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ISSN 1054-3487 Vol 4, No. 1. Winter 1991

Chicago Passes Anti­ Apartheid Ordinance On July 12,1990, Chicago City Coun­ cil passed an anti- apartheid ordinance which includes strong banking and selec­ tive purchasing features. The law, which went into effect on October 31, pro­ hibits the depositing of any city funds in financial institutions with outstanding loans to the South African government or South African businesses. This in­ cludes banks maintaining correspondent banking relationships. The selective pur­ chasing restrictions forbidding city con­ tracts with companies doing business with or in South Africa are also strong. The restricted list contains not only companies with subsidiaries in South Africa but also those with non-equity ties, such as licensing and franchising agreements. Helen Shiller, an alderman instrumental in the law's passage, is now committed to its enforcement by mak­ ing sure that the city's purchasing agent assembles a complete list of South African tainted businesses. Who Calls Coca­ Cola's Consumer Presidt'll/ oj (he ANC, Oliver Tumbo; Deputy President, Nelson Mandela; and Gen ral Secretary, Wafler Sisuhl preside over the closing uJ their National Consultation in December oj 1990. Line? [n answer to a trivia book author's query on who calls their consumer line, ANC Consultation: Maintain International Sanctions Coca Cola officials answered that 850/0 of the toll-free calls are questions, 10% University of Texas are complaints, and 5% are suggestions ANC Video IOOtage or compliments. The line, begun in 1983 Protestors Appeal FLASH to get reaction to a new sweetener in The ANC has film footage which Tab, saw its daily calls rocket from 400 Decision The task for U.S. anti-apartheid shows police taking sides in the recent to 12,000 in 1985 when New Coke was activists in the coming months is to violence between Thokoza township introduced. One can only speculate on On October 20, 1986, 16 students and resist an attempt by the President to residents and hostel dwellers. The how many supporters of the boycott community members held a sit in in the lift sanctions against South Africa. footage was shot by a courageous against Coke have utilized the hotline to President's office of the University of Only the Congress can block this. camera crew that stood its ground in let the company know of their disap­ Te 'as, Austin to protest the school's Letters, phone calls and visits to Con­ the midst of a full scale battle. The proval of Coke's sales in South Africa. $871 million investment in corporation gressional offices, both in Washing­ police denied that they had taken Those who support the Coke boycott dOing busine~s in South Africa. After 20 ton and in local areas, should begin sides. who have not called yet may reach the minutes the protestors were arrested and immediately. We must begin to push company by calling \-800-438-2653. charged wilh disruptive activity, a class as we never have before. B misdemeanor. The ounty Prosecu­ Aubrey McCutcheon, tor' Office refused to pre s five other Executive Director, counts that UT had requested. Over the Washington Office on Africa. next II months twO trials resulted in the convictLlOs of 12 of the' Il defendants. conlilllll'ti Orl page 5 Pan Africanist ANC PROCLAIMS: Congress of Azania 1991 AS THE YEAR OF MASS M cling in Sowelo on the weekend of the 81h of December, 1990, over 800 MOBILlZA TION, PAC representatives resolved not to negoti, te with the outh African gov­ PROTEST AND ernment, except on the issu s of a new constitution and a constituent FREEDOM a sembly. They further resolved to continue their call for international C onomic sanctions against South Africa. East St. Louis Renames School for Wolpe and Solarz Mandela I Visit Angola • I On December 19, 1990, children at­ onbre~ man Howard Wolpe said tending Jefferson Elementary chool in 10 Luanda on December 14th that East Sl. Louis, Illinois will watch their UNIT A's sabotage of the Luanda re­ school dedicated to the honor of Nelon finery in November, "was an act of Mandela. The predominantly black • i savagel y which only harms the An ­ chool will be renamed Mandela Ele­ golan population". Solarz said h' mentary in ceremonies to be attended by hud come 10 Angola, "to find out t\11lyor arl Officer, school principal what was nc ded to elld the contlici Scott Randolph nnd . chool board mem­ in the country." bers who initiated the name change and Relatives mourn a new victim oj government sponsored violence in pa cd the resolution allowing it. Soweto. Over 1,700 people have died since early 1990. A OUND H COUNTRY

Baltimore Mobilizes Madison, Wisconsin Rhode Islanders Assess Protests De Klerk's u.s. Foreign Policy Behind Sanctions During the late summer after Nelson Visit Three hundred people assembled to Mandela's vi it to the U.S., Baltimore Coinciding with South Afncan Presi­ hear Randall Robinson, Director of citizens united to support democracy in dent De Klerk's visit to Washingtun, TransAfrica. give the keynote address to South Africa and U.S. sanctions against D.C., the Madison Anti-Apartheid Co­ Rhode I land Divests '>November 16-17 the apartheid regime. In August the alition sponsored a September 24 noon­ conference on "U.S. Foreign Policy and Baltimore Anti-Apartheid coalition. time rally on the Memorial Union steps. Africa." The next day over one hundred formed by church, labor, civil rights and African Language and Literature Pro­ attended workshops and heard other ex­ peace organizations, called a press con­ pert speakers such as Bernard Magubane, ference to announce their participation fessor Harold Scheub told the audience Willard Johnson, William Minter and in the Africa Fund's Vote Campaign. ]n that oppressive conditions conti~ue in Ann Seidman address questions about the next month they collected hundreds South Africa despite the promIse of the need for peace and development in of ballots urging continued sanctions change. He described unemployment, Africa. The ambassadors from Zim­ and promotion of one person-one vote wage disparities, malnutrition and poor babwe and Uganda as well a other of­ elections in South Africa. education. Throughout the rally the ficials from countries such as Nigeria Fran Donelan of the AFSC urged the Californians Keep Coalition circulated information sheets and Liberia added to the discussion. audience to boycott products of com­ Watch Over Sanctions and pre-written letters to send to local Tho e present discussed such topics as panies operating in South Africa, es­ congressmen. University of Wisconsin the need to end U.S. upport for pecially Coca Cola, as another way to Law senior Michelle Hjort explained it was UNIT A in Angola and the role of the stand behind the anti-apartheid move important for President Bush not to suc­ U.S. in southern Africa's future. Carol toward democracy. "You see people On Sunday. September 23, 1990, cumb to De Klerk's plea for the lifting Bragg of Rhode Island Divest state that drink Coca Cola, call it to their atten­ about 200 postcards addressed to Cali­ of U.S. economic sanctions. The anti­ t he conference's overall assessment of tion. You go into McDonald's, tell the fornia Senator Pete Wilson were signed apartheid banners and posters seen U.S. Policy in A frica is that it has manager he should not be serving by parishioners of All Saints Episcopal throughout the audience gave evidence "wavered between abuse and nelllecL" Coke." Church, Pasadena. CA Senator Wilson, that Wisconsin plans to keep the City Councilwoman Sheila Dixon a RepUblican, was recently elected Gov­ pressure on South Africa and the U.S. Maryland Group Plans reminded the audience, including school ernor of California. The cards, urging government. children from a local Catholic Church, Senator Wilson to vote to maintain and Tee-Off Against that while people in South Africa die for to strengthen sanctions against South the right to vote, many in this country Africa were delivered to the Senator in Manufacturers Apartheid nev r both r to e rei e their righl. Washington, D.C. to coincide with Save Our Selves, a newly formed. In September, as part of Baltimore's South African President F.W. de K1erk's Hanover Trust Cam­ non-profit. educational and communi­ continued involvement in the struggle, official visit to the U.S. where he met paign going Strong ty organization established to foster bet­ Mayor Kurt Schmoke the President of with President George Bush, administra­ ter understanding of domestic and inter­ City Council, the City Comptroller, the tion officials and members of Congress. The Manufacturers Hanover cam­ national economic, social and cultural City Solicitor and the Director of Public The postcards were a project of the paign is growing with continued leaflet­ issues of concern to African-Americans, Works sent President Bush a letter ask­ South African Ministry Committee of ting