jj.tiitrinwtwniriKi w in ii fi vu. by llic du>:lot ti.Ujl liilcilcie with llic opeia- a viciuui cluic in wliicn n«i of llic Mtumy legislation. ii a JtifJittcly essential ii>i dm administration unwillingness support eacli «ih'!‘'ilc“te and Ultimately, the causes of‘ii *.l justice in South Africa dial tliis should be medical tragedy »,c fea, , «<-nit>l* «i. am! (he SAMDC and MASA arc inexorably compelled to play their pari. '“eJwaJ profession i, and sympathy for it. Coniform,*rv«* t'uilduii tills ston from abioad will not help In the conuxi within which it functions,* come these problems but m*L!! 0ve‘- il and enable it to live with tl *" , ' e*‘u,« African medical profession has Atom Itself 10 be incapable of coping with J—* Hie etlucal implications arising from the wiUiiii Sou lit Africa itself- SL> r *"KC medical j.rofessioi, ilself u „ M U,« ^cuiily legislation. While doubtless hi m o o , w » * « « « * inJivtdual eases practitioners may justifiably 4“*|,cc«c*l 01 having acted with evil tensions and split, necessary f.„ lfii ^ l process to commence. I,C,J||'K .....Mes‘ «,l« V*U
O IV) o n o f minerals we aU m us| 1* i* III Sou ill Afii--. .i •no« in,puna,,, '« U*c **>,•, ••< S2 TJJ % rheaJ stake - boili 0Uf tangible »ic a, W , b H M h , strategic Interests and „i c0,,oinic •Icfiuiy (u Jean Kirkpaltfck that 0| f ,eSen' ^ »'>d mural interests “ ou» l>oijlicjl *«>£w^d taking office, and iVienJ of ilie ijc Abandon a couniiy which has u , ( iu‘ We w every war we have foug|l l a v ■** «* u n u fr ^ u CiieutUl u u , nw ventenu u d U.c end result |s k- misery.*• 1,1 « H^uli in
...... „ , “ ; J “ “ "'i*H arfiuifi,ie»v l,av h— , Mpessiv* •lie dclcu, of |V,n l,l!C"lificJ since «»ie alieiiipts io esiabhT et* * U * * * iJ » ^ J a s s y a s democracies, s r z "'• *>* «!»«S8 ^hhI.jI.Uc sinTih* uf ,l*J«|»«**tlemse Li ZZT* or »d aie L*nL° Wlll * Uiadual relaxation of 2 I, „ *. U:e,, ‘Z' fm m ^,fcyiir^nfcHm unrima-iri.inM ^,, Southern Allies but (lie entire international ciuiutiiiiiity. Angola had once again obliged us 1, a B.cai part o f o ,.f n.a„,..,Wer .„a| ?; ,‘V0“ 1 v *uio»tiic p ic tu re financial resources to sireni-il.^o U.c Colonial Ic^oy has .es.ilted i„ ,J1C |act d‘-‘Ielite capability, llieieby jeopard'!15- ° U' •l.-l Hie economies of almost all Countries • ™ i» . o f piujccM d ...4 S w 1 Ik region a.e inle.lmked will, that of Conservative estimates show tl. .1 l»7S ,o 1.1 die /jact thal (lie racists wuii! massing attack 011 the Koeberg nu t DiJ11( ihousanJs of troops on the bonier mil that 1 1 ‘Ifr ol South Africa's mty,t carefully mi.' T *4 j lull tcale military invasion w it inuuineut. installations, has sown panic |„ ,jle * T J' 11 I licic is in tic doubt tlul this timely wanting the enemy. 01 ami tiilcnuliuttal action tcmpoiaiily, at llie enemy believes that tl.e least., lulicJ iltc planned invasion. Ii has live years is going l0 be decisive ” ( c also been reliably repotted that the racists Magnus Mai an) and has launched » massive had established a "Malabcle brigade" oflenstve lo stem tlie revolutionary Udc commanded by Col. Uieytcnbacli to carry One .sped of Uiis is to create an inta,e cf out attacks against Zimbabwe. Training m oderation internally, wltile in actual fac camps have been set up at 1'halaborwa. intensifying repression and control. Another SpaCei Camp, Madibo Camp and die Nlabi aspect Is llie physical destruction of the -amp. In April 1980 (lie Western Province ANC and SWAI'O both internally «,d ‘'I /■■‘luliu Wji invaded by 2 battalions of externally. N.aitli Aiiivjii troops, i I icy mined roads, attacked villages and burned crops, 'llie Warlord Malan recently reitetaied warnings that "We are dele,mined to wipe aiea liad lo be deviated a ••disaster area.” •Sn.il violations of Zambian terittoiy take out the terrorists even if we have lo cross our botdeis to do it." Socially created place Conliiiuously and lesotlio is assassination squads and regular forces of iii.ieasiugly cspcueticihg sucti agression. llie South African Defence Force have tli initiation uf ANC and SWAI‘0 carried out this policy with a lunatic fieiuy Joe Gqabi, Kulli First, Petrus and Jabu Vmtli A lnca's aggiesston is Intensifying Nyaose represent a growing list of victims al a time when the resistance o f (lie people of racist acts of terror. oi South Africa attj Namibia has reached South African troops blatantly Invade iiiit>iii.eiid.-iiled heights and the regime is neighbouring, countries to cany out their P.W. Ho (ha with J.C. Ileunis shown deep inside Angoh at the end of 1975, together with Ij> tng mounting economic and political tliiii. . -* murderous wotk. F01 example in 1978 the UNITA guard o f Jonas SavimbL ’Die Burger'S.2.77, from which this picture is taken, tittups attacked a SWAI’O ia(^tseatv^greatjopportuiuty for Dr Savimli's guards to meet these two South_Africai±- i*«T^Uie le p f 1?mi legal jj|e^ . amp at Kassinga ruthlessly slaiighleiiug leaders."’ Also in the picture is Jaiuiie de Wet, then Commissioner Gehcral fOr Namibia. ' a- only ol the opptessed masses is shaking about 1 000 unarmed Namibian refugees. the citadels of power as never before. Lye witnesses were shocked by the “spirtl reign of terror across Its borders In a vain working 'with the ’ apartheid regime. The llie black wotking class, the leading of extermination and desiructtou" uf the attempt to roll back die tide of history MNK is nothing but an extension of llie I..lie ul our revolution, continues to grow South African troops. SADF. When Mozambican troops captured in iiieujilli. maturity , and consciousness. Ill January 1981 Soulh African troops Features uf apartheid terrorism an MNR base at Ganigua (Dec. 1981) Wjwr. ,,l militant strike actions affect invaded Mozambique and aliacked ANC Some features of racist aggression have they found large quantities of South African aim.lit all sections of major Industries. residences inutdetiug 12 unarmed people been: arms and equipment, signs.of SADF instuc- llie youth and students; women's and kidnapping two. tors, and documentation wluch showed organisations, the churches, pinfessioual In December 1982 over 100 South Crowing brutalisation and a lm o s t total that all actions cauied out by the MNR organisations. the masses iu the ruial ateas Alitcan lioops invaded and occupied Maseru breaches of international conventions. These were determined and controlled by the and llantusl.ms ate Confiunilug the leginie tile capital ol lesotlio. In an orgy of