'o g e 3 304 J- J in? ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ! MAYIBUYE MAYIBUYE NO k
1980 YEAR OF THE CHARTER The Fortnightly Journal of the African National Congress.
INFERIOR RACIAL EDUCATION MUST BE ELIMINATED
ADDRESSING THE NATION OVER RADIO FREEDOM ON THE EVE OF THE 30ERS' REPU3LIC DAY, PRESIDENT TAf’.BO DECLARED: Bantu education. C o lo u r e d Education, Indian education, must be fought by i-vtry parent and c h ild , by anyone with any sense oi dignity and self-respect, and fought with every means at our disposal.
ThQGO people win er.cour-.ige. support -ind joir. in tne strupjjle against inferior "Xiucation in ■'r .j'.xmtry are :?ei~ving our people and
But i f the enemy is looking for submission and surrender, he w ill be disappointed. Hie people w ill not, dare not, submit; and there is no question of surrender.The only road to the new South Africa that we want leads througn the rugged terrain and bloody battle SASOL ATTACK fields of confrontation with the forces of reaction. In a co-ordinated operation which even the enany concedes was "well Therefore let the people go; let tlie people go, the young and the planned" and "sophisticated” , units of Umkhonto to Sizwe blasted old together, across racial, ethnic and Bantustan barriers to the the SASX I and II oil-from-coal plants and the NATREF o il refinery battlefront of struggle - to the battlefront of struggle against on the night of June 1st. The fire in Sasolburg, wh«re SASOL I and inferior education for blacks, against starvation wages, against XATREF are situated, wtis the biggest in South Africa's history and rising ous fares and increasing rents, against separate development could be seen from Johannesburg."We have attacked these installa institutions including the proposed black parliaments, against flantu tions because of their key strategic positioning in the whole econo my of South Africa, and because there is a demand Oy the inter acm-unity councils and Bantustans, against removals. national camunity for an o il embargo," ccmnented President Tanto.-
I t was announced a few days ago that the students' leajfers hid set out certain demands to the regime, and the firs t demand wis the Unity in action is the key release of all political prisoners - which snous the level of poli tical consciousness of our youth who are regarding their own pecu INTERVIEW WITH ALFRED NZO lia r problems not in isolation to the general problem that is affecting the people. v _ Comrade Nzo, our country is once again* rocked with mass activities directed against the oppressive apartheid It will also be recalled that throughout this period; a large V- ~ regime. How do you view the present mass activities by section of the black working class has been up in arms against the the black s tu d e n ts ? ______regime and is putting forward certain denunds to tne aiployers for tiit) improve.lent of working conditions. . -a. Firstly, I think \ve should say that the current mood of revolt * ’ ~ . that is sweeping throughout the oppressed section of our population '.Shat you see in this is a oanbination o i the working class and. the is not centring only around the current student demonstrations, ■students, with support being given to the students by their parehtf important though those demonstrations are.. and teachers - which lias given credence to uftat the students have been saying, so tiiat it cannot be laugned o ff merely b^- saying that It w ill be recalled that in the recent past there has been s-^eeping it is irresponsible actions by children wuo don't know aajfainB. throughout South Africa a very wide movement calling for tlie re TT>e ijarents thsnselves and tne teachers sayt "Yes, you are n ju t !" 4 lease of Uandela, of course, linked to the demand for the release So it 's a w.iole .uv
The victory of the people's cause in Mozambique lias, among other tilings, meant that the workers of this country can join the rest of the world's working class in openly observing May Day, the 1st of :.;ay, as a public holiday dedicated to the advancement and unii y of tiie workers. This year, the Vay Day celebrations ill Maputo had a special mean ing for South Africans working in Mozambique. For the firs t time tfvei, a contingent of tie South African Congress of Trade Unions, oAClu, joined by our Youth and Pioneers, representing the'South African working class, imrched freely through the streets of a Southern African town and received the acclaim of the Government and Head of State. A similar South African delegation participated in the May Day parade in Lusaka and was warmly welcomed by President IJennet h Kaunda. As the marchers, carrying SACTU banners, approached the review the university, workers fran various Ministries. stand in Maputo, singing "Unkhulu, O-khulu iomsebenzi", helmets on their heads, spades over their shoulders. President Samora Xachel JKELIMO Secretary for Economic Policy Marcelino dos Santos made a leapt to his feet and eave them enthusiastic applause. rousing speech, and the President ended the proceedings with an It had been the same a ll along the route - cheering and clapping as inprarptu address that liad the crowd roaring with laughter and giv the well-organised contingent marched sinking past the crowds. la ing frequent applaurie. front was a group from Chile, behind detachments from Western It was a day of unity, a day of solidarity, a day of victory, and a rountries. Brazil and Portugal. Ahea^ rere thousands upon thousand day which foretold of future May Days, when the workers of South of Mozambican workers - metal workers, food workers, glass workers, Africa w ill march freely to express their power through the streets furniture workers, hospital writers, council workers workers from of our own towns and villages FREE MANDELA r
"In South Africa, a campaign of massive dimensions is in progress, in which the masses of the people throughout the country are de manding the release of p olitical leaders, but specially focussing VICTOR MATLOU on ANC leader, Nelson Mandela. It is a campaign which is part of the struggle of the people for I popular government, a campaign which is an expression of the demand for tile transfer of power to the majority of the people of South Africa. We call for international support for this canpaign. The situation . RELEASED in Africa today and in Southern Africa, the requirements of eventual peace, deimiid the active involvement and participation of the national leaders of the people in the crucial issues of today. Self-seeking, power-hungry friends o f our foes, camouflaged as national patriots, with a mission to confuse and divide the people, are inevitably rejected by the masses, who are fighting STATEMENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE RELEASE OF for genuine liberation, and w ill settle for nothing less." VfCTOft WTL5QT - President O.R. Tambo. Zinjiva Ntoondo, otherwise known as Victor Matlou, is free. At 13.10 hours on the I4/5/I980 he was received by the Lesotho Government from the kidnappers' den in.South Africa.
