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Campaign Update #3 April 15 , 1994 -- Countdown To Democracy: 12 Days To Go! CAMPAIGN UPDATE #3 STOP PRESS! A Project of International Mediation Fails To End Buthelezi Election Boycott The Africa Fund As Election Watch Update went to press a high level team of international mediators, headed by Henry Kissinger and former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Carrington, failed to persuade Kwazulu bantustan chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi to end his election boycott. Despite limited deployment of the South African army in KwaZulu to protect voters from boycott violence, over 200 KwaZu1u residents have been murdered over the past two weeks. Failure of the last-ditch mediation effort sets the stage for massive violence by Buthelezi supporters in the days ahead. Petitions Delivered -- On April 4 Africa Fund Trustees Chair Dr. Tilden LeMelle, Executive Director Jennifer Davis and national NAACP representative Clifford Collins delivered thousands of signatures on Election Watch petitions to the Clinton Administration. The petitions, from 35 states, called on Washington to speak out more forcefully against election violence and fraud. The delegation met with a high level Administration group headed by senior State Department official Ambassador April Glaspie. Election Watch Coordinator in South Africa -- Election Watch Campaign coordinator Dumisani Kumalo arrived in South Africa this week as part of The Africa Fund election monitoring team. Dumisani's first report to the Election Watch network is enclosed. Both he and Africa Fund Executive Director Jennifer Davis will be reporting from South Africa next week. ELECTION DAY EVENTS In communities throughout the U.S. concerned citizens are preparing to mark South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. Below are just a few of the activities planned: Chicago -- The Division for Global Mission and the Southern Africa Network of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have declared Sunday April 24 a day of prayer for free and fair elections in South Africa. Contact Joan Gerig for information: (312) 421-5513 . San Francisco Bay Area-- The U.S. -South Africa Sister Community Project, the Berkeley ­ Oukasie Sister Community Project and the San Francisco - Mfengu Sister Community Project have arranged with progressive local businesses to donate a portion of proceeds from sales on April 27 to the sister community projects. Call (510) 601-7635 for more information. Los Angeles -- A coalition of religious, community and civil rights organizations are hosting a series of events in the Los Angeles area under the banner "The Power of the Vote ... From Soweto To South Central." Beginning on South Africa Sunday, April 24 , the Countdown To Freedom Coalition will sponsor community events through April 30. Contact Norma Foster (213) 655-1551 or Estella Holeman (213) 732-6542 for more information. Newark, New Jersey -- The Presbytery of Newark is conducting ten days of special prayers for South Africa's elections beginning Sunday April 17. Contact Rev. Alfred B. Johnson at (201) 372-8404. 198 Broadway New York, NY 10038 Tel : 212.962.1210 (over) Washington, DC -- The Southern Africa Educational Campaign will sponsor a national press conference in Washington on April 25 to press for continued U.S. support for post-apartheid reconstruction and development. Contact Mike Kiernan at InterAction (202) 667-8227. New York City-- The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture is sponsoring a series of educational and community programs to highlight South African democracy and links between Africa and African-Americans. Call the Center at (212) 491-2200. Let us know about election day events in your community for the next Campaign Update. SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION WATCH CAMPAIGN MATERIALS -:-:---,::Vot;ing in t:he Shadow of Apartheid - Quest;ions and .Ansti"ers on t:he Sout:h African E~ect;ion by Elizabeth Landis. 4 pages. The author, an international lawyer who worked on the elections in Namibia, analyzes the threats to free and fair elections. Price: 35 cents each. Over twenty, 20 cents each. =---=-_The St;rugg~e Cont;inues: Sout:h African Women and t:he Vot;e by Rachel Kagen and Lisa Lippman. 4 pages. A review of the crucial role played by women. Price: 35 cents each. Over twenty, 20 cents each. Sout:h African E~ect;ion Wat;ch BUTTON. Three colors. Includes the =---Free the Vote logo on this letterhead. Price $1.00 each. Ten or more 75 cents each. Fifty or more 60 cents each. One hundred or more 50 cents each. =----.-·A Person~ Appe~ by Ne~son lfande~a VIDEO. 