indis- include terror attacks against civilians, SADF. The LLA lias bases in South Africa al eiviy level. iniiiiiiate and ruthless violence tliey indiscriminate bombings, assassinations, the and receives financial and logistical support Under the lunuct of"Unity in Action" niniileied -12 Soulh African and lesotlio use o f poison gas etc. from the SADF. ll.e mighty It.ices ol lib .u li.,11 and social cili/ens. increasing use of surrogate forces. CIII..1,, Ipaliun ColillilllC to g.ott u, slicilgth. llus sliarp escalation tn the actions These iucludc UNITA in Angola, MNK in Increasing U se. uf mercenaries. Tliese I he aciintis ul Uiiiklniiiio we Si/wc ol the regime and ils minder squads gives Mozambique and the l.LA iu Lesotho. ate iccruited from the USA, Utitaiu. West l..». played a very significant lole 111 this. u'aining that the icgiuic, threatened by Documents captuied alter the Portuguese Germany, Latin American countries (those, <«w i llie last two ycats mills ol Umkhoiito internal icsisiaucc and haunted by the revolution, as well as accounts by CIA with close links with the USAJ. Israel and ISC :.i.wc h.ivc 1 an led out sabotage actions spectie ol socialism in neighbouring dcl'cctuis like Stockwell, confirm lepoits oihei westcin countries. In many cases ihi. .11, 1.. .lit the Count,y the Iji llllall I coiiiilllcs, is commuted lo unleashing a that Savimhi winked for 1*11 >L and the western governments have given tacit CIA. Since I97S he has been actively uppiovat to such recruiting. Iliey have 27 O CD CD only fal|eJ |0 i< buc on .il(, . tivc action Suclt arrogant dl*p|,v . — it.c J ; , i hiVe " ciU- cliuuvniiini; such total j “/ S Powc, •w «,ajor ° r * « •- wiuujly Uij„K . countries cons- convent,on, „ f i(lle,n i ,L *W o f T f r : ...oh b,Z !>» ™ achieve abj^lTve, “T "'' ,ch lu™ victim Into »i! " of '*U »<««e It is ouU,i-H situations c»le,«p* ailJ dis.c'j • * * * > '; IUcl| •lull own aimed forces? M l e ,0 “« °l>nUo.i; , UL|, ca„0UJ l" ‘ » a l o (lll #■ N « J tur U.^ ,,1 Action Can the Wu(| j a„ :v «B'"'e to unleash inoth« I... CRICKEniVG "»■ -«£.T.15* . “"i *. military industrial conX e, T ' 7 11,6 }' War o '. .K° «*»'fcw smokescreen of the ‘v,i , tlie in South A Trie* aiiil I)1'11* JuVe,0P<:J Hitler rise to power 11,i< U*ey ’ helped a"J must not allow hisiorv51!11^4^011 MERCENARIES " t 'J2 J ;,uh/a v ,lon’” A massive in tern alio,,?! '‘'’‘i41 *»* oniinuit a f n i U i I*',e;|*cncJ ^ “ “ched to stop die aniM ?"/* 1** n " ls, ■« A« S ,„TS— rf - terrorisiio * » « l «m<«y s,a ,e i- Mass miUlant p rcssilr, , "*W'bouring -louhiiisii,* the L u l l " loi<: * '« « «* »>usl compel tlie US’ nril- , y ,c: PC0J»lc* - "Hliu.y umb,,ila rl r ausc " p,0''iJ>-’ t'ovcrnmente to stop '|, ' “'J F,e** ? ■; «"■ T S r'" m,u 01 Vc<° In (he Securiiv r® ' Puwe" AIiicjh in ie»oats tv ? IO‘eC' hesitate to la|i(. - ' Vc will not Collaboration with railn-r it.-, i . '"usl be imposed r Unctions •"hales and radar b Russian Allround political A l '*ca. ictin.iri d J . ou' nd*l,booi»* ^P'oiiiaticsuppoun u ‘b, r ,eria' iUld " * i u V fo,cU 'Oj, r ^ ,,er(ef | l'eC0n,INU' «»J Ihe ANC. K'Ve" 10 SWACO “ -»*«-, Atte s|j(csV.e ",e,e '<* Hm.idy - v. Workerj* P«|y 0fjg25: ...... ■» standards wa» beinK acclaim i . for its survival. ° M' " U"' r,K*,Un1{ siJe ever to visit S o uth . ^ hc *reaJe « asked tT o * S * C nC‘- En,P '° y ^ >* ,,,d r to vvatch i, ^ 'o enable i apartheid regime', • patches. The i ‘port congratulated the ,Jlef • C'liirge of i tremendous success" ^nH^gln,s' ,, on "^elr i " . i . i p a w ,,W ' " ;1 1 ' “ " “" i ol support the successful l •, PfaC" Ca; to • . . . t a S l w 1 ? ! ' " J " " touti Jesters to 1 ," C4 be ,,5ud as ul' apanl.eids whj'te'. ! , "'uw'e picneuts not «s^rfo?°m m anv Wes(em ***<• entre- Mack H'csi |n Jl* " tht all- ,,,J^i cricketers w ould^r WeS' *;;r... apartheid South Africa. j P jy “• -t'z::":;;,:....‘•—■=2 South* A^ica L ' . p L S ^ s , h o o ,el.lively ''m e.l,!!!'!'."'1 by'" * 'VJl ,,hu “) ini«rrnjti„,,a| o rv> -"*• uf »• w« h2.^S,s; :v seas suppurlert delineitjithe . cl.ilJi.-uc.v?. dJn .4 .t I,JVC. C,|»,IIKI,y°" ** tov°ur eat wif«what "'j do you do?" Another »,ali;d| ..jf Sl)(1It.lllle cricket tour as a victory f„, M)(ll( . ®*“ is p.cpaied lo give me money |0 feed my defeat for those who wished to bilim - • * Cl.dd.cn. buy them clothing and n.yseir a Into sport. Tire sports lesson w h ich ^E "‘I Mtui.* car | will not go." That these from this tour was that lies , . KeJ cn.Ufers weie altracted by highly inflated lo moral acceptability and deceit U L api><.aiance fees is certainly Hue. H u t they •■med. And as for bringing pol,,!* atcepted the oilers because their families sport it seems that it is perfectly ,IU weie statvurg is an utter and blatant lie ,h,e « 8ime. whose Anyone who might consider pa/down* to maini,,n white domination, to unJerw,i,e because of tnspiiatiou they might have .evened fro,,, the ancient saying "forgive It seems obvious that tnglish county * fl°‘ eV know not what they do." cr.Uel grounds were impoitant venue, f„^ »'» u,|l>’ be absolving these collaborators re.ruiiment and finalising contracts. White <""• " * ^ r y . "I, is an act o f treachery South African cricketers attached to' Enislish ll,‘ b,?ck People of South Africa who county cricket, no doubt, played a crucial -«> * . -or help fo, ,cljel ffom Part w the negotiations. their to|c ,t bci conveniently suppressed because of ,|j *J" 1 " of apartheid and the cp.^ion of the regnne whid, upholds possibility or reprisals. It js a|so strongly h i \ ' t it iJOnterfv) /ww (he W i/ ifc suspected that an international hotel chain ^tCLO .^ j^vovermneitts anolhct mailer. I lie apanheid regime has communication with South Africa. One slated that the cricketers would not be I N ,0U' “** W,,al h* h ^ ‘"8 Paid nominated a liason officer to facilitate all ‘ No country will spend 4 million dollars English cricketer is reported to have allowed to enter their countries. The their travel and accomodation arrangements. Grenada Government s^id that the money Besides, as one white South African news- r\‘ ‘.