‘Wooing’ of Irish workers to apartheid countries

A MEMBER of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement posed as a printer for a job interview to prove that Rhodesian companies were targeting Irish workers under the pretence that they were recruiting for South Africa.

Anthony Ffrench, of Firhouse, Co Dublin, adopted the name Alex Overland when he replied to an advertisement in the Irish Press seeking lithographers for a packaging firm ostensibly in South Africa.

Replies from the company came from Rhodesia Packing Ltd, a firm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) which said his application had been passed on to them by their associates in South Africa who had no job vacancies at present.