Re: Violence and the South African Government

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Alternative title Re: Violence and the South African Government Author/Creator Akwei, Adotei Publisher Africa Fund Date 1991-03-18 Resource type Reports Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Coverage (temporal) 1990 - 1991 Source Africa Action Archive Rights By kind permission of Africa Action, incorporating the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and the Africa Policy Information Center. Description Unlock 's Jails. State of Emergency. . . Tembisa. Alexandra. Security police. Civil Cooperation Bureau. CCB. Inkatha. Congress of Traditional Leasers of South Africa. Bheki Mlangeni. Violence. KwaZulu. ANC. Natal. Format extent 1 page(s) (length/size)

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A caxpaagn initiated by The Africa Fund. Binl Cosby Honorary cha~mn DuMisaxd S. Kurnalo Memo To: South Africa Support and Human Rights Groups From: Adotei Akwei, Research Department Re: Violence and the South African Government 3/18/91 The State of Emergency in Bophuthatswana was finally lifted on March 7, but harsh emergency regulations remain in force in Soweto, Tembisa and Alexandra, where over 50 people died in fighting between Inkatha fighters and supporters of the ANC over the weekend. On March 3, the government announced that the infamous security police would be disbanded and its 4,000 officers merged with the main detective force, the Criminal Investigation Department. Anti-apartheid activists reacted skeptically to the announcement in light of similar government promises in response to the scandal. In July of 1990 the government disbanded the dreaded Civil Cooperation Bureau death squad which had been implicated in many cases of political assassination during the 1980s and said it was merging its officers with the defense forces. But at the end of February 1991 the government was found to have spent millions on the CCB beyond the original amount designated for 1990. On February 15 Bheki Mlangeni a lawyer who had been involved in exposing the story of the CCB was assassinated by a bomb, of a type known to have been used by the same CCB. On the 26 of February Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) and an ANC ally, was gunned down outside his home. It does not take much to realize that for reform in South Africa to be of any real value it must move from in front of the television camera to the streets of South Africa, where lives are being lost at an alarming rate every day. The government's claim that the violence is the fault of organizations recently unbanned ignores a number of facts: 1. The documented evidence of the security forces participating in the mayhem and aiding Inkatha thugs. 2. That this so called surge of violence has been present for years. Natal was conveniently ignored for the last five years because it suited the government's purpose to have the ANC and Inkatha neutralizing each other so the government did all it could to fan the fire. Courts in Natal have yet to bring a single Inkatha warlord to trial. KwaZulu police actually disarmed ANC supporters before and during Inkatha attacks. The Pretoria regime and its puppets in KwaZulu helped establish the rule of the warlord and spread the culture of violence. They must help end it. Until the government stops tinkering with reform and shows an real desire to end the rule of hit squads, vigilante violence and state repression, we here in the United States must provide it for them. There can be no business as usual, no rewards fop public relations reforms, and no symbolic lifting of any sanctions. The Afrios Fund, 198 Brbadfwa NOW lftzk, N.Y iO00W (212) 9ft-1210 TildnJ. L&MOII O6 Davis Chawrman Executi oer&&or