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...here to bury P.W. Botha, not to praise him," declared Elijah Barayi, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, at its convention in ( Johannesburg last week. The 1,500 delegates roared their approval of Barayi's plans for the South African President, then endorsed the Freedom Charter, the 1955 manifesto of the outlawed African National Congress that calls for an end to apartheid and nationalization of the country's banks, corporations and gold and coal mines...
...country's black unions are sounding an increasingly militant note. "We demand the right to share the wealth we produce," declared Barayi. "We don't want all of it, only 50%. The rest we will take later." At week's end the National Union of Mineworkers was poised to strike the country's gold and coal mines, the backbone of the economy...
...that it will press criminal charges against 780 of the 3,000 or more people, most of them blacks, who have been detained under the security regulations since June 12. Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, reports that among the detainees are 900 union activists, including Elijah Barayi, president of the 500,000- member Congress of South African Trade Unions. The giant black labor organization set this Thursday as its deadline for the government to meet "minimum" demands, including the release of all union leaders. Otherwise, % the unions may decide to call a national strike...
...some 450,000 members in the country's most vital industries and clearly has the potential to be a major force in South African affairs. Its leaders have already openly committed themselves to an activist role in the antiapartheid struggle. "We are no longer going to be passive," said Barayi. "COSATU is going to govern this country...
...federation's ambitious agenda includes the call for foreign divestment and nationalization of major industries, the release of Nelson Mandela, the withdrawal of government troops from the black townships and the abolition of the pass laws. Barayi said the federation would lead a campaign for blacks to burn their passbooks publicly if the law is not revoked within six months. That threat prompted grim reminders of the last widespread protest against the & pass laws, which ended with the deaths of 67 people after police opened fire on a demonstration in the black township of Sharpeville in 1960. The A.N.C., which...