writes ROY ALEXANDER.
Icd up cleven activists Tere or en, Joseph Mali.
never made it to the trial — he Twa of the accased were Idnapped by the South African police in swaziland. where they had gone into exile, and illegall brought Into the country to stanc trial. All were tomtired.
Convicted Nine of the ten were convicted. ind live who bad all served previous terms on the notorious Robben Island) sentenced to lif militants who had held respons ible positions with railway workand textile workers"
cences of from seven to 15 years.
Meanwhile the police have also Union of Black Journalists (UBJ), a trade union Closely OATCO BEC MACK COn and itportant becuuse of its consider SEC ICICE DOC ENE oriented mass media.
UBJ members played an imGovernment's propaganda off ensive around the Soweto mass ample, police agents' incitemen of migrant workers againse the UBJ members, including the President, Joe Thioloe, were OCTICE.
Banned but harassment The Bulletin of the UBJ, which the union produced to break the of silence by South Alrican press, was seizec by the police, all future numbers In South Africa it is not just the insurgent student and youth who have had to face repression. Trade union militants have also been singled out by the racist regime, banned, and three UBJ officiah iwe Minis. was arrested. Ir abused. She was released with out charges, but served with a has brought the number of UBI