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...Buthelezi's Africa" New York Review of Books 34 (2), Feb. 12, 1987, pp. 15-22, cites sworn affidavits describing "death threats, firebombings, abductions, beatings, stabbings, and shootings" by Buthelezi's followers; members of his organization, Inkatha, "serve as shock troops in Inkatha's on-going war with the ANC...
...ANC backs the NECC as "an important part ofthe democratic cause in South Africa," said PalloJordan, a member of the national executivecommittee of the ANC, in a telephone interviewearlier this week. Jordan said all but two of theNECC leaders are now in detention...
...have to take responsibility for anything. We didn't disrupt the speech. The vice-consul was free to continue speaking after the blockade was formed, while members of the audience filled the auditorim with a rousing rendition of "We Shall Overcome" and a member of the ANC sollicted the audience for money. No one put a gag on Kent-Brown. No one beat him with a club. It was the fascist Conservative Club and the bubble-headed police who took Kent-Brown out. They should be put before the Ad Board for quashing free speech...
Jesse Jackson will address the rally, as will Eleanor Smeal, the head of the National Organization of Women (NOW). Randi Forsberg, and prominent disarmament activist will speak, along with a member of the African National Congress (ANC). A woman from COMADRES, a group of relatives of victims of Salvadoran death-squads, will join them, and so will a student activist leader from Berkeley. Religious and labor leaders have prominent places in the program, and rumors abound that Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen may lend their support...
...Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...