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~ THE INDEPENDENT Monday 4 May 1992
European The South AfricaD 1l0vernmeDl 15 uDderstood to br IlMDtbusw tic about an IDternltional mission The Synod of the proposal scrutiDisiDg the lItCUrit) fot cts. Bishops of the bat both the govern_at and tbe The questloa wal dbcuned at Anglican Church, aD lDformaJ meetiac ofEC fo~ign IDbtba Freedom Pam' Ila' f to monitor mial.ten that eDded ID Portupl stated tul electiolls art oiat of the 3 May 1992 question while tbt towtibip wars 011 Saturday. "All art agrHd OD tbt UfJeDCY or the problem IDd persisL DiplollUlu bope to ftJJd a tilt Deed to do 5OJMtbiDg. Wbat formula for IDlervtlltioa that Mil 'We callan the SA police bt diftlcuJt to ~isL The suppon lias DOt beta decided vet a~ tbe Convention for a M the AtriaD National CoDgJ"fss. modal.idel or tbt EC rOle." I Eu Derrocratic South ropean diplomat said. AmoDl tbe whose presldeDt. Nelson Mande Fr..- Job Carlin ta. bas raiJed tbt IIUItter both Africa to VDrk in Johannesburg aJternatins UDder scrutiDv art aD EC Illisslo.. a bod) co~prislog ltith Mr EllellUlnD-JeDsfD aDd quickly towards OAl leaden, is IlW"aIIleed. THE !aropeu C_aDiay is membrrs of the OrpaisaooD or AfricaD Ualt), (OAUl - perhaps 11lt SolIdi Africu .J-dkiar:v setting up an in plIttiIIc its wdPI behi.cI propos. bKbd b,· tJ.t CommooweaJth lias jobIed dw cm-r for artioo ternational IIDni als for Ihf muoDctioa M IDler aplut dw poIb. At a.e ead oIa atioaal Ia dw South ud I UN croup. taring force to --.on ~ triaJ last W'Ilek Ia wtIk:Il a ~ Africaa towubl.-, cIipiomau said iaitiative lias come at the iastiptioo of l'fte EliemaDD-JeD aptaiD was fond pBtJ ~ n po be present in yesterday. ~ aim .rtJ.t miuloD seD. the Danish Fomgo MiDister. UtIcaJ murders and _ae.cecl to woa.Id br te keep aD eye 011 polict situations of who visited Soutb Africa lasl deatk, the JudctllJ"led a pOlk ill Ia Ihf f'WI-Up to electioas. moDth. He coacluded tbat tbe st' tpiry illto the brUTiov ~dIr p0 conflict. ' 1lW trill br oe Ihf aeeoda QeD curi~ fo~s lice. A Sapraar eo.n JMIt. I troika 01 EC foreip miJIislers. lacked tbe popular cred.ibili~· D~ssar:v J.... Dtdcott, aJau ... daat tilt tbt Britis!&, Dutch ud Portu to supen;se I democratic traDsitioD. . poIk:t Werf pJIty M plaaatac and peK. rislt South Africa. ; COIIlJJIJtt1D& mlll"den. S African Cabinet divided' over OAD monitoring visit By Chrlltopher Munnlon In Johannesbur& SOUTH AfricaD Cabinet minisler; . Mr ,\Iexander said the OAU's rwwe"er, hardEners in the Cabi· Meanwhiie. the governmem I~ were at each other's throats yester net see the visil as setting a danger iDvohed in a row over the ~Iease dilY over a government decision 10 aim was to "identify the perpetra ous precedent for full·>( all' foreign from prison of a lormer KwaZulu welcome a visit by an Organisation tors of the orchestrated violence interference in the South African policeman. Richard .Shange = of African Unity team 10 monitor and investigate the causes". Its constitutional nej:0liations. They kno" n as "The Beast - Just ,)6 lhe violence in black townships. findiDgs would be conveyed to the are particularly IIlcensed by the days into- a 27·year sentence for As Mr Neil van Heerden, direc· OAU and the United NatioDs o'to fao thai some delegates are Irom murder. tor-general of the foreign Affairs bring pressu~ to bear on tbe per countries ravaged by their own Department. said the government petrators". be said, political and tribal violence. would request all relevanl South He added that the team would Violence and demonstrations African authorities 10 assist the continued in Pietermarillburg yes OAU team. Mr Hernus Kriel. Law "not probe anned struggle vio· terday. A com'oy es(orting an In· p~sumalJly and Order Minister. was telling lence' 0 bec'ause the katha F~edom Party committee reporters foreign interference was PAC's armed wing has boasted "out of the question". openly of its polit-y of murdering member. Mr David Ntombela. was The Cabinet appeared bitterly South African SOlicemeD. black attacked by gunmen OD the out and white. on an off duty. skirts of the city. divided. particularly because the foreign Ministry sources said Mr Ntombela was unhurt. but visit was announced'by the radical that in giving the OAU tum f~e blamed the African National Con· Pan-Africanist Congress. whic h cress for the attack. which he said has boycotted the constitutional access. South Africa would show it was an assassination attempt. The negotiating process and remains had nothing to hide. They added that there was "every likelihood" coovoy had been arranged to take committed to violent revolution. Zulu workers home because of Mr Benny Alexander. the PAC tbat South Africa would be join the what he called "the ANC strangle· secretary-general, said the five OAU before the end oftbe year. hold" in t.he area. nation monitoring group. including members from Algeria. Congo, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe. would arrive in Johannesburg next week. The team would be led by Maj-Gen Ike Nwachukwu. the Nigerian Foreign Minister. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH * TUESDAY. MAY 5, 1992 'Stench of '\(1 "'3 SAfricajudge corruption'Ii tzj links police surrounds ~ t.z.l t3 ~ ~ tomurders Pretoria :1 ON 1 Fd>tI.aty Ia$l }'Qr, II die ~ or parliamen~ F W de By Christopher Munnion In Johannesburg IC*t wweiled wII.!, ~ called bis Scandals have led to "w.iloSlo lot tile New Sour!! Af· a crisis of credibility SOUTH AfricA's Law and ),ir Kriel. who has striven to rica", ~d '" rally aD !hOS< he Order Minister. Mr Hernus ddt!nd the South African ...~b1eSoutll . THE INDEPENDENT Thursday 7 May 1992 Release of Kheta Sbange, a ICwaZuiu po licemu and IIIfmber or. lilt WidlllI ~ days of Hntalcc, tIM SA policeman lauth. Freedom Parey;... CO& thell MiDister ofJIIItkt ad Cor vitUd last May Oa out C!OGIlt of rectioBal Services, ~ Coetsu. IIUU'dtr aDd thtee 01 aaempsed decided tbat Shana:e wouJd be reo sparks outcry murder. ID all foIIr cUes tie ~ leased 011 parole' Op 29 &by this JOHANNESBVIlG - HlUIIU tlcns were DOWD MricaIl'Natioul y~. it eUle~ Ia parli.llDCat OIl npts lawyers cIeoo!lDCeCl yater CoDgreSS suppor'terf. 1\e JudIe Tue£da)'. But, Glriqc 10 .... Mr C~, ~, clay "the DUer coateapt" lor die lD the cue said Sballlt wu "ODe AdrIaa.a jadldary !II5~e(by tile Soatb or the maIJI playen ill.the rap of VIok, de&erlbed U III "aIIm1ais Attk&a peiluDeat'foIIowiaI a terror whIch all&ed • Kwa. tnallve tOIDpater eJTOr", Sbaqe rel~ed decisioD to rtlcue aft« DiM Masbu", I towIlSblp outsWe Dv~ was olll.rFebrurj. 1DOIltb5 • poliullWl 5tlltateell to baD•.