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IHD £·, cs·sr~, ~·~s sr-~rV'o._~~c~ c-{ ~~ \:\ TEACH-IN ON:2_~ spJ!~JI AFRICA A Quick Quiz on 02t. 8i _ApARTHEID Did You Know That ... ? : Serious Diseases, 1976 (number of cases per racial group) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 1985 Disease White African Tuberculosis 759 47,592 Malaria 137 1,603 Teach-In on South Africa at the University of Chicago Typhoid 100 3,056 Source: South African Statistics [government], 1978 Place: University of Chicago Main Quad (in front of Administration Building, 5801 S. Ellis) for the noon Doctor-Patient Ratios, 1982 rally; Kent Hall for workshops and evening panel Racial Population Program: Noon: Rally Q!! Main Quad Group per Doctor l:00-2:30 Workshop: South Africa: The History of the Struggle and the Current Crisis. White 330 African 91,000 Dr. Frederick Dube (African National Congress, ANC), main speaker Asian 730 2:3Q-4:00 Workshops: Colored 12,000 Apartheid and World-Wide : Diabolical Connection or Historical Accident? Source: Survey of Race Relations, 1982 Tukufu Zuberi, Black Graduate Forum, main speaker Educational Expenditure by Race 1980/81 What is to be Done? Organizing Strategies for the Continuing Struggle Against Apartheid. Racial Group Per Capita Spending % of Population Prexy Nesbitt (Co-chair, Coalition for Illinois' Divestment from South Africa, CIDSA), main White $1115 16% speaker African 170 72% 4:00-5:30 Workshop: Divestment and the Role of the University. Indian/ Asian 625 3% Colored 310 9% University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray and Jennifer Davis, Executive Director, Amer­ Source: Survey of Race Relations in South Africa. ican Committee on Africa, main speakers 5:30-6:30 Plenary Rally and Speech: The Honorable Neo Mnumzama, chief delegate, African National Malnutrition- Congress Delegation to the United Nations Malnutrition is no longer a serious disease among 7:30-lO:OOOpen Panel Discussion: all panelists; questions from floor. White South Africans. Yet one-half of the Black children in the rural die before the age of five. Sponsoring Organizations: (In)justice- Action Committee for a Free South Africa, Black Graduate Forum, Faculty for Divestment from South Africa, Organization of Black Students, Teamsters Local 743, Third World Political Forum, Women's Since it came to power in 1948, the white National Union Party has passed hundreds of harsh laws which control every For Further Information: 493-6662 aspect of Black South Africans' lives. Arrests for violation of the laws has given South Africa the highest prison propula­ Labor Donated tion in the world! FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -

In 1971, the International Court of Justice ruled South Leaflet Courtesy of the Anti-Apartheid Student Alliance Africa's continuing occupation of Namibia illegal. Forced Removals-Thl South African police will Passbook-A document all blacks must carry at all drag blacks off. their lan~. often at gunpoint, and times. Whites are not required to have one. Failure to bulldoze communities declared to be "white" areas. carry a passbook results in. arrest and jail for blacks. GLOSSARY Over 3.5 million blacks h~ve been forcibly removed since 1960. i /Influx Control Laws-Laws which con­ trol the movement of blacks. These laws forbid blacks to FRELIMO-Front forth~ Liberation of Mozambique. live:in "white" areas and help the white government Governing party in Moza"ilbique which freed it from control workers. Portuguese rule in 1975. , Pretoria-The capital city of white South Africa. Also Frontline States-Cou~tries neighboring South Af­ refers to the South African government. African National Congress (ANC)-South African rica which present a unit$d front against apartheid. liberation movement founded in 1912 to struggle for a These states include: Angqla (an-GO-Iah), Botswana Race Classification-Apartheid laws divide South free and just South Africa. Banned by the government (boat-SWA-nah), Mozambique (mow-zam-BEEK), Tan­ Africans into four racial groups: Africans-people of and forced underground in 1961. zania (tan-zah-NEE-ah), ~ambia (ZAM-bee-ah) and African descent (72 percent of the population), Col­ Afrlkaans...,.....A dialect of the Dutch language spoken Zimbabwe (zim-BOB-way).i oreds-people of mixed race (9 percent of the