Contents: Programs and Projects • LITERATURE AND RESEARCH • EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE • OTHER PROJECTS • Finances and Mailing List • Staff • Summary Finance Report • TRUSTEES • ADVISORY COMMITTEE • The report says 1977 was an unusually busy year for The Africa Fund; Southern Africa issues were in the news frequently, often requiring an urgent response from us; the death of Steve Biko in prison in September, the crackdown by the South African government against dissidents in October, the dramatic escape of news editor Donald Woods, the meeting of the United Nations Security Council and that organization's passage of a resolution calling for a mandatory arms embargo against South...
Contents: Programs and Projects • LITERATURE AND RESEARCH • EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE • OTHER PROJECTS • Finances and Mailing List • Staff • Summary Finance Report • TRUSTEES • ADVISORY COMMITTEE • The report says 1977 was an unusually busy year for The Africa Fund; Southern Africa issues were in the news frequently, often requiring an urgent response from us; the death of Steve Biko in prison in September, the crackdown by the South African government against dissidents in October, the dramatic escape of news editor Donald Woods, the meeting of the United Nations Security Council and that organization's passage of a resolution calling for a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa, the negotiations of both Zimbabwe and Namibia to try and achieve majority rule and an end to the armed struggle- -all gave prominence to southern Africa. The report says during 1977, The Africa Fund produced ten new publications, among them fact sheets on South Africa and the Krugerrand. The report says growing out of Paul Irish's trip to Mozambique in May, The Africa Fund devoted considerable energies to locating, purchasing and shipping equipment to meet requests from the health ministry. The report discusses the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Rhodesia, Jennifer Davis, the computer industry, Dick Leonard, Bernard Rivers, oil, the Christian Council for Tanzania, refugees, the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, medicines sent to a new hospital open in Cape Verde, W.H. and Carol Ferry, the Fund for Tomorrow, The George Soros Fund, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Charles Knight, William Landis, Edward Halpert, Lutheran World Ministries, the Norman Foundation, the Normandie Foundation, the Robins Fleming Fund, Robert S. Seidman, the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, Stanly A. Weiss, Edler Hawkins, South African exile Rhodes Gxoyiya, Princeton University, Namibian and Zimbabwean refugees, and Southern Africa magazine.
