VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

WHEREAS, the apartheid government of South Africa denies the black majority of the South African people elementary, democratic and human rights; and

WHEREAS, the South African police have killed hundreds and brutalized thousands of blacks struggling for their rights in the past few weeks, including high school students demanding that their native language be taught in school; and

WHEREAS, the AFT has always stood for the human rights of all people, and condemned political repression:

RESOLVED, that the AFT condemns the inhumanity and violence of the racist regime in South Africa and urges the United States government to bring its political and economic authority to bear against the South African government to secure democratic and human rights for the black citizens of South Africa.