Bob Hughes Interview Audio Clip 1 – Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)

https://www.aamarchives.org/archive/interviews/lord-bob-hughes/int09a-bob-hughes.html

Bob Hughes MP was the Chair of the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1976 to 1995. He was the Labour MP for Aberdeen North from 1970 to 1997 and served as Under Secretary of State for Scotland in 1974–75. He now sits in the House of Lords as Baron Hughes of Woodside.

In this clip Lord Hughes describes the arguments over boycotting South African products.

3:43 – “The economy of Britain at the time [1974-79] was such that South Africa was an important customer, so there were tensions. But there were then other tensions as well, you see the idea of boycotting South African goods and disinvesting from South Africa was not an easy policy to win. Even on the left. Initially some of the left, some of the Trotsky’s groups, argued that you can only get change in South Africa if you built up an industrial society and then the proletariat, well you know the story. And so they were in favour of investment. It was the only way to bring about change now. From their point of view, it was a respectable argument but the idea that there was a uniform belief from the day it was first suggested that the boycott of South African goods should become this investment. These were long drawn out battles. Very fierce battles. Very fierce arguments. That I think isn’t to the detriment of the Anti Apartment Movement and those people who want to bring Apartheid down.”

Bob Hughes Audio clip 2 – Anti-Apartheid Movement

https://www.aamarchives.org/archive/interviews/lord-bob-hughes/int09a2-bob-hughes.html

Bob Hughes MP was the Chair of the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1976 to 1995. He was the Labour MP for Aberdeen North from 1970 to 1997 and served as Under Secretary of State for Scotland in 1974–75. He now sits in the House of Lords as Baron Hughes of Woodside.

In this clip Lord Hughes describes how he envisioned the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a broad based movement open to all.

0:00 – “We took a conscience decision that we would go for the biggest broad based movement we can get. I didn’t ask any questions of people who were members of the Anti Apartheid Movement. I didn’t know or care or ask for what their religion was, I didn’t ask what their politics were. I didn’t care if they were communists, Tories or liberals or what. They say they were prepared to work with the Anti Apartheid Movement then they were our allies. And so we involved the churches, not just the Christian churches. We reached out and tried to get the non Christian churches involved. We wanted the biggest spread of trade unions become involved. We tried to build a broad political spectrum.”

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Tony Hollingsworth Letter regarding “Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute” (1988) - signed by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dr Allan Boesak, Robert Hughes MP, Andimba Toivo ja Toivo and Oliver Tambo

https://listencampaign.com/node/165

Tony [Hollingsworth] received the following letter from the Anti-Apartheid Movement, dated 12th June 1988 and signed by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dr Allan Boesak, Robert Hughes MP, Andimba Toivo ja Toivo and Oliver Tambo.

Dear Tony,

On behalf of all of us who got the credit for the marvellous Anti Apartheid concert and all that will follow from it – a thousand thanks!

Certainly it makes a landmark in our history: the greatest single event we have undertaken in support of the struggle.

Now we can certainly look forward to the future with enormously renewed hope.

God bless you, and thanks again.

Signed by:

Archbishop Huddleston

Dr Allan Boesak

Robert Hughes MP

Andimba Toivo ja Toivo

Oliver Tambo

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"Tony Hollingsworth - Tribute Inspirations - Nelson Mandela: 70th Birthday Tribute"

https://youtu.be/lTtg7QZPRRE

Nelson Mandela: 70th Birthday Tribute performed at Wembley Stadium, produced by Tony Hollingsworth, Executive Producer of Tribute Inspirations Ltd. www.tonyhollingsworth.com & www.tributeinspirations.com Artists included: Al Green, Ali McGraw, Amabutho, Amapondo, Arnhem Land Dance Troupe, Ashford and Simpson, Aswad, Bee Gees, Billy Connolly, Bryan Adams, Chrissie Hynde, Chubby Checker, Corbin Bernsen, Courtney Pine, Curt Smith, Daryl Hannah, David Sanborn, Denzel Washington, Derek B, Dire Straits, Emily Lloyd, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Farafina, Fat Boys, Fish, Freddie Jackson, Fry & Laurie, George Michael, Graham Chapman, Gregory Hines, Grupo Experimental de Dansa, Harry Enfield, Harry Belafonte, HB Barnum, Hugh Masakela, IDJ Dancers, Jackson Browne, Jennifer Beals, Jerry Dammers, Jessye Norman, Joan Armatrading, Joe Cocker, Johnny Marr, Jonas Gwangwa, Jonathan Butler, Lenny Henry, Little Steven, Mahlatini And The Mahotella Queens, Mark Kelly, Meatloaf, Michael Palin, Mick Karn, Midge Ure, Miriam Makeba, Natalie Cole, Paul Young, Paul Carrack, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Philip Michael Thomas, Ray Lema, Richard Gere, Salif Keita, Salt n Pepa, Simple Minds, Sir Richard Attenborough, Sly & Robbie, Steve Norman, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Tony Hadley, Tracy Chapman, UB40, Wet Wet Wet, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Youssou NDour.

