This fundraising brochure for the Africa Defense and Aid Fund of the American Committee on Africa focuses on a strike by some 15,000 Ovambo contract workers in Namibia. The brochure says the largest base metal producer in Namibia, where the contract workers struck, is U.S.-owned Tsumeb. • The Ovambo Strike • Voices from Namibia • Facts... • Behind the Strike • A Strike for Freedom • How It Happened • An Employer's View • Defense and Aid [Notes: 1) Date: The date of the strike identified as December 1972 was actually December 1971; excerpts from the transcript of a trial of 12 strikers is dated February 1972. 2) This document apparently had a tear-off reply form that is not part...
This fundraising brochure for the Africa Defense and Aid Fund of the American Committee on Africa focuses on a strike by some 15,000 Ovambo contract workers in Namibia. The brochure says the largest base metal producer in Namibia, where the contract workers struck, is U.S.-owned Tsumeb. • The Ovambo Strike • Voices from Namibia • Facts... • Behind the Strike • A Strike for Freedom • How It Happened • An Employer's View • Defense and Aid [Notes: 1) Date: The date of the strike identified as December 1972 was actually December 1971; excerpts from the transcript of a trial of 12 strikers is dated February 1972. 2) This document apparently had a tear-off reply form that is not part of this PDF.]
