African Activist Archive

Mailing includes a report by Projects Director Dumisani Kumalo, "While You Were Not Watching.... A Report on Local Elections in South Africa." As a result of this election on November 1, millions of Black South Africans will be represented in local government for the first time. This should help speed implementation of the Reconstruction and Development Program. The mailing includes Congress Cuts African Aid by 25 Percent. It also includes Stop The Killings and Torture, Support Senate Bill S-1419, The Nigeria Democracy Act with the newspaper article "19 more Ogonis face hanging as Nigerian major shows who's boss" by Chris McGreal. The newsletter includes reprints of newspaper articles including "Squatter now controls millionaire suburbs" by Charity Bhengu, "HOW PARTIES FARED," and "Right-wingers dream of a volkstaat lies in tatters" by Ray Hartley. The mailing discusses extending and preserving democracy, the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights activists, military dictatorship, sanctions, Mobil, Chevron, Senate Bill 1419, the Development Fund for Africa, a joint House-Senate conference committee, USAID, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, arms sales, Ogoniland, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Colonel Dauda Musa Komo, Major Obi Abel Umahi, African National Congress (ANC), the National Party (NP), apartheid, Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, the Freedom Front, the Democratic Party, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Chief Buthelezi, KwaZulu/Natal, Cape Town, Randburg, the Johannesburg North Metropolitan Sub-Structure, Albert Satywetwe, Zevenfontein, Diepsloot, Dainfern, William Menzeleleli, the Conservative Party (CP), the Freedom Front (FF), Ferdi Hartzenberg, Constand Viljoen, General Magnus Malan, former military leaders, murder charges, Carl Niehaus, and Kwazulu Natal.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Friends, As 1995 comes to a close the challenges ahead for those of us actively concerned about Africa are becoming clear.]

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