The Carolinian [November 14, 1985]

              Stye Qfarolftuan
Thursday, November U, 1985 "The Student Voice of UNC-G" Volume LXV, Number^^
Anonymous Citizen of South Africa Speaks Out on Apartheid
Speaking From Experience
By KAREN CARPENTER
suft Wriiar
Peace Fellowship held a
meeting Monday night to diactus
what students can do about the
situation in South Africa. A
spokeswoman who is a citizen of
south Africa and has lived there
her whole life offered sugges
tions and information on the
status of the apartheid country.
The young lady who requests
to be anonymous for the safety
of her politically active family in
South Africa, says that divest-ment
will not completely reform
the country. It will cause the
whites to pay higher taxes,
forfeit some of their luxuries, and
look at the world-wide opposition
to apartheid.
"I have incredibly little respect
for American companies in South
Africa." She says that these com-panies
are there "clearly for
(their) own benefit" because
labor is cheap. Labor is cheap
because black people are con-sidered
cheap laborers.
Employers do not have a
minimum wage to abide by and
are there for free to determine
what they want to pay their
workers. Blacks are employed at
low pay rates because they are
uneducated, she said. They are
uneducated because they have
poor schools. Eleven times more
money is spent on a white stu-dent
than on a black student. Ac-cording
to the speaker 85 per-cent
of the teachers at black
school are under qualified, while
only 3 percent of the whites'
teachers are under qualified.
Blacks are taught In the
Afrikaner language, which they
do not speak. The speaker il-lustrated
the disadvantage of
Barbecue Supper Held to Raise Funds for Howard Cob e
Vice President Bush Visits High Point
By LORRIE 1. CAREY
NmUfai
Vice President George Bush,
addressed over one thousand
Republicans at a barbecue dinner
to raise funds to reelect Coble to
Congress on Friday night in
High Point. The $26ahead din-ner
was one of a number of
events that Bush attended dur-ing
his brief visit to North
Carolina. Bush arrived at the din-ner
a little later than expected
because he had stopped to shake
hands after he cut the ribbon for
the dedication of a new hospital
in High Point.
After the convocation and
pledge of allegiance, the elected
officials attending the dinner
were introduced. N.C. Governor
Jim Martin sat at the head table
along with Congressman
Howard Coble, newly elected
High Point Mayor, Judi
Mendenhall, and a number of
Republican Party officials.
Mendenhall addressed Bush by
beginning, "this is truly a red
letter day in our community."
She welcomed the vice president
to High Point and explained to
him, "High Point has been Coble
country. In 1984 it was Jim Mar-tin
country And now, it is also
George Bush country."
Congressman, Howard Coble
spoke after Mayor Mendenhall.
"This is some night," began Co-ble.
He explained that this was
not Bush's first visit to the sixth
district of North Carolina. "On*
year ago the vice president came
to Wake Forest University." Co-ble
told Bush that he had the best
collegiate rally he had ever been
to. Coble concluded his speech by
introducing the vice president.
Bush rose from his seal amid
cheers from many Republican ad-mirers.
Looking out over a sea of
black and gold balloons, barbecue
dinners, and enthusiastic Coble
supporters, Bush began his
speech with ajoke about the con-try's
financial situation, "Jimmy
Baker, the Treasury Secretary,
told me that the government
would run out of money unless
the debt ceiling is raised. As you
know, the debt ceiling hasn't
been raised. When I landed here
tonight (in Air Force II). I got a
call from Washington. I'm glad
to be in my new home state of
North Carolina."
Bush's first topic was last
year's election. "Last year our
party took 49 states and kept the
Senate, including one of the
strongest voices in the Senate,
Jesse Helms." Bush continued by
saying, "it is absolutely essential
we keeD control of the Senate."
