The agreements were signed at the Ministry of Planning and Terri-—
torial Development in Yaounde. The amount will be used to finance develop-
ment projects in priority sectors such as rural development, communication
infrastructure, water supply and energy resources. The Canadian Ambassador
to Cameroon, Jacques Rial, signed for his country, while Youssoufa Daouda,
minister of state for planning and territorial development, signed for
Cameroon. [Excerpts] [Yaounde Domestic Service in French 1200 GMT 11 Jun

85]

CSO: 3400/448

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CUSA's Camay Reviews Future of Union
(Z.B. Molefe, Moira Levy; CITY PRESS, 9 Jun 85) aeccccceeee

Inkatha's Power Struggle Erupts
(Sibusiso Mngadi; CITY PRESS, 9 Jun 85)...scceseccessesoes

“Buthelezi Says Numerical Strength Is Black's Real Power

(THE CITIZEN, 20 Jun 85).ccesccsscccccccccccccscsesccccees

ARMSCOR To Increase Exports, Save Arms Industry
(David Cumming; THE SUNDAY STAR, 9 Jun 3) eer

Possible Alliance of Anti-Apartheid Political Parties Seen
(SOWETAN, 10 Jun 85).sscscccccccccccccccsccvcccccvessceres

Black Sash Urges Political Rights at 30th Anniversary Meeting
(Mzikayise Edom; SOWETAN, 10 Jun 85)..scccccssssececcccers

Despite Relaxation on Influx Control, Victims See No Hope
(Sefako Nyaka; SOWETAN, 14 Jun [3 De eee

Three Hitmen Exposed
(Ali Mphaki; SOWETAN, 20 Jun 85).cccccsescvscccceccccceces

Briefs
Townships Want More Police Pressure
Arms Company Develops Machine Gun
Norwegian Government Restricts Trade
Comments on Inkatha
Sofasonke Party Supporter Arrested
Monitoring Points To Increase

SWAZILAND

Bhekimpi Urges OAU To Set Politics Aside
(THE SWAZI OBSERVER, 13 Jun 85)sseccccscccccccesccrevseccs

Princess Recounts Police Interrogation
(Desmond Blow; CITY PRESS, 9 Jun 85).scececesceesccesesers

TANZANIA ;

Zanzibar Transportation Rehabilitation Receives Priority
(Habbi Gunze; DAILY NEWS, 7 Jun 85)..ccececsccsecccececece

' Food Cultivation on Isles Expanding

(Habbi Gunze; DAILY NEWS, 6 Jun 85).ssccceesesssevceoeeces

New Fabric Plant Production Slated for Export
(Daniel Mshana; DAILY NEWS, 6 Jun 85).ccccessseveeeevcvees

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"I swore on the name of my grandfather, King Mbandzeni, that I had never
been in any of ‘Dr Nxumalo's homes since ‘the time of the prime minister,
Prince Makhosini." : .

The printess summoned me to Swaziland this week to have "the truth published
about’ the allegations against her, other royal princes’ and the fivé treason
accused--Dr Nxumalo, former police chief Titus Msibi, former Deputy Police
Commissioner Edgar Hillary, former Army Chief Mangomeni Ndzimandze and
former Major Abednigo Dlamini. :

"The police first camé’to my house in April. “ Eight men stood guard outside
and six’ came in with Assistant Commission Mgwembe Dlamini," she said.

“He insisted on talking to me alone and said: ‘We were sent to search for
documents you"made with prince Dumise to move Dr Msibi and Mr Mabela from”

the Ligoqgo.'
"They searched everywhere in all the bedrooms, all the cupboards, a kist in

my bedroom and in all my files, but they did not find what they were looking
for.

"after two hours I gave them all tea, even those guarding outside. They
were very polite and respectful.

"A few weeks later the Manzini station commander, Mr Maseko, and three
policemen came to tell me the police commissioner wanted me to report at
the police headquarters at Mbabane the next day at 10 a.m.

"TI told them to tell the commissioner to send me a car, which drove me
there.

"] was taken to an office and sat at a table surrounded by three black
policemen and three white men one of whom, I understand, was Mr Janson.

"Mr Janson questioned me through an interpreter and asked about meetings at
my house with Prince Dumise, Dr Nxumalo, Prince Gabeni and Prince Sabandla
and about documents typed in my. house,

“He asked whether we were drafting papers to dismiss the Liqogo and I denied
it.

"T said the only document that was typed was a press statement prepared by
Prince Dumise for Prince Sozisa, denying a statement by Prince Mfanasibili
about a coup.

"It was typed by Mr Mdniso, private secretary for the late King.

“The documents were sent to the press but were never published. Mr Janson
had these documents and I identified them.”

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4. jthe systematic dismantling and ultimate scrapping of the racial zoning law;
and:

5. The granting of full citizenship rights to Blacks based on domicile.
The principle of domicile must also serve as a basis for the inclusion of
Blacks at local and intermediary government levels.

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CSO: 3401/220

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against our country, by reducing the trade that had traditionally been carried
out through the port of Maputo, and that, at approximately the ‘same time ,period,
Mozambique, in fulfillment of the UN's decisions, closed its borders with Ian
Smith's rebel Rhodesia.

He noted that, in addition to the acts of aggression against the sector's
infrastructures by Ian Smith's regime, this decision was reflected in the
decline in international trade. It is estimated that the damage’ stemming
from this amounted to nearly $500 million, borne exclusively by our country.
He added: "This situation contributed to the reduction in the wages of the
port workers of Beira and Maputo, while the railway workers, especially on
the Limpopo line and others, confronted this situation at a risk to their
very lives."

Upon the independence of Zimbabwe, and to satisfactorily meet the trade
needs of this country, resulting from the reopening of the border, large
investments were made, with the acquisition of 45 GE diesel locomotives from
Brazil, 32 DH diesel locomotive and 60 coaches from Romania,.168 fork lifts
of various capacities for the dock platform and holds, four vedettes for the
pilotage and 18 different types of equipment for the ports.

The investments made in that sector, combined with the organizational measures
that have been introduced, began to be reflected in the gradual recovery of
the trade volumes starting in 1979,. culminating in 1981 with total receipts,
in foreign exchange, amounting to $130 million.

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and maritime, military or requisitioned,
enabled these units to be rapidly deployed if
necessary.

French disengagement from its former
colonies took place with varying degrees of
haste. This enabled the creation of national
armed forces who at the outset were
provided with substantial French aid. These
guarantors of independence showed
themselves to be worthy of the important
task conferred upon them. The strategy
chosen at the time by France enabled it to
limit its military presence to a minimum,
thus ensuring that it did not become
involved in internal struggles that did not
concern it. Due to this situation, and despite
certain risks, countries such as Mali, Benin or
the Congo were able to develop independent
policies that were not always in keeping with
French interests. This position of a low
military profile was backed by close
economic and cultural cooperation between
France and African countries.

