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Show The Thunderbird Ttesday Oclo6cr 22, 1985 Page 3 Bobby Seale, left, the former leader of the radical Black Panther Party, and Stuart Pringle, a native South African, discussed apartheid and possible solutions to the problems facing Pringles homeland at last Thursdays Convocation. The two agreed there is a problem, but differed on solutions. Pringle, Seale differ over approach to ending apartheid Stuart Pringle, a white man born and raised in South Africa, and Bobby Seale, an American black civil rights of the Black activist and Panthers political party, agree that apartheid in South Africa should be abolished. The ways in which best to end it, however, are points of disagreement between the two men. At Thursdays Convocation, Pringle addressed the audience first. He said that the apartheid system was the result of more than 350 years of work which had started with the colonization of the continent. The real problems, however, did not show up until modern times, he said. In order to educate the blacks of South Africa to enable them to become independent, Pringle said, In 1948, when the nationalist government took power in South Africa, the objective was not... a Hitlerite racist policy in which we will subjugate the black people of Africa to labor as servants under the white rule into infinity. He said that in order to preserve the Africaaner society, one of the leaders of the nationalist government initiated a policy that would be known as separate development, which is now known as apartheid. This word, he said, has now come to mean something about blacks and whites killing each other for no other reason than the color of their skin. Pringle blamed a lot of the problems with apartheid on the medias coverage, which, he added, has given the Americans the wrong picture by choosing to ignore the actual facts as South Africans see them. Referring to some previous remarks about the 1960s and to certain current events, he said, You really went into it. If we (South Africa) had TV today, the worla would be saying what a racist, Nazist nation America is. You havent solved your (problems), and were still trying to solve ours, and youve been saying to us you havent been fast enough and now were going to club you with an economic club and youve hit us so hard youve hurt nearly two million people right now, he said. Ycu dont understand what you do. You dont knot us... For the past many years, youve been coming to us and saying 'youve got a problem but nobodys presented us with a solution to our problem. Seale said that if the American economic sanctions against the South African government force it to look more realistically at the issues, they will have succeeded. Societies are interconnected; nations are interconnected, more so than in the 1940s, more so than in the 1960s. Anytime you can get on a supersonic transport... leave here, take off to China, visit China for the weekend, and be back here Monday morning for work or school, that means our communities and our nations are too interconnected, too interrelated, he said. Seale related for the audience his experiences and history during his reign as a Black Panther during the 1960s and then used some of that history to illustrate his meaning on the current situation in South Africa. He said he was called a hoodlum for organizing the Black Panthers and fighting for his rights, both with and without violence. He said the violence was forced each time by the same police who were there to prevent the violence from occuring. A approach is needed in South Africa, he said. The blacks and the whites need to sit together at the bargaining table, listen to and work non-viole- with each other, and not constantly argue or say no to each other. We need to humanize the world the relations and interconnection of nations demand it, he said, and South Africa could be an excellent starting point. Wild horses available, Swapp says BY BEV MORRIS animals are tagged and become marker animals for the different herds. In this way, BLM officials Wild horse specialist John Swapp of the Bureau of Land Management spoke at the Agriculture Club Orientation on wild horse adoption last Wednesday. d Wild horses roam on BLM, private and land, he said. Often, such horses are rounded up by the bureau and offered for adoption. It is not until these horses become in excess that they are removed, said Swapp. Inventory of the herd units is taken on horseback during the spring and summer months, and by helicopter during the winter, he said. Each herd has marker horses. A marker horse is determined by either an easily visible marking, an unusual color of the animal or by a brightly colored collar that the BLM has placed on the animal. During the spring, foals are captured and marked. Any information concerning the general health and age of the animal is gathered, and then released back to its mother. Five of these can monitor the growth and migratory patterns of the different bands and study the way in which the horses interact with each other, he said. When it comes time to capture the horses, panels are put around the animals watering area and the horses are then herded into it either by horseback or helicopter. The animals are then captured and their ages determined. They are then checked for deformities and are vaccinated. Next comes the freeze brand. Althoug. it sounds very painful, the animal is more frightened than in pain. The left side of the animals neck, just below its mane, is shaved and liquid nitro is applied to a brand, and applied to its neck for 20 to 30 seconds. The liquid nitro destroys the hair pigment, so that when the hair does grow back, it grows in white. The first two symbols on the brand are the horses registration numbers; the next two are the age of the horse and the year it was born. The state-owne- John Swap p, a BLM wild horse specialist, says horses are removed from their normal grazing lands and offered for adoption only when there are too many of them. (continued on page 11) |