He pointed out, "in 1984 the
American people said 'no' to the
Democrats. They said 'no' to the
party of despair and 'yes' to the
party of opportunity and faith in
traditional values. They said 'no'
to high inflation and low growth
and 'no' to the attitude of 'If it
moves, tax it, if it still moves,
foreign currency.
After a few Tip O'Neil jokes,
Bush intimated. 'Tip O'Neil has
told me he is not going to be in
Congress next year." The au-dience
cheered. On a more
serious note, Bush said, "We
want your help on the balanced
budget amendment. If spending
were constant and revenue up,
there would be no $200 billion
deficit, but a $100 billion
surplus.The problem is not the
revenue, it's the spending." Bush
told the audience that if Con-gress
can't cut the budget, then
let the president cut it using the
line item veto.
Bush left the discussion of the
budget to talk about the
Republican party's advocacy of
traditional values. He stated we
should, "take the control of
Bush concluded with a few
comments about criminals. "It is
time the government paid less at-tention
to the rights of criminals
and more attention to the rights
of victims." In reviewing
American actions concerning re-cent
hijacking activities where
America had taken strong action
against those involved with the
highjacking, despite the criticism
of other countries, Bush explain-ed,
"I am proud to serve for a
president who doesn't go around
apologizing for the United
States." He closed by saying,
"we are the greatest, freest na-tion
on the face of this earth and
I am proud to be an American."
After the applause for the vice
president died down, Mayor
Mendenhall presented Bush with
a golden key to the city of High
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regulate it, and if it stops mov-ing,
subsidize it.' "
On a more positive note, Bush
clsimed, "more people are
employed today than in the
history of our country. The prime
rate is at nine and a half per-cent."
He explained to the au-dience,
"the dollar is the key to
American competition in foreign
trade." By lowering taxes, we
can bring the dollar down and
make the dollar more equal to
American schools out of the
hands of administration and put
it back into the hands of the
parent* where it belongs." The
audience cheered in agreement.
Bush declared, "our administra-tion
is the best supporter of black
colleges of any administration in
history." In addressing tradi-tional
religious values, Bush ex-plained,
"schools should open
with a silent, simple, voluntary
prayer."
Point, the furniture capital of the
world. Mendenhall said, "Thai
key will open all the doors to our
city and you are weloosM to
come back and visit us any tame."
The vice president, governor,
and congressman war* reminded
they had a private reception in
Davidson County to attend and
needed to leave. Coble com-mented
to the audience as he left,
"If I take my eye off the ball, you
know where to find me."
this by giving an example ap-plicable
to the United States. She
says this is comparable to the
United States becoming bilingual
in Spanish and English and then
teaching students in German.
Blacks are uneducated, some
even to the extent that they do
not realize what is going on in
their country. These blacks
believe what their white
employers tell them. Therefore,
at some riots the unaware blacks
fight their own people.
"Awareness and education is
the crux of the matter. If black
people in South Africa were
more educated they would have
better jobs and better oppor-tunities
to improve themselves,"
she said. "They can only get to
that position u* they are more
aware."
More than in just South Africa,
people world-wide need to
become aware of what is happen-ing
there. "The government is
feeling some of the affects of the
worlds' eyes looking at South
Africa." They are combatting
this by a total media block. The
idea behind this is 'out-of-sight,
out-of-mind'!
If Americans divest from com
panies with affiliates in South
Africa they will not crumble its
economy. Problems will result
for the whites, but conditions will
not become worse for the blacks.
Taxes will go up; however blacks
do not pay taxes. Investment has
already caused prices to rise for
items such as gas, milk, and
postal fares. She does not think
in the long run divesting will
make much of a difference but it
will have a larger affect than par-tial
or not divesting.
Some investors of South
African IWMII companies, such as
UNC-G, seem to take comfort in
the Sullivan Principles. The
speaker says that these prin-ciples
are "inconceivable". They
are inconceivable because the
government will not allow a com-pany
to abide by them. For in-stance,
blacks are not permitted
to eat or socialize with whites nor
would they have the same posi-tion
as whites. According to the
speaker, blacks are only used as
laborers and the whites would
not stand for anything else.
