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- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jeeva acknowl- 
     
    
   
   
    
     S200) 6 Ee EK 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
     =— will be_,required, be de- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     FUN FILLED FRIDAYS 
     
     FREE FOOD 
     
    
   
   
    
     RLS COE PS, 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     Thursday, January 7th 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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