The mailing includes a cover letter, "The Senate Should Adopt Full Economic Sanctions Against South Africa" reprinted from The Washington Post, and Southern Africa Literature List 1986. The letter discusses the work needed to ensure that Congress adopted significant sanctions. There will be some sanctions this year, but they will not be tough enough to achieve more than token pressure on apartheid South Africa. The letter calls attention to the recently-published "Questions and Answers on South African Sanctions" [available on this website]. It is vital that the nationwide wave of support for sanctions does not crest and die, but keeps building. Another resource is a public statement in support...
The mailing includes a cover letter, "The Senate Should Adopt Full Economic Sanctions Against South Africa" reprinted from The Washington Post, and Southern Africa Literature List 1986. The letter discusses the work needed to ensure that Congress adopted significant sanctions. There will be some sanctions this year, but they will not be tough enough to achieve more than token pressure on apartheid South Africa. The letter calls attention to the recently-published "Questions and Answers on South African Sanctions" [available on this website]. It is vital that the nationwide wave of support for sanctions does not crest and die, but keeps building. Another resource is a public statement in support of full sanctions endorsed by major trade union, civil rights and religious leadership. The letter asks people to write South African President P.W. Botha in Pretoria and Secretary of State George Schultz at the Department of State protesting continued detention and torture. There may be as many as 16,000 or more people being held in detention.