“I \ •ch medioc,e cricke,e» snsf ra,cfm tunhau °r earned by these cricketers should be confis • « •> «n.t o f national importance. The seven Afri • " faJ‘ b0W,,:,• 10 ,0llf South' paper put it, "Unfortunately they haven't « » « negotiations which preceded Africa with a promise of an extremely huge cated and handed to the ANC and SWAI'O. been able to see much, if anything except u* ls wW W «nl evidence in Itself that appearance fee. Marshall declined to £ Mr. Michael Manley, former Prime Minister airpoits, hotels and cricket crowds." The eveiy player was fully aware of the impljca So did Barbadians Desmond Haynes and of Jamaica, called the cricketers "traitors regime t liasqn officer also ensured that I ', Participating in South Africa n«i eyne- Fo*uJ Bacchus of Guyana lo ..the liberation tUut'tile of the South these coliaboratoit we re fu|ly__occupled _ » week" before their arr.vaj In 'S o u T h A w S ttvis of St Vincent anj*^ with electronic games during’ anj^ipaire" w w a l ul Hie cricketer* denied any know- Windward Island withdtew earlier. Minister of Australia, a strong supporter lime they had. M * ..f the tour. One of Them. iLrence A few years ago top West Indian of the spoils boycott campaign .announce J J * . even deceived and misled Mr. Z that Australia would refuse entry lo any 77ie 11 Vi/ Indian Team consittej of: Kae. hesident of the West Indies Cricket c ive LJoyd o f (.uyana wereof viituailyAnIiK"i, giver,*nj player who plays representative cricket in ari open cheque lo appear In South Africa South Africa. Barbados li. I,;,1 ^ni,br “-Si bu these offers were rejected with die Inside South Africa black ttade unions, Collis King, t'm m enon Trutman, Franklyn contempI (|ley deseived. Uoyd said, "there student groups and sports bodies affiliated Stephenson. Alvin GrccnUige, Sylvester r ... . was no way I would go there under the -Ucpt.on war ,e,med "vicious and heinous" to the anti-apartheid South African Council Clarke, Ezra Moseley, David Murray, I resent system and that was my final woid." n Jamaica s Minister o f Youth and tin Sport (SACOS) called lor a mass boycott Gregory Armstrong, Albert Padnfore. Ihete was world wide condemnation of the matches. SACOS condemned the Jamaica Dcve,w"' *■ *3 ,l,c lm,r- Uoyd. the West Indian ciicketeis lor accepting the degrading Richard Austin, Lawrence Rowe, Hvcrton captain said that it was a major sclback «■■**» one of South Africa's white news- status of "Honorary White”. An AZAPO Mattis, Ray Wymer or the people who are trying ,0 g(M rjj of lout had become a spokesman said "We will try and meet these Guyana * system, lie accepted that "the Icllows and impress upon them that their tyMS ar n'; 11,e on- Cidin Croft, Alvin KulUiiarun. 4j y. 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T E 0 K'ngoom w ith STAMPS) a President O.R Tombo O OEFHAY POSTAL COSTS □U ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS U UDF - AN HISTORICAL D US A andCAN AO A (airmail only) DEVELOPMENT E L S E W H E R E 112.00 □ S/HGLE COPIES f 6.00 n An Interview with Comrode ,her8^ ** >n ,mP°r,an‘ date In the 0 Mac Maharoj U S A sr.d C A N A D A (airmail only) 15 out thVw u w o m e n ’ s strUE8le- Throueh- El s e w h e r e » s.oo Ej out the world women - and tome men - r°.5oa WELCOME HOME a" d c°RJm'rnorale this day. This l is t e n t o □ DOROTHY NYEMBEI h » , i T T ° l th t Womea ~ March 8th fj By Tim Jenlcin *'Sninc.nee for our liberation r a d i o fr e liiffi n°‘JUI‘ beCaU" men h,ve ,0 their women,' but more Import- CONGRESS AND UMKHONTO WE CT SIZWE. THE PEOPLE'S ARMY 3 oll lr ’.i / year' more thjn *< □ other time, we (men and women) have to do RADIO l6ANDA □ a« In our power to mobilise the masses or shortwave, 40 & 30 m bands; O ANC INTERNATIONAL “a’'» ™ bond-7.30 pm doily a tZ n T n T ? ; (l,e,,m05' °PI’rcs« , h „ , Ra d i o m a d a g a s c a h n shortwave 49 m bond, 6.35 KM,- 8-9 pm daily □ fh Womcn o f South Afiica, especially • k. . . RADIO ETHIOPIA D li e black women, face almost insurmountable s ho r (wove 31 m band. 9SJ5 KH, . 9.30-10,00 p m S racial oom ^ *“ and d oily racial oppression. These problems confront RADIO TANZANIA 3 them In their daily live, and affect e v e ^ E m * r shortwave 19 m bond. 15.435 KHr 2 on* O M iS . iH , • - / i f / • W -* 'Jiff ■II31 7 m bondnt°t bond-6,15 5 cm W°nTdQy- Tucsdoy. W' d" Thundoy " do*- Fond 'i* y :0n • W h Ir,n,0re ";an 52 Per c" " of black Satu rda y h African students leave school Illiterate or semi literate, with the highest qualification " among this group being a standard two pass. ‘ ■ o ' tt. ^Sooo T e a c s s r B Dear Compatriot*. B rothcn and Sisters bi the Struggle. - Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 yean old. In keeping with established practice, we ask you to share with us today tome thought* on the tasks that confront us during 1984. Allow me to begin by extending to you all, the wishes of the National Executive Com mittee and the general leadership of the ANC for great successes in the New Year. This time last year, when we marked the 71st anniversary of the founding o f our ' organisation, we pointed out that our long This has serious implications for the future struggle had come to a point where the revol of these children, and black mothers have utionary ferment had reached unprecedented every reason to worry. This Is a question of heights and had plunged the ruling racist national survival. clique Into deeper and deeper levels o f crisis.' These women fight against these Injust We went on to state that within the coniine* ices. They are harassed, detained and gaoled of the apartheid system there was no way out — some are even murdered in gaol. They fight of this crisis situation. Apartheid cannot be against the mass removals such as those in reformed. The only real solution lies in the Cape Town, and their children die in their victory of the revolutionary forces, the dis bare hand* cither from exposure or hunger. mantling of the apartheid machinery and the They are ‘deported’ lo the bantustans, and transfer of political and economic power to (he following day they return to the cities. the democratic majority. They are forcibly separated from their famil Events of the past year have fully borne ies, and they defiantly return to join them. out the correctness of this assessment. The brothers leave momentous struggles of the past year have burning. Mow many of these women have and a movement that will give them Ished goal and have driven the racist rtden been banned and banished, or deposed as under these trying circumstance! and strait into further acts of desperation. For us, the chicftainesses because they oppose bantu- ened conditions. future Is brightening daily whilst for the Pre stans? How many have been forced to pros Some of them have joined Umkhonto toria racist clique, the future Is getting darker titution, alcoholism