The newsletter says that nearly 80,000 people from all over South Africa filled a soccer stadium in Soweto for the biggest African National Congress (ANC) rally every held in South Africa, which was held in defiance of the State of Emergency and laws banning gatherings and demonstrations. The newsletter includes quotations by Walter Sisulu, one of the seven released ANC political prisoners, and Tebogo Mafole, the ANC's chief representative to the United Nations. The newsletter reports on "Apartheid in Wrong, A Curriculum for Young People" by Paula Bower published by Educators Against Apartheid. At the October meeting of Educators Against Apartheid, Shelley Harwane, Co-director of the Teachers...
The newsletter says that nearly 80,000 people from all over South Africa filled a soccer stadium in Soweto for the biggest African National Congress (ANC) rally every held in South Africa, which was held in defiance of the State of Emergency and laws banning gatherings and demonstrations. The newsletter includes quotations by Walter Sisulu, one of the seven released ANC political prisoners, and Tebogo Mafole, the ANC's chief representative to the United Nations. The newsletter reports on "Apartheid in Wrong, A Curriculum for Young People" by Paula Bower published by Educators Against Apartheid. At the October meeting of Educators Against Apartheid, Shelley Harwane, Co-director of the Teachers College Writing Project, showed slides of two African school where she worked last summer in Soweto and in Eshowe, and Lyndall Shope-Mafule, the representative of the National Youth Committee of the African National Congress to the United Nations and North America, talked about the struggle of students and educators to improve the education system. The newsletter includes articles from South African Panorama, the Namibia Newsletter, the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, and the World Council of Churches. It includes excerpts form a statement by Rev. Dr. Frank Chikane (Gen. Secretary SACC), Most Rev. Desmond Tutu (Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town), Rt. Rev. Dr. Stanley Mogoba (Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of SA), Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak (President of the World Alliance of Churches), Jay Naidoo (Gen. Secretary of COSATU), Phiroshaw Camay (Gen. Secretary of NACTU), Dr. Beyers Naude (former Gen. Secretary of SACC), and Fr. Smangaliso Mkhatshwa (Gen. Secretary of the Institute for Contextual Theology). The newsletter discusses the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), the Namibian election, Resolution 435, and the Dellums/Simon bills S.507 and H.R.21 that call for complete sanctions against South Africa. Contents: Defiance! • APARTHEID IS WRONG A Curriculum for Young People • Eyewitness to Apartheid • Namibia • Compare these views • LET THE TRUTH OUR ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA • Resource Books • Support Intro 1137 • EAA wins grant! • Forum: Eyewitness at SOMAFCO • Librarians oppose apartheid • Sanctions Now! • Help Us [Note: the correct spelling of the name is Tebogo Mafole, not Tibogo Mafole. The current spelling is Phiroshaw Camay, not Phiroshow.]
