text: Africa Committee, Mr.BojiJordanoftheAmerican-South African Peoples' Friendship Association, Mr.AbroedObafemi ofNewAfrican Peoples' Organization, Mr.David Brothers -butMr.Sek~uNkrumah willspeakonhisbehalf -oftheAll-African Peoples' Revolutionary Party, andMr.LennoxHindsoftheInternational Association ofDemocratic Lawyers. Ipropose thattheCommittee approve therequests forhearing contained inthe annextodocuments A/SPC/44/4 andA/SPC/44/5. Inaddition, Ihavejustreceived requests fromobservers oftheAf~ican Nati~nal Congress ofSouthAfrica (ANC)andthePanAfricanist Congress ofAzania L r-;.;----­ ]RG/4 AlSPC/44/PV.26 4 (TheChairman) , '-(PAC)tobecalled upontoaddress theSpecial Committee. TheyspokeintheAdHoc Committee ofthelastspecial session oftheGeneral Assembly onapartheid. Hence, iftheSpecial Committee doesnotobject, weshalladdthenamesofthetwo representatives oftheANCandthePAC,whowillspeakaswell. Iftherearenoobjections tothisproposal, itwillbesodecided Itwassodecided. TheCHAIRMAN: Ishould nowliketoraisethequestion ofverbatim coverage forthehearings. Iwishtopropose that,following thepractice of previous years,theSpecial Committee request verbatim records ofthehearings. Thisisanormalworking procedure, andiftherearenoobjections, itwillbeso decided. Itwassodecided. TheCHAIRMAN: Ishouldlikesincerely towelcome therepresentatives of non-governmental organizations whoarepresent andtoremind themthatourtimefor thismeeting islimited to1p.m.Hencethiscircumstance willhavetobetaken intoconsideration byspeakers. Iwishalsotoappealtospeakers -andthisisveryimportant -tospeak slowly andtomaketheirstatements ataspeedthatwillenabletheinterpreters to keeppacewiththedelivery andfacilitate thetaskoftheverbatim reporters and pressofficers. Myexperience isthatr.epresentatives ofnon-governmental organizations speakratherfast. Wemayjusthavetolistenbutinterpreters are doingtheirjobatthesametime;theyareuniquepeople: theyarelistening and atthesametimespeaking. Itherefore appealtoa 1speakers totakethisinto consideration also. Thefirstspeaker isMrs.Jennifer DavisoftheAmerican Committee onAfrica, onwhomInowcall. f d'__ 1. ~_'.so of for 'sto md md ;0 ,ca,RG/4 A/SPC/44/PV.26 5 Mrs.DAVIS: Mr.Chairman, IshouldliketothankyouandtheSpecial Committee fortheopportunity toaddress theSpecial Committee atthisvery critical m~~ent, whenthep~opleofSouthAfricastandsatavitalcrossroad. Thefirstrealsignsofchangeareemerging inSouthAfricatoday. Changeis coming, buthowquickly andhowextensively isstillnotclear,thestirring events ofthepastfewmonths -therelease ofNelson Mandela andsomeotherpolitical prisoners, thereturnofthefirstpolitical exiles andtheunbanning ofpolitical organizaticns -haveallgivenhopethatrealchange mayfinally beonthehorizon. ButevenastheGovernment beginstalkswiththeAfrican National Congress of SouthAfrica (ANC)inthecapital, inthetownships andther~ralareastheyare stillarresting, torturing andkilling localactivists. Forexample, inEmpangeni, innorthern Nataltradeunionsactivists andANClocal organiz~rs arebeingburned outoftheirhomesbygroupsaffiliated withKwaZulubantustan leaderGatsha Buthelezi -andthatwasconfirmed foruslastweekbyamemberofourstaffwho hadspentthreeorfourweeksthissummertravelling around SouthAfrica. --------~JSM/at A/SPC/44/PV.~6 6 (Mrs.Davis)\, IntheJohannesburg areaInkatha supporters arebeingusedbytheSouth African Government asshocktroopsintheirwaragainst township-based anti-apartheid organizers. Asmanyhereareaware,formorethan40yearsthe Nationalist Partyhaspursued adeliberate divide-and-rule policyintJ1eblack community thathasincluded attempts todividetownships intoethnicortribal areas. Single-gex hostels formigrant workers wereseparated andisolated fromthe restofthecommunity. TheState's vicious political manipulation ofsuchgroups isnotnew.Itwillberecalled, forexample, thatduringthe1976Sowetouprising foratimetheGovernment successfully wasabletousethedivisions ithadcreated tounleash thehostelresidents onprotesting students inanattempt toundermine township organizing. Xragic~lly; thisdeliberate government policycontinues, with terrible consequences forthepeople. Weareparticularly disturbed bythemounting evidence -fromeyewitness reports, fromthechurches andfromcredible monitoring groups, suchasthe
analysis: The text appears to be a speech or statement given to a special committee, likely discussing issues related to human rights, politics, and social justice in South Africa. The speaker, Jennifer Davis, mentions specific events and policies, such as the release of Nelson Mandela, the unbanning of political organizations, and the continued use of violence and intimidation by the South African government against anti-apartheid activists. The speech does not appear to be focused on economic development, natural resources, or other technical topics.