Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing. The mailing says enclosed is a fax which we received today detailing the deteriorating condition of Johannes Simelane; he has passed the 39th day of his second hunger strike, the first one having lasted for 29 days; Simelane is one of the 150 political prisoners still being held in the puppet bantustan of Bophuthatswana. The mailing says prisons in Bophuthatswana have been rocked by hunger strikes since the beginning of the year, as nearly 170 political prisoners there were ignored by the South African government and that the failure to release all the Bop 170 has been because of the deKlerk regime's insistence that it is not responsible for these...
Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing. The mailing says enclosed is a fax which we received today detailing the deteriorating condition of Johannes Simelane; he has passed the 39th day of his second hunger strike, the first one having lasted for 29 days; Simelane is one of the 150 political prisoners still being held in the puppet bantustan of Bophuthatswana. The mailing says prisons in Bophuthatswana have been rocked by hunger strikes since the beginning of the year, as nearly 170 political prisoners there were ignored by the South African government and that the failure to release all the Bop 170 has been because of the deKlerk regime's insistence that it is not responsible for these prisoners as the bantustan is an independent sovereign state. The mailing says if Johannes Simelane dies, his blood will be on the hands of F.W. de Klerk, who could have released all of the prisoners months ago, and George Bush, who in supporting the fiction of Bophuthatswana independence, gave up any moral legitimacy when he absolved Pretoria of responsibility for these prisoners. The mailing discusses Transkei, the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), MK, and the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Repatriation of Exiles (NCCR). The mailing INCLUDES UPDATE ON JOHANNES SIMELANE - 26 SEPTEMBER 1991, SOUTH AFRICAN 'AMBASSADOR' ATTEMPTS TO BREAK HUNGER STRIKE by Mafikeng Anti-Repression Forum (MAREF). The mailing INCLUDES WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FOR WEEK NO. 38 From 16/09/91 To 22/09/91 by the Human Rights Commission that reviews formal repression, repressive legislation, detentions, Internal Security Act, political prisoners, security force actions, death row, informal repression, and vigilante related actions.
