Second Session of the Fifth KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. Policy Speech

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SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH

KWAZULU

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

SO

NQ

OB

YE

A SIMUN

POLICY

SPEECH

BY DR .

MANGOSUTHU

G

BUTHELEZI

CHIEF MINISTER OF KWAZULU

MARCH 1990

TMENTS

SECOND SESSION OF

THE

FIFTH KWAZULU LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

POLICY

SPEECH

BY THE CHIEF MINISTER

MARCH

1990

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , this year's Session of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly has now been opened and we must now get on us picked with what has to be done . History has picked up , us up , picked this Assembly up , up , everyone of picked KwaZulu picked the whole Province future .

I pause Members ,

at Mr.

of Natal up and

is hurtling us

the outset of this year's Policy Speech Speaker , that for over two years I

into a new

to remind have been

expressing grave concerns about the consequences we will all suffer because far too many turned to regard the struggle for liberation as a way of life and were not preparing themselves politics that we will see around us in this year of

for the 1990 .

kind

of

In the last two Legislative Assembly Sessions and in Caucus meeting after Caucus meeting I have been crying out for black leadership to become people - orientated , for it to be a leadership of the people , among the people , for the people . I am obviously not singling out the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly as being particularly lacking in comparison with other institutions and bodies . I have been very in my criticisms of affiliate organisations in which open committees are elected by committees which in turn are elected by committees which were not

The

malaise

accountable

to the people .

about the democratic malady is

very

widely

spread .

When I spoke to Members of this House , Mr. Speaker , about the need for them to become constituency leaders rooted in neighbourhoods , districts , localities to distinguish and I was urging them themselves

from the

rest

of Black

South Africa's

leadership .

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When

I

first

started

sending

this message

out we did have

to

time

do something about the malaise and malady . The only time that we time Honourable Members , now have left Mr. Speaker , is a crisis between becomes

now and that phase in the politics of negotiation where it are clear that dyes have already been cast and moulds

already

at

work

instrumental

giving final

shape

to the

forces

that

will

be

in establishing a new South Africa .

I have not only warned against a leadership that is remote from the people . My message that we have made the struggle a way of life Assembly was also a message in which I said to the Members of this and

to

same

leaders

thing

everywhere

that

in which there

liberation will not

are Blacks

in

be more of

powerful

positions .

the I

pointed to places like Metropolitan Durban and said be deep - rooted change and a vast reshaping process will

take

on an altogether different

politics will be

I

said

that

able

all

the

to

that there will in which Durban only character in which new

survive .

prime

actors

have

been

already

created

by

The central stage in which they would act is history and politics . The audience I said was already seated waiting but already there . were there no magic formulae which would make the stage - acting a vital , life - blood , guts , There would be a new, pro forma thing . death ,

hope ,

and

joy mixture

in the

plot

as

it unfolded .

say I is worried about the future must hear me when who Anybody their beyond is should only worry about that which people that Politics has not South Africa is not beyond our control . control . whippolitical There is nobody with been up by anybody . sown ing gett I am South Africa will be what we make it to be . hands . angrily impatient with the

In

this

going Our

Session

signs

around me

we are going to

to do one helluva good

that

people

roll up our sleeves and

job of work and we are

contribution to the new South Africa emerging

more free and more prosperous believe it could ever be .

Whatever

happens

in the

are worried .

than the majority

of

we

going -

to

more

people

are make just ,

around us

future will depend upon what we do

today

-

not tomorrow , not the next day but today . We will worry about what we do tomorrow when tomorrow comes . Today we have something to do and today we will do it . This year's Session of the Legislative If there is anyone Assembly has something to do and we will do it . among us who is gaumless , gutless , courage - less , then he or she must depart

to mope under a tree somewhere

else .

I

All have never been a leader who leads people up garden paths . last year I warned you that the going is going to get tougher

much tougher than any of you ever thought . little

tougher and because the

stakes

are

Now that

it has got

now raised and

the

a

takers

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are

legion

now

because

it

is

a

and hungry tough race

Every Member of this House result the vicious a of

for what they want ,

that we want

we must

be

glad

to win .

is aware that we have suffered losses as political onslaught and violence used

against Inkatha . There are sections of communities which have been demoralised and there are those who have lost faith in Inkatha . We know this to be the case .

