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apartheid, women and children under apartheid, the role of the mass media in international action against apartheid, the role of non-governmental organisations in international action against apartheid, apartheid in sport, the Declaration on South Africa, and investment in South Africa); in addition, reaffirms the need to co-operate with all organisations in the campaign to eliminate apartheid, in particular the United Nations, the Organisation of African Unity and international and regional organisations of workers and employers; and

(d) give effect to its conviction that developments which have taken place since the adoption of its Declaration and Programme for the Elimination of Apartheid in 1964 have demonstrated that apartheid still operates in a manner which deprives the Black population of free access to employment and training, full enjoyment of freedom of association and the right to organise, and equality of opportunity and treatment in the field of labour, while recent events have shown that through the "bantustan” policy and the use of repressive measures the South African Government still acts in a manner which violates international labour standards and which therefore requires urgent action by the international community to secure social justice, peace and freedom for all the people of south Africa.

"B. Consequently, the Committee recommends the following actions:

1. Government Action through the United Nations

To take the measures necessary to give effect to the Programme of Action against apartheid adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as well as the resolutions subsequently adopted by that body and in particular:

to impose mandatory sanctions against South Africa;

to take immediate measures for an effective international arms embargo and oil embargo against South Africa;

to initiate and intensify anti-apartheid action in all United Nations specialised agencies and inter-governmental organisations and to increase aid to the oppressed peoples of South Africa in co-operation with the international trade union movement;

to put an end to all opportunities for co-operation with South Africa in the nuclear sphere;

to co-operate, by all possible means, in the termination of the occupation by the racist régime of the territory of Namibia and the obtaining by its people, under the leadership of SWAPO, of independence and the establishment of a sovereign State.

II. Government Action

1. To sever political, cultural, sport, commercial and diplomatic relations with the South African Government and ensure that all existing cultural agreements with South Africa be revoked forthwith.

2. To stop public and private investment by withdrawing credit guarantees and licences and introduce effective enforcement clauses in codes of conduct for companies investing in South Africa.

3. To discourage emigration of their nationals to South Africa.

4. To discourage tourism to South Africa.

5. To increase economic support to those African countries which are forced through their geographical and economic situation to maintain links with South Africa, with particular emphasis on independent African States enclaved within South Africa and immediately neighbouring South Africa.

6. To withhold recognition to 'bantustans', ensuring that no investments are made therein.

7. To give material and moral support to the liberation movements, to the Black majority workers in their efforts to organise, and to popular movements struggling for the establishment of human rights in South Africa and Namibia.

8. To lift all impediments preventing trade unions from participating in solidarity action with the workers in the anti-apartheid struggle.

Iil. Action by Employers' Organisations

1. To ensure that their members do not maintain relations with South Africa and that economic and financial groups do not extend loans to South Africa and collaborate with the apartheid régime in any way.

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