of branch banks. On Thursday, Oc­ Africans and other people of goodwill, ing him to convey to South African All Saints and the Center for South tober II, in commemoration of South is planning a "Tee-Off Against Apart­ President de Klerk our country's desire Africa Ministry. African Political Prisoners Day over 200 heid" in the spring of 1991. The Lan­ for one-person, one vote democracy in Brian Sellers-Petersen, Executive Di­ protestors rallied at the branch nearest ham-Seabrook, Maryland group plans South Africa. They also urged him to rector of the Center stated that the tim­ New York's City Hall to get across the to hold an annual fund raising golf tour­ emphasize continued U.S. support for ing of the postcards was important. The message that fmanciaI support for apart­ nament and plans to donate the pro­ sanctions until this goal is achieved. postcards were designed to "remind heid keeps South Africa imprisoned. ceeds of their first event to the African Pete Wilson that the sanction law, com­ Eight demonstrators were arrested for National Congress. The event will also monly referred to as the 'Comprehen­ civil disobedience. benefit the Parklands Community Center sive Anti-Apartheid Act,' contains some As the campaign continues to protest in Southeast Washington, D.C. For ten very specific conditions which must be the fact that MHT has given South yoars the center has fought drug abuse Pasadena Activists satisfied before sanctions could be lifted Africa's white minority regime 10 more and provided tutorial services and train­ and it is clear that South Africa has not years to repay nearly half the $160 ing for youth and adults in the commun­ Hold Forum in fact complied with those conditions. II million it owes the bank. some local ity. Another portiQn of the proceeds will On Saturday, October 20, the Center groups have now also begun to examine help complete production on a video for South African Ministry, the South­ the bank's policies in their home com­ documentary on Angola. For more in­ ern California Chapter of the ANC, the Minneapolis Connects munities. They are discovering, they say, formation on the date of the event and Holman United Methodist Church of with Africa that the bank is for more lenient as a entry requirements, contact: S.O.S. Inc., Los Angeles and All Saints Episcopal creditor toward the apartheid regime P.O. Box JOOI, Lanham-Seabrook, MD Church of Pasadena jointly sponsored On Thursday, September 13, 270 pe0- than it is toward people in poor Amer­ 20703-1001 or call(301) 459-6622. a forum on South Africa. Mkululeko ple from the metropolitan Minneapolis ican communities who hold or seek to Sowazi. assistant secretary of the South­ area gathered at the Humphrey Center get mortgages and loans from them. ern California chapter of the ANC and at the University of Minnesota to attend Donna Katzin of the Interfaith Center member Ann Burroughs told the meet­ a conference, Connecting with Africa: on Corporate Responsibility states that ing that the government of South Africa A New Awareness. Amid an atmosphere at this moment in history when we seek is nowhere near dismantling institu­ of African food, dance and cultural the final push to end apartheid, it is par­ Stop the Presses! tionalized apartheid. They discussed the displays, they attended workshops on ticularly important to exert and main­ current discord in South Africa and how tain financial pressure on the regime. President Bush vetoed the 1991 I n­ subjects ranging from contemporary they are often misinterpreted by the For more information on how to join tettigence Authorization Act Novem­ African art to hunger and development media. Both stressed that government the campaign, contact Donna Katzin at: ber 31 rejecting a provision in erted projects. The conference. sponsored by involvement encourages and supports the Africa Focus Project of the YMCA ICCR, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 566, to address is ues raised by the Iran- the violence. They also provided vivid ontra scandal requiring him to in­ and the Hubert H Humphrey Institute New York, N.Y. lOllS. (212) 870-2928. examples of how South Africans con­ form ongrcss when third countri s of Public Affairs featured a keynote tinue apartheid practices de facto even speech by Hilda Paqui, Media Relations or citizens are used to conduct covert after the laws have been repealed. For a tions. Th veto has raL cd alarm for Officer of the United Nations Develop­ instance, while a law banning non­ Keep the Pressure On many in the advocacy community. Of ment Programme. Of particular interest whites from public libraries was re­ to anti-apartheid activists was a work particular concern. re reports that pealed, individual white townships have Over the Labor Day weekend, the Bush may fund UNITA with funds shop on "The Economic Costs of Front­ first regional annual meeting of the passed laws requiring non-residents to line Resistance to Apartheid" chaired by appropriated for 1991. pe~haps dl - African National Congres ince Nelson pay $200 to $300 for a library card. Silvian Sundrum of the Southern Africa P r. ing the full am?unt prior ~o the Mandela's visit was held in Washington. Tho e who attended left with a deeper Resource enter of Minneapolis. Organ­ Int elligence CommIttees drartm~ of under tanding of the continuing hard­ D.C. The focus of the meeting wa~ a new bill that might restrict fundmg. izers declared the entire event a huge ships of apartheid. succcs~. "Keep the Pressure On." the ANC '~ theme for 1990.

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lOAF Study Reports Police Collaboration with Inkatha Violence The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, a London­ bu. ed anti-apartheid organization noted for its meticulou research, has pub­ Ii hed a study exposing the role of the outh African police in recent Inkatha violence. • 'The Natal Violence: South Africa's Killing Fields" warns that the violence threatens the negotiations proc­ ess. "The label of 'black-on-black' vio­ lence, promoted by the South African polic\: unrest reports, has as much heuristic value as describing World War II as 'white on-white' violence," the report asseT[ . The violence is not tribal but political, a conflict between Inkatha: a group a sociated with the apartheid structure, and those opposed to that structure. The study traces in detail the history of Ihe conflict and exposes the role of th. police.in encouraging the violence by failure to mtervene. Further information indicate that failure to intervene ha been compounded in some cases by po­ lice dispersal of neighborhood residents (L to R) Dr. Janine Pease- Windyboy, President of Little BigHorn Colle e' only trying to defend themselve against pany, Bob Fitzgerald, Tim Holmes, and Rusty Harpe,. A rchb' h ! ' rr:eRmbers of the Montana Logging Ballet Com· , IS op I utu, ev. SIeve Garnaas attack. he report cites allegations of police even arming Inkatha members failing to protect witnesses, and releas: Tutu Addresses ing Inkatha members from custody without punishment. Helena Fundraiser Unity in the These disturbing findings support In Helena, Montana, a small town of claims of UD and ANC members and Community only 25,000, Bishop Tutu spoke to over indicate a strong need for the interna­ people on December 8, at a benefit "Unity in the Community" was the tional community to continue monitor­ ~,OOO In.honor of World Human Rights Day. theme of the day during Africa's first ing event in South Af.rica. Available HIS address followed a 45-minute con­ Lesbian and Gay Pride March in Johan­ from lOAF, P.O. Box 17, Cambridge, cert by the Montana Logging and Ballet nesburg, South Africa, in October. The MA 02138. Company, a four-man group who per­ event was organized by the Gay and Les­ form comedy and song with a message bian Organization (GLOW) as an effort ~f hope. The group already hada rela­ FREE SOUTH AFRICA (0 hr:ina "the South Afr~ Cay ml Council for Namibia tionshIp with Tutu, who wrote the liner LesbIan community from a pOSition of notes for their album Take the Barriers SANCTIONS NOW total invisibility to one of openness and Dissolved Down. Proceeds of the album benefit BREAK ECONOMIC UNKS WITH APARTHEID pride." The march attracted more than Dcdaring that the ouncil for Namibia Tutu'S scholarship fund. 80? peopl~,. ~nd was just one of many The concert fundraiser earned $70 000 pnde actiVIties during the day and has fulfilled its mandate, the UN Gener evening. al Assembly dissolved the Council on for the Bishop's scholarship fund 'and eptember 11, 1990. The United Nations $14,000 for several Native American End Apartheid: Vote hmd for Namibia will continue under projects in Montana. [n addition, sever­ for the People custody of the ecretary General. The al area colleges agreed to waive tuition Polish Trade Fair Held Secretary General assured the UN dele­ for South African students. Their do­ Campaign