Journal of Umkhonto We Sizwe Contents

f e ; VOL. 8 No ,4 Journal of Umkhonto we Sizwe Contents

Editorial Comment: Preaching Pcace while preparing for war . .. 1 The Momentum We Have Built Up In Struggle should Not Be Lost — Commander-in-Chief O.R. Tam bo...... 3 Learn with DAWN'. Electric igniters...... 9

Botha-Malan Offensive Turning Sour...... 11 A Fitting Tribute...... * The Final Deal Must Be Made with Us...... ^ DAWN Politxword Vol. 8 No. 2 Answers...... 19 MK Women’s Forum: As A United Force...... 20 DAWN LIGHT: Charity Begins At Home...... 22 MK Soldier’s Viewpoint: for The King-size Collapse of The ^ Tyrant...... The Real Life of Domingos Xavier - Chapter 9 ...... DAWN PolitiXword No. 3 ......

* COVER: Dennis Goldberg, serving life imprisonment.

YEAR OF THE WOMEN Editorial Comment Preaching Peace While Preparing for War The racist regime’s soaring military Wild sprees are arranged by the SADF budget and the increased militarisation where children are taken for indoctri of the South African society fall nation. The non-existent »Soviet sharply in contrast to Botha’s so- threat)* , xterrorist onslaught*, »swart called peace drive. Plans including the gevaar” , etc, are used to whip up a purchase of new helicopters and the war psychosis. building of new sub-marines to revamp That Botha is mobilising for war the regime’s obsolete war material, is evident in all aspects of the socio and the improvement of the service of economic life and in all sectors of the SADF members, are underway. Botha population. Conscription, long en preaches peace outside South Africa forced on whites, is to be extended to but breeds hell inside our country. His so-called Coloureds and Indians in approach to “peace” and “reform” is reciprocation for opower sharing)* in “If you want peace, prepare for war.” the president’s council. There has been the creation of organisations like the Voluntary HEARTS AND MINDS Civil Defence. These organisations Youth “adventure camps” is one also act as reserve commandos and of the instruments for furthering police units. The aim behind all this Botha’s xhearts and minds# campaign. is to prepare every white man, woman, and child for war. There is also the does not show children free films Civic Action Programme, whereby Nat about its actions in Crossroads, Langa, ional Servicemen become teachers, KTC, Mogopa, etc where they have health workers, agricultural and demolished houses, shacks and pla administrative workers in the home stic shelters, rendering thousands of lands and in the rural areas. children with their parents homeless, These national servicemen teach the exposed to die from cold. black man whilst the rifle is in the This shows us how far fascism corner of the classroom. can go to impose itself even on tod dlers for the sole purpose of keep In so-called Coloured communities ing itself alive. It uses all dirty mano the regime erects tents during school euvres and lies in the book to justify holidays and show SADF films free of its brutal actions of exploitation charge to children. Leadership courses are conducted countrywide in the and the spilling of the blood of the black schools to solicit mental and oppressed struggling masses. These physical support for the SADF. The excursions also bite deep in the cadet system which is organised as huge budget set aside for Pretoria’s part of the SADF’s »area defence*) military adventure, while millions system, has close ties with the of our people suffer from extreme local army units. Military officers are poverty, homelessness, disease, forced being seconded to schools and teachers removals and brutal exploitation. are encouraged to develop military skills with special training for art SADF’s desperate efforts of try teachers in camouflage techniques. ing to twist and turn our minds and Pupils are taught subjects like »terro- conceal the true face of apartheid, rist hunting)* and are given lectures on making it look abstract to children’s the »communist threat* as well as tender minds is just a pipedream being subjected to vigorous disci and a big illusion. We still remember pline and taught how to handle with bitterness how they murdered arms. Hector Peterson on June 16, But the “hearts and minds” cam 1976, and still continue shooting paign is not having things its own way. many of his age wherever we de There is staunch resistance against mand the scrapping of the abomi Botha’s sinister plans. When a hun nable system of bantu education dred children at the Belmore Primary We have not known peace in South school in Hanover Park were to be Africa, the racists are bullying every taken without their parents’ consent one and everywhere. on a SADF camp at Faure a month ago, their parents were up in arms It is our prime duty to ensure that this regime of terror and genocide is with the school’s physical teacher destroyed from the face of the earth. for collaborating in the planning of We must turn all they teach us against the outing. The trip which the them. We must resist all its sinister teacher described as including intentions for it is apartheid that soccer, tennis, cricket, and swim breeds all this conflict in our country. ming was intended to include a series It is apartheid that denies us the right of lectures on civil defence. To crown to exist, to live in peace and harmony it all, the children were to be trans ported to their destination in army in a democratic South Africa free from rfcism and oppression. It is not surprising why theJaADF^ 2 THE MOMENTUM WE HAVE BUILT UP IN STRUGGLE SHOULD NOT BE LOST ■COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF O.R.TAMBO

