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For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org/. Page 1 of 38 Alternative title Sechaba Author/Creator African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Publisher African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Date 1990-01 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1990 Source Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA) Rights By kind permission of the African National Congress (ANC). Format extent 36 page(s) (length/size) Page 2 of 38 SECHABAJANUARY 1990official organ of the african national congress south africaANDREW MLANGENI LAUNCHES THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND NEW NATION Page 3 of 38 Sechaba and other ANC publications are obtainable from the following ANC addresses:ALGERIA FRANCE SENEGAL5 Rue Ben M'hidi Larbi 28 Rue des Petites Ecuries 26 Avenue Albert SarrautAlgiers 75010 Paris PO Box 3420ANGOLA GERMAN DEMOCRATIC DakarPO Box 3523 REPUBLIC SPAINLuanda Angerweg 2 Hermanus Garcia Nobeljas 41AUSTRALIA Wilhelmsruh 8th FloorBerlin 1106 280 37 MADRIDBox 49 Trades Hall INDIA Spain4 Goulburn StreetSydney NSW 2000 50KP Thacker Block SWEDENBELGIUM Asian Games Village Box 6183PO Box 137 Sid Fort Road S-102 331040 Brussels Khel Gaon Marg StockholmNew Delhi-110049CANADA TANZANIAPO Box 302 ITALY PO Box 2239Adelaide Postal Station Via S. 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This was dur-ing the Soweto Uprising. Commenting about themilitancy and courage of our youth in the faceof police and army brutality, Comrade AlfredNzo, ANC Secretary-General said that SouthAfrica could never be the same again after theevents of June 16th 1976. These were propheticwords. Indeed since then South Africa has neverbeen the same again. The eighties - despite theNkomati Accord and as a reaction to thetricameral elections - saw an escalation of thestruggle.Since then - despite the State of Emergency- the people have been organising, mobilising,attacking and re-grouping.They have been re-grouping because of repres-sion - repression provoked violence andviolence provoked more repression. This stateof affairs led to a stalemate - Botha had to goand De Klerk began to make superficial changes.What we are saying is that De Klerk's"reforms" are no sign of a change of heart buta reaction to a changing mood of the people. Thepeople are determining the pace of changes. Itshould be stated that the people are not interestedin swimming from the same beaches as theWhites - they want a vote and the dismantlingof apartheid.The White community in our country has itsrole to play in this process. It has become clearfrom the last elections and the rumblings fromevery sector of the White community - businesspeople, academics, sports people and so on -that they are not in agreement with the regimeon a host of issues. Yet they take no visible ac-tion against it. There is undeniable proof that theregime has been involved in a lot of misuse ofpublic funds and yet it continues to feel safe fromthe White community that voted it into power.The comfort that De Klerk enjoys because ofhis public posture as a "reformer" is enhancedby his knowledge that he need not fear a massivemovement from the White electorate demandingdemocratic change in South Africa. There is afear of democracy among a large section of theWhite population. This fear of democratic ma-jority rule blinds them even on issues whichdirectly affect them.What we need to do now is to expose De Klerkfor what he is. He is a man who has been forcedout of a particular line of defence into another,and in this position of retreat, he has to postureas a man of strength and resolution. He is bruis-ed but we must really injure him.Prospects for peace in our country and theregion are nil as long as the De Klerk regimecontinues to be in power in our country. Whiteyouth who may rejoice at the reduction of theterm of conscription are still stuck with com-pulsory conscription. The military and policebudgets are higher than ever before which meansthat De Klerk still plans to wage war on the SouthAfrican people and our neighbours as hispredecessors did.The way forward is one - STRUGGLE. Themajority of South Africans are already forcingchanges in South Africa. What is needed fromthe White community is the fore-sight to realisethat apartheid has no place in this changingworld. It must go! Page 7 of 38 ANC STATEMENTMESSAGE TO SWAPO ON THEOCCASION OF THE ELECTIONSAfter more than one hundred years of colonialmisrule, the people of Namibia stand poised onthe threshold of freedom. Colonial domination,imposed upon Namibia by the decision of the im-perialist powers at Berlin in 1884, survived thislong because of the policies of a handful of states,who did all in their power to delay the arrivalof this day.The dawn of Namibian independence is owed,in the first instance, to the selfless struggles ofthe Namibian people themselves. Indeed it wastheir undaunted courage that earned them thesolidarity and support of the internationalcommunity.Virtually from the day of its initial session, theUnited Nations Organisation has been seizedwith the Namibian question. For years, until themid-1960s,