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Dr CEDRIC PHATUDI, Chief Minister of Lebowa, is to ask the Prime Minis­ter, Mr Botha, to release NelsonManjJ^Ja, who is serwn^rtTesentene on Rnhben Island.

£ v P ' P h a tu d i is no t con­nected w ith p e titions being draw n up in S ou th A frica and o verseas fo r M andela 's re lease bu t is ac ting on his own in itia tiv e as a B lack leader.

E a rlie r th is w eek he m ade an officia l v isit to Robben Island, w here he was able to U j o som e of the inm ates.- J said y este rday th a t he

was a rra n g in g a jo in t m ee t­ing w ith the M in ister o f Co­opera tion and Developm ent,

?t K oornhof, and th e w -e M in iste r to plead fo r

, .v jJ jJe la’s re lease n appears th a t Dr P h a tu d i

feels it would be a good idea if all B lack ‘'po litica l” p riso n ­e rs a re re leased .

“I feel a jo in t m eeting w ith th e tw o M in isters will save tim e and will enable u s to have a b ro ad er exchange of views", he said.

A lthough Dr P h a tu d i is a hom eland lead e r subscrib ing 1° ? . P o litica l philosophy “p o litica l” p riso n e rs a re o p ­p o se d to , h e w is well- received by th e p riso n e rs on the island.

"They fe lt honou red th a t I had gone o u t o f my way to visit th em ,” he said.

He did n o t m eet M andela d u ring his visit. He said he w as told by th e prison a u ­th o r it ie s th a t he needed spe­cial perm ission to see him.

D r P h a tu d i said he w as im pressed by th e in te lligence show n by som e o f th e p riso n ­ers he spoke to.

“Good b ra in s a re being

w asted by keep ing som e of th ese m en on R obben Island fo r long p e rio d s," he s a id

“ If re le a sed they could use th e i r b ra in s to c o n tr ib u te to w ard s th e deve lopm en t o f th e co u n try ."

D r P h a tu d i scored a p o liti­cal success by successfu lly p e rsu ad in g th e S o u th A fri­c an G overnm ent to allow P r o f e s s o r E z e k i e l M phahlele , th en a p ro h ib ited p e r s o n , b a c k i n t o th e coun try .

P ro f M phah le le is now Em ployed by th e U n iversity o f th e W itw a te rs ran d and his b a n n in g o rd e r h a s been lifted .

T he P rim e M in is te r’s Of­fice h as an n o u n ced in P re ­to r ia th a t M r B o tha will be m ee tin g a d e leg a tio n o f the S o u th A frican C ouncil o f C h u rch es on A u g u st 7 to d iscuss th e s i tu a t io n in th e

coun try .T he m ee tin g wi be a t th e

req u es t o f th e coi cil, w hich is know n to be i a in s t im­p riso n m e n t o f | rcple be­cau se of th e i r p« tical con­victions.

T he re le a se of political" p riso n e rs is expected to be ra ised in th e ir flscussions w ith the P rim e Minister.

A few y e a rs agajP resident K aiser M atan z im so f T rans- kei, th en C h ief Minister, was rep o rted to be negotiating w ith the S o u th African Gov­e rn m e n t fo r M iodela's re ­lease on conditio* th a t he lived in T ran sk e i as a fo rm er T ra n sk e ia n now Jiving in Jo h a n n e sb u rg . j

T he S o u th A frican G overn­m en t's s ta n d on the issue h as been th a t M an d e lacan n o t be re leased fro m prison because he h a s n o t changed h is po litica l views.

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More than 75 000 people signed petitions f o r the re­lease of im prisoned A fri­can N ational Congress leader, Nelson M andela, du ring i T frm o n tf t cam ­paign organised by tne Sunday Post newspaper,

rlowever, the form er• n is te r of Justice , Mr Alwyn Schlebusch, has said Mandela would not be r e leased because he was

I legally convicted in court.

Quiet tribute to NelsonPORT ELIZABETH — Striking tribu tes to Black Conscious lea­ders such as_N elson t o t e . a£d

— .iko have quietly risen on an open piece

. f land on the outskirts of P o rt E luabeth , where a prestige town- hip is to arise.; T heir names are on

stree t signs recently erected in Bethels- dorp, extension 10, which is to be de­veloped into a prestige coloured housing area.

Mandela, the banned leader of the African National Congress, and Biko, a leader who died

in detention , a ^ ^ e i r . 8 6 ' honoured by t h e coloured m anagem ent com m ittee.