Compatriots, In the past three months the Botha reg Tlie month of June, like no other month, ime has tried to recruit the neighbouring African independent states into a fascist carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic campaign aimed at the destruction of content of our struggle, the supreme the ANC and the liberation struggle in South Africa. In two months time the justice of our course, and our irrevocable commitment to pursue it until victory Pretoria regime will be holding elections for the so-called Coloured and Indian sec is won. International Childrens Day, the judicial tions of the black people of our country murder of the three gallant Youth: to establish the other two chambers of its Mogoerane, Mosololi and Motaung, the tri-cameral parliament. Rivonia life imprisonments, the Soweto uprisings, June 26, and the Sasol attack CHALLENGE when Umkhonto We Sizwe set racist These dangerous enemy moves are the South Africa ablaze; all these events.have product of our strength. They evidence each a singularly unifying quality and they the rising tempo of the conflict between combine to give to the month of June the forces fighting for freedom, demo a profound and special significance for cracy and peace, and those who defend our struggle. white minority domination and exploi It is against this background that today, tation. The oppressed people and the this week, set between June 16 and June entire democratic movement of our 26, we address a special call to the entire country are therefore confronted with democratic movement of our country, in an enormous and historic challenge, a all its formations and shades of opinion. challenge we dare not meet with any thing short of maximum determination. DESPERATION Our task is two-fold. First, we must, in The last ten years have seen our struggle action and with our united strength, give rise to levels which seriously threaten the a lie to the notion that the nature, survival of the apartheid system and progress and the victory of our struggle frightens the enemy into unprecedented depends on the absence of accords or acts of desperation. During the last three pacts. It is our turn to do for ourselves and years in particular, that desperation found humanity what others have done for expression in armed invasion, raids and themselves and others. We must liberate massacres, in the use of armed bandits our country and make it independent to cause destruction, devastation and de- and sovereign for all its people, for South stabilisation throughout Southern Africa, ern Africa and our continent, for world and in numerous assasinations and brutal peace. torture of ANC activists and other This demands of us to wage resolute opponents of the apartheid regime. struggle at a level and on a scale that 3 D f N ______depicts victory. The intensity of that CALL struggle will demonstrate that the white Today, faced with the challenge of the minority regime cannot save itself by Botha constitution and the August elec terrorising, blackmailing and bullying tions, we address an appeal, a call to our African independent and sovereign states Indian and so- called Coloured compatri into becoming extensions of Pretoria’s ots to stand firm with the oppressed ma defence and security system. jority, to refuse to join the doomed apart heid system on the eve of the triumph of our long and bitter struggle. Hie ANC‘s call to them this valiant month of June is simply : DONT VOTE, DON'T ! If you vote you will be: — voting for perpetuation of the apart heid system, — voting for continued domination of the Black people by the white minori ty, — offering your sons and yourselves for military conscription into air army whose principal task is to fight the Pres. O.R.Tambo: We are not apartheid’s cattle. oppressed in South Africa*and terro- Botha and Machel inspecting the South African Secondly, we must crush the August and Mozambican guards of honour after signing elections by the vigour of our united the Inkomati accord. struggle and through an intense campaign exposing the danger and treachery of the elections and reasserting the poeple’s goal of a united, democratic and non- racial South Africa. Compatriots, Often in the many decades that our struggle has known, the enemy has attacked with his might, employing every means at his disposal in a bid to wipe out the liberation movement of the people and secure their submission to continued enslavement. At such times the best sons and daugh ters of our motherland have risen to meet the demands of the struggle. New leaders We must, with our united strength, give a lie to have emerged from among the people. Old the notion that the victory of our struggle leaders have rallied and stood firm. The depends on the absence of accords. masses of the people have fought back with unyielding courage and determination. rise the independent countries of Sout And consistently the blood of our youth hern Africa, has flowed to water the tree of freedom. — selling your own birthright and your It is some glorious pages that our people future for a mess of pottage, have written into the annals of their — helping the enemy to plant among us history. the seeds of disunity and prolonged 4 D^N bitterness. their collaborators seek as to drive or We must refuse to be herded into drag into their polling booths. In this apartheid's polling booths like cattle connection we shall need to pay par into abbatoirs: We are not apartheid's ticular attention to those of our so- cattle. We are men and women with called Coloured people who reside in a right and a will to say NO! to the the rural areas, in small towns and in polling slaughterhouse. On August 22 the Eastern Cape. and 28th therefore let us ensure that The campaign issues are daily before the enemy's booths stay lonely, empty us. They include in particular the quest and deserted places. That will serve to ion of forced removals. The issue of cement the unity of the Black opp forced removals anywhere should pro ressed in our common struggle for a voke solidarity actions everywhere, 'file people's government. entire country should be involved. None

