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Army Chief Increases Attacks Onanc NELSON MANDELA Has Com­ That Mr De EPISCOPAL. CHURCHPEOPLE for a FREE SOUTHERN AFRICA E 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012·2725 C (2' 2) 4n-0066 FAX: (212) 979 -1 013 S A #129 10 October 1992 It I S not a marriage nor an alliance of convenience but n:lther a cuddling up - for the time being. The white ultIB. right and the black ultra right in South Africa are drawn together by their COIIlIOn perception of being left behind by the flow of history. These satellite groups circle about the dynamic core - the center stage COJI'Im3.I1ded by Presidents Mandela and De Klerk. The racial tribal chieftains are capable of igniting chaos on a scale not heretofore seen and a Balkans-like splintering is quite possible; they will thrash out their innate differences later in the customary m:mner. But they shouldn I t worry. De Klerk and his security forces need them and, embarrassing as they may be, Pn=toria will not abandon these useful tribal groups. The search for a derrocratic South Africa goes on. Talks between the African National Con­ gress and Pretoria continue by fits and starts. The ANC persists in bringing to life the tenns of last year I s national peace accord, especially the agreement that all political parties have free access to South Africans in all parts of the country. The tribal chiefs, fearful of the people they lord over and directed by their masters in Pretoria, block this effort - as brutally shown at the massacre in the Ciskei. The ANC focuses on the bantus­ tans of Bophuthatswana and Kwa Zulu, the domain of Gatsha Buthelezi. The struggle continues. Army chief increases attacks onANC NELSON MANDELA has com­ that Mr de. KJerk was right in pur­ plained to President FW de suing a negotiated political settle­ KJerk, it was learnt yesterday, Public statements reflect the deepening discontent among South ment. "The army, besides, is tradi­ about the increasing political pro­ African military leaders, writes John Carlin in Johannesburg tionally the most hardline wing of minence the chief of the South Af­ the SADF. Not only are they tra­ rican army has acquired in recent ditionally more conservative, they weeks after a number of public of the Nation), was stock-piling Judge Richard Goldstone, ap­ are much more implicated in dirty outbursts against the African Na­ weapons near Bisho in prepara­ pointed by Mr de KJerk to chair an tricks." Which is the main reason tional Congress. Lieutenant-Gen­ tion for military attacks. inquiry into political violence, for why army generals were particu­ eral George Meiring has in the On 25 September, the day be­ army Special Forces' Battalion 32 larly upset at the government's process confmned allegations that fore the government-ANC sum­ to be removed from "peace-keep­ failure in the agreement reached , army intelligence continues, in vi­ mit, the general said Umkhonto ing duties" in the townships. "I with the ANC on 26 September to I olation of official policy, to moru­ members from all over the country will deploy 32 Battalion where and secure a promised linkage be­ tor the activities of the ANC in­ had been moved by road and air to when needed," be said, prompting tween the prisoners' release and a side the country. Natal as part of a plan forcibly to Judge Goldstone to issue a state­ blanket arr.nesty extending to all Mr Mandela raised the issue disrupt an 1nkatha rally at ment in which he remarked upon members of the security officers. with Mr de KJerk in what is under­ KwaMashu township. He said the "what can generously be de­ Someone else who is upset by stood to have been a telephone Umkhonto operatives were mov­ scribed as an unhelpful response the government-ANC agreement conversation before their peace ing weapons into the area in pre­ from a senior member of the is the Inkatha leader, Mangosuthu summit in Johannesburg 10 days paration for attacks on Zulu head­ South African Defence Force". Buthelezi. Chid Buthelezi, whose ago. But since then General Mei­ men loyal to 1nkatha. In the same speech General conservative Zulu organisation is ring has only stepped up his anti­ "The movement of people and Meiring added that there was no known to have had c1ose'links with ANC campaign. What originally weapons into KwaZuJu where ten­ possibility of the battalion being military intelligence, shares the upset Mr Mandela were state­ sion is already unacceptably high disbanded. Six weeks later Mr de right-wing view that the govern­ ments by the general, second only can only be regarded as danger­ KJerk, responding to national and ment is selling out the country to to the South African Defence ous, sinister and reckless," Gen­ international pressure, went the ANC. On Sunday he issued a Force chief, General "Kat" Lie­ eral Meiring said. As it turned out, ahead and