‘ANC’ raiders kill five in Dobsonville hostelFIVE people - two of them women - were killed during a raid by aimed men on the Dobsonville Hostel in Sowetoearly yesterday moming.

Soweto police spokesman Captain Govmdsamy Mariemuthoo said two men and a woman were shot dea and a man and a woman were stabbed to death with sharp objects in a raid at about 2.45am.

Mariemuthoo said police were investigating.An eerie silence was disturbed only by the din of a

Casspir which drove around the hostel when the Sowetanvisited the area yesterday.

Small clusters of hostel inmates brandishing traditional weapons could be seen from a distance.

Nearby houses, some with shattered windows and bro­ken doors, were virtually deserted. A block away, residents leaning against gate posts and yard fences stared at us with suspicion as we drove out of the township.

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Inkalha Freedom 1'arty official Mr Humphrey Ndlovu said the five dead were Inkatha members who had been attacked by armed members of the African National Congress.

He said one of the men had told hostel dwellers that the ANC would continue their attack on the hostel.

“You won’t hear calls for township houses to be searched as a result of this attack,” Ndlovu added.

"You won’t sec churchmen visit this hostel to offer comfort to the inmates. We have a Church in South Africa that takes sides and it’s usually with the ANC,” Ndlovu charged. No one prays for u s . . . for the 1FP and for hostel residents . . . these people are nothing to our Church in South Africa” .

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L«POLICE yesterday detained five people at Vanderbijlpark’s KwaMadala Hostel, from which the killers of 39 Boipatong residents allegedly launched their attack last week.

Police spokesman Maj Ray Harrald said last night the men were being held in terms of security regulations and had not yet been charged.

A force of about 200 detectives yester­day questioned hostel residents in connec­tion with the massacre.

Meanwhile, Iscor spokesman Neels Howatt said the company would consider closing the hostel only if it was found that residents were guilty of the killings, and if alternative accommodation was found for those not implicated.

The company would not accept responsi­bility for damage to Boipatong homes or for funerals of those killed.

Howatt was responding to demands by more than striking 4 000 Vanderbijlpark workers and • Boipatong residents, who have vowed to stay on strike until the hostel is closed. They are canvassing wider support in the Vaal area.

The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), which represents many work­ers in the area, says it has been asking Iscor for more than a year to close the hostel. 6

Numsa says it has presented Iscor with information to show that KwaMadala is the epicentre of violent attacks in the area.

But Iscor told the union only 300-400 of its employees were housed there, and access was well controlled.

But when Iscor was given information of various non-Iscor employees charged with murder having given their address as KwaMadala, Iscor said its “hostel policy” made provision for wives and children and friends to stay there provided they were properly signed in.

Iscor closed the KwaMadala hostel in 1977, said Howatt. In 1990, after “ethnic conflict” a t Iscor’s KwaMasiza hostel, about 400 Zulu-speaking migrant Iscor workers illegally occupied KwaMadala.

The company then laid on electricity, lights and water at KwaMadala.

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FROM PAGE 1crisis with Mr Mandela at a planned Organisation of Africa Unity meeting in Dakar, which both men plan to attend from June 29 to July 1.

“In light of these dis­cussions, the council might consider it (Mande­la’s request),” Noter- daeme said.

Commonwealth Sec­retary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku said in Edinburgh yesterday that South Africa risked a re­turn to international iso­lation if it failed to take action against township killers.

“The Jatest news of the horrific massacre of more than 39 innocent men, women and children in Boipatong hqs, taken .the i violence in South Africa to new depths,” C hief'•

Anyaoku told a confer­ence of Commonwealth Press groups.

Unless “effective and impartial measures” were taken, especially by the South African Govern­ment, to arrest the killers,“we will soon be witness­ing not only the weaken­ing of the negotiation pro­cess but a return to the days of full international ostracism of South Afri­ca".

British Prime Minister John Major was very dis­tressed at recent events in South Africa, his Down­ing Street office said yes­terday, and was anxious that the talks in South Africa should continue.

The Foreign Office said Britain was “appalled by the escalating violence in South Africa and the loss of life involved.”

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President De Klerk ap­peared committed “to bring to justice those re­sponsible for the massa­cre at Boipatong and hope this will happen as soon as possible”.

- “We are very con­cerned that the violence should not derail the ne­gotiations (on ending apartheid) . . . There is no alternative to negotia­tion for the emergence of a new, democratic South Africa.”

Speaking at the confer­ence in Edinburgh, For­eign Office Minister Bar­oness Chalker urged South Africa to react “quickly and decisively” to the challenge posed by the upsurge in violence.

“However tragic and alarming the continuing and horrendous violence -in South Africa, I am still ' sure the neW baisii folr co­

work.“Dealing properly and

fairly with violent behav­iour is the hallmark of a democracy, just as much as the free and fair elec­tions for all the people,” Baroness Chalker said.

The German Govern­ment was seriously con­cerned about the situation in South Africa, a spokes­man for the German Em­bassy said in Johannes­burg.

Germany appealed to the South African Gov­ernment to make every effort to bring those re­sponsible for the Boipa­tong massacre to justice.

The German Govern­ment hoped for a return to negotiations in South Africa as there was no other solution to the country’s problems,, the spokesman said.’—JSapa- Q A* P*

A F R IC A N N a tio n a l C o n g re s s le a d e r N e l­s o n M a n d e la a s k e d th e U n ite d N a tio n s y e s te r ­d a y to h e lp so lv e th e S o u th A fr ic a n c ris is , a U N o ffic ia l sa id .

M r M andela tele­phoned UN Secret ary- G cneral Boutros Bout­ros-Ghali to ask the Se­curity Council to find “ways and m eans 10 nor­malise the deteriorating situation in South Africa and try to resum e the ne­gotiations which have broken dow n", said Se­curity Council President Paul N otcrdaem e of Bel­gium.

M ore than 120 Blacks have died since W ednes­

day. w hen m men. women and children were slaughtered in Boipatong township. The African National Congress(ANO N am es the iu;ins;i- cre on the governm ent

Mr M andela told a tally in Boipatong on Sunday he was suspending bilate­ral contacts with the go '

crnm cnt. T he A N C Icad- e iship w ould m eet today to •‘exam ine its options on Citdesa.

N otcrdaem e s;nd the Security Council did not lake a m action because Mr B outros-G hali pro­posed that he discuss the

mn massacrelast week’s Boipatong mas­sacre in which 42 people were killed continued yes­terday.

The Commissioner of the South African Police, General Johan van der Merwe, said he was con­cerned at the tragic and senseless killings of peo­ple. He promised to bring the culprits to book.

The Azanian People’s Organisation secretary- general, Mr Don Nkadimeng, called for the overthrow of the Govern­

ment as a solution to “the planned genocide” of black people. '

He said: “They have failed our people in the past and will continue to do so. The security forces have been accused of complicity notwithstanding attempts at suppressing the evi­dence.”

The president o f the Inkatha Freedom Party, C hief M angosuthu Buthelezi, said: “Such bru­tality shocks the sensibility

of even the most brutal peo­ple. I say that no leadership structure of the IFP had any knowledge whatsoever that this attack was going to take place.”

The South African Com-, munist Party said by choos­ing to visit KwaZulu on June 16, State President FW de Klerk sent a mes­sage to every warlord, death squad and to every assassin in the country.

The Human Rights Commission said: “This horrifying massacre con­firms that there are ele­

ments within Inkatha and the security forces that have an interest in fuelling the violence and fulfilling their own prophecy that the ANC’s mass action will raise the political tempera­ture.”

The Rhema Ministries of South Africa added its voice to the outrage and Pastor Ray McCauley said he had sent a message to De Klerk noting growing per­ception that allegations of police/Inkatha collusion in violence “are not wild po­litical propaganda” .

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Boipatong: SA mood of gloom, depression

I TH E Boipatong massacre has plunged South Africans into gloom and their lead­ers seem powerless to defuse the crisis it has caused, political ana­lysts said yesterday.

From Johannesburg's financial district to middle class suburbs and the

, slums of the Black town- j ships, the mood was bleak

amid the burgeoning viol­ence and political stale-

j mate dogging South Afri- I ca’s efforts to emerge

from White minority rule.“What happened at the

i weekend is just heart- : breaking. I'm so de­

pressed,” said a White j housewife on a radio call-

in show.The crisis erupted on

Wednesday night with the | killing in Boipatong of 39 , Blacks, deepened on j Saturday when an en- i raged mob chased Presi­

dent De Klerk from the township and police opened fire on demon­strators, and culminated on Sunday when Nelson Mandela suspended bilat­eral contacts with the gov­ernment.

Even the one ray of light for many sports-mad South Africans, a return to world competition, came under threat when Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics unless Mr De Klerk punished the killers and stopped the vi­olence.

Some analysts said South Africa could be heading into an unstoppa­ble cycle of violence.

“Political rhetoric has always been intense in South Africa, but now the words are being replaced by physical action, and that’s frightening,” said political risk consultant

Wim Booyse.“There's a yearning for

violence, and I don’t know how we’re going to defuse it. Lebanon here we come.”

Mr Booyse said the events of the last 10 days meant foreign investors would put on hold any plans to channel funds into South Africa.

The financial rand, the unit of foreign investment and a key barometer of business confidence in South Africa, dropped four percent yesterday on fears that democracy talks had run into serious trouble.

“None of the politic­ians are coming out of this well," said Professor Tom Lodge, an expert on the ANC.

“ Mandela's speech was not that of a statesman,” he said, referring to the ANC president's address in Boipatong on Sunday

in which he directly blamed the government for the massacre.

Prof Lodge said the ANC should have main­tained a dignified silence on Mr De Klerk's rough reception in the township the day before, instead of trying to make political capital out it.

He said Mr De Klerk’s visit to the Zulu capital of Ulundi on June 16, anni­versary of Soweto riots in 1976, was perceived as a gesture of partisanship to­wards the Inkatha Free­dom Party and had been the lowest point of his ca­reer.

“ It was disgraceful that 'he should visit Ulundi on this supercharged day,” he said.

“ It’s a fairly desperate situation,” Prof Lodge said. “And it’s not helped by the fact that all the sides are blaming each i other rather than looking | for a way out.”

But he said Mr Mande­la’s angry comments on Sunday were likely to be toned down on reflection by the ANC leadership.

“ His words were in re­sponse to an angry crowd.I think the ANC will keep the door open to negotia­tion because they can only lose if they withdraw altogether."

The ANC national ex­ecutive committee meets today to discuss con­tinued participation in Codesa, where the tran­sition to a non-racial con­stitution is being debated.

The talks have been deadlocked for more than a month over a dispute over how much power should be devolved to re­gions and how much should be retained by the central government. — Sapa-Reuter.

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tending a briefing at the Union Buildings, Pre­toria. yesterday afternoon were told ol ihe detention*) b) G eneral Johan Swart, head o f the SAP Internal Stability Division.

An intensive police in­vestigation. which in­cluded the deploym ent of 200 detectives, followed last W ednesday n ight’s massacre.

A num ber o f weapons were seized at the hostel last T hursday and sent for forensic testing.

Residents o f the Kwa- M adala Hostel are still being confined to the hos­tel.

Iscor — for whom the Kw aM adala residents work — has pledged its full co-operation with the police investigation.

Iscor said in a s ta te­m ent no evidence had been found to support al­legations that the a ttack­ers were residents o f the hostel.

If w ould not com m ent on the m atter until the police had com pleted their investigation.

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5 hostel men held---------------------------- ------ _ ...........^FROM PAGE 1Mr Neels Howatt,

Manager, Public Re­lations, said the company had taken the decision following talks yesterday with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which says the hostel has been a base for violence against residents of Vaal town­ships for the past two

years.“It is our intention to

close KwaMadala,” Mr Howatt said.

“We are investigating alternative accommoda­tion. The solution will ob­viously have to be accept­able to the employees.”

He gave no indication of when the closure would take place.

Numsa organiser, Ber-

nie Fanaroff, told Reuters there were about 300 em­ployees living in the hos­tel and 200 other people of unknown status.

The union had been campaigning for two years to have KwaMadala closed because of alleged acts of violence by in­mates, many of whom are supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party.

ANC to make crucial Codesa decision todayBy Esther Waugh and P eter Fabricius

Senior ANC m em bers la s t night told The Star it was not a question of whether the or­ganisation would withdraw from Codesa, but how this would be done.

One source said the op­tions included tem porarily suspending the ANC’s parti­cipation in Codesa, or with­draw ing com plete ly from the negotiations process.

S e n io r G o v e r n m e n t sources believe the ANC na­tional executive com m ittee will, a t its emergency m eet­ing today, suspend talks ,and threaten to pull out comple­tely unless the Government m eets certa in tough condi­tions.

These w ere likely to be that the perpetrators of the B o i p a to n g k i l l i n g s b e brought to justice, an inter­national peace-m onitoring force be deployed, and the security forces be brought under m ultilateral control.

ANC s p o k e s m a n G i l l Marcus would not comment

on the options open to the or­ganisation, saying tha t was the reason for an emergency 1 meeting being called.

The negotiations crisis fol­low s the B o ip a to n g m as- sacre.

Y esterday, Codesa w ork­ing group m eetings a t the W o rld T ra d e C e n tr e in K em pton P a rk cam e to a s ta n d s til l as the ANC re ­q u es ted a p o stp o n e m e n t pending today’s NEC m eet­ing.

Since ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s announcement on Sunday of the suspension of, talks with the Government, calls have been made urging the ANC not to b rea k off talks.

C onstitu tional D evelop­ment Minister Roelf Meyer last night said the Govern­m ent believed negotiations w ere the only course that, would secure peace and pro­gress for South Africa.

Deputy Constitutional De­velopment M inister Dr Ter- tiu s D elport sa id n eg o tia ­tions betw een the Govern­m en t and the ANC would eventually continue whatev­

e r happened in the sh o rt t e r m . T h e G o v e r n m e n t would continue with negotia­tio n s w ith w h o e v e r w as ready to talk. Asked if nego­tiations would continue with­out the ANC, he said it would be unwise to speculate.

In k a th a F reed o m P a r ty spokesman Suzanne Vos last night dism issed the ANC’s threats to withdraw from ne­go tia tions as p ropaganda. She believed the m ost the ; ANC would do was tem po­rarily suspend its participa- titin in Codesa — but with

• - '“escape clauses” to allow it- j ■" self back in.

Diplomats were briefed in P retoria yesterday by senior

- police officers on their ver- sion of events in Boipatong. 1

Lieutenant-General Johan j Swart, head of the In ternal j Stability Unit, told the diplo­m ats during the briefing that j th e p o lic e h ad d e ta in e d seven residents of KwaMa- j dala hostel yesterday in con- i nection with the m assacre. Police la ter confirmed that two residen ts w ere subse- j quently released.

D ear Sir,THE Boipatong m assacre is, in every relevant respect, identical to the m assacre a t Swanieville on May12 1991, when 27 people w ere killed and 112 shacks razed to the ground. In each case, hostel dwellers, arm ed to the teeth, travelled some kilo­m etres to a ttack hapless shack dwellers; and they m ade good their re trea t. All went undetected or un­prevented by the SAP. There are strong suggestions in both cases that the SAP was involved in some way.

The sim ilarity between the two incidents goes so fa r as to include the

■fact that they both occurred two days afte r the only visits that F W de Klerk has made to Ulundi in recent years De Klerk visited Ulundi on May 101991 to consult Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on the issue of the ANC’s “deadline ultim atum ” that an unequivocal regulation be passed banning the carrying of dangerous weapons in the guise of “traditional weapons”, and again on June 16.

There is also significance in the differences in the outcomes of the two incidents.

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The B o ip a to n g m a s s a c re has caused the Law and Order M inister to institute an inquiry by “200 exper- lenced investigators” into, among other things, “the actions of the SAP prior to, and during the incident”

The Swanieville m assacre elicited no such response from the sta te On that occasion the police had a sim i­lar lam e-headed excuse for their non-appearance. Maj Ray Harald claim ed that the “impi struck during a police change of shift” - as if everybody does not know that a change of shift is never accom panied by a to tal absence of personnel on duty, but alw ays by an overlapping of personnel. 6

Lawyers for Human Rights would like to know why a sim ilar inquiry was not launched into the Swanie­

ville m assacre? There is nothing pre­venting such an inquiry from still being launched a t this stage.

A fter all, m em ories and police re ­cords of tha t day will certain ly not yet have faded from the picture, and if the M inister can identify any rele­vant differences between the two in­cidents he should point them out the next tim e he m akes a public s ta te ­ment. He should also note that the incident falls outside the jurisdiction of the Goldstone commission, as hav­ing occurred before July 1991.

The question one asks is, if the violence plaguing SA is so serious, then why is the sta te apparently so tardy in coming to understand it?

D AVID PITM AN Lawyers for Human Rights

Johannesburg

□ □ □ □D ear Sir,OUR economy is in a mess, inflation

is ram pant, unem ployment is run­ning a t m ore than 40%, w orkers a re being retrenched in their thousands and starvation is a real possibilitv for m any South Africans.

The intellectual giants of the ANC and Cosatu a re urging w orkers to participate in m ass and strike action a t a tim e like this.

It s incredible that these a re possi­ble future leaders of SA.

They m ake even the N ationalist leaders look responsible by com pari­son. K

D WILSON Rivonia

□ □ □ □D ear Sir,

ai ).0^ 15 years’ a basic prem ise of the SACP/ANC’s M arxist-Leninist philosophy has been that violence is a justifiable m eans for the oppressed to obtain freedom (whatever that means) from their oppressors.

The SACP/ANC has legitim ised violence as p art of political activity Nelson Mandela opened tha t Pando-

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Iv S HPl&USing tht? Big Lie constant­ly, and blaming the governm ent, is; ‘™ sP.a™ t particu larly when

ANC officials have been found in possession of SAP uniforms and w ea­pons The Leninist tactic of the pro­vocateur is old hat. P

Unless the SACP, and its subsid- ary organ,sations, stop now to learn

K f p fh °nS of AAfrica <Su(3an, Som a­lia Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique) and jettisons its Leninist revolution­ary philosophy, our beautiful country will sim ply deterio rate into violencei , * j Ju^gm ent of history will be that Joe Slovo and M andela wasted the opportunities presented by FW de Klerk since F ebruary 1990.

R V STONE Randburq

a W hile p seu d o n ym s a re so m e tim e s acceptable, correspondents should sinn letters and give their names, a street ad dress and a daytim e contact number The Editor reserves the right to shorten letters.

THE ANC and the PAC have called for “a nationally' day of mourning” next

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Monday, when victims of ------------ ---------------the Boipatong massacre Moseneke said the PACwill be buried in a mass funeral.

ANC Vaal leader Mr Ernest Sotsu announced at a meeting at the Boipatong Stadium yesterday that the 42 victims would be buried jointly.

PAC deputy president Mr Dikgang Moseneke said the organisation would take part in funeral arrange­ments.

had set up a trust fund to which the organisation had donated R20 000.

“The PAC is not calling for a stayaway on Monday. Workers will decide how they mourn the day ,” Moseneke said.

The ANC at the weekend set up a trust fund to which they donated R100 000.

A funeral committee ap­pointed by the Vaal Coun­cil of Churches announced yesterday that a memorial service would beheld at the NG Kerk on Thursday at 2pm.

The PAC said it would also hold a memorial serv­ice on Friday at St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral in Jo­hannesburg.

ANC spokesman Ms Gill Marcus yesterday said: “We are not calling for a stayaway on Monday. We are calling on the nation to observe the day as a day of mourning.”

In another development, the National Union of Met­alworkers of South Africa (Numsa) reached a dead­lock with Iscor officials over the fu ture of KwaMadala Hostel.

Numsa yesterday an­nounced that w orkers would not report for work until KwaMadala Hostel dwellers are evicted and the building demolished.

Iscor could yesterday not comment on the union’s demands. Spokesman Mrs Carol Ferguson said: “We will release a statement af­ter investigating the de­mands.”

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Monday, June 2V- Sapa.

PRESIDENT FW de Klerk yes­terday cut short his visit to Spain as Codesa teetered on the verge of collapse as a result of last Thurs­day’s Boipatong massacre in which 39 people died.

H e is due back tomorrow and is ex­pected to go into an im m ediate m eeting with senior officials o f his party and G ov­ernment.

The ANC also meets today to decide if it

will continue with Codesa.Meanwhile, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has

called for the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics if De Klerk does not act deci­sively on the massacre.

Other organisations have also called for SA’s withdrawal, while the ANC’s Steve Tshwete meets sports organisations this morning.

The Vaal Council of Churches yesterday announced that the Boipatong victims will be buried next Monday. The ANC and PAC have declared Monday a day of mourning.

Full reports on page 2.

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B y B ro n w y n W ilk in so n and Guy Jepson-------------- .--------I s c o r i n t e n d s c l o s i n g dow n th e no torious kw a- M adala H ostel n e a r Boi­p a to n g , w h e re fiv e m en have been de ta in ed by po­l i c e f o r q u e s t io n in g in connection w ith la s t Wed­n e s d a y ’s m a s s a c r e in w hich 39 people died.

Isc o r spokesm an N eels H ow att sa id the com pany had wanted to close the hos te l for some time. The in­m a te s w o u ld e i t h e r be moved to another Iscor hos­te l, or the com pany would find them a lte rn a tiv e ac ­commodation.

The a r r e s ts of the five men — made during continu­ing investigations at the hos­tel by scores of detectives — were carried out under un­rest regulations.

P o lice spokesm an Lieu- tenant-Colonel Dave Bruce said the detained men had not been formally charged. Police had not established ; th e ir po litic a l a ffilia tions and he also could not say : whether the a rres ts flowed from the results of forensic- | tests conducted on weapons ' confiscated on Thursday. j

Two other men taken were taken into custody for ques-^ tion in g but had been r e ­leased after intensive inves- j tigations. he said.

P o lic e w ere hop ing to ; make further arrests.

Y e s te rd a y th e h o s te l- dw elle rs w ere s ti l l being confined to the premises as police continued their inves tigations.

Mr Howatt said the hostel was occupied almost exclusi-

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vely by Zulu-speaking men.“M ost of th em le f t the

kwaMasiza Hostel nearby in 1990 when ethnic problems f la re d betw een them and other groaps,” he said.

“We have been trying to get them to move back into kw aM asiza . b u t they say they cannot go."

Iscor representatives had m et those of the N ational Union of M eta lw orkers of South A frica (Numsa) and the two hostels on several occasions.

“It was always our princi­ple to move them, but we did not w ant to force them to move .The Boipatong m as­s a c re ju s t h ig h lig h ts the problems that there are with the people in this hostel and the other groups, and makes the m atter more urgent.”

A sked to c o m m e n t on Iscor s statem ent yesterday tha t there had been no evi­dence the attackers had been kwaMadala residents, and in the light of the arrests a t the hostel, Mr H ow att said he would have to contact the com pany’s rep resen tatives in Vanderbijlpark.

