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Also, precisely because, of the lack of any economic viability of Bantustans themselves the thought that all African workers in the urban areas are to become their citizens strikes panic among the chiefs. Suppose, they reason, that as unemployment rises in the cities more and more of our 'citizens' are sent back.
STARVATION
Lack of jobs and soil erosion will result in starvation, on a massive scale. Last May the Transkei legislative assembly rejected the clauses in Vorster's draft constitution for independence which would make all Xhosa people its citizens.
Needless to say, Vorster paid no attention to this at all and intends to proceed as planned.
The crucial fact is above all others however that the masses have clearly demonstrated that they have absolutely no illusions whatsoever in Matanzima's "independent" Transkei.
Over the last period of struggles since June again and again the slogan has been for majority rule D LEFT In a year when cuts in education spending are clearly going to escalate, threatening the jobs of thousands more teachers and throwing further into question the prospects of new trainees, the fight for a programme in defence of jobs and standards in education is a crucial one.
Yet within the National Union of Students it is plain that the Communist Party-dominated "Broad Left' leadership has no intention of learning any lessons from last year's militant but isolated struggles by student teachers.
The latest Broad Left Journal shows that on the contrary they are determined to lead student teachers down the same road to the dole queue they mapped out last year. crats in particular in teaching and the public sector.
But now, relying on students' memories being short, the Broad Left present a different version of these events.
They claim that the occupation movement was not peaction comexcessive number of mittees" and "coordinating committees"
COVERED UP
Yet the Broad Left in this way cover up the fact that these committees developed precisely because the NUS bureaucracy gave по The article ends with the endless St Broad Left plea for "unity" - Day calling on students to "put behind us the divisions and disappointments of last term" - hoping in udent teachers on the May. 26th • of Action against unempioyment.