Contents: PROJECTS • UNLOCK APARTHEID'S JAILS • SANCTIONS and DIVESTMENT • AID FOR APARTHEID'S VICTIMS • COMBATTING THE ATTACK OF THE FRONTLINE STATES • RESEARCH and EDUCATION • EDUCATING THE MEDIA • INFORMATION GENERATES ACTION • PUBLICATIONS: EXPOSING APARTHEID'S REALITY • MEMBERSHIP and FUNDRAISING • GENERAL and ADMINISTRATIVE • THE AFRICA FUND • 1987 FINANCIAL RESULTS • Trustees • Advisory Committee • The report says in 1987 the reality of apartheid was this: hundreds of thousands of people murdered, imprisoned, tortured or burned out of their homes. The report says the agony of apartheid extended beyond the 28 million black people in South...
Contents: PROJECTS • UNLOCK APARTHEID'S JAILS • SANCTIONS and DIVESTMENT • AID FOR APARTHEID'S VICTIMS • COMBATTING THE ATTACK OF THE FRONTLINE STATES • RESEARCH and EDUCATION • EDUCATING THE MEDIA • INFORMATION GENERATES ACTION • PUBLICATIONS: EXPOSING APARTHEID'S REALITY • MEMBERSHIP and FUNDRAISING • GENERAL and ADMINISTRATIVE • THE AFRICA FUND • 1987 FINANCIAL RESULTS • Trustees • Advisory Committee • The report says in 1987 the reality of apartheid was this: hundreds of thousands of people murdered, imprisoned, tortured or burned out of their homes. The report says the agony of apartheid extended beyond the 28 million black people in South Africa itself; the apartheid state took its war across regional borders to attack the new societies being built by the people of Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The report say using the media and a national network of community leaders, The Africa Fund found new ways to arouse the conscience of America; from Mobile, Alabama to Seattle, Washington, Africa Fund campaigns generated an outpouring of concern for political prisoners in South Arica, and a renewed awareness of the urgent need to end U.S. collaboration with apartheid; the drive enabled us to rush $175,000 in aid to refugees and other victims of apartheid. The report says the South African police raided the UDF office in Johannesburg and seized "Unlock Apartheid's Jails" leaflets and posters; then they banned the activities of the organization. The report says Tower Records and Videos collected keys to help "Unlock Apartheid's Jails". The report discusses the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the State of Emergency, prison torture, churches, synagogues, union halls, college campuses, Bill Cosby, Ambassador Joseph Garba, the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, Secretary General Perez de Cuellar, keys, the South African Consulate in New York, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Representative William Gray, Representative Ron Dellums, the South African Embassy, the United Democratic Front (UDF), political prisoners, Representative Charles Rangel, domestic tax credits, U.S. corporations operating in South Africa, Projects Director Rob Jones, The Africa Peace Tour, selective purchasing legislation, the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Executive Director Jennifer Davis, the African National Congress (ANC), Oliver R. Tambo, Africa Fund Chairman Tilden LeMelle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) and refugee center in Tanzania, anti-malarial drugs, mosquito netting, Namibian refugees living in camps, SWAPO, the Namibia liberation movement, MNR, UNITA, the Alabama Conference of Black Mayors, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the rap group Stetsasonic, Tommy Boy Music, local Boards of Education, the Mozambique Ministry of Information, A.F.R.I.C.A., state and municipal legislators, The Africa Fund Research Center, U.S. policy, U.S. opinion, Rev. Simon Farisani, the Northern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Max Coleman, the Detainees Parents Support Committee, Donsi Kumalo, divestment actions, Senators, Congressional Representatives, and campus organizers.