and glue-sniffing because We Sizwe and by so doing are engaged in each passing day. of desperation and frustration? what Wally Serotc in an article in this issue ss m Wc commend you on the sacrifice! and They form women's organisations and calls "the highest form of cultural expres dedication by which, during 1983, you took lead community organisations such as the sion" - armed struggle for liberation. our country significantly forward towards UDF. It is our task to assist these endeavours. What about those serving long-term sen liberation. The past year can have left our tences for their involvement in the struggle s& iht Tliese women are in most cases bread v. jf enemies In no doubt that we have the deter winners in their families. Quite a number of for liberation? mination to struggle, the ability to organise them feature in the cultural and literary field. In this issue, we publish a profile of for victory and the will to take power into They are in the factories and therefore In the Dorothy Nycmbe, who has served fifteen our hands. The only question tint confront* trade unions; (hey form the bulk of the pop years of incarceration in different gaols. In President’s u* all, singly and collectively, is how we ulation in the countryside;thcy are in resettle this Year of the Women we shall continue to should respond to the Order of the Day, ment camps such as Dimbaza, on the white focus on the plight and struggles of the message for 1984 “Mobilise and march forward to people'* farms, in white families as domestic workers women. This Is the spirit of March 8th. power!” O CD a O fXJ O n ON .'V The Four Pillira of our Revolution This was a public admission that there Is Our revolutionary struggle rests on four pil a crisis threatening the destruction o f the lars. These are, first, the all-round vanguard apartheid system. It Is an imperative task of activity of the underground structures of the the revolutionary and democratic forces of ANC; second, the united mass action o f the our country to compound and further deepen peoples; third, our armed offensive, spear this crisis by ever-intensifying the struggle for headed by Umkhonlo We Slzwe;and fourth, national and social emancipation. the international drive to isolate the apartheid regime and win world-wide moral, political Revolutions Are About State Power and material support for the struggle. Tlie black people o f our country have chal Over the last few years, the guardians of lenged the legitimacy of the South African reaction in our country have devised a prog racist state from Its forma (ion in 1910 and ramme of action centred on the twin notions throughout the ensuing decades. As we light o f so-called national security and total strat the apartheid system today, we should all egy. This programme is based on the recog speak with one voice in declaring that the nition that the apartheid system Is immersed present regime, like all others before it, has in a deep and permanent general crisis. The no legitimate authority to rule our country. ruling group in Pretoria has therefore been Indeed, Its central purpose Is lo perpetuate • addressing itself to the question of how to the illegal rule of the white usurpers of power ! manage this crisis to ensure that it docs not In our country. get out of hand. All revolutions are about slate power. Tire bantustan scheme, the militarisation Ours is no exception. Tlie slogan, "Power to of socicty, the offensive against the ANC,the the People," means one thing and one thing new apartheid constitution and other recent only. It means we seek to destroy the power picces of legislation, notably, those covering of apartheid tyranny and replace it with pop industrial relations, the so-called community ular power with a government whose author councils, the press and the economy, all are ity derives from the will o f all our people, elements in this programme of crisis manage both black and while. ment. Coupled with the criminal war against Tlie issue we have to settle together is 1-i.~ Ugtal*v what- steps^t.ft-take to-atlalfc creased aggression against the rest'olsouthetri Africa, these measures point to the desper set ourselves building on what we have ach ation o f the regime as it battles for its sur ieved, and in preparation for the next stage vival. in our forward march lo victory. Tlie answer Tlie racists have decided,under mounting lo these questions relates directly lo what pressure from the revolutionary masses and we have already referred to as the Illegality the international community, to tinker with of the apartheid state. the apartheid system, but in such a way as to We must begin to use our accumulated further entrench racism and consolidaie this strength lo destroy ihe organs of government illegitimate and criminal system. Despite all of the apartheid regime. We have to under these manoeuvres, apartheid has no future. mine and weaken its control over us, exactly In other words, the fascists recognise by frustrating its attempts to conlrol us. We that they can no longer rule in the old way. should direct our collective might to ren We recall how, at the height of the Soweto dering the enemy's instruments of authority uprising, J B Vorster made bold lo declare, unworkable. To march forward must mean "there is no crisis” - no crisis for minority that we advance against Ihe regime's organs rule. Dut a few years later, P W Botha called of state-power, creating conditions in which on the whites to adapt to reality or perish the country becomes increasingly ungovern , 4 with apartheid. able. Comrade Nelson Mandela - tym bbl o f resistance I ft> Ml'ftf I lit llir Klmny tt ltrrff II U Weaken! iclicmei. lie has been unable lo govern at wilt. You are awaw licit llie nparlhchl n-plinc In Mduntiaiie our heroic (truffle has shaken maintains mi extensive atlniiniilralivc »ystcin the puppet Scb« Administration to Its core. lliioiif.li which it dircct*mir live*, Iliissystem Commenting on this situation, one South Inclmios orr.am o f ccntr.il mid provincial gov African political observer stated: ernment, llie arttiy and the police, the judic iary, the hantnstaiis administrations, the “The stakes are high bccausc the issues community councils, the local management have moved beyond those of a (bus) and local affalts committees. It Is these in fare Increase. The boycott has become stitutions of apartheid power that we must a conflict o f will between the Ciskei attack and demolish, as