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9~-Southern Africa Vol 13 N , 4 Lo) ~ :Uldj@Lo) Ulru ~ ~D J ~ 2 S August 1998 2'He Llrinnie L'actor ,.--, ~ n----------------------------- (9~-Southern Africa voL 13 N , 4 lO) ~ :UlDJ@lO) UlrU ~ ~d_j ~ 2_S August 1998 2'he llrinnie l'actor Also: >- Mbeki's Blues >-Damn the Lesotho Dam >-Truth and Reconciliation price: $ 4.50 03 C') 0 0 .--Ol 1111111 ~@WL~Thl®~lli ~~~ii©CID August 1998 REPORT Vol. 13 No.4 Contents Editorial: Mbeki's Blues . 1 :·~ •· .•. :· c}· : ·. .. «'<-' -:-.-.~ SWAZILAND Urban Betrayal: ; ,s<. "I" ••. The ANC in the Townships 4 c,O .. LESOTHO The Truth Shall Make You Free: Southern Africa Reflections on the TRC . ... .... .. 9 REPORT is produced quarterly by a collective of TCLSAC, the Toronto Committee Winnie Madikizela Mandela: for Links between Southern Africa & Tragic Figure? Populist Tribune? Township Tough? . 14 Canada 427 Bloor St. West Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7 All Wet: The World Bank and the Lesotho Dam . 21 Tel. (416) 967-5562 email: [email protected] web site: www.web.netf"'tclsac/ Their Hegemony or Ours? Submissions, suggestions and help in Schild Replies to Barker 25 production are welcome and invited ISSN 0820-5582 Member: Canadian Magazine Publishers Association Reviews: Indexed in: Canadian Index; Faith, Hope and Clarity: The History of TCCR . 30 Canadian Business & Current Affairs Under the Tongue: A New Novel from Zimbabwe 32 All rights reversed Subscriptions Southern Africa Report subscription & TCLSAC membership rates: SUBSCRIPTION: SAR Collective Individual (per year) $18.00 Margie Adam, Stephen Allen, Institution (per year) $40.00 Carolyn Bassett, Lois Browne, Marlea Clarke, MEMBERSHIP: (includes subscription) David Cooke, David Galbraith, Mamie Lucas-Zerbe, Heather Murray, Regular . $35.00 John S. Saul, Marit Stiles, Lauren Swenarchuk, Esther Vise, Unemployed Joe Vise, Mary Vise Stud~nt . $18.00 Senior Our tha nks t o CVSTUDIO for electronic image processing Sustainer . over $100.00 Overseas add $10.00 Cover design by Art Work Cover photo by Joao Silva- PictureNET Africa ~ 2 Canadian Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement No. 569607 _________________ @@~~@~~~n _________________ Mbeki's Blues It's hard not to feel that Thabo Mbeki, ANC president and likely successor to Nel­ son Mandela as South African president, is caught between a rock and a hard place. One of the principal ar­ chitects of the ANC's neo-liberal strategy of appeasement towards capitalism, local and global, as presump­ tive engine of South African economic transformation, he also has a popular con­ stituency to deal with (not least in next year's national elec­ tions) . And the lat­ ter, the vast mass of the African population who have seen little or no improvement in their own lives since 1994, are restless. Moreover, many are restless not just about the length of time it is taking to see significant delivery on post-apartheid ex­ pectations: after all, four years is a rel­ atively short period in which tO"right all the manifold injustices of the apartheid era. Much more fundamen- ro tally, they are rest­ ~ less about the very <t: real possibility that the 1- ANC is embarked - w z in particular through ~ its embrace of GEAR, t) the Growth, Employ­ a: ment and Redistribu­ ~ tion programme - on Z precisely the wrong Vi path in South Africa.. 0 -,·~ Mbeki and his col- Southern Africa REPORT august 1998 1 _________ ®@n~©~n~JJl _________ leagues are not about to reverse this overall policy direction. Is this because they feel market solutions to be intrinsically developmental; or because they feel them likely to service their own nascent class interests; or because they feel there is no alternative in any case? This is an issue we have discussed in these pages previously and will not return to here. What can be specified, however, is the result Mbeki and company would now most dearly love to achieve: they seek to dress up their conservative economic positions with a political rhetoric that will serve to legitimize such positions in the eyes of an increasingly suspicious black population. This is no easy task, as sev­ ..., eral articles in the present issue c <V may help to demonstrate. Chron­ E c. icling the many failed promises in 0 <V the urban sphere, Patrick Bond > <V and Mzwanele Mayekiso also note 0 the multiplying examples of town­ .;;>! c ship unrest and suggest the possi­ 0 ·;:; bility of fresh challenges to conven­ ro tional ANC/ Alliance policies welling E up from within civil society and .8c based on new trade union-township <V dweller alliances. Meanwhile .:::..., ro Stephen Robins, in a thoughtful c Q; evaluation of the Truth and Rec­ ~ -.