The names were sug­gested by the com m it­tee th ree years ago and a t the tim e agreed to by the town planning departm ent and ap­proved by the city coun­c il’s works and traffic comm ittee.

At the tim e th ere was one voice of oppo­sition from a city coun­cillor who is no longer serving and who could not get a seconder.

The new stree t names also include the slogan

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"N orm an M iddle­ton ,” the depu ty lea d e r o f th e * ' P arty .

The CMC cha Mr L aw rence E ra ih ius, said th e com m ittee was’ honouring people whom it believed rep resen ted its p rincip les.

T he com m ittee has had no opposition from any side, he said.

T he bayor, M r G ra­ham Young, said today he did no t expect any problem and in any e v e n t th e council was un likely to reverse its decision. I t believed the nam ing of s tree ts was the p rerogative of the CM C.

Nelson Mandela, whose picture cannot be used under terms of hi* ban­ning order, but who has now had a street named

after him.

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Who are the real leaders o f black S o u th Afr icans? W hal are the polit ical groups they support? T o f i n d out. T h e Star co m m is s io n ed poll o f Africans, Indians and co lo u r e d s . CRAIG CHARiNKY reports so m e o f its su rpr is ing f indings in th e first o f a three-part series. TOM OR RO W : Reservat ions on s i m p l e majori ty rule.

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* e broad popularity of t h e ^ i m p r i s o n e d A N C lpjder, Mr Nelson la'S o 'n iV il l percent of

Africans polled in Jo h an ­nesburg. Durban, a n d Cape Town said they w iuld vote for the ANC :n a parliam entary elec­tion. This was almost as many as those who sup­ported the rival lnkatha movement. A^apo. a n d Pan-A fricanist Congress together.

POPULARNevertheless. In t h e

th ree cities polled, the A v r s Mr Mandela was

JlMy the most popular leSfr.er among Africans.

Of the whole sam ple, “W p o rten t s a i d they

B je d h l in , 59 percent W rongly. Only five percen t

d.sliced him.The A \C supports the

1J31The banned African National Congress ( A N C ) emerged from the poll as the most popular political m ovem en t a m ong Africans in the three largest cities.Freedom C harter, which calls for universal fran ­chise, greatly stepped-up social services, nationalisa­tion of mines, banks and m onopolies, and an absol­ute ban on racial d iscrim i­nation . Established in 1912 ami banned in 19b(), its m em bers include a few w hites.

NATIONAL’C ongress's extensive

support roughly m irrored the African population in term s of region, age, and ethn icity , running s h r i l ly above average in educa­tion and ou u p a tio n Of t h e f o u r m a j o r movem ents, the A .\C wus

the onlv one which could

tru ly claim to be a "natio­na l'' party

In , Johannesburg , it passed its nearest rival, lnkatha, by a m argin of 47 percen t to 20 percent. In D u r b a n , In k a th a s home ground, the ANC led by 37 percen t to 31 percent.

W EAKEST The ANC was weakest

in Cape Town, though it still led the field w ith 28 percent. (F u lly 49 percen t of A fricans there said t h e y didn t know for whom they would vote.)

Mr M.indela s popularity was strong am ong every class and age group, and

both sexes In D urban, itwas sigm fu an ’-ly g iea te r than that of ln k j t i ia ''l e a d e r , C f (ia t.sh aButhcltfzt.

Vh 1 I.L E N TThe ANC sti'T ig r-i

arming the m are a tlh n n t and b e tte r educated Alri- c a n s . It .v ie iv ed .39 percent su p p o rt am or.: the p ro fess io n a l and self- emp'O ved eli e, and 4S percent am ong clerical a n d s k i l l e d w orker,, against 29 p e r .e n t of un­skilled w orkers

The \N C and Mr Man­dela led the popularity stakes among jie in b e rs of every black c 'r.itic gr.nip. Kven among th e Zulus, Inkaiha 's tr :a a l strong- point, they w ere more po­pular Ilian ijo'.ti InKatha M o v e m e n t ->nd Chief Buthele/l.

Wits 1 back Mandela

By Jon QwelaneThe campaign to have im prisoned leader of t h e banned African National Congress. Nel­son Mande’a, e ln t r a •vHarTTTT?(Tr' of the Uni­versity of t h e Wit- w atersrand received a resounding boost when hundreds of students of all races endorsed it a the University Great Jill, yesterday.The N ational Union

of S o u t h African S tudents s a i d in a

■ k item en t read to the ^ . t h e n n g th a t it sup­

ported t h e call fur Mandela's election to the university 's chan­

cellorship pcciuse “he is a dem ocratic loader of t h e / people a n d should be chancellor of a dem ocratic ,<u c n e rs v

Thrf university 's SSL. in a sta tem ent oi sup­po rt for M andela's elec­tion, also pointed out th a t students should have a say in the elec­tion because they for­med the m ajority of the university s popula­tion.

