It's just the Sixth Volume 8 No 2 Kaffir War' -seer And this is MY cultural This is MY weapon! cultural This is MY cultural weapon... weaponl.o * o T r. *. m \» .^^H ^^L_ :• # ; '# m | 1r • i ^ *" * if ft PJ -*r Mm vtfSffl ti d. * f r ' * JMAVB Vi-t 1 if I L t it tfj&CKf&M : 1« WW UMSBEKZI • Juty 1992 JUNE 20 1992: THE BUTCHER OF BOIPATONG FINDS OUT TH The ANC/SACP/COSATU Programme of Mass Action • AIMS OF OUR MASS ACTION • When we return to the negotiating table, itshould be to discuss the transfer of power to the people through a democratically-elected Constituent Assembly. • But mass struggle should not end there. Struggle Is the overall process through which the people determine their own future. • Uur programme of massaction must Include the widest possible pro-democracy front. • CAMPAIGN DIARY e Klerk blundered ter­ ribly af Bolpatong. You can have a scorched earth 1. AGITATION PERIOD Bui it look him some Up to the first half of July we have focussed on broad policy in southern Angola, mobilisation. As part of this, the SACP leadership has days lo realise just hoDw badly he had blundered. addressed over 100 rallies In all major cities and in Ovambo or Mozambique. It is a numerous rural towns from Marble Hall to Mossel Bay. Why? 2. FROM JULY 15 - HEIGHTENED MASS ACTIVITY The answer is that De Klerk different matter in the PWV From July 15 up to the General Strike there will be has been getting away with nu­ hundreds of local and regional initiatives. Each region merous Boipatongs. Since Feb­ become too arrogant He badly and SACP be banned again? will spearhead the occupation of government buildings. ruary 2 1990 he has been nego­ overplayed his hand. The answer was the Boipa­ Other actions will in­ tiating and at the same lime tong massacre. But the brutal clude: waging low iniensity warfare FW's strategy to arrogance of this answer was • marches, including against our people. This strat­ Icounter mass action jusi too much to stomach, even sectoral marches of pen­ egy has worked well for Dc During his recent trip to Japan for a world that has got used to sioners, children, etc. on Klerk. De Klerk bragged to journalists seeingmassacresonTV screens. specific demands; De Klerk has successfully that he had a plan to deal with The sheerscaleof the Boipatong • work-place go-slows; projected himself as a peace­ the ANC-led alliance campaign massacre, and the clearinvolve- • actions directed at maker and a moderate to the of mass action. He bragged that meni of the security forces, was those involved In vio­ international community and to he was going to gel tough. jusi too much. lence. many people in our country. At All of this meant that the But the National Party re­ Among key points of fo­ the same time the violence has cus In this period should world was waiting to see what gime has got used to getting been portrayed as "black on be the regime would do in the days away with atrocities. After all, black" violence, as "tribalism", • Bantustans • we must following the June 161aunchof the SADF regularly wiped out as "political rivalry" between demand restoration of citizenship and reincorporation. our campaign. villages in southern Angola. Last the ANC and Inkatha. • Violence - dates and events to be decided locally. We Would there be a state of yearwhen 27 people were butch­ need to build a broad coalition, at all levels, against But this time De Klerk had emergency? Would the ANC ered in the Swanieville squatter camp just two days after Dc government murder and corruption. " • SABC - towards the end of July we will launch the Klerk's last visit to Ulundi, campaign for the democratlsation of the SABC. This Is it a coincidence? Inkatha was blamed and there campaign will run beyond the General Strike. were widespread allegations of 3. THE GENERAL STRIKE In 1991 the ANC set a May 4 ultimatum to the regime: end the SAP collusion. • The General Strike will begin on August 3. violence or we suspend talks about talks, But the world quickly for­ • Its duration and the exact form of actions to be taken • May 10 1991, De Klerk travels to Ulundi to consult with got. To this day nobody has on different days are under discussion. These will be Buthelezl about the ANC ultimatum. been prosecuted for the announced soon. 2 days latere Swanieville massacre. The General Strike will Include: • On May 12 1991. twenty seven people killed by IFP hostel And so De Klerk had every • a stayaway on a fixed day (or days) which will be used dwellers in an attack on Swanieville squatter camp* Widespread hope of pursuing his counter- to hold township rallies and other township-based allegations of SAP collusion and assistance* strategy to our peaceful mass mobilising activities; In 1992 June 16, ANC*alliance launches mass action campaign. action campaign. His strategy • city and town-centre occupations and otheractlons on • June 16, for only the second time in many years, FW De Klerk continued in motion as if it other clearly designated days. Hundreds of thousands of travels to Ulundi to consult with Buthelezi on the ANC stand. strikers will move Into the city centres. hadn't lost its clothes. Captain One day later... 