African Activist Archive

Contents: INTRODUCTION • I ARTICLE ON THREAT OF US DISINVESTMENT MOVEMENT TO SOUTH AFRICA (From April 19 Edition of Johannesburg Star, SA weekly) • II SUMMARY OF APRIL 12 STUDENT ANTI-APARTHEID CONFERENCES • III REPORT ON RECENT CAMPUS ACTIONS AND DUMISANI KUMALO TOUR • l) Williams College 2) New Jersey Black Student Alliance 3) Princeton University 4) Wesleyan University 5) Kansas University 6) Dumisani Kumalo Tour • IV CLIPPINGS ON RECENT PROTESTS IN SOUTH AFRICA • l) Coloured Students Protest 2) Black Union Votes Against Registration (Supposed "benefit of South African labor" reform, really means tighter control over worker) • The newsletter reprints newspaper articles including "Disinvestment campaigns in US against SA 'serious'" by John D'Oliveira, "8,000 Students Routed by Tear Gas At Cape Town Segregation Protest", and "Botha warning as 400 pupils are arrested by Nicholas Ashford. In the newsletter Joshua Nessen say following the victory of ZANU in Zimbabwe, the key areas of struggle are now Namibia and South Africa, and it is important that we be well-informed about the latest developments. The newsletter discusses the Sullivan Principles, a Black Trade union, the anti-apartheid movement, local campus actions, June 16, the Soweto Rebellion, ACOA, Southern Africa magazine, campaigning against United States investment in South Africa, Corporate Data Exchange, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, racism, Columbia University, Chris Root, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the Bank campaign, SWAPO, Don Morton, SAMRAF (South African Military Refugee Aid Fund), liberation struggles, U.S. imperialism, the Security Council, South Africa's invasion of Zambia, Black students, the Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee, Don Cooney, the divestment movement, Newmont Mining Corporation, IBM, the People's Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa, CALTEX, oil, the Kansas University Endowment Association, the KU-Y Committee for a Free Southern Africa, Williams College, Amherst, Smith College, Tufts, Springfield College, Haverford, Moravian, Bennington College, the United Auto Workers (UAW), US-South African nuclear ties, Minister of Colored Relations Marais Steyn, South African Prime Minister Pieter Botha, P.W. Botha, Brigadier J. Swanepoel, the African Food and Canning Workers' Union, pass laws, influx control, the Group Areas Act, the Factories' Control Act, the Industrial Conciliation Act, the Wage Determination Act, the South African Allied Workers' Union, S.K. Kikini, B.P. Norushe, the Bantustan system, homelands, the Ciskei Central Intelligence Services, and Colonel Charles Sebe.

African Activist Archive

Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter

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