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Searchlight South Africa, Vol. 3, No. 1 (No.9) Searchlight South Africa, Vol. 3, No. 1 (No.9) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.PSAPRCA0002 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Searchlight South Africa, Vol. 3, No. 1 (No.9) Alternative title Searchlight South Africa Author/Creator Hirson, Baruch (editor); Trewhela, Paul (editor); Ticktin, Hillel (editor) Date 1992-08 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1992 Source Enuga S. Reddy Description Table of Contents: Death in Boipatong; Restating our Policy; Civil Society Theory and the Politics of Transition in South Africa; The Mistrial of Winnie Mandela: A Problem of Justice; Ruth Schecter: Friend to Olive Schreiner; A Can of Worms: The Imprisonment of Hubert Sipho Mbeje; Nationalisation: A Matter of Slogans? (Review); Beneath the Boulder (Review); Indexes to Vols 1 and 2 Format extent 98 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.PSAPRCA0002 http://www.aluka.org SOUTH SOUTH AFRtICA No 9 August 1992 R9/£3.50 1 1, l 1,1 l 1 111 1 '111il,I,pyligigý...111,011Ilm 1,1~ 4~ SEARCHLIGHT SOUTH AFRICA Vol 3, No 1 (No 9) A Marxist Journal of Southern African Studies Editorhil aeath in Boipatong I Restating our Policy 9 Robert Fine -- Civil Society Theory und the Polities of 'Transition in South Africa Paul Tewhlt - The Mistrial of Winnie Mandela: A Problem of Justice 32 Baruch Hirson - Ruth Schechter: Friend to Olive, Schrei ner 47 Paul 'ftewhelh *- A Can of Worms: The huprisonmiet of Hubert Sipho Mbeje 72 lBuruch Hirson - Nationalisation: A Matter of Slogns? (Review) 79) Paul 'l h ..... Beneath the Boulder (Review) 89 IndextoVolsInd2 93 C:owe Pictu(re: Rutao Tilbiyo, Atilmols (194Z) SEARCHLIGHT SOUTH AFRICA Publislied Quarterly Addresses: 13 'Ihibot Av, London N2 OLS, Great flrieiii PO Box 66314, Broadway, Jolianiiesburg ,2020 ISSN: 0954-3384 EdItors:, Iaruch, firson, P4ul Trowixoli, 1Iilel Ticktin .......kns W7 41' dtl x~y~3rSöm~ thA4rican -oliqttos lire acptable4 Our Note to Readers From issue No 8, Senrelillglit South Afleii hus beent printed und distributed in Johanuburg, to avoid Ilie endless interfoeice with our muall in Southi Africa. Wc have ah1'm red aced our price to a ininini in South Africa bacousc of the cxtrernc poverty of fiä workers. Readers who can afford a higher price Will benefit. Wc hopc flint thcy Will NC1IL1,11 donationls to recover somie of our -costs, UntortunAtely wce cannot lower Ilie price knitsid South Africa, but wo are not ruisig ouår price to nicet higher potujc uind other COMtS. There Will be no chunges in our policics and (lht editorial burd Will stay, ut lcust for ffic present, in London. Lute Agnitln: This issuce was ready for dispatcli to Johannesburg --htt lin usull -wiwal new,. t I inussacre at Blitoiig was flaslied round the( World, It stonmed ilutpproprinte (o gli (l without discussing thie issues ralsed by this event. The proti1eii prosonted hy lte killiig go beyond tlie ovents of one night. Marc shootinigN föllowed 1n0 it åtletme tt) 11% t1111 new lkbffliattves were. ncoded. In Ilhe comling period tlhe: trade unions, Ilhe commaunity k.f!liiinnIN and Ilhe political bodies Will huve ta usc new strategics in theiir fight wvith 1110 governinent Whcthier 1theY Will nicel the challenge ut kacp running tco f)oein hodiew to etiver (heli ngi titude, reninins to be seen. klowcv<,r, witljout beikeving tit wo hinve zill or ulty ti, li answers wo have advanced soie idens for discussion. We hopc they Will hull) to gettemte debute, and hopefully löad to action. DEATH IN BOIPATONG Mic Deml ofBoil<ý(itt)ýig More tkan forty pcople. were massacred, at Boiputong on Wt.,dixes(i,,ty 1.7 June. Men, woinen atid children, otid even those in flicir iiiotlier"i svoillb were hackcd to dcatli. Lire, which hitilerto offered offlysuffering, was snuffed out by 111e11.50 low, tillit tiley Could olflyattack at the dend (11 iliglit whell (lie.siltt(1(>kvs conce,iie(1 flicir identity. Evell tilougli tile evidellec is lii(I(IClxtn(1 miglit never be est-.tl)lislieci thure is little doubL aboxit who is gttilty.'1'liis killing must be kild at [lic door of the Intelligencc Departnientand their alli" in flic Inkatlia 11ý'rec<loiii. Party. It is elearly (lic work of niell WIlo are out to destabiflye [ile townsläps, destroyall Tilovelnellts and reinipose ffic state of emergeney. Åddressing tifis ismic, Jolin Carlinsaid in 77w Itidi,,1)eptil<.,ttt (124 Julie IýMZ: In Boipatong, as hi lite majority of otlier the people who netually (lo th, killingare blacks linked to the litkatli,,tl",rce(i(ýiii ilttty..:1'1iose kvito direct thelnare whites opernting witläll tile iiitelligelice.,,ti-tic(tltes or (Ile policemul tintly. 