Volume 34 Number 14

Vol 34 No I
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Clark - abitof ascruff
Is Jeremy Clark a
scruffy dresser?Clark,
best known as the first
SRC president to wear
a cravat, has receiveda
dressing down on his
clothing in the letters
page of The Reporter.
The Reporter, a
somewhatobscurestaff
newspaper,
first carrieda
letter from a Mr B A
Austin of the Department of Electrical
Engineering.
Mr Austin
complained that M r
Clark wore jeans and
(gasp) tackies when
receiving a watercolour
painting from the ViceChancellor.
He contrasted Mr
C l a r k ' sa t t i r ew i t h t h a t o f
Prof Roy Marcus who
took delivery of a greasy
forklift while dressedin
suit and tie.
Quick to take up the
crusade was a certain O
Kerfoot of the Botany
Department. O pointed
out howeverthat'we can
hardly condemn grubby
little studentslacking the
niceties of civilized
behaviour, when the
lamentableMichael Foot
can attend a Remembrance Service at the
Cenotaph in Whitehall
wearing a scruffy-duffle
coat and his usualasinine
expression'.
Mr Clark, sPortrng a
a brand new 'Russel
Crystal'-type haircut,
declinedto comment.
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A judgement of the
Appeal Court has resulted in the slamming
of the Internal Security
Act.
A full bench of the
Court
delivered a
judgement proclaiming
the Terrorism
Act
incompatible with the
Bophuthatswana
constitution.
The court held that the
Terrorism Act was
actually in conflict with
the constitution of
Bophuthatswana.
Although on its so-called
independence.
Bophuthatswana had inherited the
SA legal systemto a large
extent, it had also
included a Bill of Rights.
A judge on the bench
pointed out that Section
2l(7) of the Bophuthatswana Constitution reads
that all shall be innocentuntil provenguilty.
The Terrorism Act places
the onus on the person
accused of participating
in 'terroiist activities' to
prove his innocence. In
addition, according to
the Terrorism Act detainees are denied access
to the court. The Bo-'
phuthatswana Bill
of
rights, in direct contrast,
explicitly provides for a
court trial for detainees.
This decision is of great
significance, as it is the
first time in the history of
)t
SA that a court has
decided on a matter
involving human rights.
More significant, is that
the decisionprovesthat a
Bill of Rights is of
practical significance.
According to Prof
Dugard, director of the
Centre for Applied Legal
Studies at Wits this
decision has shown the
Internal Security Act'to
'contrary to Western
be
civilized standards'.
According to Prof van
der Vyver of the Wits
Law School, this decision
is of great importance.It
shows that SA's Terrorism and Internal Security
'incompatible
Acts are
with generally accepted
standards of justice'. He
stated that the decision
emphasizedthe value and
significance of a Bill of
Rights and he hcipedthat
would serve as an
example to SA.
Prot M Wieders, a
constitutional law expert
at Unisa and legaladviser
to Bophuthatswanastated
that 'the implication of
the judgement is that
SA's Terrorism Act
cannot stand the test of
measurementagainst the
European Convention of
Human rights'.
The judgementpertarns
only to Bophuthatswana
as South Africa does not
h a v ea B i l l o f R i g h t si n i t s
constitution.
Call for non-racialengineering
trcr6sr
N e a rC a r l t o n
Centre
Iel 21 2011or 21-2017.
A body representing
3 7 , 0 0 0 S o u th A f r i c a n
scientists, engineers and
technologists has come
out in favour
of
unrestrictedadmissionol
black students to
university science and
engineeringdepartments
an.l
^^^-.^-t
The AssociatedScientific and technical
Societiesof South Africa.
in a reaction to the De
Lange
Report
on
Education, says universities should have the
freedom 'to admit black,
coloured and Indian
Action on SMA nfterpamphlet
Members of the SMA
are to be referredto the
University's disciplinary committee efterthe
publication of SMA
NEWS last week.
The SMA releaseda
pamphleton campuslast
Thursdaydespitea ruling
that the contents were
defamatory.
The pamphletcontained a letterthat had been
submittedfor publication
in Wits Student by the
SMA. The editor of Wits
Studenttook legaladvice
on the letter and was
informed that it was
defamatory in two aspects:
Ttre letter described
VltitsStudent as 'a Marxist mouthpiece'. The
phrasewasremovedfrom
the letterpublishedin the
SMA's pamphlet. The
statementsabout Jeremy
Clark are also dbfamatory.
A letterdated l7 May
wassentby the editorof
Wits Student to Russel
Crystal, chairperson of
the SMA, informing him
that ,Yits Student would,
be unable to publish the
letter:'As the publisher of your
letter. Wits
Student
would be liable should a
defamation
suit
be
brought by Mr Clark.
'We
will thus be unable
to publish the letter as it
stands.Should you wish
to submit a more temperate letter, we will be
pleased to publish it.'
On Thursday 27 May
Patrick Ronan of the
SMA delivered a letter to
SRC president Jeremy
Clark. It began:'Attention Mr
Clark
'Herein enclosedis a copy
of the latest SMA News
which will be
issued
today at lunch time (2705-82). Mr Rudolph has
adjudged the pamphlet to
be defamatory; but in the
light of the defamatory
statements made
by
yourself in Wits Student,
Mr Rudolph feels we
have a right to defend
ourselves on campus.'
Jeremy Clark described the task of the university's legal panel, of
which Mr Rudolph is a
member, as to adjudge
whether a publication is
'likely
to give rise to
liability in civil law or a
criminal charge'.
'This is clearly
spelt out
in the SRC's Publication
byJaws'said Clark.
'lt
is not the work
of the legal panel t6 be
policy advisorsto studenr
organisations. The SRC
president is empowered
to stop a publication
from being distributed if
it is held to be defamatory' said Clark.
'lf mem-berf
of the l-egal
panel become policy advisors is it an invasion
by academic staff into
the autonomy of the
Students Representative
Council. This cannot be
tolerated' Clark
concluded.
and under no duress.
That is. he was there of
his own free will.' the
affidavit reads.
'At
t h e t i m e ,I w a si n a n
olTicewith the door open.
He walked down the
passage past the office
and then enteredanother
securityoffice,'the sworn
statementcontinues.
The affidavit was made
follorving a denial by
Patrick Ronan. of the
Student's Moderate Alliance, that Crystal had
assistedthe Security Po-
lice and had been seenon
the l0th floor of John
Vorster Square.
Ronan described an
allegation made by SRC
President Jeremy Clark
to this effect a'lie'.
