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Con ultation on uthAfrica

t ber 26 nnd 27, 199I,lhe Na­Ilonnl uneil of hur h.. will convenea" on ult tl n on ulh Afri a, f r

pie of fallh," A muj r aJ for aniler I 10 III ko the on ullalionas broadly b ed u po sible; tbu., Iheyate clively kin out tept nlatl.of all faith,

P nollli 10 peak on .. fore, npolicy and on what rd. iou com·munll! have d ne vi ·a·vill ulhAfrica re not yet onflrmed. In delllion to prepared speech ,Ihe on ultlion will fe lure di,cu lion andw rk hOI» on polill I, nomic: andlOci) lralea/es for lbe future, 10 thaiInpul by all particlpanl will be rnu·Imlzed. For funher information, wrlle10 Wllli~ opn, Nallonal ouDdt or

hur ha of hrl I In I U. .A. 415R,ver ide Drive. New York. N, y,

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ANC CONFERENCE

Nt'wly d«I«J Alr/CDn Nillionill Con,r Pn Idt'nl Ntl on Mllndt'la and hi wlft Wlnnlt Mllndt'III, who was}1I I t'lrcl«J fOIhe AN Nllllonlli Ext'CIII;\It' Commilln, IIrri\lt' III a roily III Iht' .nd 0111 wnklon ANC cofl/C"me:. Mid In'ddt' SOlllhAlriC'Jllor IItt' /1m 11_ In JO ynt ,

The African National Consrou ooncluded its nrsl nallonal conforence In Ido SoulhAfrica in 30 years. Tho 2,244 dolesalos reamrmed Ihe premi e Ihal nesollallonwith Ihe overnmenl I necc lilY, bUI only .fw Ihe overnmenl ends politlcolvlolonoo and frees all remalnina political prisonor . On the malnlenan e of 'nler·nail nal economic an lions, Mr Mandela emphasized Ihal, "sanclions mu I bemaintained and applied."

KEY CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS:

o Maintain Inllmatlo",1 ..netlona

o Government muat end pollllni violence

o Elect co",lItuent ....mbly

o Write new con.,Uullon

o Tranaltlone' government

Pr Idem rae Bu h announ ed loday (July 10th) Ih I he h IIfled U.. ne·tion aanlll.ll ulh Mrl a. This followed a lale Oepar1menl recomrmndallon Iha.concluded Iho South African sovernmenl had c mpliod with Iho requirements ofthe 1986 omprehcn lvc AotJ)Aparthcld Acl. R pon 10 the Pr Ident'laetionwere quick;

o 8enltlmln HOOQ. Natlo",' Pr..lclent or the NAACP, before the 8Otualllft°Ing. ""hlnlr II would be crim'","y '""pon,',. for Pre,ldenl Duall 10"f! Nnctlon•. "

o Richard Knight, ACOA, "Any compeny th., doe, Inn,' In $oulh AfrlcfInow will cl..riy become a "rve' of lhe U.S. AnU.Aperlhe/d monmenl."

o DumlNnl Kum.lo, Africa Fund, "We mu.' begIn 10 wor/r al o""umlflflIhl, dec/.lon, we h," 30 Congre,,/onal worlrlng d.,. 10 do Ch.t. People" lhe communlly level .re up..' .nd I Chlnlr lhey will be mobllllJng 10prea.ure Ihe COl1f1re.. 10 re,I" Ihla .cllon. "

ANGOLANACCORD

The MPLA overnmenl and theUN' A f reigned a pc ce ac rd on31 May 1991 In lorll, ortuaal. hew r, which last d 16 year. claimed thelive. of over 1.000.000 people and I.ftAngol ' economy dcva toted. 1 he a ­cord ails for free and fair .Iecllon bythe end of 1992 and Ihe Integrallon ofthe two armed f r c~. NITA, al.a rced to ree nl.otho Angolan govcrn­mont until tho 8enorul elecllon . ThcU.N. vorlncalion IllI .Ion In An ala,which monitored tho uban pullollt hnsbeon lIS~lgned Iho I k of en urina Ihal

... Ihe olC\.'lion~ nre l>eaceful, en dUYI ufler~~ th bi nln , Ihe U.. Iiou e f Repro.~ senlative VOl d 10 continue covert nldt;;l 10 UNITA. The S20 million dollar uid

pnck" e will give NI r the n liSI"n..it ne d to develop it\ polll icnl in frn­struelure. 1 he tolo depurtmel1l c1nhn.Ihi aid will nol be u ed 10 supponavlmbl' el tlon bid.

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"The Chanling Scene in SoulhernAfrica: How Shall We Respond?"formrd Ihe focus of the second Con·suhation sponsor~ by the SouthernAfrica Education Proaram of the StonyPoml Center in Stony Point. New York.Gtorae Houser, Coordinalor oflhe: Fro­aram. spenl a month in South Africashortly before the conferena. after be·ina lranted a visa for the first time ;n36 years.

Participants discussed mJe-...·ed effonsto end the clyil .....ar in Anaola, efforuto end the violence wroulhl b)·RENAMO in Moz.ambiqu~. and theoften perplexing political changes inSouth Africa. A panel discussion 1hatasked "Is South Africa Chanling?"featured Jennifer Davis, AmericanCommiuet: on Africa: William Howard.African-American Council of IheR~formedChurch; Thami Mhlambiso,African National Congress in U.~.:Thomas Karis. Cily University; KennelhCars-lt.~ns. South Africa ECunlelllCalMinimy; and Danny Abrahams, Col­umbia University.

Individual prcscntalionll were madeby Mike Fleishman, journalisl. on"Namibia: the First Year of In­dependence"; LuiJa FilIpc,lIttachc withthe Anlola Mission to the U.N. on"Angola: Is Ther~ Hope for a NewStability?"; Colin McCord. physician,on "Mo13mbique: Effons at !'eaccmak­in,"; Gcorac Houser on "South AfricaToday": and Oscar McCloud. dir!:dorof the Fund for Theololical Edutation.on "nit Prophetic Churc.h in a Chanl'ina Environment."

Rhode Island DivestFor information on how RhodeIslanders can help keep unctions Inplace. wrlt~ Rhode Island D1vesl at246 Prairie A'o'e. Providence. RlO29OS. Call 401178$·3930.

Stony R>int CenterAddresses Change inSouthern Africa

ANC Official AlertsBoston Audience

On May 2. Chris Hani, Chie~ofSCaffof the ANC's Umkhonto we Sllwe, ad­dressed an enthusiastic audience at l~Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.His aoa! was to alert Americans ~hatwhile the media have led many to bcfjcve:democracy is jWI around the cor'.'Cf.inSouth Africa, the chances for ~aJonty

rule arc decr~asinl. He eljPhasll~t~ANC's oomplainu about the aparthC1drcaim~'s oondnu~ failure to r~lease allpolitkAI prisoners aJ promi.sed. And h~

chara~ th~ police and. ~efensc forceswith lnstiptinl and falling 10 pr~nl

violence in Soulh Africa's black lown­ships. He point~ ou~ .that raetion~1fiahling is based on pohlJcal. nOI ethmcdifferences.

He lold the audiC1lce Ihal journalists.church .....orkers, human rights obscf"­ers and other eyewitnesses hue stenpolice and troops openly side With In­i.atha. The go\'ernment, he e~plainl!d,

usc Ihe violence to pre\'elll developmentof a unlfil!d black opposition and tohinder the ability of the ANC toorganize as a parly. This weakens theANC's ability to conduct a mass cam­raial1 for a conSlituent asscmbly to drafla new eonsilltllion. This way, De Klerkhopes to discredil the ANC and push,hrouSh a settlement more advantageousto South African whitcs.

On March 25. 1991, the Capital dis­trict Coalition Apinst Apartheid andRacism picketed oUl!id~ the Marri01Hotd in Albany. Inside. the John BirchSociety was holdiJt& a mmina whosefeatured speaker was Tamsanqa Linda.a township mayor in South Africa 'llfhohas been identified as a collaborator....lIh the while apanheid government.Ayers for the demonstration charledthat mayors of pUPpcl go"ernlTKnu inthe to'llfnships are responsible for "in­creased renlS. inadequate electric andwater services, substandard and unliv­able housing. unsafe sewage syStemf.poor heallh care, and inferior eduea.tion." The coalition funher chargedthat th~ John Birch Society. by bring­ina Linda to the MarriOI, was "feedingon racism and promoting hatr~d

throuSh intentional distortion andslander of the struggle againJit apar.theid."

Albany Group Pr0­tests ApartheidCoDaborators

Rhode Island DivestMounts MembershipDrive

At • time when the popular mrdia hasmisled many into believin, "soulbcmAfrica's troublcs art over." RhodeIsland Oivcsl has mounlrd a mmtbn­ship drive. While the aroup acknowl­edles and celebrates the independenceof Namibia, Ihe refeasc of NelsonMandda and other political prisonersand Ihe liftina of bans on underaroundpolllical parties. they .rccoan1z.c "t~horriftc conditions which contlllu~ In

Soulh Africa, Anlola and Mo~mbi­que," Rccolnitina lhat people 10 ther~ion conlinu~ to die daily in lhc.s:tru~­

aJe ror frccdom.theystrongly bchC"e IIItheir conllnu~ obliption 10 work toc-nd oppression.

Rhode Island Oh·C$t's position onsanctions remains Ihat "(th~YJ shouldnot be Iiflrd. e\'en pan;all)'. unlil suchis called for by Ihe liberation mo\cmenlsin South Africa. Continued sanctionsrepresent le"erage which lhe interna­tional community can gi\'e the black ma­jority when i' elll~rs into negotiations~ilh the apanheld stale." In order to In­sure continued sanctions:. the groupbelieves all ami-apanhcid aClivim mustkeep political pre5$ure on theirlegislators. Since Rhode Island $cnalorI)cli chairs the Scnale Foreign RelationsCommittcc. this group focuses much orits efforts on work to innuence., him tomaimaln U.S. santtions. This sprinlth~y arc also conducting a "Wrlte-A­Thon for Sanctions" dtsigned toaenerate leiters 10 the entire RhodeIsland Conarcssional d~leaation.

