EPISCOPAL CHURCHPEOPLE for a FREE SOUTHERN AFRICA E 339 Lafayette Street. New York, N.Y. 10012·2725 C (2'2) 4n-0066 FAX: (212) 979-1013 S A #127 25 August 1992 U.N. Presence in S. Africa

The Security Council of the United Nations on l7 August, voting unanimously~ authorized Secretary~General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to send UN observers to South Africa 'to help end violence in that country.' This follows upon a lO-day late July visit to South Africa by former us Secretary of State cyrus Vance acting as the S-G's special representative, during which he bad an impressive number of meetings with wide-ranging parties. Despite earlier snorting by South African foreign minister Pik Botha ('I cannot see how you can end the violence that way')~ Pretoria~ after several days of stalling~ announced it had agreed to to the UN observers being stationed around the country to monitor political violence and the 'reform process'.

The Secretary-General made his observations to the Security Council based on his discus­ sions with Secretary Vance and his entourage. Here are some excerpts:

It is neither necessary nor possible here to recount the far-reaching work being undertaken by Justice Richard Goldstone, Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into Public Violence and Intimidation....I believe that the efforts of the Goldstone Commission should be supported by the international community and the recommendations of the Commission should be fully and speedily implemented by the Government and, when so required, by the parties in South Africa. I believe that those (recommendations) relating to a total ban on the public display of dan­ gerous weapons and the security of hostels need to be acted upon with utmost urgency, as re­ cent events have sadly proven necessary. Further, I believe that the Commission I s code of conduct for mass deJronstrations can do IIUlch to control violence. It is also necessary, in my view, that the leaders of the major political parties should....take firm steps to stop their supporters from participating in acts of violence. (continued, over) UNITED NATIONS PRESENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA (continued)

The long-standing capacity for violence by the various political groups in South Africa is so central to the lack of trust in the political life of the country that I feel it must be reJre­ died. Acrordingly, I recarmrend that the Goldstone Conrnission under -ake a series of investiga­ tions into the functioning and operations of certain agencies," irrter"alia, the army and police, the Umkontho we..Sizwe (MK), the Azanian People's Liberation Pirnr:I WI.AJ;-the Kwazulu police and, more generally, certain private ' security firms' •....While such investigations ~uld widen the scope of ~rk of the Goldstone Corrrnission, they could be undertaken within its pres­ ent terms of reference. Should the Corrnnission need further financing for its expanded V?Ork, I would urge the Goverrnnent to be forthcc:ming..•••.•.

The reports of the Goldstone Corrnnission when written are, at present, submitted first to the State President and only after being reviewed by the Government are they made public more widely. I believe political and public opinion in South Africa would welcome the reports be­ ing made available to all signatories of the National Peace Accord. within 24 hours of sub­ mission to the State President.•....•..

The National Peace Accord. of 14 September 1991 establishes a comprehensive framework, agreed upon by all the major parties, organizations and groups of South Africa, to end violence and to facilitate socio-economic developnent and reconstruction. The mechanisms foreseen under the Accord, hcMever, lack teeth and need to be greatly strengthened. This was the unani.m:>us view of all tmse who discussed "this matter with the United Nations delegation, including tmse who are associated with the existing structures of the National Peace Secretariat. Both the National Peace Cornmittee and the National Peace Secretariat need to be more con­ sistently and substantially supported from the highest political levels, as do the 11 re­ gional dispute resolution comni.ttees covering all parts of the country. Most importantly, they require financing and full-time staff of the requisite calibre. Further, there is desperate need for efficient, functioning offices or operations centres at the major 'flash­ points'; these should be staffed on a 24-hour basis and fully funded and equipped. For each of such offices there should be a standing group composed of representatives of the Govern­ ment, ANC, Inkatha and other concerned parties. Such offices should be capable at· all times of acting in:Jrn=diately to defuse incipient problems; they should have prompt and direct access to law enforcement agencies .

Given the mechanisms already established by the National Peace Accord, to which all parties have agreed, I have concluded that, at this stage, the wisest course of action ~uld be to strengthen and reinforce those mechanisms. Such action would, in my view, contribute tan­ gibly to enhancing the capacity of indigenous structures that can playa major role in the building of peace, both in the present and in the future. I recorrmend, accordingly, that the United Nations make available sane 30 observers to serve in South Africa, in close asso­ ciation with th Nat-ional Peace Secre.:tariat, in order to further the purposes of the Accord.. The observers would be stationed in agreed upon locations, in various parts of South Africa. As necessary, their number could be suppl~nted by other appropriate international organiza­ tions, such as the Conm:mwealth., the EC and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) •..•..

I rould also urge that the Government act expeditiously to ensure the early appointment of the Justices of Peace and the establishment of the special criminal courts envisaged in the National Peace Accord.•••. / For all of its shortcomings, the CODESA Im=>Cess must be pursued and improved. I believe it needs to encourage others, who have oot yet joined, to do so, in the interests of the coun­ try and of peace.•.•There is a manifest need to establish a deadlock-resolving machinery at the highest political leveL •••.There may well be need for CODESA to consider the appoint­ ment of an eminent and impartial person, who need not be a foreigner', to draw the strings together and to provide the impetus and cohesion that CODESA needs to accomplish its tasks .

