Minister plans illegal march
South Africa’s Boesak gets jailed
Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa —
The Rev. Allan Boesak, one of the
nation’s staunchest foes of apart
heid, was jailed Tuesday on the eve
of' a protest march he was to lead to
Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson
Mandela is serving a life term.
I he government also suspended
currency and share trading until
Monday to halt the flight of capital.
South Africa’s rand, once worth
more than Si, has declined sharply
during a year of black riots against
white-minority rule and hit a record
low Tuesday of 35.75 cents.
Boesak’s lawyer said the march
would go ahead as planned Wednes-
day despite the leader’s detention
and government pledges to halt the
illegal assembly.
Mandela, black leader of the
banned African National Congress,
has been in prison since 19()4, con
victed of plotting sabotage.
Boesak, 39, is of mixed race and is
president of the 70-million-member
World Allia nee of Reformed
Churches. He was arrested at a
roadblock near the University of the
“(The march planned by
the Rev. Allen Boesak) is
the people's march . . .
and it will go ahead. ” —
Boesak's lawyer Essa
Moosa.
Western Cape, where he serves as
chaplain.
He was detained indefinitely with
out charge under the Internal Secu
rity Act, police said.
In Washington, the State Depart
ment condemned the arrest and
made a protest to the South African
government.
The World Alliance of Reformed
Churches said in Geneva, Switzer
land, that Boesak’s detention was “a
manifestation of intolerance on the
part of the South African govern
ment” and demanded his release.
The statement was issued jointly by
the alliance and the World Council
of Churches.
Boesak is a f ierv and eloquent op
position leader with a strong per
sonal following. Outdoor political
gatherings have been banned since
1976, and he was aware of the possi
bility of arrest when he announced
the planned illegal march to
Pollsmoor.
The government said Saturday
that the march was banned and po
lice would take “stern action" to stop
it. Unconfirmed reports said police
set up roadblocks to turn back buses
bringing participants to the Cape
Town area for the march, which
Boesak predicted would draw
20,()()() people.
The ('.ape Town police chief,
Brig. Cert Odendaal, said a soccer
stadium in the city’s Athlone mixed-
race suburb, where the marchers are
to assemble, would be sealed off
throughout Wednesday. He called
the march both illegal and “a serious
threat to public safety.”
Boesak's lawyer, Essa Moosa, said
ol Wednesday’s demonstration, “It is
the people’s march . . . and it will go
ahead.”'
Boesak is a major figure among
the South African clergymen in
volved in the struggle against apart
heid. He is a member of the mixed-
race branch of the Dutch Reformed
Church, which is segregated.
The Afrikaans-language Dutch
Reformed Church has long sup
ported the government. Boesak was
instrumental in getting thf white
branches of the church suspended
from the World Alliance of Re
formed Churches.
Boesak was arrested by four .secu
rity policemen near the campus of
the university. Aides said he was
there to head off a confrontation be
tween some 400 placard-waving stu
dents and police f iring tear gas.
Police in riot helmets marched
across the campus to disperse the
students demanding the release of
two lecturers who are among the
2,222 people detained without
charge under a state of. emergency
imposed July 21.
Boesak, however, was held under
the Internal Security Act as were
twenty-seven other top leaders
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