For more informalion on the aroup',aetivilies or m~mbcrship, (ontactchairpersons Joseph Newsome andPrudence Mashile (401) 78~39JO, orwrite: Rhode Island Divest. 246 PrairieAvenue, Providence. RI 0290'.

D THE COUNTRYHoosiers Form Groupto SupportMozambiqueHealth Care

Members of a Chicaao ecumenicaltour 10 Southern Africa, compelled bywhat they saw and heard during theirthree: week tour have issued a writtenstatemc:nt. The &roup included pastors,educators and activist, who were invitedto MOlllmbique. Zimbabwe and SouthAfriea by ecumenical groups in thosecountries. The followinl c:xccrpts I"C!ncettheir experiences: "The South Africangovernmenl has boasled HUll il has liOrdthe Stal~ or Emergency. But it has notlold the world that il has retained all therestrictions of th~ State of Emcrsencyin Ihe Public saf~ty Act by dc)ign3llngmost Blad: townships "unre~t areas". .. Without excepl;on each of thepolitical, labor. civic and r~ligious

organiulions we spoke to affirmedlt0vernmelll complicity in random vlo·lenC1: Ihat has meant Ihe death ofthousands of people ... Th~ arc: justa few of the reasons that everyone withwhom we spoke in Southern Afrle/llurged with a sinlle VOice: "Keep th~

pressure on, maintain lanctions." Forcopies of the report Fax Anne Toome)'at 1312127'-6238 or Jim Casoll at Fa:<12 I21964-8S70,

The Mouunbiquc United MethodistHealth Care Foundalion (MUMHCF)has been formed in Grimm. Indianl. toprovide health care supplies to the:~pie of MOlambique. Affilialed With theUnited Methodist Committee: for Rdicfand Ikvelopmcnl. the Board of Mis­sions and the ao.rd of Global Ministriesof the United Methodist Church, thesroup of ten people rq>rtsentina lhechurch community and m~kA1 profes­sion have raised O\Ier $300.000 worth ofmrdicaJ supplics and equipment for theChicuque and Reclalla hospitals inMozambique. Founding member Revtt­end Ted Snyder or the Fir t UnitedMcthodi.M Church in Griffilh formedth~ Iroup as a result of Ihe 1990 Inler­city Ecumenical Peace Mission 10Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

The group has a two·pomt plan forfuture action. The Reclamation Pro­gram entails lakina supplies unnec:essari·Iy disposed of by local Methodisthospitals and ~ndina them to MOLam­bique. The Supervised lcarnins Pro­gram will allow last year interns 10 dotheir final year of medical residency IUChieuque Hospital in Mozambique. Inexchanse, MOUlmbican medical HU­dents will complele train Ins in the U.S.

Dell Corporation. • Tens-basedcomputer company, recently notilied itsSouth African distributor that it couldno 10l1Aer honor its dislribution aaree:·ment with them. Dell had previouslyrettived contracts from los Anaeles,Pasadena, and Michi,an. but due tosdective purchasina ....ccments. wasdenied any further business with thesegovernments. "We had no orders fromthem for thret: or four months," said aDell spokesman. "Based on lhat, 'Ilo'C ter­minated the: relationship (with SouthAfrica)." This offen concrete prooflhal sdcdive purchasml aareemenlS canindeed make tbe COSI of doina businesswith apartheid prohibitive.

Selective PurchasingForces Company Outof South Africa

Chicago EcumenicalTour

Governor Jim Florio of New Jerseyannouncat on February 11 Ihat he hasdirected the Turnpike Authority to denyShell Oil renewal of its contract for allII KrYicc Itations alonl the hilhway.The contract. estimated to be worth $.50million in revenues by anti-apanheidaroups that iobbied for Shell's mnoval.expires on April I, 1992. In his spec<:h.Florio declared. "New JtTSCy can't dobusinc:u with such a company. Sanc­tions a~ worklnl. Victory is in silht.And now is not the time to let up."

A3 a haJis for his decision. Floriocited the urlln, of anti-apartheid woopsand • 1985 New J~ law requirinldivestiture of state money from com­panies doilll business In South Africa.Shell has lona been sub;m to a nation­wide boyrott bccausc it sells oil to theSouth African 1O\·ernment for usc by itsmilitary and police forteS. This eonsti­tutCS a sianificant loss for Shell. The ISmillion rent they paid the Turnpike in1990 represented II cents a gallon offuel sold and 4 per cent of the sales ofother produtts.

Louisiana ActivistsCall for Resignations

Ourioa the r.1l of 1990. mc:mbcn ofthe Louisiana Slate: Committee ApinstAplrlhc:id learned thlt • localwalbthon (or the United Nqro CoUepeFund would rtedvc fundJ from ShdIOil. 11K Committee tM-n wrote toXlvier CoUcat Presidmt Norman Fran­cis and DiUard Univmity PresickntSamud DuBois Cook and requc:st~

lhcy diswodatc with Shdl and ;oin thenational boyroll apinst it. Accordinl10 Carl Calmon. president of the com·millce. Francis and Cook ignored theirkum and allo.."ed Shell's participrllionIn the: ......Ik.thon.

Because of ,Ihis. the CommitletApifW. Apartheid is now calling for thecollqc prts.idenu 10 bt fired. OalmanSlates that throuah shell Oil, Dillard andCook arc ",upponir\& another form ofNazism. If Shell Oil pulls OUI of SouthAfrica. aparthdd could end in onc year,They're the only major oil companywhich supplies the polict and militarythere." Francis counlers, "Why shouldany studcnI bt denied funds for theireducation b«aust a company is inSouth Africa? E"cry university makesits own decision about diveliliture. If wehave to look at every individual com­pany - well, thnt's a burden I don'lcare to deal with."

Following the walkalhon, in Ihewjnter of 1990, Xavier selected BobHoward, President orlhe local Shell OilCompany, to serve as Co-Chairman ofthe local United Negro College FundTelethon.

Threats Follow Thtu'sMontana VisitMem~rs of the Montana LOi&ing

and Ballet Company. the musical satiregroup that orlanized the Tutu visit 10Montana last year. receivrd a threaten­ing leiter lhat said, "Beware this is theonly warnin, that you'll rettive. Ikwarefor your families also" The letter wassigned Montana P C. There 'llfas no re­turn addrm. The letter rererred to Tutuas a communist, saylnl Tutu i one of"Mandclas many BOYS ON THEROAD"

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In 1Y90 Soulh Aln,. ell.porttdnearly~ mllhon 1(10' of coat .bow] nllillon 10m mOC'~ Ihan III 1989 Ala'te part 01 thl~ IncrtI.st "'as lakntby the European Community coun·trin. of ""hu:h. 1Il particular, Gc:r­man)' and Dc:lsium can be t«n asf t IrO.... lnl intporlen of SouthAfrican coal Other countria In·dud~: Spain. Italy, POrlulal.Netherlands. Greece:. Ftanet. UK.Luxcmbourl. Irdand. and Den·mark eM 17. 1991

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FLASH FLASH• UllIdtntlned lunmCfl shOl and klllc:dfiv~ prople and injured 14 in an assaulton a bar III Sebokcll',

• South Africa 'ilns Ihe NucLear Non·Prollferalion Treaty. which opens SouthAfrica's nuclear facililiC$ to Inspttllon.

• An.ola·s Joint I)olitkal and MllilaryCommission announced Ih~ dttlsion 10Idease all political pr!sontrs.

National NamibiaConcerns Reorganizesas "Southern AfricaConcerns"

After Oft«n)'nts o( Vl"Oflun,to"ardthe: indepcnden« of Namibia, 1baliDaI......as trlet for National Nanubia Concmtsin 1990. The poup wanted to COntln~,

ho-.e...et, for Ihe)' bclie'~ ...tlonbuddlna I as Imponantand dIffICult asliberation. But they soon disco'oered thaimost of thell fund1na sourca. su..:h as

1. the United Nallon, Council (orI Namib18. "Ot.dd no Ionl('l" be a\aiJ.bk,J Therefor~, they announced tkat NNC

....'OUJd dOl( iu doon al t M c:nd of 1990.I This announ«mc:nl ~a~ dUmaY inNamibia "Please don't abandon wnow." wrote Dr. AblSll Shtj8va1i. tadof lhe: Council of Cburd\C:S In Nanubla."You han hdped bona lhe binh o(lhisRation Now, like a toddler. we multlearn 10 walk PICUt' walk with us until.... eare leadyonour(ect.··ThcsllffalNNe aarm! ther~ is 51111 a llC'ed 10dlSs~minau= and mterprd news fromNamibia and to live support to thechurd1t'S and people thert. They ahobelieve lher~ Is a neW to support andmonilorchana~ ~n Soulh Afnca and the~ntlfe relion

Thtr~rOrt.n dttl ion to L"OnlmU~ tbetr"ork has been reached dt<>plle the' fletthai NN ' bank !tCCllunt I, emply.A~\OClate I)lreclor 511 nn lJun:hnekJ twreturned 10 perish mln"try, Orrtee 'racehas betn donated by alutherlln churt:hWhh no IOaJOr anullS avallablt,Southern Africa Ollcernl nlll I dependon indi ... ldual contribution

rhe Iroup I. publl~h;nll II mouthlybulletin. Th~ Suulh('rll A/rlt-a N~I"',

with t:hppinll and IOfo,mllllon aboutrhe reaion It al 0 Indudr.s action alen,and reflOrt,uf projC\:l. n«(tlna 'UPPOltTu tC\:eh~ the N~ ...... plea.<e <cnd a wnteU'l~ 'inuthnn Arrlca Concern" 91~ l9th AI/e:nue:, I)cnver. Coloril~o 802111:

Four fifths of South Africa's IUlidI, owned by While farms with oneOUI of fiy~ Blaeks living on them.Farm schools arc at tht bottom ofth~ education pile. They arc ~ntire·

Iy at the discrt:tton of the farm~r

AhhoUlh the use of pupils fOrlabor on farms durina school hourSis iIIqll, lh~ practice is stiliwidcspreMI wben the famities live astabor tenants on tM While farms.TRAC N~ws '16 Oct 1990

African AmericansPledge Support toAfrica

Globalvision. producers of ·'SouthAfrica No.....•• have beaun production ofa new show - "Riahu and Wronp."Uk~ "South Africa Now." lhe: showwill feature the: work of kJcal JOumalisuand filmmakers, but il also has mor~

sophisticated ammatiOM and a more:polished pphic style, accordinl to anAuodaled Prc:u report.