•.•.The role of the international camn.mity and of the United Nations in particular can, at this rroment, be profound and beneficiaL It can facilitate a great and peaceful transition of historic proportion in a part of the world that bas suffered too long. Monday 24 August ~ ' 1992 ' 10 .INTERNATIONAL . .. THE INDEPENDENT Trapp~d in the web of military power

Cor Hugo tnes it'as read that MI Democratic Movement, a perfect rep­ President de Klerk is powerless to act have been turning the wheel of political lica of the Inkatha project. The differ­ violence which has claimed 7,(XX) lives in ence being that whereas the branch of against the hard men of South Africa's the past two years. "Some of the attacb, the Zulu nation represented by lnkatha 'some of tbe train massacres for exam· was recruited to tbe "total 5trateg)'" pIe, bear the unmistakeable 'hallmarb cause in the mid-Eighties, tbe ADM --:'army, a former intelligence officer of the Special For= reconnaisanace and the leader of the Ciskei, Oupa regiments. Otbers are pure Koevoet Gqozo were enlisted in 1990, well into [the fearsome 'Crowbar' police unit Mr de Klerk '5 rule and after negotia· tells John Carlin in Johannesburg used in the NaII1Ibian war]." tions with the ANC had begun. . The phenomenon geueraDy of "A front company was set up in the !'black-on-black" killings - the town- Ciskei called International Research A DISAFFEcrED former senior only to the top intelligence officer and ship wars between Inkatha and ANC and beaded by an undercover SADF South African intelligence officer says the commanding officer, warned of. supporters - "bas been a dream come intelligence office.r, Kommandant An­ that contingency plans exist for a miIi­ threat of uprising, anarcby and revolu. true". But nOw, after countless allega­ ton Nieuwoudt. The task was to win taTV takeover if the old white-domi­ tionary overthrow spearheaded by the ., lions of orchestrated mass murder, Me Gqozo's confidence at a time when he naied order is ever genuioely threat­ ANC. ' de Klerk is under growing domestic and was leaning tOWards the ANC and poi­ ened. Colonel Gert Hugo, who resigned "The hidden message, but it was abo. international pressure to axe some.- 50n his mind with stories of ANC plots his commission in July 1991 after a U­ solutelv clear, was that we bad to mate beads. Why doesn't he? . year career in military intelligence, says contingency plans for I total military '"The most powerful reason why be to kill him. Having reduced him to a that be and bis commanding officer re­ h h' h d M ffi can't act is that he and his ministers paranoid wreck, they set about - just as take-<7>ocr w en t IS appene. yo· don't know even the half of what is still ceived a top-secret message from Pre­ cer commanding, for example, envis- the)' did v.ith Buthelezi and Inkatha ­ toria in early 1990, short~· after Nelson aged imposing martial law _ judge,jwy going on today, but they're still impli­ buying off Incal headmen and getting Mandela's release. The message am­ and executioner." .• cated beCause many of them were part them to join the ADM. Politically the ounted, be said, to a plan for "a silent And Col Hugo, wbo retains closl ' of the system under Botha. Ifhe were to ADM is as close to the government as coup" in the event of the African Na­ links with the military, said the plan still go after 'JoffeI' - the in-bouse nici­ Inkatha - unquestioned allies against tional Congress reacbing tbe threshold exists today. "Under lock and key at ev- name for Gen van der Westbuizcn - De the ANC." of power. " • ery group bead-1uarters is an opera- 'would send I mess.age to other ICllior In the short term, the violence and Whetber President F W de K1erk is tionaI contingency plan with a copy at officers with dirty hands and tbt spin­ the manipulation has an effect.'But in aware of the schemings or not, he'is army headquarters. -It's a contingency .off would be thaI an wocld open up, all the long term, as a rebellion right now powerless to act against the bard men in plan for a coup." Those in the know, he. the beans would spill. The top brass, against Oupa Gqozo in the Ciskei indi­ tbe military, Col Hugo says. The South said, are sworn to keep the plan hidden, simply, have got too much dirt on the cates, it all 5Cems 50 counter-produc· African Military Intelligence have so even from their fellow officers. cabine!." tive. Why.do they keep going? mucb dirt on the cabinet - so mucb evi­ Senior offICers of "MI" secretly em- Another reason for Me de K1erk's pe.' '. '"The problem is that still today', 60 dence of complicity in past" crimeS ­ powered in tbe 1980s by then Pre~dent ralvsis is that, in the worst of cues, he per cent of SADF officers cling to the tbat the generals have become untoucb- . W Bo h lb' ,. feirs ". take-ovl£. a palace- coup-Ale total onslaught thee!)', and respond to it P t a to contro I eIT country s~ whatever"."; "" 'T' " ••••• able. . litical destiny, show no inclination to as they' always have. The official \iew is "In early' 1990, shortly after Man· bow to the apparent drift to democracy The perceived threat represented by dela's release, all SADF [Soutb African. in the 1990s. The openness which goes "the enemy", the ANC, was magnified that the enemy has not changed. The Communists are in the country now and Defence Force) groups in South Africa hand in hand witb unfettered democ. "2,(XX) per cent" by a military inteUi- . received a top-secret signal from Pre­ gence apparatus eager to secure high even if they're dO....ll now they'll rise up toria. I was the senior intelligence off!­ racy is the biggest threat to the generals' budgets (rom the politicians lUl!! by ind!- again unless checked_ That gives you an C4!r in Group Eight, East London, at tbe power, said Col Hugo. ' vidual officers eager to enhance thell idea of how deep the indoctrination time. The signa~ which was addressed After a number ofconversations over own importance and that of their opera-, goes." a six-week period, Col Hugo agreed to tional regions. " .• But it is not only ideology that moti­ JOll-\'~ESBt:RG (Reuter) - Judge give an on·the-record interview. En- An example of this hyperbole is pro­ "'lites the SADFs hidden persuaders. Richard Goldstone, "'bo is probing vi0­ gaged in: dirty tricks operations as reo vided in a secret military document ob- "There's the perception that negotia. lence In Soutb Africa, bas ordered a cently as last year, he has worked closely tained by the lniUptniUnJ and dated as tions will be helped along in De Kleri's company In\'cstlgating the eraSlUt of with the most contentious., and least recently as 17 January 1991, which shows favour - that is, in favour of the whites taped police radio mcssages on the known, figure on the South African ~. that the ANC is still classified as Mthe - if the machine keeps turning over. nigbt oftbe BoipatoDg massaCR to stop litical scene today, General Cu-istoffel enemy" and is perceived to have intensi­ There are simpler motives. like the fear Its inquir)', tbe Johannesburg SundD] van der Westhllizm, the head of MI. that, 'God! I'm going to lose my job!' Gen van der Westhuizen is the man fied its "revolutionary momentum". There's the motivation of being guilty as Times said yesterday. He ordered the whose name appeared in an eartier sig' "Aim of Enemy", the document says, is consultants Grinaker Electronic Age. d h b "to take over the government of the hell. And very, very important to under­ des to halt innstigations after di~· nal ocument aut orising "t e perma- RSA through negotiations, whilst re- stand these people, there's the buzz of Ilent removal from society" of four' the game, the addiction to power.' ering tbe firm had business links with , black political activists assassinated in taining the ability to violently overthrow the South African Defence Force. the government". . The newspaper also reported that 1985. He is the man wbo must ultimately The secret military document reveals \\'llhelm VeN'Ol'rd, 30, the grandson or take tbe blame for the Ml plot revealed detailed contingencies involving politi- in the IndeptndenJ last month to kill the the former South African prime minis­ London-based police defector, Dirt cal manipulation - including the media ter, Hendrik VeN'oerd, the main archi­ Coetzee. Such has been Me de K1erk's - and counter-insurgency urban open· tect or rigid apartheid, has joined the powerlessness that, three months after tions in which "attention must be given African National Congress. the initial exposure, the general has not :s~.e protection oJ white residentialar· even been suspended from his duties, As chief of Ciskei intelligence, Col leaving him free to deploy MI's vast reo Hugo watched the unfolding of what he sources to tbe task of covering up his called a classk "total strate"'-'" &Cheme tracks. 0: to develop, through the creation of a political party known as the African A shadylife of dirtytricks and'funnies' DlRlY tricks used to be Colonel Gert under the command orGeneral van der against an enemy I could not clearly de· ., Hugo's bread and butter. HeJoined the Westhuiun, whom he described as fiDe." He felt abused, he said - a feel· , South African Defence Force (SADF) ia charmina, baadsome, brilliaat and ing sbared by some, IInot a ~ority, of 1974 and Military Intelligence (Mil in adored by women. 5ADF omcers. 1979, when he was move!! to Namibia to . Here he met and worked with the In August 1990 he moved to one ofthe join the war apinst the Swapo freedom army's covert "Hammer" unit and ea­ SADF's more thinly disguised surro­ lighten. gaged in what be called "funnies" ­ late outfits, the Ciskei Defence Force. Funct.lonin& ia a special unit which political operatiODl, ollea with the p0­ InJuly lastyear he himselffell victim to baIlItnlted Swapo, .e __ ,-,"ol\'ftl lit lice, involving, for example, breakllll dirty tricks, he said, when he was con­ CI'05s-11onier operat.loas into An&ola. down doon, kidnapping and interro­ victed OD charges of stealing 18,000 He na.. agents MIld .established COYert ptjng activ1sts. In 1989 be was appoint­ rand (0,500) after exposing an MI aetworks on both sides of the border. ed chief intelligence omcer ia the plan to manipulate the Ciskei leader Between 1983 and 1985 he went UD­ SADF'I East'tondon unit. By this stale Oupa Gqozo into becoming an instru­ dergroand, posing as a water atrain of­ bb disillusionment with the SADF wu ment of the secret nationwide war flciai ia Oshakati in northera Namibia almost complete. against the ANC. He resigned his com· where, pony·tailed and heavBy bearded, "WheD I was ltationed In Namibia, mlssioD and lince theD he has been ,.-. he lived in a large house with a black the enemy had a uniform and a IUn - a unemployed. woman as coyer for croll·border IUD pointed at you. It _I war. It WIll A bitter man with powerful enemies Gert Hugo: 'The message was that we inflltnltion. clean. Now I had become involved in whom he would like to.see fall, be plans, had to plan for a mUitary takeover' In 19fI(i he moved to Port Elizabeth, party politics, iD shady operations if he can, to leave tbe country soon.

