The leaflet says the conditions for dropping sanctions are 1. Release all political prisoners 2. Repeal the State of Emergency. 3. Unban democratic political parties and permits the free exercise by all South Africans of all races of the right to form political parties, express political opinions, and otherwise participate in the political process. 4. Repeal the Group Areas Act and the Population Registration Act and institutes no other measures with the same purposes. 5. Agree to enter into good faith negotiations with truly representative members of the black majority. The leaflet says the de Klerk government says all but a few hundred political prisoners have been released and these cases...
The leaflet says the conditions for dropping sanctions are 1. Release all political prisoners 2. Repeal the State of Emergency. 3. Unban democratic political parties and permits the free exercise by all South Africans of all races of the right to form political parties, express political opinions, and otherwise participate in the political process. 4. Repeal the Group Areas Act and the Population Registration Act and institutes no other measures with the same purposes. 5. Agree to enter into good faith negotiations with truly representative members of the black majority. The leaflet says the de Klerk government says all but a few hundred political prisoners have been released and these cases are now being reviewed; human rights organizations estimate that 1,500 political prisoners remain behind bars; this includes activists in the mass movement who broke the unjust laws of the illegal apartheid state, as well as those who entered the country on specific military missions and were arrested; additional prisoners are being held in the "homelands," which are internationally accepted as part of South Africa. The leaflet says as is clear from this review, South Africa has not made substantial progress toward dismantling apartheid and establishing a nonracial democracy; if the South African government truly wanted a nonracial democratic form of government, it would accept that a new constitution should be written by a constituent assembly elected on a nonracial basis, and move swiftly to implement this process. The leaflet says in general, the government has tolerated and promoted a climate of violence in order to undermine the authority of the ANC and to destroy the peace required to have political stability and mass participation; the state police and armed forces have been directly implicated in plots, dirty tricks, arson and other physical attacks on democratic forces; they have also assisted lnkatha's attacks on ANC members by transporting and arming lnkatha and disarming its opposition. The leaflet discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the KwaZulu Bantustan, democratic political parties, state run television, race classifications, the vote, the political process, and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
