Africa, igNamibia today is various police units and the notorious Torture, rape and disappearances are South Africa, wholeheartedly supported by USA and by Britain, is the overthrow of the Angolan government The pamphlet Namibia: A contract to kill produced by the Campaign against the Namibian Uranium contract will help to get out the truth about Namibia. It covers a tremendous amount of ground, starting with how the country was conquered and its economy turned into an appendage of imperialism, exporting beef to South Africa, karakul luxury furs, depleted, and a plethora of minerals, including most importantly, uranium. British interest in this plunder is around 80 per economy, and the fact that the country can be used to bypass sanctions applied against South Africa.
The heart of the pamphlet describes in detail how uranium extraction came under the domination of the British mining giant Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ), with its interests in 44 countries, from Cornwall to Canada. RTZ has over the years stolen several hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Namibian uranium. Stolen in the legal sense as the United Nations has passed decrees since 1966 terminating South Africa's mandate to control the country and ruling continued occupation illegal.
decrees recognise SWAPO Africa Peoples Organisation) as the sole authentic representative of the Namibian people, and ban further commercial mining, tarming and fishing operations, allowing for the seizure of any natural resources thus taken from the country. British governments have either been duped about the source of the uranium in contracts made, or fish before the seas were cent control of the CPSA, dulu plemented these areas.
London. (South West SWAPO Secretary Different A little CANUC detection work has shown that the reason for government complicity in this theft is the need for large amounts of enriched uranium and plutonium for the nuclear warheads of the new Trident programme. This is an opinion shared by ex-Minister of Technology Tony Benn in a letter reproduced in the pamphlet. Also some evidence is dug up about a secret military contract made in 1983 for 1,100 tonnes of uranium The final aim of CANUC is to help build a campaign to impose sanctions against the importation of this uranium, uniting the peace movement, the Anti-Apartheid movement, Party (despite the position of Nuclear-Jack Cunningham) and the NUM and Women Against Pit Closures: It is pointed out that many unions have contact somewhere along the line in this illicit tratfic, the TGWU, NUS, NÜR, ASLEF, SCPS, TSSA, so the scope for sanctions imthe labour movement is Together with an earlier CANUC pamphlet The Rossing File this is a useful tool for activists in all The Anti-Apartheid Movement is sponsoring a conference on 25/26 October at City The conference General Andimba Toivo, followed by a week of action. In the next couple of weeks UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi is touring Europe, including Britain. ference, and a warm welcome for South Africa's bandit-in-chief, will help throw a little light on exactly what is happening in Southern Africa, and lift the blanket of silence on Namibia.
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University, accessed Toivo Ja Both the conNAMIBIA: A CONTRACTTO KILL The Story of Stolen Uranium and the British CAMUC THE CAMPÄIN AGAINST THE NAMIBIAN URANIUM CONTRACY • Namibia: A contract to kill by CANUC can be obtained from the Namibia Support Committee, PO Box 16, London NW5 ZLW.
Socialist Action 24 Oct 1986