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As de Villiers was being in the Eastern Cape has trig- they had been murdered by. much of the violence destilbi­ Van der Westhuizen's ­ buried yesterday, and Hodgen , gered the biggest political "unknown persons". can history but for a chain of lising South Africa. ilnd de Klerk's - troubles continued unearthing new predicament for F. W. de At the' time the "Cradock events this year, the latest of Hodgen's main witnesses were compounded in April leads in the Goniwe-van der Klerk io his three turbulent Four" were murdered in mid· which was the murder last have gone into hiding. A when two SADF Militilry Westhuizen illJair, de Klerk years as South Africa's Stilte 1985, the exiled ANC leader· Monday of a white Addo prime Hammer unit suspect Intelligence members were was coming under pressure to President. ship in zambia b.ad launched farmer. Andre de Villiers. He IS a Port Elizabeth police offi­ caught by British Intelligence sack his top generals, includ­ Matthew Goniwe. a school­ a campaign "to make Soutb. was gunned down i1t his farm­ cer who once kept a human. in London. Their mission was ing van der Westhuizen, teacher and popular leader in Africa ungovernable". house. not long after he hand in a glass jar in pickling to assassinate former South Police Commissioner General the Eastern Cape of the' Black anger was met by the announced that he had begun fluid on his office desk to AfriCiln Police death-squad Johan van der Merwe and United Democratic Front, a white fist of the "total supplying information to the terrorise black detainees leader Captain Dirk Coetzee SADF chief General Kat Lie­ cover organisation for the onslaught" strategy con­ ANC linking the Goniwe' under interrogation. The with the help of Ulster LOYill· benberg. who-was in charge of then outlawed African Nat. trolled by the State Security assassinations to a clandes­ human hand has since been ist paramilitaries. Coetzee, Special Forces and covert ional Congre9S, was driving Council, a body which super·' tine SADF hit squad known · replaced with severed baboon living in Britain under Scot­ units from 1982 to 1985. wi\h three black companions· seded the civilian Cabinet and as "Hammer" operating out hands. land Yard protection. has De Klerk would prefer to to their home in the small consisted of the then Presi­ of Port Elizabeth. De Villie.rs, President de Klerk: Van der Westhuizen, whom long been recognised by MI6 avoid a purge of the generals inland town of Cradock after a dent P. W. Botha', an inner 42, told friends he had gODe to problems pWna up de Klerk noticeably declined .as a target of "third force" because he needs a stable meeting in PlIrt Elizabetlt. core of ministers and all the the ANC because he was to defend at a press confer­ killers, not only because he security force in case of an Near the Addo Elephant ·military. police and security exasperated by police and has regarded Van der West ence last Thursday. has been has exposed th/; activities of irretrievable breakdown in Reserve they ran into a road· chiefs. The Council was government refusal to con· huizen as an ally in his · unavailable to the press since. SAP death-squads but' constitutional negotiations block. They were pulled from ser\1ed by a secretariat sider his evideqce. . struggle to contain a "third the publication in May of a because he possesses .evi­ with the ANC. their car and stabbed several headed by a South African De Klerk's problem is that force" within the se.curity message he sent in 1985 to the dence which can implicate At the same time, friendly times. One man was shot dead Defence Force general from recent revelations have establishment which seems State Security Council. This others in "thir.d force" foreign governments are and another strangled w;th Military Intelligence. Below shown that Hammer was bent upon undermining his sought authorisation for Gon­ operations. warning him he cannot allow telephone wire. . it were 12 regional Joint Man· established and trained by political initiatives for a iwe and others to be "penna· Seventeen angry fax ex· Rambos to embarrass him When the bodies of Gon­ agement Centres roughly the SADF officer then in • phased transition to multi· nently removed from society changes took place between further.. iwe, Ford Calata. Sparrow coinciding with the military charge of the Eastern Cape, party, multi-racial demo- as a matter of urgency". The John Major and de Klerk 011 As il JolumnesbuTg Star Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli commilnd ueils and usually Brigadier Christoffel J offel cracy. P . request was sent on June 7 UK-South Africa reliltions newspaper columnist com­ were found ilt Blue Water Bay heilded by an SADF briga­ van der Westhuizen. Van der De Villiers's murder, and a' 1985. Two weeks later. Gon· plunged to their lowest since mented last week: "There is a' near Port Elizabeth; their dier. The Eastern Cape was Westhuizen is now Chief of mass of evidence collected by iwe and bis friends were de Klerk became presid~nt in risk in de Klerk confronting faces had been burned away. one, with its HQ in Port Staff of Military Intelligence Eastern Cape Allorney-Gen­ dead. 1989. Eventually, the assas­ the monster his Niltional The hands of one victim hall Elizabeth. and one of the most powerful eral Michael.Hodgen, sugeest In 1987. Van der Westhui­ sins were quietly spirited Pilrty has created, but the risk been chopped off. Th~ oum­ Goniwe's murder Jl\ay have men in the land. According to that members of Hammer are zen set up another Hammer back to Pretoria. One was of not confronting it is even berplates hild been removed fllded into Ihe mists• of Afri· intelligence sources. de Klerk still operilting. givini the unit in Johannesburg whose Captain Pamela du Randt, greater." THE WASHINGTON POST FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1992 Changes in SOllth Africa Are Less Than They Seem