The African National Congress notes with satisfaction that another (Aunty Kate departs victory has been scored against racist arrogance and disregard for human liberty. A great victory has rewarded the principled and Tragedy struck the South African liberation movement in a car persistent efforts of the United Nations Organisation, the QAU, accident that took the lives of our canrades, Kate Molale and Peter various international organisations and particularly the Government Sithole, in May in Tanzania. and people of Lesotho as well as our own people in the cannon stru ggle against state-organised international piracy and banditry. The ANC Women's Secretariat in an obituary remembered Aunty Kate as a leading activist of the African National Congress, a national The release of Victor Matlou canes fiv e months after the South executive member of the ANC 'Vcraen' s League and one of the principal African fascist state, in complete disregard for international law organisers of the children's organisation, Masupatsela (Pioneers), and convention, kidnapped him at gunpoint on the Lesotho border initiated by the late Comrade Duma Nokwe under her guidance. after an international fligh t on which he was a passenger fran Maputo to Maseru had been forced to land in Bloemfontein, in the Her tragic death is a setback to the efforts of the ANC and its heart of racist South Africa. women's Section to provide our children and young militants with t t revolutionary parental guidance and care. Comrade Kate, uho herself llie African National Congress wishes to convey its sincerest had left three children in South Africa when she left to join gratitude to the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho and a ll inter Unfchonto we Sizwe, had been organising the newly-opened Charlotte net ional bodies and personages, who steadfastly refused to/counte Maxeke Residential Child Care Centre attached to SCMAFOO (Solcmon nance the violation of the sovereignty of Lesotho coupled'with Mahlangu Freedom College), after carrying out assignments on behalf criminal piracy, endangering'the lives of international air traffic of the movement in various countries, including a lengthy period as representative of the South African wcmen and.Secretary for Africa cn the Secretariat of the fcmen's International Democratic Federation We wish to reiterate that it is only through such principled consis tioo. tency and resolute action, only through steadfast Solidarity with ^ the oppressed and struggling people of South Africa and the over Her loss brings back memories of heroic struggles in which she throw of the apartheid regime that the dangers to international played a leading role, such as the Sophiatown anti-removal battle s , peace and sovereignty of states manat ing from racist South Africa the wonen's anti-pass demonstrations and the Congress of the People can be checked and banished from the lives of tte people of cur preparations that culminated in the adoption of the Freedon Charter. region and the international conramity. * % • It is a loss that w ill be felt throughout the battlefields of The same consistency and solidarity in action that has pressurised, South Africa and the international solidarity movement. It is a the racists to release our comrade Victor Matlou from the fascist loss, however, that w ill spur on the wranen and youth o f South Africa South African ja il must now prevail and be intensified to saw the in particular, to redouble their efforts to match her resolution, young lif e of Comrade Mncedisi Mange fraa Botha’s hansnett. 1 courage and sacrifice. The ANC, on behalf of our struggling people, dips its banner in TIIE STRUGGLE CONTIHJES! honour of a wraian who symbolised fr-'itin * mothyhood, and conveys VICTORY IS CERTAIN! A s deepest condolences to the bere;nnd family.CXir people say: . AMAfCLAI MAATLA! f 'Ih m n u o tMiwara thipa ka bolialeng" (Aunty Kate learnt fran her POWER TO T>C PEOPLE > „ ■ , people and fought their battles). ALFRED NZD VICTORY WILL BE HER IONOUR. SECRETARY GENERAL Amncla! V il a ! Power ! Page 4 SOLOMON MAHLANGU FREEDOM COLLEGE
THE TREE WILL STILL GROW A "The tombstone is going to be in the form of a tree trunk to sym bolise the ending of Solomon's life, but also to show that in spite of that the tree will still grow". - Mrs Martha Mahlangu comments on the tombstone just unveiled in memory of her son, our martyr Solomon Mahlangu. il£PtX> *'v |L\ Ht*. f*»ANkiry's VTt *ted* Axfc iS s* »0 «£ao ** ■.»•»* What South African school assembly opens with the singing of our ’ - i OQCV.-’ CU ACCOWWOWJK* national antliem, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, followed by the nens of r*.jr rmCHAMt>*THfc*CA#*jV pc«m a r the day and a clause of the Freedom Charter to mark the 25th U >asO* %aeusL tJCATWJHOfc. **«© * WOOL'*** • rw-a. anniversary of the Congress of the People? m Vwt ucaw MtwMMy >ei>. CWT- At the mcment no such school exists on our territory, but this is n .* * x .T Z A . a* n n i » T % the practice at the ANC's Solomon Mahlangu Freedem College in Tanzania, a model for our schools of the future when "The doors of learning and culture shall be opened!"
It is here that our revolutionary movenent is working out in prac tice the ideas our people have developed on education for libera tion, drawing on the experience of progressive countries and sister liberation movements like FRELIMD and MPLA, which also developed t*' - education theories during the armed struggle at schools c .de their countries or in liberated zones.
”We are trying to build a new personality in the College - a liberated personality", the school principal, Comrade Njobe, explains. "You know, the effect of colonial oppression was to ob scure the personality of our people, to depress the black man in such a way that he does not see himself as being worth anything. At the College .we also aim at building a new revolutionary perso nality in our youth which w ill be able to face the many problems of our struggle. The late Solomon .'iahlangu, sacrificed by the The Solcmon Mahlangu Freedom College is being built at Uazimbu, fascists on April 6, 1979, was a cadre who typified the calibre Tanzania, on 600 acres of land given to the ANC by the Tanzanian expected of our youth at the present stage of our revolution. He Government. The main sponsors are govenrnents and support groups symbolises the type of revolutionary' we expect to develop out of from the Scandinavian countries, Holland, -Canada ana other Western the College." countries. Various agencies of the United Nations like UNESCO and the UNHCR as well as same socialist countries are also involved, ftit Thus the experience which a student ^oes through -at 9CUAF00 differs the architects, builders, ackninistrative and teaching staff are a ll totally from that at an apartheid school, not only in terms of the ANC members. The student population at the mcraent is somewhat fluid immeasurably higher standard of education offered compared to owing to a constant inflow of post-matriculants who have to be placed 1 BantuColoured' or ’ Indian Education'. This firs t ANC school at other institutions of higher learning and technical training. provides an education which in no way resembles the expensive but Construction plans are geared for an intake of 300 in the current, distorted indoctrination which passes for 'White Education'. year. On caipletion the school w ill cater for up to 900, tuition and boarding. TTie R6.7 million complex w ill include a medical For a start, the approach to classroom learning is poles apart from centre, a sports stadium, cultural workshop and an amphitheatre. that taken in any South African school, or in Western education Already a creche is functioning. generally. There children are taught a ccnpetitive attitude to / studies, which is meant to prepare their minds for the cut-throat battle for existence in capitalist society. At SCMAPOO. on the other hand, pupils are encouraged to see learning as a-collective right and duty which benefits each individual and society as a wfwie. Thus the strongest students in a particular subject are SOMAFCO • ;ed to spend part of their free time tutoring their weakest C- -^smates so as to advance the level of the whole group. CURRICULUM Similarly the relationship between students and teachers at the College is intended to be one of comradeship in advancing a cannon purpose - liberation - through the learning process, as opposed to one of unwanted authority, of a teacher inpoeing scmething, on pupils Curriculun development workshops ccnprising panels of experts la who have no say in the content or attain 1st rat ion of their education. each subject have been selecting textbooks and ccnpiling teaching material, later these workshops w ill conduct research.in order to This is how Comrade Njobe describes the fuctioning of this attenpt develop nw material. While the students obviously cannot partici to create a'school of comradeship' : " I think the difference now is pate in.this highly specialised work, the workshops' proposed that here we have got a school which is a school for liberation and programmes are put to the students for ccnment before being which is seen as such by the students. Tliey shew enthusiasn by implemented. initiating and making suggestions on a nmtoer of things which they Below is the curriculun for Forms I-V (primary education w ill be would like to see in their school. For instance, take the whole provided at the school later on). ^ . sphere of culture here. This is really engineered by the students themselves - they are bringing up new ideas, they have composed Foras I.II. I ll songs (including a song dedicated to their patron hero, Solcmon Mahlangu) and poems which we are going to include in our curriculum a) Ccnpulsory of teaching” . English language and literature Perhaps more inportant to the pronotlon of a sp irit of cooperation Mathantics Physical science (Physics, Chemistry) _ . is the participation of students in the running of the school, through Cultural, P olitical, Disciplinary and Catering Cannittees. Biology ’ . ' The students themselves drew up a code o f conduct for the fxirposes Development of Societies of discipline. Violations of this code are dealt with by a lomsr History disciplinary cornuttee carposed of students only, reoarmending Geography action to a higher ccrmittee comprising sta ff and student represen Agricultural Science Health Science (not for examination) tatives. Physical Education (not for examination) Central to the success of this new collective approach of students ■ - f and teachers to education is political understanding and camitment. b) Optional (at least one from each group) In order to develop that understanding, two evenings per wek are devoted to discussion by pupils and'staff on current affairs and Group A -V“ ■ ■ -T- policy questions. *Hiis year, for exanple,. a thorough study of the Freedom Charter is being undertaken. In addition the sta ff meets Integrated anvlroaBerital study project separately once a week for p olitical discussions. A secretarial skill An organisational skill Conrade Njobe sura up the sp irit in which the African National A ocwnerclal s k ill Compress is entoarfcing on this major new vngture thus: "At the basis Journalian and public techniques of the whole concept of putting up a sctv-oVhere, are trying to concretise a protest, a protest against a ll that apartheid stands Group B: Vocational training, Production aspect (can*il3Mfr>^ tor." Vi. ■ \ .. - and one frcis: 308 p^S
Dressmaking / Tailoring Wboctaork/Carpentry Education and the Freedom Charter Metal work and p limbing Building/ building maintenance Electrical EIGHTH CLAUSE OF THE FREEPP '1 CHARTER: Printing Photography THE DOORS OF LEARNING AND CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED ! Home Economics Motor mechanics The government shall discover, develop and encourage Arts and crafts n ation al ta le n t fo r the enhancement o f our c u ltu ra l l i f e ; Group C: A sport and an African language*(desirable and not for exam.) A ll the c u ltu ra l treasures o f mankind s h a ll be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas, and contact with Forms IV and V. * the classification of Vernacular Languages other lands; under Grou>> C is temporary pending the a) Compulsory procurement of competent teachers and The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to relevant teaching aids. love their people and their culture, to honour human English language brotherhood, liberty and peace; ?!athematics History Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and Development of societies equal for all children; b) Any two of the following: Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarships Physics (not to be taken with Physical Science) awarded on the basis o f m erit; Chemistry ( not to be taken with physical science) Biology Adult illiteracy shall be ended by a massive state Physical science education plan; Agricultural science Teachers shall have all the rights of other citizens; ; least one of the following: The colour bar in cultural life , in sport and in educa Applied mathematics tion shall be abolished. Geography English literature d) Sot for examination. Participation in production ( ccnpulsory) including one subject from each of the groups A and B (Forms I , I I , HI) ______------— ------
RADIO FREEDOM IS NOW BROADCASTINS REGULAR PROGRAMMES DIRECTED AT THE WHITE COMMUNITY. RADIO LUSAKA CARRIES THESE PROGRAMMES EVERY MONDAY BETWEEN 7.15 AND 5PM. HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF TOE ANC IN TOE WHITE COMMUNITY BY PASSING ON THIS INFORMATION BY WORD OF MOUTH OR OTHER MEANS.______MAYIBUYE BRIEFS
Another one down!