He could not say when the hostel would be closed.

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NEGOTIATIONS

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Issued by: African National Congress

STATEM ENT OF TH E EM ERGENCY M EETING OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE CO M M ITTEE OF THE ANC

23 JUNE, 1992

The National Party regime of F W de Klerk has brought our country to the brink of disaster. Riddled with corruption and mismanagement, the regime is determined to block any advance to democracy. It pursues a strategy which embraces negotiations, together with systematic covert actions, including murder, involving its security forces and surrogates.

This subversion of political processes to destroy the democratic movement in South Africa led by the ANC cannot be allowed to prevail any longer. We cannot tolerate a situation where the regime's control of state power allows it the space to deny and cover up its role in fostering and fomenting violence.

The Boipatong massacre is one of the most chilling instances of the consequences of the actions of the F W De Klerk regime. Before the people of South Africa and the bar o f international opinion it cannot escape culpability.

W hat is at issue is more than the crisis of the negotiations' process. The fundamental reason for the deadlock is whether th^fe is to be democratic change, or white minority veto powers. There is only one way forward. It is a road which must unmistakably and unequivocally lead to the establishment of a dem ocrat^ South Africa.

To this end it is necessary that the De Klerk regime/Agrees to:

- The creation of a dem ocratically elected and sovereign Constituent Assembly to draft and adopt a new constitution; and

- The establishment of an Interim Government of National Unity which is the only way all South Africans will recognise that the country shall have moved decisively to end white minority rule.

D em ands on the Regim e/

/The regime must immediately end its campaign of terror against the people and the democratic movement. In this regard it must immediately carry out the following measures:

/- Terminate all covert operations including hit squad activity.

- Disarm, disband and confine to barracks all special forces as well as detachments/inade up of foreign nationals.

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- Suspend and prosecute all officers and security force personnel involved/in the violence.- Ensure that all repression in some of the self-governing states, and in the so-called independent states, is ended forthwith.

Our people are compelled to live in a perpetual state of fear - be it

in their homes, on their way to work, in trams and taxis, at funerals and vigils, at their places of work and/entertainment. Thi is the stark reality. /Between July 1990 and April 1992 there have been 261 attacks o. township residents by hostel inmates, which led to 1,207 death? and 3,697 injuries. /

We further demand that the regime implements agreements oi curbing violence reached with the ANC almost a year ago. Ir particular:

/- The immediate implementation of the programme to phase ou the hostels and convert them into family unit accommodation.

/- Installation of fences around these establishments

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- Guarding of these hostels by security forces on a permaner basis, monitored by m ulti-lateral peace structures, and th expulsion of those who occupy the hostels illegally

- Regular searches of hostels with the participation of m ^ fc a te r peace structures

- Banning the carrying of all dangerous weapons in public on ai occasions, including so-called cultural weapons.

/W e insist that the regime agree to:

- The implementation of the universal demand requiring at lea; the establishment of an International Commission of Inquiry ini the Boipatong M assacre and all acts o f violence as well a international monitoring of the violence.

- Release all political prisoners forthwith

- Repeal all repressive legislation, including those laws whic were so hastily passed during the last days of the recent session « parliament.

C all to the People of South A frica

The crisis caused by the regime constitutes a challenge to a South Africans to unite in a broad movement for democracy, peai and justice now. We all, black and white together, share tl responsibility to stop the regime from plunging our country in! chaos and anarchy.

The ANC shall consult all formations with a view to ^ ^ d in g summit to unite and mobilise our people against continued whi minority rule and for democracy. Unity and disciplined strugg remain the surest basis for realising peace and stability.

We call on the entire people of our country, including tl business community, to join in observing 29 June as a Nation Day of Mourning and solidarity with the victims of the Boipatoi massacre as the dead are buried.

A ppeal to the In te rn a tio n a l C om m unity

The National Party regime is acting in contempt of the wishes the international community for a speedy end to apartheid. No1

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more than ever, the international community is required to compel the De Klerk regime to bring violence to an end and to commit itself to solutions based on internationally accepted democratic principles.

In consultation with sporting bodies, we shall be reviewing the forthcoming international sports engagements involving South Africa.

We appeal to the United Nations Security Council to convene as a matter of urgency to undertake measures which will help stop the violence and reinforce our efforts aimed at bringing about a democratic order.

We call on the international community to act in solidarity with our people on the day of the funeral for the victims of the Boipatong massacre, June 29. In particular we appeal to all workers throughout the world not/to handle South African carriers and goods on this day. /

N eg o tia tio n s

The ANC reaffirms its the conflict in our coui peace and justice, settlement compellei process.

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commitment to a negotiated resolution of which would bring about democracy,

refusal of the regime to accept such a NEC to review the current negotiations

The ANC has negotiations.

option but to break off bilateral and Codesa

The NEC y^ill be keeping the situation under continuous review. The response and practical steps taken by the De Klerk regime to these demands will play a critical role in determining the direction and speed with which bona fide negotiations can take place.

The/dccisions taken today will be conveyed to the regime by ANC President Nelson Mandela as soon as possible.

Issued by the Department of Information and Publicity PO Box ^ ^ 8 4 , Marshalltown 2107 23 June, 1992

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Issued by: Pan Africanist Congress (P.A.C.) of Azama

23 June 1992

^ A T E M E N T BY PAN A F R IC A N IS T C O N G R E SS VICE-PRESIDENT DIKGANG M O SEN EK E

"The PAC is very encouraged by the decision announced by the ANC to further suspend any bilateral talks as well as Codesa talks in response to the massacre at Boipatong.

We take the view that it is essential at this stage that liberation movements as well as all anti-apartheid forces should close ranks in order to achieve an immediate transfer of power from a racist minority to a democratic non-racial majority.

From our side, the PAC, we shall spare no efforts in joining the ANC in all such programmes as will bring about a speedy

democracy and peace in our land.

The PAC presidency shall be communicating with the ANC presidency in order to conduct further consultations which will ensure much elusive unity amongst those who are committed to a true and genuine democracy in our land.

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ANC B R eaks O ff N egotiations W ith T he G overnm ent

By Guy Rogers

JOHANNESBURG June 22 Sapa

The African N ational Congress on Tuesday broke off its participation in South Africa’s multiparty peace talks, demanding an interim government, prosecution of rogue security force members and international intervention.

Speaking at a Johannesburg news conference after a week of gloom sparked by the massacre of 39 people at Boipatong last Wednesday, ANC secretary general Cyril Ramaphosa said:

"We have no option but to break off bilateral and Codesa negotiations".

Thirteen demands were made in all, ranging from a call for interim government, termination of "hit squads", the disbanding of all special forces, the prosecution of security personnel involved in violence and the phasing out o f hostels.

Backed by eight other organisations represented at the multiparty talks, Mr Ramaphosa said:

"If the Government takes practical steps adequately meeting all our demands then the negotiation process will get back on track".

In reaction Acting President Pik Botha said it was a pity because negotiations were the only way to a new dispensation in South Africa.

"The causes of violence in this country are complex.

"Unless we are ready to openly discuss with each other these issues, public accusations will not help but in fact only worsen the situation."

Mr Botha was speaking in place of President F W de Klerk, who was in Spain when the shock annoucement was made.

In a speech before his urgent return to South Africa, however, Mr de Klerk said he was prepared to accept international mediation but not intervention.

In its statement, the ANC called on the United Nations Security Council to convene urgently "to undertake measures which will help stop the violence and reinforce our efforts aimed at bringing about a democratic order".

The organisation would also be review ing the country's forthcoming international sports engagements, cautioned Mr

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Ramaphosa. These include re-entry into the Olympics, a soccer international against Cameroon and a series of rugby tests against the New Zealand All Blacks next season.

Britain has already responded to the ANC announcement, expressing its dismay and saying negotiations must continue.

