apartheid boss.
Whatever the official position, of course. South the Western alliance. But under Thatcher there has been a strong push by the leading Western powers to give much more open support lo South Africa. Botha's risit is symbolic of this bring In t apartheid regime hack into une nemauona od During Botha's visit there will be discussions British the government 1io South Africa, especially anti-submarine Also under Dialics discussion Will be South Africans' request ANC office une London be thrown out by Thatcher on grounds that it Wher "terrorist' office. her the aftermath Libyan Thatcher will be prepared along with this demand remains be ON 2 JUNE the South Africa prime minister PW Botha arrives in Britain for his state visit organised by Thatcher. The same day the English rugby team plays the first match of its South African tour another sign of the changing official attitude to This is also the day on which Anti-Apartheid has organised its protest against Botha's visit — a protest which must lead to a huge repudiation of the effect, this means that blacks other than those needed the white employers are heing shipped hundreds of thousands to impoverished black 'homelands'. in most or inese area. the women, children and Teauves on black workers are left to scratch hopeless istence in areas without the most basic resources and In Natal, the police LOICES removing 100,000 illegal' soualie.
Ladysmith area. A total of 3.5 million people are being transported in the trankiv-named *Surplus People Project'.
At the Cross Roads squatters camp near Cape Town — a town of homes made out cardboard and corrugated iron - the tens thousands residents have heen sub. ject to constant police allou the camp is to he bulldozed and the in habitants transported. South African prime minis movement has a particular reponsibilit! fight given the huge amounts o British investment in tha country. 2 June must be ine occasion • huge turnout to show that PH Botha :: ne: wanted here. Among the speakers at the will be held in South African jail for vcar. supporting the ANC