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Ÿþm Icrosoft W ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE M ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE M MAYIBU' J MAYIBUYE NUMBER 8 198, YEAR OF THE Y U XTL. I htr tori t,.iVhil J.urn. of 111c Alri.in Nalshmil On the evening of Friday, 31st July, hirelings in the pay of the South African racist regime cold-bloodedly murdered Comrade Joe Gqabi, a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC at his residence outside Salisbury, Zimbabwe. This criminal act of terrorism reflects the desperation of the enemy who can no longer contain or suppress the upsurge of the revolutionary forces that are gaining ground by the day inside the country, under the leadership of the African National Congress. Comrade Joe Gqabi, a son and a product of the liberation strugIe, symbolises these indomitable forces of resistance to oppression and exploitation. His was a life of struggle and sacrifice. He dedicated the whole of his life to the cause of liberation. He served a twelveyear sentence on Robben Island together with some of the top leaders of our movement - Mandela, Sisuln, Mbeki, Kathrda .and other. During all these trying moments of his life, the enemy could not break his will and commitment. On his relem from Robben alnd, he continued with the struggle under dangerous conditions of illegality and police persecution. This led to his arrest on charges under the so-called Terrorism Act, in the well-known Pretoria 12 Trial of 1977. Ultimately he was forced into the External Mission of the ANC where he continued with his leadership role undeterred. The tragic and untimely-departure from the scene of struggle of this gallant son of our country is a reat loss to our Movement and the oppressed people. We dip our revolutionary banner in memory of our fallen leader and hero. We pledge to advance the strugle, for which Comrade Joe lived and ificed his life, to new and higher levels. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! IComrmde Joe Gqabi was given a State funeral by the Zimbabwean government. I* %waIid to ret at the Warren Hills cemetery, Salisbury, 9th August. See MAYIBUYE Suppliment for a coverage of the funeral. Umkhonto attacks mair al's residence. The 122mm "DKZ-B" rocketlauncher is, according to the enemy,the heaviest and has the On the 13th of August, erhoogte with rockets frown longest range of WlI known unit of the People's Army a 122mm launcher destroyi- single-shot missile launchers. belled the Pretoria base of ng, among other targets, the A few days before this he fascist Army, Voortrekk- officers' mess and an admir- valiant attack, units of MK masilwe ukunpcatsha kukaSeb. Gu Tarm Sponds to dander Defend your tade unions Security Guards Sprinsbok tour destroyed power-stations near Pretoria, Ermelo (photo: bottom left) and Middleburg and many other enemay installations in other areas of the country. The attack on Voortrekkerhoogte attests to the growing strength of MK and forms part of the heightened offensive by the people, on all fronts - a harbinger of the era ahead. In the next issue of MAYIBUYE we shall discuss the significance of the escalation of the armed struggle and the role each one of us can play in this offensive. Turn to Pae 2 for the first article in a series on the debate currently taking place in the country about the Freedom Charter and the role of white democrats in the struggle. I I IM Page 2 power to the people THE FREEDOM CHARTER - - - - ft - - - -, - e - -. - - m - ------ft--ft .-,--ftft----ft-ftftft ft~ The nature of our strugg13, as in'lee1 any other political struggle, is defined by its objectives, the social forces that share an interest in the realisation of these objectives an-I therefore fight for them, an. the correlation among these social forces. The African National' st in the victory of the natCongress defines its task as ional liberation struggle? that of leading our people To answer the question in a struggle for national in the affirmative we would liberation. The central obje- have to argue that two othctive that we pursue in this er theses are true. We would context is reflected in the have to argue that all the masthead of this paper - All white people share more or Power to the People! less equally the benefits that In other words, to achi- accrue from the oppressive eve our national liberation and exploitative system of we must ensure that power apartheid. This would mean in the decisive spheres of that the white population as any modem state, in politi- a whole stands to lose equacs, in the economy and in lly when power transfers to the military sphere is in the the hands of the people and hands of the people. would therefore band together to defend its common