Several countries, including Britain, and local financial institutions made a similar call after bilateral talks were called off on Sunday by Mr Mandela. That announcement followed an ugly week in which 39 people were killed in a massacre on Wednesday and President de Klerk, having made a visit to the site of the killing, was hounded from the township by thousands of angry residents on Saturday.

The ANC has alleged that local hostellers are to blame for the massacre, and on Tuesday focused five demands on the issue of township hostels, which it says act as barracks for Inkatha attackers.

These included the phasing out of hostels, which should be guarded with multiparty monitoring in the interim. It said the carrying of all dangerous weapons, including so-called cultural weapons, associated with the hostels, should also be banned.

The ANC has given the government two days to react to its demands, according to Mr Ramaphosa.

ANC W ill R eview P o s itio n I f G o v e rn m e n t M eets M ost S erious D em ands

JOHANNESBURG June 22 Sapa

If the Government takes practical steps to adequately meet all the African National Congress' demands then negotiations will begin again, according to the organisation's secretary-general, Cyril Ramaphosa.

Speaking at a Johannesburg hotel on Tuesday night, flanked by his president, Mr Nelson M andela, and eight ANC-aligned representatives from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, M r Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced the break-off of Codesa talks.

Demands included: the creation of an elected constituent assembly to draft a new consitution, the establishment of an interim government, the end to all covert operations, the disbanding of all special forces, the prosecution of all security force personnel involved in South Africa's violence and the end of repression in the so-called homelands.

The ANC also demanded the phasing out of township hostels and an immediate system, monitored by multilateral structures, to guard these hostels.

The carrying of dangerous weapons in public, including cultural weapons, should be banned.

An international com mission of inquiry into the Boipatong massacre had to be established, all political prisoners had to be released and "all repressive legislation, including those laws which were so hastily passed during the last days of the recent

session of parliament", had to be repealed.

"If the government takes practical steps adequately meeting all oui demands then the negotiation will get back on track," said Mr Ramaphosa.

The situation would be constantly reviewed.

Pressed on the issue, ANC president Nelson Mandela said that ii its most important demands were met, the organisation woulc re-examine its position.

ANC To M eet De K lerk To Discuss W ithdraw al

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

The African National Congress will meet President F W de Klerk within the next two days to discuss its withdrawal from bilatera talks and constitutional negotiations, and the demands it hat placed on the Government.

ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, who broke thi organisation's decision not to co-operate with the SABC until tht Media Workers' Association strike was over, was speaking oi Agenda.

He pointed out that negotiations would resume should th Government respond positively to the demands.

The demands had been brought up many times, both within ani out of negotiations, and the Government had not responded.

Mr Ramaphosa said the main reason for the pull-out was the recei violence which culminated in last week's Boipatong massacri which left an estimated 39 people dead.

Mr Ramaphosa also said the ANC would talk to various sportin; bodies and inform them of the National Executive Committee position.

He said the ANC had acted in good faith when negotiations, whic it initiated, began by suspending the armed struggle. He said no handing over arms caches had nothing to do with the arme struggle.

Mr Ramaphosa said the Government had not acted properly i protecting the people and such responsibilty lay in th government of the day.

He said while the Goldstone Commission inquiring into violent was looking at the causes, negotiations were aimed at eliminatin the root causes. The Government was was not doing this.

Mr Ramaphosa said the demands would be presented l Constitutional Development Minister Roelf Meyer on Tuesda night and Mr de Klerk could respond within the next two day: The NEC would then review its decision.

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Issued by: SA Communication Service

Monday, 22 June 1992:

STA TEM EN T BY M R R P M EY ER , M IN IST ER OF C O N S T IT U T IO N A L D E V E L O P M E N T A N D O F C O M M U N IC A T IO N : P R E T O R IA , 22 JU N E 1992.

Yesterday, Mr Nelson Mandela announced that he was suspending negotiations with the Government until the ANC's National Executive Committee has had the opportunity to "examine its options" at an emergency meeting on Tuesday 23 June 1992.

The reason for Mr Mandela's decision was that he could no longer explain to his followers why he continued to talk to a government which is murdering his people."

There are only two conclusions which we can draw from this statement: either he genuinely believes his accusation to be true or he is strategically using the Boipatong tragedy as an excuse to break off negotiations and to sweep up support for the ANC's campaign of Mass Action, with the intention of making the country ungovernable and of pursuing the unconstitutional seizure of power.

If he genuinely believes the accusations, it is essential that the ANC and the Government should meet as soon as possible to discuss and investigate the facts in a responsible way.

Through such discussions we might remove the obstacles which currently stand in the way of the resumption of constitutional negotiations. These obstacles include:

— the escalating violence; — inflammatory statements and unsubstantiated accusations: and -- the consequences of the ANC's proposed Mass Action campaign.

If, on the other hand, Mr Mandela is exploiting the Boipatong tragedy to promote Mass Action with the purpose of forcing the government and other parties into submission, a meeting is even more urgent and essential.

The Government believes that there is only one course that will secure peace and progress for South Africa. That is the course of negotiations. A t CODESA 2 and agreement on transitional government was within our reach. History would not forgive us if we were to allow this opportunity for a peaceful settlement to slip away at this crucial stage.

ISSUED BY MINISTER R P MEYER

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C o s a tu C a lls O n B u s in ess To T ak e S ta n d In D em ocracy

By Craig Doonan

DURBAN June 23 Sapa

Cosatu negotiation co-ordinator and Peace Secretariat member Jayendra Naidoo on Tuesday called on the business community to take a stand for democracy and peace by actively supporting their workers in the mass action campaign.

"There is no doubt that positive action by employers will have a huge impact, not only towards achieving progress in the political transition process, but also in influencing the form s of confrontation which are necessary to achieve our goals,” he said.

Addressing businessmen in Durban at an Institute for a Democratic Alternative for SA forum, M r Naidoo said in the testing days ahead, the business community would be faced with either working with its workers and democratic forces striving for democracy, or acting against them through dismissals and thereby supporting the status quo.

"It is Cosatu's view that the best option is for us to work together for our joint future," he said.

Mr Naidoo said in the past, business had largely stayed aloof the struggle and had either sat on the fence or supported the government.

Cosatu believed this would be an inappropriate response to the present crisis.

In the coming days, employers would be approached by w o r ^ ^ and shop stewards and asked to take a stand for democracy and peace.

"What we all do in the coming period and what we fail to do will shape both our future and our relationship with each other," said Mr Naidoo.Responding to a question on what employers should do to support the democratic movement, Mr Naidoo said they should choose the "high road" by thinking of ways to get the message of peace and democrcy home to the government.

Business could meet with various parties, including their w o to s representatives and could, as a symbolic gesture, shut operations at companies when there was a call for mass action.

Mass action of this sort would hurt employers as well as workers but it was necessary to force the government to move towards democracy.

Mr Naidoo said mass action was not aimed at creating "maxii^fci havoc" but pressure was required to get the message across.

E ight C odesa P a rtic ip an ts S upport ANC

JOHANNESBURG June 22 Sapa

Eight C odesa-represented organisations on Tuesday night supported the African National Congress decision to break off multiparty peace negotiations.

On the platform with ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa and president Nelson Mandela were the organisation's most visible allies, the Congress of SA Trade Unions and the SA Communist

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Two fleets have been hired by the contestants to ferry voters to the Square Hill Park polling station where over 8000 special votes have already been cast.

This has introduced, besides the element of immense cost to hire a fleet of five new combis (mini-buses) for weeks on end, a new daily cost item against campaign funds: tyres.

Both sides report that the campaign is costing them at least one new tyre a day at an average cost of R200.

The Labour Party's organiser, Mr Peter Hendrickse, MP for Addo, confirmed that the party has had to open an account at a local tyre dealer.

