Contents: Loud and Clear "Negotiate" • MATERIAL AID ON THE WAY • LEGISLATIVE UPDATE by Rhoda Norman • City College "Off-Limits" to S.A. Reps • Anti-Apartheid Peace Seals • THE CHURCH In South Africa's Struggle for Freedom by Victor H. Carpenter • Visiting ANC Official Warns Against S.A. "Reforms" • 98% BOYCOTT S.A. "ELECTIONS" by Arla S. Ertz • WORLD BRIEFS • International sanctions and restrictions on bank lending has caused an economic crisis for South Africa. This, plus disaster on the battlefield inside Angola, appears to have led to South Africa's willingness to negotiate with the Cuban and Angolan governments. David Reed of the S.F. Anti-apartheid Committee and David...
Contents: Loud and Clear "Negotiate" • MATERIAL AID ON THE WAY • LEGISLATIVE UPDATE by Rhoda Norman • City College "Off-Limits" to S.A. Reps • Anti-Apartheid Peace Seals • THE CHURCH In South Africa's Struggle for Freedom by Victor H. Carpenter • Visiting ANC Official Warns Against S.A. "Reforms" • 98% BOYCOTT S.A. "ELECTIONS" by Arla S. Ertz • WORLD BRIEFS • International sanctions and restrictions on bank lending has caused an economic crisis for South Africa. This, plus disaster on the battlefield inside Angola, appears to have led to South Africa's willingness to negotiate with the Cuban and Angolan governments. David Reed of the S.F. Anti-apartheid Committee and David Bacon of the Free South Africa Labor Committee loaded 7 tons of boxes onto a moving van, then drove night and day across the Rockies, along the Great Lakes to Toronto to deliver the supplies to the African National Congress (ANC) mission in Canada. In January, Ron Dellums will re-introduce a Comprehensive Sanctions Bill against South Africa. On November 19, four leaders of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were found guilty of treason. While visiting the Bay Area, South African unionist and ANC official John Nkadimeng warned of the apartheid government's attempts to promote "reforms" and "sow confusion" inside South Africa and abroad. The South African government was forced last week to commute the death sentence of the Sharpeville Six but handed down six prison sentences ranging from 18 to 25 years. The newsletter mentions the State Security Council, Jonas Savimbi, refugee camps, H.R. 1580, United Public Employees Local 790, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 2121, U.N. peacekeeping, the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, Dr. Allan Boesak, Madikwe Thomas Manthata, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the P.W. Botha regime, a National Church Campaign Committee, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Bay Area labor leaders, the Unitarian Church, Zwelakhe Sisulu, Albertina and Walter Sisulu, the National Party, the Conservative Party, Nelson Mandela, Harry Gwala, Zeohania Mothopeng, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Japan's Electric Supply Company, uranium, Vryre Weekblad, Joe Slovo, the South African Communist Party (SACC), "A World Apart," San Francisco Community College, South African Education Ministry officials, students, staff and faculty protests. Editors Sam Gold, Cati Okorie, Mallie Gold, and Margaret Stroud.
