Leaflet advertising a reception to launch the Adopt a detained child national tour on May 28th, 1987 at Stewart Mott House. The leaflet says in the names of the children join us in welcoming the Southern African women's delegation Ms. Mokaki Thulo, Ms. Thuthukile Rabebe, AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) Women's Section; Ms. Loide Shinavene, Ms. Inge Zaamwani, SOUTH WEST AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION (SWAPO) Women's Council. The leaflet says since the most recent state of emergency was declared in South Africa in June of 1986, more than 22,000 opponents of apartheid have been imprisoned without trial; forty percent of these detainees have been children under 18 years of age; some are as young...
Leaflet advertising a reception to launch the Adopt a detained child national tour on May 28th, 1987 at Stewart Mott House. The leaflet says in the names of the children join us in welcoming the Southern African women's delegation Ms. Mokaki Thulo, Ms. Thuthukile Rabebe, AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) Women's Section; Ms. Loide Shinavene, Ms. Inge Zaamwani, SOUTH WEST AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION (SWAPO) Women's Council. The leaflet says since the most recent state of emergency was declared in South Africa in June of 1986, more than 22,000 opponents of apartheid have been imprisoned without trial; forty percent of these detainees have been children under 18 years of age; some are as young as five years old. The leaflet says despite attempts by the Pretoria regime to cover up the facts, the Detainees Parents Support Committee has revealed that over 4,000 children languish in jail cells -- subjected to daily interrogation, torment, torture and death. The leaflet says children have reported being beaten, whipped, raped, burned, scalded, given electric shocks, held in solitary confinement, and often denied food and life-saving medical care; many have died from injuries inflicted by the South African security forces. The leaflet says often the children are taken in the dead of the night: sometimes in daylight, from the schoolyard; parents are not told where their children are being taken, or why; the security officials will not answer their inquiries and it is illegal for the names of those detained to be published. The leaflet says Mokaki Thulo and Thuthukile Rabebe, from South Africa, and Loide Shinavene and Inge Zaamwani, from Namibia, are launching a month-long national tour aimed at securing the release of these children. The leaflet says the campaign urges U.S. citizens to "adopt" an imprisoned South African or Namibian child and to write letters demanding the child's release. The leaflet says supporters of the tour include Women for Racial and Economic Equality, the Alliance Against Women's Oppression, TransAfrica, the Children's Defense Fund, AFSCME, the National Rainbow Coalition, the National Education Association, the American Association of University Women, the American Friends Service Committee, and others. The leaflet discusses the DPSC, WREE, and AAWO.