Roads and loads is the magic formula for winning in Diamant it seems. W hat the passengers do once they're alone with their ballot paper is another matter however. Both sides prefer to renounce the guess work in favour of the verdict of Wednesday's poll.

The combi shuttle has introduced a near festive note at the polling booth precinct where tents and caravans of the opposing parties are constantly surrounded by a crowd of campaigners and thecurious.

Add to this a good measure of local unemployment and the result is a daily cabaret of clowing, sloganeering and impromptu poster protests or promotions of candidates or issues.

A rich array of language, gestures and play-acting colours a running war between campfollowers who constantly flank the voter's lonely last 10-metre walk into the polling station itself.

The campaign has also developed into a major feeding programme for the unemployed.

The National Party alone prepares three rudimentary meals a day for over 100 volunteer workers — all of them unemployed in a city whose economic plight is punctuated by closed and deserted shopfronts in just about every street block of its CBD.

This is one of the factors which prompts NP Chief Whip and local MP, Mr Keppies Niemann, to say that this is probably the most expensive by-election ever fought.

The Labour Party confirms this view but neither could be coaxed into putting round figures to the campaign.

The fact is that Diamant has become a battle for more than just one seat in the House of Representatives.

For the National Party it is a test of its viability as a political force outside its former white exclusivity.

For the Labour Party it has become a showdown to prove the oppressor of yesterday cannot be today's liberator.

In that quest the once reluctant ANC has now come in as a shadow partner and added another dimension to the hunt for votes.

It has "opened" certain black areas such as Galeshewe, Richie and

Green Point to the Labour Party while keeping these "closed" to the NP.

This move has greatly improved Labour's position as Kimberley has an extraordinary measure of integration amongs its black and coloured residents.

To the NP, whose organisers were given two minutes to clear out of black areas or have their combis burnt, this is seen as unacceptable intimidation.

On Monday, as strikes took a firm hold at local hospitals and continuing violence in Galeshewe prompted police to close off the township, the NP's campaign slowed in the face of a steady stream of Labour Party combis disgorging voters at their tents.

An extra measure of comic bitterness is woven into the campaign by the fact that almost all the contestants, campaigning MPs and organisers, are former Labour Party colleagues. Treason to common causes, principles and goals of the past is a steady theme of the debate. The NP candidate is a former LP stalw aj^kf the community and NP poaching virtually wiped out the eM re LP organisational structure in the constituency.

The reality is, however, that the ANC has now seen to it that the NP's early lead of nearly 2000 special votes is virtually wiped out

Nevertheless Labour organisers are not confident of w in n ^^y e t.

"If we could have been running like this from the start, we woulc be well away," said Mr Desmond Lockey, LP MP for Northern Cape.

The ANC concession came only last week and follows direct appeals for assistance to the ANC which were initially refused in stem public statements by the local leadership.

Now it appears that the psychological advantage the Nationa Party may gain by winning has forced a more pragmatic approach

In return it has brought about a distinct change in the_Laboui Party's style which has adopted a strong Patriotic Front ^B o ach .

At a public meeting on Monday night the packed Square Hill Pari com m unity hall was whipped up in to an ANC-styl*. "Amandla-Awethu" clenched fist frenzy by a young toyi-toyin; cheer leader specially called to the platform.

Speeches from the leadership were all spiced with "V iva"^^ ls fo. the party, its candidate and freedom.

The leader, the Rev Allan Hendrickse, made solidarity with black: the main theme of his speech saying the coloured community’: destiny lay with the black majority which was the futun government.

If his advice is heeded by those who still have to vote and if th new "opened” areas produce the last-minute rush of support the N1 is denied, then Diamant will produce a result which can be takei as a marker for the future when the ANC and NP meet in the firs democratic elections for an interim parliament or constitutioi making body.

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(Report by P Claassen, Press Gallery, Parliament)

VIOLENCE

Relief Fund Set Up F or B oipatong

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

The Vaal branch of the SA Council of Churches, the Vaal Civic Association and several other community organisations have established the Boipatong Relief Fund to assist victims of the massacre in the township last week.

At least 40 people died and scores others were injured when hostel inmates swept through the Slovo squatter camp in Boipatong.

Those wishing to contribute to the fund can contact the SACC at (016) 22-3005 or 22-0450

^ ^ h - le v e l Police D elegation V isits Kwa M adala

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

A top-level SA Police delegation, including Commisioner of Police Gen Johan van der Merwe, visited the KwaMadala hostel near Boipatong in the Vaal Triangle on Tuesday afternoon, a ^ ^ c e spokesman confirmed.

They were due to have a meeting with hostel dwellers at 2pm, but the spokesman said there had been "hold-ups".

He would not be more specific on the delay.

The delegation includes Gen Hannes Gloy and Gen Louw Malan.

The visit follws the massacre of at least 39 Boipatong residents by marauding attackers on Wednesday last week.

O ffice A dvocate Jo in Investigation

PRETORIA June 23 Sapa

Transvaal Attomey-General’s office advocates Van der Merwe and Tauti on Tuesday joined 200 police detectives in the investigation of last week’s Boipatong massace near Vanderbijlpark, to assist iw th the examination of evidence and the management of the

^B estigation , a police statement said.

The statement said the nearby Kwa-Madala hostel remained under guard. Many of its inhabitants are employed by Iscor and company's computer records had been used to establish which of them were above suspicion.

"These people will be allowed to leave the hostel."

Five Kwa-Madala hostel residents were arrested on Monday in connection with the massacre.

The statement added that police were having serious difficulties obtaining the co-operation of those injured in the Boipatong

attack, and of witnesses.

It appealed to all Boipatong resident to assist the police and to furnish all possible information.

People with inform ation can approach investigation officers directly, or use a toll-free number, 0800 111212, to pass on information by telephone.

W hite U nion C ondem ns A ttacks On M em bers

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

Attacks on members of the whites-only M ineworkers' Union (MWU) after last week's Boipatong massacre near Vanderbijlpark have been deplored by the union, which on Tuesday warned white workers would have to take steps to protect themselves.

In an open letter to Law and Order Minister Hemus Kriel, MWU general secretary Mr W Ungerer said white union members working for companies such as Metalbox, Consolidated Wire Industries and Cape Gate near Boipatong had come under attack since June 15.

"The final straw was when a M ineworkers' Union member employed by Cape Gate was assualted on his way to work and his car burned," said Mr Ungerer.

Union leaders immediately met those involved in the problem, such as employers and officials of the local commando un it

"The union decided that police protection must be provided 24 hours a day, that shifts be altered so that shiftworkers commute in daylight, and that union members be provided protected parking areas."

He said attacks on members would not be tolerated and warned that "the white worker has reached the stage when he must protect himself".

"The days of just talking about it without anything being done are, unfortunately, gone. If there is no other solution, the white worker will be obliged to provide for his safety in his own way," he said.

Vaal W orkers Stay Away

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

Workers at least eight Vaal Triangle companies on Tuesday continued to stay away from work in protest against the massacre of 39 people at Boipatong, near Vanderbijlpark, last week.

Companies which are believed to have been affected include Dorbyl Vaal, Metal Box, Van Leer SA, Cape Gate, CWI and Baldwins Steel, according to Dorbyl human resources director, Kevin Cowley.

Community organisations and trade unions claimed work had also stopped at Blue Armour, but could offer no detailed information about the extend of the stay away among the Vaal township community.

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A Vaal Civic official said parents, fearing for the safety of their children, would stay at home until the notorious KwaMadala Hostel had been closed by its Iscor owner.

Last Wednesday's attack is believed to have been mounted from the hostel.

Mr Cowley said the entire workforce of 300 at his company's Vaal plant had gone on strike last Thursday and would propably keep tools down until the end of this week.

Although the plant was feeling the effect of the strike, no emergency was being experienced, he said.

