Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing reports that the de Klerk government is relying more on informal repression, such as harassment, assault, and assassination. Despite pledges of reform, the government has failed to adequately address the actions of either vigilantes or assassination groups, and bloody, "black on black" violence in Natal and the Transvaal remain un-investigated, with one side still armed due to the fact that the weapons that they carry are "cultural." The mailing says two members of the Human Rights Commission in Johannesburg were targeted for assassination during the week of October 8. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 34/90, 9 October...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing reports that the de Klerk government is relying more on informal repression, such as harassment, assault, and assassination. Despite pledges of reform, the government has failed to adequately address the actions of either vigilantes or assassination groups, and bloody, "black on black" violence in Natal and the Transvaal remain un-investigated, with one side still armed due to the fact that the weapons that they carry are "cultural." The mailing says two members of the Human Rights Commission in Johannesburg were targeted for assassination during the week of October 8. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 34/90, 9 October 1990; and HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 33/90, 3 October 1990. The mailing discusses the Harms Commission, the Hiemstra Commission, CCB (Civil Cooperation Bureau), Job Sithole, detainees, torture, deaths in police custody, hunger strike, Yusuf Mohammed, the Internal Security Act, Minister of Law and Order Adrian Vlok, the Transkei Public Security Act, the Bophuthatswana State of Emergency, the Venda Maintenance of Law and Order Act, the Ciskei National Security Act, Morgan Mathebe, CONTRALESA (Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa), Iris Magwaza, the ANC (African National Congress), the Special Committee Against Apartheid, Ibrahim Gambari, the Northern Transvaal Public Servants Union, the South African Communist Party (SACP), Maxwell Malatji, Reynold Maleka, Mashoto Rathobotho, Mpho Mogale, Soweto, Rapu Molokana, and Thapiso Radebe.
