[Dear Friend, In recognition of your invaluable leadership and role in the struggle against apartheid, you are invited to attend a very important meeting …]

Mailing inviting people involved in the struggle against apartheid meeting at Riverside Church in New York City on November 12, 1992. The mailing says Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Director of the African National Congress International Affairs Department, has confirmed his participation for this meeting. The mailing is cc'd to Rev. Dr. Joan B. Campbell, National Conference Co-Chair; Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, Jr., National Conference Co-Chair; Lindiwe Mabuza, Permanent Rep. to the U.S. for the ANC; and Cleveland Robinson, National Conference Co-Chair. The mailing also in leaflet advertising the National Conference In Support of The African National Congress And Other Democratic Forces For A New South Africa November 13-15, 1992 signed by Cleveland Robinson, Secretary Treasurer, UAW District 65; Lindiwe Mabuza, Permanent Representative to the U.S. for the Africa National Congress; Lenox S. Hinds, Director, Mandela Freedom Fund; Rev. Joan B. Campbell, National Council of Churches of Christ (NCC), and Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, President, New York Theological Society. The leaflet says This conference commemorates the 80th anniversary of the ANC which has led the oppressed people of south Africa in the struggle against apartheid a tyranny towards a democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa. The leaflet says since Nelson Mandela's triumphant tour of 1990, political events within South Africa have shattered the myth that apartheid is dead; although President Mandela and other leaders of the ANC have been released from prison, political power remains a monopoly of the white minority regime; throughout the country people continue to suffer from the political and economic ravages of many years of institutionalized racist oppression and exploitation. The leaflet says this National Conference will provide the most current and accurate presentation of the realities and issues facing the democratic forces struggling for a new South Africa; it will also produce a PROGRAM OF ACTION FOR THE 90s, to be undertaken in the United states. in support of post-apartheid South Africa. The leaflet says sponsors are Dr. Charles G. Adams, Pres, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.; Vicki Alexander, M.D.; Elaine Allen, M.D., Pres., Physicians for Social Responsibility; Bishop Vinton R. Anderson, Bishop 5th Episcopal Dist., African Methodist Episcopal Church and Pres. World Council of Churches; Dr. Dawud Assad, Pres. Council of Mosques; The Boehm Foundation; Judith L Bourne, Esq., Chair, Virgin Island Anti-Apartheid Committee; St. Clair Bourne, Filmmaker; Paula Bower. Co-chair, Educators Against Racism and Apartheid; sally Bowles; Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, NYC; The Most Rev. Edmond L Browning, Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church, U.S.A.; Vinie Burrows, Women for Racial and Economic Equality; Jeanne Butterfield, Exec. Dir. Palestine Solidarity Committee; Valorie Y. Caffee, Pres., NJ Anti-Apartheid Mobilization Coalition; Mary Charlson, M.D.; Rev. Dr. Ben Chavis. Exec. Dir., Committee for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ; Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. Pres., Spelman College; lmani Countess, Acting Dir., Washington Office on Africa; Kerry Kennedy Cuomo. Exec. Dir., Robert F. Kennedy Memorial center for Human Rights; Rev. Herbert Daughtry, House of the Lord Church; Jennifer Davis, Exec. Dir., American committee on Africa; Ossie Davis; Ruby Dee; Dennis deLeon, Committee of Human Rights, NYC; The Hon. Ronald Dellums, Member of Congress; Vivian Lowery Derryck, Pres., African-American Institute; Hilda Diaz, Marazul Tours; Hazel Dukes, Former National Pres., NAACP; Peggy Dulany, Empower; Debra Evenson, National Lawyers Guild; Joann Everett; Rev. James Forbes, Pastor, The Riverside Church; Libby Frank. Exec. Dir. U.S. Peace Council; Sharon Gelman, Dir., Artists For A Free south Africa; Roger Green, Assemblyman, NY; Monica Green. Exec. Dir., SANE-Freeze; George Harrison; Jerry Herman, Dir. Southern Africa Program, American Friends Service Committee; Stanley Hill, Exec. Dir., DC 37, AFSCME; Prof. Gerald Horne. Peace and Freedom Party; Prof. Allen Howard. Rutgers University; Deborah Jackson. V.P., American Association of Jurists; Rev. Jesse Jackson, Pres., National Rainbow Coalition; Wilhelm Joseph, Esq., National Conference of Black Lawyers; Dr. Donna Katzin; Coretta Scott King, Pres., Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change; Solveig Kjeseth, Dir. Southern African Concerns; Barbara Lee. Assemblywoman, CA; Melba J. Kgositsile, Exec. Dir. Council on Interracial Books for Children; Bertram M. Lee, Chair., Albomar Communications, Inc.; Doris Ling. Exec. Dir., Majority Coalition for a New NY; Robin Lloyd, Toward Freedom Newsletter; Rev. Joseph Lowery, Pres., Southern Christian Leadership Conference; William Lucy, Sec'y Tres., AFSCME, Pres., Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Raymond Market, Pres., NY Public Library Guild, Local 1930, DC37, AFSCME; Jay Mazur. Pres. ILCWU; Dr. Cecelia McCall; Aubrey McCutcheon, former Dir., Washington Office on Africa; Vera Michaelson, Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism; Chip Miller, Win Mill Entertainment; Joyce D. Miller, Coalition of Labor Union Women; Travis Miller, Red Hots Productions; Charlene Mitchell, Exec. Dir., National Al/lance Against Racist and Political Repression; Monica Moorehead, National Coordinator, US Out of Southern Africa Network/APC; National Lawyers' Guild, NYC Br.; National Lawyers Guild, National; Prexy Nesbitt. Mozambique Solidarity Office; Rev. Dr. c. William Nichols, Gen. Minister and Pres., Christian Church Disciples of Christ; Janice Orr, Esq., National Bar Association; Susan Ortega, Art Against Apartheid; Major Owens, Member of Congress; Jan P. Pierce. Vice Pres. Dist. 1, Communications Workers of America; Anne Poirier, National Coordinator, U.S.-South Africa Sister Community Project; Pratt Institute; Charles Rangel, Member of congress; Michael Ratner, Esq., Center for Constitutional Rights; Sandra Rivers, Network of Black organizations; Randall Robinson, Exec. Dir., TransAfrica; Harold Rogers, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Pamela Saffer, Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network; The Rev. Dr. Paul H. Sherry, Pres., United Church of Christ; Timothy Smith, Exec. Dir., ICCR; Mervyn W. Susser. M.D., Pres., Committee on Health In southern Africa (CHISA); The Rt. Rev. Chester L. Talton, Suffragan Bishop. Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles; James s. Tate, Jr., M.D., Chair, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Los Vegas Br.; Maurice Tempelsman, Sr. Partner, Leon Tempelsman and Son; The Hon. Edolphus Towns, Member of Congress; Richard Trumka, Pres., United Mineworkers of America; United Public Employees Local 90; Themba Vilakazi. Exec. Dir., Fund for a Free South Africa; Rev. Lucius Walker, interreligious Foundation for Community Organization; Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Canaan Baptist Church; The Hon. Maxine Waters, Member of congress; Joann N. Watson, Detroit Br. NAACP; Rev. Dr. Daniel E. Weiss, Gen. Sec'y, American Baptist Churches; Ted Weiss, Member of congress; Richard Womack, Dir., Civil Rights Department, AFL·CIO; Women's International Resource Exchange; Sybil Wong, National Writers Union; and Judge Bruce McM Wright, NY. The leaflet discusses the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), state-sponsored violence, negotiations, the installation of an interim government of national unity, UAW (United Auto Workers), and a constituent assembly.