African Activist Archive

Contents: Downstate Organizing Conference • Executive Inaction • Who is CIDSA? • Why Divest? • Members • The Student Anti-Apartheid Movement • Task Forces Report • City Task Force Report • State Task Force Report • Steel Task Force Report • Forum on South Africa, Central America and the Caribbean • Anti-Apartheid Calendar • South African Update • South Africa announced a 4 month moratorium on payment of principal on all foreign debts • top South African business leaders met for talks with the African National Congress (ANC) • South African warplanes attacked Angolan troops • a South African Supreme Court judge ordered the police to refrain from assaulting detainees at jails in Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage • it was announced by his attorney that Nelson Mandela, jailed leader of the ANC, is being given medical tests • Benjamin Moloise, an ANC member on death row for 2 years, was hanged • Commonwealth leaders agree on limited economic sanctions against South Africa • in Pietermaritizberg, 16 leaders of the United Democratic Front (UDF) went on trial charged with treason • South African authorities announced new 'equipment' to be deployed to combat unrest • Columbia University became the first Ivy League university in the U.S. to completely divest from South Africa

African Activist Archive

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