rather racist myth has been flushed down the gutter. Radio • Deutsche Welle, voice of the Federal Republic o f Germany, reports that historic artefacts and remains of ancient villages that w re discovered as early as the 1940’s but could not be dated with precision, have now been found to establish the presence ofQantu- speaking*peoples in South Africa from as early as 270AD. Helsinki: Mid-decade Yemen's Conference
An ANC 'Vcmen's delegation that included Mankekulu Mahlangu, former secretary of the Ccnmittee of 10 who recently left South Africa, participated in the Helsinki Seminar preparatory to the Inter national Mid-decade Women's Conference scheduled for June 1980 in Copenhagen. Papers on the situation and struggle of wemen in South Africa were presented. ANC history in photographs
TTie Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement has organised a photographic exhibition at an Amsterdam gallery featuring the work of Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and Congress activist and former p olitical prisoner. The irain theme of the exhibition is ANC activity in the 50's and 60's. Lusaka: Prayers for Justice and Peace BOTHA’S U.S. COUSINS Zambian President Kaunda was amongst dignitarie^ attending an inter- denaninational prayer meeting at Lusaka’s Anglican Cathedra] on May Ilth. Amidst freedom songs by the ANC choir, the struggle The scene above, a ll too familiar in Scwth Africa, in fact o f South Africa was remembered in prayers, later in the same month from the United States city of Miami. Inhabitants'of Liberty Cl^y, the ruling United National Independence Party (t.'N'IP) organised a the black ghetto in Miami, revolted in protest at the acquittal _ week o f solidarity with the struggling peoples o f Southern Africa. by an all-white jury of four white policemen charged with the Par es Salaam: Literature in struggle k illin g of a black insurance executive. 16 people «ere killed and ' x scores injured. US President Jinny Carter was greeted with flyln r Preparations by the ANC to launch a literary journal are reported stones, bottles and jeers of "Hail to the chief racist"- *toeil he to be progressing satisfactorily. The jcumal is intended to cater tried to v is it the ghetto. . for existing and budding talent within the national' liberation Carter claims to be concerned about the so-called lack of tKnaa ■ - movement including its army, Urkhonto we Sizwe. rights in socialist and anti-inperialist countries, yet be la heading a system which denies the most elotntary hunan rights to , .New York m illion* of his people, and especially tbo ulack Americans the' right to work, for exanple: in 1976 60% of Afn>-Aeericeee«ere SAP00 (the South African Freedom Ccnmittee in the United States) unemployed. Racisn is used by US business to rrake nore profit* Bp- i Is presenting Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) and Hugh Mnsekela in paying black workers le s s ^ in whites, consigning tha» to the least a gallery of top US and South African artists at the June I6/2S desirable and lowest paid jSbs, and denying them acceea to ocrrmanoration in New York City. Uac=3=m=i , ■ t*Tl Pace 6
NELSON MANDELA SAYS
UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT O N !
The evils, the cruelty and the inhumanity of apartheid have been there from its inception. And "The vfrican National Congress brmjs this URGENT C A L L TO U N IT Y AND MASS ACTION all Blacks - Africans, Coloureds and Indians - have opposed it all along the line. What is now hv -nliiici! prisoners on Robfcen Island to ill patriots o ( our motherland Sctoon Mandela J *l 1 unmistakeable. what the current * i » * o f unrest has sharply highlighted is thie: that despite ail hundreds of our comrades l u « ™en in ' I " rac“ < regime s Pnso“ for mo" 1 ’ ihe window-dressing and smooch talk, apartheid has become intolerable. THIS MESSAGE BY NELSON MANDELA ADDRESSED TO THE STRUGGLING MASSES OF OUR COUNTRY WAS WRITTEN TO DEAL WITH THE PRESENT CRISIS GRIPPING fhi* awareness reaches over and beyond the particulars of our enslavement. The measure of OUR ENEMY AND IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SOWETO UPRISINGS. II »a, smuggled ihis truth it the recognition by our people that undeT apartheid our lives, individually and coOect- out of Robben Island prison under very difficult condition, and has take,,ow r • - V ™ " ” itely, count for nothing. reach us. Nonetheless we Believe the message remains lieih and valid and should he presented to our people. His call to unity and mass action Is of particular importance in this The Year UNITE! o f the Charter - the 25th anniversary ol the Freedom Charter. The ANC urges you lo respond to this calland make 1980 a year o f united mass struggle." We face an evil that is deep-rooted, an enemy entrti’ ched and determined not to yield. Oar inarch to freedom is long and difficult. But both within *rd beyond our borders the prospects OLIVER TAMBO PKtSIIII NT. ANC. of victory gro* brutht.
The first condition for victory is Black unity. Every effort to divide the Blacks, to woo and pit one Black group against another, must be vporously repulsed. Our people - African. Coloured. Indian and democratic whites - must be united into a suigle massive and solid wall o f reastaaca. MANDELA SAYS:- of unitea mass action. Our struggle is growing sharper. This ia no time for the luxury o f division and disunity. At all levels and in every walk of life we must closn ranks. Within the ranks of the people differences RAC1STS RULE BY THE GUN! must be submerged to the achievement of a single goal - the complete overthrow of Apartheid and race domination.
The sun has played » ■ " * £ * “ VICTORY IS CERTAIN!
The revulsion o f the world against apartheid is growing and the frontiers o f white supremacy are shrinking. Mozambique and Angola are free and the war o f liberation gathers force in Nami iS rtiS W r S -TS S .u. .he f o e , of th « - has b * . trained on the bia and Zimbabwe The soil o f our country is destined to be the scene o f the fiercest fight and African people. and the sharpest battles to rid our continent o f the last vestiges o f White minority rule.
ssrsse rr s k r s ^ s ^ m k s The world is on our side. The O A U , the UN and the Anti-Apartheid move meat continue to tut tonal formulae, deceptive phrases and playing with words. put pressure on the racist rulers of our country Every effort to isolate South Africa adds strength to our struggle. A| k (| k our m u H le . o u t s * The rank o U u n fire and the country, much has been achieved, much re again torts aside tint veil. Spread acrou the tace ol oi M im ing hundreds of Black mains to be done. But victory is certain! army and police have been P ^ n n g • • „ llM 4 y iurpl« , that of all pafl men. women and children. The toll oi me u ™ . haisman. The WF. SALUTE A L L OF YOU! massacres earned out by this n *tn «. • * - Hippo,the FN rifle and tke g»llo«s are M true s v n * t * . THes. reisum We who are confined within the grey walls o f the eveready aolutusn o f the race-nmd rulers of South Africa. Pretoria regime’s prisons reach out to our people. With- you we count those who have prnthed by VAGUE PROMISES. GREATER REPRESSION...... means of the gun and the hangman s rope. We salute all of you - th* living, the injured and the dead In the ™ d « of IS . p r e « t while « , p . p l i court .h . d e«l and nune the injt— . they For you have dared to rise up against the tyrant s ask themselves: What bea ahead? might.
