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On Tuesday-June 29th, 1976, at 6PM, the "100 Black Men"(?) of New York City are.
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Andrew?Hatcher, formerly Assistant Press Secretary for the Kennedy Administration.
Both'of' these people -.we believe - serve the interests of the apartheid racist regime
of Balthazar Johannes(Vorster, the Prime Monster of South Afrikkka!.
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Helen suzman,'who has been touring the U.s. calling for reforms of the vicious apar--
theid system in South Afrika, has been a spokesperson for that country's "Progressive
Party" for over a decade. Among this party's "'progressive" reforms would be the equating
of the.franchise with income and education qualifications for all voters, a program to
ease the frustrations of the Black majority but still. prolong white-minority rule. It
gress being made in that vile racist state that calls itself "the Republic of South
demand of the Afrikan Revolution now going on throughout southern Afrika.
Mrs. Suzman is one of.the few politicians sanctioned by the white racist minority--
government to speak out against apartheid, gaining a great deal of publicity about her
activities and causing many outsiders to believe that real protest and serious criticism
is tolerated in South Afrika. Publicity about her activities help South Afrika to pose
itself as some sort of democracy where all views are debated freely.
But the Sharpeville Massacre of March 2lst, l960 and the Soweto Massacres just recent-
ly have shown us what happens to Black People in South Afrika when they speak out against
the apartheid system.
:The imprisonment of African National Congress leader NelsonaMandela on Robben Island
and the House Arrest detention of Pan-Africanist Congress leader Robert/Sobukwe have il-
lustrated to us what happens to Afrikan spokesmen when they truly defy'the apartheid sys--.
tem in South Afrika.
happen to anyone who really tells it like it is in South Afrika.
Helen Suzman's presence - whether in South Afrika or the U.s. - is like a lighting rod,
whose aim is to draw the world's attention away from the real protesters against apartheid.
But Helen Suzman serves another purpose in South Afrika. The fact that she happens to.
-uaat aae eygagy yanog ut smar ooo'out ayn gean os st saen ldn padend Aunenan dt ysainr aq.
.tified with Black aspirations for a democratic society. But in reality, the real represent-
atives of the Jewish community within South Af rika express themselves through the South
Afrikan Jewish Board of Deputies - and this group supports apartheid all the way in exchange
for them being able to send money to Israel. Next to the Jews in the U.S., the Jews of South
And Helen Suzman can well afford to continue to call out for her meager reforms of the
world's most brutaland vicious system that, continues' to exploit and humiliate our People..
Andrew Hatcher is another matter. This./former JFk Press Secretary now works for Sidney
Barron Public Relations, a firm which has as one of its accounts the apartheid regime of
Sauth Afrika. Last Wednesday, June 23rd, while thousands of People were preparing to demon-
strate in various parts of the country to denounce Kissinger's meeting with Vorster,(in
moting South Afrika!
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