f e ; VOL. 8 No ,4 Journal of Umkhonto we Sizwe Contents Editorial Comment: Preaching Pcace while preparing for war . .. 1 The Momentum We Have Built Up In Struggle should Not Be Lost — Commander-in-Chief O.R. Tam bo..................................... 3 Learn with DAWN'. Electric igniters........ .................. 9 Botha-Malan Offensive Turning Sour.............. ...................................11 A Fitting Tribute................................................................................* The Final Deal Must Be Made with Us............................................... ^ DAWN Politxword Vol. 8 No. 2 Answers......................................... 19 MK Women’s Forum: As A United Force.........................................20 DAWN LIGHT: Charity Begins At Home........................................... 22 MK Soldier’s Viewpoint: for The King-size Collapse of The ^ Tyrant...................................................................................... The Real Life of Domingos Xavier - Chapter 9 ............................... DAWN PolitiXword No. 3 ................................................................................ * COVER: Dennis Goldberg, serving life imprisonment. YEAR OF THE WOMEN Editorial Comment Preaching Peace While Preparing for War The racist regime’s soaring military Wild sprees are arranged by the SADF budget and the increased militarisation where children are taken for indoctri­ of the South African society fall nation. The non-existent »Soviet sharply in contrast to Botha’s so- threat)* , xterrorist onslaught*, »swart called peace drive. Plans including the gevaar” , etc, are used to whip up a purchase of new helicopters and the war psychosis. building of new sub-marines to revamp That Botha is mobilising for war the regime’s obsolete war material, is evident in all aspects of the socio­ and the improvement of the service of economic life and in all sectors of the SADF members, are underway. Botha population. Conscription, long en­ preaches peace outside South Africa forced on whites, is to be extended to but breeds hell inside our country. His so-called Coloureds and Indians in approach to “peace” and “reform” is reciprocation for opower sharing)* in “If you want peace, prepare for war.” the president’s council. There has been the creation of organisations like the Voluntary HEARTS AND MINDS Civil Defence. These organisations Youth “adventure camps” is one also act as reserve commandos and of the instruments for furthering police units. The aim behind all this Botha’s xhearts and minds# campaign. is to prepare every white man, woman, and child for war. There is also the does not show children free films Civic Action Programme, whereby Nat­ about its actions in Crossroads, Langa, ional Servicemen become teachers, KTC, Mogopa, etc where they have health workers, agricultural and demolished houses, shacks and pla­ administrative workers in the home­ stic shelters, rendering thousands of lands and in the rural areas. children with their parents homeless, These national servicemen teach the exposed to die from cold. black man whilst the rifle is in the This shows us how far fascism corner of the classroom. can go to impose itself even on tod­ dlers for the sole purpose of keep­ In so-called Coloured communities ing itself alive. It uses all dirty mano­ the regime erects tents during school euvres and lies in the book to justify holidays and show SADF films free of its brutal actions of exploitation charge to children. Leadership courses are conducted countrywide in the and the spilling of the blood of the black schools to solicit mental and oppressed struggling masses. These physical support for the SADF. The excursions also bite deep in the cadet system which is organised as huge budget set aside for Pretoria’s part of the SADF’s »area defence*) military adventure, while millions system, has close ties with the of our people suffer from extreme local army units. Military officers are poverty, homelessness, disease, forced being seconded to schools and teachers removals and brutal exploitation. are encouraged to develop military skills with special training for art SADF’s desperate efforts of try­ teachers in camouflage techniques. ing to twist and turn our minds and Pupils are taught subjects like »terro- conceal the true face of apartheid, rist hunting)* and are given lectures on making it look abstract to children’s the »communist threat* as well as tender minds is just a pipedream being subjected to vigorous disci­ and a big illusion. We still remember pline and taught how to handle with bitterness how they murdered arms. Hector Peterson on June 16, But the “hearts and minds” cam­ 1976, and still continue shooting paign is not having things its own way. many of his age wherever we de­ There is staunch resistance against mand the scrapping of the abomi Botha’s sinister plans. When a hun­ nable system of bantu education dred children at the Belmore Primary We have not known peace in South school in Hanover Park were to be Africa, the racists