Danny Schc:ct~r, co-founder ofGlobalvbton. states h~ and his col­lealuC$ bclicv~ "people arc tired of theblandness and lhe formula approach totelevision. This show. which Yoill focuson human (I.hlS issues around theworld. will be produced for $50.000 aw«k. or about 10 percent oflhe eml of"20/20," which Schecter hdped pro­duce: for njn~ years. The rutur~ of Ih~

show dc:pcnds on foundalion grants.

A deleaalion of lhree hundredAfrican·American pohticll and businculeaders IUlherc:d In Abidjan. IVOryCOD~t in April. 1991, promisro to pr~<

lhe U.S. lt0 ernmelll 10 ,=anc~1 all of-fkial debt o cd to It by African coun·lries and 10 inClease U.S, forclan aid toAfrit:a. The: Rey. Leon Sulll\'an addr •«I Ih~ cro.... d: "We ~t1y to Americans~

if )'OU can concd debt fOf Poland andEaypt, you can caned It for sub-SaharanAfrica."

Rep. Wilham Ora) (0. I~a), theIlou~ majo,ity ""hip. lold delcaalt'!ltl)lhe thr«-day ,onfer~nce that the COil',r(\donal Black auclI would s«k toincrease U.S. aid to Sub-Saharan Afm:iIby $200 Illlllion In the 1992 budpct,~hidl .... ()uld amount to a 251:, lIIue:ILOOC.lie also pkd,«I U.S. support ford~mocratic chatlle and human ri,hl\ III

Africa,A dn:laration or obJcctl\cs adopted

b) buth U.S. and Afncan Lc:ac:k-n Illduded a threat of con\umer -.:tlon a,lumtU.S l,.'Orporahon\ ~,ploitinl fri'anlesources and labor, ~eral Africanhcacb of 'Ial~ In auendance, In Hun.pcom\5ed to tlumnale red tape Impedm,forei.n in\" lor. partll:ulaIl)' African·American .

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A$ pan of a thrrt',-eaf" campai.n 10Shar~ the Han-c.<t of P~:Kt, Orc:ad forthe World has laundl«l its 1991lql la·ti\e campaiAn on lhe Horn of Afri-=a(Ethiopia. Somalia and Sudan). Thecampaian's focus is the Horn of AfricaRccO\uy and Food Security Act of1991. a bIll 10 "assur~ prople In theHorn the naht to food and to promot~

peaer and dc:\~lopment Ihroolh arlSS­roou participation," H.R. 1454. wllh SOcosponsors. rtquircs tM U.S. to provide~ffKli\'e re:lkf and support Ionl·termde\,dopment nC'eds in the rqion. Themeasurt suppons democratization in thercaion. also. Senator Paul Simon (OIL)will imroducc sinlilar Ic:aislation in lhe!knat~.

Or~ad for th~ World. in its quest tolocatt addilional Congressional co­sponsors and 10 obtain passaiC in 1991.is seeking oraanizational supponerS 10join the campaian. They arc appeahna10 pc:aer groups. churches, labor unionsand communily organizations to addtheir names to the list of endorsers. Formore information on the campaian or10 join lhe list of cndorsers, contactSharon Paulins. Policy Analyst orDiane de Guzman, Policy A$.5OCillte atBread for Ihe World. 802 Rhod~ IslandAve., N.E.• Washill8lon, D.C. 20018.(202) 269.()200.

Bread for the WorldSeeks Relief for Hornof Africa

For .sncral yean l~ ArrlcJ PeactCommlllec has conducted I annualpublk education campailR on war andmllnafism In Afrka. ThlS yea,'s Aprillour look the J,roup'. mcua.c toWestern PmnJylunl1 and EasternOhio. The ,oa! of the tour i. to dra...public IneRllan 10 11K way In whK"hwarfare and mililari m are majorobstacks to combllina hunltt andpo~'erly In Africa and 10 indtatc howpcopk in lhe United Stites an countermilitaristic policies lov.ard Africa.SpeOfkaUy, spcakm dtmon5Iratcd howU.S. aid and tl"lde poIidcs (tluh in sur·(<<ina and «onomle problems botb InAfrica and the United States. They pro­poKd irultad IIlII thO' audiences sup­pan an Mran policy based on humanriahlS and human needs rathttthan war.

A p'niallisl of speakers this year in­cludes Adolci k~cl. orilinally fromGhana, who now 5tr'its as the RestarchDircctor for ACOA; Shupinl CoaJ!Olt.originally (rom South Afrial •• memberof lhe ANC Observer Mission 10 theU.N.; Janet Hackert, an AgitulturalERIineer who ,""orlrd in Tanzania for]Y! )'ear~; Jerry Herrnan. coordinalorfor the lour and director oflhe SoulhernAfrica Progntm of the AI· C; AubreyMcCuh:heon. who has ¥oorked as a lob·byist on arlns control and fortian polk)'bsuc.~; Elc:kiel Pajibo. a liberian who.... orb wilh the Africa faith lind JusticeNetwork: and Thelma Ra...ell·PlOto, aSouth Afri,an who is currcnlly n pro­f~r inlhe U.S. and once ~rved IU thedlr«tor of a womco', trainina (:tOler inZimbabwc; Abdul Babu, formcr ceo­nomin mimSlcr 10 the fint Tanzanian,o\C~rnment; hanci co Campbell.former Ni<:ar.Juan Ambo dor to7.il1lba\1.... e

Tht tour addn..."C'd tht dfcas of war­fare on Ethiopia, Somalia, tht Sudan.Liberia. South Afnca, AnJola andMOl.ambique. For in<;tance, audlenc~

Icarntd thnl Anlola ha' the larl(','\tnumber of amput~ pcr capita of an~

,0uOlry In the Yoorld b«ause: ofUNITA', u~ of u.S, manufa,:luredland mlllc:1. And a... i1 .... ar in Libma hasthe: larlN per capill di<plac.:e:mcnt ofrefua«<i of any COunlr) in the ....orld.Spnl~er al".)$ mack surt 10 le3\'e

alK1imtto. "'ilh suutSlton foroolUtruc­Ihe action. They pro\ided informationon pmdinl klisJation. c1tizc.n adionsroups and bo)'ooll c:ampai&m.

Africa Peace Commit­tee Conducts AnnualTour

Villanova Peace andJustice Week FeaturesSouth African Play

From March 18·24. 1991. the Cente:rfor Peatt and Justn Education ofVillanova Universlly in Villanova Penn­sylvania sponsored a ..«k of peace andjustice acti ... ilies. The w«k f~atured

films about Cmlral America and Nonh­ern Irdand, panel discussions on warand K:'l:ualstercot)'pina and workshopson homtlt'!5ncss. women and work andNative Americans. It culminated on the:final evenini with a play about SouthAfrica.

"Panorama:' wrillen by SouthAfrkan playwriaht Picter-Dirk U1$, u­plores the Impaci of apartheid on twowhhe middl~-clau schoolteachers and ablack woman whose father is held as apolitical prillOflcr. In this play. ptrform­cd by lh~ IrouP Theater Inlern8lionaJ.Uys arlues tkal while antl·aparthddcampailners lanluish in a jail deprind

.of lheir ([C'tdom, the while women ar~

al~ sha~led by tMir tlnorlU'ltt andfear. The performanc~proved a fiuinlfinale to week of provocative cYmls.

SANCTIONS UPDATEDenmark Blocks EC's\;>te to Lift Sanctions

FoUowtna Sooth Arrican Praidml deKink's~nt in FdHuary thathe was proposin. lqisllition 10 repeaJthe Group Area Act and I he Land Aeu(apartheid laws lhat iDS1ituttonaliuPrcsidmliaJ JeIfCPlion and sevtrdyrestric:t land allotted to the black majori.ty). the: European Community announc­ed it would lift trade sanctions as soonas the proposab became law. Ala mm·ina in BrlWdJ. BdJium on February 4,1991,lhe EC foreian ministm vOlcd tolin baru on imporu of acid coins, ironand sced once: the Aeu wtre actually r~

ptakd. Already in.December the (\l;e:lvelW.ion aroup lirtcd illi voluntary ban onnew investment in South Africa. How­C'Vtt, the Danish Parliament is nowblod:ina application of Ihis newest ac·tion by refusin, to ratify the ECproposal.

European ParliamentUrges EC to MaintainSanctions

AI a meetin, in Strasbourg, Frana: onMay IS. 1991, the European Parliamenturged the European Cammillee not togo ahead with ils February plan to liftthe embargo on South African loldooins. iron and stetl. Their joint state­mcnt declared the EC "should maintainall existinl pressure" on Soulh Africauntil the South African lovernment"liflS all obstacles to nqotiations" withthe Afrtcan National Conlr~. Theystrased Ihat this should include an endto all vfolcncc in South Africa.

ANC to EC: MaintainSanctions

Within days of the: European Com­munity's decision to lin sanaionsapinSl South Africa, Ndson Mandelathreatened "mus action" aimed atmakina~ investment impossible inSouth Arrica if the United States and theE.C. should indeed end their trade em·baraoa· Such mass aaions would un·doubtedly include mass protests andboycotts. In his stalemenlS, Mandelacalled sanctions "one of our principalweapons of peatt."