The chairm an of the Comm ittee of Ten. Dr N thato Motlana. paid tr ibu te to Mandela as a man of totai comm it­ment.

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audience that the elec­tion of “th is d istingui­shed m an will do incal­culable c red it to th is university .”

He said while M ande­la's election would do a l o t to enhance t h e w orld 's th ink ing th a t academ ic d iscrim ina­tion in South A frica was being done away with, segregation ist ten ­dencies a t the coun­try 's un iversities had not changed.

M andela’s election would also help a ttrac t more overseas acade­mics to W its because "bush un iversities" <iid not a ttra c t any such people.

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Change ha* called for the release of Nelao» Vandela, jailed leader

National t-angresa, for the sake of his family.

A spokesman for the movement, Mr Derrick

dluli, said yesterday deli, who was

jailed for 18 years for sabotage after the five- year Rivonia treason trial, had been punish­ed enough.

He said that al­though Mandela was sentenced to life im­prisonment he still sym-

Uaed the straggle for ^aedom in Soath Afri-

5* 2free, urges Inkatha body

O 'ca.“He has suffered

enough. He is an old man now and his family need him."

Mr Mdlulu pointed out that Mandela had more impact and influ­ence on '‘his people” fc jail than he would have out of jaiL

“We realise that if

somebody did some­thing wrong in-the eyes of the law he must be punished. But there has to be an end to punish­ment too.”

The Inkatha Move­ment for Peaceful Change also called for the ban and house ar­rest on Mandela's wife, Winnie, to be Lifted.

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NELSON Rollhl^_______delar^TBouth Africa's most CfWtft'ated black prisoner and leader of the African National Congress (ANC), has had an Impressive list of hon­ours conferred on him since HHM7 Mandela, a BA graduate of

U n iv ers ity of South Africa, presently In Polls- moor Prison In Cape Town, has not personally received the more than dozen honours because he has been in prison for 19 years.

He was sentenced to life Imprisonment in 1964 for plotting the overthrow of the Government by revolution-

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Topping the Hat Is the hon­orary Doctorate of Laws de­gree awarded to the ANC leader last week by the City College of New York, for his "unselfish commitment to the principle of freedom and Justice"

Other honours for Mandela include:• In February the City of

Rome conferred honorary citizenship for "generous and fearless work in favour of equality among men and pro­gress lor African people",• In March he was declared honorary citizen of the Greek village of Ancient Olympia, original site of the Olympic Games• In 1982, the Leeds City Council named the gardens in

front of the city hall after the ANC leader In "tribute to a man who is paying the price for struggling for freedom".• In 1901, the Austrians con­ferred the Bruno Kreisky F o u n d a tio n A w ard for "meritorious work in the field of human rights".• In the same yesr. he was granted the Freedom of the Citv of Glasgow. Glasgow's

highest honour.• He became the winner of the 1979 Jawaharlal Nehru Award, for his support of African Liberation struggles — an award to honour people who have made outstanding contributions to the promo­tion of In te rn a t io n a l understanding.• Also In 1979 he was award­ed an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the National Uni­versity of l«sotho.• An honorary life member­ship was conferred on him by

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the University of London Union in 1975, "In recognition of the historic role he has played In the world wide light against racism"• A nuclear particle dlscov- ered by Leeds University was named after him in 1973• In 1965, he was made hon­orary president of (he Leeds University Union, and• In 1964 he was made honor­ary president of the Univers­ity College of London.

Other honours include ,i street in Camden. North Lon­

don, where the Anti-Apart­heid Movement has its head­quarters. to be renamed Mandela Street

The Sooth African Govern­ment hat refused permission for some of the awards to be conferred on the ANC leader at Robben bland or Polli- moor The Government has also refused to ease restric- !'ons on banned and banished! Mrs Winnie Mandela, hisf wife to travel outside the! co u n try to re c e iv e the* awards on his behalf. '

Free Mandela- .Siiipaign is to be relaunched

By MAURITZ MOOLMAN Mr Nkondo said new peti- * THE campaign to have Nel- tions would be drawn up de-

^wU4«adela_ne]eased ^ a U T manding the release of Man-i all political prisoners with* him — is to be relaunched at , a meeting at Regina Mundi

church in Rockville, Soweto, on Sunday.

