Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The government still holds members of the African National Congress and other political groups for political offenses, despite unbanning the ANC in February 1990. Major sections of apartheid legislation have been modified or repealed, yet there are still political offenders awaiting execution on death row, when others convicted of identical crimes have been released. The long-awaited all-party negotiations have begun, with talk about an interim government being in place before the end of the year, yet political prisoners in Bophuthatswana remain on hunger strike and the issue of political prisoners is on the agenda for CODESA (Convention for...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The government still holds members of the African National Congress and other political groups for political offenses, despite unbanning the ANC in February 1990. Major sections of apartheid legislation have been modified or repealed, yet there are still political offenders awaiting execution on death row, when others convicted of identical crimes have been released. The long-awaited all-party negotiations have begun, with talk about an interim government being in place before the end of the year, yet political prisoners in Bophuthatswana remain on hunger strike and the issue of political prisoners is on the agenda for CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa). The mailing includes Human Rights Commission's WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT for Week No. 5 (29/01/92 TO 04/02/92) and Week No. 6 (05/02/91 - 11/2/91). The mailing mentions F.W. de Klerk, the Public Safety Act, detentions without trail, Ciskei, Solomon Mahlangu High School, Karl van der Merwe, Velile Mxhosana Vultures Monang, Mofihli Likotsi, Matela Soganga, Eric Modisane, Christopher Makgale, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Petrus Mothupi, Sipho Amos Hamesega, Andel Lourengio, Peter Modisane, political exiles, vigilante-related and hit squad actions, Samuel Mogapi, Vellie Mxhosana, Vultures Monang, death in police custody, Philemon Xheko, the Mafikeng Anti-Repression Forum (MAREF), Brigadier S.S. Thooe, William Sekgola, Petrus Mothupe, Winnington Sabelo, and repression of gatherings. [Note: The Week No. 6 report is from 1992, not 1991; the incidents it describes happened in 1992.]
