Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says Apartheid kills; The Internal Security Act (ISA) of South Africa gives the government the power to detain people indefinitely without trial, ban people, organizations, gatherings and publications; it also allows the government to imprison and execute people for what it considers to be political offenses; in addition to the ISA, The Public Safety Act and the Public Safety Amendment Act allow the government to declare nation-wide or limited "mini" states of emergency during which the regime has virtually free reign to do as it pleases. The mailing includes a reprint of a newspaper article "Reform Called Incomplete in South Africa"...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says Apartheid kills; The Internal Security Act (ISA) of South Africa gives the government the power to detain people indefinitely without trial, ban people, organizations, gatherings and publications; it also allows the government to imprison and execute people for what it considers to be political offenses; in addition to the ISA, The Public Safety Act and the Public Safety Amendment Act allow the government to declare nation-wide or limited "mini" states of emergency during which the regime has virtually free reign to do as it pleases. The mailing includes a reprint of a newspaper article "Reform Called Incomplete in South Africa" by David B. Ottaway. The mailing discusses repressive legislation, the South African security forces, police, detentions, vigilante killings, townships, the international community, sanctions, F.W. de Klerk, the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936, the Black Communities Act, segregation, the Population Registration Act, voting, the European Community, the African National Congress (ANC), Gerrit Viljoen, constitutional development, whites, Indians, Coloreds, Planning and Provincial Affairs Minister Herus Kriel, the Land Bank, the Group Areas Act, formal housing, the General Law Amendments Bill, press reports, Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok, and right-wing terrorist cases.