4. BEYOND THE GENERAL STRIKE CraigKoize, the chief SAP press • On June 17, the Boipatong massacre*.. A Other mass action Is being planned. liaison officer, had obviously been told in the weeks before Miry 1992 AT HE CAN'T ALWAYS GET AWAY WITH MURDER a aw • THE CARD • THE CARDS • THE CARD • THE CARD Gatsha Buthelezi Special forces SABC News De Klerk the Joker and hostel Jailers THE THICK THE TRICK THE TRICK THE TRICK Unite anti-democratic Unleash violence on people, Blame the ANC Present FW as 'the forces hiding state involvement Peacemaker1 (card 2) behind 'black on JUNE 18 JUNE 16 black violence' (card 3) Captain Craig Kobe: JUNE 20 De Klerk goes to Ulundi 'Boipatong was caused De Klerk goes to I JUNE 17 by the ANC's mass Boipatong Boipatong massacre action* thatit was essential IOlay blame ting that there was "some secu­ that he momentarily forgot that Klerk is trying to be a Special Bui Boipatong is less than an for violence on the ANC. And rity force involvement" after all, he is supposed to be presenting Forces high commander and hour away from the largest con­ so on June 18, Koizc dutifully but they were "rogue elements himselfasasuper-dcmocrat.On Violcia Chamorro at the same tingent of international press told a disbelieving world thai acting without any higher au­ the afternoon of June 20 he mut­ time. people on the African continent. the Boipatong massacre "was thority". tered threats about a state of But the people of Boipatong It is in the heartland of the most caused by the ANC's mass ac­ And when Captain Kotze emergency. If you catch him arc perfectly capable of seeing industrialised part of our coun­ tion campaign". makes this claim, we will re­ out, FW starts lo become be­ behind apartheid president Dc try. mind him that he said "It is a lie come PW. Klerk's crocodile tears, the cold Unleashing a killing machine One step behind that President FW De Klerk has De Klerk blundered at Boipa­ eyes of the chief commander of into this kindof situation is much Ithe news lost control of the security tong. Part of the reason has been the SAP. more transparent than in a re­ That had been pan of the plan, forces." sheer arrogance on his part. But mote bush war to unleash violence and then In being one step behind in there are other reasons. Bush war A massacre in Boipatong blame ourcampaign. ButKotze this way, the regime's propa­ I killing machines also impacts directly on the played that trick too soon after gandists have unintentionally FW de Klerk, There is another reason for Dc economy of our country. Boipatong. too obviously. And revealed that they are indeed Ithe Joker Klerk's blunder To conduct the The captains of industry in so it has been in the weeks since acting in terms of a co-ordinated The kind of strategy De Klerk is low intensity warfare, FW re­ South Africa never expressed the Boipatong massacre. The national strategy. using has worked best in situa­ lies on highly professional kill­ any public misgivings about the regime's propaganda machine tions like Nicaragua where US ing machines like Koevoet and dirty warin Angola orNamibia. has been churning out its inter­ FW goes to Special Forces together with lo­ Battalion 32. But it is another thing when pretation of events, according IBoipatong cal puppet forces like the Contras But it is one thing to massa­ their own work-force is to its pre-arranged plan. But, An even more arrogant miscal­ wage low intensity war against cre civilians in the remote bush destabilised here at home. ridiculuously, its statements culation was De Klerk's visit to the people. of northern Namibia and south­ This sets up contradictions have always been one step be­ Boipatong on June 20. Once At the same time BUT ern Angola, It is a bit different within the ruling bloc itself. hind the news. more, he was being half too SEPARATELY a "moderate" doing it in the industrial heart­ You can have a scorched When it was clear that clever, he was revealinghisstrat- politician like Violeta Chamorro land of South Africa.