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Commission on "hard-handed" behaviour by members of the uni Police Deny Plan To Initiate Violence in the Phola Park squatter camp.
CAPE TOWN June 23 Sapa Mr Justice Richard Goldstone in his interim report recommendei that 32 Battalion should not be used for peace-keeping dutie: The police had no knowledge of any government plan to initiate anywhere in South Africa. widespread violence in order to thwart the ANC, Law and Order Ministry spokesman Captain Craig Kotze said on Tuesday. "I do not want to comment on the findings of the Goldstom Commission but we have taken note of those findings," Gei He was commenting on a claim, in an article to be published in Meiring said. the coming edition of the ANC magazine Mayibuye, that the government has a "two-pronged strategy to thwart democracy". He added however that 32 Battalion could not be judged on th acts of individual soldiers after having been "at the sharp end o The article says a security forces operation codenamed township violence on the Witwatersrand and Natal for more than "Thunderstorm" would wreak havoc in the country in order to force year". the ANC to accept an entrenched coalition with at least the National Party. "Except for the complaints on the Phola Park incident on April we have had no other proven complaints about misconduct so far Captain Kotze said: "We have no knowledge of any plan by the Gen Meiring said. government or involving government agencies to commit widespread murder and mayhem and destabilisation, or to initiate He stressed that as far as he was concerned 32 Battalion was sti violence and anarchy. one of the best fighting units in the South African army.
"We trust that the ANC will produce its evidence for such grave "I cannot condone the possible misconduct of certain individual allegations so that the public can test the veracity of these but by the same token I will not have this reflect on the combu claims." readiness of a whole unit.
He asked whether the movement would be prepared to make its "I will deploy 32 Battalion where and when needed in support < sources and information available to an impartial and respected the South African Police." investigating body such as the Goldstone Commission so their truth could be determined beyond doubt. Thirty-two Battalion fields companies in various areas on tl Witwatersrand and in Natal. The police investigation into tl "In the wake of the Boipathong tragedy the last thing the Phola Park violence has not yet been been concluded. situation needs is inflammatory statements. Now is the time for cool heads." Elderly Woman Killed In Umlazi Attack / The Minister of Constitutional Development, Mr Roelf Meyer, DURBAN Jun 23 Sapa who was also asked to comment on the Mayibuye claims, was not / immediately available. A 62-year-old woman was killed and a man wa^ shot and mjua during an attack on a home in Umlazi on Monday night, KwaZu A spokesman for the SA Defence Force also said the SADF had Police reported. / "no knowledge of these so-called plans". KZP spokesman Col Moses Khanyile Said a group of peop Batallion 32 Will Not Be Disbanded lauched an attack on a home in U Section at about 7.30pm.
By Sipke de Vries Lizzy Makhathini was killed while Nhlanhla Mbatha, 36, w injured and taken to hospital. POMFRET, Northern Cape June 23 Sapa The motive for the attack is not known and police a There is no possibility that the controversial 32 Battalion will be investigating. disbanded or returned to Angola, South African army chief Lt-Gen George Meiring said on Tuesday. Radio Announcer's Home Petrol-bombed
Instead the unit will continue to support the SA Police when DURBAN June 23 Sapa needed, said the general. The Durban home of a freelance radio announcer who is not taki; On a visit to the unit, now resettled from the Caprivi strip in the part in the Media Workers of South Africa SABC strike was bur Northern Cape, Gen Meiring said alleged acts of violence by down after being petrol-bombed, SABC radio news reported i individual members of 32 Battalion should be seen "in the context Tuesday. of the onslaught of violence in that area". Miss Lindiwe Ntuli, who is announcing on the SABC's Radio Zu The general was referring to findings last week by the Goldstone station, was not at home when the petrol-bomb was thro\ through a window at about 8pm on Monday. (Nehawu), which is coordinating the strike at about 17 hospitals nationwide, failed to turn up for a meeting with Minister of The house was completely gutted. Administration Dr Org Marais in Pretoria. h e a l t h The union was to meet the minister to discuss its demand for higher wages and better working conditions. Cape Town Not Affected By Hospital Strike In the Cape, more than 800 workers, most of them general CAPE TOWN June 22 Sapa assistants, were on strike at various provincial hospitals, the Cape Provincial Administration (CPA) announced on Tuesday. Cape Town provincial hospitals had not been hit by the nationwide strike called by the National Education, Health and The hospitals affected are Frere Hospital in East London where Allied Workers’ Union by early Monday morning. 500 workers are on strike; Kimberley Hospital (235), Red Cross Children's Hospital (45) and Vryburg Hospital (46). However, some Nehawu members were protesting and displaying / banners at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Rondebosch while Workers are also striking at road depots in the Cape Peninsula, members of the union were meeting with Groote Schuur Hospital where the number on strike at Kraaifontein is reported to be 200 heads. and at the Paarl Road Unit 120. / Nehawu shop stewards informed Red Cross Hospital management "The strike proceedings are peaceful," the CPA said. that workers would be joining the nationwide strike from Monday, a spokesman for the hospital said late Monday morning. A MAS A "Concerned" About Violence / spokesman at Red Cross said the hospital would hold a press / conference later on Monday. PRETORIA June 23 Sapa
There was no sign of a strike by Nehawu workers at Tygerberg The upsurge of violence and unrest in the country was cause for Hospital. "deep" concern, the Medical Association of SA said on Tuesday.
A CPA spokesman said on Monday morning they had not y e t Masa secretary general. Dr Hendrik Hanekom, in a state^mt received feedback from hospitals. released in Pretoria expressed the association's "serious desire for the urgent resolution of the problems which are currently standing About 2000 Cape Town health workers could become involved in in the way of peace and reconciliation”. the nationwide strike following a decision at a meeting in Paarl on Sunday. / Masa valued human life above all and deplored violence, from / / whatever source, Mr Hanekom said. The national strike is in support of Nehawu’s demands in respect of wages and conditions of employment. Apart from the tragic loss of life and physical injury, violence / caused severe mental trauma and disrupted family life. Nurses, Radiographers Demonstrate In Bara he said Masa was committed to the promotion of health for all / JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa; people and stable communities, which were important asset^to South Africa. More than 300 nurses and radiographers at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto demonstrated outside the administration's "We are most concerned that these objectives are being building for the second day oft Tuesday as a strike by general jeopardised, and that further pressure will be placed on already assistants hit the institution harder. over-stressed health services, preventing people from access to essential care," Mr Hanekom said. A statement by Baragwanath's chief superintendent, Dr Chris van Masa expressed its appreciation to the doctors and h^dth den Heever, charged that intimidation of non-strikers had become personnel who were maintaining services under extremely str^Jul rife, with some staff being assaulted, while at various clinics in and trying circumstances. the sprawling township, clerks had been physically removed from their workpoints on Monday. Nehawu Fails to Turn Up For Meeting With Minister
Optimal patient pare was now impossible, Dr van den Heever said. JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa
"A skeleton staff remained in the wards at Baragwanath. Nurses are The National Health, Education and Allied Workers' Union organising themselves in emergency teams which means that delegation missed the meeting with Minister of Administration, Dr optimal patient care is impossible. The X-ray department is Org Marais, in Pretoria on Tuesday for reasons beyond their rendering emergency services with skeleton staff only," he added. control, Nehawu general secretary Philip Dexter confirmed.
