The International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa (President: Canon L. John Collins) has the following objects:
(i) to aid, defend and rehabilitate the victims of unjust legislation and oppressive and arbitrary procedures; (ii) to support their families and dependants; (iii) to keep the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake.
Focus is published by the Fund to inform international opinion about repression in Southern Africa, and in support of the call for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Material can be freely quoted or reproduced. Contributions towards the work of the Fund will be welcomed and should be sent to IDAF, 2 Amen Court, London EC4M 7BX.
Sources, and abbreviations: "Africa" - monthly, London; BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation monitoring service; CT - Cape Times; Debates - House of Assembly, Cape Town, (Hansard); GG - Government Gazette, Pretoria; GN - Guardian London; RDM - Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg; RH - Rhodesia Herald, Salisbury; SAIRR - South African Institute of Race Relations; SM - Sunday Mail, Salisbury; ST - Sunday Times, Johannesburg; Star - The Star, Johannesburg (overseas weekly edition); Times - The Times, London; WA - Windhoek Advertiser.
SOUTH AFRICA THE 'BANTU HOMELANDS'
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DIVIDE & RULE: SOUTH AFRICA'S BANTUSTANS By Barbara Rogers
South Africa has the only government in the world which is deliberately carving up its own territory into small fragments and launching them on the road to 'independence'. Ten tribal Bantustans are in the making. What sort of 'governments' do they have, and why is the apartheid regime promoting them so rapidly?
DIVIDE & RULE shows how the Bantustans are a key part of the apartheid policy. Millions of Africans are dumped in these overcrowded rural slums, which together comprise less than 13% of the whole country. Their economic function is to supply cheap black migratory labour for the white-dominated economy. Their political life is manipulated and controlled by a government which is determined to divide South Africa in order to carry on ruling.
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