Delivers gates that the organization's commit­ nated sc~olarships total $lSO,OOO. rocky in Pretoria Mountam College of Billings gave a full ment to Namibia does not end with the Ballots t:-'10re than 140 Polish trade represen­ dis~ollltion of the Council. four year waiver, and Carroll College of Helena and the College of Great Falls On September 24, as President Bush tatives headed by the president of the The fate of Walvis Bay, which re­ Polish Chamber of Commerce held a donated partial scholarships. The state met with South African President F.W. mains under military occupation by trade fair in Pretoria in early November college system gave one scholarship per De Klerk, the Africa Fund delivered South Africa, remains an outstanding to promote bilateral trade. At a press isslie of concern. Without this deep each of its six schools, and Montana's 50,000 ballots to Congress for stronger scven tribal colleges (all two year schools) U.S. sanctions against South Africa. co.nferenc~ before the opening of the w. ter port, Namibia remains virtually faIr, a Pohsh Foreign Ministry spokes­ each donated one scholarship. Bishop The ballots, collected in 46 states by the landlocked, which jeopardizes future man .declared his government opposes tutu, unaware of these scholarships un­ End Apartheid: Vote for the People development and trade. UN Resolution sanctIOns. South African Trade Minister til urprised with them at a press con­ Campaign, were prcsented to Hou e 432 of July 1978, which declares that the Kent Durr proclaimed the fair part of quipped that an advantage to Majority Whip William Gray at the "territorial mtegrity and unity of Na f~renc~, the "growing globalization of South mibia must be assured through the rein­ hIS skin color is that it conceals his Capito\. The delegation led by ACOA blushing. director Jennifer Davis also included Africa' trade." And during the visit, tegration of Walvis Bay within its ter­ the governments announced they would Bob Fitzgerald, a member of Mon­ Bo~ton Mayor Raymond Flynn, ANC ritory," SI ill remain~ in force. establish diplomatic ties in the form of tana Logging and Ballet who arranged ChIef Representative Lindiwe Mabuza "permanent offices of interests" in each the event, ecstatically declared the day religious and labor leaders and cam: other's countries. An economic adviser Mass Starvation in a huge. uccess. In an intervicw with the paign activists from Baltimore, Atlan­ to the Polish government told the Newsletter several days after Tutu's ta, Detroit and San Francisc;o. Mozambique departure, he commented that the whole Labor support was represented by Pretori~ press conferencc, "We are determmed to develop this relationship mood of the town has been lifted. The votcs collectcd at the AFSCME conven­ Mozambique will need more than and no one is going to stop us." a million tons of food aid next ycar day also marked the beginning of a lob­ tion in Miami and among hospital to avert mas starvation, according to bying campaign by the Helena Human workers rallying in Albany. The votes the Mozambican govcrnmcnt and the Rights Taskforce to pass a Martin from Seattle includcd those of its mayor United Nation . Half of Mozam­ Luther King holiday bill in the 1991 and city council members. Massachu­ bIque's 16.3 million people face star­ Montana legislature. Fitzgerald stated setts ent the most votes, with 12,000. vation or erious deprivation. Near­ that because so many state legi lators at­ Votes from California included those of I ' ly 2 million of those needing food aid tended the event, he is hopeful they sixth grade students at Monroe Elemen­ are displaced within the country as a caught the spirit and will pas the law. tary in San Leandro, who voted in their result of Renamo's war ag inst the first election for sanctions and democ- L.il~""""" Mozambican people. racy. in South Africa. The campaign I contmues. Sets of 10 brochures and , " ballots cost $10.00. Sets of 100 cost $8.00. Remit payment to: ACOA, 198 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10038. T­ shirts for the campaign in large or extra large are also available for $10.00. 3 , .

Muslims Hold First India Honors Mandela Austin Citizens Want Mandela Addresses Anti-Apartheid India has presented Nelson Mandela Divestment Ordinance National Activists' the Bharat Ratna, the Jewel of India, its Conference highest civilian honor. On October 16, Enforced Briefing R. Venkataraman, President of India, rom November 16 to 18, 1990, the On September 5, the anniversary of placed the medal around Mandela's Because there were so many demands Ameri can Muslim Council held its first the death of Steve Biko, Austin citizens neck during a ceremony in New Delhi. annual conference on "Muslims Against on Nelson Mandela's time when he marked the occasion by forming an ad­ Also paying homage were the prime Apart heid ." The meeting, held at the visited the United States in June, grass­ hoc anti-apartheid coalition to make minister, vice president and cabinet roots anti- apartheid activists discovered Stouffer Concourse Hotel in Arlington, sure their city's divestment legislation is members. Virginia featured a keynote add res on their time with him would be severely enforced. The Texas city's selective pur­ Mandela becomes only the second "Solidarity Against Apartheid" by Pro­ chasing ordinance, when passed in 1986, limited. In order to provide long-time foreigner to win the award. At a subse­ activists the opportunity to have a fes. or Ali Mazrui of the State University stated that the city should not enter in­ quent public reception, Prime Minister private and meaningful time with Man­ of New York, Binghamton. Ernest to any contract with companies doing Singh presented Mandela a check for dela, Jennifer Davis, Executive Director fhomas of the televi ion comedy business in South Africa unless such five million dollars as "a token of the of the American Committee on Africa "What's Happening" delivered a mono­ purchases were es enntial for the health solidarity of the Government and peo­ logue. Three workshop sessions, Lead­ and safety of the community. However, worked with the ANC's Chief Represen­ ple of India with the anti- apartheid ers Against Aparthied, Apartheid in amendments have since been added tative Lindiwe Mabuza to bring activists cause in South Africa.' South Africa, and South African Mus­ which dilute the sanctions by adding from across the country to a one day In accepting the award, Mandela cau­ lims Against Apartheid were led by prom­ several exemptions to the law. The com­ meeting with Mandela and the visiting tioned his audience that the fact he and lOent Muslim speakers and professors. mittee is currently collecting signature ANC delegation. Aubrey McCutcheon a few of his colleagues are allowed to of registered Austin voters in order to of the Washington Office on Africa, make foreign visits does not indicate call for a referendum election on the Jerry Herman of the American Friends repression is lessening in South Africa . Coloradans Picket amendments. So far, as of December I, . Service Committee and Prexy Nesbitt The visits, instead, result from the about 7,000 of the 15,000 signatures re­ formed the planning committee. pressure mounted on the apartheid Citibank quired by law have been collected. In On June 22, 1990 nearly 100 activists government from within the country from 49 cities and 29 states met for a day The Colorado Coalition Against Apan­ order to help in this campaign, contact and without. Rhonda at (512) 441 -2401. of briefings and workshops with the heid continues to be incensed at Citi­ ANC delegation. Activists were urged to bank's $660 million in outstanding loans continue their work and expand their to South Africa. Though Citibank has base of support. Mandela told the Max Sisulu on had several opportunities in recent years crowd, "If we ever forgot that our to call in the loans or sell them, they San Francisco Activists source of power is the masses of people Sanctions continue to "roll over" the debt, thus Protest Violence both in the country and outside, than we Response of Max Sisulu, head of the allowing South Africa an extra ten years would commit suicide.' to repay, five years at no intere t. Economic Planning Department of the The San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Charlotte Fuller, president of Neva­ African National Congress, and son of In response, the group holds a demon­ dans Against Apartheid, reports she was Committee has organized a letter writing Walter and Albertina Sisulu, to question stration in front of Citibank's main campaign in protest of South African inspired by the slogan often chanted by the Multinational Monitor: Denver office between noon and 1:00 government-police Inkatha complicity in when Mandela spoke out against lifting pm on the first Tuesday of every month. the violence which is currently killing so sanctions: "Keep the pressure