If you vote you will be offering your sons and yourselves for military conscription into an army whose principal task is to fight the oppressed in South Africa and terrorise the indepen dent countries of Southern Africa. MOBILISATION The holding of the elections and the entire constitutional manoeuvre is an assault on the oppressed majority in our country and especially on the Afri can population. The defeat of this sinister scheme is therefore the task not only of our Indian and so-called Coloured com patriots but also, and even more impor tantly, of the African people. It is the task of every democrat. With the united might of our millions we must together rout the racists in Au gust and ensure progress towards people's Ih e Njnorai firry n o t m p v \ tng a iais* Oresm We wM. power. It is therefore essential that we f**er go to iuwytlits^ or engage in the widest and mo6t intensive reCisxii VN w*cr!»n>het mobilisation possible. We should reach M.d W*. t r -t 2-3 tors.” out to all those whom the racists and Thousands of students countrywide refuse to accept the system of education designed to serve the interests of white minority domination, of us should stand and watch while The reality is, however, that the apart thousands of our people are uprooted heid system cannot be reformed. What from their homes and dumped in the Botha, Malan, and Koomhof mean by wilderness like sacks of rotten potatoes. reform is their feverish attempt to streng then the bantustan system through the criminal Aliens and Immigration Laws Compatriots: Earlier this month racist Prime Minister Amendment Act which seeks to trans Botha invited himself to several count form Africans into foreigners in the ries in Western Europe where he masq land of their birth, and banish them to ueraded as a champion of justice and starvation and death in the bantustans. peace, and a self-appointed spokesman What they mean by reform is the con for the entire African continent. The tinuing pass raids and the genocidal mask was roughly tom away from his programme of forced removals. face by his reluctant hosts and the out raged people of Europe. But as he re CENTREPIECE turned from this ill-conceived and ill- In the struggle to frustrate the enemy's timed tour he sought to conceal the contitutional schemes we must there effects of the rebuff he had received fore intensify our campaign against the by repeating the lie that his regime bantustan system. This system is, after has embarked on a reform programme all, the centrepiece and the bedrock on which is founded the oppressive within our country. 6 constitutional arrangement. the underpaid black masses hard has There is the burning issue of educa been introduced. tion. Many educational institutions are Prices continue to grow by leaps and today dosed because thousands of black bounds. The number of the unemployed students countrywide refuse to accept increases with each passing day. In the system of education designed to the meantime the racists have sharply inc- serve the interests of white minority creased expenditure on their war machi domination. As parents and workers we ne. Large sums of money have been and too have to be involved in the struggle will be spent on the implementation of the new constitutional scheme and the for a free, democratic, non-racial, and compulsory system of education. further refinement of the apartheid The continuing struggles of the stu system as a whole. The wages we take dents, however localised they may home buy less each passing day. We spend more money in the shops and re appear, relate to this basic demand. turn home with half-empty baskets. Needless to say, the rest of the student population in our country, both Black bcrm ad by abort * and white, should pursue with greater O b the April I : •Petrol ran by 1J vigour and better co-ordination the m u ■ litre ta the • Mealie aeal a«d goal of a united natipnal assault to T n w u L other sail* f redacts destroy the present apartheid system of • Railwiy asd ak fans are to be iacreaaed by raat aa i w i j t a t 9.4 at laaat 13 perceat. education and replace it with one which This increase will aka corresponds to our aspirations. The mo •PoX office tariffs affect tbe price of mentum we have built up in struggle raw hy * perceat. other fooda aadi aa • Water tariffs oa the should not be lost. Our goal is a just Witwauraraad raaa by Otber tbiafa «h kh an system of education in a just society. 13.5 perceaL foiag to botsai aoaa Botha's constitution, like others be •Traaataal hospital are: • Rice, fore it, is a constitution for injustice, fees doubled. Sact Janaary: • Soap . waabla| which, among other things, seeks to • Browa bread baa powder etc perpetuate apartheid in education. Con riaaa f n a 43c to SOe •Biaqaka sequently, as we continue to intensify and whke bread from 53c to 60c. •Coal. our assault on the entire edifice of tCaisil foods ban • S q i r apartheid education, we should relate this to our offensive against the apart All this is happening because the heid constitution. Thus, the democra Pretoria regime and its backers are tic student movement should relate shifting the burden resulting from the the struggle for a just system of educa crisis of the apartheid economy onto tion to the struggle against the apart the shoulders of the oppressed and heid constitution. exploited. The time has come that we should call a halt to this attack on our living standards. The time has come CRISIS Piet Botha with his so-called reform that we wage a national campaign for programme pursues the aim of tight a just minimum wage which is tied to ening the screws of oppression. He is the cost of living index. also presiding over the ferocious exp The time has come that we combine loitation of the people and adds insult in action to push down prices, rents, to injury by forcing us to pay for his fares, and rates to levels that we can evil designs. By July the General Sales afford. Now is the moment that we the Tax will have gone up twice within the exploited should refuse to pay for our oppression. The democratic trade union year. A new income tax which will hit 7 D f N

