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ID THE CARLE: TTS-SATUSDAY, AJT.l 14, 1K2 , New Interest Ed:CnKn!P' ANJ 1 The long $tandihg" effort by ami-"-apartheid 1 .forces to ; mount an s effective cultural boycott against South iAfrica generated fresh interest in New; Yorjc last month, as a number of artists and ac- -tivists'- gathered at the 4 - United Nations to focus attention on the issue, South - African-born . musician Hugh Masekela 1 and African-American I poet Amiri Baraka were t among those on hand for 1- If t Broadway's "Sophisticated Ladies' .turned down an offer of $100,000 to play South I Africa " could not tour ) there Under any ' cir cumstances," she said. '"I have been asked how 1 can pass up that kind of ' money, but I never gave :. it a thought. I am di sap- in South African tennis, Ashe changed his stance. , Recently he adyiscd John ' McEnroe,'- who . was of-, fercd huge -sums to play -tennis in South Africa 'Don't go there - you will be giving racism a good name," ;Sathima,1 Ibrahim agrees. A school teacher pointed that some black before she and her hus- artists arp gping o South 1 bnd Abdyllah Ibrahim Africa,", ' ' , . (ppllar Brand) left Cape ; Jaw great Max Roach, .Town tj pursue a singing' whose recording "Tears " career, . Sathima says: for Johannesburg' - on - 'I'There was; a still is, no nis rreeaom now ouuet $ucn ming as a proies 11; 4 c ; konni4 ku v CnntK ImamI mil riSi m ir Cjttitli special sessions March IS and 19 at the UN's Dag ( was - banned bv South sional musician in South Hammarskjold Library African authorities back Africa Whenever we did. auditorium and at the in 1960, and Oil .Scott- ork In y?whjte- night, Harlem State Building,'4 HeronJ who recorded fobs we -were exploited commemorating with the " Johannesburg',) ' ' re Iffy 'very little pay V no UN a day bf "Solidarity , two other- weU-K!)Qwmj -musicians', union io pro with Peoples Struggling 5 performer;' who have aect us and at intermis-' apartheid,-. ; vffr v ync American ceiepn- Racial Discrimination.' There, in speech after speech, - UN officials: African diplomats ana anti-apartheid s activists put forth the argument 'ty who has been on both sides of the issue is tennisj star Arthur Ashe who. despite advice to the con- 'sion we sat in the kitchen' " until it was time to per form again." ; "There are thousands', of Other artists there," recalls trumpeter Hugh Masekela; who now lives in the. U.S. "Most of thenr die ' in South Africa, .frustrated." that tours by foreign trary, visited " South entertainers lend support Africa several years ago. tor apartheid py legitimizing the govern ment and going against efforts to further isolate the white regime. v "The people of South Africa are unequivocal in their condemnation of all those who provide aid and support ;, for the: vicious and destructive'" (AN The inquest irito system known as apar-, the prison death pf trade thcid," said Dennis;, unionist -Neil Aggett Brutus, a poet living in opened last week', only to exile from South Africa, r be suspended until June They, have been clear . I while the - Transvaal Nvana townshin that for many years begin- j Supreme Court consider . ft; they-werp technically, ning in the J960's with j 9n 'appeal?' from the illegal, with nq rights to Chief Albert , Luthuli, nolice lawver' ' 1 , cither accommodation or .- Attnmu 'f P!t 1 rmnlrtvmpnt - a ' ' After some involvement. Reprieve But No Solution For . : Nyang?t Squatters 4A U i 1 1 1 .. Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society awarded Ms. C Vlia A. Crudup of Saint AugustineN (allege the d'eorjec W. (iorv, Jr. Graduate Scholarship for Academic Kxcellence. From left io right: Dr. I-ucy Rose Adams, AKM adviser: Ms. (clia Crudup, scholarship recipient; Colonel J, l arry Creen, ad viser; and Ms". Jacqueline Wilder, delegate. Ms. Crudup, a senior accounting major from Franklinlon, was recognized for achieving the highest academic average during an AKM convention held at Florida A&M University, protesters hai been born in Cape, Town and 72 had lived in Cape Town for, at, least ten years, all were 'squatting'. at (he president or the African , s Attorney Piet National Congress in Schabort ,is arguirig that their call for a boycott of an affidavit' to thread apariheid in aH spheresi - man alleging assault and including - the , cultural ,. the use, of electric ?hock' and sporting spheres," t, by his -interrogators' V Coinciding with a should be excluded from special nationwide: evidence, , The affidavit , mobilization , by anti- was 'reportedly ; signed apartheid torces in the about fourteen - hours employment,- 1 9 yndci "South African Jv'jnojB are pblised to reside in hc 'homelands' qt .Transkei anq" Ciskei, ethnic reserves declared independent' by South Africa, but npt recogniz ed as sovereign stales elsewhere.? i ?.: Instead. U.S., the United Nations before Aggett's d?ajh on however,, the." squatters rallies are seen by February $. fisKcd arrest , to find uuyv.un uieaiu( a air .m tnqueM SJirsi qay employment ana escape Important f, spark .fof was also marked by the Jhc'ppverty in the rural futuje actions,;1 - :5PrvingI6f " banning V'ireasTh? 