are bullying every­ taken without their parents’ consent one and everywhere. on a SADF camp at Faure a month ago, their parents were up in arms It is our prime duty to ensure that this regime of terror and genocide is with the school’s physical teacher destroyed from the face of the earth. for collaborating in the planning of We must turn all they teach us against the outing. The trip which the them. We must resist all its sinister teacher described as including intentions for it is apartheid that soccer, tennis, cricket, and swim­ breeds all this conflict in our country. ming was intended to include a series It is apartheid that denies us the right of lectures on civil defence. To crown to exist, to live in peace and harmony it all, the children were to be trans­ ported to their destination in army in a democratic South Africa free from rfcism and oppression. It is not surprising why theJaADF^ 2 THE MOMENTUM WE HAVE BUILT UP IN STRUGGLE SHOULD NOT BE LOST ■COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF O.R.TAMBO Compatriots, In the past three months the Botha reg­ Tlie month of June, like no other month, ime has tried to recruit the neighbouring African independent states into a fascist carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic campaign aimed at the destruction of content of our struggle, the supreme the ANC and the liberation struggle in South Africa. In two months time the justice of our course, and our irrevocable commitment to pursue it until victory Pretoria regime will be holding elections for the so-called Coloured and Indian sec­ is won. International Childrens Day, the judicial tions of the black people of our country murder of the three gallant Youth: to establish the other two chambers of its Mogoerane, Mosololi and Motaung, the tri-cameral parliament. Rivonia life imprisonments, the Soweto uprisings, June 26, and the Sasol attack CHALLENGE when Umkhonto We Sizwe set racist These dangerous enemy moves are the South Africa ablaze; all these events.have product of our strength. They evidence each a singularly unifying quality and they the rising tempo of the conflict between combine to give to the month of June the forces fighting for freedom, demo­ a profound and special significance for cracy and peace, and those who defend our struggle. white minority domination and exploi­ It is against this background that today, tation. The oppressed people and the this week, set between June 16 and June entire democratic movement of our 26, we address a special call to the entire country are therefore confronted with democratic movement of our country, in an enormous and historic challenge, a all its formations and shades of opinion. challenge we dare not meet with any­ thing short of maximum determination. DESPERATION Our task is two-fold. First, we must, in The last ten years have seen our struggle action and with our united strength, give rise to levels which seriously threaten the a lie to the notion that the nature, survival of the apartheid system and progress and the victory of our struggle frightens the enemy into unprecedented depends on the absence of accords or acts of desperation. During the last three pacts. It is our turn to do for ourselves and years in particular, that desperation found humanity what others have done for expression in armed invasion, raids and themselves and others. We must liberate massacres, in the use of armed bandits our country and make it independent to cause destruction, devastation and de- and sovereign for all its people, for South­ stabilisation throughout Southern Africa, ern Africa and our continent, for world and in numerous assasinations and brutal peace. torture of ANC activists and other This demands of us to wage resolute opponents of the apartheid regime. struggle at a level and on a scale that 3 D f N ___________________ ___ depicts victory. The intensity of that CALL struggle will demonstrate that the white Today, faced with the challenge of the minority regime cannot save itself by Botha constitution and the August elec­ terrorising, blackmailing and bullying tions, we address an appeal, a call to our African independent and sovereign states Indian and so- called Coloured compatri­ into becoming extensions of Pretoria’s ots to stand firm with the oppressed ma­ defence and security system. jority, to refuse to join the doomed apart­ heid system on the eve of the triumph of our long and bitter struggle. Hie ANC‘s call to them this valiant month of June is simply : DONT VOTE, DON'T ! If you vote you will be: — voting for perpetuation of the apart­ heid system, — voting for continued domination of the Black people by the white minori­ ty, — offering your sons and yourselves for military conscription into air army whose principal task is to fight the Pres. O.R.Tambo: We are not apartheid’s cattle. oppressed in South Africa*and terro- Botha and Machel inspecting the South African Secondly, we must crush the August and Mozambican guards of honour after signing elections by the vigour of our united the Inkomati accord.