1,11c offly isstle in (loubt ls Jum Iligh 11 ) (loe's (ile nuttioräv Cullle frolli? 1")oes it stop at tile ffic gelleritis, ulld Colonels WI16 C, flective ly rall t11C country (lux-ing t tie Or docs itgo riglil ij,> to 1 , V (te Klerk, el.-,, Nelson matidekt ela.iliis'?'lliese questiolks liftve not been, Colldtisively,,iii.%Nycred. The argument, fflat tills evellmus ttle, rcult of previous Stiokivill,,s in the, arekl is beside tlie point. The toývtistiil),s Kind stjulitter callips are Svitliess to vivUllce und iiiurtlei,.ý \veckafter sveck. Sonte urc tita work of eriminat gangs, ottiersure politlcal.TO tracc cattsal conncctions 1,.)etwt"ell tlic events is sollittillics pomsible alid, where t11c Cotillections can the roots of the vifflence, must be- cåj,,)oswd. But secking fliese conncctions 1,5 Us111,1111Y týl-klitletis and niust no( obscure (ile, tuvsie problem: the ticeline 1WC -und descellt illto blood remts tilat ettli offly stop tile transforilltition of (lic Cotilltry. 111 its to lilliddy (ile pieture, oleg()ý%irtiiilclit ankt i(s allics lutve (tirlied oll tbc- ANCittid. elzaimed tillit the violoncc lit B Oil)nt<)llg Wt44 11 direct result of t lic eåll for zaillass action etlitit>kligti. Wilild tild ettnlt,)aigtl is opuli (o goverlilllellt,.%.reSI)oll,%0 is blattillt nomellie. It Ilms to likte 11c11111(1 a stnokesercen of disinrormation tillned at tilding 11,ý tm41 It there mus- a dircet viluse it wici Lhu, Nutional Vartys now enitiptitign thut tteýscrilwtt tixe, ANCus telieliiy milllber (1110», 1,1m else Can, \Vo explitin thu fi killire (if t110, police to helld ios, force illto ffic vatilp tifter recolving ii, waming of tlic imminence or the attack d? Tillit wiis not flic otid. Mr tie, Klark hud to see the scona for tibiiwlr. tio stäl tie cimic to offorsyjiiptýtttiy - the sympuffly of (ile halig11x1111 in the hollse of 1110, änd. SEARCHLIGHT SOUTH AFRICA, VOL 3, NO 1, AUJUI' 1992 Did he really believe that people would stand by and hear ])is honeyed words? Did lie not know that his presence would act as a provocation? If he dld not, he must go, because he showed hiself to be a fool If he did know he is even more ctipabtle: his tour could only provoke the people of Boipatong. The people who aisembled had no doubt about what had happened. Their anger boiled over as they crowded round the president's car. The banners they carried said it all: "71 Hell with )e lerlk andyourbinkatha Murderers'. The residents of this squatter camp turned on def ilerk. Yet, although this was an unarmed crowd the police opened fire. When a man was shot dead and the people nearby sought to retrieve the hody, the police pumped bullets into unarmed bodies. Even as the crowd turned and ran the police continued firing. All they had demanded was the right to remove the corpse and pay it the respect the living normally show to their dead. The number killed, mutilated or maimed is not yet clear. The count is still rising. Fifty-four are known to have died in these three days and over two hundred and twenty were injured: two hundred and seventy-four innocent people who shel tered in the squatters campWe believe this to be a deed as dastardly as that of alny shooting in the past: of Bulhoek, Bondelzwarts, Marabastad, Sharpeville and Soweto. The list of names is endless and they merge into one another. Boil)atong iS one more place name to be added to the towns that have added their inhabitants to the list of martyrs. The Living in Boipwong In answer to the anguish of a people, Nelson Mandela went to 1i totiltg. Unlike what took place during the visit of de Klerk, the people sat and 1ki. tened. They wanted protection and the right to self--defence, This was their most urgent demand, added to the many urgent needs in their daily lives.
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