-you are, ill my 91N, a beast 7.7 yean iB jail, writQ JoIv) Qutin. lD polkemaD's dodan •••tt ILiving under the shadow of Big Brother RIME K1DiIter Hap ~ tioa for South Mric. through P lOb 01 Namibia th1Db the Codesa, be empbuised the im As Namibia enters Its third year of Independence, Its Soutll AfricaII GoVenuneDt hu portance of consensus in the PrIme Minister looks back, In an Interview with DOt fuD1 DYed up to Ita nspoa drafting of a new constitution GERALD L'ANGE, Editor of The Star Africa service, I1billty lio beIp IliI c:oaatly fiDd - aDd of tbeo educ.tiD& people ita feet ID the ftnt, ahaky yean to UDderstaDcl the constitution. with some Irritation at South Africa's attitude, but oflDde~. Namibia was, in some ways, with optimism for the future. In All IDtervi_ ID IliI office a atep ahead of South Africa iD Wi.Ddboek be spoke plalDly aDd the Republic might be able about bla dlaappolDtmeIIt at to IMm a llttle from Namibia's Is saying: 'It Is my constitution'. "But .1Dee we took over, wbat Pretoria', failure to JIve Nami ex~ence,he said. That Is already a unifying fac bave you (South Afrlc.) done to bia aid, Ita retuaal to write off 'We have ,tarted a process tor, creating patriotiam In the allo abow loodwill! SlappiDa us the R700 m111ion debt the COUD here, where there was apart people. with debt. The Walvia Bay ques· try IDberited at IndepeDdeDce heid! where there was hatTed "Give and take in drafting a tion. and ita reluctaDce to haDd ovw c.used by the South African constitution is very important." "That ia a very emotional WalrilBay. .,..tem. To fmd one another ia When It wu· put to him that Iaaue. About eo percent of thole " He a1Io expn!lIIIed atroII& ra- Important because baaically we constitutions in the eDcI were at iD Walvia Bay are NamibiaDl. ervatioaa about the ImplemeD all, white and black, In this part the mercy of the armed forces, It'. a colonial IItuatioo. De<» taUCIII 01 the Cuatoma Union of Mric. yMrn for the same Mr Geingob replied: "Well, we lonialng and mUng off the debt that Namibia abarea, UDder the thlnp. bope the era of the armies Is would Iiave been a way to abow dominaUon of South AfrIca, "When you don't get together over now. I thiDk people are goodwill." with leVer-al other countries. and llhare your views then you tired of those kinds of things. Mr Geingob said biJ govern· At the same time Mr ~ are afraid of the unknown. The best thing really is to live meat regarded the joiDt admin· gob, wbo p-layed a IMdiD& role When you sit down together and by the constitution. Istration of Walvis Bay that was In Swapo, 1011& f1&ht qaiDat araue It out, in the process of Asked about his government'. now being implemented AI • South African domination of hia drafUng • constitution, you re relations with South Africa, the temporary meuure. country, defeoded bla eovem aliae that you have the same ob Prime Minister liated leveral Mr Geingob compared Pre meat" poDcy of recoocl.1lD& the jectives and goals." "irritants". After independence toria's fallure to provide aid former advenaries aDd the cIif- He said nobody should feel the Swapo government bad with the support that other "co .. , fereot race &J'OUplI iD Namibia, they were forced to adopt some tried to give goodwill to South lonial" countries had conUnued and of maiDtalning cloee rela one else's constitution, as some Africa, be said, "because we to give to tbeir former depen. tiOlll with Pretoria. Zimbabweans feit about the don't bave anything else to dencies after independence. Despite Swapo" past advo constitution they got from Lan· give". "Everywhere else countries cacy of aocialllt ldeaa, the cuter HoUle. It had invited President de are writing off debts owed by Prime Minister expreued un "We are very proud of tbe K1erk to the independence cere poor countries. Now bere is • equivocalaupport for free mar- fact that we drafted our own monies despite objections from young country trying - in ket ecooomlca. . constitution. It is now not a other African countries and bad South Africa's interests, too - ADd, in commenting on the Swapo constitution or a DTA agreed to maintain diplomatic . to foster race relations wbere efforla to abape a new dispeusa- one but everybody in Namibia relations. apartheid existed before." Namibia had retained many problem faced by Namibia whites in the over·large civil and also Zimbabwe and perbaps service and bad proVided in the in time South Africa - as pe0 constitution for existing con· ple begin complaining that in tracts to be honoured. dependence has not improved ''That was just to protect the their lives. wbites, and we ought to be "Firstly by educating the pe0 helped in that process. We are ple," be said. "We are sitting on not being helped. Instead' we a volcano tbat could erupt any have debts and the whole bud· day. That's Why I appeal to the get deficit. And that's not help opposition parties and the news· ful to our relationsbip." papers to be careful." Mr Geingob noted, bowever, Mr . Geingob listed three that Pretoria had given conces· priorities in tackling the prob aionary terms for the repay lem: first, to reactivate the ment of the debt. economy; second, to narrow the He said another irritant was income gap between the richer South Afric.'s "big brother" and poorer sections; and third, role in the Customs Union, to control public expenditure. wbich appeared to have been "You cannot distribute pover set up primarily to serve South ty," he said, "you can only i ;Softly-softly into land refornt NE OF tbe ftIIt1Iea of trarUy established prices. cau.e 70 percent of the Namibian SoutIl African apartheid in In Namlbi., by cootrut. thoee popul.tion is dependent on agri Namibia la 1M f.ct that to wbom commerci.l f.nnl.nd culture, pressure on land in the Omore than balf 1M l.nd is was previously inaccasible .re northern third is intense. alloc.ted to • white popul.tion slowly entering 1M market with The All'lculture Bank, a revised I comprisiDI lea than 5 percent of 1M IUpport of Agriculture Bank version of the Land Bank of the the total. loans. fonner South African administra LaIXi refonn therefore la poten Land in Namibia la dIvided into tion, cam~ into operation in Jan ti.lIy as bot .n issue in N.mibi. the so-c.lIed commercial .rea u.ry. Five weeks ago, it Intro a it la in Zimbabwe. But Namibia lOath of the veterin.ry cordon duced Ita fint support scheme and hu up to now lODe .bout resolv fence .nd communal land to 1M accordinl to general manager ing it in • manner very different north. The fence, or red line as it Pennain Erlank, four of the first from 1M Zimbabwe'l policy of ar la known, was erected by the for nine applications h.ve been ap bItrary expropriation. mer .dministration to keep dis proved, totalling