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- Winnie MandeZa 3 Z5 ApriZ Z986 The realization .:i:s general that the current regime in Pretoria is fast losing its grip and will disintegrate beyond repair in the near future. Progressive South _ Africans more and more voice the certitude of success m their struggle. Ms Mandela prophesies the change this year. The .scent of victory is in the air.
Others have been shocked into this realization - bank ers' mternational businessmen' educational rroguls 'we~t- - ern governments. They have launched eno:rnous programs to prepare for South Africa beyond apartheid (the actual name of one think tank effort) to channel the future their way.
'Ihe fear, of both government and free enterprise, is ~NEWS FOCUS ' ausiNus DAY, w~. AprR 2 ,:.- - rl! what a recent NEW YORK TIMES report describes as ! ap prehension that change could produce a radical black led Gover.rment hostile to the United States ' . These Mandela_~-~ M-plan programs are focused chiefly on the minds of young black South Africa.
alive in. townships 'Ihe US government has a purported $45 million educa BLACK activists, reviving a plan Secretaries from each street com proposed in 1953 by black leader mittee report to area committees tional scheme. Mobil has set up two programs of $10 Nelson Mandela before he was comprlsillg perhaps. 10 streets. The jailed, are beginnin~ to set up a sys-: area. committees report to the UIOCi· : million each, one for black education, the other for tem of township 'street commit· ati.;e are workiDg very lwU to inake rural development and small black businesses • Coca tees" to oppose govermneut. people ,.,.,... this _ _.,...,. " sa-Ng""'· Tbe grassroots committees, which b d"""""'"tlia" ~- ,_ v;p, Cola has a $10' million entry. Universities and col are ·most developed In . townships w o a ds t the idea is belDg spread around Port Elizabeth, are being to otherfromareas. "We can import the leges countrywide USA have created or drastically in formed amid growing black support r:::-; other places to teach creased scholarship grants. Foundations expand for radical oppoaitioa to govemment. Govermnent a to be coo- are . "Tbisisa~lmportantlltructure," ;.Cerned by the gr~ the commit mg or instituting South Africa and Namibia centered ~der~UDif:t'~cF;~~!_ ·tees, which were set 1IJ1 oaly In a· few funds • To a certain extent these crash programs are (UDF). "Wemustreacb tbedown-tnKI- ~t:i'~~ ~ c:a aimed at countering the pressure of the divestment den ~1~ ... We must 1111deJ.:stand the now-outlawed African Natioaal what~ taking place ill each particular Ccmgrea in the 1950s. ~d sanctions movement - the former are hailed as &tre!!t. . Jobalmesburg trade UDiODist Moees Based oa the "M-plan" proposed Mayekiso wbo was recently detained 'positive', the latter petulantly termed 'negative'. ~ tban 30 yean ago by Mazld~ (M ancf lntempted ~ violeace.erapt But the .deeper mtent is to mold the future South JB.fC?r Mandela), the street COIDJDlttee ed ill Aleuildra township, said,be was cellS are desiped to be a two-way repeatedly questioaed about street Africa and Namibia in the North American-West Europ system to teacli residents and to learn committees; .of their problems and ideas. . . . "I was . interrogated for five days ean rnarmer. · In a situation wbere mast outdoor and they beat me with their fists and meetings are illegal, the small eom- thrust me oa the floor repeatedly until mittees are less vulnerable to State my DeCk got stiff," be said. Police· de- South Africans deep into the struggle have their own repression, UDF officials say. . cllned to comment on the aliegatiOIIS. They also present an alteraative to Ngoyi said be hoped the street com- commitment - an ab~ding, hard won determination to black local authorities, many of wbich mittees would. make black residents ~been rejected by black~ understaod the policies of the UDF, create the new South .Africa. Long years, particu ties and destroyed. · . wbicb pursues tlie same ideals as the In the TransVaal, black youths have ANC; larly the decade since the Soweto uprising,have been already