The fundraising mailing discusses the almost complete news blackout of anti-apartheid protests that continue in South Africa, despite the violence and brutality of the army and police. The apartheid regime hopes that preventing the world from learning the truth will defuse the protests and the drive for new sanctions. ACOA is working to bring this truth to the American people. We cannot allow the victims of apartheid - people tortured by the police, detainees in prison cells, families mourning a child shot down by the security forces - to be forgotten. The mailing mentions a New York Times interview for Rev. Simon Farisani, Kevin Qhoboshiane, the African National Congress (ANC), the ANC Youth...
The fundraising mailing discusses the almost complete news blackout of anti-apartheid protests that continue in South Africa, despite the violence and brutality of the army and police. The apartheid regime hopes that preventing the world from learning the truth will defuse the protests and the drive for new sanctions. ACOA is working to bring this truth to the American people. We cannot allow the victims of apartheid - people tortured by the police, detainees in prison cells, families mourning a child shot down by the security forces - to be forgotten. The mailing mentions a New York Times interview for Rev. Simon Farisani, Kevin Qhoboshiane, the African National Congress (ANC), the ANC Youth Section, print and electronic journalists, bogus corporate "withdrawals" from South Africa, and General Motors.