Ronan feelsthat'such
you
assistance which
(Clark) alledgewas given
by Mr R Crystalto the
SA SecurityPolicervould
be viewed in a serious
light by campus and
would severely u ndermine Mr R Crystal's
r e p u t a t i o no n c a m p u s . '
'I sawRusselCrystal
nt John Vorstercells'
- former detainee
Russel Crystal was
definitely seen in the
Security Police interrogation
rooms
at
John Vorster Square.
Wits Student is in
possession of a sworn
affidavit made by a former Section 22 detainee
that she saw Crystal on
the l0th floor of John
V o r s t e rS q u a r e .
' H e w a s n e i t h e rh a n d cuffed nor accompanied
by any security policeman. He appeared calm
SMA losesroom
The SMA has lost its
office in the Student's
Union following
its
latest breach of SRC
regulations.
The SRC Executive
met on Friday last week
and decided to evict the
SMA after the illegal
distribution of a pamphlet on Thursday 27
May.
The Exec decidedthat
the room should be given
Patrick Ronan and RusselCrvstal
Changesocial
structure- not words
'Its
not the words of the
law that must be changed but the
social
structures behind the
words' said
former
SRC president, Norman Manoim.
at t
meeting concerning the
increase in stat6 repression.
The meeting, held last
Thursday, was organized
by the NUSAS Law
Directive.
Manoim said that jrrstice in South Africa had
not merely died but that
'Justice in this country
has a habit of dying
rather often'.
He explainedthat laws
mustn't be looked at in
isolation from the community and the Security
Bills thus arise from time
of crises.
The
act preventing
demonstration outside
the court was introduced
in reactionto the Detain.ees Parents
Support
Committee (DPSC). lt
amounts to a petty dig
and recognition of the
DPSC but is an effort to
give the facadeof neutrality to the courts. Demonstrations are
evidence
that the court's role is in
dispute.
The Intimidation Act
is aimed at curtailing
school boycotts,consumer boycottsand strikes.A
person convicted of intimidation may be sentenced for up to l0 years
or receive a fine of
R20,000.
The Protection
of
Information Bill is so
vague that a person may
be convicted on a wide
variety of offencesseenin
context of his activities.
For the state to be
effective in instituting
repressive laws, it must
seem to be just and
neutral. South Africa had
not even achieved a facade ofjustice and neutralitv.
Cathy Satchwell, a Johannesburg lawyer outlined the detentions provision.
TABLETcoNTAlNs: caffoinectr gomgoafteineALK 9om9Magsiilicate3mgrartrazinetraJ-
t o a ' m o r e d e s e r ri n g
student
organization'
r a t h e rt h a n a ' d e l i n q u e n t
one' like the SMA.
T h e b r e a c ho f S R C b y
laws by the SMA last
week was the latest in a
h i s t o r y o f v i o l a t i o n sb y
the organization.
It rvas decided to term i n a t e t h e S M A ' s u s eo f
the office in view of their
continued policy of ignoring SRC regulations.
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Nressysruoents
may push up
canteenprices
Students could be to
blame for price rises in
the canteens.
Unless students begin
to co-operateby usingthe
clearing bays provided in
the canteens.extra staff
will have to be hired to
clear tables. This would
force up overheads and
prices would rise accordingly. Canteen tariffs are
designed only to cover
costs. not to make a
profit.
Smaller canteens like
the Yale Road canteen
and the Medical and
Business Schools canteens run at a loss, and
this loss has to be covered
however
The Yale Road canteen
is mainly for useby Black
staff but is open to all
students. It offers the
cheapestmeals on campus.
Scenes like this are Jorcing canteen prices up
Namibia
Diamondindustry'fleeced
Allegations have been
made that the South
African owned diamond
industry is fleecing the
Namibian economy.
'Ihe
allegation was
made by a Namibian
businessman. M r Eric
Lang. He hasallegedthat
the Consolidated Diamond M ines sells it s
diamonds at low pricesto
another member of the
De Beersgroup who later
sell them for a high price.
This practise, it is
claimed, allows the
company to reduce the
amount of tax it pays to
Namibia whilst fleecing
the Namibian resources.
The claims have been
deniedby CDM. According to the Student
African Movement this
type of practise is
common amongst multinationals.In Zimbabwea
state selling corporation
has been establishedto
stop the practise.
Whilst the war hots up
in Namibia one third o1'
the white population has
left the territory in the
Iast three years.
The white population
e s t i m a t e da t 1 1 0 , 0 0 0i n
1979is now estimatedto
be 76,000.Thesestatistics
follow a censusin August
last year. The population
of the Ovambo group is
now 5 16,000over halfthe
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The Namibian budget
shows a R30 million
del'icit for 198L This
excludes the mammoth
cost of the rapidlY
escalatingbush war. The
South African government is pumping R200
million into Namibia to
prop up what has been
described as 'the territory's shaky economy'.
Studentsleft
in lurch by TED
More
than
I,000
students were left in the
lurch by the Transvaal
Education Department
two weeks ago.
14'its Srudenr investigated numerous complaints about the TED
and found:
o approximately 1,000
student loan payments
were abruptly 'postp o n e d 'u n t i l ' s o m e t i m ei n
J u n e ' . S t u d e n t ss a i d t h e
first instalment of the
T E D l o a n w a sd u e ' i n t h e
f i r s t w e e k so f M a y ' a n o
many were now financially stranded.
.
that A[rikaans universities (Potch and
RAU) get their money
first - even though Wits
i s t h e I a r g e s tr e c e i r e ro f
I'unds. Wits students
receivenearly R 1,000,000
a year from the TED.
.
that prospective
teachers are dissatisfied
'f
with the ED's handling
of the student loans and
grants.
'You disappear off
computer lists, no-one
can tell you how much
you're getting or when
you're getting it
personal planning
becomes impossible,' a
student said.
Other students complained that making
paymentsin May (now
J u n e ) a n d S e p t e m b e ri s
'unrealistic'.'We
have to
live until the middle of
the year on vac job
m o n e yo r h a n d o u t s ' as e l f
s u p p o r t i n gB A l l s t u d e n t
'Now
said.
we have to
struggle on for another
month.'
Students pointed out
that the Education
Faculty office at Wits
was, in general, extremely sympathetic.
Zimbabweans need passports
All Zimbabwean students not already in
possession oI a Zimbabwean passport will
require a temporary
passport in order to
travel in July.
The applicationforms
can be obtained from
their Faculty office or
Central Admissions.
These should be returned
by registered mail to:
Room 619, Maritime
House, 26 Loveday
Street. Johannesburg
2 0 0 1 .I n c l u d e dm u s t b e a
postal order for R4.50
and 2 passport-srze
photoghraphs. Zimbabwean students are urged
to relay this messageto
other Zimbabweans in
South Africa.
Durban paper
suedfor
defamation
Eight University of
Natal Students have
been sued for R20.000
damages for alleged
defamation following
an article in the March
issueof the university's
student
newspaper,
Dome.