Evolution

Over the years, however, the revolution in
Madagascar and continuing conflicts in Chad
had a detrimental effect on the network of
support points France had established in
Africa. The level of danger also increased
with the growing power of African armies in
Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria and
South Africa. This, coupled with the
heightened East-West tensions on the
continent, led France to readapt its
strategies. Abandoning Diego-Suarez and
Fort-Lamy, French forces established new
support points. In the Indian Ocean, Reunion
Island and its forward post, the Comores,
served as relays for the French fleet, which
had for several years been flying the French
flag between the Red Sea and the
Mozambique canal. In central Africa, the
base at Bouar in the Central African Republic
replaced Ndjamena, with logistic and aerial
support coming from Gabon. France thus
reconstituted its strategic network, providing
a structure for its rapid intervention force,
the 11th Division along with the 6th and Sth
Divisions. This put it in a position to
effectively counter potential threats that had
increased in power. French aerial and naval
support networks were added quickly
demonstrating their effectiveness.

A legal basis was also established,
consisting of bilateral defence agreements.
These agreements: between the French
Armed Forces and the signatory nations — at
present between eight and 10 — authorize
French forces to engage in operations .in
these countries, as was recently underscored
by French President Frangois Mitterrand

during a meeting in Bujumbura.

Military cooperation agreements with 24
African countries also facilitate maintaining
their national forces in operational condition
and allow them to more effectively fulfill
their respective missions. All of this has led
to the creation in Africa of a vast network of
independent French-speaking nations linked
to France by an intimate mesh of bilateral
and regional agreements. This network is
aimed at preserving the stability and balance
in Africa that is essential to economic
development. An organization such as this
has understandably also attracted a number
of neighbooring nations who recognized the
important advantages it implies.

Extension

Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi were the first
to see the benefits of establishing closer ties
with France. They have signed civil and
military cooperation agreements with Paris
and have associated themselves with the
French-speaking African community. The
French interventions in Shaba along with
Belgian troops showed the importance of
this decision, which may well have
preserved the unity of the Zairean nation.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau; both
Portuguese-speaking countries, also decided
to strengthen their links with France, which
now plays an important role in equipping
their armed forces. This will undoubtedly
open the way to closer cooperation with
Mozambique and Angola. The former very
recently became a signatory of the Lome Ill
Convention, which ties the European
Economic Community to countries in Africa,
the Caribean and the Pacific. Mauritius too
has signed cooperation agreements, while
Malawi and the Seychelles benefit from
certain facilities. Spanish-speaking
Equatorial Guinea recently entered the franc
zone.

“In going beyond its traditional scope of
influence, France has extended its activities
to the entire African continent. The recent
Bujumbura summit meeting, held last
December. 12, clearly underlines this
increase in the number of countries involved
with France.

Also unlike the Soviet Union and the
United States, Paris does not wish to place
its different activities within the context of
East-West competition. On the contrary,
France would like to initiate a more profound
North-South dialogue between
industrialized and developing nations in
order to further the economic development
of the latter. Given the present situation in
Africa, this attitude has earned France



"Portugal: should pay us, because we are going about spreading the Portuguese
language in the world," remarked the Mozambican leader, jokingly. It was
his first discussion of the topic, expressing a completély new concept of the
sense and value of certain words, lending them a deeply human content.

It was at. the end of the banquet tendered him by the Nautical School's
administration and workers that President Samora Machel remarked, informally:

"In this room all of us understand each other in Portuguese. The People's
Republic of Mozambique has been a great disseminator of the Portuguese language.

"We in Mozambique even created the radio program "The Meaning of Words,‘ to
teach Portuguese. In Portugal there is no "meaning of words," the "meaning of
words" in the political, grammatical, morphological, syntactical, ideological,
economic, cultural and social sense.

"The term 'friendship' in Mozambique has a different meaning... it is not the one
in the Portuguese grammar or in the dictionary of the Portuguese language. It
is not.

"'solidarity' does not have the same meaning that is in the dictionary from
which I learned Portuguese. They taught me in Portugal that ‘solidarity' was
an abstract noun. But in Mozambique the term 'solidarity' is a concrete,
palpable noun.

"These are matters that we should consider. We speak Portuguese, but there is
a difference; our Portuguese is different.

"In Portugal, ‘love’ is an abstract noun. In Mozambique, "love' is concrete
and palpable. There are many other words: ‘beauty,’ for example. We say that
"there is beauty there," because we see it and sense it.

"There are different concepts in our Portuguese. There are concepts and there
are principles. The semantic issue is something else. Pronunciation is not

. what counts. To us, what counts is the aesthetics of the language. Language
is the same, as in mathematics: two plus two is necessarily four. But the
concepts and principles are different.

"We have come to inaugurate this school, which contains all this. It contains
love, brotherhood, friendship, solidarity. The first thing that I asked was
the. nationalities of those working here. They told me: "Look there is friend-
ship, there is solidarity.'

"Solidarity is possible only where there is peace; it is possible only where
thete is progress, prosperity and understanding.

“But 'solidarity' can also be artificial. And then it means that it was created
by man, and men pass, they are temporary. In this country, the relations between
individuals do not count. What counts are the relations between peoples, and
peoples never die.

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BUTHELEZI SAYS NUMERICAL STRENGTH IS BLACK'S REAL POWER
Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 20 Jun 85 p 10

[Text]

AMATIGULU YOUTH CAMP.
— Black South Africa’s real power
did not lie in “guns and bombs” but
in its numerical strength, the Chief
Minister of Kwazulu and president

of Inkatha, Chief Mangosuthu Bu-

thelezi, said yesterday.

Addressing an audience at the
Amatigulu youth camp, Chief Bu-
thelezi said Blacks in South Africa

“dominate. numerically every-

where”.

“Blacks are all-powerful as work- |

ers and consumers and this fact de-
mands the use of politics and not
bombs to achieve victory.

“The real power of Black South |

Africa is only employable in non-vi-
olent tactics and strategies, and this

“is why Inkatha is committed to non-''

violence,” the Chief said. *
1 Condemning “Black on Black vie
olence” in townships around the
country, Chief Buthelezi said Black
"anger at apartheid had to be con-
served and “employed with all the
wisdom we can muster”. -
He_ condemned ast | week’s
SADF raid on alleged African Nat-
ional Congress targets in Botswana
but said he was not blind to the fact
that South Africa’s Defence Force
, was capable and “very willing” to
* make cross-border raids.

