African Activist Archive

The newsletter says the victory of the Patriotic Front in the February elections in Zimbabwe has sent shock waves throughout the world, especially into South Africa. The newsletter calls for heightened pressure for amnesty for opposition leaders in South Africa so there can be a national dialogue. People are asked to send messages to South Africa's Ambassador to the U.S., Donald B. Sole. The newsletter discusses the factions within the Afrikaner ruling National Party between Prime Minister Botha, who advocates loosening some minor apartheid restrictions and building a black elite in the country's urban areas and installing a black governing class in the bantustans, and hardliners who rally around Andries Truernicht, head of the powerful party caucus in Transvaal Province. The newsletter reports on the death of Lillian Masediba Ngoyi, a long-time, honored leader in the struggle against oppression; she was living at her home in Soweto under the latest of a series of banning orders stretching back to 1962. The newsletter reports that the Black Sash, the organization of white women opposed to apartheid and anti-democratic acts of the Pretoria regime, held its 25th annual conference in Johannesburg in mid-March. It also includes the text of a letter of President Jimmy Carter to Prime Minister Pieter Botha. The newsletter reports on a university study in South Africa that determined that a black household in Johannesburg needs 258.84 Rand per month (about $321). The newsletter quotes Zinzi Mandela and mentions Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Prime Minister Pieter Botha, Percy Qoboza, the Sunday Post, 20th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre of March 21, 1960, amnesty, the South African Parliament, South African Defence Force (SADF), General Magnus Malan, Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, Selous Scouts, Ian Smith, Abel Muzorewa, Colonel Ron Reid-Daly, Robert Mugabe, African National Congress (ANC), ANC Women's League, 1952 Defiance Campaign, Treason Trial, influx control, pass laws, the Cillie Commission on the 1976 uprising in Soweto, migrant labor, the Olympic Games being held in Moscow, South African Police (SAP), the House of Assembly, Police Minister Louis le Grange, detention, Terrorism Act, Domestic Workers and Employers Project (DWEP), and unemployment.

African Activist Archive

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