ANGOLA (SOUTH WEST AFRICA) Swakopmund Windhoek Walvis Bay OCEAN Oranjemund THE dramatic events southern Africa are having a powertul impact on brusn polities. The trouble is that Tnere C03S Deen very discussion on the left about the SaNC SOURCED Africa, and how best them, writes JOHN HUNT.
The Anti-Apartheid Movement's national committee and annual general meeting are not much help because they heavily weighted against local activists.
The AAM does hold local group meetings, but these have no power and exclude WRO aren't paid up AAM members.
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Socialist Challenge supporHer none o vermer Rue union or Labour Party branch, group, student union or youth LOUDED SCHU to We would like to see the conference fighting for: • a rank and network for militants working on southern a10 publicise the solidarity actions and ICL with South • an informal information network among activists to link militants inside and outside the AAM.
womens file contact in the African the DAR the ministers Bothas Crucially, aulowed United the population And that it vet UN team!
VICTORY stressed that electoral to South African demands in Pretoria last week.
RICHARD CARVER reports.
The agreement drawn up by Western foreign and the clutch of has generally been African presented as a compromise. It is nothing of the sort. victory, the *five' have SOuL CATTICA maintain its military presence an amoa cune two sets oi forthcoming elections.
South African 'concession' is an agreement to Nations supervised elections in the new year. But even then the South African army will remain to intimidate - Pretoria nas insisted the countries who provide UN supervision of the elections. It has already namec a number of the more radical African countries who will not COlOHY be allowed to take part in the To support their assessment of the meeting, the five' have South African Prime Minister Pieter Botha has said that he would accept an up its victory by the nationalist South West Africa People's Organisation.
paid same But there are two reasons why he can confidently do this. First, the presence of South troops lessens possibility of SWAPO even though generally acknowledged that it nas une sympawny or a majorly of the population.
VAGUE And secondly, last week's suitably about what bodies will come out of the two sets of elections South African and supervised - - and what will be the relation between the two In other words, the second WHICH will DOLO democratic anyway, will count Tor noting Namibia is a former Germar placed South African mandate by the League of Nations in 1919. It has been ruled by South Africa as if it were a province - with all in apparatus of apartheid and repression The UN has revoked the South African mandate and set own administrationin-exile, but this has made little impression on Pretoria and its backers the giant multinanonas who dIC MOIC interested in the country's vast small questions legitimacy TOYED For a time, when he was adopung a more concinaton attitude towards black Africa, Corner rumme Minister JUNI Vorster toyed with the idea of allowing some kind of genuine Namibian independence (so long as he could still get his hands on aforesaid resources).
The collapse the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola and the disaster of the South African invasion put to that. Although SWAPO is not made of thi stuff as the Angolan MPA it would still pose massive security problem for So the preferred solution is a uniatera declaration of inde pendence' for Namibia.
Pretoria's of the SLODECE Democratic Turnhalle Alliance would be left in charge and South African troops have free passage to deal with the 'terrorists'.
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