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Seeger is currently visiting one of his children in Nicaragua, according to Benz, and he will not return to this country until the night of the concert. Benz cited Seeger's "longstanding commitment to civil rights and social justice issues and his activism in anti-apartheid efforts," as his reasons for participating in the event...
...will work independently of the Ad Hoc Committee. "While E4D concerns itself with funds, the Ad Hoc Committee will organize anti-apartheid activities," Honig said...
Although Martin said he thinks students today are not as involved in anti-apartheid activities as they were two or three years ago, Evan O. Grossman '87-'88, who ran E4D last year, said he thinks "pro-divestiture sentiment has "never been higher." He said this year's organization "looks to be successful in raising both funds and awarenesss for the divestiture cause...
...United Democract Front (UDF), an umbrella coalition including most anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, refused to participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU...
...first anniversary of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 approaches, South Africa's white minority has neither chosen the carrot nor suffered the stick. The government of State President P.W. Botha has undertaken none of the political changes specified in the act, sticking instead to its own long-scheduled list of minor reforms. South Africa's economy, meanwhile, though limping in spots, has not endured any major setbacks as the result of either U.S. sanctions or similar punitive measures that have been imposed by 27 other countries. Says Helen Suzman, a staunchly antiapartheid member of South Africa's Parliament...