Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign focuses on the international campaign to stop the hanging of six people in the next few weeks for a crime they did not commit. The Sharpeville Six - Theresa Ramashamola, Mojalefa Sefatsa, Oupa Dinisa, Reid Mokoena, Duma Khumalo, and Francis Mokhesi - are facing the death penalty because they were part of an angry crowd of more than 100 people that killed a local government official in a township near Sharpeville in September 1984. The local town councillor was killed by unknown assailants after he opened fire on the demonstrators. The mailing asks people to send a telegram or letter to State President P.W. Botha urging him to grant clemency to...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign focuses on the international campaign to stop the hanging of six people in the next few weeks for a crime they did not commit. The Sharpeville Six - Theresa Ramashamola, Mojalefa Sefatsa, Oupa Dinisa, Reid Mokoena, Duma Khumalo, and Francis Mokhesi - are facing the death penalty because they were part of an angry crowd of more than 100 people that killed a local government official in a township near Sharpeville in September 1984. The local town councillor was killed by unknown assailants after he opened fire on the demonstrators. The mailing asks people to send a telegram or letter to State President P.W. Botha urging him to grant clemency to the Sharpeville Six and all other political prisoners presently on death row. The mailing discusses the United Nations, Amnesty International, President Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, "common purpose," Lekoa town councillor and Deputy Mayor Khuzwayo Dlamini, electric shocks, torture, police, Mojalefa Reginald Sefatsa, Oupa Moses Dinisa, Reid Malebe Mokoena, Duma Joshua Khumalo, Ambassador Pieter Koornhof, South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Immanuel Shifidi, and Francis Don Mokhesi. • THE CASE • WHO ARE THE SHARPEVILLE SIX? • FOR MORE INFORMATION
