Articles by Karrim Essack


SOUTH AFRICA Division through Dispensation Karrim Essack TWO of the five Committees of the Presidential Council in South Africa, the Constitutional Committee and the Economic Committee, have announced their long awaited proposals for change in the political structure of the country. Apart from the fact that they continue to deny the principle of one- man-one-vote, the proposals envisage a new dispensation for the 2.6 million Coloureds and 800,000 Indians in South Africa. . Until now the division amongst the oppressed was through segregation and apartheid; now it would be through dispensation.

siuce the inception of the Act, as the government machinery has been inadequate. The slumdwellers paid no rent to the private landlords from January 1976 onwards under instructions from the authorities.

December 1, 1979 ZIMBABWE The Land Question Karrim Essack WHATEVER be the final outcome of the constitutional conference on Zimbabwe, a positive outcome of the proceedings till now has been that they have clarified the political positions of the various contending parties at the conference and those Hovering outside it like Zimbabwe Democratic Party of Chikerema, On no question has this been more evident than on the issue of land. Lord Carrington was anyway frankness itself when he proposed that the present land structure in Zimbabwe be retained for the next ten years and the provisions of the Land Tenure Act 970 be actually incorporated in a But of Rights.

Kenya under Kenyatta Karrim Essack KENYATTA's death was announced on August 23, and from the next day The Standard, a Lonhro publication for Kenyans, began publishing eulogies and condolences from subsidiaries of big business which straddle the whole of the capitalist world. One of the earliest to extol "Our First President and Beloved Father of Our Nation" was the Barclays Bank. It was followed by The Standard and the Grindlays Bank International (Kenya) Limited. By September 3, all the major monopolies and multinationals like Siemens, ASEA, Metal Box. Dunlop (Kenya), BAT, General oods, Fiat, Lonhro (Kenya), Glaxo. Bayers (East Africa), Westo (Kenya), Rank Xerox and Fiat had paid their tributes. The big oil companies had done likewise through East African Oil Refineries and Shell Chemicals. Representatives of other branches of finance capital like the Americ Life Assurance, Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) and Ceral and Sugar Finance Corporation had also conveyed their condolences.

March 4, 1978 to have a stockpile of nuclear weapons without conducting a nuclear explosion. Furthermore. Israel has the sympathy and support of a large number of' Jewish scientists all over the world, and specially in the US, and hence it may not he difficult for Israel to have checked its prototype bombs without an explosive test. In fact, US officials were reported to he worried in July 1977 that Israel might possess the know how to build even a neutron bomb because a number of American scientists who worked on the neutron bomb project for a decade had migrated to Israel and were working for the Government there.