African Activist Archive

This issue comments on South African government and corporate reactions to the Republican sweep of the U.S. Senate. The Johannesburg Star recounts a 26 June 1979 article written by President-elect Ronald Reagan. The Bulletin reports that a conference about independence for Namibia will be held in Geneva, Switzerland in January 1981. ECSA Bulletin reports on a massive explosion that demolished the Lutheran Church's printing press at Oniipa in northern Namibia, based in part on a cable from the ELOC Bishop Kleopas Dumeni to the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva. The ECSA Bulletin says the Nambia Council of Churches (comprising the Evangelical Lutheran OvamboKavango Church in the north and its sister Evangelical Lutheran Church in the south, the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and African Methodist Episcopal Churches) has consistently supported United Nations' authority over Namibia and independence for Namibia. The newsletter includes a report on Markus Kareka, a Namibian farm laborer sentenced to death under terms of South Africa's Terrorism Act. The newsletter includes a report on the marriage of David Russell, an Anglican priest who is in imminent danger of being sent to prison, and Dorothea Madden, a former Catholic nun. Contents: Namibia • 'An Enemy of the Church and Community' • 'The Truth is Dangerous' • Death in Namibia • Verkorte Sterftesertifikaat Abridged Death Certificate • Death Sentences Imposed on 3 African National Congress Freedom Fighters • African National Congress Declares Its Adherence to Geneva Conventions

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