Program for performances of Athol Fugard's plays "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" and "The Island". The program says nearly all the countries of the world have voiced their opposition to South Africa's apartheid system, its illegal occupation of Namibia, and its invasion into Angola, and have called for economic sanctions; but the U.S. repeatedly has undermined those initiatives; U.S. banks, corporations and the U.S. government continue to provide economic, military and diplomatic support to an isolated South African government. The program includes information on the actors James Avery and J. Wesley Huston. The program says the sponsors are Seattle Central Community College, the American Friends Service...
Program for performances of Athol Fugard's plays "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" and "The Island". The program says nearly all the countries of the world have voiced their opposition to South Africa's apartheid system, its illegal occupation of Namibia, and its invasion into Angola, and have called for economic sanctions; but the U.S. repeatedly has undermined those initiatives; U.S. banks, corporations and the U.S. government continue to provide economic, military and diplomatic support to an isolated South African government. The program includes information on the actors James Avery and J. Wesley Huston. The program says the sponsors are Seattle Central Community College, the American Friends Service Committee, Crossroads Ecumenical Theatre Group and the Paul Robeson Theatre Group. The program mentions Chrysler, Ford, the Reagan Administration, Alexander Haig, the Freedom Charter, the South African Investment Committee, the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, Luther James, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. • BACKGROUND • APARTHEID • RESISTANCE TO APARTHEID • THE CURRENT SITUATION • WHAT THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA WANT • "Sizwe Bansi Is Dead" • "The Island" • The Actors • The Sponsors [Note: the play "Sizwe Bansi Is Dead" was later called "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead".]
