by Richard Parrish and Mike Adler

TORONTO (CUP) - As

the South African debate continues across Canadian campuses, York University

students Greg Hopper and Aleem Jeeva bring the dis- tant conflict into clearer fo-

cus.

Jeeva is the Canadian youth coordinator for the African National Congress,

the banned South African or-

ganization fighting for the

elimination of apartheid. Hopper

is president of the Liberty

Coalition, a newly

nized “pro-individual rights

recog- capitalist” group that be- lieves that even if the South African government were to apartheid and_ estab- lish a government similar to Canada’s, the ANC wouldn’t be satisified “because they would want'to take over and

end

they want Marxism.”’

While edges there are communists within the ANC, he says the Congress also includes Chris- tians, Moslems and capital-

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YORK STUDENTS BATTLE OVER AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ists who are fighting for the end of the apartheid regime.

Banned from political ac- tivities within South Africa, the ANC instigates change from the outside by encour- aging other governments and peoples of other nations to take up the ‘struggle “for equality amongst all races” in South Africa.

“By aiming itself at the international community,” “the ANC hopes to make other nations aware of what is going on in South Africa and encourage

explains Jeeva,

the use of sanctions — which are the last peaceful resort to quickly end apartheid.”

The Liberty Coalition is challenging the ANC’s ide- ology and _ tactics, it’s “in the news”, says Hop- per, and there are several on-

because

campus groups who support

the ANC.

Hopper and the Coali- tion are eager to present “the other view,” by providing students with literature from

the South African govern- ment.

“What students should realize is that it’s foreign investment, not ANC vio- lence, that’s going to lead to freedom in South Africa,” says Hopper. “People that support the ANC are sup- porting the kind of en- slavement that communism brings. It’s true that maybe blacks and whites will be en- slaved equaliy, but no one’s going to be free and that’s not a viable solution.”

“We support the capital- ist solution,’ says Hopper, a firm believer in the bene- fits of foreign investment in South Africa.

“Foreign investment cre- ates jobs for blacks. It makes the South Africans, the whites, the business own- ers, the government as de- pendent on*blacks as the blacks are on them right now. It will give the blacks a mea- sure of economic indepen- dence because their labour

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manded. People will have their labour and out of eco- nomic necessity the blacks will get their rights.”

But Jeeva, who grew up in the South African suburb Lenasia, says sanctions are the most effective weapon against apartheid because the South African economy needs foreign capital to pur- chase its technology. ~

“Tf you block the flow of capital then the country will not have the currency to buy the armaments and machin-

ery that it needs.” - Through

sanctions, Jeeva says, “you can effectively isolate them and bring them to a position where they have to negoti- ate.”

“The argument put forth by the Reagan administra- tion and Margaret Thatcher is that blacks will suffer be- cause of sanctions, but again the black people will say, *we’ve ibeen. suffering. and have known suffering for 300 years. It’s nothing new to us.?”? : pray

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