'
t
t
i
i

“The totality of: international
opinion will not deter them, and
there is no army in the whole of
Southern Africa capable of deter-

i ‘ring them,” he said.

Yet thousands of young men and
women “sit in training camps in

» Africa who can never be employed
* in the armed struggle because there

novarined struggle”:”

“Now that this is becoming clear
to everybody, there are those who
are using what arms they have
against their fellow Blacks simply
because they cannot face the might
of the South African Army and

; they are looking for what appears
» to be easy options,” the Chief said.

“A wise general does not send his
battalions into suicidal action, and
this is just what those who cham-
pion the armed struggle are doing.”

President Samora Machel of Mo-
zambique had — “no coward” and
aman regarded as a “Mozambican
hero” — hiid asked the ANC to

+ withdraw all combatants from his

country and leave only a token pol-

| itical presence because of the futili-

ty of the armed struggle against:
Satheatica ce Sapa .

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TRANSKEL GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING BY CALLOUS OFFICIALS CONDEMNED

Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 2 Jun 85 p 4

[Commentary by Percy Qoboza: Percy's Itch column]

[Text]

HE Government
created its banana’,
republics such as.
the Transkei. And;
now it’ should take:
stern action to control
their untenable. and
gluttonous overspend-
ing. : :
Their high-living appe-
tites are hitting our poc-
Kets, and there is no way
this country’s people can
‘perpetually go on sub-
‘sidising this irresponsible
-overspending.
: For all his extravagance and
erratic ways, old Lennox Sebe
has shown some strange love
for the trappings of
including a personal jet so bi;
no airport in the Ciskei coul
‘accommodate it,

To make sure he keeps the jet,
he went onan ambitious scheme to
build an airport in the middle of
nowhere. Hopefully the outcry fol-
lowing this decision has helped
curb his taste for the extremes. .

Tam now told by friends that the
recession which’ has'left so many :
people unemployed in the country,

- has not affected the vast workforce
in the Ciskei,

wer — .

87

Friends tell me that Dimbaza —

the mention of which sent tempers _

shooting up a few years ago — is
now a haven of economic activity,

that would turn a lot of areas in the |

PWV pink with envy. ;
T may just have to go down there
one of these days to see how Sebe
got it right. .
Mmabatho in
tswana is a miracle of our times.
Not so long ago, I-remember, the
present Mmabatho was a small
township called Montshiwa — an
enclave that lied the town of
_ Mafeking with its labour needs.
"Today Mmabatho has become,
such a massive row of fancy houses
,that the white towh of Mmabatho
Shas become a slum compared toits'
‘ growing nearby sister.
But that does not mean the mira-j
cle has permeated throughout the
/-bantustan.” °
Hunger, disease and deprivation
still stal many people in the rural
* areas. The affluence of the politi-
* cians —like in the Transkei -— does
not reflect the poverty of their sub-
jects. . :

W.. upsets .me about the

‘Transkei is the glaring. wastage of

public funds by callous officials

who have done nothing to le

Job-creating opportunities for their
le. :

“”. As reported in our second edi-
tion'on Sunday, the Transkei gov-
ernment overspent.by a massive
R16-million — according to a

Bophutha-



Agreements between France and Africa

Defence agreements

Country Date signed
‘Cameroon 2.21.1974
‘Comores 14.10.1978
Ivory Coast 4.24.1961
Djibouti 6.27.1977
Gabon 8.17.1960
Central African Republic 8.13.1960
Senegal 3.1974
Togo 7.10.1963

(Technical military assistance agreements

Algeria 12.6,1967 - 7.21.1983
Benin 2.27.1975
Burkina Faso 4.24,.1961
Burundi 5.31.1974 - 6.5.1974
‘Cameroon 1960 - 2.21.1974
‘Comores 8.4.1974 - 11.10.1978
‘Congo 1, 1.1974
Ivory Coast 4,24.1961
Djibouti 68.27.1977
Gabon 8.17.1960
Madagascar 6. 4.1973
Mali 10.14.1977
Morocco 3.19.1973
Mauritius 10.25.1979
Mauritania 9. 2.1976
Niger 2.19.1977
Central African Republic B.13.1960
Rwanda 718.1975
Senegal 33.29.1974
Seychelles 1, 5.1979
Chad 3, 6.1976- 3.23.1976- 5. 2.1973 (1)
and 13.11.1973 (1)
Togo 38.23.1976
Tunisia 1973
Zaire 5.22.1974
11) Health cooperation agreements
[Technical cooperation agreements
Libya 1978 (1)
Malawi 4983 (2)

(1) Maintenance for Mirage aircraft
(2) Helicopter support services

Maintained stability
despite economic threats

Well aware of the dangers of remaining
isolated, African nations have concluded a
number of bilateral agreements with one
another and have grouped together in
considerable praise, particularly considering
the large percentage of its gross national
product that it spends on aid to Third World
nations: the 1983 figure was 0.75 % of the

7

GNP, including it overseas departments and
territories, and 0.49% excluding them
(USSR: 0.19 %, USA: 0.27%; source 1984
OECD report). It is thus normal that France
should find itself at the head of a group of
independent nations striving to concentrate
more on economic development than on
ideological conflicts.



INKATHA'S POWER STRUGGLE ERUPTS
Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 9 Jun 85 p 3

[Article by Sibusiso Mngadi]

[Text]

cso:

- THE
struggle within In-

POWER

katha took a violent

: turn this week when

Inkatha “heavies”
— including tribal
chiefs from Ulundi
— were attacked by
the Youth Brigade

during party elec-

tions in Kwa-

Mashu.

The meeting — held
at KwaMashu C, Sec-
tion Hall and
punctuated by. heckles
and boo’s — (was
brought to a standstill
when a woman held one
of the visiting officials,
Prince Gideon Zulu, by
his shirt-front because
his delegation failed to

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give satisfactory
answers. -
‘Then youths started throw-

ing stones, joining others who
had been barred from enter-
ing the hall.

People inside the hall went
for cover, watching helplessly
as window panes were
smashed, .

‘The exchange of stones and
abusive language lasted 20
minutes, when new consti-
tuency chairman W Jwara
managed to call the cops —
who eventually brought calm.

This week’s clash follows

another violent’ scene last
month when a meeting called
by KwaMashu mayor Esther
‘Africa was disrupted by a
spear and ierie-wielding fac-
tion, led by KwaZulu MP and
Inkatha Central Committee
member Francis Dlamini.
. Mr Dlamini’s controversial
interim committee has since
been disbanded on orders
from Ulundi.

But the infighting con-
tinues.

