DAMU SMITH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON OFFICE ON AFRICA, CONDEMNS SOUTH AFRICA'S CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-APARTHEID AND CALLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SANCTIONS
DAMU SMITH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON OFFICE ON AFRICA, CONDEMNS SOUTH AFRICA'S CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-APARTHEID AND CALLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SANCTIONS
The press release says leaders of South African churches, trade unions, and anti-apartheid community organizations have been calling for comprehensive economic sanctions, globally applied, for years; to date, the U.S. has only implemented the limited and selected sanctions contained in the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986; we have failed to work with our Western Allies to get sanctions applied on a multilateral basis; Congressman Ronald V. Delluns {D-CA) and Senator Alan Cranston {D-CA) have introduced H.R. 1580/S. 556, which mandates complete disinvestment of American companies from South Africa within six months of passage and would impose a virtually total trade embargo as well. The press release...
The press release says leaders of South African churches, trade unions, and anti-apartheid community organizations have been calling for comprehensive economic sanctions, globally applied, for years; to date, the U.S. has only implemented the limited and selected sanctions contained in the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986; we have failed to work with our Western Allies to get sanctions applied on a multilateral basis; Congressman Ronald V. Delluns {D-CA) and Senator Alan Cranston {D-CA) have introduced H.R. 1580/S. 556, which mandates complete disinvestment of American companies from South Africa within six months of passage and would impose a virtually total trade embargo as well. The press release says these recent restrictions are part of a larger pattern of oppression and violence which includes South Africa's ongoing massive military intervention in Angola, its continuing threats against Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and the intensification of its ongoing war in Namibia. The press release discusses South African .Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok, ABC News, educational efforts, non-violence resistance, the Soweto Civic Association, the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC), rent boycott, P.W. Botha, the Nationalist Party (National Party), Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, right-wing governments, COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), and the 100th Congress.
