I .... . . .cobM not Merwe, 36, and Mr Aid-- Mr A ldw orth 'a -w lfe.'a Private Matter", the Fi- ?

worth, SO, both of whom Kalherue, and Dr Andre nancial MaU said in De- art married, stunned the Tan der Merwe/ have both ! cember that Barclays was

for Bar-1- local business community, steadfastly refused to com- Professor Van der Merwe's nal Bank,' They met when, as head ment on the relationship main client and wosld uny, said; of Barclays, Mr Aid worth i between their spouses. i< soon mate her a million- night that invested Rl,4m to launch- The Aldworths were airess. mment to Barsan, her marketing and married in 1954 while P n - U s e of the name of Bar- len i f * * - public relations firm. fessor Van Der Merwe clays Bank, was “an asset

AB&*aV Professor Van d e r• married in 1973. of inestimable value".Merwe said the relation- : However, most criticism ' Professor Van der

n der- ship was not a scandal hut has centred around the Merwe’s company was the so not ke-v “honest" and Mr Aldworth link between Barclays and brains behind Barclays'- ment. insisted his personal feel- Baraan rather than the new advertlaing image s?iP be- tags would not affect his couple's private life. -. - /* aimed at the young busi- Van der business dealings. Under- the heading “Not tfess community.

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which Barclays BanEreT fused to confirm, the bank has instructed its lawyers •* to examine the contracts setting up Barclays Sandra van der Merwe and Associ­ates (Barsan). ,

According to the leading '-’f article in this week’s Fi- L ̂nancial Mail, which calls jLy- for Mr Aldworth’s resigns- s B * . tion, Barclays holds 70 5 percent of the Barsanshares and Dr VanMerwe the balance.

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-Zimbabwe oil pipeline blown - upHAHARE — T h e ' vital-.'days after its closure on 'a fte r '* 15 years o f closure luei pipeline from the ^ ------- 1— ° — r~ ~t *by sanctions against Rho-- — ___December 8, when fuelMozambique port o f Beira storage tanks at Beira and desia, is capable o f carry to Zim babwe s eastern the entry connections to ing a ll Z im babw e ’s border city o f Mutare was the line were sabotaged requirem ents o f d iesel

^aamaged m another sabo- 'a by Moiambican rebels. • and petroL But it has • ® •tta5 * F ^ We<3ne«da>>^ T ^^eutT entfuel short^fcbeen subject to repeated.

S- «M the* height of-"age in-Zimbabwe has led-sabotage attempts^Zimbabwe’s most serious 1 to all-night queues o f cars There have been oersis- lueJ cnsis. ’ /v at city filling stations. - *- • • — - -

Harare sources said an V Cars are left in queues explosion made a large • at suburban filling sta- hole in the pipeline near _ tions for three or morethe midway point at'Ma- forga. where Zimbabwe troops have been sta­tioned to protect the line.

An o f f ic ia l o f the Lonrho company, which

tent reports in Zimbabwe that the government has signed a three-year con-

„ tract for the supply o f pet- f days as motorists try to - rol and diesel from Sasol

keep their vehicles on the in South Africa.road.

Petrol queue parties have become a distrac­tion for motorists, with

owns the pipeline, would . friends gathering round not• comment on the re-, portable braais, coo ler port yesterday. . / . ^ :̂ o a g s and portable radio

The pipeline was be- ‘ and television sets, lieved to be due to restart The fu el p ip e lin e , pumping in the next few which reopened last July

But in a year-end televi­sion interview, the Prime M in ister, Mr R ob ert Mugabe, said Zimbabwe had not signed an agree­ment at ministerial level — a reported condition im posed by the SouthAfrican Government __Sapa

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JOHANNESBURG."— A Railways policeman who ran amok and went on a shooting rampage in Kim­berley on Sunday died in Kimberley Hospital early yesterday. 1 .

T w enty-tw o y e a r 'o ld Constable J J ’ van der Westhuizen bad been in a critical condition after an op eration to ‘rem ove a bullet from his back. .