https://listencampaign.com/node/165

Hollingsworth went to great lengths to get Sting to perform at the concert.

Several weeks before Wembley, Hollingsworth went to Switzerland where Sting was playing and booked himself into the same hotel.

“I called reception from my room and asked them to put me through to Gordon Sumner (Sting’s name). I introduced myself and told him that his management had stopped me talking to him. ‘I’m in the hotel, can we meet’. He told me his room number and I went there.

“He greeted me in his shirt and underpants. I told him why this was important, why it was important that he appeared. Like all artists, he had questions. One of his concerns was if Mandela got out, wouldn’t there be a bloodbath. Maybe, I said, but that’s no reason to keep him there.

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“Tony Hollingsworth on Mandela tribute” - https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc

The concert was not allowed to be political. Tony explains in his owns words to the SABC how he successfully made it political.

Tony Hollingworth – “re-positioned Nelson Mandela from “black terrorist leader” to “black leader” to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11”, etc.

https://tonyhollingsworth.com/

Tony has over 30 years of experience working with companies, governments and foundations at the intersection of communications, media and popular culture. His credits range from, conceiving and producing the global media campaign that reached 600m and re-positioned Nelson Mandela from “black terrorist leader” to “black leader” to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11.

His campaigns have repositioned brands, profiled important issues, and raised over $21m for causes (Amnesty International, Red Cross, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and children’s charities). He has worked with most of the world’s major broadcasters from the BBC to RTVE, from ABC and Fox to Globo, from SABC to NHK and his work has been supported by governments, major corporations and UN agencies.

Tony has taken the roles of consultant, entrepreneur, CEO/Director, Executive producer/Producer and run project companies in the UK, USA, Japan, Spain, Germany, Russia and South Africa through which he has financed and produced nine global cross-media projects. Some are considered historic (e.g. “Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute” and “The Wall - Live in Berlin”). All achieved their communication and marketing objectives, produced creatively-successful global broadcasts, CSR/sponsorship opportunities, merchandising and sell-through products, and assembled an incredible array of talent able to punch a hole in media schedules. Tony has worked with well over 200 of the world’s top creative artists from Stevie Wonder to Ravi Shankar, from Denzel Washington to Natalie Portman, from Samuel L Jackson to Keith Haring.

Summary Biography

GLC Festivals and Concerts

Looking East & West Conferences

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

The Wall: Live in Berlin

Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute to a Free South Africa

The Simple Truth: Concert For Kurdish Refugees

Guitar Legends

The Great Music Experience

The Greatest Music Party in the World

Saint George, The Bell & The Dragon

Songs & Visions

One Humanity Film

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“ARCHBISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON:SPEECH [LIVE 1990]” - https://youtu.be/EFYTT3RxSK8

“The Late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston's speech, given at the 1990 Nelson Mandela:An International tribute to free South Africa concert. At Wembley stadium,London.”

“Timeline: Father Trevor Huddleston”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/timeline-father-trevor-huddleston

1943-1956, Huddleston is appointed as priest-in-charge of the Community’s Mission in Sophiatown, South Africa.

1949, Appointed Provincial of the Community in South Africa and Superintendent of St Peter’s School.

1955, December, Father Huddleston is awarded the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe, along with Chief Albert Luthuli and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, the ANC’s highest award.

Fearing for his safety, the church recalls Huddleston and he moves to England

1959, 26 June, Huddleston and Julius Nyerere address the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in London.

1960, Huddleston is consecrated as Bishop of Masasi, Tanzania (then South Eastern Tanganyika), a position he holds for eight years.

1961, Father Huddleston becomes the Vice-President of the AAM, a position he holds until 1981.

1968, Huddleston becomes Bishop of Stepney – a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of London.

1978, Huddleston is elected as Bishop of Mauritius and first Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean.

1981, April, With the death of Bishop Ambrose Reeves, Huddleston is elected president of the AAM, a position he holds until 1994.

