Committee on Apartheid Hears Petitioner

The Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa, at a meeting this afternoon, gave a hearing to a petitioner, Dennis Brutus, who is the director of a campaign launched by the International Defence and Aid Fund for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa.

Before the meeting (left to right): Mr. Aleksei E. Nesterenko, UN Under-Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs; Mr. E.S. Reddy, Committee Secretary; and Mr. Dennis Brutus, who is the director of a campaign launched by the International Defence and Aid Fund for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa.