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Trade union related people known to b
at 15.03,8? (central stete):
Gate of detention *jwwe
24.09.81 Alan Fine
23-11.81
27.11.B1
OB-12-81
11.1Z.81
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13.03.82
• In detention as
•onty Nersoo
wfeshlnlni
Klklna
Mflou
Rita Ndzange
Maria Favls
Liz Fiord
Sisa Njlkelt
Eric Hntonga
H Teho
BMW
eatthews Oliphant Gen~Sac, eFl
unlon/cfojenlsatipn
Ass Sec Itt««ter!;rand
Liquor and Catering Trade
ex-ohb municipal Employees'
Gan-Sact CCAwYJSA
Gen-Gee, SAJWJ
Proa, GMU
Org-Sac; GMU
Editor, SHB
Assoclatad alth IAS
V-Pres, SAMU
Branch Chelr, SAA*U
Trade union related people released fraa detention;
03,06 81 -1S.02.82) Ouslie wmkhende Uw*ir, MAC-USA
wmxwell eadlingozi Official. UACWUSA
Zandlie ejuza Official, HAOtUSA
wVolisi Oldlzw 0rgt WC8UGA
26.06 81
Sipho Pitymna Org, UftCWSA G GaUSA
27.11. 01 03.03-82) Thozmaile Gome the Pras, SAA*U
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Ifiaac Ngcotoo
wary Ntaefce
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Gen-Sec, GA*U
05.03-82) Solly Pholoto BMU
Elliot Tshebangu GAM
13.03.82 15-03.82) Four unnamed trade. unionists detained
•1th wntLhew* Oliphant Qf the NrV
(a TA - Twrroriaa Act; GLA - General Lm Attfndeant Act
• • Data In brackets la the data of release]
STOP PfCSS
OT the detainees mentioned above. Alan Vine appeared
In court on Frlomry, 26 earch, charged under the
Tmrroriae tet together eith Barbara Hoga/i and
Oniric *ir' J "*
On the same day, Liz Floyd of the IAS
released fraa detention, and unconfirmed
•pail that Itonty Pwsreoo has bean transferred
to section 12(b) of the Internal Security Act.
STATISTICS AMD PWJUATIOaB
A Centre for Black Advancement haa been formed eith
the intention of 'helping mwrmgwmnnta throughout the
country to sat up grievance procedures and also build
up linea of coeeBjnlcatlon with workers fco minimise
the poaalblllty of strikes (Citizen, 2D.01.62).
Orlas Beater, Industrial psychologist at Potchafstrooe
university, bellevea that ttie spate of strikes in
South Arrlca ere the 'birth pangs of a nee Industrial
order' rather than anything to eorry eftwjut. Hi arguem
fraa the point of viae that conflict la functional to
roclety, in that it stimulates change I Owe Id, 03.02.82)
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According to the Oepextamrit of there
strike* during
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9a 802 workers, all black (mi, 05.02.82). These
strikes cost 226 550 shifts. These official figures
do, of course, only reflect strikes reported to the
Department of manpower.
After the annual plenary session of the Catholic
Bishops* Conference, seating in Pretoria early In
February, the church Issued a statement that it eould
'throe the morel eaight of the church' behind the
struggle of eorfcers In South Africa. This statement
folloeed emny references made to the parallels eith
the Polish sltustlon. Archbishop Hurley said that
the majority of the members of the church, mho mere
blacfct mould support the statement. *
The Old mutual's pensions manmger sold that it
ems lack of undmrstanding of the pension issue that
led to the strikes around this issue during 1961
(Transveler, 12-02.61).
Courts
TEFPnOTlSM ACT TRIALS
Oscar epwthe (?l)( Lawrence Lerotholl ( 18] . morgan
makubaie (19), Aaron Tshangama (28), Peter Kubs (IB),
Alton Sabums (18), Fuaanlklle Bool (16), Vuylslla
Kzaze (19), Johannes Nhlapo (?0), Jeffrey Beeroemn (20]
Vuylslla Oiba (2l), Richard Aaapondo (20)t aalile
mnzothana (21) and 5 youths.
Charge: The stete alleges that beteeen August 6 and
August 12, 1980, the accused Incited people to damage
motor vehicles by throwing stones and petrol bombs,
and setting alight the vehicles. The accused are
charged eith assaulting 6 people, teo of shorn
subsequently died. Other charges relets to the
barrLcedlng of Kllpfonteln Road by placing stones,
tree stumps and tyres in the street; earthing in
singing groups armed with sticks, stones end other
weapons; ordering the closure of block schools;
end congregstlng in various churches to encourage
people to participate in 'terroristic* ectlvltlea.
For previous details, see sip 20:36-40, end
•IP 21:42-43.
then court re-opened on 9 February, Justice
•llllamson ruled that In respect of statements made
by teo of the accused to magistrates - both of ehich
•ere confessions - the onus eas on the state to prove
that they eere freely and voluntarily made, eithout
the imposition of pressure or undue influence.
The statements of three other accused eere
ruled by the Judge to be admissions, and the accused
had to bear the anus of disproving that they eere
voluntarily made.
Since court re-opened In 1982, the state has
called some 20 witnesses In connection eith the trialelthin-e-trial
relating to teo of the confessions.
State witnesses have denied assaulting the accus
and promising to release them from detention if
they Made statements. The accused allege assaults,
threats and promises of release on asking statements -
Esaentlellv, this issue revolved around the
credibility of the stete eitneasms and the accused
es to the eoMsslbllity of the ate tea in ta.
During the course of the trial, the health ef
the first accused, Oscar w*pethe, has been cause
for much concern. tfpetha, eho is 72 and suffers
from diabetes, has been hospitalised a number of
times during the trial. Ha has been In custody
since August 13, I960, and the state has
consistently refused him bail. Host recently,
ha eas hospitalised elth chronic diabetes, and
underwent mn operation for an enlarged prostate
gland-
In another development, security police
raided the offices of the Cape Town Students*
Representative Council In February* seizing
hundreds of posters portraying mpetne.
The trlel t which has now run for wall over
100 court bays, continues In the Cape Town Supreme
Court,
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