\ .
Briefs
Thr p rty
Chic 0
There i ne p rty in
Chicago. the Harold
Wa hington Party. The
party i named after the
city' fir t Black mayor.
The party selected former
lIlinoi appeals Judge
Eugene Pincham a their
candidate for the April 2
mayor I election. Pincham
will run against the
Democratic p rty' pick,
Rich rd Daley.
al Only!
The Detroit School
Board approved the
launching of an all-male
academy next rail for K-8th
grad to address academic
problems mong city
youths.
In Dettoit.
have a higher dropout r te
hen fem le ur. n
come from ingle r mily
si tuations wi th no rather
and mo t male youths tend
to be bigger di ciplinary
problems. school officials
ay.
Philadelphia has tried
and has b�en satisfied with
this single ex situation.
Philadelphia h s ex
perienced fewer di cipline
problems nd higher
achievement levels in these
chools.
NNPA Correspond�nt .
Let no-one be c joled to
believe th t President F.W.
d Klerk i bout to' dis
mr nt Ie . p r t he id nd in
stitute non-r cial
democr tic n tion in outh
Afric. All the oc lied
"reform" that de Klerk is
tryin to m k e in South
Afric today are gimmicks to
help him gain time for white
domination of II South
Africans, of II races.
President de Klerk h s
re le a ed Mandela and other
Ie ad ing BI ack poli tical
prisoners; unbanned ANC
nd other r e st r ict e d Black
political org nization
repealed some dis-
criminatory apartheid legis
lation, and promises to
proceed to dismantle the
" . r pH-l rt.
The removal of these set-
s d m D ._.l� __ ._'
cial discrimination and
"Afrikaner" domination are
ending. Far from it!
People are inclined to
consider the marathon
apartheid legislation of 1948
to 1988 as the be-all and
end-all of South Africa's ra
cial animosity and segrega
tion.
Far from it! We forget
that the evil of apartheid and
"Afrikaner domination" of
South Africa goes way back
in history to the mid-seven
teenth century, over 330
years ago. The problem
began at that time. The "pil
lars" of South African racial
segregation' began with the
planting of a hedgerow at the
Cape of Good Hope, around
the Castle that the first
Dutch immigrants raised to
shut out Blacks. .
Another
.de ert crl
The World Food Pro
gram increased its estimate
of the number of people at
risk of starvation in the
Horn of Africa from 16 mil
lio to 21 mi Ilion people.
This other desert crisis has
been ovorlooked as the
world focused on the Gulf
War.
In Ethiopia, more than 5
million people are affected
by civilwars and famine,
the report states.
In Sudan. an estimated 9
to 11 mmion people are in
danger of death from war
and famiM.
In Somalia. 7 million
people are affected.
Like Ir q, the people of
these countries suffer from
o ive leaders, known
for their cruelty. Unlike
Iraq, no one is payina atten
tion.
Ic - T not u d to
playing Nicety
Rapper Ice-T might
eem an unlikely chotce to
play a cop in the movie
New Jack City.
The former 1..0 Angeles
gang member says "I dOll't'
like the police, but at the
same time, I wanted to be
an actor," he added "Talk
about having to stretch for
a role."
BUT T�E FREQUENTLY
changing "eastern frontiers"
that the settlers proclaimed
between Blacks and whites
were other forms of "pillars"
of racial segregation and
animosity that came as
precursors' and aftermaths of
the sanguine "Nine I'p/ir
Wars" that raged between
the Xhosa tribes and
European immigrants.
But apartheid's. most
sinister precursor was the
policy of the Dutch im
migrants of the Great Trek in
their "republics" of
Transvalia, Natalia and
Oranje-vrystaat. There, the
most brutality against the
Blacks reached its highest
watermark. The
Voortrekker's policy of "No
equality between White an d
Black ill Church or State:"
had its root in those
"republics", and entrenched
racial animosity, discrimina
tion and segregation. Thi
racist policy ha been per
petrated in the minds of all
"Afrik ners" by their secret
or anization, Broederbon d,
·0 which President de Klerk
is a staunch member!
With all this sinister back
ground, how can anyone be
cajoled to believe that de
Klerk is the man to change
South Africa into a new,
non-racial democratic na-
not the only con
ve h d n imp ct
hion. 0 c r de
d mocr tiz
c
"Third
f ion
HI
the
------------------------------------------
. .
q Ii 1 J J
f'tIoIo FUP SCHlllI.1
o
" VCR 0 OD
Americ n haute couture i
b sed purely on Americ n
style," she ex pi in. "Such
chauvinism seem h me."
According to a poke per-
on from New Yor'
F hion Institute of Tech
nology, a design school that
b rtured such talents s C 1-
vin Klein and the I te Perry
Ellis, moderately priced
ready-to-wear collection
continue to borrow freely
from Third World influen
ces.
American comp nies such
as Pier 1 Imports, recently
honored by CARE, have
brought ethnicity to the
average American hopper
- and made it chic. After
these influence re trans
lated into rather unlikely
trends such as Israeli-based
Gottex's African-ispired
swimwear from a few eason
ago -,
"There is also a growing
market for hand-knitted
sweaters from the Andean
regions of Latin American,"
says Susan Kaufman, co
owner of New York-based
import shop, B ck From
Guatemala.
"The Bolivians are
u '�TA
't 'SY WA' . 'TaJFR ED
VOTE FOR SA CTIONS
"This is the task to which we are called by
the suffering in South Africa; and our
response should be swift and unstinting ...
Urge your government to support
economic sanctions. n
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
, ,
Nelson Rohilala Mandela, 1990
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I ' nil' h.III11' � III • dthvered to Conare 10 aid 1M push for contin�d lion,. I
I f( .1'1 M' TO: VOTE CAMPAIGN. 1'heAfricl Fund. 198 BrolChN v. NY. NY IOO3K (212.962,1210), I
L_� �� �
"Twenty-seven years ago when I went to jail I had no
vote. I have come out and I still have no vote ... To
lift sanction now would be to run the risk of
aborting the proces of the complete eradication of
apartheid."
"-0: lOAF
CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!
JOIN THE MARCH TO FREEDOM
SANCTIONS
10
L.J I vote for maintaining sanctions until there is democracy for
all South Africans. .
tion? De Klerk's immediate
predecssor, P.W. Borha, h d
it right when he said, "Apar
theid" is outdated". De
'Klerk isn't the "outdated"
ap rtheid monster in newer
guises.
Pre i d e n t de Klerk's
"reforms" of nibbling at
apartheid, bit by bit, shows
only one thing - his reluc
tance to demolish apartheid
altogether. Daily, in his
speeches, de Klerk reveals
his true colors. For in
stance, he abhors "majority
rule" and "one-man-one
vote" and "Black domina
tion." De Klerk also vows to
"protect" the rights of white
minorities, peaceful not
"protect" all deprived and
disenfranchised South
Africans of all races.
.Signature
City
State