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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Sinister Shadow of POQO Lengthening Over South Africa SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1963 By NIEL SMITH United Press International Johannesburg - (UP" - The sinister shadow of POQO is lengthening over South At rica. A year ago the organiza tion was known only to a handful of African affairs ex perts. Today most South Af ricans are familiar with "POQO," the strange-sound- Jng Xhosa language word meaning "we stand alone." They read the headlines: The reports of murder and intimidation, and of eager African recruits slipping out of the country for training in murder methods and sabo tage. Then they wonder if they must- take seriously POQO's boast that it will launch an Algerian-type re bellion in South Africa in J963. Anti-White Underground POQO is a fanatically anti-while underground Af rican organization. Its terror ist activities have ranged from one end of the apartheid-practicing republic to the ther. There is now no roubt that POQO instigated the Novem ber riots at Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, when two young whites were dragged from their homes and butch ered by a screaming mob of Africans. A month later POQO men hacked a police man to death in a violent skirmish at Queenstown, more than 500 miles from Paarl. This month five more Europeans were similarly massacred near Engcobo, about 100 miles from Queens town. South Africa's commission er of police, Lt. Gen. J. M. Keevy at first denied, but appeared to be connected with the Engcobo killings. POQO Responsible On the day Keevy made his original denial, the government-appointed leader of the Transkaei territorial author ity, chief Kaiser Matanzima, said he had no doubt POQO was responsible. Matanzima has reason to fear POQO. As a strong sup porter of the government pol icy which brought him to power and prominence, he is a prime target for the terror- why don't you EYEBALL this art show before it doses thursday get vigorous versatile OCULAR experiences from the CONFRONTATION with original oil paintings by Victoria Staley you are invited to see . . . to take a look . . . to view, observe, perceive to behold, scan, examine . . . to scrutinize and inspect . . . to react . . . to assess, evaluate, and criticize . . . at Fontaine's Art Gallery at 329 S. Grape between 1 0th and 11th. this show closing thursday Feb. 28th. . ists. One assassination at tempt on him failed last De cember. POQO also has been con nected with intimidation, gas oline bomb attacks, and an occasional successful assassin ation of some lesser known African government support er. On Feb. 7 six Africans were sentenced to death in Umiata for killing a pro-government chief, Cwebindlala Gzoboza. The six told the court POQO threatened to kill them unless they com mitted the murder. POQO's history is a short one. It had its origin in the banned pan-Africanist con gress (PAC) whose campaign against government pass books for blacks in 1960 cul minated in a bloody massacre at Sharpeville. The pan-Africanists reject ed the methods of the more moderate African national congress (ANC) because the ANC was prepared to work for a multi-racial South Af rica. The ANC formed part of the interlocking network of other "congresses" repre senting radical elements from all South Africa's racial groups. The pan-Africanists refused to work within this framework and preferred to go it alone under the banner of "Africa for the Africans." After the PAC was banned in 1960, those leaders who had not been scooped up in the police net, or fled out of the country, began to organize On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE En garde! Tonight the bat tle is joined. Once again CBS and NBC, in the struggle for the TV viewer's favor, have scheduled opposite each oth er two fine special programs. And the V.I.P. uncomfortably perched on the horns of a dil emma is you. On one hand CBS offers a corking good variety hour with Carol Burnett and Rob ert Preston - both high-powered performers. On the other hand NBC offers Chet Huntley with a study of the nation's water problems, which are becom ing more acute each year. My guess would be that aft er varied amounts of wrang ling, either vocally with the younger generation or silent ly with one's conscience, most viewers will turn to the en tertainment hour rather than the educational one. That's fine. Freedom of choice is all important in a free society. But as far as television goes, the networks should not force such a choice upon the viewer. Good spe cial programs are getting scarcer each season as pro duction costs inflate. There fore we should demand that the networks do not schedule what few specials they do have at the same hour, im posing upon us a difficult choice. Rather, the specials should be opposite regularly sched uled programs. For example, deciding to miss "Bonanza one Sunday evening in favor of fun with comedienne Bur- ett or missing "Candid Cam era ' once to become better nformed on a national prob lem which affects us all, would be a relatively easy decision. The TV audience has a right to such consideration in stead of being the punching bag between two giants bat tling for ratings. SPORTS SPECTACULAR, :30 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. The Diamond Jubilee Nation al A.A.U. Indoo Track and Field Championships and the All-American Water-Ski Championships. