, Doug Collins

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THERE’S ONE chap in North Vancouver who has
learned a few lessons about the great democracies of
Black Africa. He’s Brian Prentice, who went to Zambia
on business, was clapped into jail as a ‘South African
spy’, was beaten up for six days, then kicked out like an
old rag. His story was on the front page of this newspa-

per last week.

Zambia is run by a miserable
monkey of a dictator named
| Kenneth Kaunda, ‘‘KK”’, as he is
affectionately known by his
Western admirers, has been in
power for 25 years and will be in
power until he joins the devil ‘n
hell. In the meantime, he is kiss-
ed by the likes of Brian Baloney
and we pour aid into his rotten
little police state.

I have spoken to Mr. Prentice
and he does not strike me as a
teller-of tall tales. He strikes me
as a man who is still astonished
that such a fate could befall him.

After he was released from jail

he “couldn’t get two words
together,’’ he told me, having
been knocked about so badly. He
had to spend 12 days in a
Nairobi hospital and still has a
bad speech impediment.

We in Canada are tco busy
bashing South Africa to focus on
the real horrors of the rest of the

h African continent. in that, we are
in step with most of the self-
destroying Westera world.

‘So our apologists for Black

j Africa will either ignore Mr.

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Prentice’s story or say he is ex-
aggerating. But his experience
has been duplicated many times.
Last month, Britain’s Sunday
Telegraph gave a _ two-page
spread to what happened to Chris
Rennett, an English tourist who
had also been arrested in Zambia
as ‘‘a South African spy’’. The
eight-column headline in that
sober newspaper read: ‘“‘Inside
Zambia’s Prison Heli.’’

Bennett was not physically
assaulted, but spent three weeks
in the appalling filth and stink of
Lusaka jails and saw what hap-
pened to others. Human rights
and legal counsel? What are
they? But other whites had it
worse. As he put it:

“My apprehension on arrival
at Lusaka Central (prison) was
quickly borne out by the vivid
purple weals on Ruldoph’s ankles
where he had been hung and
beaten for his ‘‘confession’’. For
three weeks he had held on to the
truth, while hearing the screams
of his friends from the interroga-
tion room upstairs.

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ped and beaten with rubber
hoses, a cocked revolver to the
side of the head, until finally he
gave them a story and began to
rot in another prison while the
sores of his torture began to
heal.’

Most pathetic of all were the
stories of whites who had been
arbitrarily arrested and had
given up hope of being released.
Last year, the Sunday Times
reported that a white face in
Zambia is ‘‘automatically a secu-
rity risk.’? But that’s not racism.

There are no racists in Black ©

Africa. white South
Africa,

Bennett wrote that his experi-
ence was ‘‘just another reflection
of a ccuntry with a government
and a president without the in-
telligence to run a doll’s house
without breaking the pieces. God
save the African continent from
such a thorough, fundamental
misconception of democracy.
How anyone can justify suppor-
ting regimes such as these, God
only knows.’”’

No problem, Chris. Only a
couple of months ago, ‘‘regimes
such as this”? rolled out the red
carpet for our joke of a prime
minister as he looked south to
South Africa and talked about
how he would do his best to br-
ing that country to its knees.

In the near future, he will meet
with Oliver Tambo, the leader of
the communist-run, terroristic
African National Congress to
discuss. what more he can do to
bring ‘‘democracy’’ to Pretoria.
And when the Commonwealth
Conference takes place in Van-
couver later this year, none will
speak in more sanctimonious

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tones about South Africa than -[

jolly old “KK” of Zambia.

Will Mr. Prentice be parading
outside the conference hall with a
protest placard? If he does, I will
join him.

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THE FOLLOWING people ap-
peared in North and West Van-
couver provincial courthouses
recently to face various charges
laid against them.

Before Judge J.B. Paradis in
North Vancouver provincial court
March 27:

Glenn Haydn Millikin was given
a suspended sentence after. the 23-
year-old North Vancouver man
pleaded guilty to a charge of hit
and run laid against him in con-
nection with a Feb. 22 incident in
which an unattended vehicle was
hit by another vehicle.

Daniel Roy Doucet was given a
suspended sentence and ordered to
perform 100 hours of community
service work after the 18-year-old
North Vancouver man pleaded
guilty to a charge of possession of
stolen property.

Before Judge J.D. Layton in
North Vancouver provincial court
March 26:

Domenico Vincelli was fined $35
after the 27-year-old Vancouver
man pleaded guilty to a charge of
failing to appear for a scheduled
court date.

Before Judge J.B. Paradis in
North Vancouver provincial court
March 26:

Leonard Nordine, 33, was
handed a*suspended sentence and
placed on probation for six rnonths
after he was found guilty of one
count of fraud.

Before Judge J.K. Shaw in North
Vancouver provincial court March

Sherry Lorraine Sumpter was
given a suspended senterice and”
placed on probation for a year
after the 43-year-old West Van-
couver woman pleaded guilty to a
charge of theft under $1,000.
Before Judge J.D. Layton in
North Vancouver provincial court
March 24:

Mark Eskesen was fined: $250
after the 19-year-old North Van-
couver man pleaded guilty to fail-
ing to leave his name and other in-.
formation at the scene of an acci-
dent. .
Before Judge J.D. Layton in
North Vancouver provincial court
March 23:

Robert Elliott, 34, was fined $35
for failing to appear for a Feb. 6
court date. The North Vancouver
man was given until April 15 to
pay the fine.

Gregory Zane Gorsky, 22, of
Richmond, ‘vas fined $50 after
pleading guilty to failing to appear
for a Jan. 2 court date. Gorsky has
until April 15 to pay the fine. © ~
Before Judge R.D. Grandison in
West Vancouver provincial court
March 19:

Tan Wallace Huntingford was
fined $250 and ordered to pay
restitution of $560.88 after the
36-year-old West. Vancouver man
pleaded guilty: to using a stolen .
credit card..

Michael Bruce: Kingston! was
fined $400 and ordered to pay $50”
restitution after the 22-year-old
North Vancouver man. pleaded
guilty to a charge of theft under
$1,000.

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