Contents: Homecoming 1990: Mandela and the African National Congress Return • CELEBRATE FREEDOM and THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE IN THE 1990s! • A.N.C Briefing • NAMIBIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE - March 21, 1990 • Heal the Wounds • In Commemoration Of Soweto Day - "Let The Word Go Forth - South Africa is Not Yet Free" • In Remembrance of Roy • Cast Your Ballot Today • South Africa NOW • In early 1990, President F.W. de Klerk was forced to release Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid freedom fighters as well as unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC), and South African Communist Party (SACP). These developments...
Contents: Homecoming 1990: Mandela and the African National Congress Return • CELEBRATE FREEDOM and THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE IN THE 1990s! • A.N.C Briefing • NAMIBIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE - March 21, 1990 • Heal the Wounds • In Commemoration Of Soweto Day - "Let The Word Go Forth - South Africa is Not Yet Free" • In Remembrance of Roy • Cast Your Ballot Today • South Africa NOW • In early 1990, President F.W. de Klerk was forced to release Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid freedom fighters as well as unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC), and South African Communist Party (SACP). These developments coincided with the March 1990 independence celebrations of Namibia and Sam Nujoma's unanimous election by the Constituent Assembly of Namibia to become President of Namibia. The ANC and its allies inside South Africa have made it clear that now is the time to step up the pressure - economically (sanctions), politically (diplomatic isolation), and socially (cultural boycotts). On June 20, Mandela is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. - first in New York City (where he will address the United Nations (UN)), and then Boston (J.F.K. Library), Washington, D.C. (U.S .Congress), Atlanta (Martin Luther King Center), Miami (AFSCME Convention), Detroit, and Los Angeles. Mass rallies are being planned in every city. About 20 people attended an event with Themba Ntinga of the ANC Mission to the UN at the R.I. Black Heritage Society. The newsletter advertises a benefit concert and poetry reading featuring Tony Bird, a folk/rock singer born in Malawi, and Sylvia Ann Soares, a local artist-against-apartheid, who will read poems and dramatize writings by women in the ANC. The newsletter includes a ballot of the End Apartheid Vote for the People campaign. South Africa NOW, the television news magazine, is now airing on Channel 36 (WSBE). The newsletter includes the poem "First Day after the War" by Mazisi Kunene. The newsletter mentions Jose Slovo, UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), students, South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the Community Preparatory School, clothing, Thomas Darden, Megan Monroe, Tunde Kamson, Shante Ross, Janine A. Lee, Damiso Husband, Tauheed Abdullah, Julian Dash, Charity Malone, Seth Carney, Shannon Merryman, Jennifer Floyd, Joseph Wheeler, Rev. Roy Fralin, Joseph Newsome, the United Democratic Front (UDF), The Africa Fund, "Poets to the People: South African freedom poems," and Globalvision.
