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1. Useful background to the current black in unrest in South Africa can be found in BLACK RENAISSANCE: Papers from the Black Renaissance Convention, December 1974, edited by Thoahlane Thoahlane. It is available from Ravan Press, who published it for the Black Renaissance Action Committee, for R 1.95. The address is P.O. Box 31134, 2017 Braamfontein, Republic of South Africa. Authors include G. M. Nkondo, G. Manas Buthelezi, Dr. Fatima Meer, and others.

2. DETENTION AND DETENTE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA is the title of a report dated 30 April 1976 from the Christian Institute of South Africa. As most readers will know, Horst Kleinschmidt, forced into exile after detention, is now European representative of the CI, and copies of this 35-page report can be obtained through his office: c / o Interchurch Aid, Netherlands Reformed Church, P.O. Box 14100, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Contributions to help defray the cost are invited and should be made out to bank account No. 69.92. 12.219, Crediet-en-Effectenbank, Utrecht, and sent with your request for copies to the above address. Production costs are estimated at D fi 2 or U.S. $1. Do not make checks out to CI, to avoid any problems with South Africa's prohibition against their receipt of foreign funds.

3. Another document originating in South Africa which can no longer be distributed from there is the SOUTHERN AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY (SANA) BULLETIN. The International University Exchange Fund has stepped into the breach and is reproducing and distributing this publication from its Geneva offices, as they are already doing with SASO NEWSLETTER (see Item 2, Publications, AFRICA TODAY, 22 4, Oct., Dec. 1975, p. 97.) Also available from IUEF is a 47-page report entitled THE NEW TERRORISTS: Documents from the SASO/BPC Trial. On another subject, IUEF has produced a document entitled EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO SAHARAN REFUGEES, by Nils Gussing. To request any of these documents, write IUEF, Postbox 348, 1211 Geneva 11, Switzerland.

4. In our last issue, we briefly announced that the International Defence and Aid Fund had discontinued its loose leaf publication, SOUTHERN AFRICA IN- FORMATION SERVICE, in favor of a new 6-8 issue per year newsletter FOCUS, for $2.50 per year. Former subscribers to SAIS will, however, also receive another occasional publication, FACT PAPERS on Southern Africa. The first two of these have already been issued: No. 1, "CIVILIZED STAN- DARDS" IN RHODESIA - The Law and Order (Maintenance) Act, and No. 2, BLACK THEATRE IN SOUTH AFRICA. We do not have price information on these titles, however. For more information, write IDAFSA, 104 Newgate Street, London, ECI England or IDAFSA-NA, 1430 Massachusetts Ave., Room 201, Cambridge, Mass. 02114.

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5. We goofed last month in reporting the new address for the Africa Fund and the American Committee on Africa, when our typesetter read "8" instead of "5", and we failed to catch it. The correct address is 305 E. 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10017. The Fund has just published a new 4-page brochure SOUTHERN AFRICA LITERATURE LIST 1976-1977, available on request. Among the new titles listed are NO ONE CAN STOP THE RAIN - Angola and the MPLA: From War to Liberation, by George M. Houser and Herb Shore, 55 pp., $1.50 (over 10, $1.00 each) and SOWETO 1976 - THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID, by Jennifer Davis, 6 pp., $0.15 (over 10, ten cents each). The literature list includes many publications from other sources available through the Africa Fund.

6. Recently we received a notice that ABASABENZI, the consciousness raising Xhosa-language Zulu newsletter for Capetown area workers, published by the Wages Commission of the Students Representative Council at the University of Capetown, Rondebosch, had been banned by the South African Government. We are happy, however, to have now received Nos. 1 (May) and 2 (June) of a new publication UMANYANO in the same format, accompanied by the usual roneo'd English translation, under the same auspices. Wages Commission publications have been available to non-South African subscribers for R25 annually. Interested readers should perhaps inquire first in case the government order affects this.