Bureaucracy, White Attitudes Impede Reform The 10 so-called "self-j;(overning" or "independent" black homelands-keystones of the failed apartheid plan ty." As it is understood here, feder­ to spin off blacks into their own separate "nations"­ By David B. Ottaway alism would let whites maintain con­ W"lunrtOll Pool F...... SenIce have remained. The apartheid system of separate gov­ trol over their own separate commu­ ernment departments for each race group has continued. JOHANNESBURG-Even in the nities, way of life and facilities at the Changes in most basic structures of the apartheid sys­ New South Africa, change seems local level when blacks take over in tem, the white government told blacks, would have to exceedingly slow in coming. Pretoria. await the outcome of constitutional talks. Real change, in fact, has often "Assimilation is not what's on the The government also has not been eaRer to undertake been a chimera. The legal pillars of minds of whites," said one Western affirmative action programs or make grand gestures to -----, apartheid have tum­ diplomat. "They are going back into show blacks that the "old" South Africa is really dead. bled one by one. But their old enclaves." Reforms emptied of their content are legion. L...__---J many of apartheid's President Frederik W. de Klerk, De Klerk made a token effort in 1990 to deal with what structures and practices are still probably South Africa's most astute the government calls "backlogs" in housing and social ser­ alive, deeply rooted in this racially white leader ever, started out in vices for blacks. He created the Independent Development taut society. February 1990 to shift radically the Trust and funded it with $900 million. hAY, Au';t ST 14, 1992

Shortly after working hours end at 5 p.m., blacks who But as soon as white communities have realized the are not maids or house boys in white homes are out of the high cost of such mergers to white power, privilege and ~{hite suburbs aud back in t.heir old segregated townships. purse, they have pulled back. If there is a successful Just like old times. merger anywhere in South Africa, it has escaped the notice of the press. There are still few laws to enforce integration, so it is The most "liberal" experiment in "one municipality, extremely difficult for blacks to take discrimination cases one tax base," as blacks call their merger demand, took to court. The old apartheid laws made it an offense to en­ place this spring in Kimberly, the town of diamond fame, ter whites-<>nly public facilities, But there are no new laws where whites are a small minority. The white council making it an offense to refuse entry to blacks. proposed, and pushed through, a single authority to run Results of the attempted land reforms have been mea­ the greater metropolitan area. But the whites allocated ger. The MaKopa people, whom apartheid had forced from themselves six seats on the council and gave all the other their traditional lands near the city of Ventersdorp. west of racial groups together the same number. Johannesburg, last year re-occupied them. They had part Perhaps the most painful reminder that real change of it legally restored to them in June, but their most fertile will be a long time in coming to South Africa has been land remains leased out to a white farmer. the police force. Despite numerous reforms loudly pro­ The Majeng people in mid-June went,back to their old c1<1imed by the government, the police today acts pretty land, near Kimberley in the northern Cape Province. They much as it did in the Old South Africa. wanted to stake a claim to their ancestors' land. But they It seemed all summed up in the anguished cry of one discovered local authorities had early this year illegally of the country's leading pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Gluck­ sold 2,400 acres of it to six white farmers. man, who on July 26 went public in an anempt to stop "Nothing has changed." said Ken MarKo, a spokesm