Th'earticle'Pride and
Prejudice' allegedly
commented on the
professional
integrityand
c o m p e t e n c eo f P r o f
Clifford-Vaughan, head
of the department of
Politics. who consequentlysuedMr Trevor
Bailey,president
of SRC,
Mr CraigTanner,editor
of Dome,Miss Vivienne
Sravrow, SRC vice
president, M r Murray
Pilman, the printing unrt
Mr John
officer,
Pampallis,a former SRC
member and three other
S R C m e m b e r s .M r T i m
Cohen. Miss Julie
Bosmanand Mr Richard
Machanick.
A commission has
been formed to establish
the validity of these
claims. A spokesmanfor
'Those sued
Dome said
are defendingtheir claims
on the groundsthat (a) it
is true (b) it is in the
public interests to
criticisethis man.'
The dispute will go to
court in December.
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The Dome that caused the trouble
Counsellingcut down
A vital student service
is to be severely limited.
There has been a decision by the Vice-Chancellor to restrict the services of the Counselling
and CareersUnit including the termination of
career counselling exceeding five sessions. It
has been suggested that
this decision is based on
the fact that the unit is
fundamentally a careers
unit and cannot accommodate students with
emotional problems who
are in need of psychotherapy.
T h e C o u n s e l l i n gU n i t
was founded by Pearl
Colman. a clinical psychologist in 1972.lt was
intended to cater for
students in need of psychotherapy.lt was purely
for this function.
M r s C o l m a n w a sj o i n ed by Ralph Wortley,
who initiated the vocational guidancesectionof
the unit but it remained
primarily a counselling
unlt.
Figures from 1980 indicate that 1.200students
made use of the unit.
about 250 of whom had
personal problems. poss i b l y i n v o l v i n gl o n g t e r m
psychotherapy.However
many career oriented
problems often manifest
themselvesas emotional
criseswhich requirea lot
more than simple career
guidance.
V o c a t i o n a la n d c a r e e r
psychowith
along
therapy.
Members of staff who
have referred students to
the unit, and found it
valuable, were not consulted about, and have
not been informed of the
decision to restrict the
unit's services.
ln order to assessthe
situation. a representative sample of Heads of
departments and Deans
of faculties are being
polled.
The questions being
p u t t o t h e s ei n d i v i d u a l s
are o Have you ever referred students to the
unit?
o D o y o u t h i n k t h a ti t i s
a useful service?
o Do you think it would
be a loss if the service
were curtailed?
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dcscnbea
d s ' t h cl i t h c l o
palcotolog., in
Sout
A l l ' i c a ' .F t l r t r l c n t v r c a r
hc sclvcd as Htlnora
S c i e n t i l i cl ) i r e c t o r o l t h
Belnard Plice lnstitu
l i r r P a l e o n t o l o g i c aR
l c
scalch at Wits.
.)
Hau,uhtonlcccired nu
l u l c r o u sl o c a l a n d i n t e
natitlnal auards durin
lris calecr. Hc uls rc
c c n t l y 'e l e c t e dt o l n H o
n o r a r - rI' - c l l o * s h i po l t h
Itoval Socictyo
' l SoLr
AIiica.
o Do you onty reter
studentswho are in great
difficulty?
Responsesto date are
o 'Yes' to the first two
questions- 967o
o 'Yes' to the third
question - 977a
o 'No' to the fourtlr
question - 85To
Many of the respo
dents, including one ol'
the medical practitioners
at Campus Health Services,have said that they
have made extensiveuse
of the unit, by referring
studentsand staff members to it.
Students concerned
about this issue should
?ontact - Lloyd Vogelman of the SRC,
Rai Turton of the
Psychology Students
Union, or Murray
Nossel, Wits Student.
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Media reactto
Mandela allegation
There has been widespread media reaction
to the allegations reported in last week's
lVits Studenl over the
candidacy of Nelson
Mandela for Chancellor.
I t m u s tb e p o i n t e do u t
that ll'irs Srudettt'.sinformation that onlv
24.000ballott'ormswerc
sent oul. rvas obtained
sources. )l it.s Stult,ttt
r v a su n a b l c t o d e t e r m i n c
on rvhat basisthe 24.000
natneswere cnosen.
A d m i n i s t r a t i o nt o l d a
S u n d a y n e r v p a p e rt h a t
many ol the approrimatel,r'5 1.000 graduatcs
h a v ed i e d o r h a v em o v e d
au ay'leavingno lirrrvarding address. For this
reasonnnll' 24.000(sonte
reports 2t3.000) lirrms
harc bccn scnt out an
a r d n t i n i s t r : r t i ( ) l rs o u r c L '
NrghtShrft?Swotting?Drivingthroughthe night?
Staywideawakeand mentallyaleftwith Regmakers
themildmentalstamulant
E a c ht a b l e tc o n t a r n sC a ff e i n e1 5 0m g
No causeto celebr
On Wednesday 27 May
_t_?!t" squad of rior potice in
camouflage marched onto Wits campus.
Brigadier'Rooi Rus' SwaRepublic. The question was
'What
nepoel, head of Johannesasked has 20 years of
burg's riot police stood in the
Republic done for the South
African people?'
centre of the library lawn In I96l Albert Luthuli. leader
his men, armed with rifles and
of the African National Conbatons, surrounded several
gresssaid: 'We are objectingto
hundred demonstrating stuthe establishmentof the republic
dents.
with no referenceto us. We feel
'You
are all under arrest!'
that white South
Africans
This scene remains etched in
should not go on
making
the memories of most Wits
changes in our lives without
s t u d e n t s .l t i s n o w j u s t o v e r a
consultingus.'
year since Wits campus hit
Twenty years later, the man a t i o n a l h e a d l i n e sd u r i n g t h e
jority of South Africans recelebrattwentieth anniversary
mained unconsulted.The Antii o n s o f t h e R e p u b l i co f S o u t h
R e p u b l i cc e l e b r ai to n sc a m p a i g n
Africa.
gave the opportunity to highRepublic 20 was meant to be a
light the inequality and ops h o w ye x h i b i t i o no f t w e n t yy e a r s
pressivenessinherent in the
of progressin South Africa. The
' W h i t e s - o n l yR
' epublic.
government planned massire
The student movement was
c e l e b r a t i o n su n d e r t h e s l o g a n
particularh' active in the Anti'Unity in Diversity'. And the
Republic celebrations campeopleof South Africa certainly
paign. A steady build up of
united
to display their
activity reacheda climax in the
r e j e c t i o no l t h e R e p u b l i c c e l e week precedingRepublic Day.
brations and all that the ReA t W i t s t e n s i o n sw e r er u n n i n g
public stood f'or.
high. Two months previously
B e h i n d t h e c o u n t e r s l o g a no f
Piet Koornhof' had been sub'No
c a u s et o c e l e b r a t e ' s t u d e n t s .
jected an hour ol hecklingin the
p
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school
w o r k e r sa n d o v e r
Creat Hall. The campus was
one hundred and sixty organiafire with debateas a result.
sations joined in the AntiRepublic Day campaign.
