African Activist Archive

Contents: Peru's New President Attacks IMF • PRISON BREAK Rocks San Salvador • SOUTH AFRICA 4 Months of Township Unrest • NEWS around the world • Buy Perrier Stock • Poor Uncle • COUP • Clouded thinking at Foggy Bottom • Forward • Sick...sick...sick • One the wire • Kulture • Genocide • I thought I was a little hungry • No More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis! • A New Beginning in Richmond • Civil Revolution! • From the Mouths of Babes... • HELL in a handbasket • CROSSING BORDERS • Notes on the Demonstration • The newsletter says the declaration of a State of Emergency in many parts of South Africa follows months of unrest, mainly in Black townships. It reports on clashes with the police follow dismissals of 14,400 Black miners after strikes over Vaal Reefs gold mine. The newsletter discusses the fourth day of mass boycott involving thousands of Blacks against white-owned stores in Port Elizabeth. The newsletter says the Ugandan Army has overthrown the government of Milton Obote. The newsletter says the State Department reports that they do not believe that the government of South Africa will be overthrown anytime soon; last time a similar report was issued was in 1979 about Iran under the Shah. In South Africa, funerals turn into demonstrations of resistance and youth battle with tanks and guns with sticks and stones. The newsletter says in Namibia, South African occupation troops drew mortar fire from SWAPO guerillas near the Angolan border. The newsletter discusses Uitenhage, the Sharpeville massacre, a gasoline-bomb, policemen, teargas, a funeral in Swide, Kwanobuhle, the township of Bontrug, clashes between migrant workers and longtime residents of Tsakane, police, the army, the Soweto uprising, the Transkei, Kwa Thema, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the African National Congress (ANC), SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization), the Coalition of Environmental Designers Against Apartheid, U.C. Berkeley Divestment Coalition, UC (University of California), Women Under Apartheid, Twiggs Xiphu, divestment, and the U.C. Berkeley Campaign Against Apartheid.

African Activist Archive

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