City Press couldn't get
comment from Mr Jwara.

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BLACK SASH URGES POLITICAL RIGHTS AT 30TH ANNIVERSARY MEETING
Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 10 Jun 85 p 3
{Article by Mzikayise Edom]

[Text]

THE LACK of politi-
cal rights for everyone
in South Africa is the
cause of the present
unrest in the black
townships, Mrs Molly
Blackburn of the
Black Sash said yes-
terday.

Mrs Blackburn was

speaking at a ceremony
organised by the Black
Sash held at Khotso
House, Johannesburg,
to recall 30 years of its
existence.

About 100 people at-

tended, :

Other speakers in-
cluded Mr Benjamin Po-
grund, a journalist and
Mrs Sheena Duncan,
the national president of
Black Sash.

She said peace will |

only be restored in this
country when all its citi-
zens are given equal
rights. .

She also said it was
clear that people in. the

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townships were totally
against local-authorities.
“The town or com-
munity council ‘system
has been rejected by the
people and there is no
way that they can
change their attitudes
against these struc-
tures,” Mrs Blackburn
said.

She said: ‘‘While
councillors have been
tejected by the people,

civic organisations have |

grown in strength and

now, even in the small- |
est community, real.

leadership is emerging
to spell out the griev-
ances and demands of
the people.”

Speaking on the pre-
sent Azapo/UDF con-
flict in Port Elizabeth,

Mrs Blackburn said: |

“Both groups need to
come together to solve
their differences.”

The tragedy of forced
removals was shown

98

through a slidé presenta-
tion. Guests at the meet-
ing were informed that
over the past 20 years,
the South African Gov-
ernment has forcibly
moved over 3,5 million
people in the implemen-
tation of apartheid.

In terms of present

. Plans, according to a

” slide presentation, a fur-

ther two million people
are threatened with re-
moval.

The Black Sash was
formed in 1955 by a
group of white women

“S voters to protest against

the removalof

coloureds from the com-
mon voters roll. It
‘started as the Women’s
Defence of the Consti-
tution League, but the
women changed the
name to Black Sash be-
cause of the black sashes
they wore to mourn the

, death of the consti-
‘ tution.



BLUEPRINT FOR MULTI-RACIAL REGIONAL GOVERNMENT EXAMINED

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 6 Jun 85 p 17

[Text]

If Constitutional
Development and
Planning Minister Mr
Chris Heunis gets his
way in Parliament this
month, blacks will for
the first time sit with
whites, coloured
people and Indians to
plan the overall
development of the
communities in which
they live.

But these same blacks
will still have no direct
access to central
government.

They will remain
governed by the Group
Areas Act and will
continue to be without
‘any parliamentary
vote.” :

Some politicians and
community leaders are
already asking ~
whether this is.not a
gigantic hoax designed
to entrench apartheid

"in the guise of reform.

They claim the
Government's plan to
phase out State
subsidies and finance
community services
with locally-raised
taxes will hammer
already overtaxed

“ communities.

They doubt the
Government's *
contention that the

* new local government
system will

_ automatically improve
i the environment of our
communities. Q
* For their part, Mr Heunis
and his team of
planners say the new
multi-racial initiative
i isa bold attempt to
i restructure our society
! from grass-roots level.
! They say it will improve
community services by
providing additional
sources of revenue to
. all sectors of society,
. while at the same time
giving all races equal
+ political rightsin
“regional we
, decision-making.
While the structure itself
will change, some new
1. faces emerge; the bus
drivers, the
meter-maids, the
town/community
councillors and the
» water and light bills
will look much the
same.
But they will almost cer-
i; tainly cost more and at
the same time there
; will be a difference in
| who pulls the strings.
+ The Government wants
| | to divide the entire
| country, its cities and
| rural areas into
regions, each headed
+ by a regional services
council.
‘Its members will be
appointed from

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councillors nominated
by each of the elected
local authorities for all
races within the
region.

!

Farmer and farm worker +

associations and
communities not
viable enough for
municipal status could

~ also sit on the regional
services councils.

‘Draft legislation allows

‘ yegional services,

‘© @ouneil jurisdiction to”

‘cut across homeland.
boundaries and even to
include parts of
independent states __

* “such as .
Bophuthatswana or the
Ciskei.

These regional .
councillors will be
working out a common
policy on matters such
as fares and routes for
public transport; land
usage; water and
electricity; health
services; roads and
traffic; refuse and
sewerage disposal.

They will even decide
where we should be
buried or cremated
and whether we can all

__ Share these facilities.

They will be able to plan
infrastructural
development or
improve existing

facilities, and will take —

control of abattoirs,

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fresh produce markets,
libraries, parks and
recreational facilities,
environmental
conservation and
tourism.

In fact they could be in-
volved with anything
the central

government decides is.

“a matter that concerns

their region asa
. whole.

But at this stage, at least,
multi-racialism will
extend only as far as
the State President
and his Cabinet want it
to. :

* Local groups remain

divided into separate
racial entities and we,
the people who elect
them, will continue to
be governed in terms
of our own affairs.
Government spokesmen

acknowledge that the
virtual collapse of the
community council
structure in black
townships poses one of
the major stumbling
blocks to the regional
services council
programme.

ut they claim the new
system of local
government will
generate more funds
for black community
development, making
them more effective
and consequently more



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CABINET RESHUFFLE INCLUDES 2°NON-WHITE DEPUTY MINISTERS
Cape Town DIE BURGER in Afrikaans 3 Jun 85 p 6
{Editorial: "The New Team"]

[Text] The changes in the cabinet announced by the state president succeed in
meeting the demand for new talent with particular experience at the pinnacle
of national government.

“One of the most interesting aspects of the new appointments is that of the
first non-White deputy ministers. Mr L. T. Landers and Mr S. V. Naicker are
in charge of the general affairs portfolios of population development and en-
vironmental affairs, respectively, which underscores the fact that the era of
bearing joint responsibility is definitively replacing the time when Whites
alone made decisions for others in this country.

Mr Landers will act as deputy to Dr Willie van Niekerk, who will head the Min-
istry of National Health and Population Planning. This isa significant step
with respect to the alarmingly high rate of population growth among people who
can least afford it. Dr Van Niekerk will be able to fall back on the valuable
experience that he gained in the demanding post of administrator general of
South-West Africa.

The other new cabinet members are Mr Eli Louw, who will be directly connected
to the Office of the State President, and Mr Stoffel Botha, who gets the Min-
istry of Home Affairs. As a promising Cape Province politician, Mr Louw has
been under consideration for advancement. for some time, while the Natal NP
[National Party] leader is also being assigned heavier responsibilities.