started clearing rubbisb and "Even in future, when we achieve spent m organizmg, knitting together what South building their 0\lrD' miDiature parks, freedom, we doubt whether we can setting up lDODUJIIellts to black lieroai throw away the structure of area com Africa is to become. No hasty manipulations from on IUCb as Steve Biko, wbo died In police mittees and street committees," ·he Cllltody In 1977' and MaDdela. said. high or from abroad can prevail in the face of a ' Members11f the Eastern Cape street Support for the ANC and for com- well-rooted popu:J_ar movement. committees, wbich are set !lflJ:der IIIIUiism , bas bemme .Increasingly the auspices of the UDF · ted overt In the townships In recent years. Port Elizabeth Black Civic Associ· Speakers at mass funerals of riot ation In townsbi.ps IUCb as New Brigb- victims freQuently sing and sbont the ton, Include residents representing praises of ibe Soviet UDion, as red youth, wo~ and other Interest flags and ANC banners are waved by gro~ NgO}'l says. supporters. - Sapa-Renter. A TOWNSHIP PRAYER Sharon Sopher, a seasoned t.v. journalist who has won an Enmy and other awards, shot this filrr} last aut'l.llm Our father who art in heaven~ in South Africa's townships during the State of Emer haZZowed be thy name. gency - a feat requiring eluding Pretoria's security Thy freedom come~ forces. WITNESS TO APARTHEID was done at the persua Thy wiZZ be done in South Africa sion of Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu and the Rev Dr as it is in Lusaka. Beyers Naude, general-secretary of the South African Give us those weapons~ Council of Churches. It is by far the most up-to Our daiZy miZitary training~ date and compelling look into South Africa's revo and forgive the South Africans lutionary present. our Zeackrs. And Zead us not to apartheid. Central to the documentary are young people, many of For thine is the kingdom~ them children, who act with determination and defiance the power and the victory. against the repressive regime - and suffer for their Amen. courage. The prayer at the left is but one example of their faith and strength. WITNESS TO APARTHEID shows the sweep of township youth-police conflict ; the anguish of par ents; the chock-full courts judging 'criminals' as young as 8; streetside interviews with whites in Joharmesburg - the uncaring, the ferocious (one woman predicts a 'wipeout' in the townships), the conscience-stricken. Witnesses to torture - young and old - tell us what it is like and show their scars. I:octors elucidate forensic medecine - marks of flaying, the delta-shaped gouges of metal-tipped sjarnboks, entries of birdshot, buckshot, bullets, the imprints of rubber bullets , spongy half-healings of head wounds from rifle butts. Viewers are given detailed lessons on what apartheid is really like. This one-hour documentary de- _ serves to be on every network, in every corrmunity, at every school where American young peo ple can see and hear and feel what their peers in South Africa endure. INGUIRIES: Ms Sharon I. Sopher 315 West 57th Street suite 7D New York, N.Y. 10019 14- THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL9, ·1986 Protecting South Africa's fledgling ·grass-roots democracy
structure of post-apartheid South Mrica and the degree cently when they attacked an educational conference of . By Dan ConneD to which violence will define the outcome. UDF groups in Durban. Such incidents are an· almost Apartheid is a means to control the ftow and use of daily occurrence throughout the state of Natal, where HE images we have of SOuth Mrica-of militant, cheap labor that sustains for whites one of the highest Buthelezl maintains his power base by parceling out I"Uelk-throwing teen-agers battling heavily armed standards of. living in the-world. It dismembers families, jobs, services, and other favors in the poverty-stricken T police - provide only a small part of the picture breaks up whole communities, and reduces 75 percent of KwaZulu homeland, according to UDF leaders there. of the power struggle now in full swing there. . the. population to chattel, whose every movement .is