The mailing reports that, on March 21, the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, police opened fire on a crowd of blacks on their way to a funeral in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, killing at least 18 and wounding 29 others. Accounts by black witnesses put the number of deaths as high as 45. The mailing quotes South African Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange and the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. It also discusses "constructive engagement" and quotes President Ronald Reagan. The mailing discusses the banning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), and other black organizations and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and many...
The mailing reports that, on March 21, the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, police opened fire on a crowd of blacks on their way to a funeral in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, killing at least 18 and wounding 29 others. Accounts by black witnesses put the number of deaths as high as 45. The mailing quotes South African Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange and the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. It also discusses "constructive engagement" and quotes President Ronald Reagan. The mailing discusses the banning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), and other black organizations and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and many other black leaders. The mailing asks people to write President Reagan protesting his remarks about the shooting and calling for an end to "constructive engagement" and for a U.S. policy that demands the immediate end of apartheid. The mailing asks people to write their Senators and Representatives urging them to co-sponsor and support speedy passage of sanctions legislation, particularly HR 997 (sponsored by Rep. Ronald Dellums) mandating the withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa, HR 1460/S 635 (sponsored by Rep. William H. Gray II and Senator Edward Kennedy), as well as other anti-apartheid legislation currently before Congress that would impose strong economic sanctions on South Africa.