on." Question: What kind of added pressures Members carry signs and pass out leaf­ many innocent civilians and anti-apart­ Delegates present from the Texas State or sanctions should the Western coun­ lets to educate fellow Coloradans. They heid activists in South Africa. They are Coalition Against Apartheid reported tries put on South Africa? suggest that anyone with a Citibank Visa urging activists to calion the Bush ad­ that many who attended were teary-eyed Sisulu: I would like those sanctions that or Master Card cut it up and return it ministration to insist on immediate ac­ with emotion when Mandela appeared have already been adopted to be imple­ with an explanation of why you are tion by South African President de and thanked them for their work. mented much more stringently. Many switching banks. Or, you can write Klerk. They also seek to convince the Western countries have adopted sanc­ directly to: John Reed, CEO, Citibank, United Nation to expose and condemn tions but they haven't really been very 399 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. the source of this violence. A sample let­ Library Pamphlet Files strict in applying them. An important 10043. ter to Present de Klerk which the group corollary to the sanctions is increased is circulating is reprinted below: Support Apartheid political and material support for the opponents of apartheid and the coun­ Albany ActiVIsts Meet F. W. de Klerk, State President In the September, 1990 Library Jour­ tries of the regipn that have suffered Private Bag X213 nal, David Lane warns that libraries from apartheid aggression and destabil­ with U.S. Pretoria, 0001, S.A. throughout the U.S. have pamphlet col­ ization, countries like Zambia, Zim­ Congressman Fax: 011 27 12323 1664) lections on South Africa filled with babwe, Mozambique and Angola. misinformation. When Lane, as an ex­ Question: What about financial Members of the Capital District Co­ President F.W. De Klerk : periment, requested information from sanctions? alition Against Apartheid and Racism the South African consulate on South Sisulu: We are concerned that the inter­ have met twice with ongressman Mike We want to express our outrage at Afnca's history and social conditions he national community of banks not roll McNulty to discuss issues related to the orchestrated reign of terror and received a volume of information he over South Africa's debt. When the debt outhern Africa. They gave McNulty re­ violence being waged in South Africa found to be largely inaccurate. When he does come up for review, it should not cent educational matenal on South against the Black community by subsequently visited a number of U.S. be rescheduled until apartheid is gone. Afnca and discussed Angola and In­ Kwazulu Inkatha vigilantes in collu­ libraries, he discovered they relied upon There are a number of financial sanc­ katha-inspired violence in South Africa. sion with government security forces. the same source for their pamphlet col­ tions that can be applied. Also, there are They also notified him that thousands Since July 22, 1990 over 800 peo­ lections. Collections were rife with "people's sanctions" of South African of Albany residents had "voted" for ple have been killed, and thousands pamphlets published "by the Bureau of food/goods or South African Kruger- Information on behalf of the Govern­ anctions against South Africa as part of homes have been destroyed. rand~. Those are sanctions that people of sanctions ballot campaign. Represen­ Government involvement with at­ ment Printer, Pretoria." Reference col­ can Impose by buying or not buying. tative McNulty announced his support tacking lnkatha gangs appear to lections also often contained the South for anctions and indicated bis opposi­ target people associated with anti­ African Handbook, published by the tion to U.S. funding of UNITA . The apartheid ANC, UDF and COSA TU Republic of South Africa. Also on file ANGOLA group plans to continue haring their organizations. was the free magazine South African views with their representative. We believe that you, President de Panorama published monthly by the Klerk, and your government serves South African government. These gov­ full blame for the current state of af­ ernment sources describe the "home­ fairs in that country. We categorically lan~s" as independent states, claim that reject any simplistic explanations of whIte settlers arrived in South Africa si­ the violence as Black-on-Black crime. multaneously with the first blacks and Millions of people throughout the emphasize tribal differences a~ong world are concerned that continued blac~s. Lane cautions library patrons to violence will cause disintegration of conSIder the source of such information negotiations to end apartheid. WE and suggests that libraries with limited Shell Campaign URGE IMMEDIATE ACTION. resources obtain free or low cost alter­ nati,ve mat~rials from the ANC. the Commemorates For further information on the Com- Umted Nations Center Against Apart mittee and this campaign, contact: San ! held, the Washington Office on Africa Human Rights Week Francisco Anti-Aparthied Committee, and the American Friends Service P.O. Box 5422, San Francisco, CA Committee. During Human Rights Week, from 94101 -5422. (415) 661 -9492. December 3 to December to, 1990, g~oupS supporting the Shell Boycott Zaire Conference Apartheid is the Prob­ ~Ick~ted and did informational leaflet- . ling \0 twelve cities. In Shreveport, Col­ A recent conference on Zaire held at lem, Not Sanctions ~mbus, NorfOlk, New Orleans, Birm­ Howard University in Washington DC \O~ham, Baltimore, Santa Cruz, Mem­ with the theme, "Prospects for Dem­ .December 1990 - Archbishop Tutu saId that he would very much like to phIS, ~nnapolis, Chicago, Hartford and ocracy in Zaire" , drew an international Nashvll1e, members of community, la­ attendance of close to 400 people, about call for the lifting of sanctions, but that he could not give a timetable for bor, church, student and anti-apartheid half were Zairians from inside the coun­ ~rganizations prote ted Shell Oil 's con­ try or in exile. I he conference was co­ that. Sanctions have been crucial in getting South Africa to the verge of l1~ued sales to South Africa. Groups sponsored by the nter for Research on pIcketed gas stations and lea netted on Zaire, The Rainbow Lobby, the Inter­ a new di pcnsation and are till need ~Ollege campuses and in town centers. national enter for Development Policy ed in the present situation. Like be­ hough plans for the next action are not and the African Studies Department of fore, the main problem is not sanc­ Howard University tions, but apartheid. yet s.et, the boycott campaign vows to contmue their struggle. South Africa Now's Washington Office on Future Uncertain Africa Continues South Africa Now, a weekly half hour Sanctions Pressure n~ws show shown on 75 stations nation­ wld~, most within the Public Broad­ ~hen Nelson Mandela visited the ca,st,mg Sy tem, is faCing a financial Untted States with his message to keep CriSIS that threatens its very existence the pressure on, he specifically requested Grassroots anti-apartheid groups acros~ that the Washington Office on Africa the country have been instrumental renew its lobbying work with the Con­ th~oug~ activiti~s ~uch as petition cam­ gress t.o insure that U.S. policy does not paIgn I,n convlncmg local stations to lapse mto passivity as citizens become carry thiS Emmy Award winning show lulled into believing reform is on its way because they realize it is the only sourc~ to South Africa. WOA remains commit­ ?f regular, in-depth coverage of events ted to lobbying for continued U.S. sanc­ In southern Africa, Recently when both tio,n~ . u~til a true dismantling of apart­ Bo ton and Los ,Angeles stations dropped heId IS Irreversible. the sh~w, ,a mIxture of public protest and editorial outrage convinced station Analysts at WOA predict that while managers to reinstate it. Numerous na­ the Bush'administration has promised to tional new journals have given the show continue sanctions for now, their state­ ments clearly reveal their intent to main­ crit.ical. prai e. Yet it is in danger of extmctlon. !ain s~ctions only until remaining polit­ In a recent interview with this News­ !cal pnsoners have been released. This IS the most liberal interpretation of U.S. letter, pro~ucer Danny Schechter spoke sanctions law that effectively ignores the about the Importance of his show and prerequisite of "substantial progress the nature of his budget crisis. A leading toward dismantling apartheid." reason why several stations have threat­ WOA has several new pamphlets that Art Serota of Springfield, MA (2R) Zimbabwe. Art worked in this area ened to drop the show and why funders activists can use to explain the need for being shown evidence of a Renamo in the mid 70's and visited in August are not forthcoming is because, Schech­ continued pressure at this point in South ,,-_a_tt_a_ck_in_M_a_s_o_n.;.a_v.. i ../Ia;;:R;:.;e;;., .;,i;.;,n..;E;,;a;,;;s;;;,;te;.;,r;.;,n_...;;.0,;.f..;,'..;,9,:.9.:.0·;.