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 6 p.m. Sunday kbks- v. "At tack on Singapore" pictures the World War II fall of Great Britain's "unassailable Far Eastern fortress guarding the approaches to the Dutch East Indies, India and Aus tralia. MEET THE PRESS, 6 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The head of the Organization of Amer ican States, Ambassador Gon- zalo J. Facio of Costa Rica, will be interviewed. ABOUT TIME, 6:30 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. A repeat broadcast of the story oi tne measurement of time. Dr. Frank Baxter serves as pro gram guide for this Bell Sys tem Science Series. ED SULLIVAN, 8 p.m. Sun day KBES-TV. The Oreat Schnozzola, Jimmy Durante, is headlincr for this show or iginating from Las Vegas. THE TROUBLE WITH WA TER IS PEOPLE, 10 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. In a study of the increasing aculeness of the nation's water problems, the increasing demands made upon the Colorado River re flect what is happening throughout the coun' j. Mis use and overuse has render ed too much of our water un fit, according to narrator Chct Huntley. CAROL AND COMPANY, 10 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. Carol Burnett and Robert Preston frolic and sing through one of TV's brighter hours. VICTOR BORGE SHOW. 9 p.m. Monday KMED-TV. The one-man carts of two world renowned productions - Vic tor Bonze and the French master mime, Marcel Mar ceau - combine their talents In silent segment of the show as well as performing individually. DICK POWELL THEATRE 9 30 p.m. Tuesday KMEDTV Henry Fonda a..d Polly Ber gen star In "Tissue of Hate. the drama of a woman pris oner whose face Is covered ING, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, KMED-TV. American aid projects in India, filmed dur ing a recent tour of that coun try by U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith. PERRY COMO, 9 p.m. Wednesday KMED-TV. Guest include soprano Patrice Mun- sel, comedian Frank Gorshin and puppeteers Bil and Cora Baird and their marionettes. NAKED CITY, 10 p.m. Wednesday KBES-TV. Akim Tamiroff and Robert Culp star in the story of jury on a murder triaf which makes the wrong decision. PERRY MASON, 8 p.m. Thursday KBES-TV. Guest star Walter Pidgeon has a scatterbrained heiress for a client in a murder involving blackmail and a mysterious Swiss bank account. PREMIERE, 10 p.m. Thurs day KBES-TV. "Hornblower," based on C. S. Forester's fic tional British naval hero, tells the story of a British sloop of war searching for her sister-ship, presumed lost. DAVID BRINKI EY'S JOURNAL, 8 p.m. Saturday KMED-TV. Great Britain's $3,000,000,000 gambling is subject of filmed report. MOVIE, 9 p.m. Saturday KMED-TV. "The Roots of Heaven," with Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Eddie Al bert, deals with African ele phant ivory hunters. John Huston directed the mov!?, filmed In French Equatorial Africa. quietly. They started oper ations in the black shanty towns outside Cape Town and among the green hills of Zulu land at the other side of the country. Collaborate With No One The organizers chose the name "POQO" to show they were prepared to collaborate with no outsiders, not even the Communists who are al ways willing to assist African nationalist movements. "We are as much against the Communists as the south African government," an Af rican who claimed to be a POQO sympathizer said. "They try to infiltrate all organizations to further their own interests. We in POQO are interested only in pan-Africanism. We have no time for foreign ideologies such as Communism." He added: "Poqo is now a national organization. It is ruthless and well organized and commands loyalty from thousands of supporters who will carry out its orders or face death themselves. Its message is not prepared to compromise, so violence is the only answer. Headquarters Are Outside Informed sources say poqo has its headquarters outside South Africa, in the little British colony of Basutoland. Basutoland has more than 400 miles of unpatrolled fron tier with South Africa and It is easy for Africans to slip down through the mountain passes or across shallow streams into the republic. This is one of the main rea sons the South African gov ernment ringed Basutoland, and other British territories adjoining the republic, with heavily armed frontier posts. Reports persist that Poqo supporters have been smug gled out of South Africa to Ghana and Algeria for train ing in sabotage. Some of these saboteurs are reportedly now back in the country pre paring for the next phase of Poqo's operations. Last month there were dis quieting reports from Natal that Poqo was recruiting young Africans by the score and sending them by secret routes to West Africa for training, in guerrilla warfare. There are other reports that Poqo has organized its own schools for teaching judo and unarmed combat techniques In the African townships south-west of Johannesburg Attention to Activities The South African authori ties are giving serious atten tion to Poqo's activities. The recent emphasis on fortified frontier posts and detention camps for undesirable immi grants shows that the police will make an all-out effort to stop saboteurs trained out side the country re-entering the republic. In that case the new border posts would be come major targets for Poqo terrorists, to re-open a way back into the country for its trainees. 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