For A Free South Africa

Contents: A CALL TO ACTION • PROGRAM • BACKGROUND: SOUTH AFRICA • UPDATE: SOUTH AFRICA • THE REGIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID • CHRONOLOGY OF REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE • THE FREEDOM CHARTER • Leading the People to Freedom THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) • LIFE UNDER APARTHEID • DIVESTMENT, ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT • SUPPORTING THE STRUGGLE (Apartheid is a Domestic Issue) • FORA FREE SOUTH AFRICA • FOR MORE INFORMATION ... • SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Program for event from which net proceeds will go to these humanitarian aid projects: Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), Dora Tamana Day Care Center, South African Medical Assistance Trust Fund, and South African Refugee Project. The program contains many educational sections. (See Contents, above.) The event includes Welcome (Student and Faculty Representatives); Invocation ( Emeka Kalu Ezera); Assemblywoman Maxine Waters; Freaky Executives; Message from Assemblyman Tom Bates; James Madhlope Phillips and Vukani Mawethu; Congressman Ronald V. Dellums; Message from Winnie Mandela; Faculty Presentation; Pharoah Sanders Quartet featuring Bobby Hutcherson, with Eddie Moore, William Henderson, and Ray Drummond; Neo Mnumzana, Chief Representative, African National Congress (ANC) Diplomatic Mission to the U.N.; George Coleman Quartet with Harold Mabern, Ray Drummond, and Carl Burnett; Oscar Brown, Jr.; and Kotoja. The program lists community organizations people can get involved in, including Stop Banking on Apartheid; the Department of Human Rights, Northern California Ecumenical Council; A Call To Conscience, AFSC Southern Africa Program; Alliance Against Women's Oppression-Dora Tamana Dat Care Center; the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College; Artists Against Apartheid; Freedom Song Network, James Madhlope Phillips Community Singers; and the South African Medical Assistance Trust Fund. A list of organization providing information includes the Africa Resource Center, Bay Area Free South Africa Movement, Stanford-UCB Joint Center for African Studies, City of Berkeley Citizens' Committee on Responsible Investment, African-American Institute, American Committee on Africa (ACOA)/The Africa Fund, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS), International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), Namibia Refugee Project, Shell Boycott c/o United Mine Workers of America, Shipping Research Bureau, Southern Africa Media Center, TransAfrica, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, United Nations Council for Namibia, and Washington Office on Africa (WOA). The program mentions Unitas, malnutrition, white privilege, black deprivation, rural areas, poor townships, education, segregation, thethe constitution, the Internal Security Act, the Riotous Assemblies Act, the Black Administration Act, police, detention without trial, banned, torture of detainees, "homeland" or Bantustans, the Indian and "Colored" population, resistance, the San people, the Afrikaners, the South African Indian Congress, the Colored Peoples' Organization, and the South African Communist Party, the Sharpeville Massacre, the Black Consciousness Movement, the Soweto Students' Revolt in 1976, the United Democratic Front (UDF), grassroots organizations, students, parents, workers, union leaders, religious women and men, Black satellite towns south of Johannesburg, residents demonstrating against increases in rent and service charges, petrol bombs, townships, black collaborators, the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), Oliver Tambo, the State of Emergency, the Mamelodi Civic Association, Mamelodi Youth Congress, Mike Seloane, Thokoza and Katlehong townships, Umkhonto we Size, a "Release Mandela Campaign," a vigil for a dead student in Diepkloof, peoples' power, the Soweto Civic Association, SWAPO (South West African People's Organization), the "Frontline States," the Commonwealth, the Five Western Powers, the Khoi, white settlers, the Xhosa people, the Bambata rebellion, the Land Act, Native Trust and Land Act, a strike by 100,000 African miners, the Congress of the People, Freedom Day, the Suppression of Communism bill, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Parliamentary Voters Roll, Bantu Authorities Act, Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress Alliance, the Treason Trial, the Unlawful Organizations Act, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the Smith regime in Rhodesia, South African Students Organization (SASO), death in detention, Steven Biko, the Sasol oil-from-coal complex, sabotage, the South African Defense Force (SADF, South African Defence Force), P.W. Botha, foreign banks, outstanding loans, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Alfred Nzo, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Albertina Sisulu, Helen Joseph, Amelia Cachalia, the Koeberg nuclear installation, U.S. companies, General Motors (GM), National Key Points, Mobil, Caltex, Nobel Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, disinvestment, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Roman Catholic Church, University of California, Berkeley, the Reagan administration, Congress, South Africa Airways (SAA), landing rights, UC Regents, the UC pension fund, the State Teachers Retirement System, the Public Employee Retirement System, selective purchases, consumer boycotts, and Faculty Against Apartheid.