E EPISCOPAL CHURCHPEOPLE for a FREE SOuTHtRN AFRICA C S 339 Lafayette Street A Phone: (212) 477-0066 New York, N.Y. 10012
.... 9 January 1986 ~ -~ . •. WINNIE MANDELA
Ms Winnie Mandela continues her heroic struggle for the right to remain at her heme in Soweto, despite repeated threat p , warnings, arrests and the obsessive hatred of the Pretoria regime.
In her challenge against the banning order the Pretoria pegime has imposed on her, Ms Mandela is boldly testing in the courts the heretofore exclusive power of the central authorities to act against its opponents outside the judicial system. Her case has been argued and a render ing from a magistrate expected anytime.
Meanwhile she faces charges for breaking her banning order - by going home -·in another South African court on 22 January.
EXPRESS YOUR LOVE, SUPPORT, SOLIDARITY In care or"her lawyers:
Ms Winnie Mandel·a c/o Ismail Ayob and As~ociates P. O. Box 728 Johannesburg 2000 South Africa
Cables: 'Habeascorpus'
Telex: 489337
EXPRESS YOUR PROTEST AND YOUR REVULSION:
President P. W. Botha President Ronald Reagan Union Buildings The White House Pretoria 0001 Washington, D.C. 20500 South Africa THE TIMES MONDAY DECEMBER 23 1985 '* '* '* Life ofstruggle for Winnie Mandela - banning orden ..ere sened on medical assIStance to ,"ctimS of From Michael Hornsby has nenr c:nnnbled away," she against the pass Ian ..hich ber in 1965 and 1966. _police action, was banDed. says.. severely restrict the movemeDts In 1967 she "as charJed on At the end of 1976 she had J obannesburg A..oma... offMmidable spirit of hlacks. two occasions for contravening been sened with yet another It is a marriage cnstem and striking beauty, with an Mn Mandela ..as on the her banning order, and sen. blInning order, ..hich ..as among the Xhosa people to ..Infections laqh ·that pnnctu· executive of the ANC's tenced to 12 months in prison, ~ged in 1977 to one 0 f ..hom Mn Winnie Maudela .tes her CODvenation, Winnie ..omen's league, and .bo all bnt four days or ..hich ..ere banishmenL She ..as forced to and her Imprisoned hllSband, Nomzamo (meaning in Xhosa chaired the ANC's branch In suspended. In 1969 she ..as leave her So..eto home an~ livae Nelson, belong that the ..ed-. "She ..ho· strives") M.ndela Orlando the district of Soweto detained Dnder the Terrorism in a three-room ho.:'" I!, .. ding cake should be clit .t the hllS become a black n.tlonalist In whicb her family lives, nntil Act and held In solitary primitive African location bridegroom's home in the leader In her own rillht. 1960 when the organization confinement for 17 months. outside Brandfort In the presence ofms elders. The daughter of a teacher, was banned. On being released from jan, Orange Free State.. Although they were married she was born In Blzana, in Her fint arrest beIlan a she ..as immediately sened In Augnst of thIS year, her in 1958, ..hen she _s 24 and· Ponduland, and In her late series of detentions, blInnings with a new blInning order which Brandfort home "'IS bnmt he 40, they never found time to teens became South Africa's and harassment by the au~- included house arrest. She do""! by atlll u!'Rpprehended oMene the Cll5tom before Mr first trained black medical ·orlties, coupled ..Ith the difll- repeotedly violated the order, .ssadants. Smce early Mandela ..as Imprisoned in social worker .t Baragwanilth calties of bringing np a young and In 1974 ..as punished with November ahe had been defy- 1962 for five yean for Indte- hospital in So..eto, the spra..l- family without their father. a six-month jail sentence. Ing a police order to return to ment and leal'ing the country Ing African to.....hip outside In 1959 she ..as charged I lif ed' the hOUle. Illegal)'. While senlng this Johannesbnrg, under the Terrorism Act .nd Her bAnn ng was t In I early December ahe made term, he .... tried again, 'ound not ....i1ty on 'P--' but 1975, but ahe was detained :ramatic appear1Ulce at an convicted of·sabotage and She had been m.rried to Mr in 1962 ~be ..as J;;;'ned" again from August to December' . mass funeral In sentenced to life Imprisonment. MaudeJa, .lready a member °Uf under the Suppression of of the followln¥ year, the year t.rn-~. black township Mrs Maudela still has the the executive of the then ati Communism AcL This resmc- of the So..eto ru:ts. In 1977.the ou:::ie Pretoria, for Yic:tlms, of cake, ....iting her huabllnd's legal African National Con- ted her to Orlando, and forced Black Parents Association, r shootings The pobce release. It will probllhly have to gress (ANC), only thredte her to "'ve up her job as' ..hieh she had hel~ found "::lic:OOk nO actio~ .galnst her. wait ...hlle longer. uMlracu- months ..hen she "15 .rrest IOciaI ..':;rker. More stringent and ..h~h tried to pro,"de legal s lously, perhaps s)'IIIbollca1ly, It for her part In demonstrations