popu­ lation), whites-people of European descent (16 per­ by Afrikaners in South Africa. Homeland-South government's term for Afri~an cent of the population), and Asians-mostly persons of portions of land designate~for blacks; . Afrikaners-White South Africans of Dutch descent Indian descent (about 3 percent of the population). who established the apartheid system. Afrikaners make Lesotho-(leh-SOO-toor· small country completely Sharpevllle Massacre-On March 21 , 1960 ,the up 60 percent of the white population. surrounded by South Afric ~ police shot and killed 69 blacks who were peacefully Apartheid-South Africa's system of legalized Liberation Movements, Movements in Southern demonstrating against the pass laws. racism. Apartheid denies all civil and to Africa which are dedicat~d to fight for justice and South West Africa People's Organization the black majority and ensures the supremacy of political freedom. . \ whites. (SWAPO)-The liberation movement fighting to free Migrant Laborers-Th~se forced to leave their Namibia since 1966. Banning-A form of house arrest by which the homes and families in rural bantustans to find employ­ 1 government silences its critics. Banned individuals ment in urban centers of "vyhite" South Africa. -A black township outside of Johannesburg. cannot be published or quoted, and their movements Over 2 million blacks live in this impoverished township. are restrained. MPLA-Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola; the governing pa1Y in Angola which freed it -On June 16, 1976, South African Bantustans-Name for barren wastelands making from Portuguese rule in 1915. police gunned down students in Soweto who were up only 13 percent of South Africa's land, which the peacefully demonstrating against apartheid education. South African government has declared the only places MNR-Mozambique National Resistance. A South This began a series of protests and clashes with police where Africans can live permanently. Africa-supported terrorist g~oup infamous for cutting off around the country; over 600 people were killed. peoples' ears, noses and lips, sometimes murdering Bantu-White South Africa's racist term for black them, as well as burning cr~ps and bombing bridges. Subsistence Farming-Raising only enough food 10 people, the majority of the population. I meet basic needs. Most people who live in bantustans Namlbla-(nah-MIB-~e-ah) The country which cannot grow enough food to maintain good health. Black Consciousness Movement-A movement South Africa's military has bccupied since 1915. Na­ banned by the South African government which mibia was formerly called sputh West Africa. Sullivan Principles--A "fair employment code" for stresses pride in African heritage. It insists that blacks US businesses operating in South Africa, started by National Party-The ruling party in South Africa led · must take the initiative in their struggle for freedom. Rev. Leon Sullivan in 1976 while he was on the Boaro of by the Afrikaners. It came to power in on a 1948 General Motors. The code is used by the corporations Black Spot-Land in rural areas occupied by blacks, platform of , legalized apartheid and to hide their support for apartheid. sometimes for generations, in "whites only" areas of stripped blacks of all rights. i South Africa. These communities are the first target of I Swazlland-(SWA-zee-land) A small, land-locked Nkomatl Peace Accor~-By supporting the MNR forced removals. nation between South Africa and Mozambique. and carrying out sabotage against its neighbors, South Black Township-The "blacks only" part of urban Africa has forced Mozambique to sign agreements UNITA-National Union for the Total Independence areas in South Africa. Townships are far from jobs, which forbid it to militarily support ANC and PAC. of Angola. A South· Africa~supported group created to overcrowded with poor housing, ·little electricity or However, South Africa has not carried out its promise to overthrow and destabilize the government of AngoiE!. plumbing, and no sewage system. end support for the MNR merc~naries. Divestment-The withdrawal of funds from corpora­ Pan Afrlcanlst Congre•s (P~C)-South African tions and banks which support apartheid by doing liberation movement founded in 1959 based on black business in or with South Africa. nationalism. Banned by the government in 1961. '