Contents: STOP PRESS! International Mediation Fails To End Buthelezi Election Boycott • Petitions Delivered • Election Watch Coordinator in South Africa • ELECTION DAY EVENTS • Chicago • San Francisco Bay Area • Los Angeles • Newark, New Jersey • Washington, DC • New York City • SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION WATCH CAMPAIGN MATERIALS • The newsletter says as Election Watch Update went to press a high level team of international mediators, headed by Henry Kissinger and former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Carrington, failed to persuade Kwazulu bantustan chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi to end his election boycott; despite limited deployment of the South African army in KwaZulu...
Contents: STOP PRESS! International Mediation Fails To End Buthelezi Election Boycott • Petitions Delivered • Election Watch Coordinator in South Africa • ELECTION DAY EVENTS • Chicago • San Francisco Bay Area • Los Angeles • Newark, New Jersey • Washington, DC • New York City • SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION WATCH CAMPAIGN MATERIALS • The newsletter says as Election Watch Update went to press a high level team of international mediators, headed by Henry Kissinger and former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Carrington, failed to persuade Kwazulu bantustan chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi to end his election boycott; despite limited deployment of the South African army in KwaZulu to protect voters from boycott violence, over 200 KwaZu1u residents have been murdered over the past two weeks; failure of the last-ditch mediation effort sets the stage for massive violence by Buthelezi supporters in the days ahead. The newsletter reports on April 4 Africa Fund Trustees Chair Dr. Tilden LeMelle, Executive Director Jennifer Davis and national NAACP representative Clifford Collins delivered thousands of signatures on Election Watch petitions to the Clinton Administration; the petitions, from 35 states, called on Washington to speak out more forcefully against election violence and fraud; the delegation met with a high level Administration group headed by senior State Department official Ambassador April Glaspie. The newsletter says Election Watch Campaign coordinator Dumisani Kumalo arrived in South Africa this week as part of The Africa Fund election monitoring team; Dumisani's first report to the Election Watch network is enclosed; both he and Africa Fund Executive Director Jennifer Davis will be reporting from South Africa next week. The newsletter includes ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER HOPE CRUSHED ... A Letter from Johannesburg ... From Dumisani s. Kumalo. The mailing includes a sample BALLOT PAPER. The newsletter includes reprints of newspaper articles including: "Army treads warily into KwaZulu flashpoints" by Alec Russell, "Kissinger: Wrong Man for the Job" by Les Payne, "Crisis grows as talks stall on KwaZulu" by David Beresford, and "Millions may boycott poll over risk of reprisals" by Christopher Munnion. The newsletter discusses KwaMashu township, Skukuza, Henry Kissinger, the Division of Global Mission, the Southern Africa Network of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Joan Gerig, the U.S. - South Africa Sister Community Project, the Oukasie Sister Community Project, the Mfengu Sister Community Project, the Countdown to Freedom Coalition, Estella Holeman, the Presbytery of Newark, Rev. Alfred B. Johnson, the South African Educational Campaign, Mike Kiernan, InterAction, the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, Judge Leon Higginbotham, the African National Congress (ANC), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Bill Lynch, Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Rev. Sipho Mzimela, pangas, knobkerries, security forces, the Mlaba camp, assassinations, King Goodwill Zwelithlini, and the Human Sciences Research Council.
