Sharpville Day: Sharpeville's 6th anniversary will be commemorated this year with a dramatic presentation in the Central Hall, Westminster, on March2lst. The ~ production will attempt to answer in dramatic form, the kind of questions about South Africa that still remain when all the books on the subject have been read, The producer is John Hales, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with wide experience in television and with the company at Stratford. Well-known writers are preparing the script and top-class actors and actresses will be taking part. Tickets are available from 89, Charlotte Street, at 5s, reserved, 2/6d at the door.
Thames Valley: A new group was formed at a meeting in Slough Town Hall, on Tuesday March 15th. The Town Clerk told the committee that "the Council has decided that all charges should be waived for this occasion.” Bristol: Workers in Bristol factories have been receiving leaflets from local anti-apartheid supporters on arrival at work, The leaflet, which stresses the"slavery" conditions under which African workers in Seuth Africa have to live, has been well received on the whole. The Bristol committee has also been making wide contact with local organisations, providing speakers, attempting to get local trade union branches to pass anti-apatheid resolutions and give financial support, and to get the local co-operative to carry out the boycott of South African goods. Queen Mary College: Students at Queen Mary College, London, kicked off their South Africa week last month with a well-attended meeting addressed by Brian Bunting on "freedom of speech and the effectiveness ef opposition parties." The week aimed to raise money for the prison education scheme run by the National Union of South African Students. Also in the programme were events arranged by the college film, folksong and dramatic societies, and the group running Freedom from Hunger lunches at QMC organised two lunches for the week, There was a photographic exhibition depicting life in South Africae Glasgow: Another victory in the campaign to secure local authority boycotts of South African goods was won last month when the City Labour Party Policy Making Conference in Glasgow passed unanimously a resolution calling on the Corporation to emulate the example of Aberdeen. In accepting the resolution on behalf of the Labour Group which controls the Corporation, Councillor Bill Gray said it should be the beginning of a campaign throughout the West of Scotland. Glasgow is only the second. authority in Scotland to take the decision, but. with a population nf 1,000,000 it adds significantly to the size of this rapidly mushrooming protest, Epsom: The Rhodesian-South African "Unholy Alliance” was the theme of a meeting organised last month by the Epsom and District Anti-Apartheid Committee. Joe Slovo spoke on the South African tie-in to Rhodesia, while Nelson Samkinge, the representative in London of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union, spoke on Rhodesia and UDI. Tne meeting passed a resolution deploring the local MP, Sir Peter Rawlinson's recent call for negotiations with Smith. BSS Kins Northallerton: The new Northallerton and Thirsk committee in Yorkshire is pushing up Anti-Aparthied News sales through new agents and local libraries. * Extracted from Anti-Apartheid News, price 94 p.p., 89, Charlotte St., London W. 1. or 10/- for a years! subscription.