The manager of Cape Gate, who asked not to be named, confirmed his entire workforce had downed tools last Thursday,

No decision had been taken about their future employment if the work stoppage continued, he said.

On inquiry at other companies, Sapa was asked to contact the work director at Consolidated Wire Industries, Mr Hector Watson, who was locked in a board meeting and unavailable for commenton Tuesday.

Mr Cowley confirmed Mr W atson had been appointed as spokesman for Vaal employers who met representatives of the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) and the African National Congress on Monday about the prevailing situation.

He said employers, unionists and the ANC had agreed that Iscor should close down KwaMadala.

Iscor MD Willem van Wyk in a statement on Tuesday confirmed the hostel would shut its doors as soon as inmates had been transferred to the nearby KwaMasita Hostel.

KwaMasita is generally regarded as an African National Congress stronghold, whereas KwaMadala is believed to house mainly Inkatha Freedom Party supporters.

13 C ars B urn t On V aal Highway

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

At least 13 private vehicles were attacked and set alight on Tuesday afternoon at the Golden Highway near troubled Vaal Triangle townships, which are still seething in the wake of last week's Boipatong massacre.

Police Com m issioner Gen Johan van der M erwe and a high-ranking SAP delegation on Tuesday visited Boipatong's KwaMadala Hostel for discussions with inmates, blamed widely for the attack which had claimed at least 39 lives.

At a Press conference after the visit, he said at least 150 inmates of the KwaMadala Hostel were removed from the premises for questioning by police in connection with the massacre.

News representatives were barred from entering the complex.

Gen van der Merwe said police were making progress in their intensive and extensive investigations.

Hundreds of inmates had already been questioned and ruled out as suspects during the sifting process.

Six people were presently being detained in connection with the massacre.

Gen van der Merwe said it was difficult to say how long the investigations would still take as the case was complicated. This was because there were no eyewitnesses who could identify assailants and that the attack had happened at night in a relatively short period. Police also had to analyse the weapons which had been confiscated.

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Issued by. AZAPO

Tuesday, 23 June 1992

TH E MASSACRE OF TH E BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN!- IN B O IP A T O N G BY T H E S O U T H A F R IC A !'' G O VER N M EN T.

ISSUED BY: PROF ITUMELENG MOSALA, DIRECTOR, AZAPC INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

1. The Azapo International Affairs Office condemns the Sout! African Government and the white community that benefits from for yet another brutal murder of black people. The aparthei regime must take the blame on its own behalf on behalf of th Western capitalist and Christian interests which it represents.

2. The massacre of innocent blacks in Boipatong - to the exten that blacks can ever be innocent in the eyes of white people - i proof that the majority of the oppressed blacks have always beei right about "negotiations" and especially "Codesa": that it is political fraud intended to reverse the gains of black resistance t white rule. This view of the black majority which has bee vindicated again at Boipatong persists in the black community i spite of the ANC, F.W. de Klerk and the international media an governments' fantasies about Codesa being "the only show i town" (A la British and Dutch Foreign Offices). Boipatong hr proven Azapo's contention that there are other shows in towi some of which involve the same so-called "peaceful" negotiatir players that are at Codesa, yet also ignominiously in Boipaton and other township where blacks continue to be murdered.

3. We in AZAPO reiterate our warning that the release of politic; prisoners, like Nelson Mandela, the unbanning of politic; organisations by the apartheid regim e and the subsequei "negotiations" are a trap intended to create a ligitimate climate f< murdering and cheating South African blacks with impunity.

4. We call on our people to intensify the struggle to pressuriz the ANC to rejoin the liberation movement and desist froi hoaxing our people into maneouvres that are merely intended l get the ANC into Parliament. NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE AN TO SAVE FACT AND PULL OUT OF CODESA. THE END C OPPORTUNISM IS NOW.

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suspicion.5. W e call on our people to join in a struggle to defend communities and our people by all means necessary.

6. We call on the International Community to resume the sanctions struggle which was mistakenly abandoned by some countries on the basis of ill advice from people who have not been there to fight the racist regime during its most vicious period in the 1970s and 1980s.

7. We call on African countries and especially progressive democratic movements and organisations in Africa and the world to opt for principle and truth by supporting, not who the liberal media says is worth supporting, but the genuine commitments and efforts to reorganise the Patriotic Front of Liberation Movements on a genuine basis. This means excluding the agents and puppets of the South African regime, like homelands and parliamentary groupings such as the Democratic Party of Zack de Beers whose only claim to fame is its whiteness and Englishness.

8. There is a peaceful way forward in South Africa. It is NOT the political gymnastics o f F.W. de Klerk and, regrettably, Nelson Mandela. That is the way of saying white people at the expense of black people. The genuine way forward is through a genuine Constituent Assembly elected on the basis of one person one vote, as AZAPO pointed out long ago. The aim? to produce a constitution for electing a democratic black majority government in South Africa.

9. No peace is possible, and never has been under a white minority rule. Neither is an undemocratic partnership between De Klerk and the ANC capable of delivering a just and lasting peaceful solution. The partnership will always, as AZAPO warned from the beginning, offer an opportunity for self-licensed and paid murderers of the sort who massacred the people of Boipatong as their older predecessors did in Sharpeville in 1960 to do their evil work.

Prof Itumeleng Mosala, AZAPO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE, 30 JESUS LANE, CAMBRIDGE CB5 8BJ, ENGLAND,U.K.

Very truly yours,

PROF. ITUMELENG MOSALA

R estric tions O n Inm ate L ifted

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

Police restrictions on residents of the Kwamadala Hostel in the Vaal Triangle were lifted at midnight on Tuesday, allowing hostel residents to move freely.

The hostellers were confined to the building last week to assist the police into the Boipatong massacre. The Inkatha-aligned hostel dwellers were blamed for the attack, which killed at least 39 people.

Maj Ray Harrald said the lifting of restrictions was possible because hostel leaders had been co-operative and that a large number of the residents had been questioned and cleared of

Earlier on Tuesday about 150 hostel residents were rounded up but were released after questioning.

Maj Harrald pointed out there were still a number of residents to be questioned.

The investigation into the massacre would continuing and the SAP again appealed to people with information to come forward, Maj Harrald said.

— Six KwaMadala residents are still being held by police in terms of the unrest regulations.

Kwa M adala To Be Closed

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

Iscor's KwaMadala hostel, allegedly the base of attackers responsible for the Boipatong massacre, would be closed,MD Willem van Wyk said on Tuesday.

He said in a statement responding to questions from Sapa the involvement of residents of KwaMadala hostel, "individually or as a group, in deeds of atrocity has as yet not been confirmed.

"However, there are members of the community who oppos^A ^ existence of KwaMadala hostel. For this reason, and to promote a 'win-win' approach, Iscor has decided to close this hostel as soon as the residents can be moved in an acceptable and humane way to (nearby) KwaMasita (hostel).

"This decision has not been taken in support of, or in opposition to, any political groupings."

Mr Van Wyk added:

"We will try to obtain maximum cooperation from the trade unions and the residents of both hostels. Their needs will be taken into consideration in this move."

Iscor accepted no responsibility for the "unlawful behaviour of any of its employees".

Mr Van Wyk also said the iron and steel corporation was not of the opinion that closing hostels would bring peace.

"Peace will not be attained before all leaders in South i ^ ^ a accept a win-win approach which w ill lead to a negotiated constitutional dispensation."

N um sa P ro te s ts M oving O f Non -em ployee In m a tes To O th er H ostels

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa demanded on Tuesday that inmates of KwaM adala H ostel suspected of involvement in the Boipatong massacre should not be moved into other hostels.

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Only "those people who are Iscor employees and are not implicated in massacres should be housed elsewhere," said Numsa.

"In view of the high level of emotions resulting from the Boipatong massacre, its is not possible to simply move people from KwaMadala to KwaMasiza hostels."

