Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign reports on ten people who began a hunger strike on May 14 in Potchefstroom when they were detained for trying to organize a march on a local town council. The mailing says documentation continuous repression and violence by the apartheid government through 1990 demonstrates the fallacy of the public relations job equating the unbanning of political organizations, the release of some political prisoners, and the occurrence of "talks about talks" with the ending of apartheid and the birth of a humane South Africa. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING of 22 May 1990 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses F.W. de Klerk, the Pan...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign reports on ten people who began a hunger strike on May 14 in Potchefstroom when they were detained for trying to organize a march on a local town council. The mailing says documentation continuous repression and violence by the apartheid government through 1990 demonstrates the fallacy of the public relations job equating the unbanning of political organizations, the release of some political prisoners, and the occurrence of "talks about talks" with the ending of apartheid and the birth of a humane South Africa. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING of 22 May 1990 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses F.W. de Klerk, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Sam Chand, Japhta Mesemola, Benny Alexander, car accidents, the State of Emergency, the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Transkei Public Safety Act, Bophuthatswana, the Venda Maintenance of Law and Order Act, the Ciskei National Security Act, Zacharia Molekane, Patrick Maloi, Moses Duma, Joseph Molapisi, Ignetious Dipicho, Lorenti Sibidi, Willy Maphose, Denis Masuku, the Temba Youth Congress, Modderbee Prison, Pretoria Central Prison, and detention statistics.
