African Activist Archive

Mailing including a cover letter and enclosures. The cover letter says four senior South African labor leaders, COSATU General Secretary Jay Naidoo, Assistant General Secretary Sydney Mafumadi, metalworkers General Secretary Moses Mayekiso and COSATU staff member Baba Schalk go on trial today for the alleged "kidnaping" of a police spy outside COSATU headquarters on August 28, 1990. The cover letter says the incident began after a security police informer, Monge Maleka, was discovered conducting surveillance of COSATU's offices in downtown Johannesburg; he was then taken into the building and searched, and was found to be in possession of a walkie-talkie radio; the international press was then summoned for an impromptu press conference with Maleka, who admitted his links to the security police, and event contacted his police "handler" over the radio for reporters. The cover letter says we have just received an urgent appeal from COSATU for protest messages to be sent to Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee. The cover letter says meanwhile, six members of the National Union of Metalworkers in South Africa (NUMSA), among the hundreds of political prisoners still held in apartheid's jail, have resumed their eight-week-old hunger strike for freedom. The cover letter asks for solidarity faxes to the NUMSA Six be sent care of Lawyers for Human Rights. The cover letter says protests can be faxed to South African Ambassador Harry Schwarz. The mailing includes TRIAL OF JAY NAIDOO, SYDNEY MUFAMADI, MOSES MAYEKISO AND BABA SCHALK. The mailing includes Release Hunger Strikers as Political Now! written by hunger strikers in Johannesburg Hospital. The mailing includes a reprint of a newspaper article "General Neglect" by John Perlman. The mailing discusses Haggie Rand Jupiter, SACP (South African Communist Party), Geraldine Fraser, the South African Police (SAP), the Harms Commission, Cyril Ramaposa, NUM, the Hiemstra Commission, the Johannesburg City Council, the Democratic Movement, Comrade Richard Mgobeni, Attorney General De Vries, President F.W. de Klerk, the ANC (African National Congress), the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), the National Party, General Mulder van Eyk, and Soweto. [Note: Jefferey Mtshali may be spelled Jeffery Mtshali.]

African Activist Archive

Subject: Labor Leaders On Trial, Metal Workers Resume Hunger Strike

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