The newsletter says apartheid aims to destroy the black family. It quotes G.F. van L. Froneman, former Deputy Minister of Justice, Mines and Planning. The newsletter discusses South African Women's Day, commemorating the August 9, 1956 protest of the pass laws in Pretoria by 20,000 women lead by the Federation of South African Women. After delivering petitions to the office of the Prime Minister, the women stood in electric silence with the thumbs up salute of the African National Congress for a half hour and ended the demonstration with a new freedom song whose refrain is "Wathint' a bafazi, way ithint' imbolodo uzo kufa" - Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock, you have...
The newsletter says apartheid aims to destroy the black family. It quotes G.F. van L. Froneman, former Deputy Minister of Justice, Mines and Planning. The newsletter discusses South African Women's Day, commemorating the August 9, 1956 protest of the pass laws in Pretoria by 20,000 women lead by the Federation of South African Women. After delivering petitions to the office of the Prime Minister, the women stood in electric silence with the thumbs up salute of the African National Congress for a half hour and ended the demonstration with a new freedom song whose refrain is "Wathint' a bafazi, way ithint' imbolodo uzo kufa" - Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed! The Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid will observe the 30th year of South African Women's Day on August 19 with Nomazizi Sokudela, Head of Women's Section, African National Congress Observer Mission to the United Nations. The newsletter says the Reagan administration policy of Constructive Engagement is a complete failure. The administration has denied that economic sanctions will work against South Africa although they have imposed them in Nicaragua and Libya. The House of Representatives passed the Dellums Bill, which calls for comprehensive sanctions against South Africa; the Senate will soon vote on a similar bill. People are asked to call or write Senator Slade Gorton and Senator Dan Evens. The newsletter discusses the United Democratic Front (UDF), Ronald Reagan, and P.W. Botha. Contents: HONOR THE WOMEN ON SOUTH AFRICA Celebrate the Role of Women in the Freedom Struggle • IT'S NOT THE MESSENGER, IT'S THE MESSAGE Mandatory Sanctions: An Effective Policy Against Apartheid • What you can do to help impose U.S. sanctions