WO prison officials have The Natal Wi/ness in March this year. claimed that white warders who He claimed that an ANC supporter belong to an Afrikaner Weer­ AWB uses prison as·arms who shared his cell, named as Vusi standsbeweging cell at Leeuw- Mkhize, was stabbed to death in the kop Prison, ncar Johannesburg, are prison dining hall. The attacker was fon:ing black convicts to make spear.; allegedly an Inkatha supporter who and pangas for use in township vio­ factor)!, claim warders had been supplied with the weapon by lence. a white warder. lne officials have not been named Zulu says he personally witnessed for their own safety. llleir evidence is guns and balaclavas in ihe boot of his Prisoners at a Tranwaal jail section. three white warder.; at the Pietennar­ corroborated by eight prisoner.; who car. .A base located on a fann near the ilzhurg prison heat a prisoner to death. have told The Weekly Mail ofconvicts This sergeant, named as Vermaak, are allegedly furced to make prison is used as a meeting place for "He fell down and the warder.; pulled being used to manufacture "traditional is said to be heavily involved in AWB traditiofUll weapons by white member.; of the AWB and "there is a him inside the cell. 1ney put a blanket weapons". activities at the prison.lllis claim was weapons cache" here. on him and locked the door. TIle pris­ "These weapons are hidden inside a also rejected by the Department of warders who bdonR to the "We know their hideout and where oner did not I:ry or ask for help. TIle disused cell near the engineering Correctional Services. AWB. By EDDIE KOCH the weapons are stored," says a leiter next morning he was dead." works at Leeuwkop Medium A Tipped off by the eight convicts of signed by four inmales who supplied Lawyers for Human Rights in and GRAHAM HARVEY prison. Some of the weapons are the far-rightwing activ!ly, The Weekly their full names and prison number.;. Pietennaritzburg have affidavits from stockpiled in the veld near the cells Mail made contact with the two offi­ All the informants asked that their black warders of this prison which where members 01 the A WB hold cials who separately ccrroborated the kop. TIle leiter.; include claims that: identities be withheld on the grounds report that white warder.; anend AWB meetings at nigh.," said one of the details. .Warders shout AWB slogans that their lives wO:Jld be endangered in rallies and training sessions on the prisons officials. One said he personally witnessed while doing physical training at the these were published. prison premises at night The Department of Correctional warder.; displaying AWB insignia on prison. The allegations follow a top-level "Alleged AWB activities of mem­ Services has rejected the allegations as prison premise.'i in violation ofdepart­ .Member.;ofthis right-wing group probe hy the Department of Correc­ bers at the Pietermaritzburg Prison being "malicious and devoid of all mental regulations:The other was subject conv icts to severe racial tional Services into reports by a Natal was thoroughly investigated and no truth". interviewed while he was doing guard assaults and abuse. The Weekly Mail newspaper that right-wing warders substantiation for the allegations could Prisons authorities rejected allega­ duty at a remote section of Leeuw­ ha'i a pile oflelters smuggled out oflhe were promoting pulitical faction fight­ be found," said the Departmentof t.ions that member.; at Leeuwkopshout kop's prison farm. He provided a prison which allege abuse ranging ing among black inmatesofthe Pieter­ Correctional Services. "It appear.; that slogans and flaunt the insignia of the detailed account of where the engi­ from racial assaults to homosexual marilzburg New ~rison. the so-<:alled testimonies are based on A WH and asked for /lames of the neering shop, and cell alleged to store rapt: ofconvicts. Brian Zulu, a former convict of this facts and they must be seen as propa­ member.; involved so that these can be anns, was located. ."Leeuwkop is a training base of jail, alleged that warder.; belonging to ganda stunts." fullj.investigated. An investigative team from The the AWB." the AWB smuggled knives to Inkatha The Weekly Mail has agreed to pr0­ The Weekly Mail sources say white Weekly Mail visited the jail and .Weapons"used for violence in the prisoners and encouraged them to vide the department with names of sergeant employed at tile prison workc tracked down the former prisons offi­ trclins" are made at the "passerswerk­ attack African National Congress alleged members of the A WB at shop was arrested earlier this year with cer after receiving a number of leiters swinkel" (workshop for fillers and member.; in the cells. Leeuwkopso that these can be proper­ a load of "traditional weapons", hand smuggled out of the cells at Leeuw- turners) at Leeuwkop's Medium A Zulu's allegations were published in ly investigated. THE INDEPENDENT THE GUARDIAN Thursday 30 July 1992 Tuesday August 11 1992 Mary Benson on South Africa's failure to j prosecute Matthew Goniwe's killers Out of South Africa HE names keep recur· man ...·as again ar~ted and rinll In reports o( the (ound gullly o( "dlsplaylnl" John Carlin alnlsler acl\vltlel o( pictur~. of an ··uDJaw~ ... : Tsenior membera of organisation" - pho(',. nns 15 a slorv 50 run·of.th~·mllJ another w~nt back n~xt door 10' Soulh Africa'a atCurlly graphs of ANC d~leg.allona 10 in Soulh Afric~ il barel~' qualines grab Bhekl's U-year~ld daugb­ (orces: General ChrhtolTel Ihe governmenl In 1939 and d~r Ordinaril~·. I~r. van Westhulun, head of 1942. In thaI persecution of lIS ne1O·S. il would pass !'/ozipho. They look lbe two military Intelllaence. and .nnoticed by the public - save hi cirls 10 tbe busb where they Fort's grandfather Un a clue otr Matthew Gonlwe. to the dealhs all Ihne yeara the contul of a criminal slatlslic. raped Ihem. When tbey Rturned. II is three months sInce a later: Ihe s~curily police .In Yel another sequence of break·in, lbe OM wbo bad stayed bebind copy o( a lop secret alillal the Eastern Cape bu Ion, a<;saull and rape. said be, 100, wanled Noziplto. So dated June 7, 1985 "'as pub­ conducted a uniquely vicious But I'lIlell il amwIV because II lbe other two slaved behind while lished In which Van del' assault on the area', leaders. concerns a mend 'of ~ine by Ihe be look ber otr ior a second ses· Weslhulzen confirmed a tele­ among them SleH Biko and phoned proposal 10 the slate his friend Mapella Mohapl. name of Bheki "lkhize. He 15 a sion in Ihe bnsb. Securily Council Ihat Gon. Two .... P{'ks aner the Gon. nephew of the [nutha Freedom "ThaI means." a diS«lnsolale Iwe and Ihree associates be I"'e (uneral ume the assass­ Pa~ leader. ~bief "1angosulbn BbekJ told me on Monday nigbl, urgently "removed from Ination of one o( Ibe speak. Buthelui. is an actin supporter "thaI two men raped my U·year· sociely". ers. Ihe lawyer Vlclorla of the A.-';C and has sun;'ed nu· old." Within three weeks of Ihe Mxenge whos~ husband Grtl. merous allempls on his life in the AI aboul lam, Ihe Ibrte men signal's dispatch, Gonlwe, nths had been slmllar[y Fort Calata. Sparrow Mkonlo murdered. past two ~·ears. left. bul nol before lelline BhekJ's and Sicelo Mhlawull dlsap­ iC~ II was four years before an His "ould·be assassins !lan .. tbat Ibis wa< nothing com· ppared when drivlnl1 (rom Inquest Into the deaths wu become so frustraled the' ha"e pared 10 wbal lay ahead. Port Eli1.abeth to their hon,e held. Repres.nting the ram. started targeting his iamily. At daybrnk Ihe family lroo~ outside Cradock. Nol (or lIies, the distinguished advo­ Bbeki Ihes in Johannesburg bul off 10 Ibe doclor and Ihen 10 Ibe days was the burnt-oul car cate Arthur Chaskalson wenl his ..ife and mosl of his niM cbil· police stalion. Now, If Ibere is one discovered and eventually. Ibrough ~vidence to support by chance, the young men's his case Ihat Ihe klllings had d""n ha'e remained al Ihe tribal erganisation Bheki mighl trusl mutilated, charred bodies. Ih~ been "carefully planned, famih' horne in Uundi. capital even less Iban the Soulh Afriun From allover Soulh Africa, well co-ordinated and skil. of Chief BUlbelezi's K...aZulu police it 15 Iheir malevolent otr· tens of thousands of mourn. ful" - killings In which Ihe homeland. He had Ihougbl Ibal spring, lbe KwaZula police. ers converged on Cradock's bodies, scaltered far (rom the the" ..ould be safe there. Fonded entirelv ~. Pretoria and black lownshlp, Llngellhle, car, "had been put on their Lasl Wednesday. al midnigbt, run b~' a ...hile gen~ral who col his In Ihe arid Karoo for Ihe backs, pelrol had been funeral of th~ four. In news poured over their faces and thf« men broke open Ihe door of teetb in Ibe counler·insurgency reports, Ihe BBC and ITN (0­ ~ZPs", fin bad been Itl 10 their Ihe bouse "'bere bis ..iCe Ih·es. war againsl Ihe ANC, Ibe cused on Ihe )'ounl widows faces". Each carried a gun. a knife and a as Ib" are kuown, are in errm beside the graves. Ihelr lem. The maglslrale (ound the spear. T..o had balaela"as O"er Inkalha's privale army. Tbe~' ha"~ ble grief revealed as the um­ suspicions that security their heads. The- slormed into been wid~lv accused of killing era panned slowly from th.ir police had been Im'olved In her bedroom. "h~re she la~ ..;tb A,lI/C sopplirters and prolecting faces 10 their feel and on Ihe killings .... ere "com. down to the comns. That plelely unfounded". AI Ihe her Ihree daughters and two ba· Inkalba "warlords" from pros· day, a slale of emeTJI:ency bies. and said Ibe~' were police. ecution. lime of the deaths - of thaI cleared screens of such pic· secrel signal -:- Van del' men searching for marijuana. BUI N~ertheless, BhekJ's famil~' reo tures and ofany violence per· Weslhuizen was a brigadier the~ made lillie attempt to stick to ported the case 10 a Detective Ser· petraled by pollee or headi ng Ihe Derence Forces' their cO"er SlorY. geanl Mbalha, wbom tbe)' tor· military. Eastern Province Command Aller bashi~g Bheki's wife nisbed wilb Ihe name of one of the Why Llnl:elihle? Why Gon· In tbeana. across the back of the head ..;Ih assailanls. Bbeki, for bis part. lwe? During 1983 Cradock was descrlbed as "Ihe hOlltst N THE oulraged reaction, an iron bar Ihe, searched Ibe laid Ibe slorv 10 bis lawvers in spol In the b.ackveld revolu· oeni~ns Mallhew'S widow Nya. house for mone, '-nd succtede