10THE GUARDI,AN
When the crime Monday December 23. 1985 is· merely
going home tlut the cynlClsm of those who immediately set out to exploit the high emotion provoked by the From the people who brought you the canonisa· pathetic white coffins is ugly in the extreme. Since tion of Nelson Mandela comes a new determined the funeral, Pretoria has sent its troops back into drive to promote the martyrdom of his redoubtable Angola. an assassination squad into Lesotho and wife, Winnie. The dilemma of the South African threats of invasion to Zimbabwe - and Mrs Mandela authorities as they contemplate the spirited resistance has been detained as the leading standard-bearer of of a women they regard as a revolutionary tennagant the ANC. The landmine deaths pushed the total of is exquisite, even though the consequences for her are whites killed in the present unrest into double fig· nothing of the sort.If they leave her alone, as they ures. In the same week the overall total of killings did until the weekend, she seizes every chance to moved into four figures. It does not ocCur to those preach the demolition of apartheid. If they lock her whites spontaneously or calculatingly enraged by the up, as they did yesterday (and on so many occasions laJldmine killings that the blacks might just be upset in the past 20 years), her hard-earned status as an on a pro-rata basis over the deaths of so many African heroine is automaticallyenhiinced. Meanwhile hundreds of their race. Every man's death her husband prefers to continue ~ imprisonment of diminisheth me - :provided only that he officially more than 23 years, rather than .accepting exile or a belongs to my racial group as defined under the conditional release which would prevent him from provisions of the Population· Registration Act. leading, as he would wish, the people who would Those who, like the ANC, long for a make him their true representative if they could. The democraticSouth Africa with equal rights for all the bonds tying this remarkable couple together, grow races, can only mourn their dying hopes 'as they only stronger under the stresses of separation and mourn all the dead. Even in death apartheid rules_ persecution. The latest detention of Mrs Mandela underlines the The African National Congress, whose spiritual classical tragedy inherent in the racial stalemate in leaders ;they are, adopteil a.policy of armed resistance South Africa. Anyone who dares to speak for the when it was banned (and- Mr Mandela was jailed ior great African majority is locked up, regardless of any life for conspinlcy to carry out acts of violence) in increase in tension that may follow. White oppression the wake of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The ANC leads to black revolt to which the only answer is has caused a few explosions over the intervening more oppression. Just as the blacks have- shown that years, .a modest record which has provoked a hugely they can maintain their resistance indefinitely, so the disproportionate reaction from the apartheid regime.· whites set out to show they can contain it. The rogue The latest ANC campaign included the planting of element in the equation is the serious effect of the landmines on South Africa's northern border, one of unrest on the economy, which may yet prove unwork which recently killed four small children and two able under apartheid. The arrest of Winnie Mandela women, all Afrikaners. The television cameras, is exactly the kind of encouragement protesters at banned from coverin.g black unrest, were allowed to home and abroad need to sustain their campaign for record the white funeral, at which chilling threats of more sanctions. revenge were made by some of the mourners. Nobody expects those bereaved by an atrocity to show readi ness to compromise.with its perpetrators at the height of grief. We may therefore leave the graveside threats out ·of account. ...
SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF MOUTSE
Reform - Evolutionary Change - Constructive Engagement - Apartheid is being Dismantled --- hollow phrases of the great swindle. A flagrant instance of the real nature of Pretorian cruelty is what is happening at Moutse.
Add your voice to the outcry against apartheid in action at Moutse.
