Tabata, a leader of the South African freedom movement since the early thirties, is touring the United States under the auspices of the Alexander Defense Committee. His subject is the present political situation in South Africa and the problems faced by the liberation movement. He is appealing for support to Dr, Neville Alexander and other political prisoners in South Africa. Meetings have been scheduled in the larger cities and on campuses throughout the country.
Tabata is president of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa LAPDUSA], a multiracial political party based on a ten-point program of demands for democratic rights and a radical land reform,
Of the studies published by Tabata, the best known is Education for Barbarism, a penetrating analysis of the social, cultural and political background of the South African regime's attempt to fragment the African community by imposing "tribal" education,