SOUTH AFRICA, APARTHEID & U.S. INVOLVEMENT

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Creator

Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee

Place Created

Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Date

March 1979

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Leaflet advertising an event with Dumisani Kumalo on March 22, 1979 at Woodland Street Community School. The leaflet says Kumalo worked as a journalist in South Africa since 1965 for The Post Newspapers, Drum magazine, The World, and as chief reporter for the Johannesburg Sunday Times Extra (Black edition). As a journalist, he exposed conditions of black migrant workers in the mines, use of child labor on farms, abuses of police power, and deaths in detention. The leaflet says he flex South African in June 1977 following police harassment. He is a founder of the Union of Black Journalists, an organization in the Black Consciousness Movement that was banned by the South African government in...

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Organization

Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of former members of the Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee.

Collection

Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee (Peggy Buchanan collection)