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SACTU marks
35 years

Peter Mahlangu of the African Nation-
al Congress gets applause as he
addresses banquet honouring the
35th anniversary of the South African
Congres of Trdae Unions at the Mari-
time Labour Centre in Vancouver on
March 5. Mahlangu, the former
SACTU representative in Canada,
said he was “disappointed” people
like British PM Margaret Thatcher
were taking credit for the progress
againt apartheid in South Africa.
“That credit belongs to all of us here,”
he declared, in noting, “‘It'sstilla long
Way to go, friends, before we have a
democratic, non-racial, non-sexist
South Africa.”’

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‘Equality necessary for S.A. women’

South African women are counting
down the days to apartheid’s demise by
insisting on equality today, says Nompi
Mahlangu, of the Women’s Section of the
African National Congress.

“We are struggling to ensure that our
liberation as women should take place now.
We’re not waiting until apartheid ends,”
says the former student activist.

For the women who join the country’s
leading anti-apartheid organization, this
means fighting for equality inside the ANC,
mobilizing South African women in the
struggle against apartheid and forcing
women’s equality onto the agenda of a free
South Africa.

Nowhere is the battle easy. The ANC has
had a women’s section for most of its 78
years, but Mahlangu says for much of its

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history the section was seen as an auxiliary
to the struggle, not integral to it.

“Until 1981 only one woman sat on the
ANC executive. Today there are three (out
of 35). Three is not enough,” she adds.

Today women members are actively
involved in ANC strategy discussions
around the conditions and content of
impending negotiations between the libera-
tion movement and the apartheid rulers.

Ironically, mobilizing women inside the
country is almost an easier job. Apartheid is
so brutal a system, there is no choice but to
fight back.

“The victims of apartheid are mainly
children,” says Mahlangu, herself a survivor
of the student uprisings of 1976. “The best
way. to mobilize parents is to attack the
children.”

On staff in the South African Congress of
Trade Union’s office in Toronto, Mahlangu
welcomes statements such as those coming
from leaders such as Bishop Desmond Tutu
in his call for a “non-racial, non-sexist
South Africa.”

“Tt is important for recognized leaders to
raise such issues,” she says, because male
supremacy is deeply rooted in the culture.
“Tt is very difficult for African men to let go
of this power, and give in to issues affecting
women,” Mahlangu explains. “We have a
very big job to emancipate our men, along
with ourselves.”

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by a system which not only subjugates
women by race and class, but by sex.
Legally, women are permanently minors
requiring the permission of fathers, hus-
bands or sons before entering contracts.
Families are torn apart by the Group Areas
Act and apartheid robs mothers of the right
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children.

Tinkering with apartheid does little to
alleviate the pain. Mahlangu cites the recent
lifting of the ban on mixed marriages. “A
white man and a Black woman may now
marry. But if a child is born, the father will
not be able to accompany his wife to the
hospital, because it is a ‘Black’ hospital. The
child will be ‘coloured,’ which means it will
have to be transfered to the ‘coloured’ hos-
pital.

“From the moment of birth, apartheid
inflicts itself on the people.”

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NOTICE is hereby given that an application
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