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Raising money was never our primary intention, but all the artist royalties and publishing went through the Africa Fund, a charitable trust based in New York City and registered with the United Nations. The following is how the money was dispersed:

• To aid the educational and cultural needs of South African exiles, $220,000 was sent to the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College run by the African National Congress (ANC) in Tanzania.
• To aid the ANC/Holland Solidarity Hospital in Morogoro, Tanzania, $80,000 was sent to the ANC.
• To aid political prisoners and their families, $160,000 was sent to the South African Council of Churches.
• To aid some of the more than 30,000 political prisoners and detainees jailed without charge in the mid-1980s, $50,000 was sent to the Detainees Parent's Support Committee.
• To aid political prisoners, their families and those affected by the violence, more than $53,500 was sent to emergency relief funds administered by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and its affiliates.
• To aid families of political prisoners and detainees in Northern Transvaal, $12,000 was sent to the Ecumenical Confessing Fellowship of the Lutheran Church of Southern Africa.
• To aid families of political prisoners in the Western Cape, $15,000 was sent to the Western Cape Political Prisoners Association and Cowley House.
• To help grass roots activists involved in community work at the township level organize local structures to assist victims of the violence, $15,000 was used to purchase computer equipment.
• To assist the ANC with its educational projects, $15,000 was sent to purchase photocopy and duplicating equipment.
• To help with the educational needs of refugee children, $13,500 was sent to the ANC for their projects caring for the children of exiles.
• To help improve the work of the Department of Arts and Culture, $10,000 was provided to the ANC for computer training and purchase of video equipment.
• To aid the education work in the United States, including campaigns to free detaineeds and political prisoners, "Unlock Apartheid's Jails" and mobilize communities to protest apartheid, $238,000 was split between TransAfrica and the American Committee on Africa.
• To aid educational work on apartheid in Europe, The Africa Fund sent $50,000 to the World Council of Churches.
• To aid the special fund established by Nelson Mandela following the massacre of dozens of people in Boipatong, South Africa in 1992, $3000 was rushed to help the families of the victims obtain blankets, food and emergency clothing.

  $70,000 was authorized for the Africa Fund to administer the funds raised.

  Total raised to date: $1,005,500.

As the economic, cultural, and sports boycotts finally began to have some effect, the South African regime, knowing they could no longer withstand this kind of organized and unified pressure, began to make concessions. Nelson Mandela and other political leaders were released from jail, political parties were legalized, and the petty apartheid laws were lifted. Tragically, the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, and most governments, along with some leaders in the liberation movement, decided, just as the South African government had hoped, that these insignificant reforms should be rewarded. The boycotts were prematurely lifted, denying those who struggled so long their hard-fought victory.

To this day, no black person can vote in South Africa, and, just as in the United States, economic justice for all is a fading dream. The fight we took part in was one I would gladly fight again. I'm very proud of this record artistically as well as politically. And I still catch something new every time I listen to it. The struggle continues.

Solidarity,
Little Steven
November, 1992

Produced by: LITTLE STEVEN and ARTHUR BAKER

Sun City Project: LITTLE STEVEN, DANNY SCHECHTER, ARTHUR BAKER, RICK DUTKA, OWEN EPSTEIN

Written by: LITTLE STEVEN

Mixed by: Frank Filipetti, Chris Lord-Alge, Tom Lord-Alge, Jay Burnett, Peter Darmi, John Davenport

Special thanks to Bob Clearmountain

Drums: Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey, Keith Le Blanc, Tony Williams

Guitars: Pete Townshend, Stanley Jordan, Little Steven

Bass Guitar: Doug Wimbish

Acoustic Guitar: Ron Carter

Keyboards: Herbie Hancock, Richard Scher, Robbie Kilgore

Additional Keyboards: Zoe Yanakis

Trumpet: Miles Davis

Saxophone: Clarence Clemons

Double Violin: Shankar

Conga: Ray Barretto

Talking Drum: Sonny Okosuns

Scratchers: Jam Master Jay, D.J. Cheese

Drum Programming: Little Steven, Benjamin Newberry, Keith Le Blanc

Background vocals by BLT:  B.J. Nelson, Lottie Golden, Tina B

Additional background vocals: Daryl Hannah, Kevin McCormick, The Dunnes Storm Strikers, Annie Brody Dutka and the I.D. 3: GIL SCOTT-HERON, ROBERT GORDON, STEVE WALKER

