Mailing including cover letter, ELECTION BRIEFING Issue Number One, and newspaper articles. The letter says, it now seems likely, after two years of stop-and-start negotiations, that South Africa's first non-racial elections will be held in April 1994, but there is still no guarantee what may happen next. Mr. F.W. de Klerk and his apartheid allies have yet to negotiate in "good faith." The ELECTION BRIEFING consists of an article, ROADBLOCKS ON THE WAY TO ELECTIONS, by Dumisani S. Kumalo. Reprinted newspaper articles include "30 000 monitors needed for first poll - Bizos" by Ray Hartley, "Sixteen is old enough to vote, say clerics" by Ray Hartley, and "Countdown to democracy." The mailing...
Mailing including cover letter, ELECTION BRIEFING Issue Number One, and newspaper articles. The letter says, it now seems likely, after two years of stop-and-start negotiations, that South Africa's first non-racial elections will be held in April 1994, but there is still no guarantee what may happen next. Mr. F.W. de Klerk and his apartheid allies have yet to negotiate in "good faith." The ELECTION BRIEFING consists of an article, ROADBLOCKS ON THE WAY TO ELECTIONS, by Dumisani S. Kumalo. Reprinted newspaper articles include "30 000 monitors needed for first poll - Bizos" by Ray Hartley, "Sixteen is old enough to vote, say clerics" by Ray Hartley, and "Countdown to democracy." The mailing discusses Nelson Mandela, the democratic movement, the assassination of Chris Hani, no-go areas, KwaZulu, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana, Gatsha Buthelezi, Lucas Mangope, Oupa Gqozo, the African National Congress (ANC), Judge Richard Goldstone, polling stations on election day, a Transitional Executive Council (TEC), voter registration, identity cards, Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), George Bizos, political parties, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the South African Catholic Bishops Conference, the World Conference of Religion and Peace, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Laurie Nathan, political violence, Walter Kamba, the Institute for Contextual Theology, Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Gerrie Lubbe, nonracial elections, the National Party, Inkatha, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the Conservative Party, and the Government of National Unity.