The president may fear a showdown with the military chiefs implicated vlIlvetl ill Ihe fnrmalinn IIf lIlI! tlllll: ollt "unsullablc" 111111 carrll'll IIl1t Ih£' munter III Easlcrn ('('IH~ 11011111111'1' forl'l! i5 cllllllillaies. I!Jlt!l of the allthropolnllisl IIl1d in elite force violence, writes David Beresford in Johannesburg IH'hl:v,~1 III h:lVC h""n a Wlllllall Thl! I'xi~hmce of the Ilnmmer ;mlj·aparlhehl activisl. lJavid raplain, l'am('la till Ilalltlt. She forn'" WllS seue', !Jul refer· Wellsler. was one of two SUlllh Alri,:nn elln'~ to Ihe unlls have elllerl:.~1 There are also suspicions OUTJI 1\rllleA i~ awall· nace ill Ihe lowllshil'~' t!IH5, lIear Pllrl ~:lIzallClh. F'rnm a~ents rl'cl'lIl1y .Ic'ported frolll uVl'r Ihe years frum voriou~ that a 1I:llllllll'r unit IlIlIrcler('(1 inll the onlconll' "I' R cru· Sillcr. Gell Vall del' W,'sthi,i· Ih., evillcnr., III' a IIlnnllCr uf wi!· IIrilain lIy S.:lIl1an.1 Yard altcr cnlllmissioll~ of ill'lniry, wilh· Allloll /'uhowski, the harrisler S cial tesl of the h"lIl11ce "f zell W:lS I'lIhlicly IIcCIlSl'd thn;e 1H'~se~ it a PllCars the men hllll belnl( call1-:hlllJlllarelllly settin!: out th..ir sillnlricance havlnll oncl h!ader of the SOllth Wesl power hel\\'l!l!n Ihp De Klerk mUllths "1:0 of havilll: plalllled hl'('n mllrllered two lIays hl'­ liP a e;lIntrad fur the 8~sassina· lJf'en apprecialNI. Africa I'eople'~ Urganlsation govl'rnmenl a IIII the mililary Ihe IlrlleSlJllle Illunler of 1'0111' fort', whl'lI Ihl'y wert' 510p'....11 01 lilln of lI,l' hJl:llivl' Inrlller se'cn· Th,' Sl'wl'yiya ';lI1nmis5i"nlu· (Swap,,), ilt I!lll!'_ eslahlishmelll, in which II nllti·apilrlllcid (Iclivists in Ihe o roallblock set III) hy Ihc 110m· rily hrallch omet!r, Caplaln veslil:ulill~ unresl on Ihe Un!· (;1'11 Vall d(!r Westhulzcn has seven·vear·ohl mUlller II III1 Ihe Easlerll Cape in 1!1lI5, further Iller nnll. I\t leasl 0111' IlOlice· lJirk CueI7.l!l!. versily of Ihe TrRnskel cmupus IUIIIl heell seen as a hi~h·ri~er fatl' or' Ihe heall of "rilly 11I11'1Ii· eletails "I' his silllslt'r activities ,"a" WIIS 11150 IlClieve.... In havt' The IlIddenl hap!)ell.. cl hcartl ,~vhh!ur.l! III' all lI\;all':IIIil: ill thc military ·!~...hh\hnwllt, ~cllce al)JlCar 10 IJC Ilivotni hllve 1K'l:ull 10 emergl' - 110' Ileell there. Names uf Indiv"t· shortly before Ihe cliptRin, hiel· IlCill~ snalched by a mysteriuus lJCinl: lillP(~1 at oue slal(c as II faclors. t"hly his part ill the furmalioll IIals snid to have taken IInrl ill fulure millisll'r nf,lefl'nce.As it By l:lle \,eslenl:lY. I','{'sidelll of a mysierillll~ IIl1il kllllWII as Ihr. operatioll 1Irt! nnw willely is III~ i~ "r"hahly Ihe ~'CIIIllI· F. W. dl' Kh'rk 1101.1 still f:liled to Ihe "lInmmer Fon·e". klluwn. Secret 'Hammer' force members sported mosl IH,wer!ul lIlemher nf the reslHlIIII 10 last w('{'k's rL~.·nlll· Thc 111I11. whilSt' members Lasl May, General Ralliu 110­ military - alter the commaml· nH'ndaliolls fmlll Ihe Ullill'll sJI(.rted hadl(cs ill Ihe slmllC elf a lomisa. lea.IeI' of the Trallskel badges shaped like sledgehammers er·ln·chlef. General Kal Naliolls alld Ihe <;ohlslollc I'om­ sl('(I~('hammer, was set 1111 In "holll£'lal1ll", releasell a C:UllY of LielJCnllCrl:. missioll of inqlliry f"r a wille· 1!'H4 in Ihe Easlern CallC!Jy Gen all army sil(nal which hllIlIH'C1I Gen Van der Wcslhlll7.ell·1I ran~ill!: jllllieial illvestil:alillll Van dcr Westllllill'n, who wa~ ~ellt to Ihe stnte s«~cllrily cOlln­ Inl: out in London. was Ilue In ""ammer IlrOul'" from Ihe proseculinn for Ihe Goniwe illln Ihc army alld the IlOlin'. Ihell IJrmy COIHIIl:lllllcr In Ihe cil I(!!;s than a mnllth hefnre thc give evidelu;e In an In'lucst Easl,'rn Calle. -murllers, allll IH.ssihle .,lIn;rs, is , The delay l'lICUlIra!:es SII('CU­ provincc, lis lraillill~ inslruc· Gllniwe murelers. II showed rl"aled to "hit squad" opera­ The lIielllslm commission. 011 the face uf il unlhiukahle. . lalinll Ihal Ihe presidelll lears lors allparenlly Incllllted at Ih:ll Gelj Vlln del' WesthuilCII tions In Ihe Easlern Cape. 10llkillil IUlo a ",unlcipal Intelll· ThaI may IJC why the !:uvern­ prcdpilalill!: II ~h(l\",I"WII with least llln'e fonller lllellllJCrs of was Jllllnlllll~ Ihc IIntl aparthl'ill In 1!l1l7, G,,,, VlIn ell' I' Westh­ I(Cllce "llCrlltlon rlln hy the Jo­ IlIcnl has recently hccn his dcfl'lIcr. chit'fs, nnlahly Ihe the notllrious Sl'lolls Scolll~ .