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Contents: Independence for Namibia • Solidarity in Action: SACTU General Secretary Nkadimeng Visits U.S. • UPDATE: TREASON TRIALS and CITY WORKER'S STRIKE • IN MEMORIAM - JOHN GEORGE • Interview SACTU LEADER SPEAKS • Namibia has been under a state of siege for most of its modern history, including illegal occupation by South Africa for the last 21 years. The South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) has resisted this occupation. The regime has systematically defied U.N. resolutions and decrees and International Court of Justice rulings declaring South Africa's occupation illegal. The newsletter reports that SACTU leader John Nkadimeng was welcomed by more than 60 labor leaders and activists at a gathering in Oakland hosted by Service Employees' International Union Local 790, sponsored by SEIU vice-presidents Paul Varacalli and Marc Earls, Supervisor John George, and S.F. school principal Yvonne Golden. The newsletter includes an interview of Peter Mahlangu, SACTU representative in Canada, conducted by David Bacon. The newsletter mentions Patrick Lekota, Popo Malefe, Moses Chikane, Desmond Tutu, the Municipal Workers Union of South Africa (MWUSA), Zwekakhe Sisulu, the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, the UDF (United Democratic Front), Solly Simelane, Sandile Dlungwane, a rent strike, the Reagan administration, Chester Crocker, SADF (South African Defense Force), the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement (BAFSAM), UNITA, the Viehan Commission, the San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee, David Reed, COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), the Northern California Labor Federation, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Curtis McClain, Tom Lupher, Bill Watkins, the South Africa Support Committee, ILWU Local 10, the South African Railway and Harbor Workers' Union, Yusef Saloojie, Albertina Sisulu, Cuito Cuanavale, Vuyisile Mini, L.S. Ngudle, TUCSA (Trade Union Council of South Africa), the National Confederation of Trade Unions, Darryl Alexander, Katherine Black, Michael Horowitz, Frank Pottier, David Shelton, Jim Brown, the Alameda County Building Trades Council, Engineers and Scientists of California, Molders Union Local 164, Betsy Bloom, Bill Coor, and Pamela Mills.

African Activist Archive

South Africa Labor News

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