ONE of the Rossing uranium known as the Wedgwood Benn shaft. "to the Labour Minister who has done most to promote British multinational. support for the South African nuclear project. wholly Tony Benn was the Minister of Technology in the late 1960s who originally approved the conse Derween Energy Authority and RTZ.
But was acquired his present left-wing credentials. 1973 he admitted he had been wrong to approve the deal, in a letter to the Guardian: •We have already decided to terminate the contract. That particular case, in which neither the AEA nor RTZ were altogether African powers to ment, even greater vigilance than has been shown in the past. As the Minister time, I certainly learned that lesson.
But did he? The that the deceived in 1970 will only last for so long. In five Africa Labour government since 1974 the contract has still not been move- cancelled.
In a letter to the Namibia Support Committee in January Government decided not to the change the arrangements and although proposals occupying were made are of the prospecting and the supply of in the Energy then RTZ's the also Rossing. Civil servants at the be Ministry of Technology dently made no between Namibia, and anyway appeared to have no intention of telling shafts in the mine It is a fitting tribute Atomic In opposition in AEA-RTZ candid for the cancellation the last Labour Govern- contract points to the need for accepted.
and l still argument government was years of imperialist mining in the country.
The 1974 that the evidistinction Africa was