1983, Huddleston retires from the Episcopal office to St James, Piccadilly and accepts the provost-ship of the Anglican-Nonconformist Theological College of Selly Oak, Birmingham. Huddleston is awarded the United Nations Gold Medal.

1984, The Zambian government awards Huddleston with the nation’s highest award, the Order of Freedom 1st Class.

Huddleston receives the Dag Hammerskjold Award of Peace in the same year.

June, Huddleston leads an AAM delegation to meet Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to protest the visit of President P.W. Botha.

1994, Huddleston is awarded the Torch of Kilimanjaro from Tanzania and India’s Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

26 April, Huddleston casts his vote for South Africa’s first democratic election at Trafalgar Square in London.

1998, Huddleston is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michaels and St George in the 1998 New Years Honours.

24 March, At his Investiture Huddleston chooses the designation ‘Bishop Trevor of Sophiatown’.

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“Bishop Trevor Huddleston. Pervert who preyed on the Poor”

https://africaunauthorised.com/pervert-or-protector-of-the-poor/

June 18, 2014

Last year we were witness to celebrations around the world marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Father Trevor Huddleston. He will be remembered as one of the Anglicans’ heroes of the 20th Century for his fight against racism and apartheid and his mentoring of many of Africa’s most prominent political and spiritual leaders.

Huddleston was born in Chaucer Road, Bedford, on 15th June 1913. He was educated at Oxford and ordained in 1939. Four years later he was posted to South Africa. Afrikaner nationalism was on the rise and he worked in the black township of Sophiatown near Johannesburg.

There he fought stridently for black rights and railed against the rise of Afrikaner power and forced segregation. When Sophiatown was demolished to make way for new development, he focussed world attention on the ‘monstrous violation of black civil rights’. Becoming the white face of the ‘struggle’ he cemented friendships with leading black leaders like Mandela and Oliver Tambo.

Eight years later he moved back to England when he was appointed Bishop of Stepney. He championed Indian immigrants, seeking to protect them from ‘conservative elements’. In 1972 he founded ‘Fair Play for Children’ when two eight year old boys drowned in a canal in Stepney. He blamed their deaths on the lack of adequate leisure facilities. In 1978, he was appointed Bishop of Mauritius and Primate of the Indian Ocean. He retired in 1983 having devoted his life to anti-apartheid activities, being president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1981 until the ANC came to power in 1994. In 1998 he received a knighthood for his work in ending white rule in South Africa.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, “If you could say that anyone single-handedly made apartheid a world issue, then that person was Trevor Huddleston.”

“No white man has done more than Father Trevor Huddleston in the fight against apartheid,” Nelson Mandela said soon after his release from prison in February 1990.

But in the hubris of Huddleston’s birth-centenary, a dirty secret trickled out. In probing the Jimmy Saville affair, ‘Private Eye’ Magazine also requested information regarding allegations against Huddleston. They unearthed a report meant to be frozen until 2069 revealing Huddleston as a child molester.

A police investigation followed and a report was sent by the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Robert Mark to the Director of Public Prosecutions recommending prosecution on four counts of gross indecency. The report stated the charges ‘can be supported by the evidence obtained’. Sir Norman Skelhorn, the DPP decided not to prosecute.

Years later Sam Silkin a former Labour Attorney General stated the prosecution was suppressed because it “… would have ruined his career and influence”. Clearly the lives and welfare of underprivileged children were of secondary importance when it came to protecting the public persona of an important man who happened to be a paedophile.

This selective justice was consistent in British public life. One of Huddleston’s ideological soul-mates, Liberal peer Sir Cyril Smith MP also admitted molesting boys in a hostel he co-founded. He also escaped prosecution. After his death, Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said in a statement: “Although Smith cannot be charged or convicted posthumously, from the overwhelming evidence we have, it is right and proper we should publicly recognize that young boys were sexually and physically abused.”

Another Huddleston ‘bum-chum’ was Liberal leader Jeremy ‘Bomber’ Thorpe. The ‘Bomber’ sobriquet was earned by his famous call in the Commons for the RAF to bomb Ian Smith’s white Rhodesia into submission. Thorpe, who was known to be leading a rather sordid lifestyle was also engaged in illegal sexual activity (homosexuality was illegal at this time). His tempestuous relationship with his lover Norman Scott was carefully ignored by the press. Only when Thorpe was charged in 1979 with trying to murder Scott did the seedy story appear in detail. Thorpe was acquitted but his political career was finally over.

