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ANC Rep. Tells Chicago, ANC Unbanned! "This is your Victory Too!" Ms. Lindiwe Mabuza, Chief Free ! Representative of the African National Congress to the United Celebrate! States brought greetings from ANC leadership to anti-apartheid activists Saturday, February 24 7:30 - 1l:OOPM in Chicago at a reception on January 27th. She thanked us for our efforts over the years, noting that interna- Malcolm X College tional economic pressures have indeed brought the deKlerk regime to a 1900 W. Van Buren crossroads. She speculated that jailed Dance to the Music of ANC leader Nelson Mandela would indeed be released and that we in Chicago should share in this victory. Mark Duram and Visions However, she reminded us that the struggle will not end until South Featuring Chavunduka Africa achieves true democracy: one person - one vote. Cash Bar and African Food Door Prizes She noted that although deKlerk is being credited with unprecedented Tickets $5.00 reform measures, he is actually only 'blessing the results of defiance" The ANC has been "unbanned" by the peo- ple who have been displaying ANC flags and logos for many months. Petty apartheid laws have become unenforceable. Nelson Mandela is dic- tating the conditions of his own release. The only alternative avail- able to the South African government is violent crackdown, something the international community with its threats of even stronger sanctions has made an unacceptable alternative. As of this writing, Nelson Mandela is still in prison! We demand satisfac- tion of his conditions for release: to free all political prisoners and to com- pletely lift the State of Emergency. Until these conditions are met, politi- cal activity by unbanned organiza- tions is threatened and negotiations cannot begin. We must intensify our campaign for U.S. sanctions until deKlerk drops his "group rights" bot- tom line in favor of majority rule democracy. Indeed, democracy is the bottom line for the ANC and 's anti-apartheid movement.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Basil Clunie, Joan Gerig, Cheryl Harris, Toni Moore, Alice Palmer, Zeva Schub, Lucille Teichert, Carol Thompson, Rev. Booker Vance 1990 Walkathon to Aid Mozambique Prexy Nesbitt to Address March 4th Meeting CCISSA, Church World Service al aid to refugees displaced by the al program on March 4th, 6 PM, at and the Chicago Mozambique rebel war. CCISSA and MSN- the Chicago Temple, 77 W. Support Network have agreed to Chicago will send half of the pro- Washington, Chicago. We are sponsor the June 16,1990 Soweto ceeds to the Organization of pleased that Prexy Nesbitt, consul- Day Walkathon to benefit victims of Mozambiquan Women which pro- tant to the government of the South African backed rebel war motes the participation of women at Mozambique, will address the meet- against Mozambique. With South all levels of society, supports health ing. We will also have displayed Africa's support, the Mozambique and literacy programs, provides available educational materials and National Resistance, known as temporary housing for people dis- videos on Mozambique. We also Renamo, has killed over 100,000 placed by the war and develops pro- have a number of very knowledge- people since 1982, disrupted food grams aimed at helping war-trau- able speakers who can come to your production and attacked famine matized children lead normal lives church, union or organization. If relief convoys. again. Last year, the Walkathon you are interested in learning more Church World Service will send raised over $12,000 for aid to politi- about Mozambique and the half of the Walkathon proceeds to cal detainees inside South Africa. Walkathon, we urge you to attend the Christian Council of We will begin outreach for the this March 4th meeting. Mozambique which provides materi- 1990 Walkathon with an education- South African Activist Visits Chicago Joseph Nkuana was the featured ment is saying that the people of the media, Nkuana noted that de guest at a November 10th reception South Africa are divided, yet it is Klerk had served in the apartheid hosted by the Mozambique Support that very same government which is parliament for over 20 years and Network and CCISSA. Nkuana, a dividing us." The police arrest still maintains that there will be no leader of the South African Youth Xhosas who travel to Zulu areas, for majority rule in his lifetime. Congress, traveled to Chicago and example, in an unsuccessful Nkuana spoke of the importance of other U.S. cities to meet with sup- attempt to isolate the resistance. international pressure on Pretoria, porters of the Mass Democratic However, the South African police and felt that the economic sanctions Movement. are divided, Nkuana told his listen- are weakening the South African Nkuana was one of those detained ers. The police refused to shoot government. Nkuana was asked in South Africa under the emergen- young whites involved in the End about the harmful effects sanctions cy restrictions, and he was among Conscription Campaign, and a few might have on the people they are the hunger strikers who brought have publicly criticized police offi- meant to help. "If sanctions hurt," worldwide attention to South cials. Nkuana replied. "apartheid kills." Africa's jails in early 1989. Like "The government told the police, many resistance leaders, Nkuana 'You can no longer shoot the people' was "restricted" aRer his release but after the police stopped on their own chose to ignore the restrictions as accord," said Nkuana. Still, some part of the defiance campaign. anti-government protests have been "The people have forced the gov- met by police violence. 