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Contents: PEACEMAKING IN SOUTH AFRICA • Spectre of famine in Southern Africa • The newsletter reports S'khumbuzo Mbatha Ngwenya was shot dead about 9:30 pm on 8 February 1992 outside a restaurant in the Natal Midlands city of Pietermaritzburg within earshot of South African colleagues and a group of visiting Americans with whom he had been dining and talking; witnesses saw two young men fire bullets in Ngwenya's neck and then flee in a white automobile; it was a professional assassination of a leading peacemaker, the kind of person so desperately needed in South Africa and therefore a prime target of elements in the South African security forces and their allies who promote chaos in order to derail any movement toward a democratic and peaceful settlement in South Africa. The newsletter reprints newspaper articles including "The war on the corner of Third", "The battle for Alexandra" by Philippa Garson, "Abusing the yes vote" by Allister Sparks, and "Victim of a terror machine" by Fred Bridgland. The newsletter reprints 'PRIEST SAY "PRAY FOR US" AS FIGHTING CONTINUES IF ALEXANDRA' by Southern Africa Church News. The newsletter reprints SUMMARY REPORT ON REPRESSION FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 1992 by the Human Rights Commission. The newsletter reprints "THE REEF VIOLENCE: TRIBAL WAR OR TOTAL STRATEGY?" by Dr. David Everatt of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE) and Safoora Sadek of the Human Rights Commission. The newsletter reprints "BISHOP RUSSELL FASTS FOR FARM WORKERS" by Southern Africa Church News. The newsletter discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Police (SAP), the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA), the United Democratic Front (UDF), Peter Kerchhoff. The Imbali Rehabilitation Programme, the Alexandra Health Clinic, gunshot wounds, Fr. Ronnie Cairns, a Roman Catholic priest, the Order of Mary Immaculate, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the Alexandra Peace Committee, Zozo huts, AK47s, police Casspirs, Emma Lekanyane, the SADF (South African Defence Force), Petunia Sathekge, deaths in detention, formal repression, political trials, political prisoners, death sentences. Soweto, train attacks, repressive legislation, detention without trial, Unrest Areas, banning of gatherings, Ciskei, AZAPO, PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress), Namibian President Sam Nujoma, rains croplands, boreholes, the Anglican Bishop of Grahamstown, Rev. David Russell, St. George's Cathedral, the Terrorism Act, the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, Antonio da Costa Fernandes, General Miguel Nzau Puna, Tito Chingunji, Wilson dos Santos, the MPLA, F.W. de Klerk, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the National Party (NP), the Democratic Party (DP), the National Peace Accord, and the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB).

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