The leaflet describes the protest action 30 years ago by 20,000 South African women in Pretoria to protest extension of the hated pass laws to women. Thousands wore the black and green blouses of the African National Congress (ANC). The leaflet says women now play the leading role in grassroots struggles over rent, housing, education, forced relocations and the rights of domestic workers. Women's groups make up 60% of the 600 organizations of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the broad coalition formed in 1984 to coordinate resistance to the apartheid regime's latest maneuvers. The South African military has invaded Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Lesotho. It is supporting UNITA contras...
The leaflet describes the protest action 30 years ago by 20,000 South African women in Pretoria to protest extension of the hated pass laws to women. Thousands wore the black and green blouses of the African National Congress (ANC). The leaflet says women now play the leading role in grassroots struggles over rent, housing, education, forced relocations and the rights of domestic workers. Women's groups make up 60% of the 600 organizations of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the broad coalition formed in 1984 to coordinate resistance to the apartheid regime's latest maneuvers. The South African military has invaded Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Lesotho. It is supporting UNITA contras in Angola in order to destabilize the frontline states and pressure them to abandon support of the ANC and SWAPO, which is fighting apartheid's occupation of Namibia. The leaflet says the Black majority has responded to the ANC's call to "make South Africa ungovernable"; 33 of the government's 38 puppet councils have been put out of commission. Despite draconian repression, the South African people have successfully sustained their resistance for two years, uniting the powerful Black trade union movement, youth and students, women's, community and church organizations. In open defiance, ANC banners and flags fly at funerals of people slain by police. International pressure is growing for the release of Nelson Mandela, recognized as the real leader of South Africa. The leaflet says Americans have a responsibility to pressure the Reagan administration and U.S. institutions to cut the lifelines to apartheid. It is important to continue to push for divestment and solid economic sanctions such as Representative Dellum's comprehensive sanction bill (H.R. 997). The leaflet says on International Women's Day 1986 the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO) launched the Dora Tamana Day Care center campaign to benefit the ANC Women's Section. The leaflet discusses Lilian Ngoyi, the Federation of South African Women, the ANC Women's League, Charlotte Maxebe, Albertina Sisula, treason, Victoria Mxenge, Ruth First, bantustans, Prime Minister Botha, Crossroads, the Soweto uprising, "constructive engagement," Winnie Mandela, and the Women's Federation of South Africa. The leaflet quotes Oliver Tambo and Olive Shisana. • WOMEN'S OPPRESSION APARTHEID STYLE • MAKING SOUTH AFRICA UNGOVERNABLE • FREE SOUTH AFRICA • AMANDLA! AWETU! POWER! LET IT BE YOURS! • LONG LIVE SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S DAY!
