Personalized funding appeal from The Africa Fund discusses political prisoners in South African prison cells, some of whom are personal friends. The mailing says Archbishop Desmond Tutu's office has just appealed to for help for one of these prisoners, Nomaindia Meeketo, a nursing mother who is now in prison for the second time. Some of these courageous people may well die or "disappear" unless we reach many more Americans and increase the pressure on the apartheid government. The mailing includes a newspaper article "South African Family Mourns Son Who 'Disappeared'," by Christopher S. Wren. The mailing discusses Pollsmoor Prison, Simon Voko, the Security Police, Mikhosi Sizani, Benedict...
Personalized funding appeal from The Africa Fund discusses political prisoners in South African prison cells, some of whom are personal friends. The mailing says Archbishop Desmond Tutu's office has just appealed to for help for one of these prisoners, Nomaindia Meeketo, a nursing mother who is now in prison for the second time. Some of these courageous people may well die or "disappear" unless we reach many more Americans and increase the pressure on the apartheid government. The mailing includes a newspaper article "South African Family Mourns Son Who 'Disappeared'," by Christopher S. Wren. The mailing discusses Pollsmoor Prison, Simon Voko, the Security Police, Mikhosi Sizani, Benedict Moshoke, the Security Branch, Houtkop Prison, the Reagan Administration, "South Africa Now", the media, the Sharpeville Six, P.W. Botha, Matome Bopape, Johannes Maisha Bopape, Stanza Bopape, Rev. Nico Smith, Mamelodi Civic Association, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan J. Vlok, the African National Congress (ANC), Steven Biko, Jan Van Eck, Keith Coleman, the Community Resource and Information Center, the state of emergency, detentions, disappearances, and murders.
