Blacks arrested in protest
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (AP) — Police arrested
14 blacks who gathered outside
the U.S. consulate Wednesday
to protest foreign investment,
witnesses said.
Elsewhere, authorities
reported two new deaths in
racial violence that has plagued
the white-ruled nation since
late August, and there were
scattered reports of unrest in the
country’s segregated black
townships.
Peter Jensen, the American in
charge of security at the con
sulate, said the demonstrators
assembled on a busy sidewalk
outside the office building
whose 11th floor houses the
consulate.
“Most of them were carrying
placards. I didn’t see much
against the United States in
dividually, but mostly against
investments in South Africa,”
he said.
“The police came about 15
minutes afterward. The
demonstrators were not chan
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ting. It was all quite silent.
Those carrying placards were
taken into police custody.”
Police spokesman Col. Fred
Bull said he believed all those
arrested were black. Witnesses
said the protesters were from
the partially integrated Univer
sity of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg.
At the South African Council
of Churches, police in riot gear
appeared shortly after midday
and ringed the entrance,
witnesses reported.
Council official Dan Vaughan
said several union leaders were
inside for a May Day meeting,
and police threatened to arrest
them if they emerged in a
group. The union leaders
agreed to leave one by one,
without assembling outside,
Vaughan said.
Earlier Wednesday, police ar
rested 39 black union members
for the second time in two days.
They were marching from a
Johannesburg court, where they
had been freed on bail of 100
rands($52)each.
Police said the new deaths,
discovered before dawn, were
in the riot-torn eastern Cape
Province and in Sebokeng, a
black township 48 miles south
of Johannesburg.
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the situation,” said Annette
Stewart, a sophomore majoring
in drama. “I think it’s
horrendous.”
Jeff Reeder, a sophomore in
journalism, said he did not
know a lot of the details of the
situation in South Africa before
the rally. One speaker’s remarks
about some South African
blacks who work for 22 cents an
hour particularly affected him,
he said.
“It’s the kind of facts like that
that draw you out of apathy,”
Reeder added.
Although she said she oppos
ed apartheid and believed the
rally was ‘positive,’’
sophomore Ann Ramsey said
she did not believe that divest
ment is an effective means of
dealing with South Africa. She
said she was not sure what
should be done.
”1 don't have the answer.”
Ramsey said. "I don’t think
anybody has the answer right
now.” •;
Robin Stalcup, a senior ma
joring . in biology,, said she
douhted that • economic and
cultural boycotts of South
Africa wil.1 have any significant
effect, “but something should
be done.”
’’They (the rally organizers)
have a slogan saying ’boycott
South Africa, not Nicaragua,’
and I agree with fhat totally,”
Stalcup said.. (Plans for Presi
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nounced Tuesday.)
Graduate student Jerry Blair
stressed the importance of mak
ing a statement against
injustice.
“We live in a democracy, and
we have to keep democracy
ferry Blair
alive. The only way to do that is
to speak your mind.” Blair said.
"If enough people in enough
places make such a statement, it
does have political weight.”
Carol Knutson, a graduate
student who attended the
University in 1977 when
students passed a referendum
requesting the State Board of
Higher Education to divest
funds invested in South Africa,
said she was “surprised that it’s
taking this long to be able to
divest.”
In December, a Lane County
Circuit Court judge ruled that
divestment violated the state’s
"prudent investor” provisions.
Knutson said she did not
believe today's college students
are apathetic, but they have
lacked an organized way of ex
pressing their concerns.
Wednesday’s rally provided a
means of showing that concern,
she said.
“You can’t do it as an in
dividual; it has to be a move
ment,” she said.
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