This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign focuses on the raids of the COSATU office and the home of Jay Naidoo, its General Secretary. Police spent over three hours in the COSATU office searching and seizing materials, despite the fact that COSATU'S lawyers had proved that their search warrant was defective. COSATU is South Africa's largest labor federation and a key organization in the current anti-apartheid "Defiance Campaign." People are asked to send messages of support to the Mass Democratic Movement and to write to South African President de Klerk and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker condemning the crackdown and to let them know the American people are watching the behavior...
This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign focuses on the raids of the COSATU office and the home of Jay Naidoo, its General Secretary. Police spent over three hours in the COSATU office searching and seizing materials, despite the fact that COSATU'S lawyers had proved that their search warrant was defective. COSATU is South Africa's largest labor federation and a key organization in the current anti-apartheid "Defiance Campaign." People are asked to send messages of support to the Mass Democratic Movement and to write to South African President de Klerk and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker condemning the crackdown and to let them know the American people are watching the behavior of the South African government both before and after the September 6 election. The raid is evidence of continued police repression and intimidation and should deflate optimism that the De Klerk era will differ from that of P.W. Botha.