Students became politicized
The campaign put the spotovernight. Everyone had an
light on the true reality of the
opinion on the Koornhof in-
most were willing to
cident
debate their position publically.
For two weeks the entrance to
the Student'sUnion was packed
with peopledebating the issue.
T h e n t h e R e p u b l i cD a y i s s u e
hit campus.On Monday 25 May
over three thousand students
packed the Great Hall, the
outside stepsand the piazza for
the Anti-Republic Day mass
rally.
NUSAS President Andrew
Boraine,SRC PresidentSammy
Adelman, COSAS President,
Wantu Zenzile. Paul David of
the Natal Indian Congressand
Black Student's Society President,David Johnsonall voiced
t h e i r o p p o s i t i o nt o t h e R e p u b l i c
Festivities.
Statements were read on
behalf of more than twenty
organisationsrepresentedon the
stage.
A call was made to boycott
lectures and to pamphlet the
streetsof Johannesburg.
Flag burnt
Outside the Great Hall a
Republic flag was burnt in a
symbolic gestureof defiance.
The flag burning was seized
upon by the media the image
was flashed across the country,
i n n e w s p a p e rasn d o n t e l e v i s i o n .
J he action was described as
'treasonous'.
Fordvce wore a black arn
band in protest against th
linking of the Comrades mara
thon to the Republic cel
brations.
-I'he
state struck back at il
opponentswith a major secur
clampdown.
NUSAS President Andre
Borainewas detainedon 25 Ma
under Section 22 of the Gener
Laws Amendment Act. Blac
Student leadersAzhar and Firo
Cachalia were dethined on I
June. One week later BS
president David Johnson wa
detained.
In the 'coloured' townshin
police teargassed.sjambokki
and baton charged boycottin
school children. Aziz Jardine
head boy of the C J Botha Higl
School was detained.
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Cabinet ministersassuredt
nation that the dignity of ti
national flag would be pr
tected. They promised legi
lation to deal severelywith flr
burners.
Meanwhile Wits movedintc
two day lecture boycott. Tue
day 26 May saw major co
frontations between boycotte
and right wingers.
From the WartenweilerLibra
steps a small group of rigl
wingers hurled abuse and raci
taunts at the crowds on tl
lawns. At lunchtime the prr
testers moved into the Gre
Hall. Right Wingersrushedont
the stage waving Republic bar
ners and flags.
Then on Wednesdaythe rir
police invaded the campu
ironically moments after tl
boycotters had begun to dir
perse.
Meanwhile a series of bom
attacks, directed at symbol
government buitdings, occurre
throughout the country. Th
ANC claimed responsibilityfc
the attacks.
The much vaunted Republ
celebrations were definite
golng sour.
On 3l May the celebratio
reachedtheir climax with a hug
military processionthrough th
main street of Durban. At th
same time, Bruce Fordyce,
Wits Athlete and SRC membe
won the Comrades marathon.
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Cosas president,Wantu Zen
zile was detained. A larg
number of trade union leader
who had been prominent in the
campaign were detained.
On l8 June. SRC Presiden
Sammy Adelman, was serve
with a five year banning order.
Shocked students lined Jan
Smuts
with flaming
.Avenue
rilte r
il look brck
ssuredthe
ty of the
be pro;ed legiswith flag
vedinto a
ott. Tuesajor conboycotters
er Library
of right
and racial
.s on the
the pro:he Great
rshedonto
ublicban.y the riot
campus,
after the
n to disof bomb
symbolic
, occurred
ntry. The
iibility for
Republic
definitely
lebrations
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rough the
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ordyce, a
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The following day almost two
thousand students and academics unanimously passed a
motion condcnrning Sammy
Adelman'sbanning.
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Bannings
More shocks were to follow:
Andrew Boraine was released
from detention on 29 June and
was immediately served with a
five year banning order. The
Cachalia's were released the
following day - they were also
bannedfor five years.
David Johnson was released
on I July. He wasbannedfor five
y e a r si n J a n u a r y 1 9 8 2 .
The occurrencesof a year ago
s e r v ea s a c o n s t a n tr e m i n d e rt o
all South Africans of the rep r e s s i v en a t u r e o f t h e S o u t h
African State.
The brutality that alTectsthe
majority of South Africa's people in their daily lives was
brought home graphically to
s t u d e n t sa t W i t s .
What we witnessedone year
ago was a tasteof the repressive
power of the State. We saw the
jackboot in operation.
plSi;1
Right wingers welcome Riot Police onto campus
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Whatoswrongwith
exploitatiorr-hey?
The Students Moderate Alliance is the most recent of a
seriesof Right Wing movementson Wits ('ampus.The faces
and names change - the policies of these movements
rernain the same.
The mid seventiessaw a spateof disaffiliationreferenda
on the Nusascampuses.Thesereferendawereorganisedby
right wing groups, later exposedas governmentfunded.
The right wing groupshavealwaysbeencharacterized
by
a hystericalhatred of liberal and left wing students,a blind
obedience to the government and secret financial
benefactors.Thesegroups havealwaysattemptedto break
down student government.
The Student's Moderate Alliance has been unable to
musterthe support that earlierright wing groupsfound on
campus. They have been able to get only one of their
members elected to the SRC - he was later expelled for
missing meetings without apology.
So the SMA, despitetheir lack of any supporton campus
attempt to break down student representalionat Wits.
The students of this university should ask themselves
whether they will tolerate the actions of the SMA. Can
studentsallow people like RusselCrystal, who is at home
with the lOth Floor John Vorster Squareinterrogators,to
claim any support on their campus?
One year ago we protestedagainstthe celebrationof twenty
years of oppressionin the Republic.
The Republic is now twenty one years old. Instead of
moving into the age of majority we will witnessonly the
continuation of minority rule.
The exploitation and oppressionwe demonstratedour
abhorence for last year is an everyday fact of life in South
Africa.
It is not enoughto protest againstthe Republic in 198t.
Those who wish to seejustice and equalityin South Africa
must involve themselvesin the everyday struggle for
freedom.