From our ~ l ~ s - - « * P « ^ Even as we bow at their graves we remember this: usg over his rifle: thews ia the sfim that nus.es the fiugertha. caresses the t r ^ e * toLirTcAU The dead live on as martyrs in our beam aad raudt. I a reproach to our disanity and the host ot short Vague promnes, tinkenngs with the machinery of f w w n w * omingt that accompany divisions among the oppre 4 part he id. constitution juggling. masaee arre«i and STIU. ssed. a spur to our efforts to close ranks, aad a detentions side by side with renewed overtures aimed \ ,t weakening and forest.ll.ng the unity of u» Blacks r that the freedom of ou people is yet to be won. and dividing the forces of chan*e - th e * are the fixed paths along which they will move. For they are neither We face the future with confidence. For the guns that serve apartheid cannoTrender it uncon capable nor willing to heed the verdict of the masses querable. Those who Hvu by the gun shall pensh by the gun. of our people. [U n ite THE VERDICT OF JUNE 16 UNITE! That verdict is loud and draft Ap.rtk.id haa fa iW . Due people remain unequivocal in its rejection, tie young and the old. parent and child. eD reject it. MOBILISE! At 'he forefront of Ihii 1976/77 wave o f unreal were our students and youth. They come from the utueer- sitics. schools and even the primary schools. They are the products of the regime's hated Bantu FIGHT ON! V ducat ion and tribal universities. They are a genera- uon whose whole education has been under the diabo lical design of ihe racists to poison the minds and Between the anvil of united mass action aad the hammer o f the armed tfnogte on shaft a brainwash our children into docile subjects of apartheid and white minority racist rule. - ' Apartheid rule But after more than 20 years of Bantu tducaiion the circte is closed and nothing demon strates the utter bankruptcy of apartheid as the revolt AMANOLA NGAMCTHU! MATLA HI A HONAI of o u t youth.
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SINCE 1936 MORE THAN 25,000 AFRICANS HAVE DIED ON THE GOLDMINES ALONE
"The steel beam supporting the double-decker cage Last year the mining exploiters and the regime gained well over snapped and plunmeted with a loud roar towards R300.000 million from the sales of gold alone. Nothing, however, has the bottom 2Km away. At the lowest shaft station improved in our working conditions. Our wages remain the same tfiilst workers scrambled for cover. The cage shattered fooo prices, rent and bus fares sky-rocket. Instead the regime is on inpact, shrank to a height of less than one using the roney firm our sweat and to il to increase the wages of the metre, sending pieces of human flesh in a ll direc- fascist soldiers, the police and its c iv il servants. tio n s ....* ■i There has been a new record rise in the defence budget from RI.6 Ihe place was Vaal Reefs Goldnine near Klerksdorp. The time - b illion to R2.3 b illion for the financial year; and tax cuts have dawn, 27th March, 1980. The cage was carrying 31 raineworkers: 28 African and 3 white. None of them survived. A week later been introduced, to the comfort of the mine-bosses and other aiploy- the African miners were buried in a mass grave. On the 10th of ers. And at this period of the gold rush, mines which were declared April, the mine bosses organised a memorial service where dangerous even by South African standards, are being reopened) they shed crocodile tears at losing such diligent 'boys’ . Hie shock waves of the crash - like many before and since - In the just, democratic South Africa of tonorrow - the Saith Africa reached the plush offices of the minecnvners and beyond. But for of the Freedom Charter - this shall not happen. "The mineral wealth the bosses the rumbling has long since died down. New workers beneath the soil,th e banks and monopoly industry shall be transfer w ill be found in the'homelands' to replace the dead. The de- red to the ownership of the people as a whole.. The safety of the pejjdanto w ill be paid their compensation' - three quarters of working people at their workplaces shall be guaranteed by law. what the mineworkers used to earn before the'unfortunate' ii.cident. Gold prices are as high as ever... The time to fight for this type of society is NCW. We nust rise and challenge this nurderous and exploitative systan! Start now: But, rest assured, we the bereaved shall not forget. The shock raves of that crash- have increased our resolve to ensure that * iiust also double as a step tonards closing the imnense gap between such acts of murder are put to an end once and for a ll. Hie black ?nd white miners' wages. deaths of our fellow workers and brothers injects us with new vigour to danand and fight for the imncdiate overthrow of the * demand that Africans be trained as inspectors of nachines and apartheid system. mines.
The recent accident at the Vaal ITeefs Gold mine, like muiy * demand more safety measures for African workers. other tragedies on the mines, was a result of negligence on the part of the mineowners. Tlie cage in which the miners died did * demand to stay with your families at your place of work. not have an energency braking device. It was supposed to have \ one. Safety engineers are supposed to_check equipment regularly To achieve these minimun.demands, we must be organised in the mines. for faults. They had not. Foim shaft oonmittees! Unite into an African Mineworkers’ Union!
FORWARD TO VICTORY! the last 12 months alone, 66 mineworkers have lost their lives at me same mine. More shocking evidence, of premeditated cold-blooded nurder, has filtered through from ccoinissions that are set up now and then to investigate accidents. Last year the production manager of Vaal Reefs told the court at the tr ia l of two white miners: EXPLOITATION !!! * that David Bosch and Frederick Hum, white employees at the mine, might have been responsible for the fatal fir e that resulted ~ in the death of 41 miners in December 1978, and * that there had been previous cases of arson by white workers in the mines. The situation at Vaal Reefs is a reflection o f the general state of affairs in South African mines. Since 1936 mare than 25,000 Africans have died on the goldnines alone, and more than a million have been disabled. Even the regime 1-s Department of Mines has admitted that the rate of mine accidents is on the increase. I f this is to be reduced, the department went further to say in its report last year, safety measures must be inproved. Perhaps an unwitting adnission oo their part that nothing is being done.
Wien we derand state intervention on safety measures, we are asked: "How can the government interfere in the normal operation o f free enterprise?" Of course, we know that Botha and his cronies own large amounts of stores in the mining industry and that the regime collects billlonss of rands in taxes from the Oppenheimers.We know that these acci dents are a direct result of the laws of the apartheid state and the so-called free enterprise system. After all, the duty of the racist regime is to protect the interests of 'the exploiters and the privileges'of the white minority.