It seems that when it came to those figures in British public life who were building careers and reputations on the back of bashing the beastly whites in Africa who were being horrible to the ‘natives’ none of the usual rules applied. No matter how evil their actions and no matter how defenceless these ‘Struggle Icons’ were able to misbehave with impunity. We will never know the exact number, but there is little doubt hundreds of British kids and God alone knows how many black kids, were sacrificed on the altar of anti-white zealotry. And no-one was brought to justice.

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“Tributes pour in for Archbishop Desmond Tutu” - https://youtu.be/6omiysqzqx8 [Posted December 26, 2021]

“Tutu, Desmond – An Equal Rights Advocate – World Class” – Trevor Huddleston and Harry Oppenheimer

https://amazingblackhistory.com/2021/12/30/tutu-desmond-an-equal-rights-advocate-world-class/

December 30, 2021

When Tutu returned to Johannesburg, he moved into an Anglican hostel and became a server under the influence of priest Trevor Huddleston who is considered the greatest single influence in his life. Huddleston a White priest made an impression on Tutu and his mother when he doffed his hat after meeting Tutu’s mother.

Tutu moved up in the Anglican church under the influence of Huddleston. Starting in 1947 Tutu contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalized for 18 months. Huddleston visited him regularly during this time. He returned to school in 1949 and completed his work. He was admitted to the University of the Witwatersrand to study medicine, but his parents could not afford the tuition. He then turned to teaching and gained a [Apartheid] government scholarship to start a course at Pretoria Bantu Normal College which taught teachers. It was there that he met Nelson Mandela future president of South Africa.

Huddleston encouraged Tutu to become an Anglican priest. A request to join the Ordinands Guild was turned down because of personal debt. These debts were paid off by the White wealthy industrialist Harry Oppenheimer and he was admitted to St Peter’s Theological College.

Praise of Tutu has come from around the world. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, “is another chapter of bereavement of our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding south Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa. From the pavements of resistance in South Africa to the pulpits of the world’s great cathedrals and places of worship, and the prestigious setting of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Arch distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive champion of universal human rights.”

Former U.S. President Barack Obama hailed Tutu as “a moral compass for me and so many others. A universal spirit, Archbishop Tutu was grounded in the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but also concerned with injustice everywhere. He never lost his impish sense of humor and willingness to find humanity in his adversaries.”

Tutu also campaigned internationally for human rights, especially LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic,” he said in 2013, launching a campaign for LGBTQ rights in Cape Town. “I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say, ‘Sorry, I would much rather go to the other place.’”

A seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutu’s burial, including a two-day lying-in state, an ecumenical service, and an Anglican requiem mass at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. The southern city’s landmark Table Mountain will be lit up in purple, the color of the robes Tutu wore as archbishop.

Trivia of the day. There are only 2 people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize that live on the same street. Answer: Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

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“Oliver Tambo and Trevor Huddleston”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/oliver-tambo

When Canon John Collins of St Paul's Cathedral, London, a great organiser of overseas support for anti-apartheid causes, visited South Africa in 1954, Father Trevor Huddleston of Sophiatown, also a great champion of anti-apartheid defiance, and [Oliver] Tambo took him to meet Sisulu and other ANC members.

Tambo spoke to Collins about his hopes of becoming an ordained minister of the church. This dream was not realised as Father Huddleston, whom Tambo had considered his spiritual mentor, was recalled to England in 1956.

Tambo’s first visit to northern Europe was when he went to Denmark at the invitation of the Prime Minister on 1 May 1960. He addressed meetings in Copenhagen and Aarhus outlining the history of South Africa and called for trade unions to help the ANC’s boycott call. From here, he flew to London where he was met by his friends Father Huddleston and Canon Collins. In London, he had meetings with ANC exiles, Dadoo and representatives of the PAC. His intention was to try to bring together representatives of the liberation movements fighting the South African regime.

“VIOLENCE AND APARTHEID” – Violence between Indians and Blacks [1985] - United Democratic Front (UDF)

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/15/world/violence-and-apartheid.html

Aug. 15, 1985

The images this weekend linger. Black South Africans tear down the former home of Mohandas K. Gandhi outside Durban systematically, seeing a shrine of peace as no more than a source of free building material. A day later, a black crowd incinerates a fellow black depicted as a sellout.

There is to it all a harsh logic and a kind of explanation. But the beneficiaries include those who seek evidence of black violence with which to counter black political demands.