Mr. The point I make though , Speaker , Honourable Members , is that military and organisation purported to be a never has Inkatha We will hold Inkatha has never purported to be a fighting machine . non -violent in is It in any democratic situation . ground our opposition to apartheid that Inkatha is not only strong democratic but actually

formidable .

because have suffered losses through violence and we Because of weakened . politically violence , mean to say it is not does it it is probably stronger now in centre - stage politics than Inkatha has ever been before .

sequences of events which we know only too well ordinary people communities people , simple every- day people - are battered and victories and then the disruption is presented as disrupted are In

against

Inkatha .

We have done too little to document what actually takes place . we United Democratic Front /COSATU factions in the conflicts around us in the KwaZulu / Natal region have spent tens upon tens

The see of

thousands of rands gathering propaganda against Inkatha in the form of Inkosi Maphumulo has affidavits blaming Inkatha for violence . The his very costly one - man Commission of Enquiry into violence . UDF has its university groups researching and documenting conflict and presenting their politically motivated findings which pretend that the glass when it is broken is only broken on one side and that

I

Inkatha

take

is

enemy of democracy .

Luthuli

the

Hibberdene

the

as

a

very

area on recent typical

Tribal

sequences of events which have in KwaZulu and Natal .

First there visited the

was

the

spread violence

an Indian- driven Kombi

just

coast

example

from

of ever

the

north

of

kind

of

further afield

Johannesburg

that who was area and bought access to one of the Indunas UDF the a cash sum of R500 and those around him who joined paid given R50 each . were When this had been done guns were brought into a fashion the area by the same people and then in typical conflict manufactured at the Luthuli High was School . Students an Principal on were persuaded to go on strike to confront the

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issue

which could

easily have

issue of not having the classrooms .

established

Having

right

the

and having

base

a

in many different ways the sweep brooms with which to solved

been

established

an

idiom

of

conflict amongst the youth , toyi - toyi'ing started on top of a local and spoke with reason Luthuli went to the Induna , Inkosi hill . warned the

Induna

in typical

Again

that he was

trouble .

brewing

fashion violence

broke

out with the

drawing

UDF

violently a man

among While five people were attacked first blood . them was castrated in broad daylight for all to see . The Inkosi was to come the UDF group were saying that they would that informed the of front in toyi'ing toyi the lead and would he him fetch people .

A

sense

of

outrage

was

added to

a

sense

of

outrage

and

the

community said enough is enough and the next day the small locality burnt where the trouble was brewed was attacked and 30 homes were down to drive

the UDF

element

out .

Speaker , Mr. Sir , Honourable Members , there was only a relatively recently formed Inkatha branch in the area . not

an attack against

against

the

ordinary people ,

are always

the

political

strength of

Inkatha .

It was

small and This was an

every - day people and then of course victories

claimed

against

attack there

Inkatha .

While this happens to us , how can we be involved in the politics of The that is going on across negotiation ? carnage KwaZulu /Natal must now cease , Mr. violence . Inkatha

Speaker . Inkatha has not been crushed by this Cheap will never be crushed by violence .

politics trying to make political gain out of violence against Inkatha is not going to succeed . We can face realities around us without distorting

None of us

them .

should now dare to distort

realities

around us

simply to

feel more comfortable . We can say yes , can getting tougher . We say yes ,

the going is tough and it is of the idiom toyi - toyi is We can say dangerous and is drawing blood , politically speaking . yes , is the violence as real as it is hideous in KwaZulu /Natal region . We can say yes , there are rural areas where we are losing can say yes , ground . We we admit that there are urban and perithis urban areas in which Inkatha members and those loyal to Assembly none dare speak no good of us and who dare fly of Our political brutal symbols for fear of reprisal by the use of

violence .

can We yes to all these things and we can say yes , Inkatha has wounds , suffered it is bleeding . We can say yes to all these

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things and we can admit that we have received wounds because we say these things knowing that it is the wounds of the powerful are talking about . We can say these things because it is tenacity of the stalwarts in the struggle we are talking about . can say these things because we are strong enough to say that going is tough , that it is going to get tougher and that we going to get

tough with

can we the We the are

it .