•| | And the new Release Man-11 dela Campaign is to be inter- ■1 nationalised and re-organ-

i is»<on a national basis by the : i S- )ng up of reg iona l

I coudruttees.T | This was announced by Mr ; ; Curtis Nkondo, chairman of t ! the campaign's Transvaal ■^^pmmittee. at a Press con-

f ^ B r e n c e in Johannesburg S^Testerday.

The campaign had also •' i taken on a broader context to i rentred around Mandela• _ _ufying figure and all he i stands for”, said the secre- ; ta rr of the committee. Mr

Auorey Mokoena.The campaign would coo-

1 tinue until internal conflict i had ceased in South Africa . and as long as Mandela and j. his fellow prisoners were in

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These would be sent to the United Nations, and overseas anti-apartheid movements would be drawn into the campaign.

The petitions would be sent to the UN not because lie committee expected the UN 10 take action on their behaif, ; but to tell the world of their i determination and to have ‘everything on record"

The meeting will start at lpm on Sunday.

speakers will include the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches Bishop Desmond Tutu, the chairman of the So­weto Committee of Ten Dr Nthato Motlana. and Mr Ar­chie Gumede. one of the ;hree p res id en ts of the newly founded United Democratic Front and Natal chairman of the Mandela campaign.

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.National Congress. has Emerged again u a clear fa­vourite of SoweLans — boik ym oof those who ^ntead voting ki the coming elections and those who will oo4 vote./ la i t a r t contrast, Mr David thebehali, chairm an of the

com m unity council, re­ft resounding vote of oo

by the respondent* poll by Thearch departm ent Q ^ r W

'percent stated clearly p a : ‘-hey did aoi like Mr

i Chitl C atsha B u jf W i. lead­e r of the Infcai^r movement,, is iso ranked \c jr down in the {popularity s y l a , in spite of ••the f a n tiuT the m ajority of

those polled were Zulu-speak e rs

The chairm an of the Com­m ittee of Ten, Dr Ntatbo Mot- lana. rem ains a popular figure among voters and non-voters alike m Soweto

Oo the whole there waa oo significant difference between the voters and the ooc-voters with the notable exception of Chief C atsha Buthe'.cu and Mr Tbebehali. In Mr Tbebehali* case, even ’.hose wbc intervl voting do not hold him is very

, high regard With Chief Buthe- leu . slightly more voters than r.on-voters are supportive of

I the Inkatha beadIt is j s p u r u n t to note that in

attem pting u> asc^-au* sup- • • * - **— um-

ple grtmp 01 ao p rta iu pre­sented with M choice oi only seven '.e a J^ v Mrs Albertina Sisuim. E f N uiho Motiana oi the oi Ten. Chief

Buiheleu of Inkatha. Nyati Pokela. head of

P m A incam st Confresa. Lrtw c Mabasa leader of

the \xam an Peoples O rganisa­tion. Neison Mandela, and Mr Thebefcali

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SAIRR urges3 b I'. A v ^ c

Bothato lift ban on ANC

j f . Ji-. t Jo-Anne Collinge

A call to lift the ban on the A frican N ationa l C ongress and other black political o r­ganisations has b e e r m ade by the South A frican Insti­tu te of R ace R elations

The call is contained in a council resolution of the , SAIRR taken at its Septem­ber annual general meeting

A copy of the resolution was sent to the State Presi­dent Mr P W Botha and Min­ister of Law and Order Mr Louis le Grange this week, together with a background pa per. explaining the initia­tive.

Tbe SAIRR also calls for amnesty for leaders “serv­ing prison leniences for es­sentially political offences" and freedom for political exiles to return home, “sub­ject toJfcfiiL. renunciation of Cflflepce^

The resolution refers to the ANC and the Pan-Africa­nist Congress which were

banned in 1960 a f te r toe Sbarpevilie shootings. Sev­enteen Black Consciousness organisations were dealt a similar blow in 19'J7 follow­ing co u n try w id e d is tu r ­bances triggered in June 1976

Tbe SAIRR says the lift­ing of organisational bans and the freeing of leaders would be a “dramatic dem­onstration of good faith oo the pairt of white people"; needed to arrest tbe deterio- j ration in race relations —*

It says that revoking the >t»n» will not in itseli solve problems in education, local government and other griev- aoces. “It is however an un­avoidable prerequisite for creating a climate in which it might be possible to talk about solutions.”

Tbe institute insists that the u ltim ate cause of the current unrest is the apart­heid policy, and that it is op to the Government to make the first move to defuse ten­sions.

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