The commentary by Charles Cobb appeared in a number of local and Black papers. Cobb expresses pride in the campaign of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, while also expressing alarm at loss of power being suffered by our brothers and sisters in Southern Africa. In the last year, the racist white government of South Africa has tightened its economic and military stranglehold on the independent states of Angola and Mozambique, both of which had previously allowed South African freedom fighters to use their countries as bases of operation. South Africa funded rebel troops to destabilize Mozambique and used a more direct strategy in Angola, relentlessly bombing bases of South African freedom fighters located...
The commentary by Charles Cobb appeared in a number of local and Black papers. Cobb expresses pride in the campaign of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, while also expressing alarm at loss of power being suffered by our brothers and sisters in Southern Africa. In the last year, the racist white government of South Africa has tightened its economic and military stranglehold on the independent states of Angola and Mozambique, both of which had previously allowed South African freedom fighters to use their countries as bases of operation. South Africa funded rebel troops to destabilize Mozambique and used a more direct strategy in Angola, relentlessly bombing bases of South African freedom fighters located within Angola's borders and then proceeded to occupy Angolan territory. Cobb calls for strong and vocal support for Mozambique and Angola, which won their independence only after a long and bloody struggle and now have had to sign agreements with South Africa promising to expel the freedom fighters if only South Africa would cease its destructive onslaught against them. Cobb holds President Reagan partly responsible for the loss of bases of operation in Mozambique and Angola for Southern African freedom fighters because of Reagan's support of the South African government. The statement also mentions a critique of the South African government by Michigan Congressman Howard Wolpe, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, starvation due to a crippling drought in Mozambique, racist policies, the white population, land, white farmers, and Prime Minister P.W. Botha.