7. While it is not a new journal, we have recently received some 1976 issues of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT, edited by Alan Rake, and feel it might be worth- while to call this business oriented monthly to our readers' attention again. The April 1976 issue will be particularly useful to those interested in the theme of this issue of AFRICA TODAY. Entitled "Southern African Special," it contains articles by Derek Ingram and Guy Arnold on "Politics of Southern Africa," Arnold Raphael on "Military Balance," and Alan Rake on "Economics of Southern Africa," as well as country-by-country surveys of the southern Africa actors and the attitudes of major powers. Annual subscriptions are f7.00 or $17.50 surface, or ? 8.50 or $21.25 air. No single issue price is given. The address is Wheatsheaf House, Carmelite St., London EC4Y OAX England.

8. A new title in our "books received" section to which we wish to call special attention is WHITE WEALTH AND BLACK POVERTY: American Invest- ments in Southern Africa, by Barbara Rogers, 331 pp., $14.95. This is the second in the University of Denver's Center on International Relations Studies in Human Rights series. Greenwood Press, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, Conn., 06880, is the publisher. Your local bookstore can get it for you.

9. We failed to include new titles in the UN Unit on Apartheid's Notes and Documents series in the last issue and consequently have an unusually long list this time. These include APPEAL FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE IN- TERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, 3 pp.; a description of the UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA, 11 pp.; a statement by H. E. Mme. Jeanne Martin Cisse, Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 26pp.; No. 2 / 76, SOUTH AFRICA'S DEFENCE STRATEGY, a 13- page reprint of a paper written by Abdul S. Minty, honorary Secretary of the

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British Anti-Apartheid movement; No. 3/ 76, AGAINST APARTHIED IN SPORTS, a summary of actions taken by governments to implement a United Nations proscription of sporting contacts with South Africa; No. 4 / 76, TWO TRIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA, texts of reports by Professor Charles-Albert Morand, observer for the International Commission of Jurists, on a trial of leaders of the South African Students Organization and the Black People's Convention; No. 5 / 76, RESOLUTIONS OF APARTHEID ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1975, 10 pp.; No. 6 / 76, ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA, a summary and review of resolutions by the General Assembly and Security Council; No. 7 / 76, THE WORLD AGAINST APARTHEID, selected documents on action against apartheid in 1975, 20pp.; No. 8 / 76, THE UNITED NATIONS TRUST FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA, a report on the fund established to aid victims of apartheid, 10 pp.; No. 10 / 76, statements by chairman H.E Mme. Jeanne-Martin Cisse during the MISSION OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE AGAINST APARTHEID TO LONDON, CAIRO, ACCRA AND CONAKRY, 18 pp.; No. 11/76, statements made at a meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to observe the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, 23 pp.; No. 12/ 76, RELATIONS BETWEEN NAZI GERMANY AND SOUTH AFRICA, a discussion of Nazi influence on the development of the ideology of apartheid by A. Kum'a N'dumbe, 18pp.; No. 14/ 76, FRENCH NON-GOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION AGAINST APARTHEID, 3 pp.; No. 15 / 76, APARTHEID AND SPORTS IN- TERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF APARTHEID SPORTS, by Tom Newnham, 14pp.; No. 16 / 76, THE MEANING OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, by Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu, 9 pp.; No. 17 ,' 76, SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF INDIA TO THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID, by M. Moolla, 9 pp.

