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REPORT ( South Afr Vol. 3 No. 5 REPORT ( South Afr"ica: Beyond Stalemate? SOUTH AFRICA BEYOND STALEMATE C A N A D A TARGETTING CANADA Apartheid's friends on the offensive M E D I A THE EDUCATION OF MICHAEL VALPY D E B A T E MOVING FORWARD ON SANCTIONS A view from inside South Africa W 0 M E N SEXISM BEWARE! Faried Esack speaks out NOT BEHIND BARS price: $3.00 AtrAgm Vol. 3 No. 5 REPORT May 1988 Contents Editorial The Terrible Tidings ...... ................ 1 Beyond Stalemate ....... .................... 3 Civil War in Natal ....... ................... 7 Targeting Canada: Apartheid's Friends on the Offensive .......... ... 10 Southern Africa The Education of Michael Valpy ... ............ ... 15 REPORT Valpy on Valpy ...... .................... .. 19 is produced 5 times a year by a vol unteer collective of the Toronto Com Why Is South Africa Getting Away with Murder? 21 mittee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC), Moving Forward on Sanctions: A View from Inside South Africa . 427 Bloor St. W. 23 Toronto, M5S 1X7 Sexism Beware!: Tel. (416) 967-5562 Faried Esack Speaks Out .... 26 Submissions, suggestions and help with production are welcome and in Not Behind Bars .. .......... 28 vited. SAR is a member of the Canadian Pe Reviews riodical Publisher's Association. Mozambique: The Video .... 31 Lina .................. 32 Subscriptions Letters Annual TCLSAC membership and . 33 Southern Africa Report subscription rates are as follows: COVER: University of Cape SUBSCRIPTION: Town students protest the bannings of 17 anti-apartheidorganizations Individual (1 year) . ... $15.00 Individual (2 years) . ... $30.00 Institution ... ........ $30.00 MEMBERSHIP: (includes subscription) S. A. R. Collective Jonathan Barker, Regular (Canada) ..... $30.00 Nancy Barker, Lois Browne, Claudette Chase, David Cooke, Mark Fawcett, David Galbraith, Anne Gillies, Unemployed Linda Guebert, Student ... ......... $15.00 Lee Hemingway, Bernie Kempen, Jo Lee, Senior Blaine Little, Mary MacNutt, Judith Marshall, Alberto Mourato, $50.00 H6lne Moussa, Colleen Omanique, Otto Roesch, John S. Saul, Sustainer .... .......... to Karen Thomas, Esther Vise, Joe Vise, Mary Vise $300.00 Overseas add $5.00 Cover design by Art Work Cover___________________deig by Ar Wor- M.--3a"I t VisEJals Printed by Union Labour at Action Print E International Women's Day protest outside the Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg, March 1988 The Terrible Tidings The recent banning from all mean Yet the bannings also signify Needless to say, we should avoid ingful political activity of eighteen something else. Some commenta the temptation to take too much so centrally important South African tors had gone so far as to suggest lace from this, however true it may anti-apartheid organizations - in that the draconian Emergency im be. Worse, in South Africa as else cluding the United Democratic posed nation-wide in South Africa where, is definitely not better, and Front, the Congress of South African in 1986 (and renewed in 1987) had in South Africa things have indeed Trade Unions and the National Ed already put paid to the emancipa become very much worse. Gone is ucation Crisis Committee - is a sig tory movement altogether. The fact now felt compelled the euphoria of 1984 and 1985 when nificant event. However, its signif that the state has take one more very dramatic step the wave of resistance seemed to be icance is two-edged. Certainly, it to in the escalation of its repression cresting and discussion in liberation demonstrates the intention of the this at the cost of, at least momen apartheid state to continue, and in circles seemed at times to be even tarily, putting South Africa back on of a post deed to intensify, its programme more about the lineaments the front pages of the international South Africa than about of repression against any form of apartheid press - suggests that the Emergency how, in fact, to complete the task real democratic opposition in the has not had the effect, envisioned the apartheid state black community. Moreover, as our of overthrowing state, of crushing outright Not that such projections South African Correspondent, Geof by the itself. this long-term goals of struggle frey Spaulding, has already argued the democratic opposition. In about the (socialism vs. cap (Southern Africa REPORT, Decem the 1986-7 Emergency differs from in South Africa democ ber, 1987) of earlier phases of this re the earlier Emergency, that imposed italism, genuine egalitarian racy vs. various forms of "consoci pressive strategy, its cumulative im in the 1960s. Then the opposition gimmickry) are irrelevant pact has meant a serious set-back for was indeed crushed - organization ational" the emancipatory movement in that ally and psychologically - for at least even now, for they can affect the country. This is a reality which is a decade. That has not happened kinds of social