Conference paper on mandatory economic sanctions and the oil embargo against SA prepared by the African National Congress of South Africa for an international Conference held in Paris on September 12-13, 1980. Note the document is barely legible.
CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa - even the name belies its function) has come to pass; and for the oppressed the only truthful statement made throughout those two days was, unbelievably, that from Nelson Mandela.
Abandoning the first hall, which had been wired by the Special Branch, the people marched two miles in the rain to another hall in Plessislaer where the conference eventually took place.
