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Report from Southern Africa Committee (SAC) for the NAAIC Newsletter. SAC-South participated in March in a conference on Southern Africa at Duke University and nearby community colleges, providing films and the SAC slide/tape show and serving as resource people. SAC-South is beginning to create a regular radio news program about Africa for college and community stations. SAC-North continues to produce and promote SOUTHERN AFRICA magazine. It has held meetings with people recently returned from southern Africa and a joint meeting with the Committee for a Free Mozambique with economist Sean Gervasi. The article reports about the tragic assassination of Amilcar Cabral, head of the liberation movement fighting the Portuguese in Guinea, the PAIGC. SAC-North members participated in demonstrations and memorial services for Cabral that strengthened the resolve of those involved to continue in the struggle. SAC members also participated in events on Sharpeville Day, March 21, to commemorate the massacre by South African police in 1960. Increased guerrilla activity in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) is being reported. In South Africa, eight leaders of the South African Students Organization (SASO) and Black People's Convention, and eight leaders of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) have been banned for five years. The government is trying to silence the only organizations in South Africa calling for disengagement of U.S. and all foreign economic involvement from South Africa. Also, the most significant strikes by black workers since 1946 are happening; well over 50,000 blacks have walked off the job. The article mentions Edward Ndlovu, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU).

African Activist Archive

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