African Activist Archive

Contents: The Tutu Express • Reflections on Tutu Visit • About the Organizations • A Crisis: Eyewitness Account • Eyewitness: South Africa • Nelson Mandela Speaks • URGENT ACTION!!!! • The newsletter includes an excerpt of Nelson Mandela's response to the conditional offer of freedom made in Parliament by President P.W. Botha. The document reports that the Right- Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu took Detroit by storm on January 15-16 and raised over $250,000 for a scholarship fund for South African students. His visit began with a press conference before a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul and included a public rally at Cobo Hall. The pamphlet includes articles reprinted from Crisis Magazine and from SOLIDARITY, the magazine of the United Auto Workers, October 1985. It discusses Sharpeville, pass laws, the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, the Church and the Society Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, economic sanctions, the Reagan administration, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the Krugerrand Educational Campaign, state divestment legislation, Royal Dutch Shell, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, the World Council of Churches, Margaret Baylor, apartheid, Cyril Ramaphosa, influx control laws, Reverend Allan Boesak, the World Alliance of Reform Churches, segregated townships, the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union (NAAWU), John Gomomo, Volkswagen (VW), black trade unions, Ford, General Motors (GM), Goodyear, Toyota, BMW, collective bargaining, shop stewards, Chris Dlamini, the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), Zinzi Mandela, Soweto, the African National Congress (ANC), Oliver Tambo, Malan, Strijdom, Verwoerd, armed struggle, citizenship, Herman Toivo ja Toivo, the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell, and local anti-apartheid activity. [Note: Toivo's name is often spelled Toivo ya Toivo.]

African Activist Archive

Michigan Coalition for Human Rights and the Free South Africa Movement

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