~~t;t~\ President Ronald Reagan ~;(~ rJmucir~: v~:JO).l,Os·· :' ... ··!.... ~,..,' \'~in!c "!' t:lci;: oIj'!'l,c Add'~t; ., .'v'AC:1ST~:\ TE" .".1/0 ,. '. The White House :~*~. ~,. """j,~n(/~ WaShington, DC 20500 i~:~::,n"".~.e~:l,~.CJ:r1 ..!20 '~~.~'t .1.1 .5tHL..... ~;;:~;~:;" ~ ~,?.~ . \~ ? . A. Pre t oriU'9 DEPARTEMENT VAN /UST1SIE • DEPARTMENT OF JUST1CE Po"ode 0 470 President P. W. Botha 1'0,..1Cede .. ~EPUBlIEK V~.N ;Ulo-MR1K.~ • REPUBliC Of SOUTH AFRICA Union Buildings Pretoria 0001 L.... NOOROSJ(ANTOOR r MACISTRATE'S OffiCI: • South Africa KgoS1 T.G. Mathebe Private ~ag X 401 Magistrate: ~outse Secretary of State George Shultz m::7:'TI1TON G~C13LERSnAL 1030 St'ate Department WaShington, DC 20520 L .J Ambassador Herbert Beukes V__ gOSl.¥. , South African Embassy 3051 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20008 Yot~ )2~~I:A~ICN TO Hcr~ A ~~TnlG AT TCIT3KP~~.L ON 30th i':c-v~·:S,;:,_1.,19.95. (202) 232-4400
. . d d 25 ~l N b 19 0 - . t WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25,1985 Tn.. WASfllNf.TON POST I refer to your ap-plJ.catJ.on ate" 1. 'ovem er, v, as 0 --~======-_..-,!..!.!J~~!Jl!i.~~il.!..."':"_ inform you that I cannot authorise the abovementioned gatheri!'.,:, hav~ a:ppreh~nd ries understood the: governmem due to the fact that' I reason to tI.lat tha.9ublic Pretoria Hit had not taken into account the rJecce would be serJ.ousl:r endangered by an7r cratherJ.llg :-n "he wishes of the people of Moutse, or 1is~rict of Moutse. 0 H 1 I another area, Ekangala, both of n Omelan{' which are !\Cheduled to be included in the KwaNdebele homeland, "We have long considered. the Yours ]'ai'thiully , Legislators Protest 'homeland' policy one of the most .' I: . inhumane manifestations of apart 'Independence' Plan heid," the letter said; "To transfer /j i F the people of Moutse and Ekangala, /1 /I r ~. /b--, ... against their will, to KwaNdebele, ~ag~strate: ~outse. By David n. Ottaway and thus deprive them of their WashillMllI1l I',,,,t SI;llf Wrih:r South African citizenship is tanta Twenty-six members of Con mount to a forced removal and a gres.~, including 21 senators,- have most telling eilample of the injustice LKHJTSE FOREVEROOOOOOl>DUTS2 FOREVERoooooooMOUTSE rOREVEROOOOO1IDIJTSE written a letter to Soutlr' African . of tile 'homeland'.policy." Among'the other signers are Sen. Ambassador Herbert .pC Beukes 1. AS AND Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R WE REGARD THE rr.OUTSE ISSUE NON-NEGOTIAl3.LE DEADLOCKED WITH protesting his' government's plan to 1 Kan.), head of the Senate Africa FRm'ORIA. . incorporate several pieces of land subcommittee; Sen. Claiborne Pell into one of the' 10 homelands set T~ PRAC!UC~ (D-R.J.), the ranking minority mem 2. T-RETORIA HAS BE:N TO CONSULT AND COWrACT US AS aside for black South Africans and ::::::-:::::'.:'': :.:r:::,-,,:,=?'S ':~-!?!T ':;CH0"r.'3 P.A~ 'PI) 'l'~ ryN OV"':H. ber on the Senate Foreign Relations to grant another of them "indepen- Committee; Sen. Edward M. Ken dence" next year. , nedy (D-Mass.); Rep. Dante B. Fas 3. THE SCHOOLS BELONG TO US AND OUR C011l:JJNITIES AND THEY "/::m:: The letter, dated Dec. 18, saKi :BUILT :BY US \'IITH OUR BA.1E AND NEZDY FUNDS AND WE '·'fILL NOT cell (D-Fla,), chairman of the House . that the plan to incorporate the Foreign Affairs Committee, and ~ ALIJ:J1 FOR THEIR ::NCORPORJ.TION :BY TIm K'i/A-NDE:3ELE GOVrnID.a:NT Moutse area into the homeland of Rep. Howard E. Wolpe (D-Mich.), CONnNU~~ '!IE SO VEttID.mNTLY RJ::JECT AND "'HICH ';/E 'iIILL TO REJECT ( KwaNdebele, north of Pretoria, and chairman of the Hnuse Africa sub EVEN IN FUTURE. / to grant the homeland indepen committee. / dllllce directly contradicted what The legislators urged the South 4-. LET THOSE TEACH:8R3 IN OUR SCHOOLS IlHO '.7AN'f TO GO TO ICi'lA-NDEBELE ~ South African President Pieter W. African government to reconsider :00 SO :3Y CROSSING OVER AS THE SCHooL3 ARE OURS AND THE CHILDREN / Botha said in a speech Sept. 30. its plan to incorporate the two areas ARE OURS Al'.'D WST NOT B~ T ., In that speech, I30tha said the into KwaNdebele and instead to • .. .A.KE1'I ALONG INTO ICi/'A-NDEBELE. /' white-ruled South African govern- hold a referendum to determine .' ~ ment was committed to "one citzen- whether the residents agree to it. 5 NOTE TF.AT SIGNING A CONTRACT "fITH KY/A-NDE3ELE DEPr. OF .eDUCATION/ shipandauniversalfranchisewithin 13eukes was not available for IS REGARPED BY