Contents: Whither the Africa Fund • 1. The Vote Campaign: Preserving Sanctions • 2. Human Rights • 3. Information and Interpretation - The Research Core • Publications • Three staff of The Africa Fund have made five recent trips to South Africa, meeting with labor, churches, human rights, and community leadership, adding to communications with leaders of the ANC (African National Congress) and former long-term political prisoners. There also have been important discussions with international allies, including at a UN-organized conference in Geneva and a meeting with Canadian activist John Saul. The Africa Fund organized speaking tours and discussions for Cyril Ramaphosa, Sister...
Contents: Whither the Africa Fund • 1. The Vote Campaign: Preserving Sanctions • 2. Human Rights • 3. Information and Interpretation - The Research Core • Publications • Three staff of The Africa Fund have made five recent trips to South Africa, meeting with labor, churches, human rights, and community leadership, adding to communications with leaders of the ANC (African National Congress) and former long-term political prisoners. There also have been important discussions with international allies, including at a UN-organized conference in Geneva and a meeting with Canadian activist John Saul. The Africa Fund organized speaking tours and discussions for Cyril Ramaphosa, Sister Bernard Ncube, Mkhiseli Jack, Moses Mayekiso, Fink Haysom, and Willies Mchunu. For the "End Apartheid: Vote for the People" campaign, The Africa Fund delivered the first batch of "sanctions ballots" to Congress with Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn (U.S. Congress of Mayors), Lindiwe Mabuza (African National Congress - ANC), Don Stillman (United Auto Workers - UAW), Rabbi David Saperstein (Union of American Hebrew Congregations), and activists from Detroit, Baltimore, and Atlanta. The Research Department and its director Adotei Akwei fielded numerous requests from media and national, campus, and community organizers. The report also mentions President Bush, Majority Whip William Gray, South African Political Prisoners Day, the Philadelphia Labor Committee, Black History Month, political trials, detentions, the Human Rights Commission, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, the Mandela Reception Committee, the Africa Peace Tour, Council on Foreign Relations, "people's sanctions," selective purchasing legislation, COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), National Union of Mineworkers, the arms embargo, shipments of guns and bullets, the Department of Commerce, the Unified List of United States Companies Doing Business in South Africa by Richard Knight, Apartheid's Hidden Hand - The Power Behind "Black on Black Violence," and Dateline: Namibia.