Another provincial leader who is affected is Minister F. W. de Klerk. The
appointment of the Transvaal NP leader‘as chairman of the Ministers' Council of
the House of Assembly results in heightened esteem for this body, while he will
retain the general affairs portfolio of national education in the cabinet. The
two newcomers on the Ministers’ Council, Dr De Villiers Morrison and Mr Piet
Clase, bring to the council proven experience in their respective areas, health
and education and culture.

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LIBERTA

CRITICISMS LEVELED AT DOE

Doe Compared to Tolbert

London TALKING DRUMS in English 13 May 85 p 9

[Article by K. P. Kollie]

[Text]

Doe celebrated his 5th anniversary of
the bloody coup that toppled the
Tolbert government on April 12, 1985,
and the jubilation that greeted the
former’ Master-Sergeant and his 12
colleagues on that day demonstrated
that the euphoria is long gone, fading
away into clouds of political and
economic uncertainties. The country is
definitely worse off than it was under
William Tolbert.

“If Tolbert were alive and stood for
election against Samuel Doe, the
former would win with a landslide’’,
said one University student acitivist
who was jailed several times under the
Tolbert regime. And this is a fact!

Although Tolbert was far from a
saint when it came to political and civil
liberties, Doe has made him look like
one. Students, especially those from
the now wrecked University of Liberia
were Tolbert’s arch enemies. They led
demonstrations and mobilized the
people, thus encouraging the military
to seize power.

But the late President, despite what
at times seemed to -be outright
provocations, never sent a student to
the notorious Belle Yalla Prison
located in the high forest of the
country which is only accessible by air.
No student was sentenced to death for
a written appeal to government and
Tolbert never ordered the army to
invade the University with the
accompanying result of death, rape
and rampage. These acts are all to
Doe’s credit (discredit?).

12

Besides, despite his obvious greed
for wealth, Tolbert never executed
anyone for political reasons.’“Under
Doe, “according to his now ‘exiled
Commanding General and colleague in
the 1980 coup, Thomas Quiwonkpa,
there have been many secret
executions. apart from his five
colleagues who were tried by the
Kangaroo. Military Tribunal and
executed for allegedly plotting to
overthrow him (Doe).

The obvious and _ blatant
multiplication of political crimes which
Tolbert was accused of, led a local
newspaper ‘to recently publish all the
initial decrees passed by the then.
People’s Redemption Council. Under
the caption ‘‘There is a Law”, the
paper published decrees dealing with
penalties for corruption, for the
monopolisation of political power by
one group, etc. It was an indirect
reminder to Doe that he is outdoing
Tolbert in the issuing of decrees for
political and economic offences. There
are reasons: Doe’s National
Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL)
has become the defacto government,
which determines who gets
employment, receives contracts, and
other benefits. Anyone serving in
government is automatically an NDPL
member. Arbitrary arrests and
imprisonment of Opponents have
become institutionalized.

During the trial of a Liberian
People’s Party member Dusty
WoloKollie, one of the witnesses for



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18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

ARMSCOR TO INCREASE EXPORTS, SAVE ARMS INDUSTRY

Johannesburg THE SUNDAY STAR [FINANCE] in English 9 Jun 85 p 5

{Article by David Cumming]

[Text]

cso:

ARMSCOR intends carving a
sizeable niche for itself in
the arms-export business —
and at the same time it will
keep the South African arms

‘industry afloat in the face of —

shrinking local demand.
Armscor chairman Com-
mandant Piet Marais is confi-
dent this target will be
achieved, particularly in the
light of its performance dur-

\

This would also have im-
portant implications for the
South African economy at

large. There were more than -

800 contractors in the private
sector supplying Armscor,

. and the industry employed

more than 80 000 people. Arm-
scor demand had important
spinoffs for industry at large.

prove productivity and quali-
ty control to levels not nor-
mally regarded as being pos-
sible in South African indus-
try.

“There is a belief in indus-
that the standard of local
labour is such that it is impos-
sible to achieve certain levels

We differ. If the correct trai
ing is applied these high cri-

ing its first three years in the cr
export market. “For instance, the seamless teria are indeed attainable,
‘swe find ourselves in the soft-drink can would not have Handicap

same position as the young,
golfing dominee who scores a
hole-in-one — on a Sunday.
, We are proud of our achieve-
ments but by the very nature
of our business we can’t boast
of them,” he said this week.

Necessity

There was no sign that the
international arms embargo
against South Africa would be
lifted in the foreseeable fu-

ure.
‘This made it a matter of stra-
tegic necessity to maintain a
local arms industry:
However, since SADF de-
mands were dropping in line
with the success of peace ini-
tiatives, an assault on export
markets was the only way to
achieve this aim.

3400/485

been available locally if our
demand for the steel it re-
quires did not make it viable
for Iscor to produce it.

“The electronics industry, -

similarly, would not have

- been anywhere near as ad-

vanced as it now is, had it not
been for our needs,” said

_ Cmdt Marais.

The world weapons market
was highly competitive and
specialised. South Africa
found itself competing with
countries such as the US, Can-
ada, Britain, Italy, France,
Switzerland, Germany, Bel-
gium, Italy, Ysrael and Russia.

The only way it had been
able to compete was to im-

95

South Africa faced an addi-
tional handicap in world mar-
kets because it was regard-
ed as being part of Africa — a
continent not normally rated
as a source of high-technology
products.

However, its unveiling of
the G5 cannon and a frequen-
cy-hopping radio in Athens
had done much to dispel that
image. Armscor now had a
team of experienced market-
ing men who were placing the
industry firmly on the map.

Armscor had literally thou-
sands of products and compo-
nents in its export catalogue,
said Cmdt Marais.



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

MALI

BRIEFS

JAPANESE AID FOR WELLS--Bamako, June 30 (AFP)--Japan donated. 500 million yen
(two million dollars) to Mali yesterday for 120 wells to provide water in the
north-west of the drought-stricken West African country. The project is for
the Gao region, the worst hit by the drought. The gift was ratified in an
exchange of notes here between Foreign and International Cooperation Minister
Alioune Blondin Beye and Tokyo's ambassador Manabu Yamamoto. [Text] [Paris
AFP in English 0929 GMT 30 Jun 85 AB]

cso: 3400/530

17



The stiffening of the black response will naturally be followed by other
retaliatory measures, which we are sure the world will absorb. There is
talk too, significantly raised in the American WALL STREET JOURNAL that
South African companies, and presumably financial institutions from
countries other than America and say Australia, are waiting "like vultures"

to get hold of the investments that will be relinquished by the Americans if
they pulled out.

As in other forms of sanctions, in particular the arms embargo, the argument
goes that South Africa will then become self sufficient, meet her own needs
out of her own efforts.