Yes there will be springs Where little children of Soweto Mamelodi Mashu Langa Athlone Can drink wash or \ust simply SPLASH And like tadpoles Freely swim On all June sixteens to come

and women's movements have a special We Sizwe, our heroic youth, our militant role to play in spearheading the struggle workers and fighting women will play to ensure that the people refuse to pay their historic role and contribute mas for apartheid domination. sively to the build-up towards a determi ned, united, and nation-wide assault on Compatriots: the enemy's constitution and for the In saluting you this month of June, conquest of popular power in our country. on the eve of June 26, the anniversary of our national day of struggle, our LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE FOR call to you all is: organise, mobilise THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF and step up the mass offensive around AFRICA! immediate issues o f the day and the fundamental question of people's power. LONG LIVE OUR SOLIDARITY WITH Wc are confident that in that offensive SWAPO AND THE NAMIBIAN PEOPLE! the death-defying soldiers of Urrkhonto DOWN WITH RACIST DOMINATION ! 8

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OTHER METHODS OF MAKING ELECTRIC IGNITERS Instead of breaking the glass of the Before filling the bulb, however, torch-bulb as we described in DAWN the electric wires must be soldered No 1&2, 1984, you can Ole a small on In the same way as shown in DAWN bole in the glass and fill the bulb with No. 1&2. Seal the small hole in the glass your incendiary mixture or with pow with tape or with glue. This ignitor is dered match heads. Make sure the bulb used in the same way as described in is completely filled by tapping it to com DAWN No. 1&2, except that it never press the powder. has to be covered for protection.