US AS SUICIDAL OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE SIGNING A ....1 a united South Africa" and to the comment on the letter. c· DSATH ''1.Ail"'UNT AND THE ACTION "JILL TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES B.c:: restoration of South African eitzen- ~ Several western countries, in VII:"ED l\.S AN ACT OF BETRAY.AL ESPEX:ULLY Ki/A-NDEBELE THAT IS ship to those blacks living in the cluding the United States, have ex OPTLliG ):OR ,.INDEPENDENCE. ~ homelands who had earlier lost it. pressed to the South African gov , The letter, initiated by Sens. ernment their opposition to the plan KOUTS:C****FORE'vER*****t,10UTSE FOR?lI:R******~.mUTS:c. ~OR:EV"ER*****MOUTSE'I John Glenn (D-Ohio) and William V, to grant KwaNdebele its indepen Roth Jr. (R-DeL), Said tile sIgnato- dence, according to a U.S. official. A10 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1986 Tm: WASijIN(''TOri POST > Torture Alleged in S. African Tribal Conflict According to their account, two. By Allister sparks 5l>ociallo The W:wh...."" I'ool black policemen arrived at· Keerom village on New Y~r's, the day the MOUTSE RESERVE, South AI annexation of Moutse came into rica, Jan. 6-Eighty-nine villagers effect, and interrupted a'commllllity have been arrested andresidenis meeting to discuss resistance to the say armed police have been la)'ing incorporation. siege for ,six days to hundred's of A clash ensued, during which the others who fled into surroUnding policemen fired several shots, bush country after the killing of two wounding three people, ·one ·of. policemen in this black reserve ·whom later died. As the crowd's north of Pretoria. anger flared, the policemen .fled. Persons interviewed near the according to those interviewed, but vill.age of Keerom today said the they ran into another crowd holding fugitives, desperate for food, were a similar meeting. living on edible roots and wild ber There a BeCtion.of the crowd set ries in the bush and were drinking .upon the two policemen and killed rainwater from muddy pools. them. Next day. those interviewed Meanwhile, others interviewed said, a large COiltingent of police' here said they were among 257 res ·arrived. The terrified villagers idents of the· reserve who were abandoned their homes and fled into locked in a hall on New Year's Day the surrounding bush country. Ac and tortured by members·of a tribal .cording to these sources, the police militia. They further charged that have remained in occupation of the the chief minister and a Cabinet villages ever since, waiting for the member of a black "homeland," to fugitives to return. which the Pretoria government is Yesterday. according to persons about to grant nominal indepen interviewed. the police mounted a dence, watched and at times partic major search of the bush country, ipated in the torture-described as using a helicopter. Police later con an ~ttempt to crush their resistance firmed that there had been 89 ar to incorporation in the homeland. rests relating to the death of the Police have confirmed only the police. arrest of the 89 villagers. "All I can Field workers of the Black SaSh say with the facts available to me at civil .rights 'organization have taken this stage is that it does not sound statements from 37 of the 257 as though the allegation of a siege UNlTW PRESS IHT£RNArlOHAL:/M.uTER Moutse. residents who say they can be true," said Col. Jaap Venter. MoutBe leader Jack Makitla criticizes incorporating reserve into "homeland." were tortured by members of a The atmosphere has been tense KwaNdebele militia. since Pretoria's decision to force dent homelands-and to end forced ward the homeland administration, The 37 residents charged they the annexation of Moutse, with its population removals. allegedly 80 percent of the popu were rounded up by armed men 120,000 inhabitants, into the neigh The government has offered no lace. who burst into their homes ·early boring KwaNdebele homeland. reason for insisting on the annexa The chief minister did not say Jan. 1, put their families to flight, KwaNdebele is due to be granted tion in the face of expressed oppo how he arrived at this assessment. looted their houses and dragged th.e independence some time this year sition. It has said objectors can be No referendum has been held. and men to trucks. under the terms of South AIrica's moved at government expense to a tribal chiefs and other community In the KwaNdebele