and similar interests. Central Objective The other thesis we would have to argue is that This being our central the black people visualise objective, what social forces the exercise of power in a share an interest in its acco- liberated South Africa as mplishment? In our situati- being a prerogative that on this question is relative- would be confined exclusivly easy to answer. The soci- ely to themselves - in other al forces that objectively words that the black people would benefit from its acco- are fighting for a direct mplishment are those who reversal of the situation that are excluded from power, obtains today. namely the black people. But are these two theses But then, is-it true that correct?Obviously they are only the black people are not. Even the most superfiinterested in the transfer of cial look at South African power to the hands of the reality shows for instance people? Does the objective that the wealth of the counsocial position in which the try is concentrated in the apartheid system of capitali- hands of a small minority of sm, colonialism, racism and even the white population fascism has placed the white such as the Oppenheimers people mean that all these and the Ruperts. white people have no intere- Secondly, as we have said, we fight for national liberation and not national domination, for national emancipation and national equality. At various times tendencies have emerged from within the South African national liberation movement which, in one form or another, have put forward the slogan "drive the white man into the sea!" But each time it has emerged, this tendency has been -I *1.ft fl.fts aft Sm ftftsin a I Racist Army recruits: Conscripted to die in defence of the property of the Oppenheimers and the Ruperts. i .............. - SAW ftftftft K a S ,a - .~.-e - . - - - - ft KOKftS ftftSft ft-.'ft4ft-ft.~....ft...b. .S...... - ftft*ftftftft-c*~d ~*ftSft*ft ft - - - - - - - *ftftfta~~bft~ -- * - - - - - 50 ftftA K K - KCUW~ ~ - Kftaft 5~ SW - ftftSft *ft*ftftft~ -, ft -. ft ~ftft*ft ft.. - - ftftft.Sft - - ft ft ~ftftft .ft - ft~ -. - - ft ft -- ft. - - ft - ft *. -- -PS - - ftft~ ft - ft. - ft - a ft~ ~IS - Ctftt ftKU K ftKM nfl - -- - - - ft ftftftftft *ft.ftftft N HHHMO I rV73MMt= LEV~ h I° I rejected by the masses of our people exactly because these masses reject racism whatever its origin. Over many decades, the ANC has put forward the view that our liberation as black people and the institution of democratic rule in our country are in the interest also of the overwhelming majority of the white population, whether the white population realises this or not. Freedom Charter The implementation of the provisions contained in the Freedom Charter would free the white population from the shackles which apartheid inevitably imposes even on this population and create the situation in which the white population would for the first time feel at home in South Africa and in Africa. At this stage of our struggle, the best we can say is that only a small minority among the white people has realised that our liberation is the only condition which would guarantee the white Continued on Page 3 Page3 Defend the Charter - From Page 2 population of South Africa question as during 1975 -76 security, peace and genuine when young white conscripts liberty. were sacrificed by P. W. BoThat we can only talk tha, Magnus Malan and other of a minority does not surp- militarists and colonisers in rise us because it is inevita- a hopeless adventure which ble that the majority will sought to turn Angola into continue to see as far as thf a colony of apartheid South end of their noses. What Africa. As they die in increthis majority sees is that asing numbers in another regardless of the fact that it hopeless adventure, that of does not in fact own the trying to keep Namibia a wealth of our country, it colony, once more young nevertheless benefits from whites and their families are rV apartheid. Furthermore it asking the question - what has been brought up and in the first place do we want nurtured on racist ideology here! and practice. As the struggle in South Yet, as the struggle inte- Africa intensifies and as nsifies, more whites will pose more whites are fed by the question - is it worth Botha and Mlan as fodder dying in defence of aparthe- for the AK's and Scorpions Id! Already many whites have of the People's Army, Umkbeen confronted with this honto we Sizwe so will largLISTEN TO lull FIIEEDI VOICE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND UMIHONTO WE SIZWE. THE PEOPLE'S ARMY Radio Tanzania External service, Dar as Salaam, on: 15435 KIUz, 19 mb shortwave; 9680 KHz, 31mb shortwave Mondays, Wedeneadays, Fridays at 8.15pm (S.A.
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