Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign discusses the surge of political violence in South Africa and the hostel system, a legacy of apartheid. During the fall of 1990, KwaZulu Bantustan Chief Gatsha Buthelezi used the hostels around Johannesburg as a springboard for a bloody campaign of national recognition. Weekly deaths numbered in the hundreds, and the fact that the hostels are part of a deliberate policy designed to provide white South Africa with cheap politically powerless black labor and at the same time restrict the movement of African workers is lost in the continuing portrayal of the conflict as "black on black" violence. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS WEEKLY BRIEFING...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign discusses the surge of political violence in South Africa and the hostel system, a legacy of apartheid. During the fall of 1990, KwaZulu Bantustan Chief Gatsha Buthelezi used the hostels around Johannesburg as a springboard for a bloody campaign of national recognition. Weekly deaths numbered in the hundreds, and the fact that the hostels are part of a deliberate policy designed to provide white South Africa with cheap politically powerless black labor and at the same time restrict the movement of African workers is lost in the continuing portrayal of the conflict as "black on black" violence. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS WEEKLY BRIEFING 1391 of April 24, 1991 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses migrant labor, apartheid, single-sex dormitories, gold mines, black townships, detention statistics, the Internal Security Act, the Public Security Act, the Maintenance of Law and Order Act, the National Security Act, the Bophuthatswana Internal Security Act, Transkei, Rec, Ngsishe, high treason Sarah Mereoethe, Temba, Brian Tshabaka, Tsiblge Makalimele, Lawrence Makgoba, Kenneth Nyemeb, Andy Motsepe, Regina Mashamiate, Betty Mashamaiate, the ANC (African National Congress), Taung, Chief Baisitse, the Democratic Party of Bophuthatswana, "Seven" Makaoto, Mzukisi Lingani, Donovin van Wyk, Elizabeth Sibanda, Isaac Sibanda, Fortune Malofere, Shadrack Thepeng, Tefo Mohlaotsane, Shimane Kipadisa, Jeanette Monagotla, Ciekei, Masuza Sikabi, Duka Miniza, Moses Tshambuluka, Venda, and "unrest areas."