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& ® 10 BOTHA- MALAN OFFENSIVE TURNING SOUR The grand design of the South African heid and their support for the ANC and racist regime, backed by the Reagan SWAPO. This is contained in the-Stock- administration to arrest the South Af holm meeting of the foreign ministers rican revolution and to import its control of Nordic and Frontline countries. over the whole of southern Africa, is P W Botha's visit to some eight western in tatters. For, despite efforts to pre countries was a hopeless failure. Instead sent a new ‘good neighbourly' face, of the bonus in favour of ending the Pretoria has only one constant course — apartheid isolation the cry everywhere the preservation and entrenchment of was that the isolation of apartheid white racist rule. will be intensified. Even the friends of The efforts of the racist regime to apartheid were forced to condemn build a cordon sanitaire around its apartheid in public. borders is meant to give credence to Meanwhile our people are displaying the false allegation that the African a new level of unity in action and de National Congress and its armed wing, termination to end apartheid. Pretoria Umkhonto we Sizwe is an external has played its reserve card and failed. force and that the root of the conflict This is why it is becoming more despe In South Africa is outside interference. rate. We should exercise great vigilance. The escalation of the struggle by the The African National Congress has entire population of our country and learnt from reliable sources that P W particularly the stepped up activities Botha and his generals are hatching of Umkhonto we Sizwe demonstrate plans to assassinate the leadership of for the world to see that our struggle the ANC. Its propaganda themes are is firmly based on our people. Pretoria intended to create favourable condi knows tiie truth because savage sentences, tions for execution of such plans. We court orders on limitation of burials, want to make * a timeous warning to arrests and closing of schools have not Pretoria to pause and contemplate the deterred our people. On the contrary consequences of such dastardly plans. all these acts of desperation have only At the same time Pretoria and some infuriated our people to mass united elements in the security forces of Swazi resolve to end apartheid whatever the land are trying to portray the ANC cost. as insensitive and inconsiderate about the death and burial of our combatants TOTAL OPPOSITION who died in Swaziland. Our movement The Botha-Malan offensive is turning did everything possible. Our official sour. The Frontline States have re representatives were not only denied affirmed their total opposition to apart access to our fallen and arrested comra- 11 D f N ______des but they in tum were arrested. We have not been given even their grave numbers. Despite all this, services took A PIT1 place wherever our people are in memory of the slain heroes. Everybody knows Veii Sitha that to bury our fallen we have gone to Thirty years ago on the 17th of Maseru, to Matola and to Harare to men April 1954, 150 delegates repre tion only a few places. We condemn most senting 230,000 women of all races, vehemently the secret burial of our two converged at Johannesburg in a comrades killed by the Swazi police in conference to found the Federa April 1984. tion of South African Women SLANDEROUS CAMPAIGN (FEDSAW). This organisation was The latest of Pretoria's slanderous to set itself the task of mobilizing campaign, assisted by some elements South African women to fight for within the Swazi police and security, equality and against all the mani is that the ANC is receiving copies of the festations of apartheid rule in one-million signatures presently being South Africa. collected by the UDF from our people Present at this historic meeting as a political act rejecting the constitu were outstanding women leaders of tional entrenchment of apartheid. This the calibre of Lilian Ngoyi, Helen is a desperate act by Pretoria to frighten Joseph, Francis Baard, Dora Tamana, our people from massively supporting Fatima Meer, Ray Alexander, Dorothy the campaign and it is a systematic plan Nyembe and many others from the paving the way for banning the UDF. African National Congress Women’s We call upon our people to reject this League. Although the main thrust of crude and fascist method of dealing the come-together was aimed at with opposition. thrashing out the issues that affect Our people shall always draw a dis women daily, the delegates demons tinct line between fraternal Swazi people trated a proper understanding of the who have always supported our struggle socio-political situation in our country and those elements who have sold their - linking the question of women’s souls and are in the pay of South African rights with that of the struggle for generals. liberation. We urge our people to raise still higher The founding of FEDSAW was and maintain the level of their vigilance, not the result of the conference. It political action and awareness and to was mostly initiated by the deve develop and consolidate the unity in lopment of women’s struggles dating action against our common enemy for as far back as the days of World people's power in a unitary non-racial War IL During those trying days, democratic South Africa. women saw the need to be orga THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! nised against shortages and high VICTORY IS CERTAIN! food prices. As a result of this, Food Committees were formed to ensure the fair distribution of food, AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS especially in the outskirts of the PRESS RELEASE cities. 26 JUNE 1984 Through the Food Committees and during occassions such as the 8th of March, women were able to 12 DAJN flNC TRIBUTE

meet and discuss issues affecting Women’s League attended. Thorough them. Their meeting were inspired assessment of the role that the women by the activities of organisations played in the Defiance Campaign of such as the Women’s International Unjust Laws influenced their decision

Meeting celebrating the 30th anniversary of FEDSAW’S founding

Democratic Federation which had begun of working towards the creation of an organising women in the struggle against organisation that could effectively war and for the retoration of lasting ensure fuller participation of women in our national liberation struggle. ^Activities such as these gave rise to At FEDSAW’S founding conference, the bringing together of women on the the women condemned the racist regime s 1st of April 1953 in Port Elizabeth apartheid rule that subjects us to po where leading women from the ANC verty, ignorance, ill-health and slave 13