The damage seems to go deeper than points scored in a propaganda battle. Within less than a week, in which bloodshed has spilled far beyond the areas affected by the state of emergency, blacks have shown themselves sharply divided.

And the violence in Durban, in which scores of Indian-owned shops and homes were burned down, seems to have eroded a coalition of Indians and Africans that stood as an emblem of multiracial hope.

Former Political Prisoner Speaks

We are responsible for the fact that South Africa is the scum of the earth, Stephen Tshwete, a former prisoner on Robben Island, a jail off Cape Town, told the gathering. If Botha is really going to solve the problem of this country, he must come to us.

We are the authors of the present state of emergency in our country, and we are committed to seeing that South Africa comes down to her knees, Mr. Tshwete said. We want to bring them down. There is no apology for that.

His speech inflamed passions. His efforts to calm them, as a crowd pursued the Ciskeian soldier, failed.

That the Ciskeian should be seen as a puppet of the South African Government should not surprise. Ciskei is one of the four so-called homelands to have accepted nominal independence, thereby helping to further the intentions of what is called Grand Apartheid: the removal of blacks from South Africa proper, and the denial to them of a citizenship that would, by apartheid's own logic, imply political rights.

The rivalries are well-known. Chief Buthelezi is Chief Minister of the Zulu homeland called KwaZulu, and he says that his political organization, Inkatha, has more than a million supporters. The United Democratic Front considers him a traitor on the ground that, by accepting the status of homeland leader, he promotes the policies of the South African Government, a charge that is denied by the Zulu chief.

Zulu-Xhosa Ethnic Rivalry

The hatred is tinged, too, with ethnic rivalries between Zulus and the Xhosas, who support the United Democratic Front, seeing it as the custodian of the values and political aims of the outlawed African National Congress. The deaths in Durban's unrest mean that there will be more funerals and rallies evoking passions and hatreds that will test a fragile peace.

Past Harmony Is Recalled

Some black families, he said, had sheltered Indians as fires rose over the township. Indians and blacks had lived in harmony in Inanda for 50 years, he said. But, even as he spoke, Indian vigilantes were putting the torch to 10 black-owned houses in Inanda, in retribution for the week's destruction of their own property.

South Africa's 800,000 Indians face a quandary. They are resented by many blacks who see them as exploitative outsiders, yet they draw scant benefit from the ambiguous political relationship with whites enshrined in last year's Constitution.

Many Indians abstained a year ago from elections for a segregated Indian chamber in a new tricameral legislature. Last week, some thought the absence of police or army protection for their property was a kind of punishment for abstention. The authorities were quick to try to exploit the doubts about the worth of an alliance with blacks represented by the United Democratic Front, known as U.D.F.

Anonymous pamphlets appeared on the streets asking questions such as: Where was the U.D.F. when our women were being raped? As with the destruction of Gandhi's home, the pamphlets seemed to represent an attempt to undermine the United Democratic Front's self-image as an embracer of all races.

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“Apartheid Israel’s links with Apartheid South Africa and Democratic Alliance (DA)” – UDF, Harry Oppenheimer

https://uncensoredopinion.co.za/apartheid-israels-links-apartheid-south-africa-democratic-alliance-da/

January 29, 2017

The DA has had ties with Israel since Israel was founded through its predecessors the Democratic Party later called Progressive Federal Party which then merged with Independent Party and National Democratic Movement in 1989 to form the new Democratic Party[2]. The links to Israel for the DA came with its main funder, Harry Oppenheimer who had accumulated vast wealth in South Africa through the exploitation of Black labour and land dispossession throughout colonial rule and later Apartheid.

Oppenheimer used Central Selling Organisation, an arm of De Beers, to help increase Israel’s market share of all cut and polished gem diamonds to more than 50%. All this while funding “liberal”political parties in South Africa which were “anti-Apartheid”[3].

Oppenheimer did not stop his duplicity with “liberal” political parties but also funded the “anti-Apartheid” movement through the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Urban Foundation[4] while a trustee at South Africa Foundation which funded various propaganda schemes for the Apartheid government in places like the United States[5] as a way of promoting Apartheid as “socially acceptable”.

Israel’s links to Apartheid South Africa were also solidified by the Afrikaner Nationalists who controlled the state. The steel producer Iskoor was 51 percent owned by Israel’s Histadrut Koor Industries through a front company in Switzerland called Talronics and 49 percent by the South African Steel Corporation. [6]

Histaldrut is a racist labour union based in Israel which also had links to Black labour unions in South Africa. In 1986, it met leaders of the newly-founded Black Trades Union Federation and the Congress of South Africa Trades Unions including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was then general secretary of the powerful National Miners Union in 1986[7].

