BRITAIN away LaVe country, Namibia, into hands of South Africa. LloydGeorge did it. We stripped blacks in that country of the right vote. "heretore we have a responsibility for what happens in Namibia Two-thirds product of robbed. Diamonds, copper and uranium are brought this country by AngloWorkers are paid little as £12 and f14 a month. Press These are issues which workers in Britain can relate to. When I told the miners in Kent that some of the Namibia were being WOLLIS paid 75p a week, were earning as little as to can i per month in an American which makes a profit of ilm a year, they took an immediate collection and raised £250 cynicism of the press is destructive - it's got to go We had a press reporter on our mission. Our schools and hospitals have been missionaries have been deported by the South Aimcan forces This man came and spent 45 seconds on our mission. He asked then climbed two qucsuons. into a South African helicopter and was flown out again.
His report in the British press was accuser being wanton the acco ills SWAPO who -dering, raping and committing acts of violence.
believed. I had to threaten the particular newspaper complaint 5. the Councibin order to get the right or advertising from South Africa. On the one occasion three errors occurred in an advert. I wrote to The and they refused to letter. The press is in collusion with South Africa itself, Muldergate situation, showed that the power to control and to distort is infinite. wnen funds that t South Africa has from gold, ther cạn newspapers and you can bribe editors and other people in various countries, and this has happened.
So the oppressed have got not only the prejudice of British people also of South Africa.
Worst of all, what happened about the thousand who were slaughtered - the equivalent would be 55,000 English children bombs, by napalm and then finally Davoles. alal leave inch references in three newspapers. Benn Let's have an alternative press, with a close solidarity which unites journalists with workers, students, intellectuals, and oppressed themselves.
The Labour Party has only just started an appeal for the Patriotic Front. God help us, how long will it my take us to get into the 20th century? killers, I want to know government signed a contract with Rio Tinto Zinc, robbing Namibia of its uranium.
Bishop turned towards Tony Benn, platform.)
Press The oppressed challenge us to make make them now. Let the oppressed speak for themselves dialogue SWAPO those forces who are fighting the likes of Mrs Thatcher in other parts of the world.
In Namibia, when I took part in Exile, Times publish the arve control Namibians at Kastingu down by
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COLIN WINTER is the bishop of Namibia in which occupy it because he supported a strike. Extracts are published here.
expelled from that country by the South African forces His speech at a rally held by the Campaign for Press Freedom last month received enthusiastic applause.-