IN 1992 AFRICA SEEMED ABOUT TO FALL OFF

THE AMERICAN AGENDA. EASTERN

EUROPE WAS DOMINATING THE

ATTENTION OF U .S. POLICY MAKERS.

YET IN SOUTH AFRICA DEMOCRATIC

ELECTIONS AND A CONSTRUCTIVE

FUTURE WERE AT RISK FROM STATE

SPONSORED VIOLENCE .

THE AFRICA FUND DELIVERED A WAKE UP

CALL TO AMERICANS ON THE

THREATS TO DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA.

WE PROTESTED THE DANGER TO

DEMOCRACY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY

HELPED PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN

AFRICA BUILD FOR A BRIGHTER

• OUR STOP APARTHEID 'S VIOLENCE

CAMPAIGN BROUGHT TENS OF THOUSANDS

OF PEOPLE INTO ACTION TO PROTEST THE

VIOLENCE AND DEMAND DEMOCRACY .

• WE BUILT SUPPORT FOR VOTER

EDUCATION TO HELP BLACK SOUTH

AFRICANS PREPARE FOR THEIR FIRST

ELECTION .

• THE AFRICA FUND WORKED WITH THE

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO

EXPOSE ILLEGAL U.S. ARMS SHIPMENTS

TO SOUTH AFRICA .

• WE CREATED CONSTRUCTIVE TIES

BETWEEN THE EMERGING SOUTH AFRICAN

WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND WOMEN'S

ORGANIZATIONS IN THE U.S .

• THE AFRICA FUND MOBILIZED LABOR

AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT THAT WON

REINSTATEMENT FOR SOUTH AFRICAN

WORKERS FIRED FOR PROTESTING THE

VIOLENCE.

II!J A young victim

of the Bisho

massacre. Twenty­

eight people were

killed and hun­

dreds wounded

when government

troops opened fire

on peaceful

anti-apartheid

demonstrators.

• WE INTRODUCED A NEW CALL FOR

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT IN

POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA FRAMED

BY THE ANC AND THE BLACK UNIONS TO

ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THE U.S .

• THE AFRICA FUND RAISED OVER $60,000

FROM DONORS ACROSS THE U.S. TO

SUPPORT PIONEERING SELF-HELP PROJECTS

IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.

THE WAKE UP CALL

BUILDING FOR PEACE WITH JUSTICE 1992 was more than a year to protest the violence in southern Africa. Equally critical was our work for a just and lasting peace. We supported and protected people who were building new institutions that could guarantee just societies and real peace.

1"'1 The Africa Fund helped a South African theater group present a play on elections and voting procedures.

Supporting Southern African Women

We worked with women in South Africa to ensure that Freedom Day extends to them.

Laying the groundwork for creative ties, The Africa Fund's Rachael Kagan traveled in South Africa and Zimbabwe, meeting with women organizing on the cutting edge of

change.

We brought Dorothy Mokgalo, the Congress of South African Trade Unions leader charged with creating union gender equality programs, to the U.S. She briefed her coun­terparts in U.S. unions and conferred with women working in the areas of sexual harassment, women's occupational health and safety, child care, and leadership training.

Socially Responsible Investment In A New South Africa

Throughout the year The Africa Fund worked to keep state and local sanctions in place. At the same time, because we recognized that there would be an urgerit need to address the legacy of apartheid, we introduced to the U.S. a new call for socially responsible investment in a post-apartheid South Africa developed by the ANC and the Black unions. We secured endorsement for this from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Conference of State Legislators.

Defending South African Workers

South African workers who are determined to help shape a new society often face resistance and retaliation from employers.

When the South African employees of the U.S. Crown Cork and Seal Corporation were fired for participating in a stay away to protest the violence, The Africa Fund brought their union's Regional Secretary Bethuel Maserumule to the U.S. for an emergency campaign to get the workers re-hired.

We set up meetings between Maserumule and the unions representing Crown Cork and Seal workers in the U.S.­the UA W, the Steelworkers and the Machinists. Finally an agreement to reinstate the workers was reached in a series of meetings between Crown Cork's CEO, Maserumule, The Africa Fund and the U.S. unions.

Supporting Self-Help Projects

The Africa Fund provided over $60,000 in assistance to self-help projects in southern Africa which are taking the lead in alleviating suffering and building for a brighter tomorrow. Our assistance is often critical because it is given quickly and without red tape. Among the projects supported in 1992 were:

• A school in South Africa for children returning from exile, many of them orphans with nowhere else to go. During the years when they could not return to their

STOP Apartheid's VIolence

Only ipternatio~~l protests and pressure could offer the democratic

1"'1 Africa Fund staff member A leah Bacquie speaking at a STOP Apartheid's Violence rally:

movement some measure of protection against the violence. The Africa Fund's STOP Apartheid's Violence Campaign brought tens of thousands of Americans into action to protest the violence and demand democracy.