capital of apartheid policy of racial partition. resettlement camp at a place called leaders in MQutse claim opposition Siyabuswa. they said, they were Most persons of Moutse, when Emmerpan, about 50 miles nway. to incorporation is almost total. forced to enter a large community asked, have said they oppose being Nobody interviewed here in recent Skosana did not comment on the hall by walking' between two 20 part of the separate tribal state and days has been willing to move. allegations of torture, which he is yard columns of mel} who flogged thereby losing their South African The chief minister of KwaNde accused of having witnessed. them with horsewhips. citizenship. bele. Simon Skosana, said in a state Independent verification of "Inside the hall I found Mr. Sko Violence linked to the forced in ment tonight the impression given events here has proved difficult. A sana," said one informant, whose de corporation hllS led to 21 deaths, that Moutse residents were being brolldcast yesterday warned that tailed statement was corroborated including the two policemen, and forced to subject themselves to his reporters entering this latest site of by nearly all the others. He added many Moutse residents are saying administration was untrue and can South Africa's racial unrest would that another member of the home they will fight rather than accept be ascribed "to revolutionary cle be arrested. land cabinet, Interior Minister Piet the annexation, which became law ments who represent only a small Informants interviewed today Ntuli, was in the hall and taunted the prisoners, "calling us dogs and many last Wednesday. minority in Moutse.n within a few miles of Keerom said Pretoria has insisted on the an He said this minority had or~a they had smuggled food to the be other more vulgar things: nexation going ahead, in apparent niud illegal meetings, where deci sie~ed villagers in the bush. They The statements allege further contradiction of its declared inten sions had been taken to attack gov would not give their names because beatings and degrading treatment tion to phase out apartheid-which ernment property and shops be-. they said they feared reprisals by by the militiamen, ending only with is based on the concept of indepen- longing to people well disposed to- the authorities. the arrival of police. SASPU .,
Wori Murphy Morobe,. UDF strw:tureL. pUblicity Thesearelheonly forcescapableof secretary, bringing an end to apartheid-They spoke< tG SASPU are DOt armed. witll binemesa but .. National· about· UDF· witIIlhe COlledDesSoftheir convie- ; tions, sharpeDed by the support of struggles and gains.. all the: democratic peoples· of the.' HOW' bas the State-ol Emergeac:,' . world.. atrected the·UDF? .. Oun is a; mas approach:. onethat . Witll two Treason Trials. hun seeks to iavOOIe pcopIeintlleirown. dreds of our activists. detained. our libentiolland thus la"lhe basis.for meetings. banned, offices raided. a people's governJIIICDt- and those remaining constantly To us, thecreatiolrata non-racial hounded by thesecurity polioe-. sur ilemocratic: and unitaly SA based vival has been high on our·1isl of OIl. one P"'""" .,.., vote is n0n priorities. negotiable:. The democratic movement has. ~- grown at such a rate that to stoptile . HOW' bas. It. UDP' to UDF the state. will have to arrest lDbtba'saaxboalDeUDFaadits everybody: ldIIIIld&s~ Our structures in most areas have-· Itwill be notedthat DOt untihome . remained fairly intact. at our· members got. Itilled by . Our ability to continue· with UDF lnkatha hordes did·w.... condemn, activities has· a lot to do, witll the lnkatha:. Even then it's always been calibre of activists in our ranks: a our policy to respond to such mat leadership· that has shown·. total t~ as cautiously and maturely as commitmenL ~- . What Corms ol actloa bas the UDlI' WewiD.not.be distractedfrom'our . beea ableto iDitIate> indJa, period?