On 18th of January 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released 13 million pages of declassified documents online and within those documents there’s a document named “Israel’s relationship with Apartheid South Africa” dated 17 July 1986 which lists the following economic ties:

• South Africa is Israel’s leading trading partner in Africa with trade between the two amounting to $250million excluding military equipment and diamonds

• Israel imports almost 60% of its coal from South Africa

• South Africa’s large and affluent Jewish community is the largest per capita contributor to Israel

Such are the links between the two countries and the Oppenheimer family, that there’s a Holocaust Museum in Johannesburg while Israel has the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum.

As South Africa rebuilds a new nation the question of relations with rogue states such as Israel should be on the agenda since the governing party given that the ruling ANC’s stance of solidarity with the Palestinians who face similar atrocities South Africa faced 23 years ago. It is after all, former President Nelson Mandela who said: “The people of South Africa will never forget the support of the state of Israel to the apartheid

regime.”

Sources

[1] https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

[2] http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/democratic-party-dp

[3] Sasha Polakow-Suransky – The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid

South Africa (Page 71)

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/21/guardianobituaries.davidpallister

[5] Washington Post,15 February 1984

[6] http://www.jta.org/1987/08/14/archive/histadrut-leader-orders-all-firms-controlled-by-the-unionto-

end-all-trade-links-with-south-africa

[7] Sasha Polakow-Suransky – The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid

South Africa (Page 71)

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>Business also supported initiatives such as the United Democratic Front and the Mass Democratic Movement, funding legal expenses and facilitating and paying the costs of meetings.

“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 1

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

Below are excerpts

1983

On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak calls for civic organizations, trade unions, student organizations, churches, sports and other bodies to unite and collectively oppose the state’s constitutional reforms.

Soon after, a steering committee is formed to take the process further. The committee consists of members from the Transvaal TASC, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Release Mandela Committee. The steering committee was to maintain inter-regional coordination, while in each region, individuals and organisations were being canvassed so regional structures can also be formed.

May, Natal UDF region is launched and a Regional Executive Committee (REC) is elected in Durban.

June, Transvaal UDF region is launched. REC is yet to be elected

The formation of the regional UDF structures resulted in the national steering committee, which comprised of a few committed representatives of a few organisations- evolving into an ‘Interim Steering Committee’, which now consists of delegates from the UDF regions. The Interim Steering Committee members included Popo Molefe, Frank Chikane and former president of NUSAS, Andrew Boraine- amongst other members.

20 August, National Launch of the UDF takes place at the Rocklands Community Centre, in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town (view footage), attended by about a 1000 delegates and 500 observers, from over 500 different organisations. Later doors open to the public, and a reported 6000-15000 people join to rally for the newly formed UDF.

The UDF National Launch is set up to coincide with the government's introduction of the Tricameral legislation being passed in August.

29 October, violent confrontations occur at the University of Zululand (Ongoye) after students aligned to the UDF and African National Congress (ANC) oppose an attempt by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), to use the campus for a ceremony to commemorate the death of King Cetshwayo. Five UDF students are killed by IFP supporters, in what is referred to as the ‘Ongoye Massacre’. This also occurs in a political climate where UDF poses a threat to IFP's hold on popular support in KwaZulu.

Following the Ongoye Massacre, and after months of avoiding directing public opposition to the IFP, the UDF publicly denounces the IFP as collaborators with the apartheid state

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“Gang activity investigated after Mitchells Plain shooting” - https://youtu.be/BxT7CpNnn4M

“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 2

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

Below are excerpts

1984

July, the UDF turns its attention to the tricameral elections happening in August and launches the Anti-tricameral Parliament Campaign. Utilising what the organisation learnt from the million signatures campaign, the UDF, along with affiliates and extra-parliamentary groups, commence vigorous campaigning- holding mass meetings and rallies, in towns and cities across the country- to promote an election boycott and opposition to the apartheid state and its reforms.

Late-August, senior leaders of the UDF and its affiliates are held in detention by the apartheid government. The Supreme Court declares the detention notices invalid, and the government is compelled to release detainees- however, after release, the government immediately attempts to redetain them with revised detention notices.

School boycotts occur in the Eastern Cape and other regions.

September, the apartheid regime hold elections for the tricameral parliament amidst a massive boycott

3 September, The Vaal Uprising starts in what will be the longest sustained uprising in South Africa. Conflict erupts over rent boycotts; four local authority councillors killed.