THE WAKE UP CALL

DEMOCRACY AT RISK

which won overwhelming

Senate: suppor~. Executive. Director Jennifer Davis docu­mented the South African government's collusion in the violence in testiipony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and challenged the State DepartQJent to tg.ke a more active role in investi­gating violence.

As 1992 ended a date for South Africa's first

Candlelight vigils, educa­tionaFforums, prayer ser­vices and public events in 18 states combined in a powerful week ofa:ction early in the year to demand an end to the vio­lence.Jn Memphis, civil rights activists organized a vigil at the newly opened

democratic elections seemed near. But violence

sponsored by the apartheid regime put any We produced and distributed a video documentary, STOP The Violence, featuring Projet:;ts Director Pumisaw Kumalo. Its graphic images made the human cost of the

genuinely free elections in grave peril. In many

are.as the ANC could not even hold a public

meeting. Organizers for the democra.fic move-'

ment lived in fear of the death squads. Despite

the danger 20 million people Qeeded to prepare violence real for thousands of Americans as it was shown in churches and

to participate in their first ever election<

Martin.Luther J>,ing Jr. Monument, and every public library in Hartford arranged special displays oil political violence in South Africa.

As the. killings continued The Africa Fund successfully challenged the common media view that what was occur­ring was a simple "Black on Black" conflict. We exposed

the rele.(.'lfthe apartheid g()vernmen~ininitiatingaFld orchestrating violence. We revealed the government's motive - the attempt to undermine the democratic movement.

In the Fall we worked with Senators Paul Simon and Edward Kennedy to frame a reso­lut~()n condemning the.violence

I"'JAfrica Fund Executive Director Jennifer Davis testified before the Se11ate Foreign Relations. Committee for a reso lution condemning the vio­lence. (pho to: Rick Reinhard!Impact Visuals)

country The Africa Fund provided over a quarter of a mil­lion dollars for ANC education projects. We cannot aban­don these children now that freedom is in sight.

• The relief activities of the Imbali Township Community Organization. The Africa Fund grant provided the only computer available to this community organization as it seeks to bring people together to rebuild grass roots humanitarian structures ravaged by the violence.

• The work of Albertina Sisulu and the ANC Women's Department in providing for the immediate needs of the victims of the Boipatong massacre .

• The Media Co-Op in Mozambique which is setting up a public information service and establishing a newspaper. The Africa Fund grant provided them with computer equipment.

THE WAKE UP CALL

BUILDING GRASS ROOTS SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY The Africa Fund held regional conferences with key activists and critical state and municipal legislators in

Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta , Kansas City and Chicago. We knew from long experi­ence that an engaged grass roots movement to support democracy in Africa would only be sustained if community leaders had a clear

schools throughout the country.

After the presidential election we launched a petition drive urging Clinton to press the apartheid regime to end th~ violence. Thousands of people ~igned to express their; outrage and concern. The petitions were presented to the White House on the day of ANC leader Chris Hani's

funeral.

Education For South African Voters

The Africa Fund provided assistance for the voter educa­tion work of the South African Matla Trust. The trust was founded by Nelson Mandela l:o provide a non-parti­san understanding of the electoral process for people who have never seen a ballot box before.

The trust is finding new and innovative ways to carry out its work. A theater group presents a play on democracy, elections and .voting prq.t::edures .ip. schools, community centers and church halls. Radio_ programs are being pre­pared in many African languages.

vision of the road forward. These regional conferences worked to mobilize support for the election process and a democratic future.

The Africa Fund provided updates on the problems facing southern Africa and perspectives on policy directions to meet the new needs. The focus was on the STOP Apartheid's Violence Campaign and supporting free elec­tions. The community leaders also discussed working for a positive U.S. policy towards Mozambique and Angola.

THE WAKE UP CALL

PROTECTING PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA In 1992 peace and human rights were in danger in many places on the African continent. The Africa Fund spoke out on behalf of those who were working to end the vio­lence and build for freedom:

ANGOLA- When UNIT A, the force long backed by South Africa and the U.S., refused to recognize the democ­ratic elections and launched a vicious war, The Africa Fund prepared a drive to urge the U.S. to recognize the

1"'1 Africa Fund Projects Director Dumisani Kuma/a sp eaking at a regional conference in Los Angeles.

1"'1 South African women's leader Dorothy Mokgalo at a unio n day care ce11ter in New York on an Africa Fund trip to investigate projects for working women.

1"'1 journalists at Media Co-Op in Mozambiqu e using computers provided by The Africa Fund. (photo: Kok Nam!NYT Pictures)

elected government and promote negotiations.

