text: th~;outhAfrican jUdicial systemasmanifested intheDelmastrialandsuchother trialsandinvited aformerjUdgeoftheInternational CourtofJustice, Abdal:~ ElKhani,toaddress themeeting asaspecial guest. TheSecretary-General inhisstatement alsoaddressed thismatterandappealed totheGovernment ofSouth Africatobringabouttheconditions forfreeconsultations amongallthepeopleof SouthAfrica, ascalledforbytheGeneral Assembly. OntheInternational Dayof Solidarity withtheStruggling PeopleofSouthAfrica(16June),theSpecial Committee invited thePresident ofPAC,Zephania Mothopeng, whohadrecently been released fromalongtermofimprisonment, toaddress themeetlng asaspecial guest(seepara.208).OntheInternational DayofSolidarity withtheStrugqle of WomeninSouthAfricaandNamibia(;August) theSpecial Committee invited, among others, JameRuthNitaBarrow(Barbados), Ann-Marie Lizin(Belgium), and Miranda Ebenezer (SouthAfrica) tospeakaboutthecondition of30utbAfrican women andtheroleofwomenintheliberation struggle. Ms.Ebenezer isamemberofthe Education se~tion oftheMediaWorkers Association ofSouthAfrica. Afilm prepared bytheCentre4gainst Apartheid andtheDepartment ofPublicInformation oftheUnitedNations Secretariat, entitled "Asimbonanga", wasshownattheendof themeeting. 202.TheSpdcial Committee alsoheldaspecial meeting on6April1989to commemorate thethirtieth anniversary ofthefounding ofPAC.Themeeting was addressed bytheChairman ofthePACCentral Committee, Johnson P.Mlambo. 3.Consultations withapartheid opponeDts 203.Du31January 1989,theSpecial Committee heldinformal consultations with Mohammed ValliMoosaandMurphyMorobe, seniorofficials ofUDr.Bothgave testimony onthecurrent situation inSouthAfrica, notingtheescalation of repression andtheimposition ofanevenstricter mediacensorship. They ~ointed outthat,whilerepression hasdisrupted theactivities oftheapartheid opposition, ithasfailedtostemresistance. Theyalsostressed theneedto increase international actionagainst theregime. -52··204.On3February 1989,theSpecial Committee heardareportbyanEminent PersonR Group,assembled bytheWorldCouncil ofChurches, followinq itsvisitstoWestern European andotherStatesthatmaintain significant economic tieswithSouth Africa. TheReverend Canaan Banana, formerPresident ofZimbabwe, the Reverend FrankChikane, General Secretary oftheSouthAfrican Council ofChurches andMrs.Lucille Mair,aformerUnder-Sec cary-General oftheUnitedNations, emphasized theimportance ofcontinued efforts tosensitize pUblicopinion and Governments tothesituation inSouthAfrica andontheneedtoincrease economic pressure onPretoria (seepara.167). 205.TheSpecial CJmmittee heldconsultations on6July1989withadelegation from theUnitedDemocratic FrontheadedbyAlbertina Sisulu, theorganization's co-president. Thedelegation wasvisitinq theUnitedStatesattheinvitation of President Georqe BLSh.Mrs.Sisu1uwasaccompanied byTitusMafolo, UDrnational organizerl SisterBernard Ncube, aR~manCatholic nunwhowasthefirstpresident oftherederation ofTransvaal Womenl AzharCachalia, UDrTreasurer sndpracticing attorney inJohannesburgl Curnick Ndlovu, UDrNational Chairman, andJessieDuarte, memberoftheExecutive Committee oftheFederation ofTransvaal Women. Inher statement, Mrs.Sisul"emphasized theurgentneedtoimposecomprehensive and mandatory sanctions against SouthAfrica andcall~dfortheimmediate release of NelsonMandela andallother pol~tical prisoners anddetainees. Shecalled upon Pretoria tostartadirectdialogue withtherepresentatives oftheoppressed majority inSouthAfrica. 4.Statements andmJssages against th,repressiQn ofapartheid oppQnents inSQuth~a 206.TheSpecial Committee continued itsefforts todisseminate information onthe repressive policies Qftheregima, focusing inparticular Qntheescalation 01 repressiQn, thesituatiQn ofpolitical prisQners anddetainees andtheincreasing number Qfdeathsentences pronounced on~retoria's opponents. 207.On12and26October 1988,theChairman oftheSpecial Committee denounced the regime's decision toconduct nation-wide municipal electiQns inSQuthAfricBI on
analysis: The text appears to be focused on the political situation in South Africa during the apartheid era, discussing the activities of the Special Committee of the United Nations, the repression of opposition parties, and the efforts to increase international pressure on the regime. It also mentions the imprisonment of political leaders and the need for sanctions. Given this focus on politics and human rights, it is likely that the text falls under one of the categories related to human rights and international relations.