It would be very nice , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , if I could to produce a blue - print for you all and a chartered course for you the reality of the toughness around us just does not But follow . us . takes this possible . We will go whichever way history make Not because we will be dragged along whether we like it or not , but we are man enough to stay the course whatever it turns out because measures in realities and astute enough to adjust to the be to sufficient

I will stance

to

continue ensuring our relevance

and

importance .

be talking about the need to document Inkatha's negotiating can a little later and we will be debating what this House

and cannot support want to continue

in the talks about talks . Right now , however , I deeper talk about speaking in broad terms and

political motivations .

My faith not in a structure , is it is not in this second - tier government structure we see around us in the Government ; KwaZulu it is not in any givens around us - it is in South Africans and in this part of the world , I it is in us as Zulu Africans . South believe in the people of South Africa . My faith is not going to be destroyed by change - just the reverse . My faith demands change , demands adaptation .

You will hear it

in the

streets of Johannesburg ,

you will hear

it

in the streets of Durban , you will hear it when you are travelling , you will hear it when people are walking and you will hear them all speculating about what is going to happen next and who is going to end up leading who and what organisation is going to end up doing what . there . desire

There is only uncertainty about the objective realities out their There is no uncertainty among South Africans about to now finally eradicate apartheid for the scourge that it society is and to replace apartheid with a just and equitable in which all shall be free .

in they believe in Africans because at heart South believe I fore the to coming is that African and our great South freedom ism is the real

When

therefore

getting when

liberator .

I

I

talk about change

and

I

talk

about

the

going

tough and I talk about we the strong being wounded , and talk about new politics in new political ball - games , I am

talking the

language

of

faith and commitment

to the

values

that the

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Black

struggle

so universal

We

cannot

liberation has made

for

for all mankind

in this

found a new South Africa

so hallowed

part

and

indeed

also

of Southern Africa .

on the

itsy

bitsy

back - biting

bits of politicking that loom so much larger than they actually are historic determinants . That is a mouthful , as they say but it is a simple truth . We must found a great future South African democracy on great values and on eternal truths . The new South Africa will not be put together by political thugs and political liars and new cheaters . The South Africa will be erected constitutional stone by stone and political stone by stone and social and economic by stone stone as our great common South Africanism shapes great values

and

embalms

We have nothing to Mr.

them in the country's

fear because

there will be

Honourable Members ,

Speaker ,

institutional

life .

change .

we have done

our own

important

leading in thinking about change . In the Buthelezi Commission we began transcended the sense of fatalistic hopelessness which settling on South Africa after apartheid had risen to an awesome vengeful

height

after

1976 .

We

established the Buthelezi Commission to quietly , courageously and boldly think about a new arrangement in this region of South Africa to exercise our minds in what needs to be done to maximise planning and execution efficiency in tackling the huge disparities tackling that exist between Black and White and in the huge backlogs

there

are

in Black South Africa .

Speaker , Mr. you will remember that there were show-down meetings with the then Minister of Co - operation and Development , Dr. Piet Koornhof , about whether I had the right to call the Buthelezi Commission into being . Nothing would have stopped me and the then National Party Government in the end could not stop me . just I that insisted we have to start thinking about breaking down the to that had barriers apartheid had set up . I insisted that we start thinking about how to employ human and other resources for the benefit of the poorest of the poor and to establish what could be done to alleviate poverty without destroying the golden geese that

lays

the

eggs which we need to eliminate

poverty .

Mr. Speaker , there is not one hour and not one day of the Buthelezi Commission's work that is wasted . We are today better prepared for tomorrow after the politics of negotiation the great because we went

through the thinking that we did in the Buthelezi

The

Buthelezi

the

kind

Commission .