Contributors:
Em Beale
Paul Jammy
Karen Jochelson
Peter Chipkin (News Editor)
CharlesDugmore
Fiona Winer (Arts Editor)
Harry Dugmore (Deputy Editor)
Louise Janett
Debbie Abrahams
Helene Joffe
Brian Slom
Ross Hutton (Editor)
Simon Crawford (Photographic Editor)
Mike Levy
Arthur Goldstuck
Bfuce Graves
Murray Nossel (further Deputy Editor)
Letters:
Letters to the Editor should be accompanied by names and
addresses. These are not necessarily for publication and
pseudonymswill be allowed. They are merely for the purposes
of identification. Letters should be lodged with the SRC
secretary.
The Editor reservesthe right to shorten letters should thev
be longer than 200 words.
It may surprise the bleedingheart-liberal-altruists who take
it upon themselves to compile
'official student newspaper
the
of the University' that one of
their fellow students is a supporter of capitalism.
Reading recent issuesof Wits
Student, one finds a number of
scathing'articles' denouncing
capitalism. The fallacy which
appears to be most strongly
expounded(possibly becauseof
its emotive appeal) is that the
supposivelyexploitative nature
of capitalism - the notion that
'the rich get
richer and the poor
get poorer'- no-onedeniesthat
many 'rich' do improve their
position in life; BUT the'poor'
also experience an increased
standard of living (ie BOTH
groups'getricher').Capitalismis
not a redistribute-the-wealth
system, rather it is the ONE
systemwhich placesemphasison
the PRODUCTION of wealth.
Whilst no country has ever
adopted a system of Pure caPitalism; the United States came
closest,after independence,with
the recognition of one's right to
'. . . life, liberty and the pursuit of
et al; US
happiness.'(Jefferson,
Declaration of Independence)that country flourished and
experrencedimmeniie prosperit
and growth for nearly 150years
The 'capitalisf nations o
today are, in fact, variants of th(
mixed economy, having differ
ing degrees of government con
trol over the lives of their
citizens.
In a letter, Abe Allison write
of 'capitalism's shortcoming
What shortcomings, Mr A
lison?! Or, worse still,'Capita
ism' is blamed for the Polis
crisis. The sad truth is that th
alleged shortcomings are th
RESULT of government in
tervention, yet they are used a
justification for further inte
vention. In the case of Polanc
that country would be unablet
survive without credit from Ul
banks - which would NOT b
forthcoming were the loans nc
guaronteed by the US goverr
ment (lt was the US taxpay
who footed the bill for the rece
're-scheduling Polish
of
loansthat is where profit comes int
it).
Possibly the best defenceo
capitalism is that no syste
existsto equal (let alonesurpas
it (unlessone enviesthe lot ofth
Soviet worker).
Yours for CAPITALISM
Cliff Featherstone BCom
Tony for Helen
I read the last Wirs Sudent with
someincredulity.In my opinion.
your newspaperis guilty of the
same bias and partiality which
you attribute to the university
administration on the quesiton
of the chancellorshipelection.
Because of your proselytzing
for the Mandela candidacy, you
have chosen to overlook the
signal and unique contribution
which Helen Suzman has made
to contemporary South African
life.
Firstly, what purpose can be
served by voting for Mandela?
As the results of the poll are not
published,unlessMandela wins
no one will be able to gaugethe
depth or paucity of support for
him in the convocation. I am
sure that even you will acknowl e d g et h a t h i s c h a n c e o
s fwinning
are non-existent. Therefore, a
vote for Mandela will in all
likelihood resultin M r Rosholt's
victory. as the Left/Liberal vote
will be split. This happened in
1975,when Alan Paton siphoned votes off Suzman which
resultedin Bernstein'selection.
Secondly, the motivation for
Mandela seems entirely negative. Peopleare urged to votefor
him to demonstrate opposition
to oppression, bannings, detention against the whole
gamut of repressive
legislationin
South Africa.
knows with certainty how Man
dela feels about contemporal
issues.This, obviously is not hir
fault
but does not creat
certainty about what one I
e n d o r s i n g .H e l e n S u z m a n i s a r
outstandingexamplarof the bes
traditions of universitiesand th,
cause of human freedom. Sh,
has worked hard and for th
most part alone, for the symbol
o f s u b s t a n c ew h i c h t h i s u n i
versity should represent.
May I add that therehasneve
been an occasion in tne oas
when she hasfailed to respondt,
our SRC
or any of it
committee's pleas to come anl
speak on campus or lend he
name to a worthwhile cause.
The proof of her selflessne
and belief in democracy lies i
the fact that were it not for he
strenuousefforts in securinghi
nomination paper,Nelson Man
dela would not even be on th
ballot for the chancellorship.
Graduands and staff can d
no better than to elect he
chancellor.
Tony Leo
o While we do not deny M
Suzmon's record as a fight
against Apartheid, we belie
that Mandela should be given
lair chance. He is unable to g
this through the usual channe,
lVits Student seesthis as pa
oJ its role as an alternati
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As a British student visiting Wits
for a few months I felt that I had
to comment on the article
entitled'War is Good for Business'in the lltits Student Yol34
No 12.
Firstly most Britons get fairly
fed up with the popular story put
about by various foreign newspapers that last year's Royal
wedding was engineeredto take
everyone's mind off the riots.
This would have requireda good
deal of foresight as the wedding
was planned in February and the
riots began in late June/early
July.
The author alsoreferredto the
governments of Britain and
Argentina as being'conservative
capitalistr6gimespresidingover
crisrs-ridden economies and
applying unpopular'remedies'
to the problems facing them.
'One
basic and fairly important
difference is that in 1979 the
Conservattveswere electedinto
power by the British voters on
their manifesto of reducing
inflation. Their 'remedies' have
brought large scale unemployment and bankruptciesin their
wake, but at least the same
British voter can remove the
Tories from office in the 1983
General Elections. The Argentinians do not have a similar
opportunity to peacefullyeject
their law-makersfrom office.
Although Mrs Thatcher has
been embarassed by the' socalled 'Tory Wets' publicly expressrhg dissent over various
Government policies,it was the
Labour Party, not the Conservatives (as intimated in the
article) who lost most MP's to
the Social Democratic Party.
The majority of new SDP MP's
did not need to'cross the floor'
of the House of Commons as
they are still in oppositionto the
Government.
I n h i s s u m m i n gu p t h e a u t h o r
s a i d t h a t ' o n l y b y s t i r r i n gu p
fanaticalpatriotic sentimentand
by sending the sons of the
working class off to war as
cannon fodder could thev (ie
Argentinian and British gouernments)savetheir political skins'.
The British 'cannon fodder' is
composed of professional servicemen, not conscripts and
volunteers, which make uo bv
lar the larger parr ot' ttrl
Argentinian force. I don't believethat the British votersare so
naive as to forget about the
potential cost of lives and money
of a war in the South Atlantic.
