*ELEVEN members imprisonment.
latest wave of repression in South Africa.
so-called crimes such ""forcing" workers to stay lemonstrating for the release excuses by the regime to try to demoralise those who are still outside the jails.
BANNING These TOLOW Movement and South African Student black reopic Convention and other organisalons oi ine black conscioin Others named in the trial as "co-conspirators" include exiles such Tsietsi Mashinini, Drake Koka (founder member of the BPC), Khotso Seatholo, Trofamo Sono person of the SSRC before it was banned), and the current the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC], aged between 18 and 23, are coming up for trial on 18 September in South Africa. They each face possible death sentences or life Exiled SSRC member Majakathata Mokoena talks to a 'Socialist Challenge correspondent about the They have been accused of Chairperson, Sechaha Montand mentioned, sad lasakanaa.
Ift was in South Africa today.
I would probably be number twelve on the list!" "Since the banning of the ANC and PAC, Consciousness Movement has been and still is in the forefront of the struggle against the racist and fascist Vorster regime.
They thought they could step us by banning us: they can ban OrgAnISatoRs Suca as SASU and so on, but they can't ban a Black consciousness is a sation. The spirit of Black Consciousness lives on.
This is formation of the Black Consciousness organisations like the Azania Peoples' Organichair- sation, Soweto Student League (the successor of the SSRC) and otbers.
In July the Royal Ulster Constabulary spent £10,000 in "By bringing these militants to trial the regime thinks it can TUS COC BOSCHICCHANT it could demoralise it - but the only way to nrevent that is for an international campaign to release these and other political charged only for fighting for their rights. All we demanded was justice member of the she til be guy, eye he the people Every black person in South Africa hecause our demands the same as those of ple, we as the SSRC sim articulated of the people the Black "But we took action instead ot 1ust ta king, In any case we up non-violent which wasmet with the violence of the trigger happy police.
BLOODSHED •Weasked our parents to stay away Irom work in ordet to avoid bloodshed people milling around in the streets making themselves easy targets for the bastards; we by the asked them to stay indoors, but the police even went into the houses to shoot people down.
'If the regime tries these actions and ALL 1S. SIREE SENTENCO people have been HIS COUNTRY these grievances Mahlange.
Mahlangu was: state repressi was sentenced to death f action On 15 August ch the release these prisoners.
out by the South repressive system.
the "legal" 21 HAS BEEN DEATH IN BOUTH AFRICA EXECUTION DF OF