Two months later on April 12 ANC~I SecrC1ary Alfred Nzo askedluxe:mbourl Fordan Minister JacquePOOl, head of the EC Council ofMinisters, to maintain pressure onSouth Africa until apanhdd is totallydismaniled. He declared that it is "notthe riltu time: to Iif," sanctions un,il apreviously ....ced·upon "irrcvmibleprocess" is set in motion to scrap apart·hcid. The ANC don not belie...e pro-­mises madtso far constitute that iruver·sible process.

UN SowetoObservance

The Special Commltlcc Against Apar­Iheid hdd a solemn mcetinl in observ·ance of the International Day of Soli·darity with the people of South Africa.The "Soweto Day" remembnmet washdd at 10:30 AM on Monda~unc17thin the Trusteeship Council Chamber atthe United Nations.

OAU Resolves toMaintain Sanctions

On February 1, the: Oraaniution ofAfrican Unity met In Harare, Zimblibweat which the: OAU'I Ad Hoc Commit­tee of Heads of State and Governmenton Southern Africa issued the "HarareCommunique, It which rnponds tode:Klerk's promise of reform by resolv­inl thne remains a continued need tomaintain sanc1ions and all forms ofprasure 00 South Africa. They d(daredsanctions should hold until thtTe exulSa transition to a democratic order, in­c1udinlthe holdillj of eJ«tions.

Commonwealth Com­mittee RecommendsMaintenance ofSanctions

At a mC'Clinc held in london onFebruary 16. the Commonwealth Com­millee on Southern Africa recommend­ed that sanctions be maintained untilPresident de Klerk translatts his pro·mises of reform into concrete wions todismantle apartheid. The Common­wealth recommendations helped influ·ence a later session of the CaribbeanCommunity, who also agreed sanctionsshould be maimained until "irreversiblesteps to end apartheid have beentaken." Also, at a four-<lay mccting ontrade, debt and economic reform heldby the African Caribbean and Pacinccountries in Kampala. Ulanda, the 68panicipatinl Ministers urled the EClovernmenl$ to maintain sanctions.Opcnin. the four-day IeSS10n. the PraI­dent of U,anda. Mr. Yowen Muscvenl,stated that only comprehensive sanc·tions would ensure democratic rule InSouth Africa.

SADCC Calls forContinued Sanctions

At their eleventh annual Consultati\oeConfermcc held in Windhoek, Namibiathe Southern African Development C0­ordination ConfCTencc issued a com­munique in which thqr Iollelcomed ltcpstoward reform and nqOf.wion in SouthAfrica. They noted with ream, 00"'­C\'er, continued violcocc, and urscd theao,,·ernment to take eff«tive steps 10end it. Finally, citil\lthe faa thatapar­theld remains in place, the Conference:affirmed the need to mllntain unctionsuntilapanhdd is completely dismantled.

World Council ofChurches ReaffirmsNeed for Sanctions

At the conclusion of its Se\enthAssembly in Canberra. Australia inFebruary. lhe World Council of Church­es issued a slatemenl welcominl Presi·dent de Klerk's decision 10 seck repealof apartheid la"~. However, they alsocited township violence, political deten.lion, iniquiloul conditions in housingand education and land dl.mibution andthe continued lack of political riaht511sreason to maimain sanctlont BlainslSouth Africa. The Assembly aho re­quested lhat the wce Cent rill Commit­tee urgently initiate a consultation pro-­cess with member churches in SoulhAfrica, the South African Council ofChurches and the liberation mo...emelllS10 determine the crheria for Imina sanc·lions. When. in short. is Ihere dearevidence of profound and irreversiblechanges?

Bush Administrationand Japan Respond toEC SanctionsAnnouncement

The day aOtTSouth African Presidentde Kkrlt announced plans to rcpeaJ theGroup Areas Act and Land Aeu, PrQi­dent Bush phoned him to commend himon these "historic measures." The dayaOtT the European Community respond­ed positively to de Kkrk's announce-­ment by proclaimina they would lintrade Jandions upon pass8IC of therepeals, I Bush administntion spokes­man declared the U.S. would not lift itsreslridions until South Africacompltcswith two more conditions of tbe Com­prehensi~Anti-Aparthdd Act; the re­Ieasc of aU poIitkal prisoners and the ac­tual repeal of 911 sqrcption laws.

U.S. HUSmess Com­munity Responds toEC Sanctions Plan

When the European Communit)' an·nounctd plaOJ to Uft its trade emWlo.nowhere did they rettive such supportas from spokesmen reprcsentina U.S.corporations doing business in SouthAfrica. The April 1" 1991 issue of theJournal of Comme~ reported theresponses of several business executives.

Paul Murphy. Director of CorporateAffairs for Caltex Petroleum Corpora­tion, a Dallas·based company thatemploys 2000 people in South Africa(the 1araest U.S. employee there), stated.:"The U.S. is virtually alone, or soon willbe alone, in its economic boycott ofSouth Africa. The administration has toresp«t U.S. law, but as soon as possi­ble all sanctions should be lifted,"

Stephen Coonq, DirCClor of Interna­tional Investment and Finance for theNational AUodatkm of ManufaCturers.deelared that the: Bush admini'trat.lonshould make a "three proDled assault"..ainst measures restrktina U.S. busi­ness with South Africa. Cooney not onlywants the 1986 Anti Apartheid sanctionslifted but the 1987 amendment cknyinlU.S. corporations credit for tues paidin South Africa. He also hopes for thercpea.l of di...CSlmtnl, bankina and Idee­th'c purchasina laws passed by 2S statesand 98 municipalities.

Daniel O'Ft.aherty, Chairman of theWashinlton Business Coalition onSouth Africa. a JI'OUp rcpresentina 4SAmerican companies still doin& busineathere, promOf.es the: bdief that southAfrica ""ill be in full camptiancr by theend of June, 1991. He admilS that the1981 Ranael Amendment denyina com­panies tax credit has been "a '-cry effec­tive disincentive for companies to r~

main in Soutb Africa" and believes ilsrepcaI is in sieht.

Stephen Davis, Knior analyst for theInvestor Responsibility Research CcntClin Washinlton, bclie\cs that the Bushadministration will soon argue that suf­ficient rcfonn has been accomplished tojustify n:pcal of federal measures.

Renamo and U.S.Advisors

According to a confidential documentobtained by Washington Notes on~ri~Q, ~ right.wing U.S. businessmanIS appealing for $214.000 10 provide ad."i~rs to Rcnamo ill peace nelol intionsWI!h. the lovernment of Mozambique.WIlham H. Ball, Jr.. of Indianapolis, amember of the Coors-founded Council011 National Policy (CNP), SCnt theRenamo rcqu~l to CNP members thissprinl. with Renamo's assurantts thatIheir contribulions would be "reimburs.ed with in!er~t" once Renamo came to~ ...er. Cued by Bdl as potential ad­VISOrs were former Anistant SecrC1aryof State.Alan Keyes. Michael Johns ofthe. ~ernale Foundation and HowardPhllhps of the Con~ativeCaucw.

House LeadershipDeclares Commit­ment to Sanctions

In elrly March House: SpeakerThomas Foky and many other membcnof the House leadership met with •dekption of anti-.aparthetd aeti~lsts

orpnized by the American Committeeon Africa. The ddeption indudcd fUChhiah profile members as direc:tor Spikelee, actress Alfre Woodard and Josephlowery of tM Southern Christianleadenhip Confcrcn«. Africa Fundboard tnmlbcr sounded the keynote orthe deleption's alend. when hewarned, "To lin even a sinpe sanctionbefore democracy is established sendsthe wronl sllnal about Americanmorality and resolve."

Actress Alfred Woodard tokl Spc:aktTFoley that Nelson Mandcl. had wriuenher to endorse the ddcption's appealfor the maintenance of sanaions.Woodard represents the 2SO memberIroup "Artists for a Free SouthAfrica.." Lowery compared sanctions todemonstrations during the civil ripUistrua&k -as soon as they Ire called orr,all progress ceucs.

Speaker Foley responded positively:"There will be no Iikdihood in my judi­ment that Conlress will initiate a liftingof sanctions until the ending of apan·hdd has been accomplished." He didwarn, however, "that President Bushmay soon seek the relaxation of somesanctions" •

Religious Action Network Chairper.son Wyatt Tee Walker presentedSpeaker Foley with "Keep the Pressureon Apartheid" ballots from 48 states,with especially large numbers of ballotsfrom churthes in New York Cily, Ouf­falo, San Francisco, Detroit andChIcaIO. Spike Let handed ou( "Keeplhe Pressure on Apartheid" buttons tosecurity luards, PlIes and House aidesto wear as a reminder oflhe imponaJICCof unctions.

Black Caucus Re­affirms Support forSanctions

JUSl prior to • meC'lin. with HouseSpeaker FoIqr in Marth. a Jl"oup ofanti-apanhcid aeti ...ists md with theCon.arcssional Blad. Caucus 0Vtt lunch.ReJiaious Action Net_ork ChairpersonWyalt Tee Walker ~Ji',plaillCdto Caucusmemben thqt wanted to meet first"with the pmpIe YteKC as critical allies"on the: sanctions issue.

Edolphus Towns, Black CaucusChairperson from Brooklyn reaffirmedthe CaUC\lS' strong position in supportfor continuinl sanctiOM. MajorityWhip Bill Gray from Philadclphiastressed the need for education on sanc­tions in the following critical months. [nall. thirteen members of the caucus at­tended to \;oice their support. The lun­cheon and meetinl occurred on March12, South African Dttaintt's Day.

Local ActivislS Continue Pressuresfor SanctionsHouse Whip Bill Gray hll5 warned anti.apartheid acti ... im thaI "Con,ressionaldetermination to hold the line on ~I1C­tions" will depend on how much sup.port for th~ Issue they hear from thdrconSlltucncies. Throulhout the coulllryRelilious Action Network membershave collected ballots in the "Keep thePressure On" campaign. In New Yorl.the Rev. Nalhaniel Tyler-lloyd collecteda thousand ballots al Trinity BaptislChurch. In Oakland. the Rev. J. AlfredSmith, Sr. collected a large number atAllen Temple At Cornell Univendty'sFestival of black Gospel al St. J~mesPresbyterian Church in Harlem RANCoordina.tor Akah Bacquie CO'Uettedba~IOIS. And in New Jersey, Rev.~lllard Ashley featur«! ballot collec.hons durinl sc.rviccs at the Monumen­lal BaPtist Church.