Rl,3 million. The land refonn question was eased livestock out of the com dlscuaed at • consultative confer mercial .reas. It effectively cuts At the end of this month a fur ence lut ye.r with a representa of the northern third of Namibia ther 31 applications will be eva luated worth R13,7 million. tive II ce of the N.mibian com and excludes fanners there from munlt} From thlI, legisl.tion will 1M commercial markets. The loans are interest free for follow ,n due coune. This wa the work of the OdeD tbe first two years and then inter In tt ~ meantime, • quiet IOrt of daal Commission, whicb In 1964 est rises to a maximum of 14 per afflnn tive .ction tailored to re divided Namibia Into 33,3 million cent over an extended period. lpond ..0 n.tural changes of land hectares assigned to black home They are designed to attract the OWDel"f.oip is taking pl.ce. l.nds or communal areas and l.rger and stronger of the com In Z nbabwe, 11 years .rter in 34,9 million hectares to the white munal (in other words, black) depeDL ~nce, the festering land commercial farmers. fanners into commercial areas. issue t.&! erupted in controversy The white population la, bow The fanner has to prove his with It' ;isl.tion providing for gov ever, no more than 70000 of Na bona fides with support from his ernme· l expropriation at arbi- miblll'~ 1.4 million people. And be- local chief and there has to be proof that when he moves out, he elcited .bout, bas generated it.s '-r"ber'1I I'!t 1M message." said does so completely. The govern own problems." , Mr Erlank conridently. ment has no desire to see the Mr Erlank agrees that the lanJ Land prices 'in N.mibi. vary white absentee landlord problem price has indeed been pusheQ up enormously. depending on the in Namibia replaced by a similar by opportunistic farmers but he quality of tbe l.nd. problem among the wealthier believes they will soon lee the In the eastern Gobabis district. memben of the black community. error of their ways .nd drop ttielJ' which is good cattle country. a The soft-loan scheme bas a dual prices again as the bank does not fair price per hectare is about .Im: to give the black farmer ac intend handing out loans reg.rd Rl00 wherea m the arid !Outh a cess to commercial land, while in less of the price of I.nd. hectare may fc!tcb R40. the communal area he vacates, "The land price now is too IUp ''I'm s~ it'~ goin, to work:' pressure on land is eased and four The farmers think they c.n ex said Mr Erlank of the scheme. He to five smaller farmers can ex ploit the scheme but we h.ft to also pointed out a complete mis tend their activities. protect the .prllcants becaWle fi apprehension th.t commerci.1 When Finance Minister Otto nally they wll h.ve to pay back farmers were suffering as a result Herrigel fint spoke to Star Africa the money .nd we can't just dump of affirmative action directed at Service about the scheme earlier them into debt. But within a year, commun.l farmers. this year, he was clearly excited. if not sooner, the farmers wili Last week Infonnation Minister know what's wbat." "The Mmmercl.1 farmen bave Hldipo Hamutenya sounded de Under the scheme, the commu not been overlooked. Loans to jected. According to him, the mo nal farmer Identifies the I.nd he them are .vall.ble at 14 percent ment the scheme came into effect wants to buy and nel0tiates with now as or-posed to 18 percent pre It was sabotaaed by a sudden in the owner. He then approaches the viously, and we bave a scbeme for crease In the price of white-owned bank for the loan and if the price • 12 percent loan for infrastruc land, thereby once alaln making is too high the loan is refused. turallmprovements on f.rms. the land beyond the reach of black The communal fanner may re "I think the commerci.1 f.nn farmers. turn to the land owner and say the ers in Namibl.. are better off than "So It won't work," he said. "The bank is willing to provide the loan their counterparts in South scheme Itself, which we were so but 8t a realistic price. Afrlc.... 0 sters ed to ofANCmen THE presellt chid ()f starr ," lure complicity in ~olitic.11 "10· Soulh Afric~n milit;!". intell from John Carlin in Johannesburg !cnce goes. For Gen ~an tlcr Wesl· i~("nce. Gern:r~1 CP -y~n der hllizen, in hL~ capacily as heall of \Ve~rhuilcn, was dlrectlv inYtllved The document says: "IlLs j)ro One of tile cabinci members sit· Soulh Afrlcan Defence Force ill :hc :tjs·,t;Sill~\ions o(four lead posed thai the abo~·e-mentiooed tl[\g on Ihe sse at the time was intelligence. controls:l huge socrct in~ ~nt;-ar~Tt;,cjd a;:tMSIS in 1985_ pcrStlllS ;LX perrnanenlly removed Pilo; Datha. who remains Fore,gn budgel authorised in March lhi~ occonJing 10 ~ reporl puNi.~lled from society, as a maHer oi Uf Minisler to Ihis dOl)'. Another W:lS year by Mr de KJerk's Cabinel. loda)· in Johanncsburg's N,!,,- '....a ~ency." On 27Junc 1935, M...tthc.... ~1.'IgnU! Malan. Defence Minister The Special Defence Account. liun n~"' , • THE GUARDIAN r 5 Friday May 8 1992 • rl-II- or ---rk I Dayld lIara.foni crallc South AfMca (Codesa) The Mall· has uncovered a In Johanna.bur. The -document is marked the country's constitutional ne secret police base apparently "Personal for General van gotiating forum - opens next used to organise covert attacks HE South Al\ican govern· New Nation reproduce!· 'an Rensburg" and says: "Tele .Frlday. on political activists. It has es ment faces a pollllcal eM· army signal, marked "ex phone discussion .. General . The central Issue at Codesa tablished lhat plainclothes sis today with fresh alle- tremely secret", which appears van Rensburg/Brlgadier van was expected to be the question police there have been using of state responsibility for the gations about the conducl of Ihe to amount 10 a death warrant der Westhulzen, 7 June '85 flctitious company names, b0 security forces, Including a for Gonlwe. Sent on June 7, refers." continuing political violence. gus vehicle registration plates. claim that the chief of military 1985 - 20 days before the four The defence force has refused Although the government may falsely-registered air·pagers Intelligence, General C. P. van were found murdered - It says to comment on the document, argue the murders p~ate the and code numbers. Other such der Westhuizen, was personally the disclosure of which appears De Klerk presidency. and his bases are believed to exist. involved in one of the country's It Is "proposed" \hat three constitutional initiative, the named anti-apartheid activists to conflrm previous Informa· It quotes affidavits by activo most nOloMous murders. shock effect of the report "are permanently removed tlon suggesting the mUltary ists who have been taken to