Call to O.A.U.

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33816, 12 April 1975, Page 15

Call to O.A.U.

DAR-ES-SALAAM (Tanzania). April IJ. African Foreign Ministers today called on the Organisation of [African Inity to increase its financial and military support for black guerrillas battling ito end white-minority rule in southern Africa. The -II Ministers, attending a special conference, also urged that economic sanctions against South Africa be tightened, and that Somh Africa !>.■ expelled from the United Nations. Of Rhodesia, they said that while peaceful means of seeming black-majority rule in the rebel British colony were being pursued, preparations for an armed struggle to topple Mr lan Smith’s white regime should be intensified. Of apartheid tn South Africa, the Ministers' declaration said that since that, country's Prime Minister (Mr Vorster) promised' change within six months,! conditions had worsened for blacks. It cited the mass' trial of students, consoli-i dation of the Bantustansj and a sharp increase in military spending. The conference approved the formation of a special' committee of African members of the United Nations Council on Namibia, to contact South Africa, such contact to be approved by the' South-West Africa Peoples Organisation. The main issue of the 1 four-day meeting was whether contacts with South! Africa about Rhodesia, such as those made by Tanzania, Zambia, and Botswana, were proper. Although the confer-[ ence did not specifically say' so, the final documents supported such contacts. Nearly half the O.A.U. member-States are believed to be trading with South Africa.