text: UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/44/709/Add.l 11 September 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Fourty-fourth session Agenda item 28 POLICIES OF APARTHEID OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA Report of the Special Political Committee Rapporteur; Miss Nonet M. DAPUL (Philippines) AddendTzm 1. At its 3rd plenary meeting, on 22 September 1989, the General Assembly decided to consider agenda item 28, entitled "Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa", in plenary meeting on the understanding that organizations and individuals having a special interest in the question would be permitted to be heard by the Special Political Committee. 2. In accordance with that decision, the Special Political Committee devoted two meetings, its 13th and 14th meetings, on 2 and 3 November, to such hearings, in the course of which statements were made by 18 persons. Summaries of the statements are contained in the records of those meetings (A/SPC/44/SR.13 and 14). On б November, the Committee submitted a report to the General Assembly on its proceedings (A/44/709). 3. In its decision S-16/24 of 14 December 1989, taken at its sixteenth special session on apartheid and its destructive consequences in southern Africa the Assembly decided to re-open agenda item 28 of the forty-fourth session in order for the Assembly to resume its session to consider the report of the Secretary-General to be submitted on the progress made in the implementation of the Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa (resolution S-16/1 of 14 December 1989) and to consider such activities as may be required. 4. Subsequently, in its decision 44/468 of 20 July 1990, the General Assembly decided to meet from 12 to 14 September 1990 in order to consider the report of the Secretary-General (A/44/960 and Add.l and 2) submitted pursuant to its resolution S-16/1. 
analysis: The text appears to be a report from the United Nations General Assembly, discussing the policies of apartheid in South Africa. The content focuses on the consideration of a report by the Secretary-General, decisions made by the Assembly, and the submission of statements by individuals and organizations. The topic is political in nature, addressing human rights and social issues.