-______1 ter explains, they mistakenly believe that Africa's political history. These include apartheid is dying, certainly no longer a reprint of Nelson Mandela's address Chicago-based a burning issue, and that mainstream to the U.S. Congress, a sheet of lobby­ news organizations are now providing ing tips, an updated fact sheet on apar­ SYNAPSES Awards Presbyterians adequate coverage. However South theid as it stands now, and a talking South African Prize Announce Divestment Africa Now is often the only s~urce of points paper on sanctions. news about events in the Frontline On September 8 at their annual State , and includes much analysis of List meeting, SYNAPSES, a Chicago-based lorie that others just gloss over. And interfaith peace action group awarded The Social Justice and Peacemaking most of the material in the weekly Human Rights Sunday the seventh annnual Harriet Hanson Unit of the Presbyterian Church cultural segment never surfaces in Observed Award to the Rev. Molefe Tsele, an or- (U.S.A.) has issued its lists of corpora- mainstream news. dained Lutheran minister from South tions subject to divestment and "special Mandela's release did not, Schechter In conjunction with International Africa currently studying in Chicago. focus" for 1990-91. Those cited as warn, ignal the end of apartheid. Human Rights Day, December 10, chur­ Nowa doctoral candidate at the Luther- "subject to divestment and/or proscrip- Many media reports of 'black-on-black' ches across the country belonging to the an School of Theology in Chicago, Tsele tion according to the General Assembly violenc distort or ignore the apartheid Religious Action Network commemor­ pastored the Lutheran Church in Dob- policy on South Africa" are: British regime's role in instigating and per­ ated Human Rights Sunday on Decem­ sonville, Soweto from 1985-1988. As the Petroleum, Chevron, Citicorp, Control petrating the conflict. Often, South ber 9, 1990. Congregations set aside organizing secretary of the National Data, Dresser Industries, General Motors, Africa Now is the only television report time in their services to affirm the Education Crisis Committee from 1986- Royal Dutch Petroleum and "Shell" offering a tm n lysis 0 thi. situation. human rights of those around the world, 1988, Tsele joined the call for an end to Transport and Trading. Corporations "In America, If an issue is not on T.V., especially those of the people in South the Bantu education system in South "identified for intensive focus" due to it doesn't exist," states Schechter. "It Africa, and to reaffirm their commit­ Africa. In December 1986 he was de- their importance to the South African is a revealing commentary on American ment to end apartheid. tained for 24 months without charges, economy based on "size or strategic T. V. that a program like thi can't be A1eah Bacquie, coordinator of the Fellow South Africans led the largely nature of their involvement, sales to sustained." The many local grassroots Religious Action Network for justice American audience in chants and cheers police or military or lending activity" campaigns in support of the how and and peace in southern Africa, a project for Tsele, who has been instrumental in are: Amdahl, American Cyanamid, its critical acclaim show it has won an of the American Committee on Africa, organizing the Midwest chapter of the AT&T, Baker Hughes, Caterpillar, Con- appreciative audience. But, explain sent member churches a communique South African International Students vex, Digital Equipment, Ford, Hewlett Sche hter, "the media gatekeeper are reminding parishioner that human rights Congress, Tsele dedicated his award to Packard, Hitachi, I.B.M., Ingersoll- out of step." violations such as forced removaL the youth of South Africa. Rand, Mobil, Motorola, N.C.R., Phelps Schcchter' budget for a year's worth continuing full force, despite media The Harriet Hanson award is named Do~ge, Schlumberger, Un!on Carbide, of how equals a mere week's budget reports of reform. for a textile worker who in 1836 led a Untsys, and Xerox. Banktng corpora- for shows like 20120, yet he can not find To keep the pressure on South Africa strike against her sweatshop employer. tions are: Banque Indo-Suez, Barclays adequate corporate underwriting to for real change, congregations collected SYNAPSES has over 300 members in 17 Bank, Chemical Bank, Commerzbank, keep the show afloat. Grants from the VOTE ballots to present to Congress to countries who give a half day a month Credit Lyonnais, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Rockefeller and Ford Foundations are signal a demand for sanctions until of work, prayer or the equivalent in Bank, Dresdner Bank, Manufacturers running out, and this issue is simply not democracy in South Africa is in place. salary. • Hanover, J.P. Morgan, National West- "corporate friendly." Even PBS, which They also wrote letters to President De minster, Standard Chartered, Swiss ontributes $700,000 a year to Wall Klerk demanding all political prisoners Bank Corp, and Union Bank of Street Week, contributes nothing for be home for the holidays, and they New York Nelson Switzerland. South Africa Now. observed a moment of silence in support For information: South Africa Now, Mandela Committee of all those whose rights are still being Shell Withdraws from 361 W. Broadway, New York, N.Y., violated. Hosts Theater Party 10013. Also available at the same address For information on how your congre­ Art Exhibit isa90minute video, Mandela In America, gation can join the Network, contact: On Friday, November 23, the New which chronicles Nelson Mandela's visit Aleah Bacquie, RAN Coordinator, York Nelson Mandela Reception Com­ This newsletter reported early in 1990 across the country, including appear­ ACOA, 198 Broadway, Room 402, New mittee hosted a showing of "Township that public employees and anti-apart­ ances at rallies and private meetings with York, N.Y. 10038. (212) 926-1210. Fever" by Mbongeni Ngema at the Ma­ heid activists were protesting plans by politician ,celebrities and activists. The jestic Theater, Brooklyn Academy of the San Francisco Museum of Art to cost is $25.00. Protestors from p, 1, Music. Ngema is also the author and show an exhibit of Dutch masters spon­ During the trial ANC repre entatives, compo er of "Asinimali," performed in sored by Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum. Federal Republic of experts in divestment, experts on apar­ 1986 at Lincoln Center as part of the After United Public Employee Local theid and community representatives Woza Afrika Festival and 790, which represents museum workers, voted 42-14 to oppose the exhibit, Germany were not allowed to testify. The judge "Sarafina" Sf.'cn worldwide by more Mayor Art Agnos and the San Francisco then rejected the prosecution's request than one million people. The November In the first five months of 1990 Ger­ Board of Supervisors also went on of a sentence of probation. The defen­ premiere production of "Township Fe­ many has nearly doubled its coal im­ record against Shell's involvement. On dants therefore face jail if the case is nOI ver" featured Ngema's Committed Ar­ ports from South Africa. tists company of more than 40 South June 4, the supervisors passed a resolu­ overturned on appeal. tion that it was against the spirit of the Over $10,000 has been raiscd to ap­ African Actors and musicians, city's divestment ordinance, and two peal the convictions. Last summer, the Inspired by the events of the 1987 days later the mayor ent a letter sup­ first attempt to have the case retried was South African general transit work­ ers'strike and its violent aftermath, the porting the resolution to mu eum trus­ denied. The case i now before the Texas tees, In late August, Harry Parker Court of Criminal Appeals. Verbal play focuses on economic empowerment for those who struggle to achieve their director of the museum, announced tha~ arguments were made in mid-Novem­ Shell had withdrawn its sponsorship. ber. Now the defendants await .the rights. It also shows the tragic con e­ quence of a culture devastated by op­ The museum now plans to raise the court's decision. Two tudent orgamza­ pression. Funding for the play, first per­ $500,000 needed through a private fund tions, Democracy i~ Academi~ ~nd the formed in Johannesburg in March 1990, rai ing drive for the exhibit. Local 790, Steve Biko CommIttee, are aldtng t~e was provided in part by Lincoln Center which initiated the protest, has pledged Texas State Coalition Against ApartheId and the Rockefeller Foundation. $2,000. in this appeals process. 5 Statement from mM Shareholder CHEERS Angloan Women (OMA) Resolution Grows to Women of the Even Stronger In the past three years an employee­ Cheers to: United States W' 0 h initiated shareholder campaIgn to We Mothers Wives Daughter and We ask you, Mothers, I~es, aug - remove IBM from South Africa has • omputer Profe sionnls for Social Sisters, of the Angolan" People come to ters an d S·IS t er 0 f the Amencan people, gathered more and more support, re­ Responsibility, who published a dou you, heart broken, to let you know that to intercede with your governm~~t In ble is ue of their newsletter for we are being dis eminated by the unjust order to put an end to the mtl,ltary sultin,2 in impressive vote~ response. , The vote against IBM s presence 10 WlIlter- pring 1990 which focus ~ on war which has been devastating our assistance to Unila so that nat~onal South Africa has been a vote against South Afriea. Article explain how country ever since the independence in reconcl.J .'latlon m' A ngo la can be achIeved IBM's sales to major military contrac­ international computer companies November 1975. Every hour, every min- through ?egotiations. The use of force tors such as: Grinaker Electronics, uch a. IBM ell their subsidiaries in ute, thou ands of innocent children, cannot gIve peace a chance. Plessy, Dorbyl, and Phillips. It is ~lso outh Africa while continuing to sell elderly people and women die in this We wo~en, ~ng~lan !110thers hav~ al­ a vote against sales to two South African their products there. One article ex connict as a result of the aid and ways been In sohdanty WIth theAmencan plnim how the gray market in Ap­ assistan~e that your government is pro- women in t~eir . str~ggle for peace, prog­ oil refineries that supply fuel for military vehicles and that help South Africa ple comr>uters no longer sold legally vidlng to the Unita Group of Jonas re~s and SOCIal Jus~lce. Above all, we ad­ overcome the impact of the worldwide tlwre has actually sp d up the avail­ Savimbi, this same Savimbi whose am- mIre, your co~mltmellt and you~ per­ ability of this product, though trip­ bition for power made him an ally of the suasIve ~apaclty ~s demonstrated m the oil embargo. lin ils price To obtain copies of this Apartheid Regime. Even today, Savim- p~t, whIch contnbuted to the end of the Now the 1991 resolution has been fa 'cinaring issue, contact: CPSR, bi i still receiving military as well as VIet N~m war. . submitted, supported by 471 IBM em­ P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, A other kinds of aid from South Africa to In thIS context, we would It~e to ap­ ployees from seven countries. Yet a~ain. 94302·0717. massacre the Angolan people and destroy peal to you so that money commg f~om support has risen from the prevIous the national economv. your own tax payments and contnbu- year. It is also co- ponsored b~ . two Angola has the largest amputee rate in tions, ~e used in actions that can benefit dozen religious organizations afflltated • Austill, Texas and Montreal, Canadll, the world, mainly children. Our cities, the chIldren, the elderly, the wo":,en­ with the Interfaith Center on Corporate whi h have joined the list or major towns, villages, factories, water pipes and all ,the Angolan peo'ple-an~ not m the Responsibility, ciUe, refusing to do business with power lines are destroyed with arms and assls~ance , of the Umta ter:on~m and the Resolution author James Leas, an Shell Oil. Austin City Council has bombs supplied by your government. continuatIon of the genOCIde In Angola, engineer at IBM's Manassas, Virginia declared the city "Shell-Free until semiconductor plant, attributes the un­ that time when Royal Dutch/Shell • ANC calls for an all party conference precedented success of the resolution to complelely disinvests from South FLASH to determine a future constitution, growing disenchantment with IBM's Africa." Montreal's municipal coun­ would include Inkatha and the Conser- "grossly misleading" statements about cil, following a controversy preced­ vative Party. its role in South Africa. ing Nelon Mandela's visit, insisted that a di tributor supplying $4 mil­ lion worth of oil to the city switch • IBM, which withdrew its sponsorship from Shell to another company. CHEERS TEARS of the PGA (golt) championship when a public controversy arose over • John Dedman, Chairman of the • Radio station WBAI (99;5 FM) in the disclosure that the Shoal Creek Texas Highway Department and • The National Bar Association, a New York City, which has been play" Country Club in Alabama, site of the wealthy businessman, who has ap­ group of black lawyers with about ing a public service announcement tournament, did not have any black proved the purchase of South African 2,000 delegates, who have decided to plugging the anti-apartheid campaign members. The problem is not with steel for the $91 million state-fi­ move their 1993 convention from against Manufacturers Hanover IBM's decision to act against a nanced bridge building project in Miami to Houston because of Mi ­ Trust, deplorable instance of racism, but Houston-despite the J 986 federal ami's refusal to issue a proclamation with its lack of similar action against sanctions legislation prohibiting the In honor of Nelson Mandela when he apartheid South Africa, where much • American Express Publishing Co., purchase of South African steel. The vi . it d this summer. urther cheers which publishes Travel Leisure more is at stake than exclusion from & Commission is using a legal loophole 10 Omega Psi Phi, a leading black a swank golf course. James Leas, an and Departures. When offered a 20 to jutify their purchase of 10.4 fratermty, whl h has cancelled Its IBM employee who has authored page in ert al their hefty full page million pounds of structural steel. plans for a 1991 meeting in Miami. rate for a South African Airways ad shareholder resolutions against IBM's More groups may join the boycott to promoting wildlife and safari holi­ continued sales within South Africa, voice their displeasure with Miami's summed it up by saying, "It would days, they rejected the offer outright. • Magistrate H. Verhoef of South official snub of Mandela. Some local "I'd rather cut my arms off than be a far more meaningful move Africa, who sentenced Anglican black leaders who have endor ed the against racial repression and violence, turn down advertising," stated pub­ priest Douglas Torr, 26, to a year in boycott also cite their city's poor and benefit a lot more people, if fBM lisher Jim Bericen, "but we feel jail for refusing to serve in the South employment record in regard to strongly that we not do business with pulled out from South Africa. There African army on religious and politi­ Blacks in the tourism industry. are no lives at risk in whether this South Africa." Cheers also to the cal grounds. Torr, a chaplain at a Brockport State University in golf club has Black members; there National Geographic Society, which Children's Home, refused to appear Rocheter, N.Y., which i ponsor­ are lives at risk in South Africa." aJso turned down the ad spread, before the Board for Religious Ob­ ing three South African students this which would have generated several jectors, because he believes it unjust­ • Richard De Gennaro, director of the ye r through the Nelson Mandela hundred thou and dollars in revenue. ly offers special privileges to only a New York Public Library. When Scholar hip undo It has been report Robert Sims, Senior Vice President few. Verhoef delayed sentencing for asked if his library system's in­ ed thaI the A.N.C. plans to initiate of the Society explained, "the Socie­ over two months while he studied terlibrary loans to South Africa a nationwide cholarship program Iy would not wish to imply that it bas d on the Brockport model. evidence on the option of communi­ violated the cultural and economic condones current South African gov­ ty service, but then decided only a ernment laws and policies." boycott of South Africa, he an­ jail term would deter others from swered, "If the devil himself re­ • The ongres. ional Black aucus, following Torr's example. Protests quested information, we would give repres nting all 24 black members of should be sent to: State President it to him." He added that NYPL • The American Committee on Africa F.W. de Klerk, Private Bag X83, ongr , who cancelled their sched­ for spear-heading a national cam­ "does not get involved with Mickey Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Mouse politics." uled meeting with South African paign to stop outh African Airways President de Klerk m September $1. 75 million American adverti ing Cheers • The white Dutch Reformed Church, afler meeting with Trans Africa. campaign, In an August 28 memor­ Rep. Ronald Dellums (D· A) de­ which at the last minute withdrew its andum ACOA aJerted key anti­ • The Texas AFL-CIO for participat­ support from major parts of an 80 clared t 120 people protesting de apartheid and civil right organiza­ ing in a rally and campaign to protest church declaration condemning their Klerl>. 