Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa support and human rights groups. The mailing reports on South African government-sponsored assassination squads or "hit squads" that have targeted anti-apartheid activists for harassment, assault and elimination. The nearly 100 known cases represented only the surface of a covert war against opponents of the government. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 37\90 of October 30, 1990 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), the South African Defense Force (SADF), the Harms Commission, assassinations, violence, apartheid, death squads, detention statistics, unrest areas, the...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa support and human rights groups. The mailing reports on South African government-sponsored assassination squads or "hit squads" that have targeted anti-apartheid activists for harassment, assault and elimination. The nearly 100 known cases represented only the surface of a covert war against opponents of the government. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 37\90 of October 30, 1990 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), the South African Defense Force (SADF), the Harms Commission, assassinations, violence, apartheid, death squads, detention statistics, unrest areas, the ISA (Internal Security Act), the Transkei Public Security Act, the Bophuthatswana State of Emergency, the Venda Maintenance of Law and Order Act, the Ciskei National Security Act, F.W. de Klerk, political prisoners, Lucas Mangope, the Groote Schuur and Pretoria Minute, the state of repression, Soweto, the security police, Elizabeth Gumede, Daniel Mabena, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Jimmy Twala, South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), a hunger strike at Bophuthatswana Central Prison, and the Sebokeng police station.