­ leader'~ "rellloval frum nlwlI was promllfl'll 10 c"m· Imllneshur!: city council, heard sirolll:ly pressing Ihe I\Irican powerflll heml 01 military illlel· Ian Smlth·.j; elite killer IInil socicty". m;lIIdinll IImcer in Ihe Wilwa· evillclI!'e fmm Ihe heall of Ihe Nalional COII\:ress for a ceneral , 1i1l1!lIce. General Chrislollcl which wa5 covertly f\llldell ill II Is now 1K'lieVL~1 Ihat the I.. rsrand area around spy-. inl: - a mlljnr with mili· amllesly fur,",lilical crimcs. ",Inffcl" vall del' Wl'Slhlli!.l"\. lIll' Ilh'Hle5ian !Jllsh war hy CIIPY III' the sl~IIal wns I:iven III ,Inhallm·shur~. all.1 IIrmnplly lar-y illiellil:ence, I'rik lIarnanl The I\NC has imlieah:11 'hat II Thl' gelH'ral is inul':lsilll:ly SlInlh African military G,;n IIl1lO1nis;l by a .lIsalltocl('d set Upll Illcal lI:lnuller u"it. -- Ihat he ha,l!:"ne nil II "lIam· Is prepared to accellt au am· I'lllerl:llIC liS a cClllral fillllre ill inlelli\:ellce. lIIemher of IIIllilary illll'lIi· An:lInlinll III ooe SlIln'ce, pro­ ml'r course" beinll rUII !Jy the IIesty, 1l1l1 ouly if there Is filII. the h"'I:·nmnilll: L1mtl "V"rRy Thc lIammer nnll Is nnw be· I:""ce. A wih;h-hlllli ha~ sillce Sl.cl:live m,:ml,,!r~ ha,l III army. In,hli.; eliso:lII'urc -- nf Ihe s"rl over Ihe militnry's rule ill Ihe lIev('(1 10 have carriel! oul the bcen conducted wlthill the SCI" IIll1ierl:o Inlense phl'slcal train· Anolher meml)('r of Ihe mu­ IImposed by the UN ami Ihe country's polilical violence, mllrllers of Matlhew Goniwe, vice, wllh Ihe co-operotion of inl: and hiwrre psycholullical IIkipal spy tCAln 1t.'Slinel! aboul Collistone commissi,,". frolll Ihl' assassill:lliolls uf allll­ ~'orl Clllala, Sll3rrow Mko~llo lexal law oOicers. 10 Iry til IIlId lest hIli - nile lesl Invllivinl: a a special ullit which hael The re~ull has hcen some nll­ nloartheid activisls ill Ihe I!lUlls anel 511'1'111 MhIRIlIi. Their 11111 who was resllllnsible fill' Ihe lIlaze, anolhel' slarvalion III the receivcd trulnln!: at a secret ullisill!: III Ihe mrridors of 10 more r('('elll alll'l:aliolls 01 a charrel!II(HIi£'s were fonnll wllh leak. presence of the 5uhJect's army hase 01111 Trallsvaal fllrm. power In Pretoria's U.,lon "Thinl Fnn;e" I'nollllllill~ c"r- thl'lr hnrnl,olll car 1111 .1111I1' 211, I\lIl1lher Rrmy nrrker In· I:lvourlle f.HIlI _. lIjllle,1 nl whil· Ill' dailllcII II ml'mlH!r Ilf this III1~hlinl:s. Boipatong tape 'wiped in error' EVOKING images of the Water­ one side of Ihe lape and il is not gate hearings, a South African From John Carlin in VCfccniging indicated anywhere in the man­ woman polic~ sergeanl sought ual," she said. yesterday to explain before a judi­ Sergeant Elsa O'Reilly told Jus­ in essence this was her explana­ Sgl O'Reilly, who Iookea to be cial commission of inquiry into the tice Richard Goldstone Ihal she lion; a recording machine was in­ in her late twenlies and, he "i1y Boipatong massacre how she con­ had accidentally erased IJ hours' stalled at the Vereeniging head­ made up, wore a fashionably cut trived to erase tape-recordings worth of lape-recordings of police quarters of the Internal Stability green camouflage skirt, giggled containing evidence crucial 10 est­ radio transmissions before, during Unll '- the new name for the riot frequently during her two hours of ablishing the role played by the and after the massacre. The im­ police - where she works in the teslimony, . police. portance of Ihe evidence con­ operations control room, on 24 Three months passed, she said, Nearly 20 years ago, Rosemary , lained in Ihe lapes is that Ihey March this year. The machine, before she was made aware of her Woods, Richard Nixon's personal would either confirm or refute evi­ connected to telephone and radio mistake. It was only a week after secretary, maintained she had "ac­ dence provided by a number of lines, uses ordinary cassette tapes. Ihe massacre, she said, th3' she cidentally" erased a vital 17 \r2 min­ witnesses - Ihe latest, yesterday She mastered all of the ma­ learnl from a police invesligaling utes of taped conversations be­ afternoon, a black policeman ­ chine's complex functions save for officer 10 whom she had given the tween hor boss and his aides in that police in armoured vehicles one. She did not know thaI if she tapes Ihat they had been erased. which they discussed the cover-up assisted the Inkalha attackers on turned Ihe tape around from Side She had handed tapes prev,ously of the Watergate burglary. the night of 17 June, when 41 died. A to Side 13, Side A would be 10 officcr.; working on other inves­ Yesterday morning in Vereeni­ Sgt O'Reilly's testimony was wiped out during rewrding. "I tigations but no one had drawn ging, five miles easl of Boipatong, confusingly technical at times, but was nevcr told I could reconJ only hc;r attcntion to Ihe problem. THE STAR J0~annesburg 15 June 1992