Due to the hated migratory labour system, African recruits to the mines are trained for only four to eight days, and only a few hcurs a t theoe are dedicated to safety instruction. The job reservation laws prevent Africans*fro* becaning ispectors of nfichines and wjrks In the nines - a System *wrebv Africans are not allowed to take care of their own safety, tut have to li^ve their lives at the mercy of fascist white Inspectors. *e know that the mineowners consider it a waste of precious profit to introduce such measures as would redoes the matter of rack fa lls , pressure Ixirsts, flooding, gas explosions, heat strokes, lung infections... [■age, 3. 3 ! !
the white man fear danocracy. But this fear cannot be allcwd to . stand in the way of the only solution which w ill guarantee racial harrony and freedom for a ll. P olitical division based on colour Is Year of the Charter entirely a r tific ia l and when it disappears, so w ill domination of one group by another." THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN! Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws. It is only when the racist and the exploiter are forcibly removed All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of from the backs and necks of our people tliat the people can repos sess their'birthright to land liberty and peace.. .enjoying equal the country. The rights of the peeple shall be the same, regardless of race, rights and opportunities"; only then w ill a ll the people have fu ll colour or sex. self-determination. — All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-govern- Any other talk, such as "removing hurtful discrimination" as Butcher Botha likes to say, is only intended to lure us onto the n e n t . "shifting of illusion" as Mandela called them in 1953, when Whereas the preamble to the Freedom Charter determines the question exposing the false hopes that uiere dangled in front of our people, of who constitutes the people of South Africa and identifies the in order to lu ll them into acquiescing in their own continued root cause of tile injustice presently prevailing in our country, oppression and to gain time for consolidation by the racists. Botha the firs t clause formulates "the alternative to this gross injustice talks of removing "hurtful discrimination" - as i f there can ever and presents the perspective for which the people are called upon be any discrimination that does not hurt: to struggle and are now struggling. Ihe preamble states that South Africa belongs to a ll who liv e in it - a ll equals. It identifies Two years after Mandela's warning,.in 1955, the people clearly the root cause of injustice in our society as that of a government formulated their demands, amongst which they demanded that they - exercising authority without the consent and w ill of the people; a the people - shall govern.In this Year of the Charter our people goverrrent based on the racial denial of our birthright,on the are joining new battles with the added experience of our brother expropriation of our land and liberty, and consequently the denial people of Zimbabwe, who through unity and saci-iflce never lost of peace. sight of the goal of genuine national, liberation. We ranarber not only the sands but whole deserts of illusion that vrere laid out in Is it then enough to know that we have been robbed of our birth front of the Zimbabwean people's struggle in the form of a ll kinds right, our land and liberty, that have to struggle side by side o f’white papers', 'proposals' and 'settlanents'. for its restoration?
Hie firs t clause of the Charter demonstrates that this simple Through adherence to principle and determination, through unity in knowledge and resolve are not snough to guide our struggle. If v.e struggle, organisation and sacrifice, the people have scored a arc against something, we nust at the same time clearly define our rrajor victors' over the forces of reaction in Zimbabwe. It is only alternative. Therefore, i f we are against a government that is not through the same determination, unity, organisation and sacrifice based on the w ill of the people i t is only right that we should that our people w ill achieve their demands as they are laid down struggle for a people's government, freely and democratically' in the Freedom Charter. constituted - a government constituted on the basis of the right of every South African to elect or be elected to all organs of An old saying goes that you cannot hoodwink a ll the people a ll the state power, a government chosen on the basis of one person, one time. Butcher Botha w ill do well to note this. We w ill not be hood vote. winked and w ill fight, organised and led by our fighting vanguard - Hie Freedom Charter, in its firs t clause, says: "The EJgople shall the African National Congress. Hie Charter is our guide, the Ait Govern!" It goes further to state who the people are, and how they our organisation and Imkhonto our striking force.______• shall govern: "Every nan and -■man shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for a ll bodies which make laws . Every mar. and unman, without distinction on grounds of colour, race, sex S.A’s Tri-Parliament Hoax or belief. Hie three new parliaments - for whites, 'Coloured aj.i A^iaua* - The racial p olitical domination that was substituted for our envisaged in the regime's constitutional changes, \>ould be mere people's p olitical rights by colonialism, the Bantustans that seek talking shops". former Justice Minister Kruger once assured uTmake our people accept perpetual disenfranchisement and home- Nationalist Party supporters in a leaked speech to a closed meeting- lessness, the qualified vote proferred by the self-interested Pov.er, he said, would be wielded by the executive president 7 wbo, liberal, the 'consultation' and so-called pov.er-sharing propounded uecause of the composition of the presidential electoral college, by the old and new apologists of colonial and racial injustice v.lll always be a white person. v.ithin South Africa and abroad - do not and cannot satisfy the fundamental right and need of our people to determine the form and It is no wonder that our people have rejected with utter scorn the content of their state and government. fir s t phase of this grandiose 'constitutional reform': the President's Council proposed in the interim report of the Schle— Not only shall all South Africans have the right to vote for and to busch Ccnmission. This is to be a purely advisory body which w ill stand for all organs of state but "all people shall be entitled corpile reports on "matters of public interest" for presentation to take part in the actoanistration of the country". The peopie to(the white) parliament. Secondly, there is to be a separate shall not simply cast a periodic vote, leaving the administration council, corrposed solely of Africans, which ma£ be consulted by of the country to sane technocratic e lite , twt shall organise and the President's Council. aiininister, from grass-roots level, all affairs pertaining to their lives and their country. Jaturally, no self-respecting black person has given a second thought to this miserable carrot.Our enany is extremely naive to The education of our children, our health, housing, sanitation and inagine that after we haw just demolished the elected CSC and transport, our labour and recreation, our cultural expression and the intended SAIC, which had a fraudulent sanblance of legislative creation - a ll these and other matters directly affecting the lives power, we could ever be taken in by this council to advise the of our people, nust be actodnistered by the people themselves, chief of the white racists! directly and through their elected representative bodies. Hie security trade, development and international relations of our Except for a few state servants who have to satisfy their pay country nust be borne and directed by cur people thsnselves, and master, the vast majority of the "Coloured" and "Asian" people actainistered, through organs that they themselves have constituted have dismissed the whole'three-tier’ parliament idea for one main and participate in. reason: that i t fa ils to meet the aspirations of the oppressed people. Together with the African masses, they are dananding a In pursuance of a ll the above, the Freedom Charter in its firs t popular democratic government based on one person, one vote. The clause.states that: "A ll bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, only thing that is new in the three-tier plan is that white dam councils and authorities shall be replaced by denocratic organs nation is being given an elaborate disguise in the hope of giving of self-goverrment".The creations of racist rule that have been the appearance o f a radical sh ift tc*ards ' pcmex'-sharlng* with established to force our people to administer their c«n oppression the "Coloured" and "Indian" camunities. , . j , and exploitation nust be dianntled in toto. Hie organs of govern ment and state, such as the parliament, provincial and local councils, the amy, police and judiciary which are presently Hie regine's manoeuvres are totally irrelevant to our paopla, and instnmnts of racist appronoloc, rust be dismantled and recreated cane far too late in the day, at a t i n , vrfien th»"Colcuiwi" and through a damcratic process under *iich "the rights of a ll people "Indian" students and their parents are on the w e b together with shall be the a u ra . regardless of race, oolcur or sex". their African oonpatrio ts , in revolt against a gutter «tacatlc*i and the apartheid system as a whole-: at a tine #»n the black .. What the firs t c la u » of the Charter is demanding, therefore, is people and an increasing nurtaer of white democrats are r a llying that the people nust