Fax to Judy Hatcher from Anne Poirier. The fax includes Detained to DEATH: JUST LIKE THE OLD TIMES which says The Africa fund received word this morning that two local activists, Glen Sonwabo Thomas and Robert Nogula were detained over the weekend under the Internal Security Act. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Arr1can National Congress who was just elected to the ANC Interim Committee in the Border and Mr. Nogula is in the Grahamstown Rural Committee; they join an estimated 398 people currently being detained. The Africa Fund documents asks people to write or cable the South African Government, and demand the RELEASE OF ALL DETAINEES AND POLITICAL PRISONERS IMMEDIATELY to President F.W. de...
Fax to Judy Hatcher from Anne Poirier. The fax includes Detained to DEATH: JUST LIKE THE OLD TIMES which says The Africa fund received word this morning that two local activists, Glen Sonwabo Thomas and Robert Nogula were detained over the weekend under the Internal Security Act. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Arr1can National Congress who was just elected to the ANC Interim Committee in the Border and Mr. Nogula is in the Grahamstown Rural Committee; they join an estimated 398 people currently being detained. The Africa Fund documents asks people to write or cable the South African Government, and demand the RELEASE OF ALL DETAINEES AND POLITICAL PRISONERS IMMEDIATELY to President F.W. de Klerk and Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok. The document includes two faxes from the Grahamstown Rural Committee: re: Detention of ANC regional committee member and GRC fieldworker by Mike Kenyon dated May 3, 1990; and Press statement on the detention of GRC fieldworker Glen Thomas dated May 13, 1990. The document discusses the De Klerk regime, the ANC (African National Congress), the Nationalist Government, negotiations, Death Row, King William's Town, the Criminal Procedure Act, police, Ezibeleni, Port Elizabeth, and the SAP (South African Police). [Note: DEATH: JUST LIKE THE OLD TIMES was a mailing by The Africa Fund, the sister organization of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) which is mentioned on the fax cover sheet.]