At least they are more reliably
informed regardingthe situation
tan their Argentinian counterParts' Don't forget that the
Labour and Social Democratic
partiesbackedthe Government's
decision to send the Task Force
to the Falklands.
B a s i c a l l yI s u p p o s et h e s i t u -
ation boils down to a matter o
principle and precedence.lf thr
Argentinians can get away witl
invading the Falklands, whl
shouldn't other countriesinvat
territories they feel they mal
have a claim to? Why did thr
Allies bother to declarewar or
Nazi Germany for invadin
Czechoslavakiaand Poland ir
1939? How would the Soutl
Africans feel if a Namibiar
government of the future de
cided to annex Walvis Bay? lf
were a Falklander I wouldn'
relishthe thought of changingtc
live in a military dictatorshig
under whose rule at least 10.00
peopleare currently 'missing'.
Finally, the people for whon
'War
is good for Business'mu
be the French manufacturers o
the Exocet missile.I believetha
the price of the.ir product ha
rncreased threefold since the
'Sheffield'
was sunk.
Jane M L Mackelvi
Passiveresistanceathreatto the State
Relen ll/its Student Vol 34 No
1J.' 'A man of peace driven to
violence'
ln your account of Nelson
Mandela and the history of the
ANC it seems that your
journalistic evidence is not as
objectiveas it claims.You report
'passive
resistance'yetwhat you
fail to understand is that any
form of resistance is seen as a
threat in this country, by virtue
of it being passive,it is made no
more desirableor acceptableto
the South African State. You
refer. with fantastic and blasb
glibness,to'violenceas a feature
of SA political life'. Surelythis is
not the case, the violence is
eventuatedby SA legislation but
finds its initial sparks in the
dissatisified non-white.
Knockando like
n monastery
We the house of Knockando
Residencewould like to raise
what we considerto be a major
issuethrough the meansof your
eminent newspaper. Although
otficially a JCE res the majority
of us accommodated here are
Wits undergraduates,hencethis
Ietter to your publication. ihe
matter concernswomen. We do
not want to offend feministsbut
rather hope they will support us
in this extremely human problem of ours. The fact of the
m a t t e r i s t h a t l a d i e si r r e s p e c t i v e
of their purpose,reputation.age
or relationshipto a student are
forbidden into any student's
room. This is a disgracefulstate
of affairs.
We are not sex mad. Even if
one of our number does want
s o m e e x t r a - c u r r i c u l a ra c t i v i t y
and as long as his female
companion is of legal age and
consents,just who is the Transvaal Education Department to
deny a red blooded male his
rightful and due pleasure.Only
recentlyone of our number was
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only crime being that he was
enjoying some quiet company
w i t h a m e m b e ro f t h e o p p o s i t e
sex. How plebian can you get. I
hope Wits Student will support
us in our quest for basic human
rights. We do not forget that this
is an academic residence but
neither is it a monastery of
celebates. So show solidarity
with us to overcomethesefutile
feudal rules and regulationsand
PRINT this letter of ours.
Exhibit courage and foresight
and do not yield nor give in ro
the authoritarian College and
University authorities and deny
usour say.
The free acceptance of
communist aid by the ANC is a
blackening fact.
When an organization which
resorts to open and vicious
sabotage as well as accepting
unconditional
aid from
Comfnunist sources (which it
fervently opposes) report that
they were 'forced' to do so, I
think that the precedingfactors
thereof should be better liste
with more concrete historica
empirical evidence.
You did howevermake it clea
that such evidenceis either ius
u n a v a i l a b l eo r y o u a r e u n a b l i t
q u o t e b an n e d s t a t e m e n
pertaining to the aims of th
ANC.
R CampbettBA I
NUSASJULY FESTIVAL
EDUCATION:
WEAPON&TOOL
A Koje
A bit of colour
The problem between black and
white
is that black may be right.
but white has the might.
However if black were white,
would they allow white to a
right,
when the rest of the world,
b e l i e v eg r e y s h o u l dt r i u m p h .
WITS:5-9 JULY
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ectionson
the Re ublic
I had been in my studio
painting, expressing through a
violent juxtaposition of colour,
the antagonization, the desperate irrationatity of what I
perceived to be elements constitution a reality; and thus in the
sensethat I was part; of life . . .
J By virtue of those elements:
attraction, repulsion, cotlsufiia:
tion, rejection - I was concerning myself with the politic.
I would have nothing to do
against, violated bY the making
of people real with words and
acts and words that were acts
and acts that were words.
I had gone outside as I was
feeling cloistered behind my canvas, consumed in red paint alientated becauseI had rejected
the source of it. And a man
shouted at me, 'You are under
arrest.'
ttlFCUtfUnE€r1
12,000; what irony, that bitter
defiance. I went to the main
meeing in the Sorbonne Hall.
'Stony wings
and bleak glory
battle in your dreams. Now
sullen and deranged, not simply
as a child, you look upon the
earth and find it harrowed and
wild. Now only to mock at the
sterile cliff laid bare, at the cold
air, pure sky unchanged, you
look upon the rock, you look
upon the air.'
Darkness consumes me and
light hurts me. I can feel the
darkness, it is warm and musty.
The plastered wall, green and
moss-fern grasps me in cold, icy
shjudders - it brings me.back
always to light which is
colour. Quality of lighq somewhat clear, somewhat opague. A
gunshot somewhere, and again,
somewhere.
A bomb, a short gasp, a
silencing silence, and greyer
light. People around me hissing, Murray beside me, silent
and still. I touched his arm, and
held it. It felt, it felt of nothing,
anil reallzing t-hat,foo frightened
to drop it, I_held it, limply also.
A vacant hold, an empty arm,
nothing!,
and'Freedom - if you want it!,'
'Amandla!'
A passage,a stair well. So many
today.
I have walked and been consumed by muted light.
Sharp clicking and winding,
capturing light, capturing anger
'You can't photograph me - I'm
angry.' Like this I'm angry.
What's on in Art?
Monday 7 June
o Wits History of
Art
Department presents the
sixth in a series of eight
lectures on styles of 20th
Century art. Come along to 9
Jubilee Road, Parktown, at
8.00pm.
. Viva Zepata!(EliaKazan)
a 50's cowboy classic,will be
screened in the Dorothy
at
Susskind Auditor.ium
8.00pmm.
COMPSTITION
cITCIGFIAT'H
FINE ANT
June 16th
in performanc
0n WednesdryJunel6th tt
English Methodology le
turers, Jonathen Peton en
Denise Newfield,,&retrnnl
ing a programmeof reedin
and performences to con
menorrte the eventsof Jur
l5th 1976.
The intention of the pr,
gramme, however, is not to focr
exclusively on the eventsofJur
l6th. but to introduce tl
audience to a wide r&DS€ r
South African literature.
