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Both Steiner and Heimert scoffed at the idea ofcontacting the African National Congress, a exiledrebel organization. Neo Mnumza, chiefrepresentative of the ANC at the United Nations,released a statement opposing the internshipprogram which was quoted in the SASC report...
...long history of non-violent resistance in South Africa. Long before apartheid was codified into a coherent system of racial oppression after World War II, South Africans of all races participated in non-violent struggles against institutionalized racism. From its inception in 1912, until 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) waged what may well have been the longest campaign of non-violent resistance to overtly violent repression ever. This resistance reached a head with the defiance campaigns of the 1950s--a series of mass protests against discriminatory laws quite similar to the marches and sit-ins of the civil rights...
...ANC steadfastly pursued non-violent protest until the Sharpville massacre made it all too clear that violence was the basis of political power in South Africa. On March, 21 1960, police at Sharpville in the Transvaal opened fire on people who were peacefully protesting the pass laws. Sixty-nine men, women and children were killed. The government's message was clear: we do not care what you think, and if you oppose apartheid, we will put you in jail or kill...
Activity draped the yellow, green, and black ANC, flag over the door to Mass Hill, Which they dubbed "Biko Hall" atter Stephen Biko, the slain Black leader...
Botswana rejected South African claims that the dead were ANC guerrillas, referring to them instead as "South African refugees." It has accused South Africa of trying to bring pressure on Botswana to sign a formal nonaggression treaty similar to the ones it now has with Swaziland and Mozambique. Last week's raid also appeared to be designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the ANC just before the organization's planned weekend "summit" meeting at an undisclosed location in southern Africa, where the rebels were expected to plan their future campaign against the South African government...