African Activist Archive

Contents: The Africa Fund Report • PROJECTS • Sanctions and Divestment • Humanitarian Aid • Front Line States • Students • Sun City • Detentions • Special Projects • RESEARCH and EDUCATION • Empowering Americans to Act Against Apartheid • The Research Center • MEMBERSHIP AND FUNDRAISING • GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE • THE AFRICA FUND • 1986 FINANCIAL RESULTS • Trustees • Advisory Committee • The report says in 1986 the apartheid regime unleased unprecedented brutality on its own people and on the people of the neighboring countries. The report says by the md of the year over 25,000 people had been jailed without charge or trial; nearly 3,000 had been killed since September 1984. The report says The South African armed forces launched murderous attacks on Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The report says 1986 witnessed dramatic results from The Africa Fund's decade long public education campaign on U.S. investment in apartheid; Congress made history by passing the Anti-Apartheid Act over President Reagan's veto; California embarked on the largest divestment action yet when it mandated the withdrawal of $12.5 billion in pension funds from corporations investing in South Africa. The report says hundreds of people have been killed, thousands wounded and over 25,000 imprisoned. The report discusses regional aggression, destabilization, UNITA, MNR (Renamo), Jennifer Davis, the funeral of Mozambique's President Samora Machel , Graca Machel, "Killing a Dream", shanties, poverty, student anti-apartheid activists, the anti-apartheid "Sun City" record and video, Steven Van Zandt (Little Steven), Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Ray Barretto, Pat Benatar, the cultural and educational needs of South Africans forced into exile, political prisoners and their families, the State of Emergency, torture, "ABC News Nightline", Lutheran pastor Rev. Simon Farisani, the ANC (African National Congress), a joint speaking tour for representatives of the ANC Youth Section and the Salvadorian student organization, education on health in South Africa, the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), Congressional action, GM (General Motors), South Africa's aggression against Namibia, community and campus anti-apartheid groups, computers, IBM, Control Data, Hewlett Packard, Citibank, Coca Cola, Harry Belafonte, Oliver R. Tambo, SWAPO Secretary of Health Dr. Iyanbo Indengo, Projects Director Rob Jones, the National Conference of State Legislators, city and state selective purchasing measures, Eastman Kodak, GM (General Motors), Bell and Howell, IBM, human rights organizations, Namibian refugees in Angola, churches, UNITA, MNR, senators and representatives, state and municipal legislators, publications, and black townships.

African Activist Archive

The Africa Fund 1986 Report

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