the The 1985 murder of Matthew coupled with other evidence of from society. as a matter of played a part In the klllings. base to be Interrogated about Goniwe and three colleagues The implications are Im state involvement in current the activities of ANC members urgency." violence - wlll have a bIg Im ranks In notoriety with the kUl· Two of the three named. Gon mense, particularly In view of and offered weapons training Ing of SIeve Biko. Their muti· Brigadier van der Westhulzen's pact. and money to carry out attacks Iwe himself and Fort Calata, Il Is difficult to see how Ihe lated and charred bodies were were among those killed. The promotion since the murden on them. found beside their burned-out from chief of the army's East· negotlatlons can survive unless third. Mblilelo Gonlwe - a rela· I President F. W. de Klerk either car near Port Elizabeth In 1985. tive of Matthew - was not ern Province command to one The government claimed at of the two most senior Intelli· manages to discredit the among the murder victims. claims, or makes big conces the time that they were ylctims The signal was sent to the gence posts In the country. Il of "black on black" violence sions on future control of the secretariat of the slate security also raises the question of as to and rejected allegatlons ofsecu security forces. council from the "Eastern Prov which members of the present rily force involvement. South African cabinet were ac The Gonlwe report will be But a Johannesburg news Ince Joint management centre" given addltlonal impact by a - part of a covert, country complices In the murder as paper reports today that It has members of the stale security further set of disclosures today wide network of espionage and by the Johannesburg Weekly documentary evidence showing council. they were murdered on the security units then maintained Mall, showing apparent police by the Ilovernmenl. The report has Immediate pe orders of the state security Iltical ramiflcatlons because involvement In recent political council, a body headed by the the second plenary sessIon of vIolence In the Vaal area. president and Including senior the Convention for a Demo- around Sharpeville. cabinet mlnlsten. Death-squadscanda --its talks meeting of a crucial working 'My plea at this critical time is m~~es .accused of many group tomorrow and the deal that all of us, speciflCll1ly the atrocities - mto the same Pie Alllater s..-.. could be in place for 0x1esa 2, leaden of the National Party termaritzbUlJ area. Tiie disclosure5 provide the ~ ~nd plenary of the 00II- and the ANC. must keep their The batallion's arrival tria IANC with heavy amm\lJlitbi A rna of explosive scandals stltutJonal convention, to gaze on the absolute necessity of gered massive demonstratioDs, against the iOvemment, but • implicating the South African rubber-stamp it next weekend. reachinc an agreement on our culminating in I state of emer- Nicholas Haysom, ofthe ANC's A breakdown now, tumina new constitution and future.' gency being declared in the area iOvernmettt in death-squad constitutional Codesa 2 into a bitter slanging The renewed allegations on Friday. This was foUowed by Iained. it mustCOmmission'5use this care killings has blasted the gloss off matc~, ~ President F. W. de Klerk's could P.ut.the whole began with a court case in Natlll tbe government orderina tile to avoid provoking 8 hac recent referendum victory and cess mto a tailspm. In the ijght which revealed damning evi- quick release or two poI!cemen against the nqotiations withiu sent shudders through the deli ofthis the ANC has avoided any dence of police collusion with imprillooed for political mlll' the National Party. cately poised constitutional direct attack on De KJerk him- Inkatha in waging a 'black-on- den. Ketbani • described 'Pear of 8 future Nurembura negotiationa.. self, though it is now clear he black' war against the ANC, by his trial iudie u '. beast ill trial could do that,' Ha}'3Olll has been misleading the country m~ II innocent people poIicr clothina'. was Creed after said. 'So I think you'll see the De KJerlt and the African for months with assurances that and covermg up their action. serving nine months or • 7:1- National Congress are moving ANC downpla the individull all covert military and police The government com- year sentence, and Thulanie culpability :::::k but play up ill cautiously to prl"vent the disclo operations had ceased. ~ed matters by first silenc- Philip after serving 17 months sures from wrecking the talks. own demands for jomt control De KJerk, while denying the mg the brave police officer who ofan IS-year sentence. ofthe security forces.' The disclosures have come at Cabinet approved assassination refused to join the conspiracy If these events seemed to The ANC said there wu now a particularly sensitive time, of black activists. has ordered and arresting his colleagues, indicate a government oblip_ '8 host of compelling evideDcr with the negotiations on the judiciaJ investigations into the then appointing 8 qIlIgistrate tion to police officers commit indicatinc high crimes brink of a climactic break or allegations. Both seem to be with 8 tainted record to head an ling acts of politk;al violence. extreme vavity' on the part of through. Agreeme.nt on an heeding 8 call by Democratic inquiry into the cover-up, and apparent confumaoon came on the secunty forces. But Nelsoo elected interim government is PaT!r leader Zach de Beer, 8 key fInally sending its notorious 32 Friday when N_ Naricm. I Mandela, asked about De tantalisingly close. One more mediator, who said on Friday: Batallion - a unit of Angolan progressive weekly newspaper, Klerk's role, replied cautiously that 'it is not possible to have - published 8 document which ------::------=--=:--======--_ appears to show that three any preconceived views, but it important Eastern Cape leaden is a matter of crucial impor were assassinated in 1985 on tance'. orders from the State Security Mandela went on to say that ,Council - then headed by General C. P. van der Westhu , P-resident P. W. Botha and izen, the originator of the assu including key memben of the sinarion document, should be present Cabmet, among them suspended from duty. Foreign Minister Pik Botha and DeKJerk. On the same day, the We,A!ly. Mail e~ 8 police death :squad'still acting against ANC memben in Sebokena town jship, south ofJohannesburg. ANC says it and government willing to put all units under one command • n rol I secret bases in the southern army said it was investigating him anonymously through the David Beresford Transvaal. the reports "as a matter of posl Maj-Gen Holomisa said he In JDhannesburv The ANC reacted to