< main objoclive ofIibcratinn:c The forms of action that the UDP has engagedin differfrom region to HaaIDe UDlI' booaSIIbjecfedtodirty region. Our campaign to ~ tile Iricb aDd- dtriItfl> tricI<.f. by- the SADP out of our townships h85< _! gained tremendous· momennun. togetller witll· the- national call fa... As-the movement develops itwill the release of all detainees and find. itself in· direct confrontation' political prisoners. witll all the forces that are deter· The consumer' boycott has been minedto maintain lhestalUS quo. very sua:essful. lis strength dif _The UDFhasbeen the main focus. fered from- area to area. depending' · is. geared towards ensuring that. ofall these forces recently. Some' OIT botll objective and subjective their institutions and privileges are consist of a concerted campaign of factors. In tile PE and·surrounding - · preservcci disinformalion carried out through. areas, wbere it began. people_were- comes. after years of abortive Witll the State of Emergency in . fake 1eaJIets;. and, increasingly. politicised through years ofstruggle . attempts by lhe State to stem the_ forct in almost the whole country. Can you oatllne the dI1f~bet- though 'agents provac:aieur'. against apartheid. rise of theworlrillg class movement witll politicaJ prisonen still in --UDlI' and 1MPFP ,- This method is common witll all. - It is disciplined organisation that in tile country. prison, with. thousands of people fascist govemmc::nlS. detained. witll the UDF and otller We agree the· PFP that apar- will ensure the voluntary and con- It isonly wbcn tile worlrillg class is ""til There havebeenmanyattempts to scious participation of tile people. united- and occupying its rightful. progressive. organisations· being ·theid must go. But that's as far as· subjected to tile wontrepression in agreement goes. create divisions, between the UDF·I Compulsion can never be- a substi- piace in lhe liberation movement and the community. witllin the. I !Ute for- organisation. Unity in that we can begin'to challenge the years, and witll the ANC and other To us apartheid goes far beyond . UDF. between the UDF and no..... 1 action- is bom out of sober and apartheid regime seriously. We organisations still banned all these skin colour. In SA apartheid . make itimpossible for us to think of reflects the way the factories, the affi1iates, and sometimes by thei deliberate scientific;evaluation of a expect to co-operate very closely. police and. army who have distri-~ siruation. and establish an alliance that will a national convention as being any land and all tile wealtll in this coun buted tho Shots rang out. As people fled. some fell. shot. Witnesses claim over 42 people died. killed by the security fon:es the puppets of the the residents wanted out of the within the townships. township. When they were rejected by resi·· The Mamelodi ltillings have dents, the police and army were cal· focused anger on the presence of led into protectthecouncillon, and troops in the townships. and fuelled crusb the residents' organisations.. demands that they be removed. Many months later. the troops are But the use of the Security Forces still in the townships. in the townships has not crushed the Over 800 people have been killed spirit of the people. In fact, their in township violence since July. presence has mobilised people mostly by Security Forces. never involved in any organisation Not only is the bebaviour of the or campaign before. troops often provocative; but there As Eastern Cape UDF publicity have been sworn reports of acts of secretary, Stone Sizane. said. "We violence like the bombiDg of are saying the troops and riot police activists' houses committed while should withdraw because pretty 'security forces' looked on. And soon there will not be a single per tbere have been countless reports son here who has not lost someone of atrocities committed by tbe close in this violence. troops'. A white national., setviceman People angry described with disgust how he took part in maintaininglaw andorderin 'Our people grow angrier by the oneof PE's townships; hour when they see how their resi [ will not forget my finl patrol iD a dential area. already so delapidated . Casspir. .. and neglected, is ending up like a A large stone hits the armour and bartlefield. It cannot continue.• bounces through the roof opening. In r..po...., Crisis Committees The sergeant reacts by immediately and Parents' Committe.. have sending a 37mm gas cannisterin the been formed in many townships. direction the. stone came from. It They have added their voices to the lands on a house and the residents call of students· out on boycott pour out coughing. their eyes demanding that the troops leave. ~treaming. After huge community meetings, 'The funeral is over. Knots' of representativ.. of the committe.. people form on street cornen sing bave metwith local authorities, and ing and shouting, their defiance. presented them with their '"Goo; julie blilr.sems, kommaan,. demands. gooi!