Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says The Africa Fund received word this morning that two local activists, Glen Sonwabo Thomas and Robert Nogula were detained over the weekend under the Internal Security Act and that Mr. Thomas is a member of the African National Congress who was just elected to the ANC Interim Committee in the Border and Mr. Nogula is in the Grahamstown Rural Committee. The mailing says they join an estimated 398 people currently being detained and that since January 1990 the population on Death Row has exploded to over 320 people and 3,000 plus political prisoners still languish in South Africa's prisons. The mailing discusses apartheid and the...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says The Africa Fund received word this morning that two local activists, Glen Sonwabo Thomas and Robert Nogula were detained over the weekend under the Internal Security Act and that Mr. Thomas is a member of the African National Congress who was just elected to the ANC Interim Committee in the Border and Mr. Nogula is in the Grahamstown Rural Committee. The mailing says they join an estimated 398 people currently being detained and that since January 1990 the population on Death Row has exploded to over 320 people and 3,000 plus political prisoners still languish in South Africa's prisons. The mailing discusses apartheid and the National Party. The mailing asks people to write or cable President F.W. De Klerk and Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok and demand the release of all detainees and political prisoners immediately. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 14/90.