TEXT OF CHRISTMAS, 1987 STATEMENT TO THEN-PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA PIETER W. BOTHA PAGE 13.:

That Praekelt letter published in the Globe and Mail reminds me of the Oliver North testimony about the cover-up of "Irangate".

Also consider, President Botha, that both the Nelson Mandela statement and the excerpt from "Biko" here about South African educational policies are from Donald Woods' first book. Now that Richard Attenborough has released "Cry Freedom"--which i understand is to be shown in South Africa and i applaud you for it: i saw it and thought it excellent--i intend to write to him and will see if he can put me in touch with the South African expatriate journalist.*

I consider both excerpts from Donald Woods' book important to understanding of mine and the events in my "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis" as i so briefly describe here for you. Therefore, i will require Mr. Woods' permission to include them in my book.

This actually does work its way around to the affixation here and why and when i literally began this statement to you, President Botha.

It was after watching the broadcast described here that included interviews with the daughters of Nelson Mandela and yourself.

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One of those interviewed is President P.W. Botha's 27-year-old daughter Roxanne. Roxanne can't understand the riots and protests that continually take place. "I mean," she says, "I can go to my father, any young person in this country can go to the President and say...I disagree with this, that or the other thing." But it's not quite the same for the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's 27-year-old daughter Zinzi. Her father has been jailed since she was 3. Visits from the police are a matter of course for Zinzi, and she sardonically cites a family joke: "I've literally been raised by the police."

Police have also been a part of the life of an 11-year-old black boy who, along with four other youths, was arrested at one o'clock one morning and detained for a month and five days without being charged. Neither was a 16-year-old black girl who was five months pregnant at the time of her arrest. As for white children, many seem hardly aware of the black struggle for equality. One boy believes that "at this moment...there is nearly no apartheid left." (60 min.)

In 1985, a Vancouver area school board official asked me for some documentation about my work--because i had mentioned that i had laid groundwork for the efforts then just underway involving the popular entertainers helping starving Africans.

In 1987, my statement to the late Bayard Rustin was as much about American educational programs--that he could affect through "The A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund"--as about the article he wrote that Newsweek published.

I know that Archbishop Desmond Tutu also has a daughter, President Botha

I'm including a final attachment here, taken from the May 27, 1987 Globe and Mail. Whether the parents of these three South African young ladies ever can sit down together as friends or even as fellow human beings who respect each other and each's "concerns" for the future of South Africa, one day, if South Africa is to survive--the day may come when the children will have to.

There's so much more i could say--and would if a written response by you warrants it...in terms i will allow to establish themselves.

Seeing "Cry Freedom" and what Donald Woods and his family had to endure to advance the cause of justice for South Africans, i know now that if i'm forced to make the same choice--i have a worthy example to follow.

In closing, there's one more thing i'd like to say, by way of referring again to what was pointed out to Glenn Babb and the Globe and Mail.
If it was South Africa's concept of economics that caused the stock markets to take the final calamitous step on October 19, 1987--and the question could be posed that if not then, when in future?--do you suppose Nelson Mandela's opinions noted in the enclosures would alarm economists more or less than your regime's?
Like countless others, i urge you to release him.

A Merry Christmas to all South Africans.

I remain, as always,



Gordon C. Wong

I wrote "Hunger" for my other book several years ago.

*-I DID SEND SIR RICHARD A LETTER VERY SOON THEREAFTER AND RECEIVED THE REPLY INDICATED IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.

HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PUT ME IN TOUCH WITH DONALD WOODS, BUT AS IT HAPPENS, I MET THE LATE SOUTH AFRICAN MARTYR'S FRIEND ON MAY 26, 1988, WHEN HE WAS IN VANCOUVER IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SHOWING OF 'STEPHEN BIKO: BREAKING THE SILENCE', A 1987 FILM ABOUT THE MAKING OF 'CRY FREEDOM'.

AMONG OTHER THINGS, I GAVE HIM COPIES OF THIS STATEMENT AND THE TERMS OF REFERENCE TO IT.

IF YOU'VE TAKEN THE TIME ALREADY TO READ THIS PARTICULAR EXCERPT FROM 'BIKO', YOU SHOULD APPRECIATE ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY I HAVE SUCH AN ANTIPATHY TOWARDS (POLITICIANS/CERTAIN LAWYERS) DOUBLETALKING: SAYING OR PROMISING ONE THING AND THEN NOT LIVING UP TO WHAT THEY SAID OR PROMISED.

THUS--I OPENED THIS WEBSITE WITH ITS SUBJECT OF: "WHAT CANADIAN AND AMERICAN AUTHORITIES HAVEN'T TOLD YOU ABOUT 'IRANGATE' AND THE 1987 AND 1997 WORLD STOCK MARKET CRASHES".

IT'S NOT STRICTLY ACCURATE THAT THIS IS "POSSIBLY THE ONLY HONEST SUMMARY OF MY "INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC WORK...ON A DIRECT BASIS' FOR THE WORLD'S CHILDREN".
THERE ARE TWO OTHER DOCUMENTS YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER IN ADDITION TO THIS: THE AUGUST, 1986 STATEMENT TO "THE ARAB LEAGUE" AND "SCIENCE FICTION".