-" sbouts a cop; A sudden hail Trade unions and a wide range of of slones is just wbat they've been organisations have demanded that waitng for. "Let's gol" the troops withdraw. 'We burtle past streams ofpanick In Soweto and Mamelndi, ing. running people, pumping gas mothen have joined together to and rubber bullets. It's over'in a marcb on police stations there to couple of minutes.' protest the SADF presence. Call for a just peace gains support The troops are used to enforce. In many townships, barricades curfews, even wbere' curfews are have been built aaoss the streets to The Eod CODtCripdoa Campaip rleaDea to- reta. to _ ta- the- a.nd __ !be country we broke nOlofficiaily in force. keep tbe troops out. (ECC) receady beId a thne _ toW1lSltlps.. . new xr-ud. 1rinnint!besupport of They conduct pass raids and Troop carrion have been attacked 10lIl 'Troops Oat' campaip aimed "We .. oarsetY..... part. of the- OWly new~. house -to-house searches, and con and ambushed by angry residents. at raisinlawanneso about the...of br'Olld peace movement worltln1l (M' "lt culminated iD a mass rast on stantly barass residents· through But the most significant campaign SADF troops iD !be toW1lSltlps. a just peace iD litis country. ADd Oc:tnber7.Therastwasveryimpor· roadblocks and patrols. has been the Consumer BoycotU. peace is not juit !beaboence ofwar. tant ~ it iD..oI..ed peDlIle lIIOI"e' They arrest anyone they feel looks "1'be ECC Is a broad trout of 43 In PE it was responsible for the It iDvol..... democratic ...,pnseota- acti..e1y than a meefint could !lave. suspicious. Said one township resi orpaisatloas, and incIlvidaals, withdrawal of troops from tbe tion, !be unbanniDg o( orpnisa- - "lntemadoaal support ECC is dent, "People are becoming too oppoeed to cnaocripdoa. Wbat we rO(' townships. dollS, !be rei..... otpolitlc:al prisoa- • growiDI rut. We're iD contact with afraid to move in the streets, espe· !lave iD commoo Is a beIlel iD the· Boycotten know well that the en, a.nd a range 0( other issues. o..er 80 groups around !be world ciaily after dark, mainly because liPt o( iDdlviduai coascieuce and links between local businesses and " .,. who take lUI actlTe iDlerest iD what's they are terrified of being con· the authorities are close. And wben , clIoice when It com... to kil1ln1. or "We also r~ .t. lID"""",,t to goint on iD South Africa. ADd 'they fronted by a weapon.wielding 18 business wants to speal<. it makes beinl killed". said an ECC spolt.... show people ID the, toW1lSltlps that provide active support there we... year oldin browns". persoa. itself beard loudly. - there are OWly whites wbo oppooe groupi"" in American and Europe They guard abandoned scbools, I "'l'bi5 becomes particnlal'ly impor· what!beSADFstlUldsCor. a.nd wbat who rast.ed with ... duriDt !be and wbere students still attend, Lift emergency tant iD !be South Alrican context, it does." . 'Troops Oat' rut. check that Bantu Education is still where ~ cnaocripted iDto the . I>urint!be Troops Oat C2JIlpa1gD, • 'Foras Favourites' is a DeW being taught. I Chief amongst the demands put anny are rOC'"C&d to defend apar-· ECC spealters ..tnsaed that the rKDrd album which r..1Ures local They guard the bomes of those forward by communities was the theid. 1'Itose who ...,ruse race a six military could brint ?O solu~ to, groups a.nd iDdividua.la who sing out community councillors and police I call to lift the EmergenC)' and with year prison sentence. what ...... enualJy poIilic:aJ ~ f'ellI"'"5ion and the military. men wbo bave not yet resigned, and draw all troops from the townships. "Our prime aim is to end conscril'" probiemll. Produced by ECC - a.nd Shifty protect the shops of those more And now. with the call for a Black lion into !be SADF. And until con interested in short·term profits than December, the weight ofmillions of "Thecampaign was highly succes&- Reeonls, itsells for R12 and is avail- scription Is abolisbed. ECC- has berter relations with the commun· consumen will pressure the ruJ. 'There were 4 000 people at the able from record bars. Funds go to demanded the liPt rO(' nationalser- 'Troops Out' rally in Cape ToWll, ECC. ity. authorities futa a response. They break up meetings and, fun· The degree to whicb the Security a last resort. It is an attempt to bas just released its fint batch of they de fine. erals. Forces are being used now reflects silence through force the voice of a trainees. Private security firms are Repression is used to clear a space And at Baragwanath Hospital. the e: DATE TOWNSHIP DESCRIPTION 30.4.85 Port Elizabeth SAAF helicopter flies over 500 man strong convoy of 23.10.84 Sebokeng Operation Palmiet, 7 000 troops and police seal off SADFISAP units in townships. Sharpeville townships and conduct house-to-house searches and Boipatong arrests. 1.5.85 Cape Peninsula Hundreds of SAP, SADF units and railways police in riot control gear conduct large-scale exercise 'to assess co- operation of the combined forces in a crisis.' 31.10.84 Sharpeville SAPISADF again seal off and search townships. Boipatong 5.5.85 KwaNobuhle Soldiers in fun combat gear, standing less than a yard apart, line the streets as soldiers and police seal off the 31.10.84 Vaal Triangle Hundreds of members of SADFISAP man roadblocks. township. All roads to KwaNobuhle blocked as Townships Patrols using loudhailers warn residents to pay their helicopters Dy low overhead and a force of 1 000 SAP rents or their electricity and water will be cut off. and SADF, mostly 2-year-eonscripts, patrol the streets 5.11.84 Tembisa Hundreds of police using army vehicles move in due to distributing leaDets urging an end to the violence. massive stayaway in Transvaal. 29.5.85 Lingelihle Mounted Cradock commando unit, SAP riot squad and It ; 14.11.84 Katlehong SADF camped at entrance to township. Contingents of SADF troops with four Saracen tanks and Casspirs com- soldiers and police in armoured vehicles patrol the bine in massive exercise. While police and soldiers streets. distribute pamphlets army helicopters and a light aircraft broadcasting propaganda against Cradock Residents 22.11.84 Thokoza SADF members in armoured vehicles raid homes. Association circle the township. 27.11.84 Vosloorus SADF admits its members threw teargas at mourners 17.6.85 Soweto Soldiers on horseback charge at students to help police and arrested a black youth. Reports that soldiers fIred round up 400-500 young blacks who had commandeered rubber bullets and teargas grenade and chased and buses. beat mourners. I' 23.7.85 Tsakane SADF personnel patrol the area on foot carrying riDes. 9.2.85 Alexandra Combined SADFISAP force holds sweep-and-search Il operation. 29.7.85 New Brighton SADF foot patrol shoots dead driver of what police describe as 'apparent suicide truck'. 3 L1.85 Eastern Cape SADF troops deploy in townships, man roadblocks and patrol streets. 2.8.85 Katlehong Troops and police in armoured personnel carriers attack pupils and force them into classrooms. 1.4.85 Cape Peninsula SADFISAP set up roadblocks. 10.8.85 Wattville, Troops assault youth, who later dies. II 1.4.85 Eastern Cape SADF announces that troops being deployed. Troops Benoni and police confront crowd at Zwide, Port Elizabeth. 22.8.85 Soweto Troops and police detain 50 children between 7 and 11 2.4.85 Uitenhage SADF soldiers camp in rugby stadium in the centre of years 'to enforce emergency regulations'. town and man roadblocks during funeral. 27.8.85 Soweto Soldiers remove children from Baragwanath Hospital. 3.4.85 Tembisa, SADF assists SAP in countering unrest. East Rand B.8.85 Cape Town Troops and police seal off Athlone stadium, break up demonstrations, storm schools. 3.4.85 Cape Peninsula SADF roadblocks. '1 18.8.85 Durban SADF occupies townships while Inkatha 'impis' clear 11.4.85 New Brighton SADF soldiers pitch tents at entrance to townships, man streets of 'trouble makers'. Zwide roadblocks with SAP, guard E Cape Administration KwaZakhele Board bottlestore, escort delivery vans. 23.8.85 Zwelethemba Residents protest at SADFISAP cordons and house- KwaNobuhle Worcester to-house searches. 17.4.85 Langa, 22-year-old man fatally wounded when SADF opens fire 3.9.85 Vaal Triangle Soldiers and police seal off all eight Vaal Triangle Uitenhage on group stoning SADF patrol of four vehicles. SAP con- townships on fIrst anniversary of uprisings in the area. firms that SADF issued with live ammunition and teargas and performing 'whatever duties are required by SAP 4.9.85 Duncan Village, Massive SAP/SADF operation involving house-to-house commanding offIcer.' East London searches and arrests. 6.9.85 KwaThema, SADFISAP attack thousands of mourners at funeral. Springs 16 17 Days and nigllt:s are /Illed witll tasks though employers are expected under that/eavelittle time lortile worI ~m.o--r nztures wbooe SlIiriU--.tled'II1~-=T- .....c-:.~_ _ doIMaie ~. orpm-. l1