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labour conditions. The women linked in the struggle because they have to their own struggles and their problems be home to cook, feed and look after with the struggles against the bills their families, and have to do a lot chat were before parliament and the of other chores without the help of political issues of the day. They also their husbands. spoke of the conditions under which The conference of the women sought children are brought up, lack of pro to educate their menfolk that women per family life, amenities and edu cation opportunities, the need for were half of the population and with schools, chreches, maternity homes, out their support and full participation the high rents and poor houses. in the struggle progress will look like a Delegates further underscored the mirage. The women’s conferencc also need and determination to fight against adopted a Charter of Women’s Rights the unjust laws, the Bantu Education demanding the right to vote, the Act, the Industrial Conciliaton Amend- right to full employment opportuniti mendment Act, the Population regis es, equal rights with men in relation to tration Act and the pass laws, ail of property, marriage and children, and which affected the lives of women, as for the removal of all laws and customs an urgent task. that deny women such rights. Above all, they pointed out that The inaugural conference also elected women were further victims of opp a National Executive Committee. Ida ression in their homes because of Mntwana, then President of the ANC tradition and custom. They failed to Women’s League, was elected President, i attend meetings and contrioute fully Gladys Smith, Lilian Ngoyi, Bertha 14 Mkhize and Florence Matomela were D f N elected Vice Presidents. Ray Alexander became Secretary. It is a fitting tribute indeed to the 30 years of struggle waged by our women through FEDSAW and other organisations, that the African Nati onal Congress, the vanguard of the oppressed masses of South Africa timely declared the year 1984 as the Year of Women. It is a tribute to the Women. It is a testimonial tribute to the spirit of no surrender that our women have demonstrated over the years irrespective of severe bannings, detentions, arrests, harrassment and victimisation. For instance comrades Lilian Ngoyi and Dora Tamane had bannings and harassment as part of their Helen Joseph, second national Secretary lives, but they fought without flinching o f FED SA W . for a moment till their last days. The life march forward with our men in the of Helen Joseph, the first person to be struggle for liberation and the defence of house-arrested in South Africa, has been the working people. As women, we have an ordeal no less. Today the regime is the burden of removing from our society -bent on silencing Albertina Sisulu. all the social differences developed in Dorothy Nyembe spent fifteen years in the past times between men and the racist dungeons. But the women’s women.” march to freedom continues. We cannat forget to make mention It is in this vein that in his message of August the 9th, 1956, a day when of January the 8th 1984, cde President 20,000 women marched to Pretoria Oliver Tambo, Commander-in-Chief of to register their protest against the the people’s army Umkhonto weSizwe extention of passes to women. We said/Our struggle will be less than power are convinced that both men and women ful and our national and social emanci pation can never be complete if we will fullfil our special task and respond continue to treat the women of our positively to the call made by the NEC country as dependent minors and of the African National Congress duri objects of one form of exploitation ng 1984, Year of the Women, to orga or another. Certainly no longer sho nise and mobilise our womenfolk into uld it be that a woman’s place is in a powerful, united and active force the kitchen. In our beleagured for revolutioanry change. country, the woman’s place is in the We commend our women to join battlefront of struggle.* in their greater numbers the ranks of Having taken full note of this our people’s army, Umkhonto weSirwe call made by our President Oliver so as to better be able to fulfil the Reginald lim bo, we as women have to tasks that history has imposed on us. transform these words into action. Let Together as men and women engaged in us as women say, all in one voice, again the bitter struggle for liberation of our and again, what we spelled out in the motherland, South Africa, we all say- Women’s Charter, 30 years ago that, »In forward to the Year of the Women! and through our various organisations, we Aluta Continual 15 THE FINAL D

The racist South African regime rece ntly completed the signing of the Inkomati Accord with Mozambique. This diplomatic offensive got many members MADE \ of our organisation the ANC pushed out WillinkiM of Mozambique. The behind-the-scenes »peace pact* signed between Pretoria and Swaziland also had its own special impact resulting to the rounding up of ANC members, clashes and shoot ing, raids and beatings, deportations, detentions and torture affecting even those members who were granted poli tical asylum twenty years ago. Using its economic muscle and the LLA bandit group to destabilise Lesotho, Pretoria seeks to squeeze the young king dom to concede to its machinations and conclude a (security pact*. This move is aimed at reducing the ANC’s presence in that country. Botswana has since been reluctant to »welcome» the racists’ »peace initiatives.* Angola, the first to sign an accord with Pretoria publicly in Lusaka, gave its assurance to this undertaking with one thing in mind: the withdrawal of the racist troops from its soil. It made it dear from the start that Pretoria was the aggressor and it would not sacrifice SWAPO’s presence in Angola. The unconditional pull-out date was set as from the 31st January and was to Carbomb chaos Limpet Collection Number: AK2117

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