14 minutes. ANC President Nelson Mandela makes a personal appeal to the international community to support the elections in South Africa. Price: $10.00. Please indicate the quantity desired on the line before item. Add 15% postage and handling. (Foreign postage extra.) Enclose is $ towards costs of being a Sout;h African E~ect;ion Wat;cher. $ for materials marked above $ for 15% postage and handling $ Total enclosed. Name Address--------------------------------------------------- Organization----------------------------------------------- city_______________________ state _________ Zip____________ _ A Letter from Johannesburg ... From Dumisani s. Kumalo Date: April 14, 1994 ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER HOPE CRUSHED ... I should have known better. But sometimes hope can spring eternal, and that in South Africa these days is very dangerous. When I arrived in Johannesburg last Tuesday, I brought more than my luggage which is supposed to last me for a month. I came bearing gifts for my family and hope in my heart. But as I said, the gifts are fine, but hope is a dangerous thing to have in South Africa. These days, the most favorite "emotional sport" here seems to be crushing people's hopes. Mine were no exception. I felt the impact deep down in my bones less than an hour ago after listening to a radio report on a press conference held at the Carlton Hotel. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, Lord Carrington, Britain's former Foreign Minister, Judge Leon Higginbotham, retired u.s. Federal Judge, and four other international jurists announced that they were packing their bags and leaving for their countries because the mediation talks between the African National Congress, Inkatha Freedom Party and the ruling Nationalist Party had collapsed before they started. I don't know whether it is because Kissinger came on the same plane with me. Or that Judge Higginbotham is such a powerful and nice man who once took about an hour from his judicial duties to talk to my son about becoming a lawyer for the poor people. Whatever it was, the arrival of these men and women gave me hope that something was going to happen. At the same time, I knew that no serious negotiation could happen in such a short time. In fact, a few weeks ago when I was in South Africa with Bill Lynch, former Deputy Mayor of New York, we spent an afternoon with Walter Sisulu, Deputy President of the ANC, and one of South Africa's wise old men. This was before the mediators had been even named. Mr. Sisulu told us then that the mediation was doomed to fail. "The problem is that Chief Buthelezi does not want an election to take place. He is against democracy. His role is that of a spoiler. This whole mediation tactic which he has proposed is yet another attempt by him to stop the election. I think the ANC should not have agreed to join in this mediation. However, I understand the need for us to be open as possible to any kind of dialogue. The only thing is that we can't change the date of the election. We can't allow that to happen. The election is the last hope people have and we will keep it," said Mr. Sisulu. Kissinger and the other mediators said they were giving up on the mediation because Chief Buthelezi wanted them to mediate on the date of the election. "The date of the election is an internal South African matter. No one can expect us seven foreigners to come and mediate on this date," said Kissinger on behalf of the mediators. Nelson Mandela agreed, saying, "The date of the elections is sacrosanct." Even State President F.W. de Klerk was firm. "The changing of the date of the election will not serve the interest of South Africans, including those in Kwazulu/Natal," he said. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of Inkhatha said that if the date could not be on the agenda for mediation, there was no point in meeting. Once again, the hopes of millions of South Africans, Black and white, Zulus and non-Zulus, crashed. I think I know why my hopes were hurt in spite of my knowing better. After fourteen years of exile in the u.s., I returned to South Africa for the first time nine days after Mandela was released. It was the most hopeful time e~er known in South Africa. Since then I have returned many times. Each time I've stayed at the same hotel in Johannesburg and got to know the staff, including the cooks, cleaners and other workers. Whenever I carne back, I always asked these people if they were ready for a "new South Africa," said here tongue-in-cheek since everyone knows the old South Africa is still alive and kicking, albeit with a fainter punch. These people were always up and hopeful. This time, however, there was a tinge of fear and sadness in everybody. "We are ready to vote for our leader Mandela, but we don't know about Buthelezi," they said unanimously. Last night, I carne across Rev. Sipho Mzirnela, one of Chief Buthelezi's advisers during the non-mediation meetings. As expected he was pessimistic. In fact, he was very angry.
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