Memorandum sent as a mailing to Key Activists. The mailing says state-owned South African Airways has launched a national advertising blitz in a major new effort to break the tourism boycott; as you may know, in recent months, SAA has run anonymous television ads promoting "African Adventure" safaris; now we have learned that the South African Tourist Board has purchased space in a number of U.S. magazines for slick, promotional inserts. The mailing includes copy of a magazine article "Conscience-wrestling over South Africa ad" by John Motavalli. The mailing discusses Avenue magazine, the "Anthropological Tour", Kalahari Bushmen, Time magazine, Readers Digest, The New York Times, travel agents,...
Memorandum sent as a mailing to Key Activists. The mailing says state-owned South African Airways has launched a national advertising blitz in a major new effort to break the tourism boycott; as you may know, in recent months, SAA has run anonymous television ads promoting "African Adventure" safaris; now we have learned that the South African Tourist Board has purchased space in a number of U.S. magazines for slick, promotional inserts. The mailing includes copy of a magazine article "Conscience-wrestling over South Africa ad" by John Motavalli. The mailing discusses Avenue magazine, the "Anthropological Tour", Kalahari Bushmen, Time magazine, Readers Digest, The New York Times, travel agents, Century City, the Roosevelt Hotel, the genocidal extermination of San and Khoisan-speaking peoples and cultures by successive white supremacist regimes, the apartheid army, Conde Nast Traveler, the Congressional ban on SAA landing rights, sanctions, American Express, civil rights groups, the Urban League, Operation PUSH, Jim Berrien, Stephen Seabolt, Brian Cronin and Associates, Anthony Montgomery, Travel Holiday, The Africa Fund, William Eydt, Gavin Vander Merwe, Michael Fleshman, Graham Boynton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jeffrey Cunningham, Lori Anderson, Murdoch Magazines' European Travel and Life, Carl Portale, Playboy, and Michael Perlis.