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Farisani Reflects onChange

In carty Aplil, Law and OrderMinister Adrian V10t tokJ lbc: SouthAfrican parliament that lD the t~monlhs prior to Frbnwy 28, 1991,ei.ahty-seven people died In poUcecustody in bth Africa. Vlak daimcdtbat 27 died or natura! caUJCS. 23 com­mitted suicide,. died ofalcohol poOOn'

In,. S wert: murdcTtd by fdk)w prison_m, one suffocated, 6 died from tad in­JUries. 9 Wtteshot (. by poIkc). and 12...~ UAullcd (6 by polkt). FoIJowlnatwo of the' assaults. three policemenwen charp wilh murder and suspend­ed rrom dUly, and five more were .us­pended 0"'Cf" aJJqations involvlna fourIJIOtC assaulu. In the same pcnod. 2.SJpolicemen were IUJpcndcd from dUlyafter btln, char,ed with ....rlouscriminal offtrlJCl.

South Africa AdmitsDeaths in RJliceCustody

The R.cva1:nd T.S. Farbanl•• deanof the EvlQldk:al Lut.hcm Churth InSouth Afra, Is CUfTClltly a visitl...tehoIar at Pacinc Lutheran 1"bcoIo&kaISeminary in California.. In Ma.rch.SGpost publiJbed an iolcnoicw In whidtFarisanl shand many lruiahts into lbc:st..te of his county dwilll t.h.b paiod ofchanI<. _

Of putituJar inkral wat his UIICIS­mall of the IItDts of t'b.anac. "No op­prcqor rver devated the opprcsaed tohU own kvd, II iI not until OW'

MandclaJ, Tambos and Olhcn arc tak.Uta part in the aovernmcn.t that we willbqin to IClC rltQ.nh.,fuJ cha.ftIC.'/FarisanJ Italed that he was "disap­pointed that the chanaa' arc auributed10 de KJcrk u lr be uxd IOIDC mqjcwand 10 lurn tbfnparound, When therearc chanacsln the Soviet UiUoa or tbe~'. RepubliC' of Chln.l or EasternEurope. thc same mcd1a, aUributes lbechaops to the' strugks of dcmoc:rahCforca. South Africa has one of theworld', most oppraaJve aovcmmcats,bUl every chanae that comes is credited10 the oppt'cuor and not to the: opprcu..ed,"

He pvc 91 pereau of the credit rorchanat: 10 hit peop~ and ... to the irt­Icrnational community. He aUowed deKkrk I percenl of the credit, then lidd­ed, "Unfonunately. the media dellicdde Klerk. He's • white Messi.h uvlnathe black pcopleofSoulh Africa. Thatmedia pcopte want to lin sanctions DOW.

They won't wait for those of us In the.partheld oven to teU lhcm when thelempcratu~ It low enouah.

Despite his criticism. of the de Klcrk'OVttnment,lhe lI..teof aparthdd, andIhe intmultlonal medi•• Farisanl do.clared hitnldf • "diehard oplimill."whose hope rakla in the liberationI1ruuk of hit pc:opk. He bclicvesltwhe and alN)odl'1 of the ....... in Souda.Africa "look forward 10 taklna: JMlI1 inlhe lrans:itional period and In the hinJtof. new ckmocratk, non-tKlaJ South.1".' ..~nca.

Activists Reflect onEnd ofApartheid

SACC Calls on deKlerk to End Violence

"Apartheid: How Ncar the End?"was the question posed at a M~2, 1991confcrencc orpniud by the Sub­Commluec on Southalt Afm. Non­aovernrnetltal OrpniuJions Commlt­lee on Human Riahu. New York.Featured spcUers were Dr. Mar,UfTho<pe.Am_~endPStnipotcntiary. Trinidad.nd Tobqo,and V~ Chair. UN Special Commitk'eApIrw Apartheid; Lmdewe Mabusa.Repraentati\'e to t.be U.s. of t.beAfrican Nalion.1 COR,ress: andStephanie Urdana••ulbor.

The conference addrased _Ofricsabout "erosion in tbe world commwti­ty over the question of sanctions" andurp the internationaJ communilY toimplement U.N. Resolutton 45/176adopted on Decmtbcr 19, 1990. whichcall upon "all Oovunmcnl.J to main­tain the. measures aimed at appIyinapressure on the South African rcPme toeradicale aputhdd and to promote pr0­

found and imvttsibk chanaes (to brineaboutJ lhc speedy cndic:aIion or apar­thad and tlK cstabllihmatl of a united.democr.tic, non-radal South Africa."

TheCQl'lference, convmed.l the DqH.mm,rskjold Ubrary, United Na­lions, wu oraanizcd by chairpersonVinic Burrows of the Women's LntCf"1Ul­tional Democratic Federation andsecretary, Leonore Fine of tbe OrayPanthers. Other ,roups represented onthe oraaninn. committee included theChriJtian Peace Confcr~, the Inter·national Feder.lion of Social Workm,Sisters Against South Africa Apartheid.Women for Racial and Eoonomic Equa­lity. World Federation ofTr.~Unionsand the Women's International Lcquefor Peace and Freedom.

On ApnJ 3O,thc South Mric:an Coun­cil of Churc:hcs issued. public appealto President de Klerk to "curb theviolcnc:c:" in South Arrica. Their appeaJfollowed the deaths of 24 people .ftera funcraJ in Meadowlands, Sowcto. TheSACC statctnftlt reads, in part. "wefind it out rqcous lhal the de Kkrk,overnmmt did not disarm the heavilyarmed mobs which went on the ram­P&F, leavin, behind them a uail ofdeath and desuuction. And we do notunderstand how the pcrpeuat.ors ofthese actions wen: not apptdlitOded.. Eyewitncssa report t.haJ the police Slood byas the rabble ran wild in a frenzy thatleft 24~ dead. We an thus fora:dto oonclude that either Mr. de Klcrk haslost command of his KCWity forces orthat he is not intcrt:Sted in brinaina thiswar to an end." The Reverend frankChikanc., Ckncral Secretary of theSACC, ended by SlItina, "I bdicve: thatthe f.i1ure of tbe ,ovcrnrnent requiresthat another ,o\'cmmcnt or an inTerim,o...ernmcnt should be put in place 10keep law and ordtt durin,thc transitionperiod."

Chico,o Commlfl« In Solidarity wll" Solll/wm A/rktI "OSI«/ '''~ Pruitknl oj (1M f«lffallon ofSollt" A/riaI" WOltlM, Sult!r IknuIrd NnJ~ (2nd from 1f:II) "In tHldillon 10 rn«""1 Mdl" ~raJ 'roMps, Sr. &rntlnrd spok~ III lwo PflbJic' I~''tnl$. Hrr nallonDi lOllr MlJ S/1O#tKH'rd by GlobIII ucIllln~. (

On Friday, May 31 TransAfricaForum held ilS lenth annu.1 forrianpolicy conference, this ye.r enmled"American Post-Cold War InterestS inAfrica and lhe Caribbean." The all-dayconference. held in the Cannon HouseOffice Buildina In Washington. D.C.featured many distlllauishl."d speakenincluding louls Sullivan. S!..'Cretary ofthe Department of Health and HumanServices; Randall Robinsoll, ExecutiveDirector orTransAfricl:I Forum; AryehNeier, Exccuti"e Director of (lumenRilthts Watch; and Paul Lusaka, zam­bia's Amba5Sador to Ihe\J.S. Topics in·c1uded Health and Foreian Policy;Hunlan Rights, Democratization andDc"'c1opmcnt: Caribbean Debt andAmerican Interest; and Bush', AfricaPolic)': Construcllve Supporl orCalculated NeglCC1? The follo....ln'niaht, conference partlciPints .ndothers attended TransAfrlca's Four­teenth Annual Benefit D1nl1('f' al theWashinalon Hilton.

At its fonNe:vallh scuion held inGeneva, Switzerland. the Human RiJ,h1JCom~sian considered rtttnt~ments m .panhdd. WhiLe the commiJ­sian wekomed President de' Klerk'S an.nouncancnt that the lepJ basis forapenhrid is 10 be rc:pcaJed. it detttntm­ed thaI olher meaurcs remain to betaken before the human riahu $ltuationof lhe black m.jorilY can be improvedin rttIity.

Participants voiced concern aboutcontinued fq)OtIS of human riahu vio&a­tions. and many ClUtioned ap.inst pre­mature aaion with rcprd to relaxin,sanaioos. They cited the need to rckucall political prisoncn. to rt1urn all ex­iles unconditionally, to curb vio'cnttand to ceax the use of tq)taSive Securi­ty laws.

The Commission therefore rcsotvtd tocondemn the continued detention .ndtonure of children and appealed to theinternational community to maintainpressure on the ,overnment of SouthAfrica to achieve "profound and ir­reversible change to eradicate lhe poIieyof apartheid and the inhuman practiceslWOCiated with Ihis policy."

RJliticaI Prisoners StillHeld

Under the Pretoria Minute signed bet­ween the South African government andthe African National Congress lutAugust 6, 1990 political prisoners weresuppo~ to have applied for indemni­ty from prosecution and have beenreleased by April 30, However. the in­dependent Human Riahts Commissionreports that by May 9. 738 people iden­tified as polhical prisoners were still inj.i1, of whom .t least 236 were onhunacr strike in protest. In .ddition,another, 1,000 "unidentified" politicalprisoners qualify for rtleuc under aaencraJ 12 month remission of sa1tencc:announcrd by Justice Minister Coctsecon April 25, accordina to HRC. Theaovernment claims applications werertled late or by common c:rimJ.nals daiJn.illlto be political prisoners. On May 22the ANC kadership fasted in suppon ofhunacr-Slrildna polilical prisoners whilemembers of the ANC Women's Lea.aucobstructed Johanncsbur,traffte in pr0­test... In the United Statcs, the UnlockAparthOd'5 Jails campaian continues todemand release ofall poUticaJ prisonersand to insist that no Anctions to linedso lona as any remain imprisoned.

for more informatioo on this cam­paillt. write 10 "Unlock Apartheid',Jails" 198 Broadway, New York, N. Y.IOe138. (212) 962·1210.