10 December, the government withdraws all the preventative detention notices. Some detainees are released, others were still held in custody, but will be formally charged and brought before a court.

December, the house of regional UDF Vice-President, Fikile Kobese, is petrol bombed, and his nephew is killed in the bombing.

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“Zindzi Mandela reads her father’s rejection to PW Both in 1985” - https://youtu.be/Z_yyZvfSvnk

[President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison - https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/president-p-w-botha-offers-nelson-mandela-conditional-release-prison - On 31 January 1985 State President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela, leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional release from the prison sentence he had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964. The condition of his release is that he renounces violence, and violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates his refusal of the offer through his daughter, Zindzi Mandela, who reads his statement to this effect at a rally in Soweto on 10 February 1985.]

“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 3

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

1985

January, U.S Senator Edward Kennedy, invited by Allan Boesak and Archbishop Desmond Tutu- who are both members of the UDF, visits South Africa. The UDF contenciously endorse his visit, but decide not to meet with him formally. Some affiliates, especially in the Western Cape, are critical of Kennedy’s visit and denounce him as an American agent of Capitalism and Imperialism.

February, isolated protests give way to general and nationwide confrontation between civic protesters and state police forces.

February, the UDF holds its biggest ever function to celebrate Tutu winning the Nobel peace prize, in Soweto. While there, Zindzi Mandela reads Mandela's response to the government's offer to release detainees. [See attached video]

18 February, UDF offices are raided countrywide; over 100 arrested, including Albertina Sisulu, Saloojee and Frank Chikane. Seven of these detainees, leaders of the UDF, are charged together with the previous six treason trialists in what will become known as the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial.

21 March, on the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, 20 people are killed on the way to a funeral of struggle victims in Uitenhage. This becomes known as the Langa Massacre. The UDF immediately condemned the killings and called for a national day of mourning. The massacre prompts a violent reaction from the public. The escalation of violence also forces the UDF to restate its commitment to non-violence, with the exception of what it called ‘defensive’ violence.

April, the UDF holds its first full national conference or National General Council (NGC) in Azaadville, Krugersdorp. The conference theme is, “From Protest to Challenge, From Mobilisation to Organisation.” Decisions made at the conference ratify and accelerate the transformation of the UDF from merely a coordinating front for affiliates to an organisation operating with an ever-increasing independence from affiliates. The front’s focus shifts largely to building organisation and training activists.

April, at a major funeral in KwaNobuhle, outside Uitenhage- Charterist Youth, many affiliated with the UDF, order Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) supporters to remove their t-shirts and refuse to read out a message from the AZAPO national president. Violent clashes occur between the two sides. UDF and AZAPO leaders denounce the actions and emphasise their common opposition to the government- however tensions continue to swell on the ground and violent outbreaks between the rivals continue.

Mid-April, State President PW Botha declares that the UDF is an extension of the ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP), in Parliament.

Late April, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC make the statement, “Make apartheid unworkable! Make the country ungovernable!”. This statement is printed on a pamphlet and thousands of copies are distributed in South Africa.

Early August, UDF Natal activist and regional Treasurer, Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, is murdered allegedly by the police.

11 August, activists all across the border region, attend a funeral for Mxenge in King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape. This weekend, eight of nine schools in the area were burnt down, 38 people were killed and township councillors flee for their lives.

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“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 4

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

1986

January, UDF has first meeting with the ANC in Stockholm

8 January, the ANC releases a statement, emphasising that the struggle must be expanded outside of the townships and into the whole urban area.

Parliament claims that the UDF and the ANC have taken over 27 townships in the Eastern Cape. While both the ANC and UDF play an important role in resistance, neither can claim full credit for the manifestation of people’s power in townships.

The UDF publishes its second edition of Isizwe, called “The People Shall Govern”, and in it discusses street committees and people’s courts as the ‘organs of people’s power’. From the outset, the UDF promotes discipline and organisation with regards to the ‘people’s power’.

15-21 February, Six Day War in Alexandra. 27 people killed

Northern Transvaal region UDF launched

UDF launches 'Unban the ANC' campaign

August, White City, Soweto massacre

October, UDF declared an affected organisation by SA government and is restricted from legally receiving further funding. The state also imposes restrictions on media, prohibiting filming or taking pictures of any unrest situations, or of police and military forces.