We have also received under the Notes & Documents heading a number of documents relating to the International Seminar on theEradication of Apartheid and in Support of the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa held in Havana from May 24-28. SEM / 1 includes the final documents, messages and a list of participants, 45 pp.; SEM / 2, SOUTH AFRICAN PROPAGANDA, by Mokhtar Taleb-Bendiab, 12pp.; SEM /3, INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST ECONOMIC COLLABORATION WITH SOUTH AFRICA: BACKGROUND AND SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE, by Ajit Singh, 14 pp.; SEM / 4, REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, by Nicasio G. Valderrama, 12 pp.; SEM / 5, ASSISTANCE TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICAN AND THEIR LIBERATION MOVEMENTS, by E.S. Reddy, 8 pp.; SEM 6, APARTHEID SPORT AND SOUTH AFRICA'S FOREIGN POLICY: 1976, by Richard E. Lapchick, 7 pp.; SEM 7, TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, by John Sprack, 6 pp.; SEM / 8, SOME FACTS OF LIFE FOR WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA, by Jane Coles, 3 pp.; SEM /9, ROLE OF SHAREHOLDER ACT ON IN OPPOSING LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA, b.y the Reverend David Halsam, 5 pp.; SEM / 10, ISOLATE SOUTH AFRICA FROM INTERNATIONAL SPORT AND SUPPORT SAN-ROC, by Sam Ramsamy and Christ D. DeBroglio, 6 pp.; SEM 11, TRADE UNION ACTION AGAINST APARTHEID, by J. D. Akumu, Secretary-General of the Organization of African Trade Union Unity, 7 pp.; SEM 12, SOUTH AFRICA: TRANS- NATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND APARTHEID, by Reinaldo Baro and Armando Entralgo, 9 pp.

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10. The Liberation Support Movement's LIBERATION CALENDAR for 1977 is now ready. The theme is "Liberation Struggle and National Reconstruction." The size is 10" x 13". Proceeds go to the SWAPO printshop project. One of the two fliers we have received with this announcement mentions a 15% discount on the $2.50 price for early orders, but doesn't specify how early. Bulk rates are $1.70 for 6-50 calendars and $1.25 for 51 or more plus 10% postage and handling. All orders must be prepaid. The LSM also has MPLA and Che Guevera T-shirts available at $5.00 plus 10 per cent postage, and a similar SWAPO shirt is promised shortly. Order from LSM Information Center, P.O. Box 94338, Richmond, B. C., Canada V6Y 2 AB.

11.If you haven't seen a liberation movement comic book, Peoples Press gives you that opportunity. They have translated and reproduced FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A Story from Angola, originally issued in Portuguese by MPLA, 72 pp., $0.85. The story of Paulo's conversion from a cowed servant to a MPLA freedom fighter is preceded by a brief foreword by Steve Talbot. Order from Peoples Press, 2680 21st St., San Francisco, Calif. 94110.

12. A useful 24-page report, titled simply NAMIBIA, on the Wingspread Con- ference on Namibia, convened in May 1976 by the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. and the Johnson Foundation, is now available, together with a 2-page summary from the Johnson Foundation, Racine, Wisc. 53401.

13. A new title in the Papers for International Studies, Africa Series, from The Ohio University Center for International Studies, Athens, Ohio 40701, is No. 28, DEPENDENCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT: The Development and Foreign Policies of Zambia by Timothy M. Shaw, $3.75. This careful and thorough study is a valuable addition to the literature in the fields of development and diplomacy.

14. The weekly newsmagazine format seems to be spreading all over the con- tinent. One of the newer entries is THE WEEKLY REVIEW out of Nairobi. The sample copy we received, dated Nov. 24, 1975, is No. 42. Hilary Ng'weno and Philip Ochieng, both well known names in East African journalism, are Editor and Assistant Editor, respectively. The issue contains 32 newsprint pages, 8 devoted to East Africa, 2 to the rest of Africa, 3 to the world, plus special sec- tions on Japan and business and finance. The address is P.O. Box 42771, Nairobi, Kenya. The subscription schedule is too complex to reproduce in full, but one year surface subscriptions are $35. Air mail, student, and multiple year rates vary by geography.

15. New in the Studies in Developing Countries series from the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is No. 85, by the Soviet scholar, A. Kuprianov, entitled DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; Internal Regional Disproportions in Growing Economies, 67 pp. Case studies include Ghana and Uganda. For price and distribution information, write KULTURA, P.O. Box 149, H-1389 Budapest 26, Hungary. The U.S. distributors are Stechert- Hafner and FAM.

16. Three mimeographed catalogues, containing a wide listing of Africana books, maps and prints, many rare and long out of print, have been sent to us by Valerie and Stanley Clingman of 68, Eckstein St., Johannesburg, 2001, South Africa, listing these items for sale from their private collection. Write them for copies of the catalogues if you are interested.

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