JOHN KANI AND WINSTON NTSHONA are only the two most prominent political detainees in the racist puppet state of Transkei in South Africa. Prominent Equity members drew attention to the jailings in a picket of South Africa House last week. The regime We expose racists' FIRM GIVE US Kotze, a police officer in Pretoria.
people. Red Weekly has received anonymous — and unconfirmed-information that the South African police are using a weapon called the Programmed Photic Driver in riot control and interrogation. This info- SuDVerSIOR rmation is said to originate from B.F.
This machine is a development of the of Chief Matanzima celebrates its 'independence' on 26 October. Mark it with the demand that Kani and Ntshona are released!
madness machine The communists are always trving te get at me. What I do is assist countries against infiltration and subversion, and the people doing that are communists.
The vocal and written attacks on our type of business all emanate from communists and communist-inspired sources.
Is Mr Tracey perhaps now helping his soutn Aircan triends against communis We do not have many details of the South African models, though we do know that British companies have beer consistently involved with supplying the sophisticated South African security forces with the latest hardware. We are told that one of the South African machines is week as Cialist Deen called the P.122S, and can operate at :
range of 1,000 feet.
If this is true, the implication is that thi intra-red, and therefor invisible, beam since a normal light sourc that strong would be likely to caus blindness. There is some dispute, how ever, as to whether infra-red light car have that effect. But if our source i genuine it implies important new devel opments in this weapon.
Happily, though, this secret weapon like most, has a fatal flaw. It is ineffectiv if one eye is covered. So we offer this advice to our South African brothers and sisters: when you demonstrate, wear a eyepatch!
Nose ToRRes. a memoer or ine nanonal secretariat of the Spanish Workers Com missions, has had his passport applica-
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