Yet neither these attacks nor the routine arrest and Certainly there is violence - enough to characterize manipulated by draconiaillaws and sheer pollee power. detention of UDF leaders is slowiitg down the momen the crisis as a Iow-level'civil war. But there is also a This is why anti-apartheid activists Insist that the tum of protest activity. This is in large part because of welter of less visible organizing an~ alternative In- system cannot be reformed: It muh be ~ped. They the participatory nature of the growing anti-apartheid stitution-buUding that promises to have a profound · ar,e demanding not only the Integration of buses and movement, which is based upon decentralized, block-by- · . effect on the future of South Africa. . beaches,.!~ut also a restru~. of the i!conomy and a block organizing in the black townships, shop-fioor In fact, it is the explosion_,of gra.sHoots democi-acy organizing in the trade unions, and collective leadership within the black "townships," the independent trade in student groups, women's associations, and other unions, and a host of multiracial groups opposed to the . multiracial anti-apartheid organizations. When leaders sophisticated system of white supremacy that is the pri• ~ At issue are the shape and stiucture of · disappeir, there are always others to take their place. mary target of a steadily escalating state-spoilsore post.:ai*1heid SoUth Africa anc1 the degree Under these circumstances, traditional charj.ty and campaign of repressiorl and violence. . to which violence wilt define the outcome. quiet diplomacy are entirely Inappropriate. Not only do On a three-week tour of the strife-tom country; I they fail to confront the basic cause of human !ru11"erlng, found scores of black and white anti-apartheid activists theY also tend to Iegitimlze the present regime and to en working day and night under almost constant threat of courage those, like Buthelezl, whose demagoguery and attack to mobilize and sustain a broad-based constitu- fundamental demoCrattZatioit ·or the • sOdety. violent tactics can ony worsen the situation. · ency for peaceful social change. . Yet the white minority regime, with considerable US Church leaders, community activists, and trade Most are members of the United Democratic Front support, continues. to resist substantive change with a unionists in South Mrica say that only increased (UDF) - best known through Its high-prollle patrons, · complex mix of Super1lcia1 reforms and intensi11ed pressure from within and without will foster substantial Anglican Bishop Desmoitd TUtu and Allan Boesak, leader repression. Added to this is a sudden inftux of money and lasting change. This Includes stepped-up pressure on of the Black Dutch Reforlned Church, but composed of from Washington and from ·us corporations almed at corporations and banks to disinvest and on the Reagan dozens of commimity-based groupS throughout South creating an alternative black leadership. administration to impose tough economic sanctions. Af~ca- and of the recently formed Congress of South The main target of .US support appears to be Gatsha What is also needed is direct support for the main in Afncan Trade UJiions (Cosatu),_ which now has more ButheleZI, the Zulu chief and the leader of the Inkatha stitutional groupings operating in South Mrica - the than a half million members. movement. Chief Buthelezi is often coinpared to Rho UDF and Cosatu - which represent ciear·conimitments UDF activists have come under brutal attack by the desia's Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the black conservative to multiracial democracy and upon which the future of . ~forces and pollee and by a growing_number of. who was- trounced iii Independent Zimbabwe's 1lrst this resource-rich landdepends. · · Vl~te groups widely believed to be supported, at least national elections. He is also described as the likely can tacitly, by South African authorities. - - didate for "contra"-style !nlpport from Washington in Dan CmmeU is ~ din:tor of GnissrOOts . At issue is not simply the pace of change, which all the event of a radical change in South Africa. lniernational, an indepeizdent social-cha714e Sides appear to accept as Inevitable, but the shape and Inkatha thugs received International publicity re- . ageru:y based in C<&mbridge, Mass. WEEKLY MAll, April 4 to Aprll10', 1988~''' 5' BaCk to school for spirit of defiance
