AMONG 17 Police take documents

Six Whites Indian

in swoopC IX WHITES were among the 17 people

arrested in Johannesburg last night in a sudden Security Branch swoop, described as “ one of the most important so far.” Among the people, who had all gathered at the Rivonia home of the artist, Arthur Goldreieh, were Walter Sisulu and Ahmet! Kathrada, a former member of the Transvaal Indian Congress.

Sisulu and Kathrada were both “ wanted ” men. They disappeared some weeks ago while under house arrest; Sisulu was on R6000 hail at the time.

Several members of the hard core o f the resistance movement in South Africa were among those arrested.

Among other nameleased were those of Lionel Bernstein, a 12-liour house- arrestee; Govan Mbeki of Port Elizabeth; Denis Gold­berg, a former member of the Congress of Democrats from Cape Town; Arthur Gold- reich, a well-known artist and

house of Mr. and Mrs. Goldreieh in Rivonia. Johannesburg, by a dozen detectives under the com­mand of Lt.-Col. Klindt, head of the Security Branch on the Wit- watersrand.

Asked if radio equipment had been confiscated during the raid a police spokesman said, after some hestitation, that no further in­formation could be divulged.

his wife Hazel; B. A. Hepple, jr o i r i

; and I)r. Hillard Sleepy ■ HoUowan advocate, ___Eestenstein, head of the South * 1 1 nrA u .- . . . ,O , i 1 1 ’ . c . , Ail aie being held under theKami laboratories of the In- 90-dav clause of the General Laws statute of Medical Research. j Amendment Act.

Lt.-Col. H. L. van den BerghThe names of the other Afri- jcans are given as Joseph j ,?ecur1^ Branch in Pretoria, Mashifana, Raymond Mohlaba, j said ^ ere would be no court Frank Mogothlana, Thwadi I aPPearances until investigations Magena. Primus Makoe. Philip! kaddeen completed. ivjoKOi ), Mashifana anu is ulie oi the most, mipor-

1 tant round-ups so far,” he said."so:omon Sepeng.They were arrested at the

16 arrests by Portuguese

LOURENCO MARQUES, Friday. — The self-styled leader of one of the African national movements of Mozambique, Dr. Eduardo Mond- lane, was yesterday arrested by the Portuguese security police. Another 15 members of the or­ganization, the Mozambique Liberation Front, considered ille­gal and subversive by the Portu­guese Government, were also taken into custody. — Sapa.

‘ As far as we are concerned it would be true to say that never have so few done so much for so many.”

The house was cordoned late yesterday afternoon. This fol­lowed the detention last week of two Africans in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg.

The house where the raid took place is set well back from the road in Sleepy Hollow, near Rivonia. It is not visible from the road.

This morning two constables stood guard at the gates and re­fused to allow anyone, except police, to pass through. As a re­porter arrived Col. Rocco de Villiers the Hospital Hill police chief, walked out and told the re­porter not to try to enter.

Two police officers piling seized books and documents into their car in the driveway of Mr. Rusty ” Bernstein’s home in Regent Road, Observa­tory, Johannesburg, after '< two-hour search of the pre

mises today.

w atchedTHOROUGH SEARCH OF HIS HOME

Unshaven, and w’earlng a regi­mental tie and sports coat. “Rusty” Bernstein accompanied tw'o plainclothes men around his Observatory home this morning. A two-hour search of every room and outhouse was made

The police warned Mrs. Hilda Bernstein when she trierl to see what they were taking away. They ordered her and her 2Q vear-old cUugntei, MAjnr, not to watch.

Mrs. Bernstein, who is banned under the Suppression of Com­munism Act, is a former member of the South African Communist Party. Her husband was also a member before the party was banned.

ANXIOUS NIGHTAfter an anxious night spent

waiting for her husband, Mrs. Bernstein heard of his arrest for the first time when telephoned by a reporter of The Star.

Mr. Bernstein was allowed to say “goodbye” to his wife and three children, before uoing escorted to a police car.

The back seat of the car was piled with documents and books, and there were also two type­writers.

Two disappeared while under house-arrest

ALTER MAX SISULU, former leader o f the African National Congress, was under _4-liour house arrest and on R6000 bail pending appeal against his

six-year sentence for incitement when he disappeared from his Orlando. Johannes­burg, home on April 19. ■ year outside the old Jewish Syna

Police believed that Sisulu fled S°SUe in Pretoria where Nelson to Bechuanaland. Members of the Mandeia was being tried for incite- Bechuanaland People’s Party said 1 meilk , — -. —that he was in Lobatsi. Then fol- Kathrada, a former treason Communists, lowed a report that he was in j trialist, was born at Schweizer- Lionel Bernstein, a listed C m-, Mozambique. Reneke, is a Moslem and has munist, has been a 12-hour l ouse

married, with two minor children. He was detained during the 19go emergency. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Goldberg are listed

rvtiiictve, tjj a iv iu s ie i i i ana nas ii<*° uccu a A-uuse-On June 19 tils wife; Mrs. Alber- travelled in East Berlin, Poland | arrestee since November last year,

tina Thetiwo Sisulu, was arrested ' and Czechoslovakia. Govan Mbeki, one of the non-He was detained during the 1960 Whites arrested, is a Port Eiiza-

— ----- beth journalist and politician. Heunder the 90-day detention clause.

On June 26 Sisulu was thought emergency, to have been heard in a pirate Arthur Goldreieh is an Indus was one of the 12 leaders of South

African non-Whites who called the Africa conference lasttrial designer and artist. He plans i a\\\J

new buildings • and shop interiors ifnv O hior HonQl<('mnl'\+ rl-AKn m>nnn I - Cc*.ABob Hepple is a Johannesburg

advocate and a former lecturer in law at the University of the Wit~ watersrand. He is the son of Mr.

“ freedom radio ” broadcast.Sisulu was born at Engcobo in -------- - — -----------

the Transkei on May 18 1912 He I forTTa b,lg department store group has travelled in Israel, Rumania, Q Hfh b?s exhibited widely in Poland, StMet Union, China and ? ° u‘ hhAfnca ai?d overseas and inBritain 1955 he won tJde award for themost promising work shown by a nc is uie son of j\ar-

Ahmed M. Kathrada (34), i young artist at the exhibition of Alex Hepple, former Labour M.P* general secretary of the Transvaal i contemporary art held during the Indian Congress, was under 12- \ Pretoria centenary celebrations, hour house-arrest when he left his j Denis Goldberg is a 31- Market Street, Johannesburg, j year-old. civil engineer of Carbrook home about the end of April this Avenue, Claremont, Cape, and is year.

His house-arrest order was served on him on October 22 last

At the gates

Armed police question an African deliveryman outside the gates of the Goldreieh house in Sleepy Hollow, near Rivonia. The police refused to allow Pressmen to enter the grounds of the house.

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