Christmas greetings | Socialist Action 1983

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THIS YEAR will be the 21st Christmas that Nelson Mandela will have spent separated from his family because of his continuing incarceration in the dungeons of apartheid.

The trials and tribulations of the Mandela family are not unique. There will be hundreds of families of Namibian and South African political prisioners who will miss their mothers or fathers, their daughters or sons this year.

May I therefore

take this opportunity to invite your readers to send Christmas and New Year greetings to the banned and banished, and to the families of political prisoners, and of those who have been executed or murdered in detention in South Africa and Namibia.

For the hundreds of courageous and brave persons who are persecuted by the apartheid laws, such greetings are both welcomed and appreciated.

Please write to us for a list of names and addresses enclosing a stamped, addressed envelope.

ABDUL MINTY, Anti-Apartheid Movement, 13 Selous St, London NW1 Langden's report in last BEN CALLAN, Hatfield, Herts