That is probably also true. But what we believe is going to hurt most is
the isolation syndrome that will be created around white South Africa.
There is no doubt that most people hate to be shunned.

Apart from the fact that white South Africa plaintively and often in-
dignantly tried to justify its privilege and power, they also wish to be
seen as part of the West. To be isolated is like a slap in the face, the
type of exercise, we believe, that turned white Rhodesia into a rather
pitiful group of hardliners with no discernible friends in the world.

We can assure the government that this feeling of hatred against a country
becomes infectious. Soon this country will really become the leper of the
world. Soon all sorts of restrictions, physical, mental and psychological
will be placed against us. The only solution to the mess is for the govern-
ment to change its laws and change them structurally.

CSO: 3400/459

46



JPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

CUSA'S CAMAY REVIEWS FUTURE OF UNION

Johannesburg CITY PRESS in English 9 Jun 85 p 5

[Article by Z.B. Molefe and Moira Levy]

[Text]

outh Africa can no
longer afford to ignore

the voice of the trade

_ union movement —
both now and in future, says
Council of Unions of SA
eneral secretary Piroshaw

‘amay.

“There is a difference between
ythe workers of today and the
‘workers of 1960. Today’s workers

have lived through 1976, and they
have became leaders of the trade .
union movement.
* “Therefore, the role of today’s trade

unions has changed a great deal since the
Wiehahn Commission legislation.

“At that time, employers thought ‘let us
ive the structures to black workers and
fen see what happens’. And I think the
move at the time was motivated more by
: thoughts that black workers could not get
by on their own. .

*<Gusa has proved that wrong. We had
39 000 workers in 1979-1980 when Cusa
was established. Now we have 50 000.

“We didn't achieve that because of
Wiehahn — we went out and talked to in-
dustries. There is mining, where for over a
century workers were not 01 nised. And
we have done an effective job there.

“If you look at the transport and ¢ chemi-

cal industries, Cusa has made trenfendous
strides. We ‘are concentrating on the

“Community affairs — including influx
control and transport — cannot be de-
scribed as matters ‘outside the factory

; floor’. Companies don’t exist in isolation,

Bove. Coup
‘they are not islands.
mic

f litical process must take place
through political organisations. Trade un-
ions are going to become an accelerating
force for change. And when the federa-
tion of unions comes about, it will be a
force, too,

“when black people are affected by a
problem— for example pensions—thatis
a work-related problem, If there are dis-
turbances in the townships, as we saw Te-
cently, there is no way workers can shut
their eyes.

“And management has not spoken
about these things in the past. It hasn’t
come out in support of workers against
apartheid.” |

‘The issue of workers and apartheid
came up during US Senator Edward Ken-
nedy controversial visit to South Africa.

-A trade union newsletter, Izwilethu,
published what a Cusa delegation told the
‘American politician.

“We don’t want apartheid polished up.
‘We are seeking the dissolution of an evil
system and the removal of i
laws,” Cusa president James Mdaweni
told Sen Kennedy.

“We are looking for genuine contribu-
tions to the development of our commun-
ity. We don’t want apartheid to be made

ible and sophisticated.”

And it looks as if South Africa cannot
afford to ignore the voice of the black
union movement.

ch and prominence of black trade un- _, This country experienced at least 469
Basin sophistication and strategy. strikes in 1984 involving 181 942 workers
“Workers are already involved in com- — the country’s worst industrial conflict
munity matters, and there'll be even more ‘zecord in recent years, according to De-
jnvolvement in future. partment of Manpower figures.

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

GUEBUZA PRAISES COOPERATION WITH NORTH KOREA
Beira’ DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE in Portuguese 1 Jun 85 p 4

[Text] Pyongyang--A week ago, a personal message from President Samora Machel
was delivered to the president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Kim Il-song.

The member of the Politbureau of the FRELIMO Party's Central Committee and
minister of the presidency, Armando Emilio Guebuza, undertook the delivery.

Armando Guebuza is ‘heading a high-level party and government delegation
currently on a visit to the Far East. .

The Mozambican entourage includes the vice minister of agriculture, Francisco
Pateguana, and cadres from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Construction

and Water, and Foreign Trade, as well as the State Secretariat of International
Cooperation.

It was noted that the Mozambican party arrived on the morning of 20 May in
Pyongyang, capital of the PDRK. ‘Awaiting them at the airport in the Korean
capital, in addition to the ambassador extraordinaire and plenipotentiary
accredited to the PDRK, Lopes. Tembe, were the Korean vice prime minister,
Kim Wo-an,.the minister of economic affairs of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, party and government leaders and representatives from ‘the populace,
accompanied by a musical band; the latter providing:a colorful atmosphere
filled. with hospitality. :

At the formal meeting with the president of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, Vice-President Li Hok was also present, as were other high-ranking
PDRK officials. On this occasion, the Mozambican delegation once again
expressed the consistent support of the FRELIMO Party and the government and
people of Mozambique for the cause of the peaceful reunification ‘of the ‘Korean.
fatherland, This sentiment was also contained in the personal message from
President Samora Machel to his North Korean counterpart.

PDRK President Kim Il-song, for his part, reiterated, on behalf of the Labor
Party and the government of Korea, the intention to continue increasing the

bilateral cooperation with the FRELIMO Party and the Mozambican Government,

in the economic, technical and scientific plans.

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the accused, Mr Albert Porte, 77, and
a long-time critic of both the Tubman
and Tolbert regimes, lamented that
Liberians ‘‘are now afraid to talk’? for
fear of harsh reprisals. He admitted
that he welcomed Doe and his
colleagues when they took power in
1980, but that he has now changed his
mind. Mr WoloKollie is on trial for
writing a. statement demanding the
release or trial of Dr Amos Sawyer
and other LPP members accused of
plotting to overthrow Doe. All were
later released without charge.

Against this background it is
certainly paradoxical that Doe would
want to become a civilian President
under a Conistitution. He is highly
intolerant of criticism, and this has led
him to clash with both the press and
the church. The only reputable paper
in the country, the DAILY
OBSERVER, is now closed for the Sth
time. Reason: The paper did not give
prominence to a party the NDPL had
for shoe-shine boys in Monrovia.
According to his Justice Minister,
Jenkins Scott, this was a disrespect to
the Head of State.

The one-time Editor of the
government owned New Liberian
newspaper, Mr Tom Kamara, was
dismissed for printing the picture of
Doe’s million-dollar house in the

“jungle of his home town, about five

hundred miles from Monrovia. Since
then, Mr Kamara has been continu-
ously harrassed by the regime, leading
to three imprisonments in less than
three years. In all imprisonments, there
were no charges or trials.

