The commentary by Charles Cobb appeared in a number of local and Black papers. Cobb recalls that Black Americans strongly protests in support of Black South Africans on two occasions: the murder of almost 70 Africans in Sharpeville in 1960 and the mass murder of over 500 Africans, mostly school-children, in Soweto in 1976 and 77. Cobb says it is time again for large-scale protests, citing recent unrest related to new and crippling rent increases imposed by the South African government, substandard education of African youth, and the recent election for segregated chambers of Parliament for "Coloreds" and Indians. The South African government has been working overtime to improve its image, to...
The commentary by Charles Cobb appeared in a number of local and Black papers. Cobb recalls that Black Americans strongly protests in support of Black South Africans on two occasions: the murder of almost 70 Africans in Sharpeville in 1960 and the mass murder of over 500 Africans, mostly school-children, in Soweto in 1976 and 77. Cobb says it is time again for large-scale protests, citing recent unrest related to new and crippling rent increases imposed by the South African government, substandard education of African youth, and the recent election for segregated chambers of Parliament for "Coloreds" and Indians. The South African government has been working overtime to improve its image, to justify the Reagan Administration's sympathetic policy of "constructive engagement," after South Africa bombed and destabilized the African nations of Mozambique and Angola earlier in the year until those nations were forced to agree to expel South African freedom fighters. The commentary discusses the African majority being excluded from the election, the U.S. State Department, atrocities, violence, deaths, the Republican Platform, justice, apartheid, democracy, and human rights.