Logistics extraordinaire and production assistance: ZOE YANAKIS

Additional production assistance: KEITH LE BLANC/REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION, CHRIS LORD-ALGE, TOM LORD-ALGE, ROBBIE KILGORE/NO MORE APARTHEID

Equipment and guitar maintenance: BENJAMIN NEWBERRY

Special thanks to JACKSON BROWNE

Originally mastered at MASTERDISK by BOB LUDWIG

Recorded at SHAKEDOWN SOUND, NYC; THE HIT FACTORY, NYC; ELECTRIC LADY, NYC; M&I RECORDING, NYC; UNIQUE, NYC; RIGHT TRACK, NYC; SOUNDWORKS, NYC; POWER STATION, NYC; FALLOUT SHELTER, LONDON; THE OUTPOST, LOS ANGELES; WINDMILL LANE, DUBLIN; CHEROKEE, LOS ANGELES; SYNCED SOUND, BOSTON; EEL PIE STUDIOS, MIDDLESEX; STARTLING STUDIOS, ASCOT

Special thanks to EDDIE and TROY GERMANO

Engineers: CHRIS LORD-ALGE, JOHN DAVENPORT, PETER DARMI, ROB PAUSTIN, JEFF HENDRICKSON, ANDY WALLACE, JAMES GEDDES, STEVE KAHN, GEORGE TUTKO, BOBBY COHEN, PAT McCARTHY, MICHAEL SMITH, MIKE O'DONNELL, BILL PRICE, GARY WRIGHT, STEVE PECK, ROEY SHAMIR

Special thanks to HAL and ALAN SELBY

Assistant Engineers: JAMIE CHALEFF, LENNY BERNSTEIN, MARK RUSSACK, DAVID SUSSMAN, STEVE BOYER, KEN STEIGER, SCOTT CHURCH, ROB RUSHING, BRIDGET DALY, CHRIS LUNWINSKI, MIKE NICOLETTI, KEN COLLINS, STEVE ANTEBI, KEVIN MALONEY, MICHAEL WEBER, TONY VIAMONTES, STEPHEN SCHARROTT, BARBARA MILNE, ALAN FRIEDMAN

Special thanks to Charlie Benanty

Special thanks to Bob Walters & Tony Bongiovi

Special thanks to Steve Wild/Grace Wild Studios

Original cover art design by TONY WRIGHT

Original art direction by ROSEMARY INTRIERI/KOPPEL & SCHER

Reissue art direction by KRISTIAN LAWING

The Sun City Project gratefully acknowledges the support of the Special Committee Against Apartheid of the United Nations

Special thanks to JONATHAN EHRLICH of Levine & Epstein

Special thanks to Bobby Nathan, Joanne Georgio & Mary Cullum

Special thanks to Mitch & Ira Yuspeh

In addition to the musicians, studios, engineers and photographers, we would like to thank the following people who donated their time and services to help in the completion of this record:

Bill Adler, Sean Murphy, Pablo Guzman, Nelson George, Massamba Fall (Masskool), Michael Cuscuna, Pam Johnston, Vinnie Longobardo, Hart Perry, Eric Nuri, Jami Deans, Rob Partridge, Joe McEwen, Chris Blackwell, Margi Curry, Aracelly Santana, John Hey, Jonathan Ashby, Max Weinberg, Ed Eckstine, Tom Silverman, Barry Rebo, John Hill, Jeff Chitouras, Robert Applebaum, Trevor Wyatt, Ashley Newton, Lee Ballinger, Dave Marsh, Maureen Van Zandt, Cathe Ishino, Neil Geraldo, The Cars, Gene Amoroso, Monica Lynch, Steve Miglio, Barbara Bach, Jerry Dammers, Bob Singerman, Pascal Imbert, Bruce Lundvall, Gerry Griffith, Varnell Johnson, Bruce Garfield, Nancy Weber, Geoff Bywater, Stephen Reed, Sari Becker, Gordon Anderson, Stan Snyder, Bruce Theriot, Jock McLean, Nicola Joss, Regine Moyletti, Andrea Ambandos, Valerie Goodman, Steve Dessau, Jay Coleman, Lee Hyman, Joe Manuel and Elizabeth Feiss.

I would like to especially thank Peter Gabriel for the profound inspiration of his song BIKO which is where my journey to Africa began and to Peter Ritchie for being a brother when I needed one to get me there.