Major Pat Higgs, Kim­berley’s police liaison of­ficer, said yesterday that the three m en , wounded in Sunday’s gun-battle, Sergeant H J Pelser, Mr Pierre Venter and Mr J H L van Niekerk. w*»t-p all jn

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By ENRICO KEMPDR Allan Boesak, presi­dent o f the World Alli­ance o f R e fo rm ed . Churches, h a s . described the Labour Party’s deci­sion to participate in the governm ent’s con stitu ­tional plan as “ disgust­ing” and “ reek in g o f opportunism” .

In an interview yester­day, he said the party had now “ lost whatever re­spect it might have had” and predicted a united front o f opposition from community organizations, sports b o d ie s and churches - v against .coloured participation in the proposed fri-cameral, parliam en t o f w hites, coloured people and Indi­ans. i - y v

“ What is surprising — and disgusting —:is the 1 eagern ess w ith w hich they have ' accepted the government’s proposals. They have done so uncon-. ditionally, knowing that it .' is based on acceptance o f the fact that the home­lands policy would be ir-

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community*. Even in the ' days o f the old CRC, it op- ' erated within 20 percent ‘

reversib le and that all t h e . ° / the p eop le who thought :* basic tenets o f apartheid, participating in

~such as ra ce c l a s s f i c a t i o n “ !e CRP» cou ld bring— j />------ --------- . . abou t m eaningful *-*

change."and the Group Areas Act, remain intact and cannot be changed.’-’ . . - * Asked whether he fore- ̂v * - f . saw a united front o f op-A?v,' S e l f -r e s p e c t position to participation ' Dr Boesak, who is a lso ’ tj?e constitutional plan, :

the Assessor o f the Ne- said; “All com- .*•derduitse Gereformeerde. m uni*y organ ization s £ Sendingkerk, the second fPort. orSani2ations and ' most powerful position in 1 , e churches have so far ... the church, said he b e - r cl*ar,yJ®d “ “ equivocally 2 I lieved that the Labour f ^ ^ e d both the PC and - ! Party le a d e rsh ip had' ^ 'p rop osa ls on political ! “otherjnotives — position moral grounds. N j and money” for agreeing > .. ‘An° -w.ese rf>rganiza-^. to participate in the con-. lloris “ °* in / * ct» repre- ' stitutionaJ scheme^ sent..the vasf majonty o f r '■. He said the resignation j ' * n the urban o f Mr Norman Middleton, and rural areas." a founding member, and ' - ‘K 0 rh ilH 'c n la v ’ other top party members ° C“ i m s pIay - in protest against the de- . said a united front •; cision to participate was f.Sainst the proposals was “ the only thing to do if ' “ kely because “ people they wanted to maintain their self-respect”.

Dr Boesak said that al­though the Labour Party had “minutc-xsupporvinurban and-rural areas'hebelieved that*.*he’ parly^f*1*00 In^what I /rail the had lost support in recent —‘P olices.o f refusal’ — for years. "̂.e lack o f real political

“ It was always true that the Labour Party never • * • w represented the ‘coloured To pace

• realize it is no longer the child’s play of the CRC coloured politics— this is historic stuff.

“ People realize in this' era the strength o f our po-

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I where 25 people, inciu ocean when a north-.mg .n eight-year*old boy, Uc 0 « a n wlhen » n ,I were stung yesterday^^ . jai(J ^ ,fI Mr David Hersch, rKU arents were not sure of I for the Western Province r rife bi „ ebottles were ILifesaving A ssoc ia tion , m a ctrtain day. they I said the u n id e n t i f ie d shoujd ask the lifesavers,I child was so badly stung whose green-and-gold cos- I that he had to be rusneo tun-e5 were unmistakable^I to a doctor. - He said the nationalI Bluebottles stung 132 medical panel o f the Surf I people last weekend at Lifesaving Association of I Mnandi Beach, and Mr southern Africa had re- I Hersch has appealed to commended that mothers I parents o f young children put vinegar on bluebottle I to check the water and stings and then scrape the I the beaches for signs o f area with a sharp instru- I bluebottles in future. . ments. .. - '

“ A bluebottle sting can Vinegar should tten be

I “Bluebottles have be- which the pain should I come a major problem at subside

Shortly before tne euu . - - - .o f the party’s conference ,:the Bntish and in Eshowe, Mr Middleton "States governments ?

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________ tates governments. ; . v ,, ^ .om Washington that therosT froiT his seat at the a Mr Heunis said in Pre- Reagon administration S o f the town hall to ’ toria that the government ^ as welcomed the Labour announce his resignation, '-w a s gra tefu l .a n a im - ..^ecision.*

- ------ eeted by ironic pressed “with the respon- ^ sta te ^ D epartmentro m some dele- .s ib i l it y and spokesman John Hughesmost were re- 7 attitude” with which ^tne uln u,e eontext of

soectfully silent • grea ter > m a jority ® >our policy o f constructiveMr Middleton picked up coloured people had ap- engagement, we have said

hie hriefcase and quietly proached the issue. - dimply that advocates of m a d e his way out • “ It offers tangible proof change in South

“I have a feeling o f that when re a so n a b le y ^ c a , way from apart-deep sadness," he said • ----------------— •* •" * - • *-------------------later. “ I — member

that — T -- r u u v ---------- * ,d "sadness," he said .lea d ers negotiate .in a heid towards a system of>r "I was a founder positive spirit, rewaros g0vernment by consent of inber o f the party, and shall be forthcoming. „ , governed, can look to

tho ir vpars o f Ur Wonnic cautioned. United States for en-Saroughout the 18 ye'ars o f ; ^ Heunis cautioned,' the United States for en-my association with it, it however, that it was not ^ouragem ent and sup-has never taken a deci- possible to reach “ abso-. port” ‘ J*sion in this way." lute agreement” on every- While noting that the

He was referring to the thing imm ediately. But 'coloured proposals aocontroversial decision to the “ sound understand- not address the runaa-̂participate in the govern- in g» a lready re a ch e d m e n ta l W * 1*00‘ •*ment’ s p roposed three- formed a basis for pro- national political ngnchamber parliament for gress. * ■ .. i fo r the 72 percent o fwhich elections are due , « The Labour Party's .South Atacans who w elater this year. s ,,- . decision was an “ encour- black , he added, Tne,

, , . , , „Vc> ' aeine sien" and showed process o f change is on Insult to blacks . that “ peaceful evolution- der way, and we support

ary change” was taking it” ..',

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p iw e^saV ing -no' to any last night that Mr Henscheme which is political- equaf,ng

ly; mDr Boesak was alsoasked to comment on an P . sa j a r ied p eop le ,article in the N ation^ist ^ teachers and uni-mouthpiece, the Burger, .. lecturers,which quoted Uie Labour vej y houW not wasteParty leader the Rev Al- - O kind or com-lan H endrickse, saying bul rather ad-that Dr Boesak and Pro- pans rea l lssuesfessor J a k e s Gerwel, dean - he j ^ u r Par-

;0r t h e faculty o f arts at ” !sead" c js ion , being ,the U n iv ers ity o f the .ty s tha, theyW estern C a p e , w ork »®°en|h05en t0 enter intowithin the system and re arrangem ent whichceive their cheques from ^ tremendous polariz-co lo u re d ad m m istra lnE ootential within an al-tions” . . ready dan gerou sly

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' IUWC, but this is a church ty could not be equated I post I am a minister o f w ith “ the co lou red 1 the church. Jakes Gerwel people” and any inter­

ims also never been a ence that the col° “ re^ part o f any attempt to sell people" hud chosen to co- out our people." , ■ operate with the govern-

Profcsror Gerwel said ment w a s premature. ^

He believes others will resign after reconsidering their decision. •

He felt the party should have con su lted the coloured peop le before making its move. j ,

“ T h e . party doesn t know what it is agreeing to.” . . «

R eferrin g to a state­m en t by th e n ation a l chairm an, Mr David Cur­ry, that the Labour Party w ould negotiate on b eh a lf o f d isenfranchised Afri­cans, Mr M iddleton said this was an “ insult to black p eop le ” .. “ How can the party pre-

itend to r ep resen t In- katha? Coloureds may be part o f the black nation, but they possess privi­leges denied Africans.

Mr M id d leton , first president o f the_ South African Council o f Spoil, said he had devoted his life to the political strug­gle for black rights and this would continue. .

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