SOUTH Africa's sabotage of the latest negotiations Namibian independence, sponsored by the United Nations, ensured that the talks broke up week without result.
The Tacist denounced all the parties to the UN, the front-line states, and SWAPO, liberation movement.
The problem for the West is that it has nothing on which to base its continued defence of South Africa, and no cover for its refusal to implement against Namibia which have been laid down by UN. par ticular, the West is concerned of uranium from the country. Sanctions After the break-up of the conterence, held in Geneva, SWAPO and the front-line states repeated the call for sanctions and pledged the armed struggle to end South occupation Namibia.
From me as centrane Namibians have resisted the ruthless exploitation of their labour and land at the hands colonial occupiers. rirst the British and then the Germans moved in; after the First World War came the Britishcreated racist MONSter South Africa For 20 years after the Second World War, the Namibians petitioned the UN for independence.
In the mid-'60s SWAPO saw no alternative but to turn resistance to the South African occupation. It was then. In October the UN General Assembly adopted resolution which ended South Africa's League of Nations mandate. and placed Namibia under direct UN control. Isolation In March 1969, the United Nations Security Council declared South African cubanon illegal and called on South Africa to immediately withdraw its administration the terSocialist Chatrenge 22 January 1981 Page 14.
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LI DOUS stationed north makes terrorising Ing But been SWAPO's Katıma Mulilo number groups, vigilante Ral.w.tys Tacisi DUDUCL 9 snees Sorghur Mille Dentalst Maze- most vividly F-shing Dutch, Diamonds bian uranium The COppe Lithium managed by Wolfran Venadiun Namibians are forced to work in the white areas, nearColital! labour system, and live in heavily policed compounds. Women, children and the old peopic cke vul a micagie ex istence in their 'homelands'.
taking no over and 1,500 police are in Namibia. The is under martial law, with a free-tire zone along the Angolan border The South African army extensive sweeps through the martial law area, population, making mass arrests, torturJoe anees and holding them without charges or trial for indefinite periods.
the racists haven't able hold back growing support Some 60,000 refugees have fled into Angola where their camps have been bombed b the South African Air Force armed with NATO weapons.
there are white private armies. and groups defend interests against any hint of liberalisation from the Not the South African-backed Demo. cratic Turnhalle Alliance.
Apart from the weapons shipped to South Africa, imbacking shown by the British, West German, US, and Japanese contracts for supplies of Namibranch ot the Nationa Union of Namibian Workers, their wages and conditions have been brutally suppressed b RTZ security guards and South African police.
The Campaign Against Namibian Uranuum Contracts (CANUC) has been working for a halt to uranium supplies entering Britain, as part of the demand for comsanctions agalst South Africa.
Boycott Since 1973 the Labour Party conference and manifesto have pledged cancellation of the Rossing contract. There is now an increasing possibility of direct plies and implement other bovcott. alains. South Africa The two major French union federations (CGT and CFDT) attempted to boycott Namibian uranium supplies en route to Britain, but at the last minute officials changed the route that had been unearthed by CANUC.
The executive of the seafarers' union NUS and the loco-drivers' union ASLEF have asked their members to refuse • to handle this cargo, and the TGWU is considering a boycott uranium is taken the BNF plant at Springfields near strict securitv. and ettorts are unde way to locate the new route.
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Namibia: after the failure of Geneva conference
uranium is, quite simply, stolen. Angola
Terror Botswana