Commission work was work which has prepared us to that this Assembly this year will have

of things

for be

When I get off a plane in Frankfurt , in London , in New looking at . much that I actually get off it walking in Washington , or York

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taller than my God - given physical stature because Commission and because of the many other things

of the Buthelezi with I have done

you , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members and because of the many things in I have done with others . The struggle has increased my pride myself and my people

and

in my country .

And of course the Buthelezi Commission as such was in turn only product everywhere , to racism of Our deep commitment fight including fighting it in this Assembly . We as the poorest of the poor had the responsibility of the poorest of the poor everywhere most the responsibility of doing most about our poverty . As the had doing our oppressed we the responsibility of most about oppression .

It is because we did what we humanly could do in the light understanding of society and mankind that we gained the that could establish the Buthelezi Commission and make

of Our stature it the

worthwhile exercise that it turned out to be . Our participation in holding back the frontiers of apartheid in this region of South Africa by manning the bulwarks of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly made

I

apartheid

squirm in

walk very tall

its

inability to bring

today when I know that were

it

us under control .

not

for what we

in

House did , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , South Africa just Dr. Nelson Mandela would not now would not be where it is today . Mr. F.W. de Klerk would not even be State President . be released . this

as If we had succumbed to apartheid and lay down to be trampled on people in Transkei , Bophuthatswana , Venda and Ciskei were trampled Mr. would have in succeeded upon by apartheid , P.W. Botha establishing his dreamt - of confederation of Southern African States and the world would have been faced with the realities of apartheid as ' real politik ' .

The homeland policy fell because of what we put an end to it . When the history of I am proud of this Assembly that did it . did . that time , of period is finally written in the perspective this Mandela in addressing Even Dr. will come out very clearly . fact February 25th meeting for him at King's Park on the welcome the

We

said

that

he

is

grateful

for what

Inkatha did

for his

release .

We know that it is would negotiation what we have done

a lot more than that . The whole politics of now not be becoming a reality if we did not do This Assembly , Mr. Speaker , for the last decade .

Honourable Members , in

shaping

the

has played a distinctive

South Africa

And

because we are

not

have to distort ,

that

is

now just

sure of ourselves , twist

and

lie .

and distinguished beginning

to

because we walk tall we We can stand here

role

emerge .

and

do

say yes

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we have done for all the new whole .

our bit ; bits

that

others

have done

their bit

all have done to be

joined

and now it

is time

together to make

a

whole will be so much bigger , the so much greater than That sum total of all the individual bits added together separately . The whole will transcend the bits . The new South Africa that we create must be heights

made a South Africa which rises to in the decades and centuries to come .

great international We must see to it

that we put sufficient of great value into what we are doing now to continuity ensure and growth , and decades generations of consolidation . When it comes to putting greatness and real values society we have a role to play and we will play that

our

into role .

new We have

looked at great values and their applicability in the circumstances which will confront anybody who has to maximise the redistribution of wealth without disrupting the economy .

Not

will we as

only

South Africans have to

put

the

foundations

for a great new democracy but we will also have to remove We looked at this the cancer of racist fear and racist aggression . Inkatha sat down with too in our work in the Buthelezi Commission . with We as Blacks sat down and talked South Africa . non - Inkatha together

Whites , feel

Indians

and Coloureds

for fear and we got a

Suffering

feel

as the oppressed

and talked

South Africa .

We got

a

for prejudice .

suffer we have had great values

infused

Even the slave learns faster about decency and honesty than in us . suffering , the this This wisdom of could ever do . master his humanity and developed in us by suffering was further instilled we that and commitment the shaped intellectualism the by experienced in the Buthelezi

Mr.

Speaker ,

Commission work we did .

Honourable Members ,

this House must

carry wisdom into

the future for the people of South Africa . This House must play its role in the politics of negotiation . Members of this Legislative Assembly now have a role of deep historic significance and I, Members , Speaker , Honourable will see to it that this House play that

Mr. can

role .

secondHouse continues in one or another form as a this Whether the tier structure , or whether we actually prorogue this House in Africa , we about a new whether or South bringing of process power centre the from of devolution some of kind negotiate downwards and this House becomes responsible for certain government powers , or whether the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly is subsumed by looking kind of joint Legislative Authority that we have been the Executive establishment Joint the of the after forward to Authority ,

makes

no difference whatsoever to me .

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sharpen I will thinking on what I have just been saying in the above paragraphs a little later in my Policy Speech . Right now I am just saying that we have a distinguished past and we will distinguished contribution to the politics of negotiation .

is early days yet

it

While

I believe

that

I

am absolutely

make

a

correct

in saying take the

that the politics of negotiation in South Africa can only dramatically form of a political process in which a new

different

South Africa rises

today

to tower as a monument

Because

it

will be a

South Africa of

of history and the

out

to the martyrs

political

of the

struggle .

process ,

it will be a process in ar wi gu ll e I negotiating .

which political Parties actually do the sit strongly in favour of allowing only political Parties to very dy in everybo nonThe balances for around the negotiating table . fact come the will from Africa South political Party that ultimately it is the political Party at the negotiating table best concerns to sum up the will of the people and to express the able institutionalised South Africa which will have the edge over all other Parties .

of

The

power

to negotiate will not

come

from within

negotiating

Party .

a

The not power to negotiate will come from the people behind the Party , from Party leaders or Party dignitaries . Institutionalised South No of Africa will actually do the making or breaking Parties . self- reliant in the sense Party will be of being immune from institutionalised South Africa .

Inkatha will be there at the negotiating

table

- of that you can be

In other words , your interests and the one hundred per cent sure . interests this House has in a new South Africa , will be represented House can be very powerful in mobilising the support This there . This House can be very powerful in that Inkatha needs politically . between various chasms which apartheid has created the bridging together gathering This groups . House can be powerful in race consensus

support

for

Inkatha's

negotiating positions .

its this House can only be as powerful as of course , In the end , house -to - house , their on- the - ground , make to be by it Members This district - to - district action for democracy . corner - to - corner , This House is not House is not some kind of government structure . the

thing

that

is defined

in one or another piece

of

legislation .

Mr. This House , Honourable Members , is actually the sum Speaker , its mental and humanitarian attributes of total of the spiritual , a into it place and we must turn people's a is It Members . people's place

for the people more than we have ever done

before .

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At the negotiating table whatever the final formula for negotiation turns out to be , it will be the Parties which are most accurate in their grasping of public need and public sentiment and public hopes will be the most powerful . and fears that I will be at the consult with negotiating table and I will constantly need to ideas test people , test with people and proposals tabled in negotiation

Quite that have

for acceptability among the

people .

it responsibility of this House to see to do we d that and y consulte the people we represent are properl effective and place consultation make to in mechanisms clearly it

is the

expeditious .

- the course We need to act in two parallel courses simultaneously of members organising opinion - makers in their constituencies into Advisory what one can perhaps call an informal Consultative and Council ; into and the course of setting up flows of information every constituency represented here .

The first course of action dovetails in with my strongly expressed word views that every Member of this House should now put deed to and use our Short Guide to Practical Politics as a short statement from of what is now imperative . I will be receiving reports back Members this House and we will at a later stage all of of this Session devote whatever time is necessary to look at these reports and see how we can strengthen the arm of the Members who have problems .

information

is

something that we must concentrate upon here in Ulundi because We have a Bureau of Communications . be Ulundi - directed . must

it I

The

second

course of action of ensuring

flows

of

would like to hear from Members how they see this Bureau and how we to can maximise its utility to ensure the free flow of information ld her ut into ulu ies afie furt ugho and KwaZ thro communit local KwaZulu is there where Africa South of parts different representation .

live We in an electronic age and we must find ways of flashing information across the distances which have become problematic . We perhaps a rapid

need initially to probe the communication problem by doing and searching survey aimed at establishing what the man in I the street's perceptions are about the politics of negotiation . you think will find that our voice of reason and our message of hope is not to say .

I

do not ,

reaching the

however ,

people who most

see this

need to hear what we have

second parallel

simply a Bureau of Communications

thing .

