African Activist Archive

The newsletter says meetings between representatives of five Western powers and officials of the South African regime have stirred a rash of reports and rumors about a breakthrough in settling the issue of Namibian independence. The newsletter reports Southern Africa has been a veritable treasure trove of the minerals so vital for the highly industrialized societies of the West; gold and diamonds are but the most exotic; copper, zinc, lead, coal abound; Namibia is one of the world's major sources of uranium ore. The newsletter includes a quote by Olof Palme, leader of the Swedish Social Democratic party. The newsletter includes excepts from a Pastoral Letter by Bishop Colin O'Brien Winter, the exiled Bishop of Damaraland, that bears the date 'Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer'. The newsletter includes part of a brochure by Namibia Support Committee in London produced as part of a campaign to provide medical kits to SWAPO. The newsletter reports the 'Golden Harvest' is midway in its 7,000 mile voyage to bring 4,500 books - requested by Namibians but banned by the illegal South African occupation authorities - to the port of Walvis Bay. The newsletter says Dr. and Ms. Oliver Munyaradzi express their deep thanks to all those in this country who sent messages of love and solidarity during the doctor's long period of detention in one of Ian Smith's prison camps. The newsletter discusses the Turnhalle conference, South African Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Vice President Walter Mondale, Andrew Young, United Nations Security Council resolution 385, political prisoners, Katutura township outside Windhoek, President Jimmy Carter, Britain, Rossing, the Cunene River dam complex, German professor Wolfgang Thomas, the South African Defence Force (SADF), Lt. Gen. Constand Viljoen, General Magnus Malan, the Western Powers, Philadelphia Namibia Action Group, and St. Augustine by-the-Sea in Santa Monica. Contents: SETTLEMENT IN NAMIBIA? • TREASURE • 'MY FUTURE IS TOTALLY BOUND UP WITH NAMIBIA' • The Liberation Struggle in Namibia • THE VOYAGE OF THE "GOLDEN HARVEST" • A NAMIBIA PEACE CENTER IN AMERICA • A 'THANK YOU' FROM ZIMBABWE TO AMERICAN FRIENDS

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