Amid a clamour for the killers to be punished Iscor on Tuesday announced it was considering closing down the controversial KwaMadala Hostel.

G roup C laim s R esponsib ility F o r H ostel A ttackb O A S O H V l u J i

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

An organisation calling itself Youth For The Revolution on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the gun attack on inmates of the Dobsonville hostel which left five people dead at the weekend.

Three men and two women were killed at the Dobsonville hostel in the early hours of Sunday morning when gunmen sprayed several rooms with AK47 rifle fire.A statement, hand-delivered to Sapa on Tuesday by people who left almost immediately, was signed by one Tamurai Shamuyarira. In it he said said the ANC was not involved in the attack. Members of Youth For The Revolution had carried out the raid as inmates of the hostel had repeatedly harassed local residents.

"We shall continue to attack our enemy wherever he/she is as part of the defence of our people. The police, SADF and the stooge councillors shall continue to top the list in our programme," said the statement.

Shamuyarira added the organisation was independent of the ANC and also did not agree with the ANC's participation in Codesa.

This is the second time in as many months that Youth For The Revolution have claim ed responsibility for an attack in Dobsonville.

In May the organisation said it was responsible for a blaze that seriously damaged offices of the Dobsonville council.

At the time, it said its members would also attack the Dobsonville hostel until all Inkatha Freedom Party supporters had left the area.

P re ss R elease

Issued by: African National Congress

Monday, 22 June 1992

FROM: ANC PWV REGIONAL (D.I.P) REF: RONNIE MAMOEPA DATE: 1992 JUNE 22

r e : A C Q U IT T A L O F S E B O K E N G M A S S A C R E ACCUSED. W

The ANC PWV was shocked and horrified to learn of the acquittal of 7 of the accused in the Sebokeng night vigil massacre by the Vereeniging Circuit Court.

The ANC is in a process of securing the judgement with a view to making an informed statement on the matter.

The ANC however wishes to point out that their acquittal coulo not have come at a very critical moment in the Vaal complex. Given the recent Boipatong massacre and further killings by thi security forces in the area after the aborted visit by the State President, FW De Klerk on Saturday, their acquittal may lead to s spiralling violence in the area.

P ress R elease

Issued by: African National Congress

re: THE SITUATION IN VOSLLORUS

The community of Vosloorus has in the last two weeks beer subjected to a level of systematic violence which has so fa: claimed 15 lives.

This Press conference takes place against the background of ye another attack on Sunday (June 21) which left six people dead ant. several seriously wounded.

This renewed violence in Vosloorus comes in the wake of ; historic accord entered between residents of Vosloorus and Eskori providing for residents to pay electricity directly to Eskom rathe than to the unelected and corrupt councillors.

Vosloorus councillors have after this agreement (which wa announced on June 14) threatened various activists and even wen further by making serious attempts on some of our member1 lives.

On June 16, violence broke out when the work of unknowi assassins claimed nine lives on that day. There have been ni police arrests but some of our members were arrested that day in raid that was surprisingly led by a certain Vosloorus councillor.

Certain elements in the community are pointing fingers at th ANC YOUTH LEAGUE for the damage of the councillors property

The campaign for the resignation of the councillors is still pai and parcel of the democratic forces.

The councillors are still resisting the will of the people on mas action for the ultimate exit of the racist regime and its surrogates

We view these latest attacks on our people as an attempt b councillors to force residents into recognising their discredite leadership and project popular mass actions with violence.

We wish to put it on record that attacks on activists and residen in general have come to a point where they are now intolerable.

The Vosloorus branch of the ANC YOUTH LEAGUE condemns th continuation of mysterious killing of our people locally an nationally.

We therefore demand that:

- The perpetrators o f these killings must be brought to boo

with immediate effect. — The undemocraticaUy elected councillors in Vosloorus must resign as matter o f urgency. — The immediate release of all the arrested comrades and the withdrawal of charges.

It is neither the policy of the ANC nor the Youth League to pursue our struggle in a violent manner. We thus reject any mischievous attempts to implicate the ANC Youth League on last week's incidents which led to the damage of the residents property.

— The community is requested to respond positively to the ANC Youth League call to boycott the concillors business. — In carrying these actions the ANC Youth League will adopt the broadest principle of consultation with the representative community organisations. — We call on the youth of Vosloorus to carry the mass action activities in a loyal and well disciplined fashion as required by the movement, the alliance and the entire mass dem ocratic movement. — Finally, other mass action activities will be announced from time to time after consultation with the community of Vosloorus.

issued by: Vosloorus ANC YOUTH LEAGUE Date: 23 June 1992

Ref: Isaac Matlaisane Tel: 906 6415

Inkatha Freedom Party official Senzo Mfayela on Tuesday said the organisation's central committee had not discussed the creation of self-defence units.

The IFP official was commenting on recent statements by his colleague, Transvaal IFP spokesman Musa Myeni, urging youths in Kwamashu, near Durban, to form such units.

Saying the matter had not been discussed at the party's highest level and no resolution had been taken on it, Mr Mfayela said the ambush on IFP supporters returning from a rally in KwaMashu last Sunday underlined the need for community-based defence units.

He also said as a signatory to the National Peace Accord, any decision to establish such units would have to consider the provisions of the National Peace Accord.

"Taking into account the volatility of the current political climate, it would be foolhardy in the extreme for political organisations to launch their own private vigilante armies in reality operate with unchecked powers under the guise of self-defence units," he said.

S ou thern N atal: ANC C alls F o r V igilance

DURBAN Jun 23 Sapa/

Policeman Killed

JOHANNESBURG June 23 Sapa

The Southern Natal region of the African National Congress on Tuesday called on its members to remain at the "highest level of vigilance" and do all possible to defend themselves in light of a spate of alleged assassinations of its members in Umlazi recently.

The ANC has claimed there are "death squads" operating in the region which have been ordered to assassinate activists.

The latest murder took place on Monday night when Ms Lizzy Makhathini was killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Umlazi. Police confirmed the incident on Tuesday.

The ANC's southern Natal media officer Dumisani Makhaye on Tuesday said Ms M akhathini was once an active member of Inkatha but had joined the ANC and its Women's League.

On Monday, Mr Makhaye supplied details and names of five other ANC activists who had allegedly been murderd in Umlazi at the weekend. KwaZulu Police said they only knew of only two k illings.

Mr Makhaye alleged the death squads were part of the National Party's strategy aimed at preventing the ANC from coming to power.

Details of the allegations are due to appear in the July issue of the ANC's mouthpiece, Mayibuye.

Mr Makhaye warned: "The ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe's patience is not endless".

No Plan To Form SDU's - Inkatha

DURBAN June 23 Sapa

if l f tA young policeman was shot dead and robbed of his firearm White City in Soweto on Monday night, SABC radio reported on Tuesday.

SA Police spokesman Col Tienie Halgryn said the policeman had been sitting with a colleague when three men burst into the room and opened fire on them with handguns.

The 17-year-old policeman, whose name has not been released, was killed. His colleague was not injured. Both policemen were robbed of their service pistols.

Police U nrest R eport

PRETORIA June 23 Sapa

Seven people were killed in unrest-related incidents in the 24-hours ending at midnight on Monday, the police revealed in the official unrest report released in Pretoria on Tuesday.

They said the bodies of two people, with gunshot wounds, found in Daveyton, Benoni, while another man was "necklaced" at Evaton near Vreeniging.

A man was also fatally wounded when a security guard dispersed a mob which stoned a train at the Orlando railway station in Soweto, while another body was found at the Dube station, also in Soweto.

At Sharpeville, a man was shot dead by unknown assailants and a corpse was also found at Sebokeng, near Vanderbijlpark.

Police said three men were arrested at Galeshewe, Kimberley, when a private vehicle was torched.

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