part o f the struggle (puppet administration) and Its many to put an cud to racist minority rule in our opponents in Mdantsane, the sccond country. Needless to say, as strategists, we largest black township in South Africa." must select for attack those parts of the en emy administrative system which we have In the course of our struggles against rent in llie power to.destroy, asa result ofour united creases and other facets of apartheid, such as and determined offensive. We must hit the the proposed Incorporation of some town enemy w hcrt It is weakest. ships Into the KwaZulu bantustan, we have The goal we arc setting ourselves today gone further lo destroy part of the adminis Is dictated by the logic of our revolution. It* trative Infrastructure o f the Pretoria regime. realisation is made possible by the fact (hat From these examples. It is dear that we in our millions, we have already laid the basis have the ability to raise the st rugglc to greater for its accomplishment. Thus, through our heights. Having rejected the community efforts, the co-callcd Coloured Person* Rep councils by boycotting the elections, we resentative Council ceased to exist; as a result should not allow them to be imposed on us. of extensive'mobilisation, the puppet South We do not want them. We must ensure that African Indian Council was brought in by a they cease to exist. Where administration laughably Insignificant minority; the entire boards take over their functions, then these Ingrcjec. g U m 1H)ff and comtrtH?iTirrH15t3trC’f;’arItliiniihfl towards the end of 1983, we united In a mas independent bantustans, we must lake the sive rejection tff the local management com battle further. In the conflict of will between mittees and community councils. ourselves and the murderous Scbe administ In certain areas and at different times, ration. our will must prevail. And it will. If we have gone beyond rejection of this op we transform what began in Mdantsane as pressive system of government, beyond a resistance to bus-fare increases into a nation challenge to its legitimacy. In 1960. our wide offensive against the Pretoria regime's people in I’nndobnd destroyed the regime’s Bantuslan system. In Mdantsane the people administration, and set up their own admin have said - "Sche must go! Power to the istration and people's courts. Likewise In people!" That call should spread throughout 1976, we caused the collapse of the Urban the Ciskei to galvanise llie people into united Banlu Councils. In the recent past,in Sobantu action for the destruction of the instrument Village in PictcrmariUbwg, we destroyed of oppression — Ihe Ciskei bantustan. the newly installed community council and frustrated the plans of the Drakensberg Ad Now !• the Time to Clioone ministration Board. The intolerable hardships and sufferings; Ihe Our determined resistance at Crossroads persecutions, detentions and murders of pat and at KTC In the Western Cape has made it riots and democrats In other bantustans call impossible for Koornhof to carry out his for the establishment of fighting organis- £ i ations to organise and lead the struggle Tor major and complex tasks facing our revolut for months on end. We can see It In the org The Rund Mauea Say. "Seite the Land!" the destruction of these racist institutions of ion today. anisational growth of the trade union move The organisation and mobilisation of the oppression. At this juncture allow me to single out ment. There have been commendable advan rural population la clearly lagging behind Tills year, Rotha and Malan will be busy the creation of the UDF as t historic ach ces in the development o f the youth and - those of our people in the towns and cities. implementing the provisions of their apart ievement in our people’s efforts to unite in students* as well as civic and women's move And yet It fa In these rural areas that the heid constitution. In this regard, our demo the broadest possible front for the struggle ments. apartheid system has Its most disastrous Im cratic movement must mobilise to ensure that against the Inhuman apartheid system. The We refer here in particular to the organ pact on our people. We have the organisat the so-called Coloured and Indian sections of formation of the United Democratic Front isation of the working ctasa Into a revolution ional capacity to begirt to tackle the rural the black population refuse to be rccruiled was a product o f our people’s determination ary trade union movement; the organisation treas seriously and continuously. to play the role of partners in apartheid to be their own liberators. of the rural masses. Inside and outside the In the Freedom Charter we say that “the tyranny. White South Africa alone should bantustans; the organisation of the women land shall be shared among those who work man the apartheid constitutional posts, which The Spirit of Rebellion and Politic* of folk of our country and the religious com It." As you will know, the situation today is it alone has created, for its exclusive benefit. Revolutionary Change munity into struggle. that our people in the bantustans have been Those who elect to serve in these apartheid The growth of the democratic trade union Let us now take a brief look at each of reduced lo landless and jobless outcasts. Many institutions must expect to face the wrath of movement and Its power to wrest recognition these areas of work. are condemned to a slow and painful death the people. from both the regime and the employers, to in the so-called resettlement camps. On the gether with the determined efforts lo form The Working On«a Must Lead commercial farms, the most merciless brutal We must go further lo say that our white one national trade union federation, constit Millions of workers in our country. Including isation of our people, especially women and ; compatriots, with even a modicum of anti- ute one of the most significant adranccs of the unemployed and those engaged In the children, takes place, every day and every our struggle In recent years. aparlhcid feeling, have to abandon the delus agricultural sector, remain unorganised. We hour of the day at the hands of the land Everywhere in the country, our people ion that they can use Dotha's constitutional have lo make determined efforts to reach owners. and youth have courageously confronted the institutions to bring about any change. The these unorganised workers, bearing in mind One of the fundamental elements