y myDu
from The Michigan Chronicle
It' "crime" for BI c
couple from t 0 eparate areas,
or "homeland ," in South Africa
to marry.
'1m gine, it's like prohibiting
a arylander from wedding a
Georgian," y Dr. ana
Seshibe, a Blac South frican
e patri teo •.
It' a 0 illegal for a Blac to
upervis a White in South
Africa. Ironically, this collide
with the Sullivan Principles,
which encourage U.S. companie
in South Africa to advance
Blacks into management posit­
ions, he indicate .
And it' ure detention for a
Blac South African caught in
ite" South Africa without a
p
The e are everyday realitie
Blac face under the racially
gregated system of apartheid,
according to Se hibe (pro­
nounced Sea- h -be a professor
in the Howard University Afri­
can Studie and Re arch Pro­
gram.
Many Americans are aware of
a artheid only in a general
n . But the laws of the land
that Blac must abide by, or
uffer star consequence, paint
more complete picture, she
emphasize .
o ELSP
TEREST
Since Bishop Desmond Tutu,
eneral cretary of the South
African Council of Churche,
named the 1984 winner of
the obel Peace Prize, sensitiv­
ity and warene of the impli­
cations of apartheid have
heightened. His continuing
denouncement of apartheid as
evil nd immoral, likening it to
azism "and Communism has
echoed around the globe.
But South Africa's commit­
ment to apartheid - or separa­
tion of the races - holds deep
roots, formulated into policies
that exclud participation by 23
million Blac South frican in
the affair of a g vernment
dominated by the 4.7 million
. te minority. Inde d, it is
a nation ruled by law - laws
th t u tain partheid despite
mounting worldwide criticism
p inting to human rights viola­
tion .
Since the inception of par­
theid in 194 , more than 350
law r targeted solely
to ard Blac have be n p ed,
ys Seshib. The ws were
made by th government with­
out input from Black, ho are
denied the right to vote or
hold office.
obody interpret or coun­
I Blac on the law ," stre s
Se hib . "They only learn
bout the law after they are
pplied to them."
"PASS L WS" FOR CO OL
key instrument to control
the mo ement of Blacks in
uth Afric i the "pa la "
initiated in the 1950. Every
Black in hite" South Africa
must b able to produce a
• pas boo" to uthoritie on
9
c
demand or face ho of penal­
tie, including imprisonment.
In 1982, more than 200 000
people were arrested 'under the
pa laws, according to a report
in the Johannesburg Star new -
a spekeswoman with Amnesty
. International, which monitors
abu s of human rights globally.
Reared in Soweto (South­
We tern Township), home of
two million Blac near
BISHOP TUfU - SOUTH AFRICA'S W RRIOR FOR PEACE -
B' op Desmond Tutu, the Anglican anti-apartheid leader from
South Africa, joins the lofty ranks of Dr. Martin Luther Kin Jr. by .
becoming th fourth B penon in hi ory to receive t p i-
gio obel Peace Prize. B' op Tutu, one of his country's h
" critics it policies of racial segregation, awarded hi
honor becau of . outspoken po ·tion. B' op Tutu fean that if
chan does not come soon to the nation here five million white
ill deny 22 million B1ac s their rigb, blood b th will be
inevitable." B' op Tutu, 53, received his $192,000 award on behalf
of all tho ho ha e been in olved in the liberatio ru
orkin for a new iety in South Africa." He plan to de nate
theprize money to scho ip for Black African youth .
paper.
Becau most f the nation s
economic -activity is in the
white areas, the p laws play
a significant. role in labor con­
trol. illions of Africans are
migrant workers who must leave
their rural homelands for em­
ployment in the cities, having
to travel long distances and
living away from their famille
in barracks-like hostels.
"A father may wor in a
factory or mine in Johannes-
unit."
Under the Internal Security
and Terrorism a ts almost any
per on can be detained with­
out charge or trial and held
incommunicado indefinitely for
posing a challenge to the regim .
burg while the mother may
work as a ervant in Capeto n
leaving the children behind with
elders or left alone to ta e
care of themselves," Seshibe
explains. "This i a method of
'destroying the whole family
Benton Twp. gives
emp oyee 5% pay hi e
know where they will 8t rt in
salary, when rai s ill come
and how much they will' be.
ielsen said the four year
contract will take it thru the
election year, and "take the
contract out of politics as it
wa thi year. "
ielsen said the new con­
tract is more stable for em­
ployees, who won't have to rely
on the 'per onal whims' of
Continued on pa 14
SHIP - The
contract between Benton Town­
ship employee, repre ented by
the American Federation f
State, County, and unicipal
Employees Local 2757 and the
Township Board of. Trustee
wa approved Tuesday night.