Meanwhile, it was reported earlier on Tuesday that representatives He felt the meeting, which continued with the other 10 trade of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union unions representing public service workers, was ineffective as it
24 THE African National Congress By THEMBA MOLEFE yesterday pulled out Codesa and the Governmment in the next two days, broke off bilateral talks with the Ramaphosa said on SABC-TV’s Agenda pro Government. gramme last night. The far-reaching announcement was The ANC said the Government had brought made by ANC general secretary Mr Cyril the country to the brink of disaster. The organi ANf . t Ramaphosa at a Press conference in Johan sation accused it of being “determined to block .--Is out nesburg after an emergency meeting of the any advance to democracy” . "The ANC re-affirms its commitment to a ANC’s national executive committee. negotiated settlement of the conflict in our coun The meeting was convened by its president, try which would bring about democracy, peace Mr Nelson Mandela, in response to the and justice.. The refusal of__ the regime to accept such a Boipatong massacre. To page 2 The organisation will convey the decision to settlement compelled the NEC to review the current negotiations process,’* . Ramaphosa said in a state ment after the meeting. The ANC’s decision comes on the eve of a spe cial Cabinet meeting called by De Klerk to discuss the negotiations crisis spuned by last week's massacre. ANC’ s demands to the Government included: • The creation of a sov ereign constituent assem bly to draft and adopt a new constitution; • The establishment of an interim government; • The disarming, dis banding and confinement to banacks of all special forces; • The suspension and prosecution of all officers and security personnel in volved in the violence; • The immediate imple mentation of agreements on curbing the violence. These incorporate the phasing out of hostels and converting them into family housing; • The implementation of the demand to f itablish an international < nmis- sion of inquiry i* .to the Boipatong massacr . The ANC also appealed to the international com munity to act in solidarity with the Boipatong victims on June 29, the day the ANC declared as a national day of mourning. It called on “workers throughout the world not to handle South African carri ers and goods” . The ANC said it would review forth coming international sports engagements involving South Africa •T h e PAC has wel comed the decision and said it would consult the ANC’s to revive the Patri- ouc Front. /o.a The attack on Boipatong, allegedly by KwaMadala Hos KwaMadala by allegedly on Boipatong, attack The tel dwellers, has led to only five men being arrested. The arrested. being to five men led has only dwellers, tel alleged Sebokeng night vigil killers were acquitted on acquitted were killers vigil night Sebokeng alleged incidents have focused attention on the way police by police those way especially the attacks, on into attention investigations handle other focused and have These ineptitude. incidents police of because Friday hostel dwellers. dwellers. hostel tigations editor, today starts a series that focuses on the focuses that a series starts today editor, tigations O attacks. similar to responses police of history afigtedi assacre m in trend Baffling selves as “A m abutho’ ’ to repel any any repel ’to abutho’ m “A as selves attacked. be may they that the assem bled group to disperse disperse to group bled assem ordered at police he the T but e cam happen. never tack ight m that attack and then fired shots that led to the the to people. 12 led of that death shots fired then and dents and police, a white policeman was a policeman white police, and dents ild Plc ecne n h town the on descended Police killed. ship with speed and arrested 31 people people 31 arrested and speed with ship h ilnso h 12 people. the of killings the policeman. the of murder the for Wednesday night of 39 Boipatong resi 39 Boipatong of night last Wednesday massacre the handled have police dents and children has called into ques into called has children and dents in h cmimn fte oie in involved. culprits police the the arresting of commitment the tion porary history, is full of similar behav similar of full is history, porary iour by the police. the by iour e eie s rue te them grouped ts residen he T n h esig ih bten resi between Fight ensuing the In To date, no one Ijas been arrested for for arrested Ijas one been no date, To The lack of purpose with which the the which with purpose of lack The But recent history, actually contem actually history, recent But o ntne n wnivle town Swannieville in instance For Mrh 4 last 24 March N that that township apprehensive ’ held a Irally near i . year, the Inkatha made residents of residents made Dvyo which Daveyton Fedm Party Freedom MATHATHA TSEDU,
wetaris ow S 000 IFP supporters from Kagiso hostel hostel Kagiso from 1 supporters IFP about 000 where Rand West the on ship attacked residents, murdering 27 and and shacks. 82 27 burning murdering residents, attacked residents, was accompanied by police. by accompanied was residents, to according of year last which, impi the 12 on May early the by arrival shattered pendent Board of Inquiry into Informal Inde Informal into the Inquiry of Board of pendent investigators to testified in the area just before the shooting shooting the before just area the in seen were hippos police that Repression started. residents said. residents by police, of the IFP, accompanied were trademark the become have that bands also involved in the attack. the in involved also escape from the attackers, they were were they attackers, the from escape Of the security forces. Ofsecurity the to to forced return the by members camp they could not assist as they were not not were they as assist not could they part of the riot squad. riot the of part unrest areas, implying that police activ police that implying areas, unrest ity in the areas would be at its peak. its at be would areas the in ity Kagiso and Bekkersdal were declared declared were Bekkersdal and Kagiso f takr asml wtot being without assemble attackers of group 1 the 000-strong did “How year: What had been a peaceful night was was night peaceful a been had What Six people who survived the attack attack the survived who people Six h atces wo oe e head red wore who attackers, The Some people said white men were were men white said people Some Yet others said police had told them them told had police said others Yet k^urvivo rs said when they tried to tried they when said rs k^urvivo The attack happened a day after after day a happened attack The As IBI1R says in its June report last last report June its in says IBI1R As inves
seen? camp it seems highly unlikely that such that unlikely highly it seems camp is approxi hostel the that when considers one However darkness. of cover the under in and drabs dribs assembled men a large body of heavily armed men men armed undetected. gone heavily have could of body large a squatter the from away 10km mately ers to have crossed this unannounced is unannounced this crossed to have ers the attack for and Swannieville rounds hard to comprehend,” IBI1R said. IBI1R comprehend,” to hard hf cag we n police no when change a shift during place took attack the corted the attackers out of the of out attackers the corted around. was man ing residents on the way. the on residents ing attack them avoid to township 000 people who had just killed killed had just who people 000 1 of group is a met they accepted, explanation their If the police. of behaviour the with lem r ad ae mr ta 80 than more razed and ers of scores oth injured 27 people, their hostel and left them there. them left and hostel their into blood, with dripping spears them, escorted they and shacks, no mass arrests? Considering Considering arrests? mass no ecute large numbers of political political of numbers large ecute to and pros arrest doctrine pose pur common the used past the in have police the that fact the ciit, h fiue oue the use to failure the activists, deliberate lack of an even- even- an of lack deliberate shows clearly members against Inkatha provisions legal same add prah y h po the lice.” by approach handed “If the SAP arc to be believed, the the believed, be to arc SAP the “If A at tec o oe vl sur veld open of stretch vast “A h oieepaaini t a h is t explanation police The They said they had only es only had they said They nd lies therein the prob L J X IBIIRsaid: “Why were there there were “Why IBIIRsaid: It was to be 24 hours before hours 24 be to was It A ------I I phlice went into the hostel to search for to search hostel the into went phlice servers have said. have ob servers read, head his need would him on weapons. case” , police said. police , case” changed to murder and public violence. public and to murder changed arrested. were after a public outcry and the charge charge the and outcry public a after to not be the linked could “they because Anyone found with his weapon still still weapon his with found Anyone Three of them were later released released later were them of Three Just 1 six Just out of or 000 attackers more Five more people were later arrested arrested later were people more Five £ said whitesaid men Some people were alsoin volved inthe hunt tak 9 attack.
