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Four other ANC leaders from the Johannesburg area also were freed Sunday, according to associates and relatives. There was no immediate word on three other political prisoners, two of them ANC members, whose freedom also had been approved by President F.W. de Klerk on Tuesday.
Sisulu, 77, arrived under police escort at daybreak at his home in Soweto. Youths who had been waiting at the house lifted them atop their shoulders before he went inside. He made no statement.
Four other ANC leaders who had been flown to Johannesburg from Cape Town on Friday also reportedly were freed yesterday. These include three men sentenced to life prison terms in 1964 along with Sisulu and Mandela--Andrew Mlengeni, 63, Elias Mostsoaledi, 65, and Ahmed Kathrada, 60--and another ANC leader...
There was no immediate word about the status of the three other prisoners named by de Klerk--80-year-year ANC activist Oscar Mpetha, who has been hospitalized in Cape Town; Raymond Mhlaba, a co-defendent of Sisulu and Mandela who lives in Port Elizabeth; and Jafta Masemola, a member...
Professors, librarians, clerical workers, blue-collar workers and police at UMass already have union representation, but the group of about 1200 professionals, which include technicians, managers lawyers, nurses and architects, has been difficult to organize in the past, said Tom Sharpe, a SEIU spokesperson.