African Activist Archive

Mailing including a cover letter; an agenda for the Berkeley-Oukasie Support Committee meeting in Berkeley on June 19, 1988; and a reprint of a newspaper article "Oukasie 'beseiged' by army, police" by Rachel E. Boehm. The mailing says I would like to invite you to attend the next meeting of the Berkeley-Oukasie Support Group; it will be held on Wednesday, June 29; Ethel Walt, of the Black Sash, is visiting from Johannesburg and will make a presentation about the latest developments in Oukasie; a 15 minute videotape prepared by the St. Paul Lawaaikamp Support Group on St. Paul's sister community in South Africa will also be shown. The mailing says the good news from Oukasie is that the 17 community leaders who were detained four months ago were released last week; but Oukasie remains under threat of removal; the government has declared Oukasie an "emergency camp'' under the Prohibition of Illegal Squatting Act; a census count has been taken of every resident; only people with permits issued by the government will be allowed into Oukasie. The mailing discusses regulations, the Government Gazette, forced removals, Congressman Dellums, Alan Morris, the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC), Chris Liebenerg, South African Consul General in Beverly Hills, Coenraad Bezuidenhoul, the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C., Lethlabile, and the Berkeley City Council.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Friend: I would like to invite you to attend the next meeting of the Berkeley-Oukasie Support Group]

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