Pane Jordan. C y r i l Ramaphosa and N e l s o n Mandela at the ANC press | conference last night. Full text,of v ANC statement work and entertainment. Appeal to the in including murder, in This is the stark reality. ternational com volving its security Between July 1990 and forces and surrogates. April 1992 there have munity: This subversion of po been 261 attacks on The National Party re , , struggle remaii remain the litical processes to de gime is acting in con The National in the violence. surest basis for realising township residents by • Ensure that all repres stroy the democratic hostel inmates, which led tempt of the wisnes of Party regime of peace and stability. sion in some of the self- movement in South Afri to 1207 deaths and 3 697 the international com F W de Klerk has We call on the entire ca, led by the ANC. can governing states, and in iniuries. munity for a speedy end % — brought our coun people of our country, in not be allowed to prevail the so-called independent We further demand to apartheid. Now, more I try to the brink of disas states, is ended forth cluding the business any longer. W'e cannot than ever, the interna community, to join in ob that the regime imple ter. Riddled with corrup tolerate a situation m ents agreem ents on tional community is in tion and mismanage with. serving June 29 as a na Our people are com where the regime's con curbing violence reacned quired to compel the De ment, the regime is de pelled to live in a perpet tional dav of mourning trol of State power Klerk regime to bring termined to block any and solidarity with the with the ANC almost a ual state of fear — be it allows it the space to violence to an end and to victims of the Boipatong vear ago. In particular. advance to democracy. in their homes, on their 1 denv and cover up its commit itself to solu massacre as the dead are • The immediate imple It pursues a strategy way to work, in trains role' in fostering and fo tions based on interna which embraces negotia mentation of the pro and taxis, at funerals and buried. menting violence. gramme to phase out the tionally accepted demo tions. together with sys The Boipatong mas vigils, at their places of hostels and convert them cratic principles. tematic covert actions, work and entertainment. Appeal to the in sacre is one of the most into family unit accom In consultation with including murder, in This is the stark reality. ternational com chilling instances of the volving its security modation. sporting bodies, we shall Between Julv 1990 and consequences of the ac • Installation of fences forces and surrogates. April 1992 there have munity: | tions of the De Klerk re be reviewing the forth around these establish coming international This subversion of po been 261 attacks on The National Party re gime. Before the people litical processes to de ments, sports engagements in township residents by gime is acting in con- of South Africa and the • Guarding of these hos stroy the democratic hostel inmates, which led tempt of the wishes of Bar of international volving South Africa. movement in South Afri tels by security forces on to 1207 deaths and 3 697 the international com opinion, it cannot escape a permanent basis, moni We appeal to-the Unit ca, led by the ANC, can munity for a speedy end culpability. ed Nations Security not be allowed to prevail injuries. tored by multilateral We further demand to apartheid. Now, more : What is at issue is Council to convene as a any longer. We cannot peace structures, and the that the regime imple than ever, the interna more than the crisis of matter of urgency to un- tolerate a situation expulsion of those who m ents agreem ents on tional community is re the negotiations process. occupy the hostels ille dertake measures whicn where the regime’s con curbing violence reached quired to compel the De The fundamental reason will help stop the vio trol of State power gally. . . with the ANC almost a Klerk regime to bring for the deadlock is • Regular searches ol lence and reinforce our allows it the space to year ago. In particular. violence to an end and to whether there is to be hostels with the partici efforts aimed at bringing deny and cover up its • The immediate imple commit itself to solu I democratic change, or pation of multilateral about a democratic role in fostering and fo white minority veto mentation of the pro tions based on interna peace structures. order. menting violence. gramme to phase out the tionally accepted demo powers. There is only The Boipatong mas • Banning the carrying We call on the interna hostels and convert them cratic principles. one way forward. It is a of all dangerous weapons tional community to act sacre is one of the most into family unit accom road which must unmis chilling instances of the In consultation with in public on all oc(-a’ in solidarity with our modation. takably and unequivocal sions, including so-called consequences of the ac- sporting bodies, we shall ly lead to the establish people on the day of the • Installation of fences cultural weapons. k tions of the De Klerk re- be reviewing the forth ment of a democratic funeral for the victims of around these establish coming international We insist that the re I gime. Before the people South Africa. the Boipatong massacre. ments. sports engagements in gime agree to: In particular we appeal of South Africa and the • Guarding of these hos • The implementation volving South Africa. 01 to all workers through Bar of international tels by security forces on To this end it is opinion, it cannot escape the universal demand re out the world not to han a permanent basis, moni We appeal to-the Unit necessary that the quiring at least the es culpability. tored by multilateral ed Nations Security dle South African car What is at issue is De Klerk regime tablishment of an inter riers and goods on this peace structures, and the Council to convene as a national commission of more than the crisis of expulsion of those who matter of urgency to un day. the negotiations process. agre es to: inquiry into the Boipa occupy the hostels ille dertake ineasures which The fundamental reason • The creation of a dem tong massacre and ail gally. . will help stop the vio ocratically elected and acts of violence as well On negotiations: for the deadlock is • Regular searches of lence and reinforce our whether there is to be sovereign constituent as as international monitor The ANC reaffirm s its hostels with the partici efforts aimed at bringing ing of the violence. commitment to a nego democratic change, or pation of multilateral about a democratic sembly to draft and white minority veto near** «trMrtnroc adopt a new constitution. • Release all political tiated resolution of the nowers. Ther® is_nnK • The establishment of prisoners forthwith. conflict in our country i an interim government • Repeal all repressive which would bring about I of national unity, which legislation, including democracy, peace and I is the onlv way all South those laws which were so justice. The refusal of Africans will recognise hastily passed during the the regime to accept that the country shall last days of the recent such a settlement com have moved decisively to session of Parliament. pelled the NEC to review end white minority rule. the current negotiations Call to the people process. Demands on the of South Africa: The ANC has no option regime: The crisis caused by the but to break off bilateral and Codesa negotiations. regime constitutes a • The regime must im The NEC will be keep mediately end its cam- challenge to all South Africans to unite in a ing the situation under I paign of terror against continuous review. The broad movement for de the people and the demo response and practical cratic movement. In this mocracy, peace and jus steps taken by the De regard it must immedia tice now. We all, black and white together, Klerk regime to these tely carry out the follow demands will play a ing measures: share the responsibility to stop the regime from critical role in determin • Terminate all covert ing the direction and operations including hit- plunging our country into chaos and anarchy. speed with which bona squad activity. The ANC shall consult fide negotiations can • Disarm, disband and take place. The decisions confine to barracks all all formations with a view to holding a sum* taken today will be con special forces as well as veyed to the regime by detachments made up of mit to unite and mobilise our people against con ANC president foreign nationals. Nelson Mandela H • Suspend and prosecute tinued white minority rule and for democracy. as soon as possi- M all officers and security ble. 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PRESIDENT FW de Klerk yes will continue with Codesa. Meanwhile, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has terday cut short his visit to Spain called for the expulsion of South Africa from as Codesa teetered on the verge of the Olympics if De Klerk does not act deci collapse as a result of last Thurs sively on the massacre. Oilier organisations have also called for SA’s day’s Boipatong massacre in withdrawal, while the ANC’s Steve Tshwete which 39 people died. meets sports organisations this morning. He is due back tomorrow and is ex The Vaal Council of Churches yesterday pected to go into an immediate meeting announced that the Boipatong victims will be w ith senior officials of his party and G ov buried next Monday. The ANC and PAC have ernm ent. declared Monday a day of mourning. The ANC also meets today to decide if it Full reports on page 2.
