Apartheid Opponent May Be Asked To N.Z.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 28

Apartheid Opponent May Be Asked To N.Z.

Negotiations are being made by interested persons in New Zealand to sponsor a visit by the appeals secretary of the South Africa Defence and Aid Fund, Mr E. SSachs. Mr Sachs, an opponent of apartheid, has written several books on South African problems. Educated at Johannesburg, he majored in economics and political science. For 25 years he was a member of the National Executive Committee of the South African Trade and Labour Council. In 1951 and 1952 he served as Treasurer of the South African Labour Party, and he was, during three years, the South African workers' delegate to the International Labour Organisation. For 24 years Mr Sachs was general secretary of the Garment Workers’. Union and during this time he went before the South African Supreme Court 41 times in the defence of what he believed to be his own and his members’ rights. . In 1953 he visited Britain, where he became a research scholar at the London School of Economics. At present Mr Sachs is touring Australia at the invitation of the South African Protest Organisation in an

endeavour to raise £25.000 to help pay legal expenses for persons convicted for not adhering to apartheid and to give aid to families left destitute because the breadwinner is in gaol. Among members sponsoring the tour are several clergymen, including the Archbishop of Melbourne (the Most Rev. F. Woods).