Report from the Research Department, directed by Adotei Akwei, to the Board of Trustees. The turbulence following the beginning of talks between the white minority government and the African National Congress (ANC) have made the issue of Human Rights increasingly important. As the government sought to alter its international image, massacres that are occurring are being portrayed not as the effect of apartheid but as ethnic violence or work of extremists. The report mentions a campaign to help South Africa's political prisoners win their freedom, political prisoners, a poster with the names of all political prisoners being held at the end of January, the "VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY" campaign, and a...
Report from the Research Department, directed by Adotei Akwei, to the Board of Trustees. The turbulence following the beginning of talks between the white minority government and the African National Congress (ANC) have made the issue of Human Rights increasingly important. As the government sought to alter its international image, massacres that are occurring are being portrayed not as the effect of apartheid but as ethnic violence or work of extremists. The report mentions a campaign to help South Africa's political prisoners win their freedom, political prisoners, a poster with the names of all political prisoners being held at the end of January, the "VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY" campaign, and a popular piece of literature linking Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, research assistance to media and to organizations including Africa Watch and TransAfrica, and outreach to Beaver County Day School in Massachusetts, students at Oakwood College in Alabama, MIT (Massachusetts Institute for Technology), C.W. Post College, and the New York Center for High School leadership, Topics included the Coca Cola boycott, U.S. Depository Receipts that allow Americans to buy stocks in South African corporations, South African-Iraqi arms deals, and an arms embargo.
