North Carolina Newspapers

{ ? | @ Vol. Vll No. 7 l South Africa 'Seige Trial' Julie Frederikse JOHANNESBURG [AN] On September 11; <i South Airican appeals court commuted the death sentence of James Mange, a black man convicted of conspiracy in "what was perhaps the country s most intense criminal trial in recent years. Mange $ reprieve follows ten months of clemency appeals from dozens ol governments and international agencies, and coincides with another pivotal court case If the death sentence had l>een carried out on James Mange, defenders of the South African legal system would no longer be able to claim that no one has ever been executed for a purely political crime. Solomon Mahtangu, hanged in 1978, who like Mange was a sell-avow ecL guerrilla of tlie African National Congress vANC^-was-con?victed on a criminal charge ? the murder of a white civiliaii in downtown Johaiinesburg. Neither Mange, who will now serve 20 years, nor his eleven co-defendants killed or injured anyone. They were convicted of involvement in a plot to attack a police station in Cape Province, though they had no weapons in their possession at the time of their arrest last year. The success of the appeal for clemency in the Mange case is seen here as evidence of the government's reluctance to Haunt local and international opinion, hanging Mange would have tarnished Prime Minister P. W. Botha's carefully cultivated reformist image. It should also be noted, however, that the South African appeals court has a generally more liberal reputation than the lower courts, as evidenced in recent rulings opening up the fields of labor and influx control to broader interpretation. The appeals court ruling in the Mange case comes in the middle of a similar and potentially more sensational political trial, one involving charges of treason and terrorism in connection with two guerrilla attacks in January 1980. Those accused of carrying out the raids were allegedly trained in socialist countries as ANC guerrillas. The trial takes on added importance because, unlike the spate of guerrilla attacks against police stations in black townships over the past tew years, the attacks in January jjK^ W^'s %>:-^ *V*\ ., M yy>w.>- ^? - ^> ^ > , > '!.?. ..%* *-* ^ . , Young The Tiny Indians Midget Majorettes are int tion of Jacqueline Richardson, the group / Indians Junior Midget football team. Left Rice, Pam Mills, Jacqueline Richardson; / Brown and Angela Holt. NmaMMMUMntMNflWINNIUHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHWUIfNIimNIIM Patterson Ave. Y To Move <Y' Site By Donna Oldham almost a year Staff Writer executive bo make tenath Three tracts of land in R-J? Reynold East Winston are being announced h viewed as possible sited for it had purch the new YMCA that will be where the built replacing the one on located as pa Patterson Avenue. million doll Board members of the project. . . - a a: "Y" had been negotiating nuurumg and had expressed interest Glover, exec in relocating the facility for of the Patt< ( Trade Street Opei is ton - w "Serving th J.S.P.S. No. 067910 \\| Watched Closely ^ ZIMBABM tlP r . p?(\ . BOISMaNA Sorknukka/* ^ < NAMIBIA / \ ? I |\ ^Hr^l.iru ^iliortiai I \ SJWIIhiik S\\ AZII.AND vj ^ :j \ SOl'TH AFRICA LfcSOTMO /' ^ Port Hi/jUtti ^ To* II I I This map shows the locations ot savaral goarrilla attacks in recant months. /Africa News map 1 targeted white areas. In the first incident, a police station in the tiny white farming community of Soekmekkar was riddled with bullets Irom Soviet-made AK assault rifles. In the second incident, three guerrillas armed with Aks and hand grenades marched into a bank at midday in the Pretoria suburb of Silverton, took hostages and demanded the release of political prisoners. The five-hour siege ended when a police SWAT team stormed the building in a shoot-out that left three guerrillas and two of the hostages dead As in the Mange case, the Silverton-Soekmekkar defendants were nowhere near the scene of the attacks when they were arrested. The prosecution, consequently, has depended chiefly on the testimony of security police and unnamed witnesses, who have turned state's evidence to link the nine accused to the armed incidents, allegedly planned by the ANC. The mood of the current trial, known as the 'Silverton siege trial,' cannot be compared with the Mange case, for that was the most I.: !;? - I * l ?I ? m/.aiie pouucaj iriai mis country nas ever ? seen, Mange and his co-defendants refused to recognize ?