I I 1 GUT reaction is to welchxtie the announcement that the Kwa- A Madala Hostel near Boipatong will be closed after last week’s massacre. Township residents living in close prox imity to this and other hostels justifiably feel that they are crime zones from where attacks and raids are planned and perpe trated. These heavily fortified hostels, accom modating not only single male workers but a large number of families and unem ployed persons, have also become no-go areas for the police. There is little doubt that the hostels have become a springboard for attacks and a focal point of the overall violence being I experienced on the Reef, j The simplistic perception that all hostel dwellers are Zulu-speaking and support ers of the IFP adds to the political hue and complicates the situation. In Soweto’s Dobsonville last week youths reflected the feelings of residents when they hijacked a bulldozer and attempted to demolish the local hostel. The closure of the KwaMadala and other hostels, however, poses the question: What happens to their inmates and will it end the antagonism between hostel dwellers and township residents? It is almost certain that new squatter settlements would mushroom should all the hostels be shut. Our plea is that a more creative ap proach be developed that can lead to the conversion of hostels into family units and their integration into the local communi ties. The State has allocated about R260 million for this purpose. The conversion of the hostels can be part of a process of reconstruction and healing this country so sorely needs.
t p-w-i HE Boipatong massacre was tern- I ble and Archbishop Tutu is right to say there is no cause for celebration, j We thus endorse the call to boycott the j Barcelona Games. There are other calls to show that an atrocious act such as happened in the Vaal will not be tolerated. Leaders are saying that sacrifices to bring pressure on the Government to change might have to be revisited - sacrifices like losing jobs and security. These are heavy burdens on people who are and have been suffering. With deep 1 compassion for the suffering masses, we nonetheless feel committed to support such I calls. The wanton loss of life and the killing j of babies demands great sacrifice. I The boycott of sports is a small price to j pay in expressing our grief and outrage. f O . 5
Boipatong death toll rises fo 48 THEE death tolltnti in last .____ week’s Boipatong By KENOSI Flora Moshope of .761 Dlamini of 1110 Lekoa massacre has risen to m odisane Hlubi Street, Mathilda Hlubi of 722 Bafokeng Street 48 and could be higher. attackers and those whose Street, Linah Manyeka and Jacob Mtambo of 189 Vaal ANC leader and bodies were removed by Andries Manyeka of 734 Sekhukhune Street, i mernbcr of the funeral com- the police on the night of Benjamin Genu of 1411 the attack. Bafokeng Street, Maria mittee Mr Ernest Sotsu said Ngwenyama Street, yesterday that two more Mlangeni of 238 Thaba “We are aware that we Bosiu Street. Bophelong, Meshack people had died in hospital. may discover more bodies Mzizi of 417 Dube Street, j Three others died during V of the, victims at the 11th Martha Nonjoli, Ntombi Nonjoli and Elizabeth Bophelong. State^ President FW de hour. But we have not yet Those who died at Slovo Klerk s visit on Saturday. thought of changing the M oloiof765 Hlubi Street, Anna Letsoku, Andrie Park are Rebecca Mathope Police could yesterday plans for the mass burial at Letsoko, Jim Richard of and her nine-month-old son not comment on the five this stage.” 194 Senou Street Aaron of 109, Maria deaths. Fourty three names of Benjamin Mosoetsa of Ramoeletsi and Simon I “We cannot release their victims of last Wednes 762 Zone 13 Sebokeng, Ramoeletsi of 97, Johannes identities as their next of day s attack were released Khoza of Caravan house, kin have not yet been to Sowetan yesterday. Samule Mosoetsa of 660 Moshoeshoe Street, Nelly Michael Mnyila of traced. We do, however, Those who died in Kubu of 1183 Moshoeshoe Transkei. have a list of the others who Tsirela township are Violet Street, Annah Sebolai and Thomas Lekabe of 17, a jdied in the ambush last Msibi, Michael Msibi, Percival Sebolai of 666 Mr Sibisi of 21, Maria i week,” Sotsu said, Sibusiso Msibi and Ronica Moshoeshoe Street. Mofokeng and Elizabeth j We are still trying to Msibi, all of 625 Bapedi Berlina Lerobane of 45 Kgaile of 25, Elizabeth I search for those who were Street, Julia Mgcina of 696 Majola Street, AlettaMoeti Ndamase of 135. reported kidnapped by the Bafokeng Street, Flora of 104 Majola Street, Maria Jonas Mbatha and Lisa Nkalaof469TugelaS treet. Dlamini and Pauline Mbatha of 135 and Agnes Malindi of 23. ? 0 . G
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THE African National Congress yesterday withdrew from consti tutional talks with the government and its al lies to form a pro democracy forum. The news broke just hours before State Prcsi- denl He Klerk was due to return from Spain to face a crisis precipitated by the fioipalong massacre last week in which 39 people died. "The ANC has no op tion but to break off bilat eral and Codesa negotia-
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African National Congress president NELSON MANDELA at a Press conference in Johannes- burg last night at which the ANC announced that it wa3 withdrawing from Codesa.
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a'_53u o — c ^ V=aS *■* 6. i l § | ^ ” II til 11 La-g to f ** T , PoliceyL Tl '| # clamp "■ on KwaMadala hostel POLICE restrictions » on residents of the ^ 0 KwaMadala Hostel in is liftedof people who were in the Vaal Triangle were leased after questioning. petrators of the massacre. lifted at midnight last Maj Harrald pointed Mr Van der Merwe and jured, as well as that of night, allowing hostel out there were still a num Mr Tauti will assist the in other possible witnesses. residents to move free ber of residents to be vestigating team with the He made an urgent ap questioned. examination of evidence, peal to all residents in ly- Boipatong to assist with The hostellers were The investigation into as well as with the man the investigation by fur confined to the building the massacre would con agement of the investiga nishing the police with all last week to assist the tinue and the SAP again tion. possible information. police with investigations appealed to people with After the massacre into the Boipatong massa information to come for many Boipatong residents “We are sincerely anx cre. The Inkatha-aligned ward, Maj Harrald said. alleged that the attack ious to solve the killings hostel dwellers were Six KwaMadala resi was launched from the and request anybody with blamed for the attack, dents are still being held KwaMadala Hostel. information to make use which killed at least 39 by police in terms of the On Thursday a number of the toll free number, people. unrest regulations. of weapons were seized at 0800111213, or to contact Maj Ray Harrald said Meanwhile two advo the hostel and sent for the investigating officers the lifting of restrictions cates from the office of forensic testing. directly.” was possible because hos the Transvaal Attorney-. Iscor — where most of tel leaders had been co General, Mr Eric van der the hostel dwellers are Meanwhile, the general operative and that a large Merwe and Mr Callie employed — has pledged secretary of the White- number of the residents Tauti, yesterday joined its full co-operation with dominated Mineworkers" had been questioned and the investigating team of the police investigation. Union (MWU), Mr Peet cleared of suspicion. 200 experienced detec According to a spokes Ungerer, demanded 24- Earlier yesterday about tives who are working man police experienced hour police protection for 150 hostel residents were round the clock in order “serious problems” in ob union members employed rounded up but were re- to bring to book the per taining the co-operation at companies such as Cape Gate, Metalbox and Consolidated Wire Indus tries situated adjacent to the strife-torn Boipatong. In a letter to the Minis ter of Law and Order, Mr -■ Ungerer claimed that, j since the massacre. MWU-members working Police could not con in the area were experi firm the particular inci dent yesterday. encing an increase in at tacks and intimidation During meetings with from Boipatong resi employers and other or dents. ‘ * ganisations such as the local SADF Commando, On Thursday a union MWU demanded alterna member employed at tive shifts to ensure that Cape Gate was allegedly members can commute to confronted, assaulted, and from work during and his vehicle set alight daylight hours only, and while he was on his way to secured parking for ve work. hicles of employees. Mr Ungerer warned that attacks on MWU members would not be tolerated any longer. He said the time had arrived where White workers needed protec tion and if this (protec tion) was not forthcoming from the police, these workers would be forced to ensure their own secur ity in their own way. to.B SAP lifts clamp on , massacre 1 i i ^ 'VJr \lJ Hi X hostel By Bronwyn Wilkinson and Melody McDougall The KwaMadala hostel, widely believed to have been the base for last Wednesday’s Boipatong massacre in which the death toll now stan ds a t 42, is no longer being held under a po lice clamp. Police restrictions, which held hostel inmates under guard and confined to the hos tel compound, were lifted at midnight. SAP spokesman Major Ray | Harrald said the police had I been able to lift the restric tions and allow inmates to move about more freely be cause hostel leaders had been co-operative with police inves tigations, which were almost complete. Many inmates had been cleared by Iscor computer files which showed they had been at work at the time of the attack. Police Commissioner Gener al Johan van der Merwe and a high-ranking SAP delegation yesterday visited the hostel for discussions with inmates. Cars stoned, burnt At a press conference after the visit, he said at least 150 hostel inmates had been “re moved” from the premises for in wake of masscre L questioning. Six inmates are being held in • From Page 1 may call the police on the toll detention in connection with free number 0800-11-12-13. the massacre. barred from entering the j complex. The information will be Media representatives were treated as confidential and Iscor announced yesterday witnesses may remain anony • To Page 3 * I that it planned to close the mous. | notorious hostel and move j residents to nearby KwaMa- • As violence continued in siza hostel. Vaal Triangle townships, at Although police investiga least 13 private vehicles were tions at the hostel were al attacked and set alight on the most finished today, theyt old Golden, Highway yester were not having the same day afternoon near Sebokeng. I luck in Boipatong and Slovo The road has now been Park. By this morning, not closed. Occupants of all the | one witness had come vehicles, which had been : forward to police with infor stoned by mobs, stopped and mation about the massacre. set alight, escaped unhurt. Major Harrald said he and Witwatersrand liaison officer Police used teargas, bird- j Lieutenant-Colonel Dave shot and rubber bullets to dis Bruce were leaving for the perse the crowds. ■ I Vaal Triangle today to work The whites-only Mine- through newspaper reports to workers’ Union yesterday de 1 try to find witnesses who manded 24-hour police pro would be prepared to give in tection for its members, say formation to the police, ing white workers had been i Anyone with information attacked near Boipatong. Restore police credibility if there is to be any hope FTER Bolpatong, one thing is t FTER Bolpatong, one thing i, son I spoke to inIn Bolpatong...... told...... - */ A certain. There will be no ne gotiated settlement unless some me quite categorically that they I watched a voung woman pho believed the police had escorted collusion In the attack were wild thing Is done to restore the credi tographer cradle a man's shat the attackers Into their township propaganda. you try the more you discredit bility of the police as a peace tered head as he gurgled and died. yourself. and out again after the slaughter keeping force My wife, who accompanied me on “I visited Bolpatong and spoke f despaired because f saw with That is what has happened to Plk Botha is right when he says the assignment and had to run for to many of the residents," Pastor my own eyes how inept the police °ur,P°llc' force. It has discredited there is no alternative to negotia her life with the stampeding mob ,Wr°,‘e “,,a vlnK heard are at handling the kind of vola their first-hand accounts of what Itself by Its deeds and Its cynically tion. But what there is, if negotia turned back to drag a man who tile situation that arose after Mr happened I am deeply disturbed disingenuous explanations until it tion fails, Is the appalling prospect these men given that they carry had been hit In the spine to safety de Klerk s ill-considered visit because It appears the pol.ee Is seen not as a peace keeper but of a slide Into anarchy and ruin, of no batons or riot shields and that behind a parked car. But the po Why in God s name did they have failed In their primary duty of as a feared and deadly enemv South Africa becoming another they can open fire, not with tear- lice stayed next to their parked President de Klerk does not want to turn their Cassplrs around and protecting innocent citizens. Lebanon. gas or rubber bullets, but with Cassplrs. to believe that. He gets angry re-enter the township after the heavy-gauge shotguns Into an un “There Is a growing perception when It Is put to him. But it is i "0B looms before President had left and the angry President de Klerk's decision to . T??,1 Pr,°?Pwt armed crowd that was angry but visit the scene of that atrocity is a among moderate whites and true. crowd was starting to disperse? never really threatening? 10 L nT urJ ^ K"'rk measure of how out of touch he is blacks that allegations of po- to turn a blind eye to the fact that And keep up that fire for nearly lice/Inkatha collusion are not wild How can credibility be re the credibility of tie police Is In a Why did they have to foilow the with the mood of black South Afri stored? Only by drastic measures •tate of collapse. crowd, so aggressively and provo half a minute as the people fled in ca In these dark days of frustra political propaganda, but are in terror, falling as they were shot In fact true and the Government is, There must be a complete change catively that a newly arrived for tion and fury. In the command structure of the 1 tlme ln Bo'palong last eign correspondent beside me the back until there were two in fact, party to promoting vio week talking to survivors of the Bolpatong and Its neighbouring security forces, and they must be blurted out in astonishment: dead and 29 groaning on the lence." *"d < »«» I" the midst ground — and only when the townships were boiling with rage brought under the multi-party What the hell do they think Whatever the President and his control of Codesa with some tough of the minl-Sharpeville that fol shooting stopped did the officer in Absolutely everyone there be they’re doing? Are they looking Ministers may say, however much but broadly acceptable person lowed Mr de Klerk's visit to the for trouble?" charge leap up and scream at his lieves the police were involved in the Inkatha attack. they may delude themselves and such as Prof van Zyl Slabbert as Why, in those explosive circum men: “Who told you to shoot’ I firefhTS& at point-blank rfw ‘1* range,P°llce withoutoP'nf Nor is It only journalists who however many exculpatory state Minister of Law and Order. On top stances, did someone riding in po told you not to shoot without orders and without warning. Into a knew this. Pastor Ray McCauley ments the police public relations of that, an international monitor orders!"? olflce may issue, the people on the packed crowd of about 3 000 peo- lice vehicle BHL186 B have to of the Rhema Church, by no ing force to police the police. shoot a man dead, creating a situ And why, when it was all over, receiving end of the pangas and ple and I can only say that I de means a radical man, was also in ation so explosive a greater trage did the police not come to help the Do that and we may, with luck spaired for our country. Boipatong on Friday and he was pipe guns know who attacked dy became Inevitable? Injured? It was left to the few them. You may bluff the whites in restore faith in impartial policing' I despaired because every per shocked enough to send a message And what kind of training are press people there, and the black their remote suburbs, but von and get the peace process back on to Mr de Klerk saying he did not track. survivors, to do that can't bluff the blacks who are believe the allegations pf police Anything less and the abyss there on the spot - and the more yawns, o Vaal faces strike over Boipatong WORKERS in Vereeniging and Van- DIRK HARTFORD and WILSON ZWANE derbijlpark will go on strike from today until the KwaMadala hostel is the reason for the violence and in the inter demolished and Iscor agrees to pay ests of getting a win-win situation we are for damages to Boipatong homes and taking that reason away.” for the funerals of the Boipatong The hostel would not close immediately. massacre victims, according to a Howatt said there would have to be negoti Cosatu spokesman. ations between representatives of Kwa And Inkatha West Rand leader Hum Madala hostel and KwaMasiza hostel phrey Ndlovu, one of several Inkatha about the issue. leaders who held talks with police commis Iscor wants the 300 KwaMadala resi sioner Gen Johan van de Merwe at the dents who are Iscor employees to return to hostel yesterday, said the harassment of the KwaMasiza hostel, which houses 5 000 hostel dwellers at KwaMadala had no mainly ANC-supporting Iscor employees. precedent. However, Howatt said last week attempts Ndlovu said more than 100 inmates were over two years to achieve this had failed. held by police yesterday for questioning Cosatu’s Neil Coleman said people from