Apartheid opposition

Press, 12 June 1989, Page 18

Apartheid opposition

Gcinile Mabulu was born in South Africa in 1959 and went to a secondary school run by missionaries in Fort Beaufort — the school Nelson Mandela attended.

When he was expelled for his involvement in the South African Students’ Movement he continued his schooling where he could, he says, but under constant police harassment.

After matriculating, he trained as a teacher and studied at the University of Lesotho. He continued his political involvement by keeping in contact with the banned African National Congress and its sister organisation, the Black People’s Convention.

He was detained for a month in 1985. The following year he went to Zambia and officially joined the A.N.C. Gcinile is the present holder of the Nelson Mandela Scholarship in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and has come to New Zealand to explain what is happening in South Africa and in the struggle against apartheid. He will speak on Friday, June 16 — the thirteenth anniversary of the slaying of students in Soweto — in room 45 of the University of Canterbury’s student union building, from noon until 1 p.m. and again at the Workers’ Educational

Association, 59 Gloucester Street, that evening, at 7.30 p.m.

The Nelson Mandela student is being hosted here by Hart Aotearoa.

For more information about the events phone Hart at 798-376.

Maori issues

The implications and the impact of the Treaty of Waitangi is the focus of a seminar being held this Wednesday, June 14. Harry Evison and Bob Consedine will be the guest speakers at this allday event, held at the Maatua Whangai Resource Centre, 11 Warwick Street, Richmond, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Iwi development and devolution is the topic of the second seminar, on Wednesday, June 21. Selwyn Parata and Tikerau Stevens are the speakers. This will be at the centre from 9 a.m. until noon.

No registration will be charged, but in keeping with Maori protocol a donation would be appreciated.

For more information about these two seminars contact Tahu at 791-660 or Amohaere at 557-780.

Public inquiry

judges

Judge Silvia Cartwright, widely known for her role

in the National Women's Hospital inquiry, will be giving a public lecture at the university this Wednesday, June 14. She will give a “behind the scenes” view of the judge’s role in a major enquiry, and talk about the difficulties of handling the volumes of material produced and the feelings aroused.

The lecture has been arranged by the School of Law, but will be pitched to a general audience. It will be at 2 p.m. in lecture room Al. Youthline Youthline is having its annual street appeal on June 16 and June 17. Youthiine is a community organisation which offers a telephone counselling service for all ages, but is oriented toward the problems of youth. It has people available to listen seven nights a week, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Youthline also provides an initial contact, information and referral service.

The annual street appeal is a major source of its funding. Those who miss the official collectors can send a donation to Youthline, P.O. Box 1454, Christchurch. For more information on Youthline, phone 794-794.