Trans Africa rorumHosts Tenth AnnualConference

Human Rights Com­mission EndorsesContinued Sanctions

Guidelines Proposedfor Continuation ofSanctions

The Southern Africa Work In, Grouphas drarl~ a sample letter to send toCongressmen which suUesls which con­didons be met before sanctions againstSouth Africa arc dropped. The lettersuggcsts that while recent reforms arclaudable, they arc still woefully inade·quate and have done liule to eradicaterepressive $«urity laws. inferior educa­tion and unrclentin, poveny fot theblack majority.

SAWO suggcsts that in EasternEurope, free dections~ the 5tandardby which OUt lo\<Cf"nmcnt judled pro­gress and Ihis stand.rd mould~y forSouth Africa as ,,-c.ll. 1'hcy point outthat the Conditions of the Anti­Apartheid Act of 1986 include a provi­sion rqardin, participation in thepoliticaJ process. Thw, free .nd f.irdcctions must be the intention of lhisprovision.

The letter quotes A«:hbbhop Tutu.who wrote in the L.A. Times that at ilscore .partheid is not 5im~y scarcPlionbut the denial of polilical po...er on tbebasis of race. This can only end whenthe black majolity win the vote. It endsby urailtl Conarcsspcopk to maJntainsanctions "until evt:rY Soulh Africancan casl a bal10l10 detttntine Ihe fulureof the counlry."

U.N. Special Commit­tee Declares - Main­tain Pressures

Soweto Day ActivitiesSupport Sanctions

The Southern Africa Worli:ina Groupa coalition of rcllaioUJ. labor and anti:apanMKt orpniulionS, sponsored Iseries of (Vcnts 10 commemorate theSoweto Uprisin. on June 16. 1991. Themc:uaae promoted in all 1M nenu was"Oppose: any liftinl of NnCtions untila Constituent Assembly has bunsdCC1ed in a frtt and fair elCC1ion bas­ed on unIVersal sum,.... Amana 1M:tvCDts wu. June 19 hlah profile lobbyday with CC!lcbrhies and civil riahlJileaders sponsored by Tr.nsAftlca andddivcry of lellers from heads oforaaniulions to c.pitol Hill on June13. On June 16 • Soweto Day Com.rnet1lOfIliv~Snvi« wu hdd at People'sConarqallonal Church in Washinston.speakm included Eanor Holmes Nor­Ian, Sylvia Hill, Mary Ikrry, WallerFaURlto)', Randall Roj:)imon and RoserWilkins.

Followin. Prco;idet'll de KInk's pledgeto repeal further apartheid acu, lheUniled Nallons Special Commiuttagainst Apartheid ackno"-Icdacd thaithis was a step forward but eJlprcS5eddisappointRlcnlthal rather than acceptIhe demand of the majority for a con·stituent Assembly and inlerim govern·menl, Presidenl deKJcrk chose to pro­mote a multi-party conference. TheCommiucc al50 expressed disS8tislal.:lion with a failure 10 release all politIcalprisoners and addre!l) griev8n~ abOUISecurity lIleasure~, The)' thus conclud·ed lhat "appropriale prcssure on SouthAfrica should be maintained during th'cprocess of future negotiations toward~

the preparation and adoption of a ne~constitution." The CommittC'C declaredthat a rush to lift "anctions ....ould becontrary to the U.N. Declaration and"would .I!.o h....e lhe effcct of pre·maturely deprivina the internationalcommURlty of the possibility of apply­ina effceti ...e preuure, if necnsary. at alater staae."

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On June S.lhe Abolillon of Radall)'BaK'<! Lund MeD~ur~ Bill of 1991 ~a!o

pa~sed by South Africa'~ ParliaJT1(nl.Thr law aboh5h~ the Group AreaJ ACI,which dcsl.nated ~pttific re~identiularea\ for specific races, and Ihe LandACIS, which reserved 87 I>c:r«nt of Iheland for ownushlp by the I) pen':CIII\\hite: minority. Thl\ leuvt',S ollly thePopulation Rtl!slfotloll Ad, Ihat Ie­quires all Soulh Afrlcum be: rcgiMercdby ra~ al birth. at an official arunhr-ldlaw. Its repeal i~ slill ~ina debaled

AI firsl Blanee. one: might con\ldcrIhis cause f(lr uni"'eNI [eletmllionamona anli·apartheld achvj\u. BUI lhr­A NC ,.<ut'd no <ralcme:nt in r PIll1\( 10the: "'Ole. and In Ihe House: f RepiNn.talh·e;, reprC\eruinl Il1I!JIcd-r<lce SouthAfrican. the bill onl)' pa.s.\CtI aOer lhedommant I aoor Party .Breed 10 ab"'amfrom \'atlOl_ The CIItl~ for Ihl\ - ""Of~­ina in the bill Ihal allo.... \ Ui.11ll8nei,hbcrlloods 10 ~tabli~h In".. prol .lin. "norm\ and tandards "10 their"rb.tdemiaJ tn\lronment." In \hort.tMtaw mduda aloo~1Okthai could allo~.....hlte nClpborhoodJ to retam Iheirpri ... lleled ~ltlon.

In addilion to the offen I\e: andpotentially lub\ersi\e "norm~ and .stan.dar"''' c1aU5C, quesllons .... ere ral'\Cdbefore: the bill', PiW3le by many in 1Macti\'UI rommumty about land re:form.The South Afran Council of Churchesis amonl many .....00 hne pointed Oulthai ~hile the bill no~ allo....., blacks 10own land anphere:. it offen no rntllu­lion of lands seized by the .o\-ernmentin the~. Some l.S million people lostIheir land under apanhdd laws and albest, may now buy it back if it Is

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Land Acts Repeal NotCelebrated by All

Tears to:• The pcr(lCtrator of senseless ",iolen~

who tabbed to dealh KissingcrShiimi, a \ludent leader at RamapOCollrge in New Jersey. Shihni. whoned Namibia in 1981, U...ed as arefugee in zambia for nve years un·lil he won one of jusl 17 Bishop Tutu.scholarships awarded Ihal year.April 1 memorial services ~ere heldfor Shiimi. who served for threeyears as president ofthecollexe's In·ttrnalional Sludc:nlS Oraonizalion.lie had planned 10 re:lurn 10 a fretNamibia and his famil)' .ner aradua·lion Ihi~ year.

• Manke dr- Kkrk. wife of SoulhAfrica' praidenl. "'ho in addring a church audit'nct in MilY. Mat('()"We ' ....ome:nl arc uoimportant. Weare here 10 I'Ve, 10 heal~ woundsand 10 li\'e love. If Ihe: .....oman in·~pirCli the man 10 be: lood. he islood. We .... ant men 10 look afterus." ClearI!,. Soulh Africa ftm3UlSbehind-the times in mllny forms ofhuman relationship'.

• The Jarancsc l0\-emmenl ......homNclwn Mandela aualled on his \-ISII10 lhe coumry. fortM "irlSignirlCalllllId" Ihry ha\e gi\c:n 10 tM Iiberalionslrugle in South Africa. ThoughMandela wu rCt'Ci\ed warmly bylar.e ero....ds Ihroulooul Japan. Ihe:10\'ernment respOnded much 1mfa\'orably 10 his appeals fOf aid lhanmost other countries. "U you com­pare illO .....hat hu been done by ...crypoor countries in Africa, and 1Mcounlries we just visited in Asia, andlhe other countries in the West apin,the conlribution of the Japanese.overnmenl hu b«n \'ery insignifi.canl.··

CHEERS TEARS

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• Nt""" York (io1le:rnor Cuomo andWisconsin Slale Rep. Spenc~r

Coggs. who ha\'e Imroduccd lrgisla­lion 10 have: thcirSlale pension fundsdi ...uted Cheers also 10 the: Mil­waukec County Board of Supervis·ors. who ar~ now In ...ntigatin8divnling counly pensioll funds.

• ACfWU, which produced an eXI~n­sive re:port exposing American Dc­posilory Reccipl~. a method wherebyU.S. residents can legally purchaseshares in South African companies.ACTWU relcased the report al apr~s conference: in 8oslOn. whcrr abanlr.. that drab in ADR's"as lip forII cily ct'Inlaet

• .\ union at Montdair Siaic Collelcin New Je:rset that ~anl 10 IttlMonlclair to ~top using NationalWestminster Bank dOt! 10 iu lies withSoulh Africa. They abo demandcdIhecolJeaepr Ident r ign hom Iheboard of 1M bank's U.S. \ub idiary.

• NPMHU local 300. a mail handler .union. whh:b is rtmo\'in'lt\ mone)'from Citibank based on ils IICS 10South Africa.

• SludC'nts from MIT. "'00 are 5ttkll1lto let Ihe unhersil)' 10 di ...d;I; 10Bm.doin CoIkF IUdenJ • who top­ped lheir school from drOp(l101 ilsdi\eslmenl policy; and 10 AssodaltdStudenls of the Uni\'enity ofCaliforma,"ho souaht out Informa­lion on GM', lies 10 South Afric.antt GM offered nudenlS free vansfor lheir oUlings.

• The: New York CilY Emplo)ttSRetirc:mrnt Syslem. which in 1990dil;ested SS62 million from com­panies thai do business in SoulhAfrica.

• The WalSOnville, California CilYCouncil. lhal voted in Dcccmber tosuppOn a comprehensi ... e: nucleartCSI)ban trealy and to prohibit the ci·Iy from purchaslnB Shell Oil pro­ducts due to She:1I'1 conncctions toSouth Africa.

