Leaflet advertising a rally on May 22 at Park Street Station, Boston, sponsored by Boston Mobilization for Survival, the Fund for a Free South Africa, and TransAfrica-Boston chapter. It says that, on May 1, more than 100 political prisoners went on hunger strike to the death in prisons throughout South Africa, and many are close to death in hospitals. They are on hunger strike because the de Klerk regime has not fulfilled its 1990 agreement to release all 2,200 political prisoners by April 30. The de Klerk government has done nothing to stop violent attacks by the Inkatha Party against the African National Congress (ANC), and in many cases the police and military aid those attacks. The leaflet...
Leaflet advertising a rally on May 22 at Park Street Station, Boston, sponsored by Boston Mobilization for Survival, the Fund for a Free South Africa, and TransAfrica-Boston chapter. It says that, on May 1, more than 100 political prisoners went on hunger strike to the death in prisons throughout South Africa, and many are close to death in hospitals. They are on hunger strike because the de Klerk regime has not fulfilled its 1990 agreement to release all 2,200 political prisoners by April 30. The de Klerk government has done nothing to stop violent attacks by the Inkatha Party against the African National Congress (ANC), and in many cases the police and military aid those attacks. The leaflet says the government is now threatening to impose a national State of Emergency. With all this going on, President Bush has made it clear he is eager to lift U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa. Slogans on the leaflet are RELEASE ALL SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IMMEDIATELY!; STOP THE VIOLENCE: END SO. AFRICAN GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY!; and MAINTAIN SANCTIONS UNTIL DEMOCRACY!
