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Sechaba, Apr. 1987 Sechaba, Apr. 1987 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org/. Page 1 of 38 Alternative title Sechaba Author/Creator African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Publisher African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Date 1987-04 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1987 Source Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA) Rights By kind permission of the African National Congress (ANC). Format extent 35 page(s) (length/size) Page 2 of 38 SECHABAAPRIL 1987official organ of the arican national congress south africaARCHIE GUMEDE,CO-PRESIDENT OF UDF Page 3 of 38 SECHABA and other ANCpublications are obtainablefrom the followingANC addresses:ALGERIA5 Rue Ben M'hidi LarbiAlgiers.ANGOLAPO Box 3523Luanda.AUSTRALIABox 49 Trades Hall4 Goulburn StreetSydney NSW 2000.BELGIUM9c Rue de Russie1060 BruxellesCANADAPO Box 302Adelaide Postal StationTorontoOntario M5C-2J4.CUBACalle 21aNR 20617Esquina 214 AtabeyHavana.(Room 23)NIGERIAFederal GovernmentSpecial Guest HouseVictoria IslandLagos.SENEGAL26 Avenue Albert SarrautPO Box 3420, DakarSWEDENPO Box 2073S-103 12 Stockholm 2TANZANIAPO Box 2239 Dar es Salaam.PO Box 680 Morogoro.UNITED KINGDOMPO Box 3828 Penton StreetLondon NI 9PRUNITED STATES801 Second Avenue Apt 405New York NYC 10017ZAMBIAPO Box 31791Lusaka.DENMARKLandgreven 7/31301 Copenhagen KEGYPT5 Ahmad Ishmat StreetZamalekCairo.ETHIOPIAPO Box 7483Addis Ababa.FRANCEz8 Rue des Petites Ecuries75010 ParisGERMAN DEMOC^AT1C REPUBLICAngerweg 2WilhelmsruhBerlin 1106.FEDERAL. 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Page 4 of 38 Mandela and Sisululed a pass-burning campaignin 1960. Page 5 of 38 SECHABAAPRIL 1987CONTENTS:EDITORIALDemocratic Forces Smashing the White Laager 1TOWARDS PEOPLE'S WAR AND INSURRECTIONBy Mzala 2THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEGAL PRESSSELF-CENSORED, BIASED, BOUND BY LEGISLATIONBy Tony Holiday 8SOMAFCO: DOORS OF LEARNING AND CULTUREBy Teacher Freda and Teacher Anna 12CENTRE PAGE:The Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College 16UNITA: MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT 18By Marga Holness 18ARCHIE GUMEDE SPEAKS 24ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC FORCES:INJUSTICE AND THE COURTSBy Jean Middleton 26DEATH SENTENCES: SAVE THEIR LIVES! 29WOMEN FIGHT STATE OF EMERGENCY 30BOOK REVIEW 32Send Hour Subscriptions to:Sechaba PublicationsP.O. Box 38, 28 Penton Street, London N 19PIZUnited KingdomTelephone: 01-837 2012Telex: 29955AN('SA(: Telegrams: \lao.ihtio:eDonations welcome Page 6 of 38 EDITORIALDEMOCRATIC FORCESSMASHING THE WHITE LAAGEREach and every political move and reform planthe Whites-only National Party makes leads tofurther deep crisis. The grand counter-insurgency plans of the SADF generals havefailed to crush the struggle for a united, non-racial democratic South Africa. The oppress-ed and exploited masses of our people haveequated life with freedom, nothing less. It isas White domination is confronted with thiscourageous decision that it is cracking at everyturn. The news media on the other handengages in a great speculating game of who isverkrampt and who is verlig. Perhaps the Na-tional Party will win more seats or the Pro-gressive Federal Party will increase its minori-ty, they would say. Or they would play the ex-treme right-wing bogey, about the HerstigteNasionale Partei of Jaap Marais will unite withthe Konserwatiewe Partei of Andries Treur-nicht and Terreblanche's Afrikaner Weer-standbeweging or maybe they will not.Or that the right wing will unite and theliberal opposition unite to halve the NationalParty majority? This Whites-only electionfarce usually, in our view, ends with the Na-tional Party leaders giving themselves morepower and increasing. repression on ourpeople.But this time, to the shock and dismay of PietBotha, it is the Blacks who are really votingin genuine elections of democracy overfascism. It is the liberation movement, led bythe ANC, who are voting in strikes by theirtrade unions, rent boycotts, school boycotts,in their civic associations, street committeesand in other forms of struggle. It is thedemocratic movement which is determiningthe mood, the direction and final outcome ofthe real political contest between the oppressorand the oppressed. Clearly power is slowly,and at a great cost, changing hands. But chang-ing hands all the same. The Whites-only ritualis fast developing into, a small, miserableside-show.What then is one to make of the baloohuhaaabout Dennis Worrall, the Stellenboschacademics, the restive Afrikaner business peo-ple and the declaration that Afrikanerdom hasgot a left wing? Is the long-predicted crackingof Afrikanerdom and the laager in generalfinally taking place?The Dennis Worrall phenomenon as a poli-tical development produced by the struggle ofthe democratic forces shows the realignmentof forces arrayed against us. Our enemy is shif-ting positions, forced to do so by our strug-gle. Afrikaner businessmen are feeling the heatof the struggle by the Blacks in their factories,farms and businesses and the groundswell ofrevulsion against apartheid from the interna-tional community. Their base is threatened athome and abroad. That is what makes themrestless. The central issue to these develop-ments is that all people, Black and White,must, as these people have done, abandon thepolitics of White domination and bantustanismand then throw in their lot with the future SouthAfrica of a non-racial, democratic and unitedcountry.We, and we alone, the democratic forces,are the only force which can smash the Whitelaager of apartheid. It is our own armed strug-gle, mass mobilisation and resistance that willbring down apartheid and bring fundamentalchange in South Africa.1 Page 7 of 38 TOWARDS PEOPLE'S WARAND INSURRECTIONBy MzalaIn line with the decision adopted by the NationalExecutive Committee of the ANC in August1979, which constituted the main starting pointin determining our strategic perspectives, andwhich defined the main content and the principalimmediate policy on our line of struggle duringthat phase of our revolution, armed struggle wasregarded as secondary to the principal task ofbuilding up political revolutionary bases. Thismeant that the main purpose of military activitiesthat took place in that three-year period was: To stimulate political activity and organisa-tion of the masses; To keep alive the perspective of people'srevolutionary violence as the ultimate weaponfor the seizure of power by the democratic ma-jority under South African conditions.What political developments took place duringthat three-year period which demonstrated thatwe had taken the right strategic decisions?The beginning of the 1980s transformed thepolitical and revolutionary organisational situa-tion in South Africa beyond ordinary imagina-tions. Never before, at least not since threedecades previously, when our movement was stilloperating legally inside the country, had the vastmasses of the oppressed people so arisen as one,"uniting in action and acting in unity" (Tambo),under the guiding principles of the African Na-tional Congress, increasing in the process theirrevolutionary consciousness, and, in mind-defying feats of political mass actions, challeng-ing the legitimacy of the apartheid regime, as wellas virtually unbanning their own organisation,the ANC.Another Mass Uprising1980 saw the development of another mass upris-ing in South Africa.An estimated 10 000 secondary school pupilstook part in a successful campaign for the boycottof classes in Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein,East London, Port Elizabeth, the Western Cape,Kimberley, Johannesburg and other areas, whichforced more than 100 schools to close down; and,more than that, caused 2 000 matriculationstudents
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