54 protesters ' Given South Africa s order on witness Maurice Jbetw?en them had equally persistent effort? : Smitbers recently releas- amassed ?52 arrests for to lure top American ' ed from "detention along pass' law violations, an entertainers, however, with seven others, average of 4.5 arrests Smithers earlier thjs, year cacn- ''' smuggled put a note (0 f- Thew people are, legaN, parliamentarian .' He.ln 'y regarded, as citizens of $u?man vN K descnbijig police mistreatment of Aggett - that ' he , had observed. Smithers .will the cultural boycott re mains at best a leaky em bargo. In spite of the ac tivists' campaign, per formers such as Frank Sinatra, Millie Jackson supper club ' singer Shirley Bassey and folk artist Janis Ian have per formed in South Africa in recent months.: . , 1 . t According to publish ed reports, Diana Ross .has signed a contract to appear in Bophuthatswana, one of t - jhc delay of the Ag mt tuinn. ni s inai - vqii '" inauest still be able to testify, but lightK .Provided they his banning order, will have guaranteed employ prevent hip frommov'i men!, hey may be per ing outside hefJohan; mined- in the "so-called nesburg area, .being while: areas - of South Quoted, or being with. Afpca.-Jheir families do more than one person at npi have'1 such, rights, a time, hpwever. and most able-' comes amidst other a Continuing l hi irvirnmnl , tnvunrrl opponents, ( ynk early I I J 4" March officials rejected tUV V fr at ,y fit vi'Vf.ljjl.-) yjj the ' Buihelezt Commis bodied men sign eleven month labor contracts under . terms of which they are meant to return home at the end of the contracts. The government's grand master plan, which is seen as the answer to majority rule over the whole of South Africa, is that black and white people should not live together in the same area, and that black peo ple have no right to stay in those parts of South Africa designated for white control unless they hold jobs. In this basic policy employment and escape ' there is no difference Dctwcen the ruling Na tional Party and the right-wing breakaway group, the Conservative Party. While the principle of racial separation appeals to many whites as the viable alternative to black rule, the effect has been to divide families and to exacerbate condi tions of poverty in the rural areas. The life history of some of the protesting Nyanga squatters reflects this grim struggle for survival. Mrs. : Nowinara Io nyeni, 40, the mother of; six, came to Cape Town from Jranskei in 1972. Her husband has worked in Cape Town on co n-; tracts since 1 953. She says before she; joined her husband she saw him two weeks a year. Mrs. Nowayiles Hoza, 32, mother of five, came, to nd has worked in (Continued on Page II) (he homelands,' where in terms . of s the official policy," they are meant to exercise, thejr pplitical ' 1 "''"'' - ..A v - m - Ail h 1 ."V'''A: I (.'' . x A - I ''' fr F J RAIEICH-David (iill. left, a sophomore humanities student from Raleigh, presents i Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, president of Saint Augustine's College, a portrait In memory of the three IJherian students fatally injured in a car accident in November, 1981, The 20lh Cenlurv African American painting was done in Paris by Henry O'Tanna. President Robinson accepted the painting on behalf of the C'ollej;e, and acknowledged that it will be housed in the Archives Room of the Library at SI. Augustine's. South Africa . 'has declared independent! Contacted last week however', .Ms.- Ross agent refused comment ion these reports. . , Nearly all performers wno actepi oucrs irym sOf in INatal pn a comi bouth Amcan promoters promise- form,;' v,pf ' are paid extremely well, t t'powef-shanng" In foiq r Sinatra - became 1 the March military call-ups . world's - highest-paid " were increased. And this ' ' entertainer with the, $2. week the trial under the, million purse he received .Terrorism Act begins jbf Z Bopl ihatswana's Sun City resort,- . - ( In 1 a statement" delivered through agent Lee Solters, Sinatra ex plained his appearance as "an effort to make evidence pf . . fit hardline by i (j ; y , Z. A, f ii it i i i ill i n A 11 i i r li r . fi ti i i i.i rm i ii it i i ii it ii f. 'N. i i 't.'V' ' ' - '....v. .. '. V1T7 XT-Ml mm USA 000 Hannchcn Koornhof, a niece of , Minister - of Cooperation5; , Pictci KoornhoH Sh? is chargr cd with having passed on Instructions for the bant ncd African National Congress' . known to the world, s ' - In, Cape Town", the end esncciallv those concern- of a 24-dav.lnnu humror imponaqce oi tnc jn- meeting with. Minister dependence 1 'of, Koornhof, j hough aycr: 'Bophuthatswana - it idling the death, of any the. right step for ISouth faster, is run seen as a Ainca'sj future develop- signal of any, basic ment. In an interview however, Solters dismiss ed as irrelevant the ob jections of black South African political groups,1 Change in s: government policy, ' Barry Streek rcportst A , ' i CAPE TOWN J-VA dramatic hunger strike in : a-tape Town cathedral saying. " couldn't give bv 54 sauattcrs ended on . a s-t about the African Anril 2 after the South 'organizations' opinion -&ome black artists have, been equally $tri dent in rejecting ac tivists pleas.' "I'm here for the dollars," rhythm and blues artist, Millie Jackson tcjd , a" South African reporter. Tm not interested in the black struggle. Afro Americans are lazy and have " criminal tendencies." African government pro mised (o review- the; dc ; mand by -900, pthcr squatters - fpr , the lcgav right to remain in ''white South Africa".- ' ' 1 - The comprpmiscj pro moted by a group of , church . leaders," icjt . minated the strike before V any of he Tasters had. died. 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