I

course

see

it as

of action

as

course

of

a

be set in motion by each Member in his or her own with the he or she works in close collaboration The people of KwaZulu have the right to Bureau of Communications .

action which must constituency as

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what the Government of KwaZulu is doing for them and about their suffering under apartheid . We are here in this House because we oppose apartheid and we must now be here in this House to back know

negotiations away from apartheid . This is the legitimate work of the KwaZulu Government and it is the follow through work our of initial banding together in this House to block all possibilities of so - called

Mr. the

foisted on KwaZulu .

Speaker , every Honourable Member is a vital conduit the power of history can flow from the people to The

table . these

The

independence being

conduits

only

negotiating are

thing

cut

I

along which negotiating if gasp off political oxygen

table will

off .

could

fear at

the

negotiating

table

is

the

possible emergence of circumstances in which the negotiators become too far removed from the public and there are too few life - lines If this from grass - root society to the negotiating table . situation emerges then ideology will take over and we will pay awesome prices

for generations

Mr.

Honourable

Speaker ,

pertinent standing

to come .

Members ,

all this

is vitally

to the interests of this House because there Status quo still this House . for politics

and true no is now has been

endorsed a non- starter and will be destroyed with the destruction become of apartheid . We rejoice at this thought even if we do awed somewhat by the challenges which are inherent in what I am saying .

There will be some of course , Mr. Speaker , will not hear me . at working are real Ther who are too few far fail . ly e who to Prac them Shor Guid constituency ' our tica For t level . e l Some

Politics ' gathers dust on some forgotten shelf , while the people in way their Members ' constituencies toyi - toyi on Honourable those looking

for a new leader .

Mr. will have to look at many things in great Speaker , we depth during this Session of the Assembly . In opening the work session Assembly of the remarks I am initially the making only paint political pictures I add that this

I continue doing so as play to role in the in politics of negotiation also because the kind of negotiations which we will have to play this role are in considerable measure in broad brush strokes . House will have a vital

already preordained .

I know that there are waves know there is a lot I and

of euphoria sweeping across the country that assumptions of talk based on the

politics will place all - or - nothing quests on the euphoria It will be a political wave which will carry it forward . some but

that

is

just

not going to happen .

crest of for sad

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see some very grave dangers in the ANC , as though they have already taken forward I

politics

and that

they can now make

UDF and COSATU hurtling centre -ground charge of

the world according to the ANC .

is That is not said flippantly and it is not said maliciously . It said with a yearning for real dialogue between black leaders about political real issues . There is the inevitability of political clashes between black leaders not at least share

if they do not caucus together and if they do thoughts with each other before they adopt

negotiating positions .

The ANC tabled its Harare document , then it rushed it to the OAU endorsement and thereafter had the Africa bloc stage - manage for a Mr. you , endorsement United Nations - all this with Speaker , Members of this House and every black the ANC camp , not even consulted .

leader in this country not

in

again I observe soberly that I would do it all over again if I was presented with the same circumstances . I would not negotiate while The return quid pro Dr. Mandela and other leaders were in jail . quo of this should have been that the ANC's Lusaka National HarareExecutive Committee should not have gone forward with an type document to internationalise their Party political without any discussion with me at all , or with leaders

position in other

organisations .

But leave that aside because it is politics for Dr. Mandela to Take out . only another aspect of the same problem area .

sort The

Organisation of African Unity has endorsed the Harare document and the United Nations adopted a modified version of it , even before black the ANC had any opportunity of sharing thinking with the people of

South Africa they purport

The ANC has made will be mauled

to be representing .

the Harare document a Party political thing and it the made in Party political battles . They have

Freedom Charter a Party political thing which they are resurrecting it in their own likeness . They are resurrecting it as something certain as These are not attacks on ANC originally never was . giving hasten to suggest . will It is just mischief - makers Our Black views on some decisions that have been taken on behalf of South Africa .

