Press release announcing that two of South Africa's most senior anti-apartheid leaders, African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Walter Sisulu and women's leader Albertina Sisulu, will arrive in New York to begin an eight-day U.S. tour at the invitation of The Africa Fund. They will appear at the Fund's 25th Anniversary Celebration at Riverside Church in New York on September 30, where Mr. Sisulu will deliver the first annual Africa Fund lecture, "Challenges For Africa." The Sisulus will meet with Secretary of State James Baker, House Speaker Thomas Foley and other Congressional and political leaders in Washington, D.C. On October 5, the Sisulus travel to Atlanta, where they will lay...
Press release announcing that two of South Africa's most senior anti-apartheid leaders, African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Walter Sisulu and women's leader Albertina Sisulu, will arrive in New York to begin an eight-day U.S. tour at the invitation of The Africa Fund. They will appear at the Fund's 25th Anniversary Celebration at Riverside Church in New York on September 30, where Mr. Sisulu will deliver the first annual Africa Fund lecture, "Challenges For Africa." The Sisulus will meet with Secretary of State James Baker, House Speaker Thomas Foley and other Congressional and political leaders in Washington, D.C. On October 5, the Sisulus travel to Atlanta, where they will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and meet Mrs. King and Mayor Maynard Jackson. They will then fly to Boston to meet with East Coast mayors hosted by Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, president of the United States Conference of Mayors. The press release includes biographical information about Walter and Albertina Sisulu that notes that it was a letter from Walter Sisulu in 1952 that sparked the formation of The Africa Fund's sister organization, the American Committee on Africa, and that he, with Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his anti-apartheid activities in 1964. The release says that Albertina Sisulu founded the Federation of South African Women in 1954 and was elected one of three co-presidents of the United Democratic Front in 1983. She had been placed under "banning orders" for 17 years and was held in solitary confinement in 1983. The press release includes "Tentative Schedule as of September 25 for Walter and Albertina Sisulu."