not only be given a say in the establishment, around Ccmrade Nelson Mandela and the ideala he ngjreaeBWs -the constitution and condition of all lnstnments of gwernment and ideals of the Freedom Charter. They ocw at a time itoen, la the state administration, but that they nust tharaelveebeactively words of President O.R. TSnto, -'.V/'' engaged in a ll spheres and p rocew s of national lif e and develop "Hie granite m il of Verwoerdian timea baa callapaed; t h e — - - ment . Into which the whlte voters gathered at U » ca ll of John Vorater _ rv— the » the najcrity shew Id determine and administer in the general election o f Noueniier 1977 haa been «handfjted their needs ia any aay threats* or encroach on the Interests or dangerous death trap; detention, tot lure, ^V^ l i o a a it, bans, rlahta a t otleH ? *1 1 1 the attainment of fu ll rights by the majority massacres, assassinations, hangings and lUgh.Treason chama . endMcer 'M inorities'? The opposite is the truth. Hie only served to swell the tide of revelation. ^ flwntlc «aitfc tor ^ racist nust fas sate to run. U » stoo*e stopped and the exploiter an immediate solution to the growing crisis of apartheid . ... — on this there can betPD discussion. Mandela put thrown up such weird ideaa aa the three tie r parji— >t< MCOg _-C.i~.tl.. i t tr ia l in 1964 wfr,V he said: "We want equal fantasies as a constellation of black statee and hafilaaa i IT M iitic a l I I 111, li mbi without Lhon cur d isabilities w ill be a ll ■-h.inori and enslaved to white minority damnat ion. . - . , r i-----*m . v i i x ]s revolutionary to the whites In this those who seek a genuine solution, there la an iiaamrl;* m ke^ CHARIER." < YIBUYE 312 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
MAYIBUYE NUMBER 3 Journal of the African National Congress 1982, YEAR OF UNITY IN ACTION. NITE AND FIGHT FOR REAL HESS FREEDOM Contact and Forward emer “The rdian is first on the Nationalist Party’s list. In this issue But the battle now joined ged and continued to echo nil fight for its own life, the voice of the voteless Maputo Summit...... Page 2 ns^ gjore thin the struggle of a single newspaper to majority. In 1963, with the means that.the democrats, the best sons and banning of Spark and Fight Rabie.------Page 3 i!e r^mdple of the Fre- daughters of the South Afri ing Talk, the last vestiges of Sanctions Page 6 ri of the Press is m en* can people. the freedom of the press died a bloody death in South openly, insolently, by Rand Revolt...... Page 7 i who have no respect Guardian Banned Africa. It became and rema freedom; men who are ins still an ideal for which Rents...... —...... Page 8 On the 18th of May, 19- all patriots fight, an ideal d with the deepest stain 52, The Guardian was ban which can only be fully rea Nazism, dictatorship and ned by a government procla* lised through the destruction scope and depth, efficiency evil doctrine o f inequa- mation under the pretext of the fascist regime and its and popularity. This it has that it was an organ of the replacement by a government achieved underground— Vuk- These words appear in Communist Party. Everythin* of the people. ani-Awake, Workers' Unity, Guardian of TTiursday The Guardian said in its def Mayibuye, Voice o f Women, 18th of October, 1951. ence and in the defence of Democratic Press Forwardf Youth), Inkululeko, i fascist Nationalist Party the last vestiges of the free In commemorating these the African Communist and me had just started to dom of the press in South tragic .events all patriots are many more. Along its path, the muscles of its destr- \frica was ignored by the the democratic press contir inspired by the fact that the ive paw to attack with fascists. Despite the ban, the nues to mobilise millions into truly democratic press did isralleted viciousness the democratic press did struggle the ANC underground, into not perish at the hands of :dom of bought and exp on. Under the difficult con Umkhonto we Sizwe and for the fascists. It has not only ression-— our land. The ditions of police harrassment, a clearer understanding of survived the regime’s blova, orious Suppression of bannings of patriotic journa the situation obtaining in but has continued to develop r>'—'nism Act had already lists and of the newspapeis • ♦ nil n f Amm ‘snarlr over the past 19 -years in Continued on Page 4 Page 2 Maputo Summit:- To reinforce united action!
Below we reproduce the communique released after the meeting of leaders of the frontline states—United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Zambia, People's Republic of Angola, Re public of Botswana, People’s Republic of Mozambique and Republic of Zimbabwe—and the African National Congresa and the South Weat Africa People’s Organisation.
The Heads of State and Government of the Fron that in South Africa under tline States and the Presidents of SWAPO and ANC the leadership of the ANC, (South Africa) met in Maputo, the People’s Republic of the people through strikes Mozambique from the 6th to the 7th March 19§2, to and armed actions are vigo rously rising against apart analyse the current situation in Southern Africa. can regime to carry out a heid. The Frontline States sum The occupation of areas coup d’etat in that country. mit noted the ever-increasing in the southern part of the Reenforce Co-ordination — To condemn the support aggressiveness of imperialism People’s Republic of Angola, granted by western powers perpetrated by the fascist by the Pretoria fascist for The Heads of State and to the apartheid regime thro regime of South Africa, its ces and the attempt to pro Government of the Frontline ugh the sale of arms, the fi instrument of aggression. The mote the UNITA puppets States decided: nancial and economic levera invasions and military aggres aims at creating an interna — To reinforce their coordi ge, the transfer of technology, sions, the utilisation of arm tional precedent which could nated action of defence in including nuclear technology. ed bandits and agents, the be made applicable to any order to stop the racist regi of the countries in the region. - To undertake actions at acts of sabotage and econo me of Pretoria from contin The African people have a the level of international or mic blackmail, the massive uing its acts of military agg and subversive propaganda right to expect a vigourous ganisations and other fora ression and economic sabotage campaigns conducted by So reaction from the internati with a view to mibilising against the free and indepe support for the struggle of uth Africa are proof that onal community which sho ndent states of the region there is currently an undec uld condemn and demand the Namibian and South Af and force it to withdraw its rican peoples as well as den lared war situation engende the immediate cessation of occupying forces from the red and supported by South this intolerable violation of ouncing, condemning, and People’s Republic of Angola. Africa. sovereignty and territorial isolating the South African integrity of a member state — To reinforce thair bilateral apartheid regime in all sphe Development Plans of the OAU and the United and regional cooperation in res. Nations. the diplomatic, economic, These manouvres are aim The Frontline States Sum* military and information New Phenomenon ed at increasing our depende mit noted with satisfaction fields. nce of South Africa, for sta that as a direct response to The Heads of State and — To intensify their material Government of the Frontline lling the harmonious applica the ever-increasing acts of and diplomatic support for tion of our development countries condemn the new repression and crimes com- the liberation movements— plans and delaying at all phenomenon employed by mited by the Pretoria regime, SWAPO of Namibia and ANC costs the independence of the people of Namibia under South Africa which consists of South Africa, so that they in preparing, financing and Namibia and preventing the the leadership of SWAPO are can intensify the armed stru liberation of the South Afri intensifying the liberation training armed banditi to ggle for the attainm ent of destabilise the independent can people. struggle in the country and national independence for Southern African countries. their peoples. The Heads of State of the r 1 LISTEN TO — To demand the integral Frontline countries warmly implementation of the UN congratulated Prime Minister Security Council Resolution Robert Gabriel Mugabe for mm r u n 435 (78) in order to accele having successfully foiled the rate the withdrawal of the attempts at destabilising VOICE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND South African occupying for peace and security in Zimba UMKHONTO WE SIZWE, THE PEOPLE’S ARMY ces and the holding of free bwe.. : •: .. Radio Tanzania and fair elections leading to • * *7*? External Service, Dar es Salaam, on: real independence in Namibia. A LUTA C0NTINUA1 1S43S KHz, 19mb shortwave; 9680 KHz, 31 mb shortwave Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 8.15pm (S. A. time) — To salute the government Maputo, Mjucfc 7, 1982. j r e Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays at 6.13am (S.-A. time) of Seychelles for the defeat ;V v inflicted on the mercenary ' " f »<,•*«» • Jw»v- M id a p ^ v band sent by the South Afri- Si 35 KHz, 49mb shortwave and SOI 0 KHz shortwave, • ■' f 1 ,- «? h & k . ____ " v •’ 7.10 — 9 .30pm dally. J t m m HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF THE Ethiopia PASS MAY1BUYF OW- 9545 KHz, 31 mb shortwave; 9.30 - 10.00pm dally.
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I Rahie: The -----5 5 Commission------rtf ntial the preservation of many of the present ‘security laws’ such as the Terrorism and Sabotage Acts and the consolidation of the rest into three main acts.
