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Contents: SHOULD AMERICAN BLACKS TOUR SOUTH AFRICA TO LECTURE OR ENTERTAIN SOUTH AFRICANS? • POPULATION • SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT • THE BANTUSTANS • OPPRESSIVE LAWS • APARTHEID • STANDARD OF LIVING • INVESTMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA • THE OUTWARD POLICY • ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY • ARMED RESISTANCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA • ACCOMMODATION • RESISTANCE • RESIST IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD • DIRECT CONTRIBUTIONS • AFRO-AMERICANS STAY HOME • This report makes the case for American Blacks not going to South Africa, where special efforts are being made to get them to visit. The report says that, after a twelve-year boycott, several blacks have recently gone to South Africa, including singer Percy Sledge, who entertained segregated black and white audiences there in May, 1970; Eartha Kitt, who entertained white South Africans in Swaziland in October 1971 and will tour South Africa in April 1972; and Lee Elder, who competed in a golf tournament in South Africa in December 1971. In addition, several reported tours were cancelled, involving Sammy Davis Jr. to entertain South Africans in Swaziland, Aretha Franklin to entertain Africans in South Africa, and Muhammad Ali to give ten lectures in South Africa. The report says any accommodation with the present racist regime is traitorous to the 8,000 militant Africans imprisoned in South African jails; is injurious to the liberation struggles being fought in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau; and aids the confusion and disunity that white rulers in South Africa are trying to foster. The report asks people to send contributions to the African Nation Congress of South Africa, FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union), SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization) and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). The report discusses the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the African National Congress (ANC), General Motors (GM), Ford, Chrysler, international capitalism, the Nixon administration, the Azores military base, and Portuguese colonialism. [Note: The report misspells Bantustans as Bantuslands.]

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Should American Blacks Tour South Africa to Entertain Africans?

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