CHEERS• The Commilltt (or Health In

Sout~rn (rka,,..OO have the rore·siahllO plan for the reBion's future.Allht New York Atadtmyo( Mech·ane on February 04. they sporoore'CIa forum on South AfrJca in Transi·lton: Plannl", for Hu.hb and Edu­calion. Dr. Jalram Reddy, RttlOl" ofI~ Univttllty of Nala) and Dr.Barry Kismasamy of lhe NatiooalMedical and [kolaJ A.uoci.ltoa ofSouth Mrial addrtued prcssin.is.sUCI of Soulh Africa's chaflJ.lRaeducatlonaJ and medtcll needs.

• Tbc Capilal DiSlrkt CoalitionApll»t Apartheid and Racism (AI.bany, N.Y.) whose: Mareh newskl·Itt reprinted lhe anick "How manyMozambtcans Equal One Kuwaiti'"from M01JlhlbiCilW.fik. AU&u~ 1990.The ardde poinl$ Out that U.S. sanc­tions ~C're in p4aet apinsl Iraqwilhin one ",eclt of 11.!i alt.act onKuwait. while il look o\'el I dttadefor mosc Western IO\lernmenlS totake any SltpS toward economicsanction against Pretoria .fleT itlaunched ilS firSI military auad.sagainst Allioia in 1975. The articlepoinu OUI lhlll whilt SC\-'eral hundredKuv,aitis died in Ihe il1llial invasionby Iraq. 900.000 MozambicarlS andSOO.OOO Anaolans suffered war­rclaled dealhs from 1980 to 1988.And still.lhe sanctions against SouthAfrica ha\'e nc\'er reached Ihe levelof the ncar-total blockade or Iraq.

• Chicago's various anti-apartheidgroups, including Ihe MozambiqueSupport Network. hic3aO Trans­Africa. CCISSA, Synapses. and thelIIinoh Labor Nelwork AgaimlAparthtid. who joined in february1.0 persuade Operation PUSH nOI 10allo... Gauha Buthell.'1ei 10 pealr.. attheir m mft't1l18. lJuthelezri .... 31 111Ihe U.S. on a lour alleawly finan.:­ed by Ihe Herit3,;e Foundation.

• Senalor Paul David WellSlone ofMmnt'SOta, who in a letter 10 IheAmerJcan I'rienlb Se,..,iet" ommil­Itt. reaffirmed his commumenl 10U.S, Konomic sal\l:lion~ a8.a.Jn.~1

SoUlh Mrica. While he .... ek.'Ome\ alllhe prOiress thai h.u b«n made. headd lhat Nelson ManJela is right inbc:lif'Vina that the best ..ay 10 tn­courasc t'-e'n more fundamenlalchanae: to.....rd. democratic. multi­racLaJ South Africa is 10 ket'p Ihe'prcs.sure on.

• The Work in, Group on SouthernAfm of the Chica.o Metropolil.nSynod of Ihe Luthnn Church ofAmerica. who have bren ....orkin.losend rtSOUI« matnial on Namibia10 all £lCA paslors in Iheir area.ThC'y also indudcd informallon onhow to commemorate the KaninpMassacre .nd SO....·eto Day. For in­formalion on the: activities of thisworkin, ,roup. contact AnnHoberl. 20 Essex Road. Elk GronVillaae. IL 60007.

• A demonstralion on Sharpevine: Day.March 21, mobiliztd by Donna Kat­zin of ICCR. tbat protesttd Maou­faeturm Hano\'er Trwt', polic)' ofdoing business witb Soulh Africanbanks while failina 10 re-invest inlow-income: communilies in NewYork.

• Activisls in Hartford. Connecticut,who have worked for passaae of se­leclh'~ purchasing Iraislallon in­lrodueed by city council membersSandra Lilll~ and EUIe:nio Caro.Tean to IBM, whose intense lobby­Inl aaainst Ihe bill. has it stallcd.

Louisiana Slat.. R..~natlyt A 'I", C. Aluand..,..nd Cilrl Chllmon. Pruld..nt01 tht Louisiana Stat.. Commlltte A,alfLSt Aparth~/d protm a,aifLSt Sh~II',

cont(nuf!d in'lo!wm..nt in South Aj'rico.

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Amnesty Internalional i ued.n ur.It-nt fellr of tOnure alen for elc\enrcct'f1tly arrested South Africans. Ap·peals should be made to Slate PresidentF W de KJerk, Private 8a& X83, Pretoria0001, South Africa. The prisoners theyfear may be torturt'd arc: AbnhamLuruli, Jlcob Mat.kanyc, Laiba Mat.SIIunl, Portia Kindlande, SolonlonChauke. Abel Oube, Stanley,MaphanJl, Baldwin Muncha, JosephMurac:ha, Ocorae Sakata, Roben Sibadi

1991 TransAfricaResources Directory

A qu.ck reference 10 information onkey orcas in African and Canbbcan af.rairs. Offers guidance in de\eloplnl ill'tcrnational comacts nttworkln,must. Includes internntional careen pro·,ram updntc, comprehensive lI~t ofAfrican and Caribbean embassies withcOlllact persons, a complele lin of cur·rent heads of stale for African andcaribbean Countries, .nd an analysis ofe\ientJ In South Africa sinct Nel~n

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TYro very timely pamphlcu are .v.lI.able from the Afne. Fund: "SouthAfrica Face Sheet: 1990." .. pp. JOcmueach. I~ ccntJ on ordtts over twenty. AustfuJ t~ In countm"l South Afrk:anJOvunmcnt c"'lms that .patthdd Isdead. Up-to-dllestadstks:and political.nalysis. "Apanheid's Hidden H.nd;The Power Behind Black on BI.ck Vjo.Icncc" by Michael F1cthman. "pp, .JOcents. Over lwenty. I' emU. Minimumorder 11.00, Reviews the role of slltesponsored death squads, Q.uha8uthelezi'~ Inkatha movemenllnd theSouth African police in the recent surleof kilUnas. Send orders to: The AfricaFund, 198 Broadway, New York, N. Y.10038. (212) 962)1210. Add IS.,.shippi"l.

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- Opcn Leiter from Ihe PA 10 Presi.dent F. W. DE Klerks's invitation to at­tend the multi-party conference onviolence, 91·18466

- DiKussion Document: COflSIltutlonalPnncipks and Strueturn for. Demo­cnhc South Africa. 91.17ID

- Model law on the 011 mbarlo••am,St South Afro. 91·16191

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Dennis Brutus and theOlympics

After lhe fourth year of sednl theirresolution that IBM cease .11 sales toSouth Africa increase in support,employee: - oraanilm of the resolutionhave already begun to gather endorsersfor their firth bid in 1992. James Leas,a staff engineer for IBM and the resolu­tion's author, begins his 1992 appeal bypointing out that "while the media havefocused on South Africa's prospectS forchangc, democracy is still I distantdream." He points out Ihat while thelovernment is scrapping certain laws towin international approval, they are atthe same time "fermenunl an enormousupsurge of poliao and \ligilante violencecalculated to weaken the freedom mo\oe·ment.'·

The resolution then points a finla atIBM's complicity in Ihis violencebcc:ausc IBM sells 10 South Africancompanies thai design and bUil~weapons for Ihe military and !~ 011refineries that supply fuel for mlhtary...ehicles. Leas assures prospc;ctlve en·dorsers (for the 1991 resolution hegarnered S60 suppottCt's worldwide) thatthis campaign will continue no mailerwhat decision the U.S, or EuropeangO'lernmenlS lake about sanctions. Theresolution form features a photo ofNelson Mandela nCJCt 10 a quotation,"Twenty-seven years ago when I wentto jail I had no vote. I ha~e come.outand I still have no vote To Itft sancltonsnow would be to run the risk of abort­inlthe procas of the complete eradica·tien of auattheid."

Dennis Brutus, South African exile:.acclaimed pod and anti-.apanhcid Ie.tivist (his ""ork was instrumental In lec­tin, Soulh Africa banned from theOlympics IDd intt'f'nationaJ sport) wasconsider!na retumina to South Africafor a visit. He: would only visit If livenassurance that he: would not be .tracedby the: polke. He: left in 1966 ann yursof banning. imprisonment and house ar­rest. laraely for his letlvhles qllnstracist sport.

On May 12. the N~w York Timaprimed an op-ed piece by Brutus inwhich he argues fervently aplnst an"indecently hasty desire" 10 ~.dmit

South Africa al a time in history when"the chanSt is merely cosmecic and de­sianed to deceive." He argues thai equaJopportunhy in sport. and mort impor.lanlly. the vOle for all people, ha ...e DOlyet been achieved, thus. readmission 8'this point would constitute betnyaJ orthe principles for which activists ha\o(10nl fought.

Brulus is nOI alone in his caul ionsagain~ hasty readmisston. Arthur Ashe,former tennis Slar, Slales. "One down.side of geninl rid of sanclions is the~rceplion by "hile Sowh Africaru.thatthey can slow dOwn lhe pace of re­form." He, 100, points OUI thatlhe bot­10m line is that Nelson Mandela SlilIcan'l \iote. And Jesse Jackson has stat­ed, "More spons participation "ill justser\ie to pm a fresh face on SouthAfrica's moral decay. Sieve Tsh!ft"cte,the ANC's chief sports liaison, has also....arned that integration of spon fromthe bottom "is nOI something Ihal canbe con 'leniently hurried. Xolile Yawa,one of South Africa's top black trackslars put it best: "We wouldn't be wherewe arc now, with blacks and whitesmffiina apinsl one another, if not forlhe boycou. If we don't SWcq) inside ourown hou$C in Lime and we don't let to10 Ito Barcelona in 19771. that will beour bad luck. But maybe our kids ...,.11Ilet to go."

IBM Employees Say­Out of South Africa.

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Jerry Hetman

Man'Clne EditorBrooke Baldwin

51.1fSol Maria Rivera

Denise BlackDenise Higinbothllll

SA Churches andde Klerk

UnLess State President Presidcn1 deKkrk made it clear th.1 .11 chinos oftbe country had the ri&ht to ckcick upon• future con~titution,the church woukteaJl upon it~ mcmbe.rs to resut hi~

endeavors 10 ne,oli.te a newcons!itulton.