's visit at the White Ilouse gate tions to the SAA advertising blitz use of taxpayers' money to buy own "heretical part" in suppotting Ihal while Black members would still and called for pressure on the publi­ South African steel for a Texas state meet de Klerk individually, "to meet apartheid. At an ecumenical con­ cations to drop the ad . Two weeks highway project on the Houston ference in South Africa, 230 dele­ with the ongressional Black aueu. later, activi ·ts in Los Angeles forced Ship Channel. Christopher Cook, gates from 80 churches and 40 ~eparale and apart bestows a level of the cancellation of an AA promo Texas AFt-CIO communications cr dibility that at this point we church related groupS agreed on "the tional event for travel agents and director, told a rally of protestors: unequivocal rejection of apartheid as weren't prepared to deal with." pro pective cu tomer . Tear to "While workers in Texas go without a sin" and confessed "our heretical Avenue Magazine, Time, Newsw6CI. work, go homeless, and While black part in this policy of apartheid." The • Memher of the olorado Coalition and Travel Holiday for accepting the workers in South Africa live with the declaration denounced the evil of A ainst Apartheid, who refuse 10 ads. book heel of fascism grinding into give up or be discouraged in their ef­ apartheid and gave hope for a their necks, the Republican head spiritual healing in South Africa's re­ fort to convince Colorado' Public The Progre ive Librarians Guild, honcho of the State Highway De­ Pmployees Relirement Associate to which previewed its new journal, ligious community. However, before partment plan to line the pockets of the. final draft was even issued, the divestlotally its pension fund, When Progressive Libr~rian, ~t the ALA rich racists in South Africa with our whIte branch of the Dutch Reform­ ma sive pelition campaign in the convention in hlcago thIS past sum­ tax dollars." . pring did not produce positive mer. The preview edition is entitle.d: ed Church issued a statement dis­ results, members begun to pickel associating itself from much of the "Libraries and Sanctions: A Spec.lal declaration, outside PERA offices monthly on Is ue on South Africa" or more I.n­ Ihe day of their bo, rd meeling. They formation on the group and ,ItS have no plans to stop until lotal publication, cont~cl: ProgressIve dive tment b achieved. Librarian c/ o mptre State olleg~­ FREE .. ~ ~ SUNY, School of l.abor Studle LI­ SOUTH brary, 330 West 42nd Street, 4th SOUTH AFRICA Floor, N w York, N.Y" 10036. NOW AFRICA '4' ".. 6 Activist Beth Ann Burris of Indianapolis displaying Boycott Coca Cola materials at Black Expo in July ?f 1990. Dean Lovelace, to her left, tS from Dayton and is also a. long time activist on the issue. The following are available from the Scenes from Another Day: New South Oiling the Wheels of Apartheid: Ex­ American Committee on Africa. African Writing. 83 pp. 1600. Human Rights: A Directory of Re­ posing South Africa's Secret Oil Trade. Unified List of United States Com­ Poetry and short stores by members sources. Compiled and edited by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer. 116 pp. $21.00 panies Doing Business In South Africa, of the Writers Forum, part of the Open Thomas P. Fenton and Mary H. Discussion of the international move­ Third edition by Richard Knight, 1990. School in Johannesburg, an alternative Heffron. education project. ment to embargo oil sales to South New edition identifies companies with Available from Third World Re­ Africa and the illegal but large-scale licencing, franchising and distribution Fruit of the Vine: The Human Cost sources, 464 19th Street, Oakland, CA trafficking that continues to occur. agreements as well as those with owner­ of South African Wine. 64 pp. L6.95. 94612 for $9.95 plus $1.50 shipping and The Political Economy of Sanctions A photographic essay exploring the handling. ship in South Africa. 90 pp. $10.00. Against Apartheid. Haider Ali Khan .. South Africa Fact Sheet, compiled by lives of workers on South African wine Includes hundreds of concise yet com­ 115 pp. $20.00. Adotei Akwei, 1990. farms. Contrasts the workers' insecuri­ plete descriptions of human rights organ­ Empirical analysis and detailed ex­ Updated version provides informa­ ty and poverty with the opulence of the winelords. izations. AI 0 includes thumbnail sket­ amination of the real impact of sanc­ tion on apartheid, government, econo­ ches of book and pamphlets on every tions on South Africa. Discusses conse­ my and U.S-South Africa links. 4 pp 30 Namibia in History: Junior Secon­ facet of human rights and lists audio­ quences of sanctions in areas of South cents each. Over 20, 15 cents each. Send dary History Book. 294 pp. L9.95. visual resources. Essential information African production, employment, con­ payment to ACOA, 198 Broadway, New An illustrated introduction to Namib­ on names, addresses, phone numbers of sumption and distribution for all eco­ York, N.Y. 10038. Please add 15070 ia's history. Includes questions for all contacts you need in the field. nomic sectors and racial groups. postage to all orders. discussion, suggestions for activities and The foil wing book are available outh Africa in outhern Africa: . The following video are available explanations of key works. from Yale University Press: Domestic Cbange and International from lOAF, Audio- Visual Dept. Canon Culture in Another South Africa. 288 pp. L9.95. A History of South Africa. Leonard Conflict. ed. by Edmond Keller and Collins House, 64 Essex Road, London Thomp on. 352 pp. 35 ilIus. $29.95. Louis Picard. 263 pp. $33.50. NI 8LR, England. A showcase of resistance culture by Archbishop Tutu has written of this Critically examines political economy Voices for Namibia. 1989.25 minutes. artists within Sc;>Uth Africa and exiles. exhaustive history: "I did not think it • of change in South Africa, considering Based on a July 16, 1989 production Poetry, journalism, photography, thea­ was possible for a white person to write I prospects for development of majority­ at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London ter, art and music. For aU lDAF books remit payment by Sterling draft draw~ a history of South Africa which a black I rule government, the social and cultural in aid of the SW APO Election Cam­ South African would find to be a fair dynamics of black South Africa, and the paign Appeal. Intercuts stage show with on a London bank or use VISA card. and accurate account of a beautiful land interaction of external and domestic fac­ footage from independence struggle in The following books are available and its people. Leonard Thompson has tors in structuring the processes of Namibia. from Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1800 di abused me of that notion. His i a change. The Kafala Brothers. 1989. 27 minutes. 30th St., Boulder, Colorado 80301 (303) 444- 6684. history that is both accurate and authen­ Third World Quarterly. Nine songs sung in several Angolan tic, written in a delightful literary style." Since the late 1970's, an influential languages by this Angolan vocal group Walvis Bay: Decolonization and In­ journal covering the developing world. in support of SWAPO. Songs range The ANC has released an attractive ternational Law. Lynn Berat. 224 pp. Each issue includes 280 pages of political from love songs to militant songs about catalogue of merchandise that includes $20.000. analysis and contemporary literature. resistance to colonial role and the inva­ for the first time a price list in U.S. South Africa claims Walvis Bay, a Past issues have included articles on sion of Angola by the South African dollars. Solidarity items range from tee strategic part, is a South African posses­ Mozambique and the death of Machel, army. shirts and sweatshirts to jewelry, mugs, sion. SWAPO claims the bay is an inte­ peacemaking in southern Africa and the MakhallplJe: The Dauntless One. caps and scarves, posters and postcards. gral part of Namibia. Berat, after ex­ dismantling of the apartheid war 1989. 54 min. Designs include the ANC logo, a salute amining the arguments for both sides, machine. A film about the life and work of to Mandela, a salute to women and presents strong arguments for the incor­ A four issue annual subscription is Archbishop Trevor Huddleston. Includes other attractive and powerful caJls for poration of Walvis Bay into an indepen- available for $34.00 from: Circulation interviews with Oliver Tambo, Desmond freedom and peace. To receive the dent Namibia. , Manager, Third World Quarterly, 1st Tutu, Abdul Munty and Helen Joseph. catalogue, contact: ANCSA Merchan­ White Writing: The Culture of Let­ Floor, Rex House, 4-12 Lower Regent Traces his work in Johannesburg's black dise, P.O. Box 881, London N7 8QW, ters In South Africa. J.M. Coetzee. Street, London SWIY 4PE. townships from 1943 to 1956 and his United Kingdom. 1988. New in paperback. 