African Activist Archive

The newsletter reports that the American Lutheran Church's biennial convention voted to disinvest from U.S. companies doing business in South Africa. The United Nations team to engage in the latest discussions with South African officials over the future of the International Territory of Namibia has returned to New York after a week in Pretoria. The newsletter includes a letter to the editor from the Archbishop of Wales and others calling for the release of Nelson Mandela. The newsletter includes a letter from William Johnston, President of Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa, regarding political prisoners in South Africa to President Jimmy Carter and a response from Hodding Carter III. Contents: Divestiture and the Churches • Namibia • Death in Namibia • Human Rights in Namibia and South Africa • Freedom for South African and Namibian Political Prisoners and the Free, Unconditional Return of Exiles • Plea for the Release of Mr. Nelson Mandela • [I am responding to your message to President Carter concerning South Africa's policy of apartheid and our reaction to it.]

African Activist Archive

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