African Activist Archive

This personalized funding appeal for the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law discusses the rising tide of expectations sweeping across South Africa, borne by the reforms wrested from the apartheid government and sustained by the promise of freedoms yet to come for the black majority. The mailing discusses important events of the past few months: Mandela's release from prison and his triumphal tour of the west; the emergence of anti-apartheid political parties after years of banned, underground existence; and the negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the ruling National party on ending apartheid and freeing political prisoners. The mailing discusses justice, equality, democracy, F.W. de Klerk, anti-apartheid reforms, the right to vote, jail, political dissidents, security legislation, the Mogopas, ancestral lands, the Crossroads squatters, vigilantes, the Soweto township, solitary confinement, torture, forced resettlement, racism, liberation, apartheid laws, adequate education, and basic health care.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Friends: A rising tide of expectations is sweeping across South Africa, borne by the reforms ...]

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