following the detention of five hostel resi KwaMadala were linked to numerous at dents on Monday in terms of security regu tacks and massacres in the area. He said a lations, which provide for a 30-day deten common feature of those arrested for tion without trial. The large group of many of these crimes was that they were inmates were released later. unemployed, gave their address as Kwa Sapa reports police restrictions on resi Madala and had their bail paid by Inkatha. dents of the hostel were to be lifted at It has also been reported that vigilantes midnight last night, allowing hostel resi from Natal had been imported to Kwa- 1 dents to move freely. Madala where military training was tak- j The hostel dwellers were confined to the ing place. i building last week to assist police. The SADF had tried to recruit people The Cosatu strike call followed Iscor’s from the hostel and white members of dramatic turnabout in agreeing to close police hit squads in the Vaal area had also the hostel after alternative accommoda interrogated activists in the hostel, he said. tion. had been found for its residents. In addition, young girls in the area have In addition, a consumer boycott was be- alleged they were kidnapped and held in ! ing planned in the area in support of the the hostel for days as sex slaves. demands on Iscor. Yesterday two advocates in the Trans “We will not be taken in by Iscor’s an vaal attorney-general’s office joined 200 nouncement. We have been telling them police detectives in the investigation of the about the problems at KwaMadala for two massacre, to assist with the examination years already. Iscor is sympathetic to the of evidence and the management of the people killing us, otherwise it would de investigation, a police statement said. molish the hostel immediately.” The statement added that police were More than 4 000 workers at metal factor having serious difficulties obtaining the co ies in Vanderbijlpark have been on strike operation of those injured in the Boipatong since Thursday in connection with the attack, and of witnesses. same demands. Ndlovu said KwaMadala Hostel had Iscor’s Neels Howatt said the decision to been under siege since Thursday — the day close KwaMadala did not mean Iscor ac following the killings of Boipatong resi cepted the hostel was a base for violent dents. “However, when addressing inmates attacks in the area. (yesterday) Van der Merwe said people And even if it was proved that Iscor would now be free to come and go as they employees at KwaMadala were responsi pleased,” he said. ble for the massacre, the company would He said the police commissioner had not pay compensation for damage to Boi also told inmates that those who had lost patong homes or for the victims’ funerals. wages as a result of the “siege” would be Howatt said Iscor did not agree with the compensated. view that the hostel was a factor in the Police comment could not be obtained at violence in the area. “They are using it as the time of going to press. C O M M E N T . k Bay of mourning
drawn the ANC from Codesa Sd" hel yesterday that out- President De Klerk has for niin ^ ? °r mediatl0n could be N the first time, conceded’that rnnfrnl shf°^’ed.that he is not fully in South Africa needs outside help to ppHpc f situation; that he con volve its crisis. Both are the acte of c o n S ^ ’ th#t he Cfnn0t easily rmen nearing their wits’ ends about a id That hi apparently at work; -how to end the violence and how to mpan! A f eBS outside helP as a - take South Africa into a peaceful p “ h ,the sit^tion. future. peaceiui Paradoxically, the ANC’s with- J' When the ANCs leadership ,„ok ssmmsiss'sffi
tion. The slaughter that followed talks can resume whpn thl S & s i s _ sE B B E i E vaton a t tT e " wlkendM “You^re le f t? It c o n T d h ^ h°0rS acting like lambs while the enemy easy for the ANC’^ t t0°
c r o w d ’ s L year’ dlLscussions in Codesa Greets, by resurrecting the natriot- . were seen as a better alternative to lc ^ront. tio°ne!lC h ThiS y6ar’ direct mass ac_ What is now needed from govern- I seen as a better ? ent’s side> from the Side of white , perceived as fu- business, church and political I ( I , something breaks the Sr°ups, and from the side of other i S K Pfrty P°litical bickering participants in Codesa is a displaJ | soon, the entire structure of negoti- of awareness of the plight of bfack ations could be destroyed. South Africans. The ANC’s withdrawal is not alto- . Thf ANC has called for June 29 to gether unexpected. It was always , a day of m°urning for the people plain that a failure of bilateral talks s ughtered in Boipatong. That call between the two main parties to i? n?t an attempt to win cheap poli- negotiation would stall multilateral tlcaI points- Rather, it provides an talks inside Codesa. opportunity for all South Africans : Apportioning blame is manors- ™ S >™y. th*,'r,“ mm<>Mlity: th«r pna«e. De K,ert, aeknowle^ ' l ^ n lha, da, | Scapegoats
^BoS^V honl“lead8!" 01™ ^™ '’ “ T Tte suggestions that South Africa f team„ls a happy blend of i I gS SyMU-JSS I ~ ,or tte I f ° f ncel led' The enj°yment associ- Nor is there a case for excluding atea with sport seems inappropri- policemen or. soldiers from teams , ate at a time of mourning and suf- to Play the All Blacks, as suggested | lering and sport is an easy target by A^C spokesman Steve Tshwete j when there is a need to lash out at Must all of them be condemned for - S° 2 n!'f • the sins of a few’ or the failings of iouth African sport has taken government? 1 SsfnltSreon^ JTrr tas shortcomings. The difference this si th a f charactenstic of modern time is that it is innocent of a™ Atocans. We should not dis- wrongdoing. On the contrary it has victimising perhaps the led the way towards reconciliation ini r« i the community mak- Sportsmen, black and white have nnf.W F p™gresrs 10 what we so provided rare moments of pride In Z t h A frica" *° 35 the neW No witnesses in massacre probe
WILSON ZWANE NOT one Boipatong resident had come forward with information to assist police investigations in last week’s massacre, a police spokesman said last night. Lt-Col Dave Bruce Bruce said newspaper reports were being used to try to find witnesses. “People quoted in the Press as hav ing made certain allegations are po tential witnesses ... and we would j like these people to come forward and give us the information.” Meanwhile there were more inci dents yesterday on the Golden High- j way between Johannesburg and Ver- , eeniging. Sapa reports that two meat trucks were set alight and looted. The road was closed on Tuesday after ! mobs set fire to 13 vehicles. Police said a man was necklaced in Sebokeng yesterday afternoon. At least four people were killed in Folweni, south of Durban, and one person murdered at Esikhawini, in northern Natal, on Monday and Tues day, KwaZulu police said. □ The Human Rights Commission re corded 106 deaths and 86 injuries in the week to Tuesday — the highest toll since the week preceding the March 17 referendum. Another Vaal victim
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ANOTHER victim of the Boipatong massacre, three- year-old Poppy Mbatha, died at Sebokeng Hospital yesterday morning. This brings the death toll to 49. Mbatha was admitted to the intensive care unit at Sebokeng Hospital last j Wednesday after a group of , armed men raided the town ship and attacked residents of the Vaal township. She was stabbed in the head and stomach during the raid. Her death follows that of two other victims who died in hospital on Tuesday. Vaal civic leader and fu neral committee member Mr Ernest Sotsu yesterday said the planned mass burial would go ahead on Monday. “The service will be held at the local stadium at 1 Oam. And we hope to bury i the victims at the Sharpeville Cemetery.” n.3
A MARCH by members of the Congress of south African Trade Unions will go ahead as ______By IKE MOTSAPI planned on Monday despite the funeral of the Boipatong massacre victims on the day. clared a day of mourning by the ANC, no This will amount to a stayaway by thou call for a national stay a way had been made. sands of workers who will observe Monday 0 K’ntv.v ■ , , as a day of mourning for the 49 people killed ^ wi» h ^ h r * S marCh' Which in the Vaal township. Ileu \ w i l l be the start of asenes of many others The action will herald the beginning of “nl,essLcertain demands were massive mass demonstrations by trade un- 'H Af W°U b‘8geSt 6Ver in South ions affiliated to Cosatu, which will link ud Y u ^ u with the African National Congress’ ma« ^ i, S31 march In Johannesburg action campaign. S SS ^ start a[ ^ m at the offices of -w ill ouppuil UI 5 pPwawu in Park Chambers in Wander- members of the Paper, Printing, S"PP°nWood and of^ e rS e t' Allied Workers Union, according to Mr Officials of the ANC, the S A Commu Sipho Kubeka, national chairman of the nist Party, Cosatu and affiliates of other union. union federations would address the rally. Kubeka said Ppwawu was in dispute with Sappi over the provident fund and the re The march will proceed to the offices structuring of "operations which resulted in of Sappi in Braamfontein where a memo more than 3 000 of its members being re randum will be presented to manage trenched. ment. He said although Monday had been de- The proceedings are expected to end at about 2pm. j ; ' 0 ? ® * >3 ? ~ ersT*