Tht warnidJ came aner a six-day ses·sion of the third ,enull confe-rence ortbe Soulh Arrican Allianct of reform­ed churches in Mamdodi, Pmoria. NewNallon ~/2I91

On April 9, 1991, the AmalaamatedClothina and Textile Workers Unionrdeascd a JO-p;:l&e repcn, "J.P. Mor..ntn South Africa," which is hJghly crilic:a.lof Morlln's role In finaneina U.S. In­...eslmcnt in South African c:ompamcs.AI a prm conference in W~hinalon.

D.C., William Pauenon. dirCC10r of theunion's ofrtct of corporate financial .f­fain, staled, "It is our oope that stateand municipal aaenctes wilh anli-aparl·hcid leaislation and pohcics In place "",mimmedi'lel)' calion Morlln to cea.sc iubu incu .cti\'it~ In South Africa,"

The report charlC! thai 10rpnGuaranty Trust issues AmericanOepos;ltory RettipU (S«UflllCi issued bybanks that correspond to actual sharesin forei,n companies) that facilltaleU.S. tn\'ol\'cment In o\'er SO SoulhAfrican compani . AOR'\ the unionstales, allow investors to circumventthrouah le,al loopholes U.S. sanctionsapinsl South Africa. The report mealsIhat American investmenl throuahADR's providcs as much u 20 perctnlof Ihe equity in SOnle South Africancompanin.

Moraan officials tountercharae theunion with misrepr~nlin8 thcir posi­lion, Moraan spokesman Joe EVlnle­Iisti claims lheir clknts are U.S. brokers.and that Mor..n rettives no fro fromSouth Africa.

Nearly SO Slates, chia Bnd countiesIn the U.S. have selective purchasinalaws which prohibit them from contract­ina with companies Ihat maintain Iiawith South Africa, The Textile Workershope those .ov~rnments will pull theiremploy" pension runds and olher at­counls from Moraan.

U.S. Textile Workerslake Action AgainstJ.P. Morgan

UNITED STATES

ANTI-APARTHEIDNEWSLETTER

The u.s. Mf.1ywIhdd f'Iewsl(tler Is pob.Ush«l ~ !he~~ DtMsIon 0(the J\merican FHMd:J 5enJice CanmIltee 10promote commuf!lcatlOr1 amo"" org.'II12".Uons /nuot.Ied In e(fom to end lIpltItheld InSooth II/rfc". The NtwsIC!'Uer will abopob,Iklte /he acUultles 0( gr4S.SroOl, regionaland nllllonal oryanlzllUoru thlfJ. edl<:ate,campaign and OfYanlze agalllsl llpalthe.ldIn North Atnerlca,

Oy.tntzaClOnS wl.shlrtg to IlsI. ItdJuilIes3houJd mall " calendar 0( events or CXherl1l/omIatJon 10 /he cdIfDrlaIlIcit"ess.

EdJtorlaJ o(fIces a"C!' Iocal«1 In the AFSC"""""" O/ffc<, /SO/ """" '"'- PhJIo·dct'hla. PA 19102 (2") 241·7168.

This Sprina, Dana College in Blair,Nebraska hosted a first-c:ver nalionalgatherina 0' Namibian students study­ina in Amerka. Thc: aatheri"" held oneyear followina Namibia's achievementof independence. was organized 10establish a support group for presentand fulure Namibian sludents in thiscountry. Dana CoUese currently spon­sor. 7 students from Namibia as part ofa sc:holarship proaram Ihrouah IIle:Eunlellcal LUlheran Church inAmcric:a.~ar~ CUrm1tl)' no coI)qcsor universities in Namibia. So far, 90Namibian students have stud~ inLuthcr'8n CoIlqes sponsored by ELCA.Ten pcm::nl of them have aUendedDana.

• Mozambtque's parliamcot passes lawluarantmna press freedom.

- A Namibian consultative conferenc:con Namibian land issued a resolulionthat would bar foraancn from ownln,farmland.

Coke CampaignContinues Work

The Coke boycott campaigll conlin­ues 10 ,ather support,lhe: lalesl, an en­dorsement by lh~ Commission for JUSI·iet oftne Sisters of St. JOstph of Phila­ddphia. Pennsylvania. Rc:«ntly. 10April, when Tandi Gc:abashe of the

j! AFSC and the Coke Campaign spoke to~ studenu at 51. Louis Community Col­e Icae at Forest Park. Illinois. she alsotel picked up much suPPOn on this campus.~ The studcnu will hold. formal refer('fl­~ dum on mat-ina their school a Coke­U Frec Zone when school resumes in~ September.t Gcabashe and other rcprc:senlali\cs of

the campaign have bttn doina cxtensivepublic speakin. and educat.:na aboutCoke. espcdally in the Southeast rq»on.In hc:f la:turtS. Gc:abashe po;nt~ OUI thatwhile Coke has sold iu holdinas inSouth Africa. it still sells tlloO out ofthree soft drinks consumed there. "Aslon, as Ihey provide the producl, this iswhat prOVides rC't'tnues for the COUntry'sgo...ernment." She acknowledges thatmedia c:o ...eraae of the apartheid issuehas mi~led many Americans to believe:boycotts are no lonaer ncc:essary, but re­mains delermined 10 correcl these fabeimprmions and spread the campaign aswidely as possible.

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The: Southern Africa Education Pro­aram of Ihe Stony Poinl C~n1er hll$ ell­lended an invltalion to Rev. Cannon M.MalusJ Mpumlwan. of South Africa tovisil the U.S. The invitalion will be for4 weeks in Oc:Iobcr-Novcmbtr of 1991.Malusi was a sisnntor of Ihe Kairosdocument. He Wll$ also tonur~ and de­tained without trial hom 197610 1979.H.is visit in thc U.S. will lake pla;:e atone of the most critical junctures inSouth African hislory. The responsibili­ty for Malusi's program resl with Iheecnter. HOy,~vcr. he will be available tovisit your communilY. The cCllter ...mell:pcct. of course. Ihal you will hdp toderray the considerable cxpense ofbrinJing him 10 tile Uniled Slates. foorinfo: 9141786-S072 or 786-S674) Grorac:Houser.

• Krulerrand Gold coin to be re­launched by the South Afric.n goldmini", industry.• New book from Jama Currey Pub-­lishers, "Mozambique: Who Calls IlleShotJ''', by JOIq)h Hanlon.- Former British Prime MinisterMarprtl Thatcher rettived SoulhAfrica's hiahest .ward for foraal'lCl'1 at• functioo in Capetown thai wu hostedby South African Prtsidmtde K~k.CS~/U/91

• Ex-C'hilean dictator Pinoc:M1 visitedSouth Africa on ~/10/91. He wasthouaht 10 be COPIed in arms buyin,while in South Africa. CS ~/10I91

- Polite defCC10r Ronald Buuidenhoutreveals continued hit squad opc:rattons:SoulhScan ~/17/91

elbert have been fewer Ihan rorty (<40)prosec:ulions for the 10,000 ckaths infactional vio5mc:c in Soulh Ahica.- Philadelphia. I July 1991, arevtcwofa:'"."l?liantt wilh a city ordinan~ pro­hlbluna most busincu wilh companiesIhat still have Itcs to South Africareveals thai hundreds of wah-ers ha\l;bttn &nnt~.

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As of February 1991, tile: United$tales ranked founh in pledged devclop­mcnt aid 10 Namibia for tile: prriod1991}.I99J. The 1000al U.S. commillmentwas S40 million, tompared 10 $160million from Otrmany, S66 millionfrom Sweden. The 1992 Bush adminis­tralion aid proposal is $12 million.

Ch,NlZOOflJ ,Dlhnwl out5ltH lh~ $outh A/nc:tln ronsuJtI(~JOt' ,h~ third IInnuDI"$lff& Oul AID/lISf AporIMld" on Dr. Marti" LulhB Km, /)Qy.~ /jOfJft)pI~broVftl ,.~ r:o/d tffllilrU 10 sin,/tWdom son'$ indudl1t' ,h~ Sou,hAJnc:tln Nalion,,1 tmlh~m. God Bias A/rla1. J«J by Ihr nrwlyJorm«1 SoulhA/"CQn-Am~nchOIr.

• South Africa his been Ihoppi.na for oilIn Anaobl. ConlO, Gabon. Cameron,and T~. To dM~ IMy tulvc not been_bk 10 nnaliu any qrecmmts. TheOAU Ad Hoc: CoatmlUet rDC'tlina inZimbabwe in February qrted to main·lain sanctions apirut South Africa.• World Wide Shippin•• a Hona Konashippinl company, is lhe major oilIl'1lnsporter 10 Soulh Arne.. OE NewsI2J 1991• Japan has quidly Iifled iu sanctionsapinst South African Coal imporu.11K ban, hownw, has DOl bem ofrM:iaJ..I)' ICnIppcd.• Talks on Walvis Ba)' end in deadLock.Namibian and South African ddqa­liow md in Capetown in March on lhefUlure of Walvis 81y. SA fomanMiniSitt Pik Botha, said he was onlyprepared to discuu we of the port.N.mibian foman MiniSltt lbeo-BmGurirlb, R.ted that he had C'OlM to talk.bout soverdarllY.• A secret oil ddivrry to South Africahas fOf the first lime kd 10 proK'Cuttonand conviction in Norway. A captain ofa Norwqjan lanker was fined 10,000Norweaian Crowns for brtakifll lhekpl rulcs pracribinllhat a ship's idm­lity and nalionalily musl not be hidden.• Oliv« Tambo, "Apartheid and lhe Ill­ternalional Community". This is a ntW

publication from Kliplown 80011Iediled by E.S. Reddy. •• lOAF's FOCUS ncwsktter publish«Sthe lasl i»ue in April 1991.• Community Aaeney for Social En­quiry, rel~ a sludy by Or. DavidEvarall, Ihat show thai Inkllha haJb«n reported lIS responsible for aet.5 ofviolence ten times more often than thcANC. CASE ~/20/91

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