the dis urgency". had a file detailing the involve closures with unexpected The intelligence chief in· ment of the Pretoria govern· HE African National restraint yesterday, issuing a volved, General C. P. van der ment and its security forces in Congress believes it has statement calting for a commis· Westhuizen. was said to be "on destabilisation operations and reached an agreement sion of inquiry into the claims. holiday". murder. His own intelligence , with the South African but nothing more. It had been The police confirmed the ex· staff were examining the other I government for joint control of expected that the liberation istence of police bases in the documentation he had received. I the security forces as well as movement would, at the very Vaal area, near the township of When they were finished he the country's so-called "private least, threaten to call ofT the Sharpeville, but claimed that planned to release details. armies". constitutional talks if Pretoria they were for the legitimate •A scandal appears In the The deal. if confirmed at the failed to make big concessions surveillance of gun·runners. A making alter a commission of next plenary session of the Con on control of the army and spokesman said the allegations inquiry report tabled yesterday vention for a Democratic South police. that the bases were being used exposing widespread COITUP Africa lCoCape Town yester· had been released to a Johan· premo until last week's cabinet allegations that police have day. Publicly, the state contin nesburg newspaper by his re·shuffle when he. too, was been orchestratinG an as· ued to hedl;e yesterday in its office. said to be suffering "exhaus· sassination campaign from reactions to the allegations. The He said it h'ad een sent to tion". ~ THE INDEPENDENT Friday 1May 1992 ___ ::c""=-- -======White SA policeman sentenced to d.~ath CAPTAlN Brian MitcheU of u.: South Wilson rejected the criminologist's lice captain who eventually solved tbe African police 110'll5 sentenced to death From Jon CarliD findings. Captain MitcheU, be said, bad case last August had !>oen wbjeeted to yesterday by a judge in the Pietermar in Johannesburg abused bis position as cbief of police in intimidation. ilZburg supreme court for the k.illing,of the Trust Feeili region by planning an Yesterday Justice Wilson reiterated a II people - si.l women. three men "?'1 ., ,On Monday and Tuesday, counsel operation aimed i1t k.illing innocent call he made last wed. for a public in two children - woo he WfO/\8Iy be for Captain MitcbeU had sought to ar people "whose sole fault was support quiry to establish how far up the hierar lieved to have been supportcn of the gue in mitigation of sentence. A crimi ing a legitimate organisation he was op cby the police cover-up bad gone. African National Congress. nologist reauited by poIicc lawyers de posed to". He said Captain Mitchell's The first response of tbe Commis Four "special poIicc CODE'.tbles" scribed him as a "normal, caring, conducI after the massacre had been sioner of the South African police to found guilty of carrying out the respectable: person" and dedicated offi "completdy cold-blooded", his inune the judge's verdict came last Friday shootings, inside a bouse wbere a wake cer woo bad reg..rded birnself as a sol diate reaction having been to plan a when he appointed an internal police was in progress. were elICb sentenced to dier in time ofwar. She also argued that cover-up. inquiry. a deci>ion which generated an 15 years in jail. Justice Andrew Wilson Captain MitcbeU bad been drunk and Last week the judge dwelt at lc:ngth unusually fierce reaction from the said be bad spared the lives of the four, bad acted "00 tbc spur of the moment" on the CO\Ier-up, which he said had ex South African press. wOO be found to have been Inbtba 00 the night of the massacre, wblcb tended up to police headquarters in The Juhannesburg Scar called on Sat supporters selected and trained :1Y the took place in Trust Feeds IOwnslup, Na Pretoria. He found 100 that the officers urday for the Commi~ioner of Police police, because they bad acted 00 Cap tal, on 3 Decemll':r 1988. involved had been promoted - one of to be "lUed", arguing that until that tain MitcheU's orders. In passing sentence yesterday. Justice them to general - while the honest po- happened, "De Klerl will sbare the populati,~n rej~ting blame for the misdeeds of his security other black people ...The effect will be into their organi force,". The Sowt'cu,~ In a front-page simply to confIrm the belief that !be sation, lI'~ ANC." editorial on the township violence, SAP is the 'third force' that operates ev Reinforcing such perceptions, Law wrote: "Our hearts tell us state complic elv\l,'here in this season of s1aught.c:r and yers for HUI1llIIJ Rights (lliR). a Pre ity grows by the day." atrOCity." toria-based organisation. revealed yes The Johannesburg ,SunJQy TvneJ, a Tbe ANC, vindicated in their percep terday that a police detective bad been newspaper generaUy sympathetic to tions as never before by the biggest-sell relea.sed from Frison after serving only FW de Klerk., IHOt.c: an edItorial so ing newspaper in South Africa, re nine mon:bs 0 a 27-year sentence. The damning tbat Nelson Mandela quoted spunded 10 yesterday's verdict by re policemaJ . wOO served In tbe KwaZulu it in full in an adJr~ befure tbe Org Slating their long·held objection to the homeland ",here lilitha exerc~one anisation of Afri,;;an Ueut)' on Tuesday. dealh penalty and saying they would party control, had been found guilt) of Under the bellJ~ '·The cot gllC:. bave preferred a life sentence for Cap a series of brutal murders. HIS release, deep", the c:ditonal said: "The Trust tain Mitchell. lliR said. could have occurred only at the direct behest either of President de Feeds case has proved true:, al least ID Showing no mercy for tbe state be this case, Ibe frequent accusation that liCrved, however, the ANC said the K1erl or the Minister of Correctional the police acted, in pursuance of a pol court case had PCO\'ed the existence: of Se,,·ices, Adriaan VIol. Mr Vlot was icy. as a 'third force:' to stimulate violent "a massive, nationwide OI:lWOrk" dedi minister 0, police between December conflict between the ANC-UDF and cated to intimidating "the oppressed 1986 and August last year. IiId -;;:; THE GUARDIAN Friday May 1 1992 Policeman likely to escape hanging for Natal murders a.