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Contents: Sanctions-the Key to Ending Apartheid • No. California Sanctions Campaign Launched in San Francisco • South African Trade Union Leader Calls for Sanctions • The newsletter says since 1948 South Africa has been ruled by the Nationalist Party under the constitutional regime of apartheid, adopted by the vote of white South Africans. The newsletter says since 1948, after the condemnation of the apartheid regime by the United Nations, every U.N. sanctions resolution has been vetoed by the U.S. government. The newsletter says the main reason given by the U.S. State Department has been, and still is, that "constructive engagement" with the apartheid regime in one form or another will be the best way to bring changes to South Africa. The newsletter says today, as in 1948, 87% of the land is reserved for whites, and 13% for Black South Africans. The newsletter says whites constitute 14.3% of the population, and Blacks 74.5%. The newsletter says so-called coloured and Indian people, 11.2% of the population, are confined in segregated areas in the territory reserved for whites. The newsletter says for over a decade, East Bay Congressional Representative Ron Dellums (D-CA) has been introducing legislation for complete sanctions against South Africa. The newsletter says on June 15, the Bay Area Coalition for Sanctions, initiated by the Dellums office, has brought together the leadership of California's labor movement and religious community to launch the Northern California campaign to pass the sanctions bill. The newsletter says at a noon press conference in front of the office of Senator Pete Wilson (R-CA), inside San Francisco's Ferry Building, Tom Lupher, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Longshore Local 10; spoke on behalf of California Labor Federation executive secretary-treasurer Jack Henning. The newsletter includes the second installment of an interview of Peter Mahlangu, former representative of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, now representative of the African National Congress in Canada. The newsletter discusses COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), the AFL-CIO, the Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Owen Marron, the Alameda County Central Labor Council, Allan Carpenter, the First Unitarian Church, S 507, the San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee, the Anti-Apartheid Act, HR 21, SACTU, ANC, the United Democratic Front (UDF), British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, UNITA bandits, Ronald Reagan, the "Hand Off COSATU" campaign, SKF, Quebec Iron and Titanium, and the Botha regime.

African Activist Archive

South Africa Labor News

SANCTIONS - A SPECIAL ISSUE

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