The the

ANC are adopting very belligerent concerned . is struggle armed

hard - line stances as far as the It adopting is same

the stances with regard to disinvestment and They are economic isolation of South Africa . riding roughshod over the will of the people and that fact will yet cause them more grief than they could even begin to see now .

belligerent hard - line social , political and

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Already

there

is

a

clearly emerging

split between those

who

are are the ANC positions with it and those of us who really say that or centre - stage politics who centre - ground in and the very winner -takes -all politics is dangerous for the peace , adopting already

process of achieving the

I

say we need

final

a national will ,

victory against

a non- racial

apartheid .

or a

race - less

national

will , to eradicate apartheid in such a way that we can be left with radical If we do not make the white man party to the democracy . change that must be brought about , radical change will the white man's enemy . White fears are very real and a million political times by winner - takes -all which will lead to a one - Party State .

South

politics

emerge to be they magnify kind of the

Africa must head towards

will a multi - Party democracy which going to have any democracy at all . but Whatever we do have must end up being non- racial or race - less it must also end up allaying fears and the only way to do that is

be

totally non- racial

by negotiating

All - or- nothing

if we

with Whites

are

about

minority group protection .

is dangerous

politics

and

I

cannot do

to I say

anything

increase danger at this time of South African vulnerability . now very clearly there will be no politics of negotiation along the that walk Whites will not winner - takes - all politics . of route marched to frog politic be have ally and route . would They and to be taken along that route baton - charged politically then politics would only take Whites along - nothing apartheid frog - marched Blacks and baton - charged

11 - c that

them along

Unless fears ,

the

apartheid

in the Blacks

sense took

route .

we can begin now to sit down and talk to Whites about their destroy the prospects will their fears of putting the

politics of negotiation on track . For revolutionary , winner - takesWhite fears do not because all political leaders , really matter they think Whites will be

smashed

if they fear too much .

Winner - takes - all politics with refusals to negotiate with Whites what about can be done about their fears will not take us to the the negotiating table . The Harare document will not take us to negotiating

I

will

table

for this

yet gather solid ,

reason .

ground - swell

support

for the politics of negotiation which groups about winner - takes - all issues .

Mr.

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

I put

is

across all race not negotiation

it very simply .

I am in

centre - stage politics . I occupy centre - ground positions and South the African politics today is forcing both the National Party and

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ANC ever further down to the political arenas in which I have taken centre - stage is can which politics be It up positions . constructive .

politics left Far right politics and far will be totally African the destructive for a negotiated settlement of South This side of absolute destruction , right -wing politics situation . that is not even far right and left - wing politics that is not even far left will - if the right and the left are even a little too far from centre - stage of negotiation .

Political

positions

settlements

- be highly problematic

have to be reached .

There

in the

is

an

politics

historic

imperative driving us to reach a political settlement . The whole Africa world is actually now ready to back a political settlement . is ready to back it and Africa and the world will end up supporting centre - stage politics in South Africa because that is where success will be achieved .

Mr.

their

Honourable Members will not be drummed out of

Speaker ,

Euphoria politics vital roles by the far right or by the far left . evaporating is sweeping the land will sooner or later start which When that happens we are because we cannot live on marches alone . all - or- nothing drive political hard for cold , the with left will then stand up and be counted for the sake People politics . all - or - nothing oppose to They will stand up Africa . South of of kind people themselves do not want the the because politics conflagration will come earth scorched white from final that policies meeting black scorched earth policies .

If

there

a political

is

settlement

at

all

it will be a

political

settlement which members of this House , and this House itself , have You can toy . with power but you can only toyi - toyi helped produce . yourself out of political relevance .

My

heart

reasons .

aches One

for our beloved of them is

South Africa

because there

is

for

at times

a

many

great

such a

lack of

insight into the nature of man , the nature of society and there is circumstances such little our understanding of what politics in really is .

People who are making misassessments and do not see the euphoria in think that the politics politics for the euphoria that it is , of will the months and years to come is mere formality politics which is no the end up with ANC forming a government because there alternative for the country .

These

are the kind

responsible

of people who

for the hideous

jump to believe that

violence that has

Inkatha

swept so far

is

across

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the

KwaZulu /Natal

These

are

and cut

region

so deeply

the kind of people who see

eclipsed by current

political

Inkatha

into

black

being

sidelined

honour . and

developments .