/ The. weekena's back·to· school decision has been widely greeted as a sign that peace will return to the classrooms. Not so, argues . PATRICK LAURENCE. The revolt has simply shifted from street corners to schoolyards• . THE sigh of relief which gr=ted"last weekend's decision by delegates to. the ::-lational Education Crisis Committee (NECC) conference not to call for a nationwide schools boycott was almost audible. But if the sigh was an outward sign of the belief that the turmoil in the. schools was over, that "political agitation" in the clasSIOom was now a problem of the past, it was almost cenainly premature; . The resolution to return to school is more accurately described as a switc;h of strategy in the long quest for equal education and a South Africa free of apanheid in ariy of its guises, from compulsory membership of racial or ethnic groups to pseudo states based on ethnicity. · The decision to return to school had a corollary: schools should be used as marshalling yards to re-group and press forward for the withdrawal of ~~~:l~:~~~=~~:!~:::r~~~; :'i'~~::fi~~~17;:::~.:-·.·::,:;,;~;~1\~~;:;,~~~-,}~~::-<,~_c·:.:;.~~--- .. ,._,._,,-.,~·.~·-·:~~:.~.~---~, :._-,.,, .. ,.,. ~~~d;~~gress of South African · _, ..•.. SleepiJ..g qu'ariers .at the· conference.. DeJ~gaie; $1ept In~sblfbr. Whlle some dO'~d--off,·oth,Ce';r~si'i,gvw;;Qa~rd~ed~-~~~~r:iiii'J!I~ Th~ combative spirit in·wbich the· · .,.. :- aga!nst renewectattacks by vigilantes · Pldure<-GIDEOif MENDEL, AFP· deciSion to return to school was taken· further ur,;ed to co)lsider mass actio a- . Sisulu ·canvaSsed tht~e oftem anq. "T~_cast aside our uniry at· this time · battle. were hired by fnkatha. After th~ was manifes& in several resolutions· in the form of. rent•ami .consumer, . COII$UJIICf" l!Oyeotti-as. tecluiique5< of: is to.weaken:: ourshielttand:blunt our final clasb; in· which two lnkatba.-. ··. passed by the more than I 000 boycotts. · . : resisW!ce-·ceaNd;to.. deprive:black·.Spear.- ! : . . followers-.died; Putco>drivers·wm •. delegateS who had to fight offinkatha- -These di:cisioris.. takcn·at an all·nig_ht'.' locaL authorities.- of.• fund$. ancL for.· . Sisulu did not say so specifically in asked to fetch· reinforeenients-: but : _. supporti~g vigilantes before they· session· at the. Rajput .Centre. itt." forging-· tight. links. -for.,-united; his .. written address, but the refusedto--doso.Rogersadded. ·· . could deliberate fully. . Chatsworth, Durban. are evidence not commUnity action. Similarly, tho.'"implication seems clear: a pretnature Buthelezi, however. denied-.lhatc '::. The resolutions included . one. <>f· "moderation~· .and-: · "reas6n-' gene:~ suike.,;or:S stayaway< wli.~!, call for a genem boycott of schools · Inbtha organisecl"!be:.anack: "t masr,:_ ·.. :: unilaterally· unbanning Casas· and ableness"; as the Dcputjr"MiniStet o~·- ·presented:a a 'woajJmt-WbJchc:an only; iiiight·divideratber.than·unile. · ccnainfy. did.. not.· order the. actiorr. :- calling on "all students to plan for EducatiOn and Training. Sani:de Bee:; be used.suceessfully if·-pRCec~ed. by·,:. Whatever the potential· disagree- whiclr took ·-pi ace. No· central national united action" to give effect a!'Parently believed, . but of a fine·. carefut··I!.feParatiou:: · and· ,bridge- ments . over strategy - and. they· committee: member: organised the· to that decision. Another was that any honing of Slr.ltegy. · ·· · building liCOIS cJeavagCs. of class and· :appear to have been kept- iri check- action." · ~ .•·• schools closed by the authorities The conference.· waa·· elearly·-.intereStgiwps·mbhc:kcoiiUIIUJiitiQ.:::the··ddegat" were united in their· .Buthelezi, who·sawtheconfcrencf:. should be forcefully occupied. influenced by· a fmely RaSoned auct.. Slsulu:,was:COIIDScilling.rilethodkal: opposition to .Chief· Mangoauthu. as. a· bilL by its organiSers--. to. Then, too, tllere·was a resolution thought·pnivoking keyriote·addreu. progress, conaolidatioll or·~- Buthe!c:zi':solniWba-.movement.. -· di:manstrate.thathecouldbeatt3cked-:· calling-for June 16 to be observed as by Zwelalthe Sisulu, son. of· jailed·: rathc:r·.