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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University Students Association. Volume 40, Number 3. March 14, 1977.

What You Can Do

What You Can Do

Image of people inside a map of Africa

  • Read more about the situation in Namibia, and keep a scrapbook of news from there. Then tell others about it.
  • Borrow the Namibia slide set from CORSO (address below) and show it at your church, school, trade union, college, etc. There is a commentary with the fifty slides.
  • Support Operation Namibia, the boat sailing from England to Namibia with a cargo of books on board which have been requested by the Namibia National Convention, but most of which are banned under white South African legislation passed in Pretoria. The skipper of the Golden Harvest is Roy Purvis from Waihi who used to be with the Fri on its peace Odyssey in the Pacific ocean. Other crew members are from Australia the USA and West Europe. The voyage is expected to take about four months to reach Walvis Bay where they will confront the South African authorities.
  • Get your church leaders to send messages of support to Namibian churches who have asked for solidarity so that their struggle for liberation does not pass unnoticed by the rest of the world. Addresses are available from CORSO.
  • Support the work of Amnesty International which continues to press for the release of prisoners in Namibia and all over the world. Also the programmes of Hart and Care which have focussed on New Zealand's links with South Africa, and which seek to end tacit Government support for the apartheid regime, despite what they say in the UN.
  • Continue to fight racism and economic exploitation in your own situation, because if we understand these problems here, then we can begin to understand the situation in Namibia and Southern Africa: and if we can change the system, then the exploitation of Namibia and the rest of the world by the multinational corporations will cease, and human dignity and justice will stand above the desire for the maximinsation of profit.
  • Join the CORSO Namibia group in Christchurch or start on in your own area.
Contact: Namibia Action GroupCORSOBox 1905Christchurch