MRS. WINNIE MANDELA IN
COURT
{The following item is reprinted from the May issue of Anti-Apartheid News. Besides the report about Mrs. Winnie Mandela, a reference to Dr. Neville Alexander will be noted. World Outlook does not have any information beyond this concerning the present situation of the noted intellectual who is now serving a tenyear sentence in the notorious Robben Island prison for political opposition to the 7; aaa government of South Africa. x * *
Mrs Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the Rivonia trialist serving a term of life imprisonment, appeared briefly before a Johannesburg magistrate last month charged with an offence allegedly committed nine months ago.
Mr J. Carlson, applying for Mrs Mandela's release on her own recognisances, said she was well known in Orlando West where she had lived for the last ten years. He said Mrs Mandela was a banned person and was required to report weekly to the Orlando police. He said she had carried out this duty faithfully for the past three years.
Mr Carlson said he was surprised at the conduct of the police in arresting Mrs Mandela at all. She could have been
BOLIVIAN TROTSKYIST LEADER
Hugo Gonz4lez Moscoso, one of the main Trotskyist leaders in Bolivia, is still alive, World Outlook has learned. Dr. Gonz&4lez was arrested by the secret political police on April 13 in Santa Cruz, a town located in the general area where guerrilla activities have been reported in recent months.
The Trotskyist leader was there because of poor health. However, the political police claimed that he was "directing" the guerrillas in the vicinity. As "proof" they pointed to the Marxist literature they found in his home as well as manuscripts he was working on.
The arrest of Dr. Gonz&lez occurred exactly one week before the arrest of Régis Debray at Muyupampa, which is not far from Santa Cruz.
It was feared that the Barrientos regime might have Dr. GonzAlez killed at once as in the case of César Lora, another Trotskyist leader accused of engaging in guerrilla activities.
It has now been learned that Barrientos decided to exile the Trotskyist warned to appear in court. The State did not oppose the application and Mrs Mandela was released on her own recognisances until May 1.
She appeared on a charge under the suppression of Communism Act of failing to give her full name and address to a police officer when requested to do so. The alleged offence was committed in the Cape Town area on the night of July 9, 1966. She was also charged with resisting arrest.
Nelson Mandela, Dr Neville Alexander and Eddie Daniels, all prisoners on Robben Island, were due to appear on the island at enquiries under the Prisons Act last month.
Messrs Mandela and Daniels were charged under the same section of the prison regulations with being "idle, careless or negligent in their work," or refusing to work.
The allegations relate to an incident on the island's lime quarry on January 25 this year. Dr Alexander was charged under the same section but this relates to work while loading a truck on Novenber 14 last year. The charges against ail three men were withdrawn two days before Mr Mandela was due to appear before a Cape Town magistrate.
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