The programme will be pr
sented in The Box Theatre r
l.30pm and staff and studen
are welcome to attend. Tl
programme will include readin
from South African literature I
by Jonathan Paton, Deni
Newfield and English Methr
dology students, as well as t
professional actors. The hig
light of the programme will be
lecture-demonstration on Zu
dance by Johnny Clegg, a Soci
Anthropology lecturer.
Wits Student readers a
invited to participate as well.
you are interested, please con
to our planning meeting
CBI 14 on Wednesday,June 9
between 3.00pm and 3.30p
with the material you would lil
to read.
South African Readings
WednesdayJune l6th
1.30pm - 3.30 pm
The Box Theatre
All |Velcome
Don't forget about the al
exhibitions on campus.Th
GertrudePosel Gallerycel
bratesit 5th Birthdaywith a
exhibitiuon of works cove
ing the period 1977-19t2.
NUSAS presents
National Women'sConferenc
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Women in Southern Africa
Women and Law
Women and Health
Men and Feminism
workshops, films, videos and papers will be presented
All welcome - please leave your name at SRC Reception
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The theme of sexual awakening is no new-fangled UFO.It
has been widely explored in
excellent movies like 'To
Forget Venice','Wifemistress',
'A
'A
Special Day'
and
Woman's Room'. This is also
the theme of 'Making Love'.
The difference does not lie at
all in that the awakening is one
depicting the manifestation of
gay sexual tendencies,or in that
it is a movie seemingly less
melodramatic and more realistic. While these other movies
explored and exploited every
angle and tone of the theme, and
left nothing short of an invincible impact in their wake,
Making Love' left its theme
pitifully and carelessly unlxplored.
'Making Love', I
felt, failed to
achievethe impact so strongly in
the offing. It failed in its lack of
directional concentration. Simply, it was far too soft. Devoid of
struggle, lacking wholly in dilemma, and accepting too readily the necessityof coming to
terms with being gay, Zack
(Michael Ontkean)
rejected
straight life. Bart (Harry Hamlin)
wanted nothing more than onenight stands, so Zack found
another lover and lived happily
ever after in a beautifully decorated high-rise apartment.
Stereotypic
The ending of the film was as
much stereotypic as it was
unlikely. This may exude the
odour of contradiction, but upon
further examination, we seethat
it was the former in terms
ofthe desiredhappy conclusions
of all relationships,and the more
frequently achieved conclusions
of straight relationships,and the
latter in terms of the less
favourable tendency of gay
relationships. The effect of such
a conclusion was merely in
keeping with the film's most
facile character, and served to
confirm the shallownessof the
entirety.
My disappointment springs
mainly from my feeling that a
possible three excellent opportunities of imparting some very
real and powerful impact to this
film were present, but remained
dormant.
The first opportunity for
climax was Zack's realisation of
his true sexualfeelings.To a man
happily married to this point.
secureand confident, the realisation did not come as the shock
it should have. Scriptwriter.
Barry Sandler, failed to consider
fully the shattering repercussions of such an awakening. lt
was acceptedby Zack too easily
in his stride.
Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson ond Harry Hamlin
The second opportunity was
Zack's decision to take some
positiveaction on accountof his
feelings. He realised sensibly
that he could not keep them
forever concealed beneath a
straight; smiling mask. His dilemma is, however, not nearly
fully or poignantly
shown.
Again, what we saw meielyscratched the surface. I would
like to have sensed him as if
weighing up his life. To open the
closetand step out, or to remain
buried? I was unconvinced of
his struggle between the two
mutually exclusivealternatives.
Surely.for a man of his position.
notions of pending insecurity
and instability must
loom.
Should he stay where he is,
seeminglysecurewithin a marital framework, unhappy but
accepted,or should he be honest
unto himself and shun the world
of make-believe, his wife, his
home, the possibilityof a family
(including a
son
named
Rupert!)?
Sacrificed
I did not get the sensethat
anything was being sacrificed.lt
all seemed too natural and
flowing. Claire (Kate Jackson)
may have dropped a plate before
she was told, or recommendeda
psychologist afterward,
but
surely the real problem lies in
what he consciouslydecided to
discard and accept in its place.
The gay world may have been
an easy baby for someoneofthe
beauty of Zack, but it was
neverthelessfilmed through a
heavily rose-coloured camera-
lens. In short. there was no
conflict manifest between the
security of Zack's marriage and
the fly-by-night prospects of
fulfilling gay relationships.
The third opportunity was the
most potentially powerful of all,
and the one which could have
been the most successfully explored. This is at the point at
which Bart tells Zack that he
does not wish to become involved in a committed relationship. Having thrown everyshred
of familiar background into an
irrevocably obsolete heap, Zack
now faces Bart's unconditional
rejection. The effect of this
should be riveting. Zack is
literally told to tackle his own
choice alone, to forget any
possibility of a commitment
from the agentof his realisation.
and fend for himself in the
hostile gay environment. Not a
single doubt was raised in the
mind of Zack at this shock. No,
regret, no suspicion of self-'
inadequacywas evident. Surely
such sentimentsare evident in
one so freshly out of the closet
and coming to terms with hard
reality.
Also, the very immensepower
which Bart exercised over Zack
was underplayedand unexplored.
Imaginative
having
The technique of
Zack's wife and lover sPeak
retrospectivelyto the audience
was fairly imaginative, but not
altogether necessary.
It served no purpose by
theme
which meaning or
were extended. The reactions
and motives of Claire and Bart
were not of primary importance.
I feel that it would have been far
more effective to have Zack
himself take this retrospective
role, sinceit was his own conflict
that was really the point of
influence.
In short, it is a pivotal
levclation that is lacking so
sorely in this film. It was more of
a thematic recital than a thematic exploration. I doubt that
the love scenebetweenZack and
Bart, which was cut out, could
fully have fulfilled this very
necessaryfunction.
The standard of the acting by
the principalswas not altogether
constant. I felt that Jackson was
weak at the start, mediocrein the
middle and at the end. Ontkean
was indecisive and soft. His
character wanted in authenticity. Understandably,much of
this is owing to the screenplay,
b u t w i t h i n t h a t c o n t e x th i s a c t i n g
was reasonable.
The primary character is
required to portray his role
powerfully. Both script and
actor were here at fault, the one
deciding the scope of the other.
Hamlin was the most convincing of the threesome. I felt he
portrayed his professedaversion
for complex relationships with
skill. I believed in his Llnintentional tactlessness and
superficial neutrality toward
Zack, both in terms of their
relationship, and in terms of
Bart's regard for his own sexuality. and for Zack's newly
assertedand accepted preference.
