headquarters of the Confederation South African Trade Unions.
The bombs caused ex- ripping tensive damage, away the ground floor and leaving the building in a state of ucar collapse.
The attack was no isolated event. It was the third attack on the COSATU offices within a fortnight, and is part of a wider crackdown on the unions by the apartheid state.
In addition to causing injury to two people in the building at the time and generally disrupting the the attack was bartolar blow lo lie lan depriving the rail union SARHWU of its VES COLC Within 48 hours of the bombing. union offices had been atCOSATU's offices in East ed.
negotiating team have been Themba the securiti Numalo, al V of the has also detained which imprisonprime LaNC Stallu UI actions well as the will intimidated.
lie offices NOL Jimmy Knapp and SACTU resources, but our democratically elected shop the thousands of rank and file members who have built COSATU as an effective voice of the working class.
COSATU is indestructible will ticulate the aspirations of the ppressed exploited We are an tant force that will shape the new democratic south Africa, free of oppression and exploitation' COSATU affiliates have been giving major assistance eightdeveloped major betweer The say bosses The rail have also notably the (NUM), postal telecom (POTWA), municipal Other aspects of this alliance will include taking up solidarity with strikes led by MAWU, taking up the cases of other detainees who are MAWU members. offering to host MAWU representatives visiting Britain, campaigning to educate AEU memebrs on Tire situation South Africa, and trying to pro.
MAWU.
The district committee is planning to maintain an ongoing contact the London office of SACTU follow the .through.
Messages of protest calling for the dropping of all charges and the release Buildings Pretoria 0001, South African ambassador, South Africa House Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Copies should be sent Flowers Mews, off Archway Close, Upper Holloway, London N19 3TB. WUI KCLS. history attacks on Rail Harbour worker and of solidarity. Mbengeni labourer said: beat uS working leave.
'That is what the strike is all about - it is about being beaten, being called "kaffirs", being dismissed without and being paid starvation wages.' The spread Strike solidarity • SIXTY rail workers including over half the national executive of the NUR picketed the South African embassy on weunesuay Io May.
They were there to hand in a petition signed by more than 4KN rail workers with esse South African , solidarity rail strike and protesting the killing by the Pretoria regime of six strikers. The embassy retused to accept the petition.
NUR general
secretary Jimmy Knapp said that rail workers 'were shocked to hear Sbuth Africa. They have now been on strike for eight weeks and are still prepared to show guts and courage for what vou and take for granted.
Knapp called for 'solidarity to sustain the struggle in South Africa' and explained that in handing petition. the NUR leadership was demonstrating its 100 per cent.
support for SARWHU.
The NUR call for history of • has mees survive their La day. Their curren state of the industri legal rig! picke the strikers have shown audacious acts to disrupt the movement of goods -refusing hand over truck keys, organising Britain, Ireland.
Netherlands, Sweden and Canada sending protests to the South African government.
We detainees.' • In the NUR, Rail Against Apartheid has deepened its solidarity WOK WIL IL SINECI ULUL Collection sheets for the and information on the strike is beine circulated to all NUR branches.
Over the next few week, hundreds of NUR activists will assemble at national conferences of the various 'grades' covered by the union. The will be addressed hy RAA speakers ant collections will be held as well as other solidarity action initiated.
• Up and down the country NUR members. often alongside activists or the AnI-Aparteld Movement, have been buckets and leaflets 'sleep-ins' depots, and dumping containers to block access to depots In Johan with 4000; Rand in This of worker Pal phiets result, face not only cramped sex comodation but in addition The the rail NUR Jimmy this the support.