for the regime in numerous encounters, whelher forces struggling for a new order in our that it is the historic responsibility of the solution of the problems facing our people against rent-increascs, forced removals or in country are outside of these structures. It Is working class to take the lead in our struggle in the countryside is the resolution o f the military actions among them, the attack on within the ranks of these extra parliamentary for people's power. land question In favour of the tillers. Our Im the Air Force Headquarters at Pretoria by forces that the anti-apartheid whites can The task of forming one federation to mediate task, therefore, is to mobilise the make a significant contribution to democratic • Umkhonto We Sizwe. unite the democratic trade union movement rural masses around the question o f land. It change in pur country., Nowis the time to This is the spirit that must guide and in has not yet been accomplished. We should is only when the countryside Is organised that spire goal with even more 4tterri\in- H is cssontial ^ rw c contlriui to"sh Eeifbecause,'‘apart from anything” ulely to the call: "SdWthi'larfd!"" ’?r- out posture from the defensive to the offen a spirit of rebellion and frame o f mind which else, a united democratic workers’movement sive. The enemy has failed to destroy us and puts to the fore the politics of revolutionary would give us greater possibilities to advance Apartheid Threaten! Peace never will. Dul invincibility is not enough, it change. our struggle. in the past period we have seen the increased is in the attack that we shall find victory. Nor A special responsibility rests on the Involvement of (he religious community In should we wait for the enemy to take the shoulders of the ANC and the most advanced We do not believe, dear comrades, that our struggle for liberation. In this context, initiative and then react lo its plans and members of our broad, democratic movement there are insurmountable or even very serious you are aware that at the National Confer schemes. We have a purpose, a goal, an objec to act as revolutionaries — as such, to wage obstacles on the way to the creation o f such ence of the Council of Churches last year, a tive, a historic mission to accomplish for our revolu tionary struggle; and, basing themselves. a federation. We do not agree with the school proposal was made to convene a conference couniry and for humanity. Our historic duty on the conscious and organised involvement of thought which creates artificial barriers in 1986 to decide on the issue o f the contrib is to pursue it with relentless determination of the masses of the people, to build a strong between the fight fur trade union rights and ution of the Christian church to change in and persistence, whatever the enemy docs or and disciplined revolutionary movement. In the national liberation struggle under the rac our country. It was then said: omits to do. this context, the further mobilisation and ist conditions obtaining in South Africa. In We must apply ourselves with more vig organisation of the masses of our country as our situation, the victory of the trade union "When peact b broken or threatened by our in our efforts to organise the unorganised, sumes special Imporlance. struggle is unattainable except as an Integral injustice, the Christian has a responsibil to consolidate, defend and expand existing Quite clearly, we have made great strides part of the victory of the political, ideolog ity to work for peace, to work for right people's action on all fronts. It is absolutely in these areas of work. This is evident in the ical and military struggle. The struggle o f the eousness, by ftriving to rectify what it necessary lo raise the standard of our organ strength of the UDF and the pace at which it working class fa, therefore, and must be, an unrighteous, unjust." continues to grow. It Is evident also from the isational and educational work, as well as our integral part of the national liberation struggles we have conducted. In some areas psychological preparedness, lo the level of the struggle. Those words constitute a serious chal- 9 lenge not only to Christians, but also to can never be complete If we continue to treat upon our people, to carry the struggle to new firmly within the camp of Imperialist react people o f other faiths In our country. While the women of our country a* dependent heights, and sue for victory tomorrow rather ion, and I* active within this camp to further the evil and unjust apartheid system exists in minors and objects ofone form of exploit than the day after tomorrow. counter-revolutionary goals. our country, we cannot have peace, nor can ation or another. Certainly no longer should To this end, Umkhonto We Sizwe must We therefore have an international oblig the peoples of Southern Africa. it be that a woman’* place is in the kitchen. The fraternal peoples of Namibia and deepen it* root* and grow Inextricably among ation to be active In the struggle to defeat the In our beleaguered country, the woman'* the popular ma*ses: among u* - Ihe worker*, Angola, especially, have for years now known place is In the battlefront of struggle. counter-offensive that the imperialists, led no peace because of Pretoria's brutal colon the peasants, the youth, the women; we, the by the Reagan Administration of the United unemployed, the landless, the homeless, and States, have launched. We too must raise our isation and occupation of their countries. People Determined to Ik Free the starving millions. voice against the warmongers within NATO Daily, our Namibian and Angolan brothers We have come a long way from the time, a* • Umkhonto We Sizwe must grow In size, and sisters suffer death and destruction from In the 50'*, when we fought barehanded — who have brought humanity closer to a nuc in the spread and quality o f its operations, the regime’* bombs, bullets and bayonets. disarmed and unarmed - against the military lear holocaust by sabotaging all effort* at and in the weight of every blow delivered. This war of ajgression is being conducted by might and the trigger-happy army and police nuclear disarmament and who have, instead, The armed struggle must grow.