i.d.a.f. news notes

The newsletter includes an IDAF interviewed Saki Macozoma, a native of KwaZakele near Port Elizabeth, who worked for the Dependents' Conference of the South African Council of Churches from 1982 to 1984, conducted on April 15, 1986. The newsletter says Mr. Macozoma returned in mid-March from a three-month visit to South Africa; he is currently writing his master's thesis for Boston University's School of Journalism. The newsletter reports anti-apartheid leader Saths Cooper was arrested a few hours before he was to address the Namibian Educational Forum, under legislation preventing "non-Europeans" from entering the territory. The newsletter reports three members of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group began talks with government officials and other interested parties in Cape Town; the Group's members included former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, former Nigerian head of state Olusegun Obasanjo, and the President of the World Council of Churches, Dame Nita Barrow. The newsletter reports State Department official Chester Crocker said it had been decided to supply the UNITA guerrillas in Angola with American aid. The newsletter reports Barclay's, one of the leading British banks, which had been criticized for its financial involvement with South Africa, announced it would lend no more money to South Africa until there was evidence of change in its apartheid laws. The newsletter includes a photograph of South Africa's Tandem Combat Helicopter, Alpha XH1. The newsletter includes information on apartheid, PEBCO (Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organization), the Kairos Document, Archbishop Denis Hurley, the Catholic Church, DeVilliers Soga, the Interdenominational African Ministers' Association, Winnie Mandela, Mary Benson, Ann Seidman, A.W. Singham, Shirley Hune, the Ciskei, the Transkei, or Bophuthatswana, Lebowa, the UDF (United Democratic Front), the State of Emergency, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Capt. DuToit, the South African Police (SAP), SADF (South African Defence Force), the Prisons Service, President Botha's "Rubicon II" speech, pass laws, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, the UN High Commission for Refugees, PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress), MNR (Mozambique National Resistance), Anglican bishop Simeon Nkoane, PFP (Progressive Federal Party), Alex Boraine, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, the UN Security Council, the Alexandra ghetto, Soweto, Nelson Mandela, the National Union of Mineworkers, ANC (African National Congress), Deputy Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok, Allan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, Vaal Reef gold mine, Nelspruit, Swiss debt mediator Fritz Leutwiler, South Africa's foreign debt, banks, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Andrew Sibusiso Zondo, limpet mines, Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique, Gorongosa, SWAPO, Dutch fugitive Klaas Dejonge, Helen Passtoors, the Internal Security Act, Enos Mabuza, the kaNgwane Bantustan, Oliver Tambo, plans for a big demonstration against the English cricket team, UN Resolution 435 on Namibian independence, John Vorster Square, Amnesty International, Home Affairs Minister Stoffel Botha, a CBS-TV news team, the Foreign Correspondents' Association, the Detainees' Parents Support Committee (DPSC), the Institute of Race Relations, President Quett Masire, the Zairean Embassy in Cuba, UNITA, Marion Sparg, Debbie Sparg, US Vice President George Bush, Cuban and South African troops, National Education Crisis Committee, the school boycott, Mkhuseli Jack of the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress, Henry Fazzie, the African boycott of white-owned stores in the Port Elizabeth area, Anthony Gilson, KwaThema, Jongumuzi Sisulu, 26, Walter Sisulu, James Dubasi, Lumkele Mkhefa, David Matsose, Joseph Maja, the Khuma ghetto, Kabokweni, Foreign Minister "Pik" Botha, Evo Fernandes, the United Union of Workers of South Africa, the kwaZulu Bantustan, COSATU, Sister Bernard Nkuve, petrol bombs, right-wing vigilantes, David Sitwell, Linda Frankel, the Crossroads ghetto, the Front-Line States, the Sharpeville rnassacre, Langa, Uitenhage, SWATF (South West Africa Territorial Force), Medecins du Monde, Maj. Gen. Lekhanya, the Highlands Water Project, the Black Consciousness Movement, Moses Mabhida, the South African Communist Party, the Pope, and Patrick Mvemve. Contents: Report from South Africa: A talk with Saki Macozoma • New Publications Available from ADAF/USA • Southern Africa News Calendar February and March 1986 • Official Violence • Censorship • News Blackout • POLICE REPORTS • Still an Emergency • News Blackout • POLICE REPORTS • Acronyms and Abbreviations