1987

January, the theme for the UDF for 1987 was 'Forward to People's Power

March, UDF affiliated South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) is launched

May, the UDF wins its case in court against the State to be declassified as an affected organisation. This allows the organisation to legally receive funding again

July, Sayco 'Save the Patriots' campaign

'Friends of UDF' launched

UDF formerly adopts the Freedom Charter

November, UDF calls for boycott of black local authorities

September, UDF and the ANC initiate the formation of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)

2 November, Cosatu lawyers, in association with the UDF, serve key Inkatha leaders interdicts against acts of violence

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“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 5

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

1988

24 February, the Minister of Law and order effectively bans the UDF and 16 organisations, and restricts Cosatu and 18 individuals from doing political work

Despite being banned, the UDF continues to work through a coalition with Cosatu. This relationship is formalised with the launch of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM). The MDM organises and implements regional and national campaign

May, Cape Democrats launched

May, Nelson Mandela embarks on a series of talks with with a team of government officials and is given a phone to maintain contact with the ANC while in exile

May, Cosatu holds a Special Congress at the University of Witwatersrand, which also includes 120 UDF affiliates with full speaking rights

November, judgement is delivered on the Delmas Treason Trials; the judge found that the UDF had acted as the internal wing of the ANC, and had sought to make the country ungovernable and overthrow the apartheid government through violence. Lekota was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Molefe and Chikane to ten years each.

December, after being transferred from Pollsmoor Prison to Victor Vester Prison, Mandela meets regularly with UDF and other political leaders inside the country

1989

February, the MDM releases a condemning statement on Winnie Madikizela Mandela

June, UDF, ANC and Cosatu convene a meeting in Lusaka

July, Mandela meets with P.W. Botha

June, a UDF delegation, led by Albertina Sisulu, meets British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, new American President George Bush, the French President, Francois Mitterrand and the Swedish Prime Minister.

October, De Klerk orders top ANC leaders to be released from prison, except for Mandela

National Reception Committee formed

December, the MDM hosts a conference for a Democratic Future, in response to the rapidly shifting political climate

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“United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990” Part 6

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-democratic-front-timeline-1983-1990

1990

January, the UDF’s NEC declares the UDF unbanned- the UDF essentially unbans itself

January, the UDF associated, Kagiso Trust hosts a conference entitled, ‘From Opposing to Governing: How Ready is the Opposition?’

February, the apartheid government unbans the ANC and 72 other liberation organisations. Restrictions on the UDF are lifted and Mandela is released from prison

March, UDF and Cosatu hold a national women’s workshop

May, First meeting between ANC and apartheid government

May, First meeting between ANC and apartheid government

July, Week of 'National Mass Action' against violence in Natal

August, Bantustan conference

1991

20 August, the UDF officially disbands, in solidarity with the ANC [I would say merged]

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“Tony Hollingsworth on Madiba” – Mandela’s Rivonia Trial Speech

https://youtu.be/llJRpBPNCOE

5:41 – “I was given a few weeks ago, in fact, a copy of the Rivonia Trial speech, printed in South Africa in 1988 with a lot of excuses around it. Legal excuses of how it could even be printed but that speech was in fact what we knew of Mandela at the first event. Most of the world knew very little. He’d been in prison for 25 years at that point in time. So he didn’t know what he looked like, we didn’t know what he sounded like. What we were backing was the man that had given the speech at the Rivonia Trial… And that’s all you had on him, I mean in terms of we talk about photographs. There were no photographs of this man. People were just gathering and so many people gathering for this man that almost you didn’t really know much about.”

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Nadine Gordimer

"An author who wrote extensively to bring attention to Apartheid. Wrote many works of fiction, three of which banned by the South African government. Assisted Mandela with his famous speech at the Rivonia Trial, and was a secret member of the ANC for many years. Once they were legitimate, she got a party card."

“Mandela changed his historic Rivonia speech” – George Bizos

https://www.news24.com/News24/Bizos-advised-Mandela-to-change-historic-Rivonia-speech-20131212

12 December 2013

Johannesburg - Former president Nelson Mandela's lawyer George Bizos advised him to slightly alter the speech he delivered shortly before he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial in the 1960s, it was revealed on Thursday.

Speaking at Mandela's celebration and memorial held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Mandela's friend and anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada said Bizos advised Mandela to add the word "if needs be", to a pivotal part of the speech he delivered.

The altered stanza which has become globally known as one of Mandela's most famous quotes read: "It is an ideal for which I have lived; it is an ideal for which I hope to live and see realised. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."