African Activist Archive

The newsletter article "Poised on the Razor's Edge" discusses Pretoria's declaration of a nationwide State of Emergency. Enormous efforts by the British Commonwealth nations for economic pressures have run aground of the Thatcher government in Britain. More multi-national corporations are getting out of South Africa but still oppose disinvestment and sanctions, which the U.S. Reagan administration insists that sanctions won't work. The newsletter includes newspaper articles: "Crossroads: A special kind of removal" by Josette Cole of the Surplus People Project, "A revolution in the township"" by Michael Dutfield, "The Comrade in the system" by Michael Robinson and Enos Mabuza, "Under South Africa's Restrictive System, Blacks Get a Bitter Taste From Capitalism" by Steve Mufson, "Commonwealth Group End S. African Effort" by Karen DeYoung, and "Botha's black warriors" by David Beresford. The newsletter includes a copy of a banned leaflet, FREE OUR COMRADES. The newsletter includes information on SWAPO, the African National Congress (ANC), Khayelitsha, Timo Bezuidenhoud, Christopher Toise, Melford Yamile, Alfred Sipika, Gerrit Viljoen, Cape Youth Congress (CAYCO), Johnson Ngvobongwana, United Women's Organization (UWO), the United Democratic Front (UDF), Black Sash, Urban Foundation, Chris Heunis, Western Cape Development Board, squatters, Munsieville, townships, Simon Skosana, KwaNdebele Bantustan, Kangwane, Enos Mabuza, H.S. Majola, Black Chain Ltd., Leon Louw, Free Market Foundation, P.W. Botha, Soweto, the African Bank, Sam Motsuenyane, National African Federated Chamber of Commerce, the Native Land Act of 1913, Eric Mafuna, Eminent Persons Group, Malcolm Fraser, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nelson Mandela, the Conservative Party, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, Shridath Ramphal, Kenneth Kaunda, vigilante violence, Umlazi township, Ciskei, Lennox Sebe, Kwazulu, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Nicholas Haysom, Mbhokoto, Bophuthatswana, Huhudi Civic Association (HUCA), Alexandra township, Kagiso township, Cecil Esau, Churches Planning Commission, and the Security Police.

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