'The ernment into retreat," declared apartheid regime is bent on killing Nkuana, explaining recent changes our people." in Pretoria's approach to the move- Nkuana said there are 80 political ment. "The ANC has been prisoners awaiting execution on unbanned by the people of South South Africa's death row. Thirteen Africa, not by President de political prisoners were hanged in Klerk ...the apartheid system is in the first few months of de Klerk's power, but they are not in control of regime. Nkuana estimated that most of our people." about 3,500 political prisoners are Nkuana spoke strongly in favor of still behind bars. a South Africa united across racial Nkuana reminded his listeners and tribal lines. We don't want to that de Klerk can lift the state of live as groups, but as equal people emergency by himself. Although de in our own country. The govern- Klerk is lauded as a urnoderate" by 2 Chicage Sings tsut Against Apartheid ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP - CHICAGQ'S FUTURE SISTER COMMUNITY? Alexandra Tgwnship, a poor commu- nity of 260,000 people next to one of Johannesburg's wealthiest suburbs, is a target of government efforts to remove or radically reshape it. Alexandra's militant resistance to apartheid has put it at the top of a list of thirteen "oil spots" - the name the government gives to sources of the revolutionary mavement. The people in Alexandra share the goals of many struggling communi- ties here in Chicago: open and affordable housing, improved public I services, employment, and commu- nity control. They have waged a number of key battles in recent years, most centering around the role of the Alexandra Civic Organization (ACO) and its presi- dent, leading trade unionist Moses Mayekiso. Community organizing in 250 Chicagoans gathered to SING OUT AGAINST APARTHEID on Dr. Martin Luther Alexandra goes hand-in-hand with King Day in front of the South African Consulate. Singing songs from the CivilI their struggle against the apartheid Rights Movement the "choir"rememkred King and his 1965 call for a "swift and regime. "Strengthening ACO and u&tintingn response to apartheid. The ~econ~annualSing Out was organized by other community structures will Synapses and co-sponsored by CCISSA and Chicago Mozambique Support Network. also strengthen the Mass Democratic Movement," said ACO's Obed Bapela in a recent issue of the ILNAA Hosts NGUBO Weeklv Md. On January 6 and 7, the Illinois about the continued disinformation People in Alexandra would like Labor Network Against Apartheid in the U.S. media areund southern Chicagoans to join their struggle, by (ILNAA) hosted a visit to Chicago and South African issues. She working with the - by Nomonde Ngubo, International called for a renewed effort on the South Africa Sister Community Representative of the United Mine part of unions and anti-apartheid Project to establish a local support Workers of America and a founding organizations to counter this type of committee. To learn more, contact Joan Gerig at (312) 421-5513, or member of the National Union of press disinformation. leave a message at the CCISSA While in Chicago, Ms. Ngubo also Mineworkers (NUMSA), the largest ofice, (312) 427-9868. union in South Africa. spoke at a rally hosted by United Ms. Ngubo participated in an edu- Auto Workers Local 551. About 150 cational program for the ILNAA people attended and were presented Steering Committee and empha- not only with Ms. Ngubo's rousing sized the importance of the recent speech but also with her singing of Conference for a Democratic Future South African workers' songs, U.S. held in South Africa on December labor songs, and her dancing a Zulu 9th. Over 2000 anti-apartheid orga- dance. She was accompanied by nizations from all over the country ILLNA's Ron Bowden of AFSCME participated in the meeting includ- and Michael Elliott of UAW with ing the Congress of South African AFSCME's Alan Schwartz on guitar. Trade Unions. The Conference Cultural activity is an integral of called for increased international the struggle inside South Africa and pressure especially in the area of the Chicago labor gathering was economic sanctions and loans to inspired by this spirit. South Africa. Ms. Ngubo also spoke CHICAGO SANCTIONS Anti-Apartheid Calendar I HEARING SEX 1 Two legislative measures have FEBRUARY 10 INTERNATIONAL POTLUCK Come and hear what's in happening in Mozambique. 7 PM - 616 S. Scoville, Oak Park. Call 383- Chicago's City Council calling for 4330. stronger sanctions against South I Africa at both federal and local lev- CHANGING PLANET EARTH: els. The measures were introduced FEBRUARY 17 COURSE OF Justice by Alderman Helen Shiller and co- for People in Partnership with the Earth: featuring Dr. Sandra Steingraber, sponsored by over 30 Aldermen. Environmentalist, Food First Institute; York High School, Elmhurst; 9 AM - The first measure is a resolution 4:30 PM. $5 fee includes lunch. Call Church World Service 708-953-2767. memorializing (urging) the U.S. Congress to increase economic sanc- FEBRUARY 23 HIGH SCHOOL WORKSHOP Mozambique Support tions and to take other appropriate Network and coordinator Lisa January will conduct a workshop at the action to isolate and pressure South Museum of Science and Industry from 1to 4 PM on "How Life is for Africa until apartheid is ended. A Students in Southern Africa". A 30 minute film "Mozambique: Riding Out public hearing on this resolution is the Storm" will be viewed. scheduled for Thursday, February 15,lO AM on the second floor of FEBRUARY dl FRE:EINELSON ~ELA~CELEBRATION 7:30- Chicago City Hall, 121N. LaSalle 11:00 PM;Malcolm X College 1900 W. Van Buren, Chicago Live Music, St. Cash Bar and African Food; TICKETS $5.00. For more information call The second measure is an ordi- CCISSA 312-,427-9868. nance calling for public hearings to assess compliance with the 1985 MARCH 4 DEFEND MOZAMBIQUE/DEFEAT APARTHEID Chicago ordinance which prohibits Educational on Mozambique and information on the June 16th Soweto firms doing business with South Walkathon; 6 PM; Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington, Chicago. Call CCIS- Africa from receiving certain consid- SA: 312-427-9868. erations from the city. The hearings would also ascertain if changes or JUNE 16 SOWETO DAY WALKATHON 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) walk expansion in scope of the existing to benefit victims of South Africa's war against neighboring Mozambique. regulations should be made. This For more information call CCISSA 312-427-9868. ordinance was referred to the Finance Committee which is chaired by Alderman Ed Burke. Call 744- 3380 to urge him to schedule hear- ings on this ordinance. 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