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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--Walter Sisulu, senior leader of the African National Congress and colleague of Nelson Mandela, was freed yesterday after 25 years in prison...
...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, Wilton Mkwayi, 67, who was sentenced to a life prison term in a separate 1964 trial...
...Lyons Award was first given in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who served as Nieman Foundation curator for 25 years. Past recipients of the award include Zwelakhe Sisulu, a South African editor, Tom Renner, a reporter for Newsday who uncovered stories on organized crime, and Violeta Chamorro, publisher of the Nicaraguan opposition paper La Prensa...
...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" in organized political...