-w .. The other ca.se U1voM!e • ~ would make a ~t 00 the • .IoMo ... teetlve constable. Kbethant I e:ate in par1i.ameDt next week. ShaDle, who was released Dbclo6ure ofthe Shange case A WHITE poljoe captain was recently after serving rUne wa6 met with predictable fury ftsentenoed to death in South months ofa -n·year aentence fur Ye&terday. The ANC. express ~ peop1e. in Africa yesterQay Cor the mur mW'ders of tlve I mt "outraet", said that they der 1111 suspectlld ANC sympa cludini a three--month-okl beby. ; were tmmedJ.aU!ly reI'~ the tb1aen in tbe so-called Trust Arter initially refusing to matter to the National Peac:io Feed$ massacre. But he is likelY comment, the department of : SecreW1at. to be pardorw4. comctionaJ semces told tile I The· Pretoria-baaed civil Captat.n Brian Mitebell, • Guardian ye:sterday that Mr ,right. ,roup Lawyers for $tation commander in Natal. Shange had been treed in terms .Human Righta issued an anetY was sentenced to hang by a Su of the general indemnity for statement accusing President preme Court Ju48e in Natal for "political prisonen". A spoke& I F. W. de Klert d penonal J-. wb.at was deocribed as a "c0m =an said that the t:nlrUiter. ponslbillty for the CSedflk)a. It pletely cQld·hlooded" masaac:re. Adriun Viole - demoted to the I said the moVe shamed the JOY aut after a rulini given in the prisons de~ent last year emment and higblJsbted the case of another Natal 1)Oliee from law and order as a result Deed far lUl interim Ilathority to man. Captaia MItchell will of the lnkatbagat.e scandal - : be put in plaoe u soon as ProbablY be treated as a politi : possible. cal prisoDer. Friday 24 April 1992 "t THE INDEPENDENT - Judge exposes, SA police Al 2AM lut Saturday unknown July lilt year, Warrant Off'JCCr gunmen bursl into a house in Magadla tI'1ICbd dawn one or the Slwpeville lownship, !IOulh or John Carlin reports from Pietermaritzburg on a massacre trial four special ronstables, made the Jolwmesburg. and gunned down verdict casting light on a wide-ranging security conspiracy link, and Captain Dutton made • eilbl people. At 2am on Saturday report to Gen Marx .nd General 3 beCember I98&, unknown JUn Ronnie van der Westbuizell - a men burst inlo a house in Trust in Trust Feeds 10 tbe Natal pr0 lions in the past year into other open fire. He !bot two. 'tbe judF Pretoria-based officer appointed Feeds township, Natal. and kiDed vincial police, to Inbtha, to tbe Inkatha chiefs lICCUSed of murder. described in .detail the JroIniIll in 1990 to lead investigations into U- three men, six women and police in the homelands of Their instructions came from and screaming of the women in IIIOre than a thousand pOlitical two children under 10. KwaZulu (where Inbtha exer the Natal Attorney-Genera1, wbo side, the shouts by the attackers killinp, DODC 01' which he IOIved Durina the intervening years, cises one-party control), to police led !be prosecution against Cap to "finish off" those ,till I'DOYiJI&. 0026 July last year tbe four dozens of similar massacres have headquarters in Pretoria. A tain Mitchell and his four oo-ac Either bY mistake - u the special oonstables wert warued by been carried out. the killers never cover-up or the police role in the cused. Justice Wilson found that judge suggested - or by design two KwaZulu police officers, who fouDd. Invariably there has been a Trust Feeds massacre implicated the Trust Feeds massacre oc - part of a strategy to Itir up re said they had been tipped off by poIitica1 IIIOtive. Yesterday the all ranks, from ronstable to gen curred in the context of "the venge killings, u tbe pr~tor senior South African police 0ffi Trust Feeds masMcre was solved, eral, in what Justice WiI!IOD indi counter-revolutionary strategy" suggested - all 11 victims were cers, to " into hiding. a judge in the Pietermaritzburg cated could be ronstrued as "0b Captian Wilson perceived himself Inltatha supporters. Captam Dutton, ~r, Supreme Court finding a white struction of justice or accessory to be ronducting against "the en· At leut half ofJustice Wilson', found his men, arrested all five police captain and four black after the fact". emies or the state" - in this case judgement described the ensuing .and by the end of August, had "special constable~" guilty on U , Describing the behaviour of se the Uniled Democratic Front. in cover-up. Within two weeks or completed his investigation and oounts of murder and two of at nior police offteers u "totally un timate allies of the ANC. Trust tbe massacre two white police h.d charges laid. Gen van der tempted murder. Unless the de acceptable" Justice Wilson said Feeds was perceived 81 • UDF ronstables provic;Ied statements to Westhuizen then DIet Captain fence rooosel offers convincing the killings in Trust Feeds had stronghold over whicb Inbtha their supenors clearly implicating Dutton privately and instructed extenuating circumstances, Jus been committed "at the request !IOUgbl to assume violent control. Captain Mitcbell IIId bis four him that he WlDted one counsel tice Andrew Wilson will condemn of officers in the South African At the beginning of the Ie subordinates. The information to represent all seven arrested Brian Mitchell. Kehla Ngubane, police". The truth only came to quence of events leadina to the 'NIlS passed on to the head of aD men !IO that their evldeDce would Thabo Sikhosana, Dumisani light when two honest police de massacre, Justice Wilson found, ill N.ta1 province, Brigadier DOl conflict. He abo order Cap NdwaJane and David Khambule tectives took over the case in July Captain Mitchell held a meeting Ouisto Marx, who took DO action tain Dutton not to oppose bail to hang next week. last year, solving it, sucb was the at the Inkatha headquarters in despite having suffICient evidence which in fact he did, successfuDy. In an unu.~ually long judge wealth or evidence prrviously Pietermaritzburg witb a superior to arrest the suspects. In what Justice Wiboll called ment, spanning over two-and-a covered up, with immense speed. officer, the Inbtha chairman in As for the two investigating of "an extreme irregularity", Gen half days. Justice Wilson e:qlOSCd, Captain Frank Dutton and War Trust Feeds, a certain Gabela, ficers., a lieutenant and a cartain, van der Westhuizen met Captain in more detail than ever before in rant Officer Wilson Magadla and a high-ranking Inkatha of assigned to the ca. ----.------.------._. Massacre policeman turns to God By VICKY QUINLAN. DurbIln rrnm tbe 1oal11.kJltha te.der, Jerome ri~" ..... and he ... 011 the silk 0( the A SOI.J1lI African Pob captain 1'. (;abela. ...Ith ",hom tllt-y were ~yIJlll. R',ventnrnL 'Ie.ho5)'1t1pathhrd with ilia ~ o( mW"Ckr and att~mpb.-d lIe d.-nk-d he Iwd ~v..-r polntrd nut any Inkalha hK.uw It nrY~r f arTtl' nwrdn' rnlo..