The press release says three national black political figures are refusing to leave the South African Embassy because they are outraged by South Africa’s arrest of thousands of black civilians, U.S complicity in apartheid’s brutality under constructive engagement, and today’s stonewalling by South African Embassy officials. Congressman Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.), Randall Robinson (Executive Director, TransAfrica), and Mary Berry (Commissioner, U.S. Civil Rights Commission) ae refusing to leave the embassy until strike leaders imprisoned without charge or trial in South Africa are released.
