African Activist Archive

The press release says Nelson Mandela was released Sunday, February 11, 1990 at 9:15 AM EST; Mandela's release is significant because in so doing the white minority government has recognized the end of apartheid is inevitable. The press release says the black South African struggle has achieved a great victory; in addition external pressure placed on the white minority South African government through economic sanctions have also been effective such as those imposed by the United States Congress (overriding a Reagan veto) 1986 and by other nations in Europe and throughout the world. The press release says national anti-apartheid sanctions followed anti-apartheid actions at the grass roots level nationally and worldwide; the Lansing area is no exception. The press release discusses the East Lansing City Council, MSU (Michigan State University) Board of Trustees, divest, corporations which invest in South Africa, banks making loans, State Senator Vaughn, State Representative Virgil Smith, State Representative Perry Bullard, the African Students Union, the Michigan State University Black Faculty and Administrators Association, the National PanHellenic Council, the Coalition Against Racism and Apartheid on Campus, ASMSU, pension funds, and stocks of corporations operating in South Africa.

African Activist Archive

[Nelson Mandela was released Sunday, February 11, 1990 at 9:15 AM EST]

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