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Rumors swirled for years that Pretoria was about to free the Rivonia prisoners, but many seasons of hard labor in the limestone quarries on Robben Island taught Sisulu, now 77, not to expect too much. During a visit to Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison last Tuesday, his wife Albertina asked Sisulu what he thought about renewed speculation that his freedom was imminent. "No," he scoffed. "Let's just wait...
...protest by blacks, even if it is nonviolent. Said Azhar Cachalia, the U.D.F. treasurer: "The government has declared war against all peaceful opposition to its policies." Eighteen leaders of the banned organizations were served with individual restriction orders as well. These activists included U.D.F. Co-Presidents Archie Gumede and Albertina Sisulu, whose husband Walter, a former secretary-general of the African National Congress, is serving a life sentence for sabotage and whose son Zwelakhe, a newspaper editor, has been in detention without charge for more than a year. The 18 were instructed not to participate "in any manner whatsoever...
Perkins, football-player big and distinguished looking, has an immobile face that strikes many as stern. He says little but asks pointed questions. His interlocutors say that what impresses them most is his intensity. In his new post, Perkins has had unreported talks with dozens of black leaders, including Albertina Sisulu, co-president of the United Democratic Front, the largest antigovernment group, and Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association...
Last week Natal Attorney General Michael Imber announced, without explanation, that all charges had been dropped against twelve of the U.D.F. leaders, including Co-Presidents Archibald Gumede and Albertina Sisulu. Four black labor leaders, along with 22 U.D.F. activists in Transvaal province, still face charges of treason. But government critics now see little chance that they will be convicted. Says David Dalling of the opposition Progressive Federal Party: "The state tried to use the courts as a political weapon and had to withdraw in disarray...
...case is not uncommon. In addition to large numbers of the UDF leadership, other old guard figures like Albertina Sisiulu, wife of jailed nationalist Walter Sisiulu, are facing treason charges. Nobel Prize-winning Bishop Desmond M. Tutu hit the nail on the head when, in a New York Times report last week, he expressed his fear that by removing activists capable of organizing protest, the regime is running the risk of amorphous chaos in the townships...