-than· has!l',- ili:.Consid~' ••. ·Tiiere wai: -no.· questioning: ·the- fJOm bases. near biS lunne-o ~"If~·' National Youth Day and for a tl!n:e- AN.C leader Walter Sisulu and UDF action; But•his caution WD not. tblt· !:iostiJityofdelegate&towards:Inkatha;. there were-·Inkatha. youtfls with:·. day national stayaway by all sections president Alberrina-Sisu!u; Itwunot· cauaon
•· I I ': .:.- 'Two :brands ()f ., ___ . :' ••. .-.:~·-·.·_;\~: _,. -~· o-:, > ...:·...--·...;,:· -~· ~.,;,.,..;,.~~;;.;;.,~ ·week demoDslialcd4 :new :f.:ior .in --· nae~n 1 $outh. Africa's·-:a~rCady ,·mticai I liiical situalion:·disillutioaecl wbilcs The two \ ~0 an: .nousty c:cmsideringjoinillg · lhe United Dcmoc:riUc From. · . :brands of · :the cixseDi :Or white anxiety
TWO .separate meetings ~t lhe same i ·venue in Johannesburg this ·w=k i dramatically ~cmonstrated the . unccnai!lty and movement in white : -polities. !1'~- The rightwing Hcrstigtc Nasionale ,· Party and the leftwing United Democratic Front held meetings on SUCceSsive nights. Both used the opponunity to lambut the i govemmc:nt. But for !he fim time in many years, lhe rightwingcrs drew ~ crowd of only 200, wbilc lhe UDF' s Mcall to I whites" eampaign drew abollt 2.000 people, most oftbem white. PATRICK LAURENCEmpon:s that the cmwd which . CIIIDIIIIId into tbe Sclbarnc Ball in Jobmnesilall tbis e To PAGE2
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7 Urb_an Foundation head urges foreign investment BUSJ.NESS DAY, Thursday, March 13 198ts'
JOHN BATTERSBY LONDON - A summit of South Afri can, US .and ·British business execu-' tives held at Leeds Castle on Mon . ·day .appears to have made substantial progress towards an in- ·- . ternational . .business consensus on .SA...... The convener ·:of the meeting, ·the ·Rev · ·. Leon SUllivan, author of the SUllivan .: ~-.- Principles, yesterday described the _ ·; meeting as·"encoliraging''. · _· · ::But be_ would :not ·comment further :On c: : the ~an-day _meeting at secluded ·· ~ -~-' Leeds Castle in X-enl -:' . -· - . · ' The 'three South Ai , - ricans present · ::·.·-the closed , '•.·ingwere 'Pr.~Tnii ...... ,~,Milling's · . :Bloom, :Rand's Mike :·>·sholt and the Ur . .ban Foundation's · (UF) Jan ·Steyn.' · Steyn, dir.ector of the . . 1JF, in :an address ~· ·.. to ihe conference, ·c· .stressed ·.the · · ·major role being played by. South -· -.African business with ''well-direc ted"reformist · · pressure ·on gov~ ·ermnent. It is .understood that :':~'the.broad consen -~:.~sus at the meeting _: ·was that both -sA • BLOOM ·:'\business and international . com- panies would have to step up pres sure for change if the threat of total •· disinvestment · and trade ·boycotts ·-was to be averted. · There was an appreciative under- Steyn calls for 'Marsha.ii aid' phin ·standing .of the role of organifed I •. ' , . b~ess - particularly the FCI's LONDON - Coercive actions and 1 JOHN BATTERSBY .. 1 · Party ~avourt1 t~e abolition of all statu- , abuses of policing powers were difficult . . :.-tory differentiation. . · Busmess Charter and Assocom's to reconcile with a commitment to real closed meeting of South African us and .!:! President P W Botha's repudiation of proposals for a non-racial feder reform, Urban Foundation director Jan British executives in Kent on Monday, his Fore!gn Minister's indication that a Stcyn said in London yesterday. He told them black leat,lers felt the black m1ght one dal be president had ation - in promoting the climate lie also said the lifting of the state of presence and actions of the security "reduced the hope o participation even for negotiation. , · emergency could make a contribution to forces in the townships had "tended to of blacks committed to democratically facilitating the negotiating process undermine the credibl!lty of the govern- designed solutions", "provided it was