Supervi or Larry iel en said
it wa a good contract for both
side. It eperate on a grid
sy tern - new employees will
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'Both are so 100 ly drafted
that American' cour would
almost certainly rule similar
statu�es unreasonably vague,'
says the 1981 report of the
Study Commission on U.S.
Policy Toward Southern Africa
chaired by Franklin A. Thomas
president of the Ford Foun­
dation.
TORTURE AND ABUSE
ABOUND
There is considerable evi­
dence to show that political
detainees are _. commonly tor­
tured and abused during
interrogation by security police
in South Africa, according to
Johannesburg, Seshibe recall
being arrested and briefly jailed,
along with her father for cor­
responding with associates in
another country. After fleeing
her native land, she completed
her high chool education in
Tanzania. Subsequently, she
earned degrees a t American
schools, including a doctoral
degree in education from the
University of assachu tts.
White control of the land
i the foundation of the apar­
theid system, Seshibe points
out. The ative Land Act of
1013 and the ative Trust
and Land Act of 1936, both
initiated under British rule,
pportioned 13 percent of South
Africa's land to the African
majority while the white
minority retained 87 percent,
including much of the mineral­
rich land.
In 1959 11 years after the
descendant of early Dutch
settlers launched apartheid -
the Afrikaner government in­
troduced the Self-Government
Act that divided and forced
the African into 10 separate
'bantustan areas,' or "home­
lands,' fragmented by their
10 respective native tongues.
As a result of the act, orne
families were forced to parate
and family members prohibited
from visiting unles expre y
permitted by the govemrn nt,
say Seshibe. By drinving each
African-language group to
parate rural homeland , com­
munications among African
have been minimized, she dds.
C 'T LIVE err
Africans re al r
residing in any of th
major citie and
along lingui tic lin in t
ship out ide the urb n nt
The 'coloured' nd I ndi
are re tricted to de i n t d
urban areas too.
The Self-Governm nt
independent n tion
South Afric , trippin
of their citizen 'p
emphasizes, pointing t
Desmond Tutu' t tu
example. The I
Prize winner in
Ho ard University in
b r noted: "I travel on d u-
ment that
nationality
pre nt.
What will b
South
Blacks?
African
reinforce
forces in 'de th
But a
quoted in rec nt
magazine rticle n d:
know, the real nam of the m
here is po er. And e onomi
power i the power in South
Africa. This is why the whites
here will fight to th bitter
and bl dy end to retain it. •
Bishop Tutu believe that
, the only way to avoid a blo d­
bath will be if the internation 1
community comes to our aid.'
B . H. W 0 rna n t 0 dis c u s s
icaraguan trip
ST. JOS PH - The South-
tern ichigan omen s Polit­
ical Coalition will hear Laura
Truby, a Benton Harbor minis­
ter, peak on her December
trip to icaragua.
The meeting will be at
Maude Preston Palenske emor­
ial library, 500 Market St.,
at Lake Blvd., st. Joseph, Mi.
on ednesday, January 30th,
1985 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Truby is a graduate of Cor­
nell College, in Iowa, and
received her aster-of-Divinity
at the United Methodist Semi­
nary in Kansas City, is ouri.
She served as a ethodi t
inister for nine year, before
her move to Michigan three
year ago with her husband
Rev. Tom Truby, and their
two children.
ura
Berrien
involved with th
unty sn of
Churches Peace Task Force
which helped support her
December trip to icaragua with
the ' itne for Peace' dele-
gation.
She speaks fluen t Spanish
and will tell u of h r many
conversations ith icaraguan
citizens and American Embassy
officials, concerning the elect­
ion Border Ambush s and the
'.
Contras.
Rev. Laura Truby has a
deep feeling and understandin
for the people of Latin America
becau e of the 12 years spent
in B livia during her childhood
where her parent were active in
nited ethodist ission work.
The meetin is open to all
interested men and women. For
further information plea c n­
ta t Dorothy Golze hair 4 9-
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