- We shall a regime from our own country. We have a force of the apartheid regime. No black hand unleashed a new arms race and heightened achieve victory through a combination of responsibility to ourselves and the children was allowed to touch a fire arm or possess any international tension and insecurity. We too and people of Namibia and Angola, to raise mass political action and organised revolut must struggle together with the world peace Instrument more lethal than * pen knife. ionary violence. our voices in Condemnation of the aggression. Today, the racist regime’s army and pol forces, especially because the Pretoria regime We addres* a special message to the white Wc urge upon the people of South Africa to ice generals who occupy a central position in Itself possesses nuclear weapons and main youth. Your future it in Issue. The apartheid demand and fight for the immediate with Pretoria’s state machinery, through the State tains secret military relations with Ihe most regime has no future. Like Adolf Hitler and drawal of all South African troops, mercen Security Council; are making frantic effort* belligerent circles on the world scene. his war machine, after spreading death and aries, Pretoria-backed bandits and special ass to recruit and arm the “Kaffir*, Coolie* and We too must speak out, and have spoken destruction everywhere, the regime will be out, against Ihe attempts o f the United State* assination groups from Angola, Namibia and Hotnots" of the 50'*. to serve a* cannon fod defeated and destroyed everywhere. to Impose It* will on the people* o f the other affected countries of Southern Africa. der In the defence of a system that has fallen In this context, let the oppressed and demo world. This policy ha* already resulted in the foul of the times, a system that has enslaved The Future Belongs to the Majority crats of our country assume their historic and debased us these pajt 70 year*. criminal Invasion o f Grenada, the undeclared The future belongs to the majority of the war against Nicaragua and the direct Inter responsibility, recognising that the struggle It 1* not that the military might of the people of South Africa, black and white, vention of the United States in El Salvador, in South Africa ii the hope.-of.the tub- regime ha* declined. U is rather that the who. In struggle, are today laying the found- in support of a gang of murderer*. It ha* led , cooilntk t- -er >i people,determined to be free, have taken up-— ... ations of a united, non-racial democratic to a reign of terror against the people o f Pal We are entitled to expect that pebplebf irraanffMjifowpi flwr South Africa in what will then, but only all faiths in our country, including the Christ estine and their organisation, the PLO, a* to We Sizwe, have moved on to the offensive. then, become a peaceful and rapidly advan ian, the Jew, the'Ilindu and the Moslem, will well as Ihe people o f Lebanon. It has helped Today, armed struggle is a vital, indis cing region of Africa. in fact act, and act now. In defence of justice, Morocco to ignore the resolution* of the pensable component of the struggle for nat Your proper place Is among these buil pcace and life, against a system that is totally OAU and to maintain it* colonial hold over ional and social liberation in South Africa. ders of a new order in our country. Join evil and inhuman. the people o f We*tem Sahara. This policy Where the apartheid regime relics for survival them. Refuse to join an army whose sole has further delayed Ihe Independence of on its fascist army and police, on black function is to murder, murder, murder, Af Namibia and emboldened Ihe Pretoria regime Woman I Plare is in the B.-ittlcfrout mercenaries, and on puppet armies and mur rican people everywhere. itself to seek to Impose its will on ihe peoples It will be our special task this year to organ derous puppet administrations who slaughter It goes without saying that Black youth of Southern Africa by force of arms. ise and mobilise our womenfolk into a power men as readily as they butcher children, the — African, Indian and so-callcd Coloured — ful, united and active force for revolutionary democratic majority in our country supports must under no circumstances serve In Pre Policy of Military Terror and Economic change. This lask falls on men and women the People's Army - Umkhonto We Sizwe - toria’* army of violent repression and crim Strangulation alike — all of us together as comrades in the whose rising sophistication will yet com inal aggression. The democratic movement In this regard, through a p o lic y o f military strup^le. We wish to stress Ihe need, at the pound the survival problems of the apart- should Immediately take up this issue with terror and economic strangulation, Ihe racists present hour, for the emergence on the polit held system. our youth throughout Ihe country. *eek to compel Ih e independent slates of our ical scene of a women’s movement that is But the challenge confronting Umkhon- Our democratic movement, our move region to surrender their Independence and, politically and organisationally united. Our to We Sizwe, in the face o f current develop ment for national liberation, is part of a as an important part of that surrender, to help struggle needs and demands this potentially ments In Southern Africa, has never been multi-million strong world alliance o f forces mighty force. evict the ANC from Ih e w h o le of Southern greater. Therefore, in commending its units which fights for national independence, Our struggle will be less than powerful Africa. Never was there a clearer illustration and commander* on the sustained offensive democracy, social progresj and peace. On of the relationship between the struggle to and our national and social emancipation o f the past year, we charge them, and call the other hand, Ihe apartheid regime belongs liberate our country and the struggle to de- firm and positive role played by the frontline oria, and to curb and confine the>aggreclve fend the independence and sovereignty of the child of Africa', determination to achieve and states and the forward country of L«otho, character o f American Imperialism. countries of Southern Africa. The peoples of enjoy human dignity, freedom and national despite Pretoria", destabilisation efforts and We salute the heroic itruggle of the Pal our region share one common destiny. Cer- Independence; it will never betray that par- naked aggression against them. The dream of estinian people, fighting for their birthright tainly. that can never be a destiny of subser- enlage. It Is an integral part of the world rev- the total liberation of Africa I, In light. under the tried and tested leadership