· ..., onciliation Commission (TRC), sug­ ~ ~ -..,,-'o .. ~Wl gests the possibility that no recon­ ciliation of the sort envisaged by CANCEL THE APARTHEID DEBT ~ the TRC is possible as long as ~ GIVE SOUTH AFRICA A FRESH START ~ the deeply entrenched inequalities of 0 South Africa are felt to be so lit­ tle challenged by the present govern­ jack the sacrifices which millions of else. As Sheila Meintjes chronicles ment. ordinary people made to liberate our in her provocative "cover story" on Small wonder, then, that Mbeki country for noble purposes, in or­ Winnie Madikizela Mandela, part of has permitted himself some pretty der to satisfy a seemingly insatiable the latter's political strength and radical diatribes in recent months, and morally unbound greed and per­ resilience has sprung from the role including attacks not only on sonal thirst for wealth and comfort, she has claimed for herself as pop­ wealthy whites (afflicted, he says, regardless of the cost to our soci­ ulist tribune of those impoverished by "social amnesia") but also on a ety." And he concludes with a warn­ South Africans she argues have been "black elite" that abuses "freedom ing about "the danger of a mounting left behind in the ANC's ascension in the name of entitlement" (see the rage to which we must respond seri­ to power. And one of the reasons article entitled "Mbeki champions ously." - but only one among a number poor against black and white elites" Note, however, that such radi­ of other plausible reasons, Meintjes in Southscan, 12 June 1998). This cal sounding language is permitted makes clear - Winnie has been sent latter group, he charges, "seek to hi- to Mbeki but apparently to no-one to Coventry by the ANC leadership 2 august 1998 Southern Africa REPORT ________________ @@~~@~~~n---------------- is that they will not readily tolerate and their mounting of further crit­ But, he continued, "what we see public dissent over their core socio­ icisms of ANC strategy remains to on the ground is different. The bulk economic strategy. be seen. But the communists and of poor people remain where they This is true whether such dis­ the unions are not alone in any case. were many years ago." The lesson? sent comes from Madikizela Man­ There are those emergent township As another delegate to the confer­ dela's Africanist/populist corner or militants, identified by Bond and ence, Professor Takatso Mofokeng, from further to the left. For there Mayekiso, who begin to hint that the put the point, the churches "should are many who challenge ANC poli­ ANC emperor may have few clothes. go back to the trenches, because cies (GEAR, in particular) on the There are members of the ANC itself it seems that is the language the grounds that its chosen economic who are less than satisfied with the government understands:" "People strategy is not only failing to de­ direction things have taken in the should demand what they are en­ liver economic growth or develop­ past few years. And there are also titled to and use the methodology ment but that it must, inevitably, the churches. that works. GEAR didn't come up produce precisely the kinds of stark for referendum. If people are not inequalities that Mbeki claims he is happy about it they must stand up Anglican Archbishop Winston against it" ! against. And such left critics are not Ndungane was himself slammed by - to put it mildly - being treated Mandela for questioning the gospel Where does this leave veterans kindly. according to G'EAR several months from the Canadian anti-apartheid Indeed, the recent conference of ago. But the churches nonethe­ movement? Even as we struggle the ANC's ostensible ally, the South less returned to the charge at the against the deep wounds being in­ African Communist Party, produced recent tri-annual conference of the flicted on the social fabric of our paroxysms of rage both from Mbeki South African Council of Churches. own society by the embrace of neo­ and his principal, Nelson Mandela, There that redoubtable campaigner liberal nostrums, shouldn't we also against those with the effrontery against apartheid (and former secre­ be reaching out a hand to our coun­ to criticize GEAR. The language tary general of the SACC), Dr. Bey­ terparts in South Africa, those who used to whip its allies into line was ers Naude, argued that "while are raising similar questions about harsh and ugly, variously described GEAR is a 'party political issue,' market il/logic and doing so under by Southscan as "markedly aggres­ when it affects the poor, the church even more dire circumstances. Note, sive," a "scathing ... barrage," and has no option but to intervene." At in this regard, Linda Freeman's fi­ a "public onslaught." Mbeki ac­ the same meeting, Mzwandile Nuns, nal remark in her trenchant review cused SACP leaders of "fake revo­ representing the worker ministry in of a recent history of the Taskforce lutionary posturing," terming them Kwazulu-Natal, noted the govern­ on Churches and Corporate Respon­ "charlatans" and "confidence trick­ ment argument that they are "cut­ sibility (TCCR) and its key role in sters" attempting to build their or­ ting social spending in favour of Canada's anti-apartheid movement.
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