country.
lis defence campaigr now backed by Man chester Council won a significant victory last Friday when the Home Office was lorcea to reicase mim from Strangeways prison, where he was being held on remand.
Garnett was active in the South African Port Elizabeth at the time the uprisings there in 1976. was tracked down in forced to move to Johannesburg.
There he met and fell in love with a white woman, Sharron, who is a UK citizen. For this 'crime' the couple were persistently abused. harassed allu Garnett himself was beaten severely by the police for daring to oppose the so-called 'immorality laws'.
Sharron was eventually deported to with Their child Garnett followed month later. Ine coupie welc Marcu. believing they had at last escaDcu the horrors of apartheid. But the marbroke down Garnett's twelve-month visa was never renewed. South Africa's police in action. Immigration authorities want to send Korler back to this.
If Garnett is deported he will undoubtedly face renewed repression torture at the hands of the most barbaric racist regime the However, as he himself says: 'My spirits are really high. now know that else but victory will be ours. I also hope for victory in Azania in the near future. I think that if people there knew about the support they al c getting anti-apartheid movements here and abroad, it would easily Doost unel Hol alc. might bring the regime more quickly to its knees.
'I also think we have to government to realise that work harder the sanctions can't hurt our brothers but can only cripple the regime and will also stop a lot of bloodshed.' But he is still under a restriction order and the threat of deportation hangs over his head. His hearing with immigration officials is now fixed for 14 February wanchestel International Airport.
refugees South Africa, whether black or white, should be allowed political asylum in this country,' Patrick sala secretary 'Apartheid has been declared a crime against humanity b the United Nations and if we send people back there we are participating in this crime. Action 6.30рт, 13e • Join vigil at rebruary. to 9.30am, February, Peter Street, A protest at the airport is also being organised.
• Individuals organisations are asked to write to the Home Office demand asylum for Garnett (please send a copy of the letters to the campaign) and also to affiliate to the Garnett Korler Detence Campaign (organisation £5, inarvaults fl waged, 20p unwaged). The campaign can be contacted c/o Manchester Law Centre, Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester 12. Telephone 061 225 5111. A LABOUR movement conference on Southern Africa has been called for Saturday 19 April in Manchester Town Hall.
sponsored by North West TUC, Manchester City Council, the Lancashire Association of Trades Councils and Man chester Ethnic Minorities Representation Council Speakers include Diane Abbot, Peter Heathfield, and Bob Litherland, MP Representatives COSATU and the Dunnes Store strike have also been invited. * For more information about the conference and for delegation forms write to our movemen on Southern 8a Buildings Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 For phone 061 4691.
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GARNETT KORLER is a black South African who fled to Britain in 1983. He faces deportation follow- ing a court recommendation last November. Garnett has applied for political asylum to remain in this
North West labour movement conference on Southern Africa