That Doe will win a free and fair
election is laughable to the man in the
street. He has no programme to sell.
After five years, many are now looking

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18 July 1985

back with nostalgia on the bad old
days. ‘‘At least we were paid on time,
and did not have to pay so many
taxes”’, said one furious Civil Servant.

When the Liberian Council of
Churches recently appealed to him to
repeal decree 88a, a law that forbids
criticism of the government, he
threatened to jail any church leader
who, he said, gets involved in politics.
The Council responded that it is the
obligation of the church to speak
against evils in the society. Thus the
impasse.

“As the campaign draws nearer’,
said one foreign diplomat here, “I am
anxious to hear what Doe will say to
convince the electorate: political rights,
economic prosperity, or basic human
rights? It will be very, very
interesting’’, he said.

Nevertheless, there might be no
campaign in the democratic sense,
because the government is determined
to obstruct the registration of other
parties. Already, the Liberia Action
Party and the Unity Party have been
subject to long legal battles by
government-hired citizens.

The Liberian People’s party
presented its final registration
requirements over two months ago, but
the Elections Commission has refused
to publish the Party’s registry for
possible challenges in accordance with
the election laws. The United People’s
Party has been indefinitely suspended
for allegedly distributing information
materials about the party. The
Commission has argued that this is
illegal, although general Doe’s
NDPL air-dropped and distributed
leaflets several times prior to its
registration.

Mr, Dr, or General Doe.

London TALKING DRUMS in English 10 Jun 85 p 12

[Text]

Dear Mr. Doe,

Please don’t get angry that I address
you as ‘Mister’, I am not at all sure
which of your many accolades and
titles you prefer yourself. I know that
as a soldier you most probably prefer
your military rank but I have a little
difficulty there.

13

When you staged the coup in April
1980, you were a Master-Sergeant and
for a long time you resisted the normal
temptation that faces African coup
makers of promoting themselves very
rapidly. In fact,-I respected you very
much that you stuck to your rank of



ERA OF CONSENSUS JOURNALISM VIEWED

Johannesburg THE STAR in English 31 May 85 p 4

[Text]

cso:

3400/455

South Africa had entered
an era of consensus jour-
nalism and there was
very little else on the
media horizon, the outgo-
ing president of the South
African Society of Jour-
nalists told the society’s
annual congress in Johan-
nesburg yesterday.

Miss Pat Sidley said
newspapers were increas-
ingly being forced to toe
the Government's line.

Examining journalism
in the present South Afri-
ca political context and
incidents in the recent

ast, she said reporters

id repeatedly been pre-
vented from effectively
covering events.

TARGETS
Journalists had been

‘ targets of officialdom and

the country’s laws had

57

,been used to try to get
:Pressmen to reveal infor-
mation to the State.

Referring to the Indian

and coloured elections,

she said that the Govern-
ment had failed to pro-
tect journalists, both for-
eign and local, from being
beaten up, arrested,
harassed and having their
film confiscated.

Coverage of the Vaal
Triangle unrest, the East-
ern Cape violence arid
school boycotts was se-
verely hampered. Re-
ports, especially those
written by black report-
ers, had been challenged
by the police and the mil-
itary. .

The new era of consen-
sus journalism had large-
ly coincided with the
birth of the new constitu-
tion, she said.

JPRS~SSA-85-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA



NEW FABRIC PLANT PRODUCTION SLATED FOR EXPORT.

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 6 Jun 85 p 3

[Article by Daniel Mshana]

[Text]

A < tb: modéritise

x lines. at Arusha+
based Kilimanjaro’ Textile Cor-
poration: (KILTEX). is set. for the
completion ' im . September, this

KILTEX: “General” Manager,

Ndugu Prosper Jincen, told” the
‘Daily: News in. Arusha yesterday,
that the new machinery being in-
stalled would: raise .

capacity ' to: 11,000,000  mitres:
: 000: metres of clothing:

struction’ of a.
130 looms. had. been completed.
He said some of the EEC

cso: . 3400/523.

technicians: had arrived’ in. the
country to help. in the installation
of the machines.” -

“The General Mariager’ added:

nearly .all'the ., fabrics. to be
produced at the new plant to earn
foreign exchange for importation

Meanwhile,
Ss e¢ i Wire and Nail (
now f Straw materials.
The company's’ Manager,

Ndugi Mathew Mille, said: the
existing stock of raw materials

“would last for another four-or

five days and there were no in-

dications of another consignment -
: srriving from abroad soon.

company which begant
production in 1982, has. an’ in-
stalled: capacity of between 700
and: 1,000. tonnes grooved and

round nails.

JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

TANZANIA



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

Barumbu zones, for incompetence in execution of their activities. The
attorney general of the republic representing the secretary of state for
justice, attended the ceremony. [Text] [Kinshasa AZAP in French 0940 GMT

31 May 85] :

ARMED FORCES EXPANDED--Kinshasa--President Mobutu Sese Seko has decided to
double Zaire's armed forces from.50 000 to 100 000 men, the Ministry of
Defence announced on Tuesday. A communique said President Mobutu took the
decision at a meeting of the Higher Defence Council. The decision came only
days after the second rebel attack across Lake Tanganyika on the port of
Moba, which was occupied briefly by rebel forces, apparently based in
Tanzania, last November. The Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, on a
recent visit to nearby Rwanda, violently attacked the Mobutu, government.
Yesterday's decision, said official Zaire Television, was made "to make the
defensive sheild more solid-and more formidable." As a first step, the
Ministry said measures had been taken to complete the training and build-up
of firepower of six brigades and the reinforcement of the First Armoured
Brigade. President Mobutu announced on Monday the creation of a special
intelligence and action unit able to hit "enemies" outside Zaire's frontiers.
Sapa~AP_ [Text] [Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English 27.Jun 85 p 7]

cso: 3400/563

112



ZAIRE

Briefs

ZIMBABWE

Briefs

MNCR Members Arrested

Nine Cader Activists Custody

Armed Forces Expanded

Minister Criticizes Nkomo Speech, ZAPU

Swedish Air Pledge

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111
112

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113


RECESSION HITTING BLACKS WORST

Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 21 Jun 85 p 11

[Article by Joshua Raboroko]

[Text]

cso:

3400/483

MORE than 10 000;
workers, mostly blacks, |
have been Ipid off in the |
metal this year |
alone because of the re- |
cession. ;
The latest quarterly ;
stirvey of the Steel Engi-
neering Industries’ Fed-
eration of South Africa ,
(Seifsa) says metal in-!
dustry employment op-
portunities have de- !
- clined by. more than 20 °
* percent in the past five
- years.
:” It says an estimated i
360 000 people were ,
‘employed in the metal ;
production process at |
the end of March com- |
pared to 454 000 at the
end of 1981. i
“Employment statis-!
tics, based on a compari- ;
son between 1984 year- |
end and first quarter;
1985 wage surveys, .Te-:
flect a loss of some:
10 000 jobs during the’
period, highlighting the:
strong recessionary con- |
ditions which now:
characterise the Seifsa”

89

group of industries,”
says the report.