*the legitimacy of the court, Bred their legal counsel, interrupted the trial with renditions of freedom songs, and were finally incarcerated in a glass cage in the courtroom. See Page 21 mjM v v< Jim ^ ^ '-j n* ^B3 B< atti w* MBkt fe w ^ pP"JT ,jpi WLJI yjr [ Lr'^jr^^ja ^PRW||^ Twirlers ' ^^ ^ ^'o6v o their first year as a group. Under the direc- ( performs during half time for the Boy's Club to right are: (standing) Mona Redd, Chevy ( kneeling left to right: Tammy Brown, April 1 ?V " 1 < sSought , however, the YMCA*although no defiard has had to nate plans or details can be rt plans since revealed at this time, the s Tobacco Co., three sites are all being ist month that investigated and viewed ased the land with interest. "Y" is now Seventh Street, off Clarest of its multi- mont Avenue; Highway < ar expansion 311, between Gerald and i Dellabrook Streets and an ; to Richard area of land in Winston < utive director Lake Park behind the Jet- < ;rson Avenue See page 2 j n To Traffic...Spe yalem ie Winston-Salem Community NSION-SAI I N). N.C Saturc , .vM m rfiti mi -J Ji^rglr ^ BptfM Jeremy Dion Fu/ks can hardly carry the large s ie Classic Fair which runs through Saturday, MNINHIinNINIINMMUItllllHIIIIIIIIIIHIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIHNMMIMIMN Honoring Mrs. Dazzelle Portrai A portrait of Mrs. Dazelle Foster Lowe, of 2403 N. . J| Cherry Street, Winston- J Salem was unveiled and v hung in the Agriculture * Sj Building at N.C. A & T Til State University during a lHfp" program that traced the roots of the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service. Mrs. Lowe worked 32 years with Extension and RHHMHSK through August 30,1980 Low continued to support it in stration Leadei her retirement. ploying teacher A member of a family of 13, Mrs. Lowe was reared by her grandmother and an i aunt. Her grandmother in- I B&C Fluenced her to prepare ! i herself for public service. \ 5he studied at Shaw Uni- i| /ersity and taught in the \ | public school system of | Wake County. During the summer of ? 1919 Mrs. Jane S. J| SdcKimmon* State Demon- j | _? I j I A black coll olaCK 11 local govern , gi which claims Ministers 1 One of its re, I has only whi Endorse 1 wai.tresses ? Democrats I b^k busb? - The Political Action I chcf^black< Committee of the Baptist f| fe* ,, Ministers .Conference and 1 f,nd* , But" Associates has proclaimed 1 racia y ln ei the remaining Sundays in i ma f "tS October, and the first Sun- V EE0 fi8ures day in November as "Get Out and Vote Sunday," ac- _ :ording to the committee's president, Dr. Jerry ^ w m Drayton, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church. The association Drayton By Donna 0 ;aid has voted to provide Staff Wn ans to transport . any egistered voter to and from he polls on November 4 at Residents of io cost. The Rev. W.C. Greens, a Turnl Hay, pastor of Galilee Bap- velopment off 0 ist Church, will coordinate boro Road will he effort. officials of the Drayton also announced Salem Housing hat the committee had on Get. 21, t oted to endorse the entire methods of curb democratic ticket for the nfll acts involvin election. of residents t "This endorsement in- plagued the area :ludes all local, state and three months, national offices," he said Mary Cockei adding, ''Voting Galaxy Court sai democratic offers the best personally had b< Dpportunity for the goals of approximate and achievement we seek." worth of jew cial Section In Since 19 74" lay, October 11. 1980 -s 'Vwj||^^^^^^||||^^^BM|taiMMfl^H ^Mgc . ^-^H^rQr>; N>.v^ :^^o|f^B %>. JK.fF '>(& ^ l ^K. IB ^V~uW. -* v.