Contents: FREEDOM IN NAMIBIA by David Shelton • How We Did It UNITED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LOCAL 790 SETS UP SISTER UNION PROGRAM by Jenny Donnelly • ADVISORY BOARD FORMED FOR FREE SOUTH AFRICA LABOR COMMITTEE • SHELL SPONSORS EXHIBIT AT S.F. MUSEUM OF ART • SANCTIONS BILL UPDATE • On November 14, Namibians voted in the first open election in their history; thus, the 1.3 million citizens of "Africa's Last Colony" were assured their freedom from South African rule. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) won 57.3% of the popular vote in the U.N.-sanctioned elections, which entitles SWAPO to 41 of the 72 seats in the new...
Contents: FREEDOM IN NAMIBIA by David Shelton • How We Did It UNITED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LOCAL 790 SETS UP SISTER UNION PROGRAM by Jenny Donnelly • ADVISORY BOARD FORMED FOR FREE SOUTH AFRICA LABOR COMMITTEE • SHELL SPONSORS EXHIBIT AT S.F. MUSEUM OF ART • SANCTIONS BILL UPDATE • On November 14, Namibians voted in the first open election in their history; thus, the 1.3 million citizens of "Africa's Last Colony" were assured their freedom from South African rule. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) won 57.3% of the popular vote in the U.N.-sanctioned elections, which entitles SWAPO to 41 of the 72 seats in the new Constituent Assembly. This is not quite the two-thirds majority that it needed to draft without compromises Namibia's first constitution. SWAPO will control the Assembly jointly with the more conservative Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). The Human and Civil Rights Committee of United Public Employees Local 790, SEIU began to focus its attention on the struggle of South African unionist against apartheid. The San Francisco Museum of Art, including the M.H, deYoung Museum and the Palace of the Legion of Honor, plan to show an exhibit of paintings sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Corp. Local 790 represents the workers at the Museum of Art, who voted to oppose this exhibit by 42-14 because of the anti-apartheid boycott against that company. The newsletter reports on the Anti-Apartheid Sanctions Bill of 1989, HR 21 and S 507, authored by Congressman Ron Dellums, which will close very important loopholes in the original sanctions bill. The newsletter mentions Sam Nujoma, the Nationalist Party, Walvis Bay, Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), John Nkadimeng, Peter Mahlangu, the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), COSATU House, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress (ANC), Soweto, mineral resources, Tsumeb Corp., Newmont Mining Co., "I Have Worked an Hour for Freedom in South Africa," the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers of America, the Free South Africa Movement, Bafo Nyanga, Senators Paul Simon, Edward Kennedy, and Pete Wilson, TransAfrica, the National Union of Mineworkers, A.T. Massey, Mayor Art Agnos, the Service Employees International Union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and San Francisco's South Africa divestment ordinance.