- .J ASS CTIO WHAT IS IT TO BE? ~~.. THIS

The Star Wednesday June 17 1992 OR SAP~.s·'Martin Luther King ad MARTIN LUTHER KING, ,, -, HAVE A DREAM, ,.- offends widow THESAPSTANDSFORLEGA~ PEACEFUL & NON-DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS By HUGH ROBERTON .

/""'lOREn'A Scott Kin&, widow SHOULD YOU CHOOSE MASS ACTION, PLEASE: \.I of civil rights aeader Dr Martin Luther KiDg, bas aDgrily attacked the Soutb African ~ • MAKE SURE ITS LEGAL AND PEACEFUL li~ for invoking the IWlle of beT late husband in its weekend • EXERCISE YOUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS RESPONSIBLY advertisements 011 the ANC'I • DO NOT VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS mass actioo campailll- • A.VOID ALL ACTIONS WHICH COULD RESULT IN VIOLENCE The advertaementl claimed that Dr K~!lg'! ~lief in peaC!!"!u! protest was a model and in­ A FRIENDLY MESSAGE FROM TIiE SA POLICE spiration to the SAP, and the advertisements arced South Afric&n5 to foUow Dr ~I Iud Mn KiDg deacrlbed the 1IIe of ber husband's IWlle by tbe &AP . u "perbapl the IDOISt offeDIlve and outrageous abuse of my busband'. Dime lIIat I un ever aee:n." Her ltatement aald: "'With itl long history of oppreaiOll of the black citizens of South Africa, iDcluding IIlllJ5