NEEDED TO SAVE ABRAHAMS! HOME
Efforts are continuing to assure the home of the parents of Dr. Kenneth Abrahams from being attached by the South African govern-~ ment. Dr, Abrahams is a political refugee named in the Alexander case as a militant opponent of the apartheid system. In an unsuccessful habeas corpus action in the Cape Supreme Court last August, he was levied for R661.51 Lone rand $1.40 When he could not pay this sum, the government threatened to attach: the home he had left to his parents when he fled the country. Dr. Abrahams managed to get a loan to hold off the government wolves and thus won some time,
Dr, Abrahams parents Mr. and Mrs. K.F,Abrahams live in the four-room house with six children and a two~year-old granddaughter, They were told by the Deputy State Attorney that unless the matter of R661.51 was settled within 14 days the house would be attached,
A Cape Times reporter called at Abrahams home in Vertrou Road, Crawford, on Mey 1. Mrs, Abrahams had just received the news about the government order, “It is terrible," she said, "I don't know what to think, We, cannot possibly raise the money. As it is, we pay R34 a month to a building society on the first bond,
"We moved here when Kenneth left last year to practise in South West Africa, We had been forced to leave Walmer Estate after 26 years because they were building Boulevard East,"
[Walmer Estate was declared a "white area" due to enforcement of the Group Areas Act and all colored people had-.to move out no matter how long they had lived there. ]
The Cape Times reports that Dr, Abrahams is working in a hospital in Font Jameson, Northern Rhodesia, and that his wife is teaching there, They had to leave their two children behind: in Windhoek wheré they are living with their grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, O, Schimming,
To help in this case, send an international money order or personal check to Franz J.T. tees 14. Tubingen, Schwabstrasse 22, West Germany.
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