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In typical fashion, the I r. ourners i commission gives reasons 1 at Aggett'i which sound humanitarian I funeral: for recommending more fas The con cist methods of fighting aga cessions” _ inst the liberation moveme proposed | nt. For instance, it says that Iby Rabie new definitions must be giv could not { en to “communism, terrori .ave his sm, sabotage and subversion | life! in order to protect innocent country. However, Rabie and P — Rabie Commission's report on ‘security laws’ has people”. In the same breath, his commissioners do admit once - ,re demonstrated the utter futility of relying on it calls on the fascist regime that South Africa is in a to legislate that anyone who racist commissions for any improvement in our conditions. state of war and that this fails to inform on his friends all previous commissions, pt is being made to lelude will intensify in the “forsee- or relatives whom she/he n edict ably recommended the world into believing that able future”. suspects to be engaged in the There would be no fear .he tightening of the fascist there is peace and stability above activities should be of the war intensifying if security laws’, through the in the country. In order to charged for the same activi there was no force to see to introduction of harsher rep lend credibility to its claims ties. As a result, more and its intensification. That force ressive measures and, for int that the recommendations more innocent people will ts the majority of the South ernational consumption, dec are for the good of the maj be harrassed, detained, imp Africa people led by the orated the recommendations ority of the people, the com risoned and murdered. ANC. It is thus with this While the fringes of the with a few deceptive ‘impro mission claims that the- Afri- oan National Congress enjoys knowledge that the racist vements". commission declared as esse Continued on Page 5 As in the past, an attem minority support inside the A HISTORIC PACT
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Dr. Dadoo and Mandela during act as one solid army of revolution to defeat the racist regime and restore power int Defiance Campaign in 1952. the hands of the people. This Joint Meeting is African Trade Unions under therefore of the opinion that that for the future progress, the Industrial Conciliation This Joint Meeting bet for the attainment of these ween the representatives of 1 goodwill, good race relations, Act. and for the building of a objects it is urgently necess the African National Cong 3) The removal of all land ary that a vigorous campa ress and the Natal and Tran united, greater and free South Africa, full franchise restrictions against non-Euro ign be immediately launched svaal Indian Congresses, hav peans and the provision of and that every effort be ing fully realised the urgency rights must be extended to ail sections of the South adequate housing facilities made to compel the Union of co-operation between the for all non-Europeans. Government to implement African people, and to this non-European peoples and the United Nations’ decisions end this Joint Meeting pled 4) The extension of free and other democratic forces for and to treat the non-Europ ges the fullest co-operation compulsory education to non- the attainment of basic ean peoples in South Africa between the African and Europeans. human rights and full citize in comformity with the prin Indian peoples and appeals nship for all section! of the 5) Guaranteeing freedom of ciples of the United Nations to all democratic and freed South African people, has movement and the abolition om-loving citizens of South Charter. resolved that a Joint Decla of Pass Laws against the This Joint Meeting further Africa to support fully and ration of Co-operation is African people and the Pro- resolves to meet from time to co-operate in this struggle, imperative for the working rincial barriers against Indi time to implement this decla for: o u t o f a practical basis of ans. ration and to take active co-operation bet«*en the 1) Full Franchise *) And the removal of all steps in proceeding with the National Organisation* of 2). Equal Economic and Ind discriminatory and oppressive campaign. the non-European peoples. legislations from the Union’s ustrial rights and opportuni MARCH 9, 1947. This Joint Meeting deda- Statute Book. res its sincereet conviction ties and the recognition of_ Unite and fight for real Pre ______.. j 4 k . __ _ ««____i__ a- ___ ii ------our country and o f the way “moderate majority”, “owned forward. by blacks” very much remi The fascists were never nds us of Pace, the atte IP GOVERNMENT refuses n a t io n a l c o n v e n t satisfied with the outlawing mpt to buy Drum and other of the truly democratic press. newspapers and magazines Since 1963, Pretoria has both at home and abroad. acted many a time against As the Sowetan asked in its ALL-IN CONFEKEK newspapers that sought to editorial, “Does the commi express the aspirations o f. ssion really believe that bla the people and to report tra- cks are so dumb that the thfully about their plight. government can determine CALLS FOR------Pro Veritate, Varsity, The for them which newspapers World, Post and many other to read?” The black commu newspapers and magazines nity knows fully well that ACTION Vof ?. H*. : * ! » ! ■ < rn to O J A ktNn have been silenced; scores newspapers which reflect their o f journalists have been det aspirations are banned; that Mass Demonstrations On Eve ained, tortured, imprisoned, journalists who stand with banned and banished. As the people are harrasaed. In of Republic
The Guardian stated more deed, the true “black press” m * h a M- p. *m m m ______than 30 years ago, the battle is the democratic press that TH E ALL AFRICAN PCOfLTS CONFERENCE HELD AT PfETDuZSnZMIKO LAST SATURDAY WAS A N UNQ U ALIFIED SUCCESS. its survival meant “ more has been forced to function man the struggle o f a single underground; the press Which newspaper to survive” . It is propagates the ideas of libe a battle against fascism, a ration with which the black battle for the freedom o f majority and a growing num the people. ber of democratic whites Having outlawed the pop identify and are struggling ular press, suppressed the for. legal press through its strin gent ‘security’ legislation Struggle Intensifies from reporting objectively about the situation in the This is the struggle which country, the Pretoria regime’s the people have intensified appetite foi total control on all fronts and shall conti remains insatiable. Like all nue to intensify until final fascists they brook no oppo victory. If there is much that sition whatsoever, however has incensed the regime in limited it may be. As a result the legal press, it is the lin* they set up the Steyn Com- ited coverage that these new TREASON TRIAL /, mision whose findings have spapers have given to this END THIS WEE been used to draft the noto objective situation. Journali fp* w ' OOO i VAC AQJOLWXtn m ukiui TM* ntmanaH CAM LAfT ng«_TW»mOAV tm TUMOR- 71Uo/aX» rious bill against the press. sts, like the rest of the Sou FOUR AMO A HALT EY1QCM* AMP. A jO U W K T T W MO CAM MIGHT TMUW.MMM, > th African people are affec The tmOmm bttoe m m tto Dtoaca wttn A to *cM A. Factor « ted by fascism in South Af Attractive Pliraaea to m m m m d ii|i — i tm m t o y lor m i^ptatw toHsl^rwy rica, and many of them rea Tto Crown H f w M to* toato tim d m to m M a to , The (Mtora taa I* U— — to. Ttoi a tto — ato ...... orf ito Otoao. a m Z t o V S e ft Clothed in the most attracti waa m call oa ito 0 > a l i a n a thr - p i ...... arfw to to •* lise that it would be crimi »to f > awaliJl,.aawi » « » t o faw to to I ve o f phrases, the bill essent nal to close their eye* to T rap a to to to ««^ ito MAYIBUYE NUMBER 3 (Supplement) Journal o f the African National Congress 1982, YEAR OF UNITY IN ACTION. Victory is within our grasp. Comrade President Samora Moises Machel, President of the FRELIMO PARTY, President of the People's Republic of Mozambique, PRESIDENT O. R. TAMBO’S ADDRESS AT THE Cot ies leaden and militants of the FRELIMO PARTY, MASS RALLY AT BAIRRO DE LIBERDADE IN Comrade Sansao Muthemba, Secretary-General of AMASP, "omrades Representatives of the national liberation move- MAPUTO ON THE 14th OF FEBRUARY, 1982. ent and other fraternal forces, Heroic residents of Maputo and citizens of the People’s Republic of Mozambique, ‘ ” Comrades, We salute you all today on behalf of the ANC, on behalf of the commanders and fighters of Umkhonto we Sizwe; We salute you in the ¥+*T~ ^ % ^ >1 name of the workers, the women, youth, peasants and ri ’ all the oppressed masses and t' $ ‘tx democratic forces in South / Africa. We greet you in the f name of the heroic fighters held in the fascist prisons of u raci South Africa. w-j greet you in the Year of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC, the Year of Unity vil kL! *■ l Action; We salute you in the Presidents Tambo and Michel at the rally on 14 February last year, -.what in the future we shall name of the fallen heroes of perhaps observe as the Day of Friendship between the Peoples of Mozambique and South Africa... the South African struggle; we remember especially the our response to that crime. of the heroic Mozambican people, from the Rovuma to victims of the Matola raid The history of Mozambi people^ comrade President the Maputo rallied to FRE- at the beginning of last year. que, especially in the past Samora Machel, responded LIMO’s call with their knob- It is that raid which has two decades, has been a his to the Matola raid by sum kerries, pangas and other brought us here today-that tory