South Africa Freedom Fund (Houston)

The South Africa Freedom Fund was an unincorporated association established for the purpose of helping to promote the abolition of apartheid and the peaceful transition to a nonracial, nonsexist, democratic South Africa. The South Africa Freedom Fund sent a team of observers to South African first nonracial elections held in April 1994. The Board of Directors was Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University; Reverend William A. Lawson, Pastor of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church; Paula Littles, President of the Houston branch of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and Vice-President of OCAW Local 4367; and Tuwani Rasengane, member of the African National Congress and graduate student at the University of Houston. (Source: ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION SOUTH AFRICA FREEDOM FUND; and Thomas Kleven, a former Board member of the South Africa Freedom Fund.) [Note: the South Africa Freedom Fund was not affiliated with the organization of the same name in Minneapolis, Minnesota.]