193 pp. $11.95. Blame Me on History by Blike continued anti-apartheid efforts. Novelist Coetzee's first book length Modisane. Touchstone paperback. The Return. 1989.30 minutes. Covers to work of criticism, discussing major white $9.95. the return of Namibian exiles to their Shotguns South South African writers in the years before First pubJjshed in South Africa in homeland. Video sales 24.15. Rental not Africa World War n. Critically acclaimed 1963, then banned until 1986, the year available. e say. Age of Iron. J.M. Coetzee. Ran­ Modisane died in exile in West Ger­ The following are available from The Journal of Commerce Export dom House. 199 pp. $18.95. many, this is his classic autobiography's Kliptown Books, Publications Dept., Bulletin listed 8 separate shipments of David Zucchino of the Philadelphia first U.S. edition. Modisane, a journal­ lOAF, Canon Collins House, 64 Essex Shotguns, Accessories, Cartridges, Inquirer prai es Coet~ee's newest novel ist, playwright, actor and activist, chron­ Road, London Nl 8LR. and Bullet Cores to South Africa. as a "devastating portrayal of whites icles the destruction of his hometown, Never Follow the Wblf by Helao The shipments took place between blind to their own country and to their Sophiatown. In his introduction, Mark Shityuwete. 272 pp. L6.95. June 28th and the 12th of September, brethren." While most of Coetzee's Mathabane describes the book as "the The autobiography of a SW APO ac­ 1990. They were shipped out of the moving and powerful indictments of saga of one individual's unyielding tivist born in Southern Angola, whose New York Port and involved four apartheid and oppression have been determination to preserve his sensitivi­ quest for education led him to mission different Companies: Jonas Aircraft allegories set in nameless places, this ty and his soul amid brutality, humilia­ schools in Namibia. Forced by poverty and Arms of New York City; Nossler book is realistically and painfully set tion and violence." into migrant contract work, he became Bullets of Bend, Oregon; Mossberg involved in worker strikes and SWAPO. square in the turmoil of South Africa. The Crime of Kidnapping: Abduc­ International of New Haven, Ct; and As a SWAPO activist in 1966, he was Each on of oetzee's masterful achieve­ tion by outh Africa from the rontllne Blount (No additional Information). captured and tortured. Released from ments i. a must read for anyone seek­ tate. Karel Roskam and Judge Boris Total weight of all 8 shipments was Robben Island in 1984, he returned to 23,905 Ibs. ing lin under tanding of South Africa Dittrich. 1990. The Stories of in­ dividual victims of South Africa's death Namibia in 1989 to head SWAPO's elec­ and the human condition. tion campaign in his home area. Two 11m ly publications are no~ squads, especially tho e ki~napped from avail bl fr m the Dutch Anti-ApartheId neighboring black countnes ~here they Movement. sou"ht political asylum. SurvIvors of the dea~h squads present first hand testi­ 7 mony of the terror they experienced. Sanctions and the British Paper: U.S. United Nations Troops Fighting with UNITA he United Nations General A - ~embly on December t 9, t 990 adopt­ According to the 19 November i sue ed a consensus resolution against of the British paper, The Independent, apartheid in South Africa that U.S. Special Force have been operating showed an unprecedented degree of with UNITA. unity. The re olution followed the re­ The new paper quoted 01. Jan Brey­ cent ANC con. ultation in South ten bach, former commander of 32 Bat­ Africa that called on the international talion, who aid he was convinced community to continue sanctions American Special orces team., infil­ agamst South Africa. The U.N. trated into UNIT A guerrilla unit , were resolution, the result of long negotia­ using Stinger anti-aircraft mi siles and tions bet we n We tern and Afri an wire guided anti-tank missile along the nations, in ists that economic anc­ Benguela railway. According to the Col­ tions be maintained against the onel, the Americans wanted to make Pretoria government. ure that ome of the ophisticated weapons they supplied to UNITA, like Stingers, were not slipped to the South Africans, because they did not want to be embarras cd. ANGOP 12/ 4/ 90

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Address ______,-- ______The South African 06 with 05 gun. City z:P.____ _ State which Iraq purchased from the South Africans. FLASH FLASH FLASH De Klerk's visit to U.S. ~tch As the crisis in the Gulf erupted and • Amne~ty Alert - assel Mathalt.:, aged ~ Demonstrations against recent steep During hi vi. it 10 the United State sanctions were imposed againsr Iraq, a 28, eneral Scl.:r tary of th Northern mcreases in the cost of living broke out in September, Pre ident De Klerk highly placed South African government Transvaal Youth Congre . has been de­ in Kinshasa in December and continued told Pre ident Bush that Iraq would ource revealed that Iraq was still sub­ tained for over 4 months. Fear of into January of 1991. Reports say that no longer receive ammunition or tantially indebted to Arm cor. Iraq had torture. nearly 25 people have been killed. • Amnesty Alert - (Ci kei) - Dumi ani spares for the G-S supergun it had reportedly still to pay for GS Howitzers Tabata, a practising lawyer wa detained bought from Arm cor. This is the of which it had bought at least 100 from on 29 November 1990. Fear of torture. • Mozambican Troops turned back a e­ first time that a South African pre i­ outh Africa. Cape Time, 8/16/90 • Mozambican Foreign Mini ter Mo­ cond rebel attack on the northern town dent had admitted in public that they cumbi hopes for peace as oon a of Murrupula on December 19, 1990. 35 had sold arms to Iraq. FLASH possible. Rebels were reported killed. • South African government believes, Oil Embargo Newsletter, No. 21, • Wake Forest Students Against Apart­ because of its heavy reliance on electrici­ • EEC lifts its voluntary sanctions fourth quarter 1990 heid plan boycott of Campus Pizza Hut ty, that it will not be a adversely af­ against South Africa: owned by Pep iCo. fected a developed and virtually all non·oil exporting countries. • In violation of the United Nations oil US Aircraft in South embargo sixty-six tankers have been identified to have delivered oil to South Africa Africa during the years 1987 and 1988. The South African conglomerate De At least nine US·manu"factured Beers and the Soviet Union struck a $5 Cessna Caravan aircraft are being billion diamond marketing deal. CSM used by the South African Airforce. 8/17/90 The aircraft, which were described as • Paris based Magazine ".feune Afri­ "Civilian aircraft" for export. were que" reports that South Africa i~ now delivered to the South African dis­ the fourth-largest trading partner of tributor Comair. It is an aircraft ZaIre, behllld Belgium, Germany and which can be easily converted for use the U S as a mini-gunship by fitting 20 mm • According to Zimbabwean govern­ cannons and can al 0 be used for military surveillance and air control ment statistics released in April 1990, UNITED STATES :. !F 400 Zimbabweans have been killed, 300 duties. Southscan 8/3/90 ., . ;;' wounded and another 250 kidnapped by • I: -4._ Renamo since 1989. • Kenyan President ANTI-APARTHEID . -- - • Mozambican refugees sold as slaves in NEWSLETTER I!:.... Daniel Arap Moi allows South African .- airways to begin weekly night to South Africa. Story has been develop­ Nairobi A South African trade mi sion ing since November 1990 right through in Nairobi is being talked about to February 1991. The Weekly Mail ha carried several front page stories. The U.S. Anli·.ApaItheid Newsletter ls pub· Editor lished by the Peace Education Dluision of Jerry Herman ~ South Africa cancelled its first night the American Friends Serofce Committee to • 1991 - South African Police are now III 20 years to Kenya-mar]..ing the end promote communication among organlza· Manac1Da Editor offering $2,340 U.S. dollars for anyone tlons inuolued In efforts to end apBltheid In of Kenya', anti-apartheid air Brooke Baldwin embargo-because only four people turning in an AK 47. South Africa. The Newsletter will also pub· bought tickets. Daily felegraph, IIclze the actluitles of grassroot. regional 12/3/9 0 • Luanda International Airport bombed, and national organizations that educate. campaign and organize against aparthefd UNITA SlI pected. • How many Mozambican 'qual one In North America. Kuwaiti?, an article produced by the • MNR violence forces more Mozam­ MOl.ambiquefile. August 1990, ha be~n Organizations wishing to list actlulties taff bican women and children to flee to should mail a calendar of euents or other Sol Mana Rivera reprmted in WOA's Washington Notes Tanzania. January 1991 on Africa. Information to the editorial address. Denise Black Denise Higginbothan Editorial offices are located in the UNITED STATES APSe National Office. 1501 Cherry Street. Phila · ANTI-APARTHEID delphia, PA 19102 (215) 241-7168. NEWSLETTE 8