ZAIRE- The Africa Fund worked with African­American religious leaders to collect petitions demanding that the U.S. government end its support for the Mobutu Sese Seko dictatorship.

MALA WI- We protested the torture and killing of polit­ical prisoners in Malawi and provided a small grant to assist the family of a political prisoner who died in jail.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

THE WAKE UP CALL

PROVIDING INFORMATION TO EMPOWER EFFECTIVE ACTION As Eastern Europe dominated the attention of U.S. policy makers, Africa threatened to disappear from the agenda altogether. Only fast, accurate information on a rapidly changing situation made effective action possible.

Our Research Department uncovered illegal arms ship­ments to South Africa just as violence escalated. When the Commerce Department stonewalled we filed suit with the help of the Center for Constitutional Rights to force the release of 1,000 documents on continuing munitions ship­ments to South Africa. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and The San Diego

Times Union all repo~ted on the suit and the arms traffic.

As the crisis in southern Africa deepened thousands of peo­ple called The Africa Fund's Research Department for facts and analysis. Thousands more relied on our bulletins and action alerts. As people in South Africa began to plan for

the future they sought out The Fund for documentation and interpretation. Among the many who relied on The Africa Fund Research Department were:

Senator Carol Moseley Braun (right) requested a briefing on the violence and progress towards free elections as she prepared for a fact finding trip to South Africa shortly after her election to the U.S. Senate.

Ted Koppel's ABC News Nightline (left) called for information on South African government complici­ty in right wing vigilante attacks on the democratic movement.

South African nurses' leader Khubu Mtinjima (right) needed information on the unionization of American nurses as she prepared for an organizing drive.

PUBLICATIONS

Africa Fund publications are an indispensable resource for everyone who seeks to understand southern Africa and contribute to a brighter future for the region. In addition to regular bulletins and alerts on human rights violations, the progress of negotiations and apartheid's violence, our 1992 publications included:

What Does Justice Require? A Report by Rev. Frank Chikane of the South African Council of Churches

Questions and Answers on Apartheid's Violence

Spinning Out Of Control: U.S. Policy in South Africa

Beware The Hand That Feeds You: U.S. Aid In Southern Africa

U.S. Economic Ties To Africa

1"'1 South African union leader Bethuel Maserumule meeting with Machinists Union shop stewards in Africa Fund drive to win re-hiring of fired South African workers.

Th e Africa Fund Since 1966, The Africa Fund has supported the struggle for African freedom by educating Americans about apartheid, supporting grass roots organizations that point

the way towards a new southern Africa, and advocating a U.S. policy that supports political and economic justice.

GENERAL AND ADM I NISTRATIVE

A complete financial report prepared by an independent accounting firm, and an annual program report are avail­

able to all who request them. Reports are also produced for federal, state and independent monitoring groups. A financial supplement is available from The ew York

Department of State, Charities Registration Bureau, Albany, N.Y. 12231 or The Africa Fund.

BEQUESTS

The Africa Fund has benefited enormously from a number of very generous bequests. For those who want to provide for a continuance of their concern for the work of The

Africa Fund, the following form of bequest is suggested: I hereby bequeath the sum of$ ___ to The Africa Fund,

198 Broadway, ew York, .Y. 10038 for use in its programs.

MEMBERSHIP AND FUNDRAISING

The Africa Fund depends on thousands of individuals who contribute from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars

each year. We have also received generous support from several committed private foundations. Contributions

come in response to appeals, proposals, progress reports and the annual report. Artists United Against Apartheid

and Jackson Browne continue to provide critical financial and political support. Contributions to The Africa Fund are fully tax deductible to the extent provided by law.

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FINANC IAL R ESUL T S

Income

Contributions $532,716 Direct Mail 62,630 Literature 9,412 Interest 12,253

TOTAL $617,011

Expenses

Projects $281,425 Research & Education 270,160 Membership & Fundraising 28,177 Coordination & Administration 23,812

TOTAL $603,574

Figures are preliminary and subject to audit, and do not include an endowment established by the Trustees from a bequest.

TRUSTEES

Tilden LeMelle, Chair Marsha Bonner, Vice Chair Marvin Rich, Treasurer Robert Boehm William Booth Elizabeth Calvin John L.S. Holloman Jr. George M . Houser M. William Howard Margaret Marshall Rose Milligan Frank Montero Andrew orman Venita Vinson Peter Weiss

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~Top; ANC Christmas card. Below; Tilden LeMelle, President of the University of the District of Columbia and Chair of The Africa Fund.

ADVISORY

COMMITTEE

Julian Bond Dick Clark Ossie Davis Ruby Dee James L. Farmer Coretta Scott King Stanley Sheinbaum Little Steven Van Zandt

Jennifer Davis Executive Director

THE AFRICA FUND 198 Broadway New York, NY 10038