ljuredt By.'I Ziugisa !L Mkhoma c. o m e bacii when night falls f Bel-f ------~ —------______whateverWhafPVPT* came nom first’. a led on' ettie Majola, a Roinatonp Majola and her family tense and nervous. Streets have curityj barrjcaded by rocks and, blast} 'other of two, prara daily for" themselves inside overturned cars. i ,area.» >e sun not to set - for when~ £ 8 ^ at nig h ^ d r o b e s Occupants of passing cars are ■Ssued J night falls, she fears that th e ': & the w*“- ....killers will return. iears that the dows as shjjtfTagaiiuit bullets closely scrutinised by youth? “We no longer sleep in beds jrindowsy nere. gBard °" for fear of stray bullets that 'w o m eu ^S ^ ni(^Sh!Hg(|0bw Said the commu could come through the mty„had lost faith in the “sys- m Ww " its safer on the fl : im s ; Mrs Majola told The Star. - — — tern because it has failed tc* JJinp i ...... j j f f ^ s t the m en^ K H thern a«ainst the killers j She is among scores of Boi tong women who are living --TTSaim -their'SS S 2 * y-?owJ?1*1 on ““ rmed J009J I and children in'their t S T structures for pro- asaq ] ’ w j ttleir lives after Kv sleep. ~ ..... Madala hostel inmates allegea- j i.. ly went on the rampage and Standard 10 pupil Lindi “ At this^ate I will be luckv L 3 J 3 M t Ngqobe said: “We will never to live to be 21. y massacred at least 39 people “The hostel is a stone’s throw including a nine-month-old have peaceful sleep as long as baby, on June 17. that hostel is still in our midst from our house, and we go to f Give us guns and let us fight h!nnP n.ot.^nowing what will lvt. M” “ aj°la said that since happen in the night luhe outbreak of violence in the back once and for alL"V .. ■;« I \ rea’ sh,e stayed up at night Since the outbreak ofvio-'’ nicrhihere ^ u lot of gunfire at l u t i n g for “dawn or death - lence in the Vaal Triangle, peo m- Li- maybe when you write ple in the area have become flu* article I will be dead 2 ? who knows...” ’ vipaiuug UIU 1 1 1 C 1 i e a i $ K i l t e r s . . . 25 5 . 1 ‘<4&kr 'it* ;■ ■ ft \ t i f i '5 S | W Aftermath: Relatives weep as the bodies of two men ate removed trorn a house Photo: BUY ADAMS cal violence. Iscor, which admits HE savage armed inva- many of its inmates are no longer Among the sion of Vaal township employees, has resisted repeated Boipatong — which left blood calls for it to be shut down. stained ' -I I more than 40 people Despite Boipatong residents’ “We are not going back to work clothes J 4 ; dead — has focused insistence that kwaMadala until this is sorted out,” a renewed attention on were two inmates were responsible, Law Boipatong worker told us. “We white Iscor and its kwaMadala hostel, and Order spokesman Craig expect our companies to tell Iscor the alleged springboard of the rubber Kotze linked the massacre to the to remove these people from gloves ... attack. ANC campaign, stating that it had kwaMadala. These people being The timing of the massacre, on worn by “created a climate in which vio housed there are the problem for the Wednesday night, also hints at a lence could easily happen”. the community. This kind of thing deliberate attempt to stoke vio marauding kwaMadala, a disused Iscor hos has happened before.” men lence and derail the African tel occupied in 1990 by Inkatha- In a statement yesterday, the National Congress’s mass action supporting workers, is widely seen South African Council of campaign, which got off to a as an Inkatha military base at the Churches said its Vaal affiliate ■ remarkably peaceful start on centre of the Vaal’s ongoing politi • Continued on PAGE 2 i t Soweto Day this week. her sister-in-law Elisa Mbatha had knocked on •From PAGE 1 the door. “I could hear her children crying from had submitted evidence to the Goldstone the shack next door. 1 opened the door and she Commission to the effect that most of the vio Massacre launched fell on the floor. She was stabbed and chopped on lence in the Vaal emanated from kwaMadala her neck. She died there on the floor.” hostel. Kolatswewu said Mbatha fell with her baby The Vaal Civic Association has called for a still strapped to her back — the child had been stayaway today and plans are afoot to launch a hacked on the arm, but survived. consumer boycott to protest against the killings. from Iscor's hostel Many residents said police had arrived hours There have been numerous claims of security after being phoned for help. force backing for kwaMadala. Last year the attack sparked by the killing of an Inkatha sup Stunned residents were still washing the blood “I told the police what was happening and they SADF sparked a furore byrecruiting some of its porter and Boipatong resident, David Mbele, last off their floors and boarding up broken windows. asked where the comrades were, because they inmates as commandos. A police warrant officer, weekend. Ouside one house lay a blood-soaked mat on were supposed to be patrolling the township,” Thys Nolte, is also alleged to have taken part in A mob of about 200 men wearing white head which three people had been killed. said Charles Neluheni, whose grandmother was the planning of anti*ANC attacks at the hostel bands, tackies and gloves and bearing weapons One woman, huddled with others around the stal>bed to death. (See Page 7). rampaged through the township and the adjoin body of her mother. Belina Lcrobane, 58, told The fence surrounding Neluheni’s house had Residents interviewed by The Weekly Mail say ing Slovo Park squatter camp from about 9pm on how a mob of men broke windows and stormed been mowed down by a police Casspir, he police failed to respond to pleas for help when the Wednesday night, indiscriminately hacking peo the house at about 10pm. “My mother woke up, I claimcd. Weekly Mail reporters witnessed deep attack started. Others claim police Casspirs ple, breaking windows, and looting. In one street, followed her. We were afraid. After that I hid track marks on the grass. appeared mainly concerned with dispersing as many as 12 houses had been vandalised and under the bed. I heard the men say they want Sebokeng hospital superintendent Dr Coenie “comrades” mobilising against the attackers. looted. ANC members.” The grieving woman said her Momberg told Weekly Mail 17 people, mostly As far as could be determined, all of the dead, Yesterday, angry comrades who had set up mother had been undressed by the men and with stab and hack wounds, had so far been lost of them women and children, were town- barricades at every street corner thronged the stabbed to death. The TV set and hi-fi had been admitted. Seven of them are children ranging o residents. streets itching for revenge, amidst a heavy pres smashed and the telephone destroyed. from four to 10 years and two children aged by midday yesterday the death toll was 43 — ence of police and soldiers from 21 Battalion. By In one house, where three adult siblings were about Five are in intensive care. including a nine-month pregnant woman and a midday rampaging comrades had set alight the hacked to death, a stunned Jake Letsoko told how Police commissioner General Johan van der nine-month-old baby, both of whom had been houses of a policeman and Inkatha member. his two brothers had been killed in their beds. I lis Merwe said he was “most conccmed at the trag speared to death — but police were still removing Late yesterday police were still removing bod sister Anna had jumped out of the window to ic and senseless murder of a number of people in corpses. ies from houses and shacks around the township. avoid the attackers but was followed and Boipatong township". Van der Merwe said inten ANC general-secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and Women wailed as they saw corpses being taken butchered outside. sive steps had been taken to investigate the South African Communist Party chairman Joe off to the government mortuary. Letsoko pointed to a gruesome heap of blood killings and that Major-General Hannes Gloy, Slovo were scheduled to address a mass meeting One resident of a house where two men were stained clothes, among which lay two white rub commander of the Special Investigation Unit set later in the day, after a briefing with Vaal slain said a white man, wearing a black balaclava, ber gloves, which relatives said had been worn by up by the National Peace Accord, would head the activists. was among a group of “five Zulus” who came to one of the marauding men. Residents say the massacre was a revenge attack the dwelling. Shackdweller Elizabeth Kolatswewu told how investigation. Closing the hostels is not theW Ksolution l The easy solution would be to close the hostels. But that would ignore the nxH o fthe problem: the hostels are the only foothold many people have in the cities By EDDIE KOCH UBLIC outrage at the