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The Spear of the Nation – MK on the Cape Flats POLITICS © Shutterstock.com The Spear of the Nation – MK on the Cape Flats All MK combatants’ blood will continue to nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom. By Oscar van Heerden 30 THE THINKER POLITICS olonialism, which has not the Covenant or Dingaan’s Day. was made far away by others who saw bothered to put too fine a point you fit to be a recruit. Con its efforts, has never ceased The Cape Flats Since MK was a banned organisation, to maintain that the Negro is a savage Following on from that proud history the training one underwent was and for the colonist, the Negro was the lives of the people of the Cape clandestine inside the country or neither an Angolan nor a Nigerian, flats consisted of an endless struggle at times you were told to leave the for he simply spoke of 'the Negro'. For against an oppressive regime hellbent borders of the Republic and receive colonialism, this vast continent was the on ensuring that they remained second training outside the country in camps haunt of savages, a country riddled with class citizens in the country of their that were situated in neighbouring superstitions and fanaticism, destined birth. Blacks in general and Africans in countries such as Angola or Zambia for contempt, weighted down by the particular were subjected to the most among others. curse of God, a country of cannibals, in merciless treatment, oppression and MK has a very proud history, short, the Negro's country.1 subjugation. On the factory floor, in established shortly after the Sharpeville our schools, in our churches and yes in massacres in 1960. It became very Historical Context: our homes, no place was sacred for the apparent to the ANC and the SACP that The decision to form MK was apartheid regime. The ANC decided peaceful demonstrations and protests perhaps taken in 1961 but the CPSA that it had no choice but to take up were being increasingly met with utter had already identified six members to arms. violence from the Apartheid police ready themselves for military training Growing up in Mitchell’s Plain on which often resulted in the death of in China in 1959. In fact, when the the Cape Flats, 1985 – 1990 were comrades. The situation could not discussion about forming a military particularly difficult years for those that continue like this and a decision was wing of the ANC at an ANC NEC taken that armed military intervention meeting came up, Comrade Moses The colonial was required since this it seems was the Kotane opposed such a move, arguing only language the oppressive regime that it would be best if such a armed mother sought to understood. wing reside elsewhere in the broader discourage the African MK needed to have a presence liberation movement so that the throughout the country in order to image of the ANC as a non-violent masses from rebellion serve as a reminder to all that the ANC and peaceful organisation could against oppression lives and the ANC leads… that the ANC persist in the minds of our people. and dehumanisation, takes great care in wanting to protect The compromise in the end was that the people of South Africa against this Mandela and Slovo together had to seeking to convince brutal regime. This is how MK came to facilitate the formation of MK. The us that to seek our be established in the Western Cape as first recruit into MK by Mandela was well. In a speech by former President Comrade Andrew Mlangeni, though emancipation was to Mbeki to the Ugandan Parliament in he was one of the six identified by the act against our own December 2005, he reminded us of CPSA earlier in 1959. Fanon’s view that: Therefore, MK’s founding members best interests. The native intellectual who takes were, among others, former president up arms to defend his nation's Nelson Mandela and Comrade Joe chose to fight against the regime. These legitimacy and who wants to bring Slovo of the SACP. were the years that could be described proofs to bear out that legitimacy, Other key members in cells around as the last kicks of the dying horse who is willing to strip himself naked the country included Jack Hogson, called Apartheid: hence the brutality. to study the history of his body, is Ahmed Kathrada, Arthur Goldreich, These struggles took on various forms, obliged to dissect the heart of his Chris Hani, Dennis Goldberg, Ronnie being part of the mass democratic people. Kasrils, former president Thabo Mbeki, movement meant that you had to be Such an examination is not former president Jacob Zuma, Curnick an all-rounder at times – an organiser specifically national. The native Dlovu and Vuyisile Mini, to mention of workers today, and tomorrow an intellectual who decides to give a few. instigator of school students. This was battle to colonial lies fights on the History shows us that MK announced the nature of the struggle during these field of the whole continent. The its presence with a series of bomb trying times. past is given back its value. Culture, attacks on government buildings on There was however another element extracted from the past to be 16 December 1961 in Johannesburg, of struggle – that was to become one of displayed in all its splendour, is not Durban and Port Elizabeth. Now the spears of our Nation, an Umkhonto necessarily that of his own country. known as the Day of Reconciliation, the We Sizwe combatant. You could not The year 1987 saw much activity 16 December public holiday formerly simply decide to join the ranks, you in the Western Cape as far as MK commemorated the Afrikaner defeat of had to be recruited by a comrade who operations were concerned. A sizable the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River was already in the underground. In complement of cadres returned from in 1838, and was known as the Day of other words, it was not your decision, it exile (various MK camps) back into Volume 80 / 2019 31 POLITICS the Western Cape. The Special Branch steps ought to be. (Security Police) went into overdrive I hope that like What was perceived by and large to try and keep surveillance on most Solomon Mahlangu, as the arrest of student and youth of these comrades. Ashley Kriel was leaders in 1989 was in fact a further one of those native intellectuals that their deaths will be a clampdown on MK operatives in decided to fight but was killed by the constant reminder the Province. Many got arrested in Security Branch police in 1987, soon Bonteheuwel, Belhar, Kuilsrivier, after his return from the camps. They of what our and of course also amongst others, got a tip off from someone about the freedom cost. the MIPSCO 12. These were arrests whereabouts of Ashley and proceeded that signalled the final dying days of to advance on the house where he was the Apartheid system because by the another MK operative, Anton Franz, staying. They approached the house time most of these cadres got released was laying low in a house in Athlone. under a certain pretence and once towards the end of that year, some It transpired that Anton Franz’s they gained access, got involved in a Robben Island prisoners also got mission was to come back and scuffle with him and a shot went off. released at the same time. It was the enhance the engineering capabilities This is according to the police officer clearest sign of the times changing. of MK operatives, sharpening their responsible for Kriel’s death. He told us There are many of these stories that bomb making and explosive handling at the TRC hearings how he restrained we can tell, which should really inspire skills sets. When they approached the Ashley but the combatant would have the younger generation but alas, some house and requested that Anton Franz none of it. He then shot Ashley and of them seem not to care, reminding gave himself up, he naturally refused killed him that day. us instead that we must not reminisce and what followed was an epic seven What followed soon afterwards was on past glories. This attitude is a most hour gun battle between himself, the the arrest of the rest of the returning unfortunate development in our recent SA military and the security police. combatants. This was a major blow history. Eventually after it became apparent to the Western Cape network of MK. But I hope that their sacrifices that they were not going to get Anton Ashley Forbes, Anwar Dramat, Peter will not go unnoticed. I hope that alive given his resilience and fighting Jacobs, Yasmeen Pandy, Jeremy Veary like Solomon Mahlangu, their deaths skills, they drove a Kasper through the and others were arrested, stood trial will be a constant reminder of what living room wall and detonated an and were imprisoned for an average our freedom cost. We are told that explosive device that killed Anton. of 20 years. They were escorted to Mahlangu’s long incarceration had not The clampdown continued Robben Island after their trial. broken his spirit, and his last words unabated with the further arrests of The mantle to establish a vast were reportedly: commanders in Mitchells Plain and network of MK combatants fell on the My blood will nourish the tree elsewhere, leaving a number of MK shoulders of others. That network or as that will bear the fruits of freedom. combatants in the lurch and without it was then called detachment became Tell my people that I love them.
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