The pamphlet says the ugly face of apartheid is once again on the front page of U.S. newspapers; it has been put there by the biggest crackdown by the South African regime since Soweto, and the subsequent wave of protests and arrests at embassies and on campuses across the country; at the same time, Reagan has continued to push hos collaborationist policy of "constructive engagement." The pamphlet says it is critical, now more than ever, that progressive women in the U.S. size every opportunity to voice our opposition to apartheid. The pamphlet says South Africa has distinguished itself by being the only advanced capitalist country in the world that pays the majority of its workforce, Africans,...
The pamphlet says the ugly face of apartheid is once again on the front page of U.S. newspapers; it has been put there by the biggest crackdown by the South African regime since Soweto, and the subsequent wave of protests and arrests at embassies and on campuses across the country; at the same time, Reagan has continued to push hos collaborationist policy of "constructive engagement." The pamphlet says it is critical, now more than ever, that progressive women in the U.S. size every opportunity to voice our opposition to apartheid. The pamphlet says South Africa has distinguished itself by being the only advanced capitalist country in the world that pays the majority of its workforce, Africans, less than starvation wages to survive. The pamphlet says since 1960, the South African government has removed 3.5 million Blacks from white areas to areas designated for Blacks. The pamphlet says African women are increasingly being banished to the barren reserves, where they are bound to still another set of "customary laws" passed and enforced by puppet chiefs; these laws distort African tribal customs in order to implement apartheid on the bantustans. The pamphlet includes a photograph of women participating in an anti-apartheid demonstration in Oakland in January 1985. The pamphlet discusses the ANC Women's League, Florence Matomela, the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws, the Federation of South African Women (FSAW), the Congress of the People, the Indian Congress, the Coloured People's Congress, the Congress of Democrats, Lillian Ngoyi, South African Women's Day, the Sharpeville massacre, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Students Organization (SASO), the Black Consciousness Movement, Mamphela Ramphele, Thenjiwe Mtintso, Steve Biko, the Women's Federation of South Africa, the United Women's Organization, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Pik Botha, Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick, the South African Coast Guard, the Reagan Administration, the International Monetary Fund, the African National Congress (ANC), the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Doris Tamana, the Bantu Urban Areas Act, and Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker. The pamphlet includes quotes by Annie Silinga, G.F. van L. Froneman, Albertina Sisulu, Nomazizi Sokundela, Alexander Haig, and Ida Mntwana. • APARTHEID: PERFECTING THE ART OF OPPRESSION • "SUPERFLUOUS APPENDAGES" • WOMEN IN THE TOWNS • WOMEN ON THE RESERVES • UNITY, STRENGTH, DETERMINATION: THE RESISTANCE • APARTHEID'S BENEFICIARIES • FREE SOUTH AFRICA!