-iftlt an attack 0" a hnuw hou.e rur the sp~e1al pollcem~n I.. unR',v~mahlt and lit- dkl ~n t"~ III T~ F~ yeo;l~rday hold a \1unflt'd .nark. I! to be p.rt or Mrt'v ..lu!lo.ary u.:ht~. ~lI:tal SUprTmt CllUrt ~2t ...ry be had 1I~ lold tilt- rourt that '''' tilt- ",..m ,Ift..... bKomea ChrWlan ..hlk in ~'"and In~ or Ill-cfmber J 19!III ...hen lit- <;II'" IltI..ev..-r, MllI:ht-n <;II1d lit- pnnhord ~ak th~ DOW pIIlnMd III bn-tll1'lt a minktrr. ...ho tilt-v had altllckrd Ilt- was ""orked. (;ahela ttl be .. .nd, Iowan" Prior to this rnel.Uon, Capl.ln E'·kkIKT ..... al". heard ahout talk._ end til' NtlVfmbt:r 1'lftIl, II ..as d ....r tht' Brlaa Mllrllt-lI had admlllrd h~ had ..hlrh ".,k pla~ at tht- Inkatha •.mre. lll).. Wa"nch~, Gabela and ,..hfr Tru.t r..n.tahl~~ ..~rt' hr....:ht to N~ .. T~rt>"nrM, remlkd In an .ltIlck 011 II "'-Ia tilt .-et-d Inkalha ..mrialo> and J>io,tennar lIanllv ...r by a rmnd or anoa, .. which II peopIr dlrd. Itzhu~ Inkatha lC'adcr David Nt..m.. Ltln.tahlt Wlllcm d~ Wet, ",hll IIIId As.Chrtltlaa, be saki, II ...a Impor. bela. Mllcht'1I thue partkllllar s~c1.1 taat now ror hIm to t~1I th~ truth. MK~-bdI said hioi ~ "'...th8t polmr- hakd tile UDF.I~ Wet a" Mltclldl I~ oae or MVU pollcemn Gabelll was told by Ntombela and Mltchdl tbc... took tkm tilTnI!o1 "eed. d11U'&fd witll 11 rounl~ 0(murdn' and Tn1>\ancbe 10 launch an .ttack 011 1M He mid 011 tM Dilcht o(tIle attariI, he, flKllt or .ttempted murder ror the UOF In Tnast Fet-d and ht- .ould be COIIstahlr J..- rarto. and ~e attIKk.. '-ked by spKlaI ronstabta rnnoUhIt Stuart v•• Wyk bad dnlllk'l He.1d ..loIlmlrwdlom tilthe..-... Mltchdl admitted he had JP:<- to the lutl...... cn.stahl" had Infaat to cOllny tn Trll5t fnd a~a ..a th~ al.:ht or Mltcbrl had ~ ttwn ....Id ruDllw~ Chem \hat J.hfy .ere Jo,.tIac\ JrlUJIlI0( ~J tII_ ..hat had happnord be tnlUhIt III Trust Feed tlw UDF rnnnI>en, aDd not to break Jato. ~KaNfI.1 thk altack so th.t la th~ ~urll UDFmnadul'ift.:thaltday. house udattack wnmn and cllDdrnL moraln.: h~ would know "....t to II~ ~ ulMln' en__eun-.U..ft AItIKJloP • had DOC..-1fIed exact· ~.pKt~ and br pnpeml to cover up II tllat tbew .rrest." CfrKtrd durin.: • ., wkft tilt UDF IDfrnhmi _Id be, ~. round-up 0( all mra DRrd hetWfttl " lie DId lie tho.pt dae lIpClCW poIItt IJeoicribtnK !be polItk:s .. tM - .. • .. J5 .t • local spo!1._ fidei, ..err to durk5~ IIIfII woald han go( Iaronnarlllll .... to whlrlt ht- ..a embmlled, Mltclll'll said rt'ader lilt- UDF "sittIn.: 1'...tlw whlellwere UOF IITQ5la Tnl'it .·eed lit- <;II" bimoorlf as • ~Ier IlglIUng Ia • !mpmdin& Inluttha.ttack. THE STAR Johannesburg 16 April 1992 SA will pay a heavy price for policy decisions taken 6by stealth', - . argues Cosatu's Jay Naidoo Next govt being shorn of its • econ·OIDIC ~eapons HE «lODOIDic cIottameat pab u,tb1q 11 DeloUable. meat aod ita aWes ill businea and TUIMd after tbe Coutu ~ Coutu 11 oo1y too happy to ex media are trylna to ensure that DOIDk poUc:J CODfweDce bu eli plaiD, defeDd aDd elaborate Ita po the aocio-ecooomic banda of a fu· cited IMCIl emvnenl JI'rom tbe IltioD 111 aD opeD pubUc debate. ture state are flnnly tied.by decl I ~ cm'lngnlty aDd tbe com- But we mUll a1Io do more tbaa 1l0DI taken aod implemented DOW. men:tal iDIdia tbe ..-aI teDor tIaIa - we mUit IC!'1lt.iDile uiItin& Let us do brief lUl'Vey of the 01 tbIf (')OIJ"INIIt Us rupd from GcmrDmeut poliey. a to ~ II DOt areal of cbaDee carried out lOme . c:rttical T1da Tbe Government 11 purlUiDl a times UDder tbe. CODvenient free oaly lIDdentaDdable bat bea1tIly. eoaIC1oua policy of lovemment by market pbiloeopby aDd IOmetimes I U tbe ~ eommUDlty aDd I&eIlth ill aocio-ecooom.ic all without eVeD any pretence at jus tbe COIDIDII"dal media - drmly . ana. M we abould mow oo1y too tlflcaUoo. embedded 111 tbe IiUt ~ well from our own experience and atea - were to read11y &cree with that of the Eutern EuroiH!, any • III the crucial areas of health, ' Couw'. propou1I there would be ecooomlc lovernment hy .tealth education and housing, Govern· IOIDetb1D& drutkally Wl'OIlI with can do luting damale to the ment 11 proceedIn, with radical IluIi.- or Coutu or both. 1D any ecooomy, lOdety ~ environ restructuring wbile simultaneous lOCiety orlaDlMd labour aod or ment. ly withdrawing from bousing, i&DlMd buaiDeIa diIqree - they 1D South Africa IUch a policy 11 health and education forums ~tdifferent coaatitueDciea. daDleroUi and inward for two where luch moves could be nego III South Airiea, deeply divided f1mcJamental reasons. Flntly, tiated. iD termI of rirtually all iDdicatorl each aod every citizen can be af • Planlare afoot to commercial aDd yet to experieoce democratic fected by deciaions taken that lse and then privatise State for lO"emmeDt, thiI d1JaIreeIDeOt 11 have DOt been open to f1ilI public ests - again without any consul a bard political, social aDd eco IC!'1ltiDyaod debate. tation with affected parties. DOID1c fact of We. 1DItead of try SecoDdly, tboee citizens who U, u 11 estimated, prices for iD& to wiIh it away or It1p1atile bope to enjoy the right to vote timber rile by 35 percent with it iIlto oblivioD, let'. accept tbe re IOOD are havillg that right Iystem commercialisation, a future go ality. The real laue 11 wbether atically devalued. The Govern· verment will be severely baDdi· capped in ita abillty to provide the Itock. But In the put few years tion pha!-' In which even the ~- : cbeap low cost hOUliD& which 1110 these have been significantly re ernment accepts it is unrepresld-: desperately needed. Latest esti laxed - if not entirely removed tative of (be majority. Any m09'eS' matel are that 1,2 million homes - which means Government can to restru,~h1re the economy will: oeed to be built to make up the DO lonler rely on relatively cheap have to Je negotiated by ~wr: bact101- money to finance Its deficit; playen, and that includes C:osatu. Can or. ~ then blame organjsa· • Tariff &rranaementa, including • Major prlvatiaation pro are beillg implemented tion like Cosatu, who with the Illa the quota system ill the textile In crammes jority w!