This document is apparently the text of a statement at a Soweto Day Rally in Chicago sponsored by the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid. The statement says I want to briefly report to you through the words of COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions); Donsie Khumalo was detained and nearly died 3 months ago in the hunger strike of the detainees in South Africa; Over and above Donsie's repeated detentions is the almost continual harassment that local police have conducted against him; our COSATU offices in Pretoria are regularly raided by the police; Donsie's life has been threatened. The statement says Donsie is an elected representative of about 75,000 workers in the Northern...
This document is apparently the text of a statement at a Soweto Day Rally in Chicago sponsored by the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid. The statement says I want to briefly report to you through the words of COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions); Donsie Khumalo was detained and nearly died 3 months ago in the hunger strike of the detainees in South Africa; Over and above Donsie's repeated detentions is the almost continual harassment that local police have conducted against him; our COSATU offices in Pretoria are regularly raided by the police; Donsie's life has been threatened. The statement says Donsie is an elected representative of about 75,000 workers in the Northern Transvaal region; he is a member of COSATU's Executive Council which represents nearly one million workers. The statement says on being released Donsie found himself, as did his comrades, being placed in a new prison; except this time prison was his own home and he was expected to be both the prisoner and warder. The statement says Donsie and his comrades took refuge in the British Embassy in Pretoria; they demand that the British government use their influence to pressurize the SA government to lift the restrictions on themselves and all other detainees. The statement says ee demand the immediate and unconditional release of COSATU leader Donsie Khumalo and all other detainees and the lifting of all restrictions of released prisoners. The statement discusses the Mamelodi rent boycott, State of Emergency restriction orders, police stations, Chris Ntuli, apartheid vigilantes, and apartheid assassins.
