In a fundraising mailing for The Africa Fund, Dumisani Kumalo describes going home to South Africa for the first time in 13 years. Kumalo says he went straight from the airport to Nelson Mandela's house in Soweto; they had extended talks, having not seen each other since Kumalo visited Mandela in prison in 1973.The mailing discusses apartheid, police, pro-government vigilantes, union organizers, church workers, student leaders, death squads, squatters, a "whites only" area near Cape Town, bulldozing, shacks, soldiers with machine guns, President F.W. de Klerk, political prisoners, African National Congress (ANC) T-Shirts, economic sanctions, U.S. bank loans, American investment, George Bush,...
In a fundraising mailing for The Africa Fund, Dumisani Kumalo describes going home to South Africa for the first time in 13 years. Kumalo says he went straight from the airport to Nelson Mandela's house in Soweto; they had extended talks, having not seen each other since Kumalo visited Mandela in prison in 1973.The mailing discusses apartheid, police, pro-government vigilantes, union organizers, church workers, student leaders, death squads, squatters, a "whites only" area near Cape Town, bulldozing, shacks, soldiers with machine guns, President F.W. de Klerk, political prisoners, African National Congress (ANC) T-Shirts, economic sanctions, U.S. bank loans, American investment, George Bush, Robben Island, Congressman William Gray, and democracy.