The Sullivan Principles "are
not valid unless the government
changes it's views." She says
that they are not going tochange
their views. "The only way that
there could be change is if the
Afrikaners backed down and
said, 'Okay, black people, you can
rule... But there is no way the
Afrikaner's going to do that. He
fears for his comfort, safety, and
existence. The Afrikaner only ex-ists
in South Africa. He has no
where else to go. He cannot back
down."
Currently, there are 25 million
Progressive
Dinner Held
By LORRIE J. CAREY
N.w. Ksitw
The UNC-G Campus Ministries
are sponsoring a progressive din-ner
Saturday, Nov. 16. The din-ner
is open to anyone who is in-terested
in getting to know the
campus ministries. Cost is 99«
phis one cent donation and can be
purchased at any of the campus
ministries.
The dinner will begin with ap-petizers
at the Catholic Center
on West Friendly Ave. Then
students will progress to the
Wesley-Luther House where
soup will be served. The
Presbyterian House will be ser-ving
the salad and the Baptist
Student Union will be serving
the main course. Finally, dessert
will be served by St. Mary's
House and Hillel on Walker Ave.
Reverend Charlie Hawes, of
St. Mary's House says, "We are
trying to get to know each other
so we can begin to work together
for the community. We're get-ting
together not just to pray,
not just to eat, but to work
together."
resident* of South Africa. Twen-ty
million are non-white, either
black, Indian, or colored (mixture
of black and non-black). Five
million are white. Three million
of these are Afrikaners, a culture
that originated when European
settlers came to South Africa m
the 1600's. The remaining 2
million whites are English-speaking
South Africansand are
opposed to apartheid, such is the
speaker. Therefore, three million
people rigidly rule a country that
has 22 million resident* against
apartheid.
"If you had equal vote, one-man-
one-vote, the Afrikaner
would not be able to (stay in con-trol),"
she noted. Black* are not
allowed to vote and voter
representation is as follows: 4
white, 2 Indians colored, 0
blacks. So when South Africa's
Prime Minister, Roelof F. Botha,
gave colored* and Indians a
chance to vote it "was the big-gest
sham you can possibly
imagine."
There are three parties in
South Africa: the Afrikaner, one
even more right wing, and the
Progressive Party, which is
liberal. However, she says
"South Africa is really a black
and white issue, the blacks being
the Revolutionists and the whites
being the Afrikaners."
So what is going to happen in
South Africa? According to the
speaker, revolution. "Apar-theid's
got to fall some time and
there's only one way it can fall,
(revolution)," Thi* fate is becom-ing
more evident everyday.
Blacks are becoming more angry
and aggressive and are more
willing to give up their own lives.
However, apartheid is continu-ing
because of the extreme
amount of power the Afrikaners
now have. They have command
due to their elaborate army.
Every white male over 16 years
of age must serve at least two
yean, and some non-educated
blacks make their living by serv-ing
in the army. Most of South
Africa's tax money goes to the
army. They also have riot police
who, according to the speaker,
break up peaceful riot*, detain
leaders without trial, and check
to see if black* are abiding the
Paaa Law*.
Pass Laws require aD blacks to
carry at all time* passports
stating where they live, work and
where they are allowed to be at
what time. A black without a
valid passport is put in a caged
van and taken to prison.
The first instance of violence in
South Africa occurred March 21,
1960. when a black leader led a
peaceful demonstration. They
marched, without passports, and
sang songs. Riot police shot in
the back and killed at least 200
demonstrators.
One year later, May 31,1961.
white* voted for South Africa to
break away from Great Britain
and become a Republic. The
blacks still do not recognize
South Africa as s Republic.
"South Africa is a dictatorship.
The government has all rights
and say," said the speaker. She
defines apartheid as racism with
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