Africa Committee, Mr.BojiJordanoftheAmerican-South African Peoples' Friendship Association, Mr.AbroedObafemi ofNewAfrican Peoples' Organization, Mr.David Brothers -butMr.Sek~uNkrumah willspeakonhisbehalf -oftheAll-African Peoples' Revolutionary Party, andMr.LennoxHindsoftheInternational Association ofDemocratic Lawyers. Ipropose thattheCommittee approve therequests forhearing contained inthe annextodocuments A/SPC/44/4 andA/SPC/44/5. Inaddition, Ihavejustreceived requests fromobservers oftheAf~ican Nati~nal Congress ofSouthAfrica (ANC)andthePanAfricanist Congress ofAzania L r-;.;----­ ]RG/4 AlSPC/44/PV.26 4 (TheChairman) , '-(PAC)tobecalled upontoaddress theSpecial Committee. TheyspokeintheAdHoc Committee ofthelastspecial session oftheGeneral Assembly onapartheid. Hence, iftheSpecial Committee doesnotobject, weshalladdthenamesofthetwo representatives oftheANCandthePAC,whowillspeakaswell. Iftherearenoobjections tothisproposal, itwillbesodecided Itwassodecided. TheCHAIRMAN: Ishould nowliketoraisethequestion ofverbatim coverage forthehearings. Iwishtopropose that,following thepractice of previous years,theSpecial Committee request verbatim records ofthehearings. Thisisanormalworking procedure, andiftherearenoobjections, itwillbeso decided. Itwassodecided. TheCHAIRMAN: Ishouldlikesincerely towelcome therepresentatives of non-governmental organizations whoarepresent andtoremind themthatourtimefor thismeeting islimited to1p.m.Hencethiscircumstance willhavetobetaken intoconsideration byspeakers. Iwishalsotoappealtospeakers -andthisisveryimportant -tospeak slowly andtomaketheirstatements ataspeedthatwillenabletheinterpreters to keeppacewiththedelivery andfacilitate thetaskoftheverbatim reporters and pressofficers. Myexperience isthatr.epresentatives ofnon-governmental organizations speakratherfast. Wemayjusthavetolistenbutinterpreters are doingtheirjobatthesametime;theyareuniquepeople: theyarelistening and atthesametimespeaking. Itherefore appealtoa 1speakers totakethisinto consideration also. Thefirstspeaker isMrs.Jennifer DavisoftheAmerican Committee onAfrica, onwhomInowcall. f d'__ 1. ~_'.so of for 'sto md md ;0 ,ca,RG/4 A/SPC/44/PV.26 5 Mrs.DAVIS: Mr.Chairman, IshouldliketothankyouandtheSpecial Committee fortheopportunity toaddress theSpecial Committee atthisvery critical m~~ent, whenthep~opleofSouthAfricastandsatavitalcrossroad. Thefirstrealsignsofchangeareemerging inSouthAfricatoday. Changeis coming, buthowquickly andhowextensively isstillnotclear,thestirring events ofthepastfewmonths -therelease ofNelson Mandela andsomeotherpolitical prisoners, thereturnofthefirstpolitical exiles andtheunbanning ofpolitical organizaticns -haveallgivenhopethatrealchange mayfinally beonthehorizon. ButevenastheGovernment beginstalkswiththeAfrican National Congress of SouthAfrica (ANC)inthecapital, inthetownships andther~ralareastheyare stillarresting, torturing andkilling localactivists. Forexample, inEmpangeni, innorthern Nataltradeunionsactivists andANClocal organiz~rs arebeingburned outoftheirhomesbygroupsaffiliated withKwaZulubantustan leaderGatsha Buthelezi -andthatwasconfirmed foruslastweekbyamemberofourstaffwho hadspentthreeorfourweeksthissummertravelling around SouthAfrica. --------~JSM/at A/SPC/44/PV.~6 6 (Mrs.Davis)\, IntheJohannesburg areaInkatha supporters arebeingusedbytheSouth African Government asshocktroopsintheirwaragainst township-based anti-apartheid organizers. Asmanyhereareaware,formorethan40yearsthe Nationalist Partyhaspursued adeliberate divide-and-rule policyintJ1eblack community thathasincluded attempts todividetownships intoethnicortribal areas. Single-gex hostels formigrant workers wereseparated andisolated fromthe restofthecommunity. TheState's vicious political manipulation ofsuchgroups isnotnew.Itwillberecalled, forexample, thatduringthe1976Sowetouprising foratimetheGovernment successfully wasabletousethedivisions ithadcreated tounleash thehostelresidents onprotesting students inanattempt toundermine township organizing. Xragic~lly; thisdeliberate government policycontinues, with terrible consequences forthepeople. Weareparticularly disturbed bythemounting evidence -fromeyewitness reports, fromthechurches andfromcredible monitoring groups, suchasthe