not superceded by oth ment's reform programme". q T~e introduction of a multi-racial pro- er draconian policing powers". Other points made by Steyn were· vmc1al government and the commit- . In a major speech to a lunch-hour !? The pnvate sector in SA bad played a tn~nt to ~ u~,ihed South Africa, with one meeting of the Royal Institute of Inter real role" in progress through the pres- Citizenship •1mplymg ~ual tre~tment nauonal Affairs Steyn also called for sure it had applied on government. opportunity' were par!lcularly. lmpor- greater Western investment in SA. 0 Rapid change without violent reaction tant aspects ?f Botha s promiSed re- was still possible forms for 1986. He also urged the initiation of a joint . , · 0 But the proposed abolition of the pass r.nvate sector and community-based 0 Governments future strat«;gy and laws, freehold title for blacks and the 'Marshall Aid" plan - "before a war tactics should be those of "rapid, clear- decision to replatoe influx control with a · starts raU1er than after it". and far-reachmg structural change". workable strategy on urbanisation were Steyn was also the main speaker at a· 0 A small minority within the National the most important changes. ~~~~~~=•:-=5u~4!~'~Kwandeb.ele. ~d .:C1skei);. ~Y~-~-: ~ after the9V1c assOCiations had Haysontadds;·havesaid either that the _cl~-~ttcm ofsuPP<>11~orv1~~ -~gccitosceurec6~~-victories.·.Amab~o·•pC:dormCd a useful social. acttVJties: by th; auth~ntJes 'In OJ1C ~d ·t~ establish 'tbeir·,bo~c~ as )imdiQrl or-that they. were prOvoked. ·. formoranothcr, Hay~msays~ ... effccttvcly t:q;~sent~vc ~of:tbc intoviolcDCC.. · .. · . . . · .The s~ public relation~ -di.visi~p. C:QmnUUrity,It~~ppate¢ that the .· ·some' ~mmunities have. found . ·yesterday reJected these•allegations ~ pbjeet .· of the 'Vlgilantc;s was tp. protection•·against: vigilari~s through . false. . . . . ·. . ·...... ;F ·:ilcufrilise theSe ·otga~sations, or to. Icgat:aC:tion; otherS have resorted to .. Conununtty leacicr;s. t1ym ·a~ far .. alter. the -b~cc of~power ~etw;cn e)ttra-l~gal sclf~crenc:c. he say,s; · ·: .afield as the cape Penmsu~ and ~c. pro-and ano-aparthCidgr-D'!Pmgs.· ... · ··"· ·AskCd.to.·comment yestcrday,-the North;rn Transv~ w:rc.T~p?nmg · ·~aysom. describes two types of SAP p~blic·relations division said: ·. the eX1StenCC of nght\Vtng VIgilantes vigiliintcs: those m the horiu;larids, ~."'We reiterate thai the SAP arc in · b.ytheendof1985,hcsays. ·, . .· .. who he says have a more dir:ec.t principaf"ilgainst:the'fo~tion of . ,They shared three ~ omm on relationship Witlj' tl!e authorities and vigilant~ groups. On the other hancl, features: they all emerg~ 1nthe l~r: who. are . most·. comp~ab.lc- to . the · -the 'pollee eannot act wh·crc there is no : -:.· . half of 1985,. they· shared .a .~ommon • fascistBl~hirts. and 'those iri urban .. violation OCthe law...... target (members oflcadcrs ofgro1Jps. townships. . . · . . "\ife'reject as false the inJplication ·resisting apartheid) and they: aU .· The.)attcr: arc• rightwing; ·pften .. that tlie 'police do not or are reluctant 9perated brazenly, app.~rC:ntl)' eommtiiiity couni::il~backed vigilantes to act against mel!lbet'S of vigilante believing - and in some cases whose prima:y targets arc groups that groiips when they do make tijcmselves actuallyenj~ying -policc:su.PPO~- ·.· .. threaten ~e communitY councils. guilty ofoffc:nces. · . .Speaking at the book, lau'n¢h Haysom devotes --~-:r-h-~ ..,.., 's -VV~~~~ Th~·Battie~'fq~fl(e ToWtlsliips .. · ,":.-· . .· . ·.· . . ·.... ·'i!'fllll'l1 .. ,.... ~. ~~. ::•·:;"II~W.:ID .fill'«· .. ~. ;: ·/?;~v ·-~~: i#/lfWI ... --. ~ ..