‘These latest statistics
have caused concern
among trade unions op-
eration in the metal in-
dustries, especially the
Metal and Allied Work-
ers’ Union, the South
Africa Boilermakers’

“Society, and the Steel
“Engineering and Allied

Workers’ Union.
The three unions,

'which are affiliated to
: the International Metal-
‘workers’ Federation’

(IMF) have said that

‘they will lose a vast
‘majority of members.

Mawu’s Transvaal

‘secretary, Mr Moses

Mayekiso, said the re-

*trenchments come in the
_wake of a deadlock

reached between the
unions and Seifsa over
wages and working con-"
ditions. Mawu will meet

lits members at the
weekend to discuss the
issue.

IJPRS~SSA~85-063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA


Meeting at the Merchandise Railway Station

Also as part of Transportation Week, a meeting to analyze the work of handling
and shipping freight, as well as the causes for disappearance of, and delay in
the removal of goods, took placé yesterday at the CFM-South Merchandise Railway
Station in the Mavalane District of Maputo.

The meeting, which was attended by workers from that warehouse and some guests,
was chaired by its railway director, engineer Mario Dimande.

Train to Albasini

There was some good news yesterday, also in connection with this week, for the
residents of the Albasini District. We are referring to the scheduling of a
Passenger trainto this district.

Exclusively for passenger transport, the train made the run with the following
schedule: in the morning, departure from Albasini at 0505 “hours, arriving at
the Central Station at 0617 hours; in the afternoon, departure from the Central
Station at 1730 hours, and arrival at Albasini at 1910 hours. Leaving from there
will be the final run of the day, with the Central Station asa destination,
calling for the train to arrive at 2005 hours.

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JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

SOUTH AFRICA

POSSIBLE ALLIANCE OF ANTI-APARTHEID POLITICAL PARTIES SEEN

Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 10 Jun 85 p 6

[Text]

“TRADITIONAL South
: African politics will
;Start to take on a whole

new complexion when -

‘the Prohibition of Po-
‘litical Interference Act

Bors, bringing to an ,
jend to an era where .
‘one’s political party af- +

filiation was deter-
imined by one’s skin
:eolour.

Although this might
}not mean the disap-
arance of some po-

;to apartheid, an. alli-
;4nce among these can-
; Not be ruled out.

At present these
‘ parties can be clearly
categorised according
to racial groups. The
Progressive Federal

ical parties opposed -

Party (PFP) is for °

whites, the Labour
Party (LP) for
coloureds and Solidar-
ity and the National
People’s Party (NPP)
for Indians.

System

Inkatha is on the
fringes of the “system”
‘and is avowedly multi-
racial although its
membership is pre-
dominantly Zulu.
. The United Demo-
cratic Front has been

fully multiracial since
“it was formed in 1983.
But then the UDF is
completely outside the
system.

With the repeal of
the Act, séveral ques-
‘tions come up. Will the
PFP Inkatha, Solidar-

ity and the Labour

.Party enter into a for- ‘

‘mal alliance to fight
‘the apartheid system?

+ Will ‘the repeai of
the Act see the revival

lof the now dormant!
‘South..African Black {

‘Alliance? - on
The Alliance’ went

the way of all flesh
- when the LP decided

to enter the tricameral
parliament. The LP

was ejected for “be-
;. traying” blacks. .

Inkatha has retained

' its friendly relations

with the PFP despite
occasional differences
such as when the PFP
reported that Zulu po-
licemen were used dur-
ing the Uitenhage
shootings.

What fuels spec-
ulation that there
might be a PFP-Inka-
tha-LP link-up is the
fact that all three par-

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ties have opted for a
policy of geographic
federation.

Many people are
asking whether there
will be a “federal al-
liance” between like-
minded people.

“The PFP’s director
of research and’ “indi-
rectly” elected MP,
Prof Nic Olivier, said
such an issue could
only be decided by the
PFP federal congress
in August.

Races

“The question of a
formal alliance has not
‘come up for discussion
or decision. But I
doubt whether there
will be that kind of ar-

: rangement,” he said.

! “Last year the PFP

* announced that mem-

| bership was open to

+ all races. “When’one .
applies for mem-

bership of the Party,
we make no enquiries

y about one’s race or re-

| ligion,” Prof Olivier

+ said.

‘i. A Labour Party
spokesman said the LP
will definitely not link
up with any political
party.



JPRS~SSA~85~063
18 July 1985

MOZAMBIQUE

ALGERIA TO AID IN EXPORTING WOOD, RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Maputo NOTICIAS.in Portuguese 3 Jun 85 p 2

[Text] On Thursday, the chief of the Algerian delegation to the third annual
meeting of the SAMOFOR [Algerian-Mozambican Forest Association] Council of
Administration, Mahi Eddine Fateh, disclosed to NOTICIAS that his country
is willing to cooperate with Mozambique in the exporting of wood, preferably
selling it on the Algerian market. He also said that the company, currently
engaged in the exploitation of lumber intended primarily for export, may
expand its programs to become involved in integrated rural development
activities.

The third annual meeting of the SAMOFOR Council of Administration spent several"
days in Maputo examining the progress of the company's activities, also deciding
on the most important activities for continuing the forest exploitation programs.
The Mozambican side was represented by the company's director, Matias Xavier.

SAMOFOR was the first company in the forestry field to exploit, industrialize
and market lumber and its by-products, and'was created following the decisions
made by the Mozambican-Algerian Joint Commission 3 years ago.

Its main operating area is located in Zambezia Province, to be extended to the
northern part of Cabo Delgado Province.

According to information provided to NOTICIAS, The Algerian-Mozambican Forest
Association is basically participating in forest exploitation programs aimed
at export, mainly to assist the Algerian lumber market.

During the third annual meeting of the SAMOFOR Council of Administration, there
was also a discussion of the company's economic and financial situation, and
more suitable strategies were determined to continue the programs.

As Mahi Eddine Fateh commented, the execution of the production plans for
subsequent lumber exports based on the existing potential and resources is,

in fact, the main-goal to be attained. He remarked that there are- possibilities
of expanding the programs, so as to raise production and, at the same time,
undertake its industrial processing.

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