did just that. statement which, as an alarmed benberg, in the military hierarchy, nothing happened at KwaMashu A military expert who asked senior diplomat observed, must in the days prior to the massacre to substantiate his claims. that his identity should not be dis­ have gladdened the generals' 8t Bisho on 7 September in which General Meiring again picked closed said yesterday that the hearts. He.announced he would 29 died. General Meiring warned up the theme on Friday. Now, he problem lay in General Meiring's, not re-enter constitutional negoti­ at the time that, according to his said, Umhkonto was poised to and indeed General Liebenberg's, ations until Umkhonto weSizwe information, the ANC's military start a sabotage campaign against failure to accept either that the - which he termed the ANC's wing, .lJm:kho,nto weSizwe (Spear government installations. There is BUlhelezi: angry al ANC deal war against the ANC was over or "nnh!ess army" - was disbanded. ~ THE INDEPENDENT Tuesday 6 October 1992 THE GUARDIAN Right unites Wednesday October 7 1992 againstANC De Klerk's anxiety about allies leads to attack on ANC and Pretoria omeland lea ers 0llEF Mangosuthu Buthelezi warned of Zulu secession. Briga­ From John Carlin talk to whi e right dier Oupa Gqozo spoke of wax. in Johannesburg President Lucas Mangope prom­ ised to keep anarchy at bay. And South Africa's emergent new Andries Treumicht pledged that, right spoke with great belliger­ if it came to it, his people would ence, but the seriousness of their fight in defence of their new­ message was undermined by re­ Klerk of appeasing the ANC marches and called on it to halt Patrick Laurence and leading South Africans on underground activities. found black brothers. current deviations into faxce - a in Johannesburg The leaders of the Inkatha terrain in which Brigadier Gqozo the path to "socialist tyranny". Mr De Klerk was interrupted Freedom ParI)', the "indepen­ excelled. He came to power in a He alleged that Ciskei - like repeatedly by loud applau5C as dent" Ciskei homeland, the "inde­ roup and enjoys lillie support, but HREE of President Bophuthatswana a nominally he accused the ANC of intoler· F. W. de Klerk's poten· sovereign state - had been pre­ pendent" Bophuthatswana home­ he spoke ardently and unblush­ ance and condemned its plans ingly of the need for "men of hon­ tial black allies held vented from putting its case by to march on the capitals of land and the right-wing Con­ talks with his rightwing "sly means". KwaZulu and Bophuthatswana. servative Party met yesterday in a our", for "legitimate leaders" in­ T rivals yesterday, Andries Chief Buthelezi, leader of the "Marches that could resull in hotel north of Johannesburg to stead of"fools who don't serve the Trcurnicht of the Conservative Zulu·based Inkatha Freedom violence should not take place. make rommon cause against the people but serve themselves". Party and Andries Beyers of Party, has withdrawn his The government is duty bound diabolical alliance thev see brew­ The craggy-faced gentlemen of the Ilew Afrikaner Volksunie organisation from negotiations to prevent such marches," he ing berween the Africim National the Conservative PaIl)' looked on (people's union). in protest against the Mandela· said. Congress and Pretoria. approvingly, applauding the The three black leaders ­ De Klerk accord. He has set a But the government wouln 'I Chief Buthelezi. the force be­ homeland troika's every rhetorical Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Lucas condition for his return: disso­ not resort to emergency rule. hind the event, said it was time to flight. In one of the tea-breaks, Dr Manl:ope and Oupa Gqozo, all lution of the ANC's under· mass detentions or bannings to prepaxe rontingency plans. "The Treurnicht, a minister of the heads of tribal territories estab· ground army, Umkhonto we curb protest. ultimate extremity of political ac- Dutch Reformed Church, took lished under apartheid - have Sizwe, and surrender of its Bophuthatswana also flexed . lion for me will be secession ... I Brigadier Gqozo aside and, rom­ condemned an agreement arms caches. its muscles and warned the just pray that negotiations should menting on the massacre the reached between Mr De Klerk The ANC response has been ANC that a march on the terri· DOl fail to the extent that such ex­ Ciskei soldiers carried out a and Nelson Mandela of the Afri· twofold. It rejected the call to tory would lead to bloodshed. treme decisions axe foisted on all month ago. remarked: "What you can National Congress 10 days disband its army until the in· Brig Gqozo said that the neo­ of us willy-nilly." did was absolutely morally justifi­ ago. stallation of an interim govern· Nazi paramilitary Afrikaner Brigadier Gqozo - dubbed able." President Mangope of Bo· ment of national unity.
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