^f \ ?a, MmjggL PMnHMm BP^ Photo by A. Blue nner luffed lion he won the first day of the Dix Oct. //. Lnvop t Unveiledfamilies with food pre para tion, sanitation, and coti 1^ servation. Mrs. Low visited Mn McKimmon which resufte I in her employment for th H I summer in Lexington W N.C.; the begining of he career in Extension. Mrs. McKimmon was s impressed with Mrs JfHIHH Lowe's dedication and pre v servance that several year r, was em- later, 1924, she locate< s to assisst see page 2 urvey Part III Race Relati ByRobert Brown and Hal Sieber B & C Associates ege administrator, an elected official in ment, said: "There's a hotel 1 know i to be an equal opportunity employer, sturants has only black waiters; its cafe ite waitresses on one shift, only black n another shift; all three units have ;ers, white maitre d's, white cashiers, ys, white top chefs, black assistant iishwashers. I've asked questions and 1 story, "We hire the best people we can te dosen't ezplanin why the staffs are so ntifialbe, does it'O Some of the company nd board chairmen ought to look at their espically at the top levels, and see ie Up In H Idham money. Ms. Cockerham al^ so said that she believes that adults are promting Kingston _ . '/cLt Hunt ( meet with Winston- a "1 Authority OrowtJ o discuss ing crimig children Governor Jim Hunt cited hat have Forsyth County today as an t for about "outstanding example of what state and local rham of governments working tori that she gether can accomplish in ;en robbed creating jobs for the people ly $2,000 of North Carolina." elrv and Hunt was talking about 1 < 4 v side* oqicle ) 20 cents 24 Pages this week I * Political irurums set ~ iBy NAACP i . By Donna Oldham give an opportunity to reStaff Writer .spond to prepare questions based on the issues of a " In connection with its questionnaire that was pro "Voter Eduction Project vided to the candidates 1980, "members of the Win- prior to the forums. ston-Salem Chapter of the 3. Each candidate will be National Association for the given an opportunity to Advancement of Colored respond to written ques? People (NAACP) has de- tions form the audience. * signated the next three 4. Each candidate will be * Sundays in October for given two minutes for public candidate forums. closing remarks. According to Mrs. Bessie Only candidates regisAllen, chairperson of the tered with the Forsyth Voter Education Project, County Board of Elections - and Father Michael Curry, for the following offices will chairperson of the Candi- be allowed to'p4rticipate in date Forum, the purpose of the forums. * the Sunday sessions is to FEDERAL OFFICESinform the voting pubjjic of October 12 . issues in the 1980 campaign President and vice presiand the .position of the) dent (representatives of) candidates on those issues. U.S. Senate (represenative Each of the three forums is of) designed to focus on speci- Member of Congress- 5th fic issues of federal, state District i- and local concerns. STATE OFFICES- October i- Question from the 19 e audience will provide dial- Governor- (representative i. ouge and information. Ac- Of) d cording to AUen and Curry, Lt, Governor (represen>e the forums are not debated tatives of) , , U and all candidates seeking State Senate >r offices will be given equal State House time. LOCAL OFFICES- October o The format of the forum^ 26 . will include: * ^County Commissioner 1. Each candidate will be Board of Education s given two minutes for District Court Judge (21st d opening remarks. 2. Each candidate will be Page 9 ions Worsening whether there isn't a whole lot that still could be done to eliminate discrimination in employment." A black engineer, employed by a large manufacture ing firm, said: Some companies are doing a lot better than they used to, but they are few and far between. I'm okay here, but many blacks, a lot of my friends, have been laid off in our company's cutback recently. The union and everybody is watching to make sure that the cutback is done fairly, but is it fair when seniority means "last hired, first laid off," and the last hired is black people? Affirmative action gains of several years get wiped out-and then we've got to start all over." "These companies aren't very smart. They ought to be trying real hard to get our interest and attention because we spend billions of dollars. If you look at T.V. you can tell which companies care and which See Page 2 A ousing Complex children to steal. karat, 24-karat and custom "Children don't know the jewelry. Someone has to difference between 123ites Economic ti In Forsyth the S299,551,000 invested The largest new investin new and expanded in- ment came in the first six dustry that has come to months of 1980 when CPC Forsyth County in the first International, Inc. decided 1 ? - - - - * uirce ana nail years of his to locate in Forsyth. The administration--an invest- plant represents a $60 ment that represents 1,637 million investment and pronew jobs. vides 150 new jobs. 0