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Struggle for Freedom in South Africa:
Its International Significance

Preface

  • Where Freedom is Treason
  • United Nations and Apartheid: Forty Years
  • Role of the Special Committee against Apartheid
  • Contribution of Non-Governmental Organisations
  • Freedom Movement in South Africa: Its International Impact
  • Current Developments in South Africa and the Need for Action
  • Struggle Against Apartheid: International Dimensions
  • Some Observations on Recent Developments
  • Significance of African and Indian Joint Struggle
  • India’s Solidarity with Southern Africa
  • India’s Role in Liberation of South Africa
  • International Action for Namibia’s Independence
  • India and Namibia
  • Southern Africa after Samora Machel
  • AFRICA Fund: More than Economic Assistance
  • Day of Solidarity with Prisoners in South Africa

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    PREFACE

    The anti-apartheid movement, now in its last phase, is gathering momentum and the world at large is fervently waiting for the dawn of freedom over Southern Africa and for its multi-racial peoples to have their own tryst with destiny. Even so, the Pretoria regime is preparing itself for a last-ditch stand supported with arms and funds from a few, but powerful, friends on both sides of the Atlantic.

    In this context, there is a concerted move everywhere to sensitise public opinion and to express solidarity with the freedom fighters of Southern Africa, whose leaders are spending nightmarish life in many prisons that dot the map of that region. In New Delhi, this month are scheduled an International Conference of Youth against Apartheid organised by the Indian Youth Congress and a meeting of Heads of Governments concerned and connected with the AFRICA Fund, of which Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is the Chairman.

    This modest publication consists of some of the writings and texts of lectures by E.S. Reddy, the distinguished crusader against apartheid and it provides a rich insight into the manifold aspects of the freedom struggle in South Africa.

    Reddy, as an international civil servant with the UN for over three decades, has been intimately connected with the globalising of the South African problem through his writings, initiatives and actions. He has been the Principal Secretary of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and later the Head of the UN Centre against Apartheid. As such, he has had immense opportunities to interact with South African and other world leaders and also help and promote the freedom struggle with the responsibilities entrusted to him. More significant is his personal involvement with Africa as a whole before he joined the UN and now after his retirement, as can be noticed in the following pages.

    This book has been compiled and published in the hope that it will act both as a catalyst on the reader’s mind and serve as a mini reference book for facts, figures, dates and events of South African history. This can be helpful for public debate till such a time, when the very word apartheid becomes another extinct monster of White racist minds and gets dropped from the civilised world’s lexicon.

    New Delhi PUBLISHER
    January 6, 1987