African Activist Archive

Two memos for the Trustees meeting on, November 20, contain a proposed budget for 1976 and SUGGESTED AFRICA FUND PROJECTS FOR 1976, including descriptions of the need for each project. 1. South Africa: Many South African students at "tribal colleges" have been harassed, arrested, banned, and denied the right to continue their education because of their "political" activities. A committee of African teachers, parents, and black community leaders is seeking scholarships to help them attend college in neighboring countries or take correspondence courses, along with legal defense and family assistance. • 2. Namibia: More than 5,000 Namibian refugees have escaped into Angola and eventually Zambia in the past five years. This has placed a burden on SWAPO, and there are immediate needs, including schooling for children and basic literacy for adults. • 3. Zimbabwe: Negotiations for majority rule have broken down, and refugees from Zimbabwe in Zambia, Mozambique, and Botswana need assistance. • 4. Mozambique: The newly independent government is giving highest priority to the problems of the rural population, since 99% of the people depend upon agriculture for their livelihood. • 5. Guinea-Bissau: The Africa Fund has established close links with the PAIGC's Solidarity Hospital, which has moved inside the new Republic of Guinea-Bissau from neighboring Republic of Guinea. The hospital is responsible for training health workers. • 6. Cape Verde: The newly independent government must build an education system for 70,000 primary and secondary school children; Orlando Mascarenhas, president of the Solidarity Institute which has taken on many of the concrete tasks of social reconstruction, has appealed for assistance. • 7. South Africa Political Prisoners - Legal Defense: Both Namibia and South Africa have seen new waves of political arrests in the past year in response to a rising tide of black opposition to oppressive white minority rule. • 8. Emergency Assistance - The Africa Fund is constantly appealed to by students either in the U.S. or in Africa, by political refugees, and by visitors with various difficulties. The Suggested Projects memorandum mentions Hidipo Hamutenya, political prisoners, the African National Council led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, sanitary posts (or clinics), rural villages, communal villages, George Houser, agriculture, education, health, agricultural implements, colonial rule, doctors, nurses, détente, detentions, torture by security police, and assistance to families of political detainees and prisoners.

African Activist Archive

To: Trustees of The Africa Fund

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