FOCUS Subscriptions. Rates: Individuals-$10/year; Institutions-$25/year. INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE & AID FUND FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA P.O. BOX 17 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Name. ADDRESS. CITY. STATE ZIPCODE. The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa 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. President: Canon L. John Collins. Vice-President: Mr Kader Asmal (Ireland), Dean Gunnar Helander (Sweden) and Mr Gilbert Rist (Switzerland). FOCUS is published six times a year by IDAF under clause (iii) of its objects. It aims to keep international opinion informed about repression in Southern Africa in support of the call for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Material may be freely quoted or reproduced provided full acknowledgement is given to IDAF. A subscription form is overleaf. Sources and abbreviations: BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service; Citizen - The Citizen, Johannesburg; CT - Cape Times; DD - Daily Despatch, East London; Debates - House of Assembly Debates, Cape Town; GG - Government Gazette, Pretoria; GN - Guardian, London; FM - Financial Mail, Johannesburg; FT - Financial Times, London; MS - Morning Star, London; NM - Natal Mercury, Durban; 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 - Star Weekly Airmail edition, Johannesburg; Tel - Daily Telegraph, London; T - The Times, London; W - The World, Johannesburg; WA - Windhoek Advertiser, Namibia. STOP PRESS. On 12 September Steve Biko became the 24th victim to die in police custody since 1976. Biko, president of the Black Peoples Convention and leader of the Black Consciousness movement, was detained on 19 August and held in Port Elizabeth. According to police, he began a hunger strike on 5 September and was taken to hospital; on 12 September he was transferred to Pretoria, where he died. CORRECTION. It was stated in FOCUS No. 9 p. 12 that the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was banned in 1962. However the position is that SACTU has never been banned, although many of its office bearers have been both banned and imprisoned. Typeset at the Alden Press Oxford London and Northampton and printed by Alden & Billingham Ltd, Northampton
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