Photograph of Elizabeth (Betsy) S. Landis, vice-president of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA); Namibian reporter Gwen Lister; and Bill Johnston of the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa. This photograph was likely taken when Lister was in the U.S. seeking to raise money to establish the newspaper The Namibian, the first edition of which was published on August 30, 1985. Lister had been political editor of the newspaper the Windhoek Observer but was forced off the staff of the paper for her writing about SWAPO and the desire of the Namibian people for independence from South Africa. (Source: Gwen Lister; Newswoman in Namibia Detained, Episcopal Churchmen for a Free Southern Africa,...
Photograph of Elizabeth (Betsy) S. Landis, vice-president of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA); Namibian reporter Gwen Lister; and Bill Johnston of the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa. This photograph was likely taken when Lister was in the U.S. seeking to raise money to establish the newspaper The Namibian, the first edition of which was published on August 30, 1985. Lister had been political editor of the newspaper the Windhoek Observer but was forced off the staff of the paper for her writing about SWAPO and the desire of the Namibian people for independence from South Africa. (Source: Gwen Lister; Newswoman in Namibia Detained, Episcopal Churchmen for a Free Southern Africa, December 14, 1984 available on this website; and the Wikipedia page on The Namibian accessed July 23, 2015.)
