i.d.a.f. news notes

Contents: Poverty and Space in South Africa • Editorial Overview • STOP PRESS • "Severest Censorship in the World" • Spate of Death Sentences • Southern Africa News Calendar November and December 1988, January 1989 • Subscriptions • Spate of Death Sentences • The newsletter reports on February 9, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele and Professor Francis Wilson appeared at Harvard University to discuss their new book, Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge, the result of a major study funded by the Carnegie Corporation and involving nearly 500 researchers. The newsletter includes excepts of a paper by Dr. Ramphele delivered the annual Rama Mehta Lecture of Radcliffe College from a talk and a radio interview by Professor Wilson. The newsletter reports the Natal Provincial Administration fired several thousand workers striking for a wage increase and recognition of their union, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union. The newsletter discusses the University of Cape Town's Southern Africa Labor and Development Research Unit, hostels, the Nationalist government, UN Security Council Resolution 435 of 1978, SWAPO, Lucas Sethwala, Justice "Basie" Bekebeke, uranium, the Sharpeville Six, P.W. Botha, Paballelo, Pieter G. Koornhof, "common purpose" doctrine, death sentences, Dirk Mudge, DTA (Democratic Tumhalle Alliance), UNITA, the Delmas treason trial, the Reagan Administration, Sam Nunn, David Boren, the Pepsi company, the Weekly Mail, The Citizen, Cuban troops, MNR (Mozambique National Resistance), Olivia Forsyth, ANC (African National Congress), White Liberation Movement (BBB, Blanke[s] Bevrydings Beweging), Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok, NUSAS, Operation Hunger, Frank Chikane, SACC (South African Council of Churches), Rev. Thomas Manthata, the Soweto Civic Association, UDF (United Democratic Front) Popo Molefe, Patrick Lekota , Moss Chikane, Kevin Woods, Michael Smith, Philip Conjwayo, Oupa Hlomoka, Patrick Baleka, Jeff Moselane, the State Department, apartheid, the oil embargo on South Africa, the Security Council, Azapo, Oliver Tambo, the World Council of Churches, Zeph Mothopeng, Harry Gwala, PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), police, Johnstone Makatini, Zwelakhe Sisulu, Diepkloof prison, Eric Molobi, NECC (National Education Crisis Committee), Charles Bester, SADF (South Africa Defence Force), SWAPO, Jason Angula, detention, the Group Areas Amendment Bill, coal exports, the Conservative Party, the Disclosure of Foreign Funding Bill, Janet Cherry, the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Human Rights Commission, Craig Van Note, Vrye Weekblad, Max du Preez, Theodore Hermanson , Johannes Basson, the Ciskei bantustan, IDASA (Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa), Eric Mntonga, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Inkatha, Amichand Rajbansi UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson, AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbewegin or Afrikanner Resistance Movement), Ashley Forbes, Magnus Malan, the Front Line States, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni, Raymond Mhlaba, Desmond Tutu, George Bush, Democratic People's Union, National Detainees Forum, Western Cape Students Congress and Western Cape Teachers Union, banned organizations, the Coloured Labor Party, Bophuthatswana, President Chissano, American Chamber of Commerce, U.S. exports to South Africa, Allan Boesak, Stoffel Both, AI-Qalam, Work in Progress, New Era, Grassroots, Eugene Terreblanche, Gen. Pericles Pereira Gomes, political violence, UNTAG, Katlehong, Irwin Manoim, Robert Mugabe, Jesse Jackson, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, Jonas Savimbi, Mandla Maseko, Simon Dladla, Chris Heunis, Sheena Duncan, sanctions, Javier Perez de Cuellar, the International Cricket Conference, Lawrence Zuma, Shayabantu Zondi, Damian Michael de Lange, Ian Robertson, Donelly, Hugh Lugg, Helen Suzman, Pietie du Plessis, Kenneth Kaunda, Abu-Baker Asvat, the Eminent Church Persons Group, Rev. Canaan Banana, and Winnie Mandela.