of atrocious crimes moning his people back to weapons. When the raiders raid which insulted the sove committed by colonialism the war trenches they had reappeared at PONTO reignty of the Mozambican against the Mozambican peo known since September 25, D’ORO, the people plunged people, defiled their national ple—against FRELIMO. Tlie 1964; back into battle, for their pick-axes into the dignity, violated their territo People’s Republic of Moza the defence of their mother skulls of the fascist intruders. rial integrity and challenged mbique is a creature of the land, their sovereignty, their Your response—the respo the very concept of African correct responses which the territorial integrity, their nse of a nation forged in independent statehood. Mozambican people under national dignity; for the def the furious furnaces of two It is something more than the leadership of FRELIMO ence of the gains of the bnital wars—had a dynami the Matola raid which brings made to the massacres, mur Mozambican revolution-the sing impact throughout Sou us together on this occasion. ders and destruction perpe gains of the. African revolu thern Africa, and throughout Fot a people engaged, day trated by Portouguese fascist tion; for the defence of the continent. It was an act and night, in a continuing forces. their internationalist essence of mobilisation of the inter struggle against a brutal ene tnd their Socialist future-a national progressive forces Celebrated Leader my, the great question is not future of which the victory for resolute struggle against that there has been an attack We are here today beca of the struggle led by the apartheid colonialism and an invasion, a massacre or use, exactly a year ago this ANC and SWAPO against fascism. the Pretoria fascists is an You rivetted the 35 mill- any other crime committed day, at Praca de Independe- integral part. And we now against the people. The great ncia in Maputo, the celebra- Continued on Page ii know that the Mozambican question is the nature of ted Leader and Commander 317 Page ii 1970, where the ANC com- ion people of Mozambique the continent. Africa became manders were learning from and South Africa together British,French, Portuguese, the experience of their com- . and joined them in solid Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, Ger ATEMcKo rades-in-arms. unity with the peoples of man, Italian. X PATRIOTS Not only had we ceased That same comradeship the rest of the region in their to be one people. The very found the Mozambicans figh MOQAMBlcAKaiL determination to rid our con earth that we walked, the ting with MPLA in defence tinent of this painful and soil that gave us life and of the newly independent dangerous plague. People’s Republic of Angola By your responses, you that in its depths afforded in 1975/76, and joining the paid a glorious tribute to refuge to our ancestors, had Zimbabwean people in their the fallen heroes of our itself ceased to be African. common struggle, and espec In their eagerness to plu liberation war against the nder, divide and oppress, the Rhodesian and South African ially to the Mozambican her colonialists and the racists oes, who with their blood regimes. and their lives, strengthened failed to notice that they were creating new conditions FRELIMO, created the Moz Colonialists Defeated ambican nation and became for our oneness, for unity. And so here we are today, our inspiration and our stre* Together we had become the Comrades: British, French, dispossescd, dispossesed of ngth. Belgian, Portuguese and other PREPARA-TE Nothing today unites pe our independence and of our colonialists have been defea !! ople more than the criminal countries. Together we had ted; and yet an intense stru nature of the racist minority become beasts of burden ggle is being fought by Moz ►VEM Ai O BOER AGRKSOl working for the enrichment regime. From the Indian Oc- ambique and other indepen i i i i n to the Atlantic; from of a colonialist and racist dent states of this region-a minority. Apparently divided Itozambican poster calling ocw uie Southern tip of our con struggle on three courageous population to prepare to re ff tinent to the Mediterranean; by frontiers which the colo fronts: nialists had drawn across the South African aggression afte: from Africa to every conti a) against underdevelopment the SA army attacked ANC reeic nent on the globe, mankind face of Africa, we were in and for social progress, ances a t n a to la , near- naputo . differs about countless issues fact united by the fact that b) against the colonisation January 1981. But, about the Pretoria apar we had become, together, and occupation of Namibia theid regime, there is one the oppressed, the exploited by the Pretoria regime and the Indian Ocean, fighting in unanimous judgement-the and the dispised. And we for the independence of closed ranks with the rest of regime is an international had become the oppressed, Namibia under the leadership Africa and the progressive criminal, guilty of a heinous the exploited and dispised of SWAPO, world. But the leading role crime against humanity, a through the same system of c) for the liberation of the must be played by us in crime of which the people imperialist domination and people of South Africa from South Africa. of South Africa and South colonialist occupation. apartheid colonialism. The year 1981, the year ern Africa are the first vic It was in the course of On all these three fronts of Matola, the year of prol tims. the struggle against this sys the Pretoria regime features onged occupation of South tem that we re-created our in a central role. It is fight ern Angola by South Afri oneness on a much broader ing against the economic can fascist troops, the year One People scale and at a qualitatively independence and develop of nation-wide mobilisation much higher level. We beca We are one people today. ment of the African count of the Mozambican people me part of a powerful and This means we are recaptur ries; it is defying Africa and against the racist regime— ever growing movement of the year 1981 has also been ing our glorious past. We are the UN and the whole inter* peoples fighting colonial the y$ar of heightened stru one people. History put u* national community on the gether on this continent domination, fighting all opp ggles in South Africa. ressors, exploiters, fascists, question of Namibia, and .om time immemorial. We adds to its defiance by spre Umkhonto we Sizwe spr racists and Zionists. We bec evolved together, shared a ading death and destruction ead its assaults across the ame one mighty army of re common African culture, in Namibia and Angola, and length and breadth of South volution fighting in various traded with one another aad defiantly occupying Angolan Africa: in Cape Town, Port detachments on many fronts dealt each with the other as territory; it murders, massa Elizabeth, East London, Ell throughout the world-an human bein^, whether in cres, tortures and engages in iot, Durban, Johannesburg, army of comrades. Sibasa, Ermelo and many times of war or in times of kidnapping its opponents in widely dispersed points in peace; whether in circumsta South Africa while harrassing, the countryside. But they nces of hunger or in condi Eduardo Mondlane killing, destabilising and orga concentrated on Pretoria, the tions of plenty. nising coups d’etat against Eduardo Mondlane worked fascist capital from where Then came the colonia African states. the raids, invasions, killing lists. Despite the heroic resi with Nelson Mandela and And with respect to these and bandit armies are contr stance of oUr forebears, from Walter Sisulu to strengthen three fronts, like the racist the Cape of Good Hope to the ANC, not as strangers regime, the people of South olled; the North of Africa, the col but as comrades committed Africa led by the ANC and -Pretoria, the heart and the onialists succeeded to trans to a common cause—the lib its allies also feature in a head of the heartland of form us from a free people eration of Africa, the libera central role: The overthrow racism, the bastion of colo into a subject people. They tion of mankind. of the Pretoria racist minor nialism; •ifiia became our masters and Likewise, it was as coram- ity regime will thw art the Pretoria, which in 30 quick made us respond to their des-in-arms that the comma designs of imperialism in this years has already killed cou commands with “Ja baas, Ja nders and combatants of region and usher in an era of ntless thousands of people baas.” FRELIMO and the ANC tra rapid internal reconstruction in Southern Africa, including To perpetrate our subju ined, worked, ate and sang under conditions of peace thousands murdered and ma gation, they divided us. We together in Algeria, Tanzania and security. ssacred children. ceased to be one people. We and elsewhere. It was because The South African struggle The working class, parti became foreigners to one of that comradeship that is, therefore, as a matter of cularly the Black workers, another, living in Portuguese commanders of FRELIMO objective reality, a struggle have discovered their pover. •. East Africa, British Rhodesia and Umkhonto we Sizwe of the people of Southern The youth, women, the mas German East Africa, British found themselves in the war Africa, together and as one ses in Bantustans, th* entire Natal, Boer Republics. This zones of Cabo Delgado and force spread across the cont oppressed and democratic was the pattern throughout Niassa in 1967 and Tete in inent from the Atlantic to forces have reached a striking Collection Number: AK2145 KRUGERSDORP RESIDENTS’ ORGANISATION AND 4 OTHERS v. 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