forces the emancipa further analyzed in this issue's lead this time, for reasons which our lead tory movement seeks to mobilize in article. article explores. the present and the terms of any al- Southern Africa REPORT may 1988 0 liances it seeks to form. Nonethe forts to regroup on rough terrain black community in South Africa less the grim reality of the state's and to move forward we discuss in (often wilfully created and manipu repression has brought the true na this issue, we too must embrace the lated by the state and its agents, of ture of the struggle in South Africa terrible tidings. Recently in the ten reflecting the dynamics of class more clearly into focus - at least for Globe and Mail (March 5, 1988), interest and relative privilege within those with eyes to see. In the South Michael Valpy (whose own "educa the black community itself but also, Africa of the Emergency (in Brecht's tion" on South African matters is sometimes, reflecting failures in the phrases) "a guileless word is an ab profiled elsewhere in these pages) methods of political work employed surdity. A smooth forehead beto has also written of the way in which by the forces of emancipation) which kens a hard heart. He who laughs the South African government's own we must seek to understand. And has not yet heard the terrible tid version of the apartheid story still there are debates over the strategy ings." has resonance in Canada (and else and tactics of anti-apartheid work where). It is a version which blurs Not that everyone has heard, or not only in South Africa but also the extent of repression, magnifies here at home (cf. our article on the wants to hear, "the terrible tidings", the scope of so-called "reform", car of course. As we know, part of the disinvestment question in this issue) icatures the democratic movement which we must facilitate. Such un South African government's strategy and manipulates such canards as of repression has been to try to sup dertakings, we would insist, do not "black-on-black violence" and "trib undermine our commitment, they press such news of its dirty deeds alism" the better to "blame the merely strengthen it. It is in this as might otherwise filter out to the victim" for the grisly situation in spirit, too, that we renew our invi wider world. Perhaps Pretoria suf South Africa. As another article tation to those outside our editorial fered a day or two's embarrassment in this issue, "Targeting Canada: working group to join in these tasks for its crackdown in this sphere, but Apartheid's Friends on the Offen in these pages. We welcome your its action was well judged nonethe sive," documents, there are also comments, criticisms and contribu less. As images, particularly the vi Canadians who will work hand tions. suals of television news, dried up, in-glove with South Africa's racist most forgot the main reason why regime to put precisely such misin * * * this was now the case, and the formation across. Self-evidently, a issue of apartheid tended to drift continuing task for Southern Africa As we finalize the present issue away. True, Joe Clark was moved REPORT (and others similarly en of Southern Africa REPORT, word by the bannings (denounced by him gaged) must be to find ever more comes to us of the horrific maiming as "perverse and brutal") to suggest effective means to breach both the of Albie Sachs in Maputo, victim of some revision of his all too comfort blackout on genuine information a South-African planted car bomb. able rejection of any violent action from South Africa and this latter He is a close personal friend of some taken by those South Africans op of us in the outpouring of lies in order to get SAR Collective who have posed to apartheid; "they (the ban worked with the full story across to many more him in Mozambique, nings) leave nothing else," he said. loved potentially sympathetic Canadians for his gentleness, his caring Yet a mood of "out of sight, out of nature, his than might otherwise be the case. deep commitment. He is mind" must have been principally admired by all of us as a lawyer in Not that responsible for the Canadian gov this can be done by ro the service of humanity, as a writer ernment's otherwise increasingly low manticizing the situation in South and tireless proponent of the arts, profile Africa. on the issue of South Africa. As we noted in our previous as an ANC militant in the cause of That, and the fact that such destruc issue regarding the situation in the South African freedom. We stand tion of the democratic movement in Frontline States, "an anti-apartheid beside him in his present travail, as South Africa as the apartheid state movement built on mere enthusiasm we seek to stand beside all who con has managed to achieve has made and apolitical moralizing cannot eas tinue the struggle against apartheid, the need to forestall, by preemptive ily survive the cruel vicissitudes in however dark the hour.
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