Press release condemns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for presenting a key to that city to the South Africa Consul General, Sean Cleary. The press release quotes Jean Sindab, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Africa. It says that the key was presented at a quiet, unpublicized ceremony to which the press was not invited. The Washington Office on Africa charges that the Mayor deliberately attempted to keep the ceremony quite to avoid further protests over South Africa's presence and that local activists succeeded in preventing the Consul General's office from opening in Los Angeles, so it was opened instead in Beverly Hills. Since the office opened in Beverly Hills two years ago,...
Press release condemns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for presenting a key to that city to the South Africa Consul General, Sean Cleary. The press release quotes Jean Sindab, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Africa. It says that the key was presented at a quiet, unpublicized ceremony to which the press was not invited. The Washington Office on Africa charges that the Mayor deliberately attempted to keep the ceremony quite to avoid further protests over South Africa's presence and that local activists succeeded in preventing the Consul General's office from opening in Los Angeles, so it was opened instead in Beverly Hills. Since the office opened in Beverly Hills two years ago, the Coalition to Stop the South African Consulate has held monthly protests demanding its closure. The press release says CONTACT: Kenneth Zinn.