. f oroyce ooes
it rgain
to the race this lear. and
Fordyce predicted before the
r a c et h a l t h i s $ o u l d P r e \ c n lt h c
record from being broken. After
the race Fordy'celold rePorters
that the run had been much
tougherthan last year's,and that
he had almost been reduced to
walking.
Bruce Fordyce has made it
two in a row. On Monday he
won the gruelling Maritzburg
to Durban Comrades Marathon.
Despitea foot-injury. Fordyce
c o m p l e t e dt h e 9 l . 4 k m r a c ej u s t 5
mins 8 secsshort of the record.
His time I'or the Pietermaritzburg to Durban run was 5 hrs 34
mins 22 secs.
Fordyce, who prefersthe 'up'
run, was not thb favouritefor the
r a c e .t h a t p r e d i c t i o nh a v i n gg o n e
t o A l a n R o b b , 4 t i m e sC o m r a d e s
w i n n e r . R o b b . w h o s e ta ' d o w n '
record of 5 hrs 29 mins l4 secsin
1978. finished 7 minutes after
Fordyce in second place.
Fordyce received 3 painkilling injectionsbefpe the race
for an inflamed tendon in his
right foot. He injpred his foot
rvhile running i4fa new pair of
s h o e sd u r i n g h i s p r e - r a c el r a i n ing. Cold, wet conditionscaused
additional muscular strain for
the runners.
An extra 1,4 kms were added
''
by Arthur Goldstuck
Rodney Anley is once more
leading the Wits goals list in
the NPSL after an absence of
a year.
In 1980the youthfut /hYsical
Education studentwas Poisedto
become the league'stoP goalscorer when he was sent off in
one of the last games of the
season, effectively dashing his
and Wits' hopes of that honour.
Last year he was absentlrom
'{the team for the entire season
-.after going to South America'on
:hotiday' with the reservegoalkeeper, Dave Watterson, while
Wits continually struggled to
find thebaok of the net. At one
stage they*enlY scored a single
goal in eight games.
The only explan4tiongivenbY
the club for Anley's disaPPear'PlaYing
ance was that he was
somewhere in South America,
but would be back soon'.
He is back now, and Wits
Student asked him about his
footballing experiences in the
continent which is suddenlYthe
l o c u s o f w o r l d a t t e n t i o n .c o u r t e s yo f t h e F a l k l a n dl s l a n d s .
H e [ i r s tj o i n e d a n A r g e n t i n i a n
first division club. Tallers de
interCordoba. for whom
national star Valencia PlaYs.
However,when it seemedas if he
and Watterson might be sPlituP,
they moved on.
They were signed on by
Palestino. a Chilean first division side which boasted Elias
Figaruoa,captain of the Chilean
side and now rvith Fort Lauder-
',
Fordyce ran and won last
years marathon wearinga black
armband in protest agaisnt the
i n c l u s i o no l ' t h e C o m r a d e sM a rathon in the Republic Day
celebrations. This brought him
a certain amount of unpoputaP
ity, and he was jeered as he
approached the finishing line.
H i s p r o t e \ t w a s . h o w e v e r .v i e w ed by many as successful.
F o r d y c ef i n i s h e dt h e 1 9 8| r a c ei n
a record time of 5 hrs 37 mins 28
secs.
An exhaustedFordycesaidon
Monday that this was the last
time he would run the down
it's
race. 'lt's not a race
torture' he said.
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Bruce Fordyce - his second Comrades wtn
back and scoring
Rodney Anley and scoring partner Rodney Bush
Rudolfo
dale Strikers. and
Dube. rvho uill also be sccnrn
a c t i o ni n S p a i nt h i s m o n t h .
'We
started training in January last year, and the season
ended in'February this year,'
says Anley of the demanding
SouthAmericanapproachtothi
game. 'We trained every day
except after a game. In December we rvereplaying in temperaturas of 35t)C.'
It is only as the World Cup
approaches that club soccer
slowsdown. 'ln the world cup
qualifying stages all
socccr
comes to a stindstill. because
they want to include internationals in club gamesto give
fans a run for their money.'
'lt's
a completely diiferent
game over there, because the
guys have so much skill. lt's
much slower and that enables
guvs to play well
t h e y ' r et a r
more composed.
'But the plaYersare so difterent Football is playedby the
lowel classthere' lt's a meansof
a
attaining a higher u'age
but it doesn't
livelihood
improve the living standard'
W h e n t h e y ' r ef i n i s h e di n s o c c e r
they return to the lower classbecometaxi driversand that sort
of thing.
'People virtually starve to
rvatchfootball lt's a religion'
E r e r l ' d a y o l ' t h e r v e e ke x c e p t
Tuesday and Thursday' 15
minutes of the news is football'
on 3 channels thel'broadcast
Europeansoccerlive Football is
just pumped into the media''
Rodney was shocked at the
way clubs treated up-andcoming players.exploiting their
desperateneed to play' soccer'
' Y o u n g g u y sc o m et h e r ea n d t h e l '
k n o w t h e y c a n p a v p e a n u t sW e
( o u n c i l c . r c h o l | . l r r n\ r r r u l \ A \ . n u c
\\rr\ Studcnl ir c,ired br Ro:r Hurron and publishcd b\ th. \lu(lcnt\'Rcprcrentatirc
knew the ins a'i'il-outs so we
c o u l d d e m a n dX a n d g e t X . '
'The media were publishing
w h a t t h e t o p s i d e sw e r e p a y i n g
and some of the top playerswere
getting less than I was, and we
(Palestino) didn't have a great
season.Beinga foreignerhelped,
I suppose.'
Palestinoin fact ended up in
the relegationzone, and Rodney
finally got the chance to be a
hero in the play-off rvhich
determined who went dorvn.
Palestinorvon through Rodney's
goal.
'ln the play-off I scoredmy only
goal of the season,in the last 2
minutes.'
Why did he return?
'l missedmv studiesa helluva
l o t . I w a n t e dt o f i n i s hm y c o u r s e
and came back mainly for that
reason.'
' l t ' sj u s t a s u e l l . A n e c o n o m i c
c r i s i sh a s h i t a l l t h e c l u b s s i n c eI
left. I asked for a contract and
they wouldn't give me a firm
statement. They've phoned me
s i n c et o a s k w h y I ' m n o t b a c k
and I told them I'm studying.
B u t t h e y u ' o u l d n ' tc o m m i t t h e m selves.and on that basis I
w o u l d n ' t c o m m i t m y s e l f .I h a d
to look to the future.'
He enloyed the year tremendously.
'Although l lost a year of
education I've learneda lot, not
only about football, but about
m y s e l l ' a n dp e o p l ei n g e n e r a l . '
'l'm very happy to be back.
though.'
So is Wits.
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