__, . . ~A~·1J.IE NJ'f~ ~t:CSION. THIRD COLUMN Across ·the· ,lines Funerals of victims of police action in the town ships bave become a way of life in South Africa.. The morning paper .says "p()lice and troo!aS sealed otT tjle townships and "teargas was t"ued at unruly mobs after the burial" or more ominously, "three people died after An army roadblock is 400 police ·opened fire on 'ram metres away, constant police paging mobs' after the and army patrols moving funeral of four unrest back and forth. We slip out, victims." That's the view from crouching down to avoid ·Then comes the .traditional we are walking up NY 108, ·.. the outside. being seen, to a waiting ear: march to the cemetery, and in the distance we see a The reality is different. Ten through the backstreets ana the throng grows, and· grows, cloud · of smoke rising, and or us are huddled around a to the stadium. Inside 5,000 and grows. Word bas already the crowd ~ws uneasy. Is it parafl'in heater in a shack in people are already waiting. come through - all access teargas, or lB it simpl)r a back Guguletu, talking about ·the Cries of "Hey qabane" {hey points to Gl!luletu have been yanf fire?. Then the drone of next day's funeral. "Once you comrade) come from the aealed otT oy heavily-armed the engine& arows and people are inside the stadium things crowd as· we walt through. police and troops. No non begin to scatter, a Casspir will be all right," our host Our bands are shaken repea residents are being allowed ana an Army Butrel come tedlY, people.come up just to into the townships. The only down the road at speed, they says. "The Boere won't dare ones in are those who have make ad~ run as mourn to come inside · to get you say·"ttianli: Jl!D, thanli: you {Of managed to evade the barri· ers, still busy with the tradi· out.~ .. "What about the· being here." Through tlii!' ·cades which have placed crowd?" one of our number long day, the crowd swells,. tional washijlg of the hands, asks. "Will we be. safe?" speilker after speaker praises .Gugs under .siege. A Defence scatter. The inachines:make a those who have died for free Foree helicopter hovers eon tum and come bact. slinging· dom, songs of liberation are stantl)r overliead, sometimes teargas and birdshot at ran OUr. host gives a scornful sung, the names of the swooping so low it drowns out dom, firing into. houses and . laugh. "If you are inside you leaden of the ANC are called the speakers. But the people, backYards. drivillg ·mourners are a comrade. Don't. believe ouLwith massed. cries or: angered by its presence, otT the streets, the liberated evel'YthiJig you read in the sbnig it otT. 20ne has been. invaded, . the papUa. You must wear hats "VIVA'! at :the end.ofeachlit<' anger builds. · · · so. the Boere cannot see that any. This is no Diob. ·This is a . disciplined,. motivated crowd We are apprehensive DOW.· you are white and wear your determined to bury their The bappineiB of half an · UDF teeshirts. White com dead ·as a celebration of a hour bact has gone, now rades,. black comrades,. it I liberation ·to come, not as a there il anger in the air. makes no difference, we are remembrance of defeats in Stones are. Qung from close all in the struggle together." the past. range at the Casspirs; we are white and so are the troops and policemen on the armouted · vehicles. But we need not· fear the people, they pull us into their houses, teacli us bow to use vaseline and lemon juice to counter act the teargas, each house • ,.becomes a. command centre of its own, a staging post for the am~· of refugees. The org&Diasuon and disci pline is so smooth, so expert, you realise that these are people who are used to this war of attrition, they bave grown accustomed · to these daily attacks on their homes by the "forces." We are smuggled out, past the stares· of·the soldiers at the ·roadblocks, into. Lansdowne Road and up through Wynberg into Rondebosch, where white· mothers wheel prams on a Saturday afternoon stroll, their men return from rugby and their children · play in neatly kept gardens while the maid serves tea. . You can't even·.smell the teargas over here. And on lllonday you will· read in the. papers "Police were forced to use teargas to disperse an ·un ruly mob which was stoning police and army vehicles." Whitev At the New Brighton funeral of r-oo;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;-.;;;;-.;;;;===--....;;: seven alleged ANC members,: three white women in UDF T shirts. join· mourners at the graves1de in clenched fist WEEKLY MAIL, March 21 to March 27, 1986 5 salutes. 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