Boipatong massacre has led In demands fur the demoli tion of single-sex hostels. PThe mood on the streets was shown by young militants who recently hijacked a bulldozer to smash down parts of the Dobson- villc hostel. But demolishing the hostels may actually exacerbate the conflict, a view borne out by a statement issued and order to these institutions. Though careful to avoid creating a situation in by the Transvaal Hostel Residence the South African Police has acknowl which, by calling for more policing, Association on Wednesday. edged that police patrols are often they abandon a vital constituency and "The association notes with con- unable to deal with hostels that have create even further distance between cern that the African National been turned into armed fortresses, the hostel dwellers and township resi Congress/South African Communist Department of I-aw and Order has dents/’ warns Morris. ('arty alliance is bent on destroying Says Durban University Miciok>- demonstrated scant concern for the One reason why the hostels have the only place called home for thou gist Mike Morris: "It's a real problem. become bastions of rightwing tenoi sands of people,1n the statement xaid. dilemma. The hostels are the only has been tlte ability of Inkatha activists “If hostels were demolished, what foothold that many people have in AP spokesman Craig Kotze told to exptoit genuine fears among hostel will happen to those thousands, with the cities. The disintegration of The Weekly Mail this week there inmates that there is a sinister plot to the housing crisis in our country? Under clote *crutlny.„ A Madala apartheid also means a move away had been no discussions at minis destroy the only homes they have in a “The only thing we can foresee is hostel dw«lter on the look out for from institutions that make up the terial level about how to deal with vio- hostile urban environment. more chaos and conflict. The hostel attack* from tha Alax community entire urban survival base for migrant lcncc emanating from the hostels, ’|\vo hostel residents who participat inmates, should the hostels he RhokKKEVW CARTER workers. It is an ironic twist to South “This is dealt with by our forces on the ed in recent township attacks have told destroyed, will simply walk into the nent patrols around the premises that African history that the most exploited ground ... it is not for the minister to The Weekly Mail how the militarisa townships and occupy all those hous- must be monitored by “multi-laterai sector of black society should be the decide whether to use five or 10 metres tion of their residence began with visits es- The ANC will be responsible for peace structures”- In the long run, the most threatened by; the demise o f of barbed wire.” he added, by Inkatha officials. “They called that.” ANC wants the hostel system to be apartheid.” In the face of such official indiffer- meetings and explained that it was nec llie ANC'sposition includes shgrtv phased out. Morris agrees with Ihe ANC’s view ence, political pressure for much essary to form defence units because term demands for security forces Ui There is no doubt that the hostels are that there is an urgent rteed to overhaul stricter controls over the hostels is people from the townships were intent fence olT the hostels, search them reg- among the most burning issues of the the current methods m bringing law inevitable. “But the ANC should be on destroying our homes,” said one. ularlv for weapons and mount perma- day and the current crisis will not go hostel dwellers at the centre stage are hostel violence can be negotiated the reformation of its hostel accom “Now, when violence threatens the doomed. They will have to be consult directly between organisations with modation. hostel, the chief induna calls a meeting ed about proposals and devekipmcnts, conflicting political views. Single-sex accommodation there uf his subordinate indunas and orders from the start through to the end of the comprises small complexes with are issued for the formation of tribal transformation process-” he pact endorses freedom of apartments that take two to a rcx»m, regiments to patrol the complex. In many hostels, residents have cre expression and assembly in rather than the huge barrack-like struc When the impis have been created, it ated committees to deal with issues TAnglo’s hostels, bans weapons tures which characterise most hostels. is easy for them to go on attacks in the such as social functions, room alloca and provocative actions on the premis Large recreation areas are located townships.” tion, security, links with the rural areas es, and prohibits^he hostels from close to the married quarters so that maximum interaction is encouraged a,ational Union of Metalworkers and the regulation of disputes. being organised along ethnic lines. between migrants and families who 0(Nnmsa) organiser Geoff “These committees command the Anglo director Bobby Godscll said he NSchreiner says it is a tragic mis respect of significant numbers of hos hoped the agreement, which had been live in the township. I forged by “parties with vastly different “Part of the problem with today’s take sto advocate the bulldozing of tel inmates, despite being autocratic existing hostels and their replacement and politically conservative, as is often policies and programmes’', would be hostels is that they house thousands with low- (fa d , tfbjfr) Arms cache found at mine Ex-policemen may be involved Jransvi f i at E - n joj paJEi r 2 6 [S pies, niil \ /' (I fa- uo^ediog ] Staff Reporters, memberlem & er .of of the noinotorious drew from thejffv'esugation ed to at least 16 foreign gov- C tervene and left soon aftej and that they attacked “lots sation had received informs: counter-insurgency unit — when he dij#vered the men** ernments yesterday, in -/’ of people”, Mr Phosa said. ' jtion citing m em bers of the peq oq Aq| | Own Correspondent The ANC today revealed yesterday told the commis were ejp^oevoet members. eludes an affidavit by a self- His remarks followed sim group as having been in iH ifq p35$ that a person staying at the sion that information had confessed member of an ilar evidence presented to volved in the violence at thS d % , 9 s n « s Greenside Collieries mine been received that there wag ^'Other developments: armed “unit” in KwaMadala the Goldstone Commission Vaal Triangle township. rapijuoo pei had told ANC members he The Government, still in a group of people stayir; • Lawyers acting for the hostel outlining weapons earlier by counsel for the “That is why we say we IBS ‘( W n N F | had been involved in the over the break- the Greenside Cp^fferies Vaal Council of Churches training and the smuggling ANC, Gys Rautenbach, who are. concerned and the mat; J }0 UOTUfl 1*1 (VCC) charged that the Boi rrict3sacr6. in constitutional ne- mine near \V it, Bank who of weapons from Natal into v.- • "... - to!! the commission the ANC. ter should be investigated so puB DMV W ft\\ patong massacre could have is facing a new were involved in recent acts . the hostel by Inkatha Free ANC lawyer Matthew had learnt that there were that proper findings can be txiaui B pus * of viQjLertSe'at B oipatong., been pre-empted if the po dom Party members. * ~ “suspicious people” at the made,” Mr Rautenbach said.: e pjBnS AiJi crisis sparked by.claims lice, Iscor management and Phosa said the man had told ■ mine------who------r - were armed, car- '■* He said an ANC delegation )uring a visit to the mine the Goldstone Commission ANC members he was “sick iizauioBuw v that former Koevoet^ • A Boipatong petrol atten ried radios, spoke a foreign which went_____ to the mine to jnj members took pajjkfn by a delegation of the com had responded to repeated and tired of what was hap rif^^uiuui81 mission on Wednesday, dant told The Star this week pening as we'were expected language and were kept vestigate was threatened 'by insBp^sjaeq last week’s Bj^jmong warnings about the threat1* he had alerted Vanderbijl- apart from mine workers. members of the former Koe trunks containing R-l rifles posed to Vaal communities\ to kill nine-month-old babies )t[ U33q 8ABq massacre. and ammunition were found park police last Wednesday and mothers”.' Mr Rautenbach said as far voet group. by the KwaMadala hostel \night when he spotted‘a., war ID PUB 2{00}S The'O'bldstone Commis in a security building hous as the violence in Boipatong Cou the Minister of from where the attack was party moving into Boipa The unidentified man also oq) ^usAajd sion’s investigating officer, ing about 40 former Koevoet was concerned, the ANC was La SAP and allegedly launched. tong. He said police arrived, told ANC members he had not alleging the group was fst Xcs aonod Lieutenant-Colonel Henk members. • The VCC document, hand but ignored his pleas to in -J To Pag J9UUOJ aqi, Heslinga — himself a former Colonel Heslinga with- sat in a minibus in Boipatong responsible, but the organi- u ov auios ' - -" ' ■ * ii )f IBJ8U0O :a M b u i p a A i o A f c f n s a n F ' ^ *5?' 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