'AFRICA SOUTH' APPEAL SIR,-1 would like to bring to the
attention of your readers the request Made to me by the London office of the Standard Bank of South Africa to with- draw my own account and that of Africa South Publications Limited. I was given no reason beyond the embarrassment that the accounts were apparently causing the bank; and though the London Manager denies any communication on the subject with the South African Government, I must assume, for lack of any other explanation. that the only possible embarrassment implied is produced by the bank's close association with that Government. The opponents of the boycott are shrill that politics and business, like politics and sport, should not be confused. Yet the South African cricket team at present touring Britain is exclusively white; and it seems that the Standard Bank only welcomes accounts from those whose politics they approve. Indeed much
of the financial difficulty that Africa South has faced in the past and still faces is due to the reluctance of large concerns, with interests in South Africa, to advertise in it and so antagonise the South African Government.
Your generous mention of the first issue of Africa South in Exile will, I hope. encourage your readers to buy the magazine and ensure its survival by con- tributing to the 'Africa South Appeal,' 31 A John Adam Street, London WC2. We have pledged our- selves to continue giving voice to the demands of South Africa's oppressed, supplying first-hand reports of developments within the Union by correspondents there, published anonymously where necessary. Your readers can assist us in keeping alive the spirit of resistance within South Africa and preventing it from the despair of isolation by con- a tributing generously to our appeal.—Yours faithfully, RONALD M. SEGAL Editor Africa South, 3Ia John Adam Street, WC2
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