~o have been excluaed dustry for eumple, have been in paraltatall such al Escom, Spoornet, Tranlnet, Armlcor, from the economy, have cond!GI cbaD,ed ill a ad boc, arbitary way iIle that :he present Government leadine to the near destnactiOD of Suol, POIta aod TelecornmUDica ~ ,~ tbe textile industry. ~ 20000 tiooI without nelotlations. • Puttina more money In 111 ~ I tatile jot. were to.t Jut Je&r. • The introduction of VAT wu bands in the run-up to elections, said by the Government be part • '1AIiIlaUoa 11 beiD& paaed pre to wbile Inc!'eUlng the debt bur{I~n: veatiDI bomelaDd peDIlonera of a major programme of eco of a new government (through In- , from cIrawinl beDef1ta from ceo nomic restructuring. Why should creuing domestic and foreTgn: tnl aovemmeat ooce·u..e re we accept tbiI major shift of the debt) while :: : poaa are reiDcorporated. Tbe pelt tax burden from companiea to In· • Acti'/ely disengaging the ' IioDable ace bu a1Io beeD railed dividuall without any ne,otiatioDl State from all areas of the db- : from eo to 85. Why Ibould future aod wbeD it 11 havillg luch a de omy 10 a new ,overnment will !?e ' lovernmenll inberlt thiI political vutatiD, impact OD the poor? economically emasculated : miDefleld? • Tbe Government 11 raiaing (through deregulation, privat~-: • Private aod State peDliOD major foreip loans to advance an tion, co ilDercialisation and the I fuDda, life uaurera aDd fiDaDcial ecooomic qenda that bu DOt like) &J politically paralysed':!n: iDltitutiODI were required to In beiD& DeIOtiated. relation 0 meeting Its social set· I nit larp perceDtqelI of tbeir Tbe aeeDda will always be re vice De i (the money and 10015\0 : Uleta ill all sorta of Govemmeat silted because we are in a transi- do this 1 ~.belng removed). 0 ~ : .. I - I SOWETAN Friday April2~ ,1992 Page 13 COSATU'~ rood un ers on company farms ion,charpdsince 1985 where it already has a pR'S with or.anising the eoce in the related industry. country's 1,4 millioa Rut. in the ahSCOCl' 01' flll"lDworken, sea lit· legal protection. suppmtiw Effort to unionise mohilisation by inl1uslrial tie bope of adaIeviq worten held noguarank...·s this pal unlas it has of advances fur the lepl clout to do so. farmworker.l. The Food and Allied Fawu was nol thl' only Workers Union repre union trying to organiSt.· senled some 2S 000 wort farmworkersbalked farmworkers. The National enon farms. a "drop in the Union of Farmworkcrs. aI' ocean" •accord.ing to Fawu legislation. the National In its demands to tbe filiated to the National assistant general scaetary Manpower Cornrnission. , We know that quite a number Government today. Fawu Council of Trade Unions. Mr Mike Madlala. Despite this, Fawu's or and Cosatu will demandthe and other independent un Breaking with its bith ganised pn:sence on farms offarmworkers have been immediateelltensionofthis ions were also active in the erto low-key public profile was poor. said Mad1aIa. Act to farmworken, for. sector. worUn The union was mandated dismissed in anticipation of on organising on "without this. all legisla Nactu. which has joined and toorganise farm wortenat farms. Fawu Cosalu tion relating to Cosatu in NMC negotia wiu lead a man:h to Parlia Coutu's 1aunch in 1985. labour laiDs being extended to farmworten cannot be en tions. had DOl been invited ment Ioday to demand that and repeated resolutions to fon:ed'·. to Friday's march as it was basic labour rights be ell step upefforts in this direc the farming sector. , "If a farmworker is dis based in Johannesburg. tion havebeenpassedsince. before the end of the 1991 as delaying the promulga- tured into a representative, Iendcd to the llricultunll missed. tbe family also said Madlala. IClCkW. Coutu. at its fourth 1Ul Parliamentary silting. tion of the Bills inlO law. negotiating forum between goes and often they lose 'This is a start. and we Speaking at a Press c0n tional coogress last year, "This only happened 12 "At the same lime. the employers and employees their accommodation. This will definitely include ference in Cape Town. he resolved to establish a na days before the session Department of Manpower on labour policy. is different to industrial Nactu. its affiliates and the blamed the absence of leg tional union for ended and there was no should DOl delay enacting Madlala said wurkers on worken. who don't rely on independent unions.•• islative protection for farmworkers. but in time for Parliament to de- the Labour Relations and farms had no access to un their employen for access workers and unions for structed its affiliates with bate the Bills. This year Wage Acts so they apply to fair labour practice juris to accommodation.•• Madlalasaid he believed Fawu's failwe tomake any memben on farms to con we've seen them being agriculture." diction or the Industrial Pawu estimated that up there was light althe end of signiflCaDl inroads into the tinue their activities. shifted down the order pa- 1be union had also heen Court - proh:ction enjoyed to S million people were the tunnel. 1CdOI". "There is DO legislative pen. faced with having to deal by workers who fell under dependent on farmwoden Optimism about The union needed or or organisational protec "Then the South Afri- with three different Minis- the Labour Relations Act. as hreadwinnen. progress towards full la ganisational power before tion for farmwoden. Ifwe can Agricultural Union ters of Manpuwer in a Pawu and Cosatu may Trespass laws prevented bour rights for woden on it could enforce conces organille blindly we ellpose lobbied the Minister of throe-month period includ- have approached negotia union organisen from go farms had. however, to be sions for worten on farms worken to victimisation Manpower and other par- ing and leading up to the tions un legislation "tl:e ing on to farms. From this tempered ..ainst the back - but was Iwnstnmg by.not and massdismissals -and in Iiaroentarians for their sup- appoinmlent of the present wrong way round". said stemmed Fawu and ground oftheellperience in having the right to build the end nothing is really port for a consolidated Act Minister. Mr Piet Marais. Madlala. Cosatu's demands that the Zimbabwe - where labour that power. done••• said Madlala. for agricullure.·' Pawu's invulvement. in Instead of pressing for Trespass Act be scrapped rights for farmworkers It has adopted a twofold Regardiog negotiations Cosatu and the SAAU the NMC followed the the extension of the BaSic immediately and OI'Janis spark~ dismissals. approach in trying to pen in the NMC. Pawu lut year would. nonetheless. con- 1990 Laboria Minute. Conditions ofEmployment ers be allowed free access "We know that quite a etrate the farming sector: obtained Qovernment un tinue to discuss their re- which commilled the Gov- Act to farmworkers. it to farms. number of farmworkers the traditional trade union denakings that the Basic spective demands. said emment to eXlending la should have demanded that Attempting to bridge the here have been dismissed tool or organisation. and ConditionsofEmployment Madlala. boor rights tu all workers the LRA be extended, giv legal gulfbetweenfumand in anticipation of labour taking part in the oCflciai and Unemployment Insur "This should not be seen and undertakings !,hat the ing worJ(crs and organisers city. Fawu has concen laws being elltended to the advisory body on labour ance Acts would he tabled NMC wuuld be resu-uc- organisational protcctiun. trated on organising work- farming sector." - Sapa.