of the vience to the criminal regime of Pretoria. olutionary process; it will stay in the revolut- We salute the resilience of the OAU In PLO, and commend those Arab countrie, who As the Maputo Frontline States Summit Ion until final victory. The ANC is at once the the face of concerted Imperialist manoeuvre, are making a positive contribution toward, of March 1982 agreed, the only way forward life, the national awareness and the political and call upon both the OAU and the non- the achievement of genuine and tailing peace for the peoples of our re^on Is to support the experience of the popular masses of South aligned countries to Increase their material In the Middle East. ANC and SWAPO in our common struggle Africa. As t(ie people cannot be liquidated,, and moral support for our ttruggle as well »» against the Pretoria regime and to repulse the neither can the ANC. that of SWAPO and the frontline countries. We Pay Homage offensive o f this regime against Independent We take this opportunity to give a stern On this historic 72nd Anniversary o f the Africa. warning to some of our people against the Socialist Coon trie l — Pillar of Support ANC, we pay undying tribute to the many For some time now, especially since the dangerous temptation to work as enemy The Socialist countries remain a solid pillar patriot, who have fallen In ictlon since Jan Maseru massacre, spokesmen of the South agents for the liquidation of the people s of support to our national liberation struggle. uary 8th last year. Among these we remem African regime have repeatedly boasted of the struggle. We are assured of their continued internation ber with great affection, especially Comrade, intimate nature of their collaboration, and The indestructibility of the ANC should alist solidarity till the triumph of our revol Dora Tamana, Yusuf Mota Dadoo, Rev. the happy relations they have, with the Gov- however not induce complacency on our part, utionary struggle. James Calata - great stalwarts whose con ernment of the Kingdom of Swaziland. The In order for the ANC to pursue and accom- In the past year we have succeeded In tribution to our movement shall be remem people o r Swaziland, like most in the rest o f plish its historic mission effectively, we must widening and deepening our support In the bered by all future generation,. We dip our Africa, will have resented lhatclaim.especial- be unceasing in our efforts to strengthen and western countries. We are particularly cog revolutionary banner in tribute to the heroic ly ir as we suspect. Pretoria has In mind col- expand its underground structures, ensuring nisant of the consistent support we receive combatant, o f Umkhonto We Sizwe, Includ laboration in the fruitless attempt to liquidate Its active presence everywhere in this country, from Sweden and other Nordic countries, ing Comrades Jerry Mosololi, Simon Mogoer- the ANC by assassinating and harassing its from Holland, Italy and Austria to mention ane and Thabo Motaung. We pay homage to members and supporter, in Swaziland. w« Support Independent State. of Southern a few. We are happy to report the establish the martyr, o f our people'like Saul Mkhlze The trouble about any alliance with Africa ment of a new office in Australia, at the sup and Mslze Dube - all of whom were mur apartheid is that the liberation struggle Is We hereby extend our unequivocal support portive invitation of the Government and dered in cold blood by the Pretoria regjme. growing and destined to grow and advance.no *° 'I,e Independent state, of Southern Africa, people of that friendly country. We salute all our leaders and activists In i - matter which or how-wun^ member, and Including Seychelles. In the common struggle carcerated In Pretoria', dungeon,, and greet X ?- leader, olT the liber3tlonWitivement1are>mur-^ H^ This interview with Comrade Mac Maharaf. compasses first and foremost the militancy a senior member o f the ANC, was first pub of the workers and virtually all strata of the lished In the ANC/ournal, Maylbuye, No 10, oppressed black population. 1983. Thirdly, given that the regime tries to divide our people In order to perpetuate Its Question: Over the past few months, there apartheid rule, and one of the basic methods has been a number o f significant events taking of division Is the differential treatment ofthe place Inside the country, particularly the for different black communities, our people mation of the United Democratic Front. have transcended that division, and have been Docs the formation of the UDF give a new acting together. complexion to (he political scene in South Whtn we talk of Unity In Action, I am Africa? ' fmfi • ' V ’;V' • I referring to the unlty of what 1 call the Afric an people, the tndian ^mmunity i Answer: The question you asked is a prof called coloured community, as well as, one ound one. There are very simple answers, rery might add, i section, * very small section but straightforward. But in order to understand a significant section, of the white commun what is happening in our country we have to ity. So the unity that has been taking place, take in the background. Since the early sev the unity that has been forged in struggle,has enties, In particular since 1972, there lias been been a process of different communities act a continuing mass upsurge In every comer of ing together, of different classes acting tog our country. It began with the workers’ ether; of parents and students, of workers as strike of 1973. There are various high water well as sections of the middle class. marks In that period, but I think there are essential points that we should note in recog Expanding Area of Struggle nising the significance of the formation ofthe This process of mass upsurge has remained UDF, which are the following: till today somewhat unstructured, and First thing, our people throughout the the pockets'of resistance somewhat isolated country, in little pockets of resistance and in- from each other. People have taken up local forms where they have united with other sec Issues, fought those heroically, sometimes tions, have been rising to resist the regime it defeated but always coming out of It with every level. experience of the need to unite. Nonethe Secondly, this resistance and upsurge en less, those localised pockets of resistance 15 O O O rv> rv> Collection Number: AK2145 KRUGERSDORP RESIDENTS’ ORGANISATION AND 4 OTHERS v. 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