When is bleeding . Now I say so what . We and their strength is still there . they have will lose some of our comrades who will defect because heads hang they their when already started to are attacked I say , politically . Again so what . We cannot afford to carry Yes , I said earlier , Inkatha the strong bleed , they heal

passengers now that the going to go , want go and leave have ever been before .

Mr. not

is

the

going to rest

get

of us

tough .

more

Let those who we unfettered than

I

Speaker , Honourable Members , I announce to the world that people going to leap into frenzied activity because some to

Inkatha

because

lost

they see us having

am are

out .

saying

" Shame "

We

need to combat the erosion of confidence that the average African has always had in Inkatha . We have got somehow to

do

South

present Inkatha as it some who are hostile .

is and not

as

it

is presented

in the media by

we What have thus far done is clearly not enough and may even be wrong . We have to win minds and we have to strengthen souls and - in somehow we have to get the world to see us as we really are centre - stage politics taking up bold positions that are prophetic of politics yet to come .

Speaker , Honourable Members , people the world over need sound because without sound government , government they are vulnerable . society Human and decent strength is only protected in decent

Mr.

There is no human society is only protected by human strength . in strength outside interaction between man and his neighbour or action by man for his neighbour .

I

have

a great

love

That

is the way God

for South Africa and

I

created

us .

am totally committed

to

give South Africans the right to form a good government under which they can rise to their greatest strengths as individuals . To form the right

kind of government

people must

be presented with choices .

Governments can be rigged into existence if people are sufficiently Mr. will country , battered . That happen in this Speaker , if when we Inkatha hangs its head and succumbs to pressure . It is stand up in all our political tallness and proclaim our message to a the people that the people will have a fairer chance of choosing right government .

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То me the whole struggle is about how to establish a democracy and not any particular political Party . I will abide by the people's want to decision if it is really a people's decision . I do not gain power by manipulation . I am only interested in power if it people's power placed in my hands for the sake of South Africa .

is

another Party , I If the people in the end choose another leader , will rest in peace because it is that right to choose leaders and Parties

for which

I

really do

struggle .

and now the distorted image that there is of Inkatha that of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly and there is of is our damage . We does the democratic process and strategies , tactics the of sake the for South Africa and of sake the for must doing are we what and ourselves present process democratic Right there

clearly and

succinctly ,

convincingly to the world .

Without making new breakthroughs in image -building we will not play our role to make the people's choices free choices . There is a there ; media mountain to climb . It does not matter why it is it does not ourselves

matter how much or how little fault there is with what we climb the have done - it only matters that we now

mountain and put

То

continue

media problems

behind us .

in broad brush strokes only I

further add

that

doing . House has unfinished business which it must now finish victory overnigh an be not will t there that sure quite be can willingly

or unwillingly we will have

to continue

this We and

playing the role

to that the little that continues to be available sure the with empathy with the maximum degree of managed ranking from with the maximum efficiency which comes and

making of Blacks is people

priorities

skillfully .

We cannot just stop working on black education , for example , simply because the politics of negotiation have got under way and we will some time in the future have only one education system and an equitable share in State resources available for education . We liberation , must work on education now while we struggle for our We and while we are putting the politics of negotiation on track . will have to continue working on education while we are preparing to negotiate and after negotiations have commenced .

There final

are hundreds of thousands of black pupils moving towards the for the rest their years of their schooling who will , of

lives ,

We

must

only have the

continue

education we

can give

doing whatever we can

mortality rates down .

them .

do

to

bring

infantile

If we stopped doing what we humanly can do ,

the babies who die will be

just as dead after liberation .

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if life and death issues which we must focus on because business There is unfinished nobody will do it . we do not do it , Councils . Regional our Services to opposition There is in There

are

unfinished business in our drive to make provincial government more Honourable This House , Mr. Speaker , for more people . effective luxury down putting of the in indulge cannot just Members , while and Legislative Assembly tools while we prepare to negotiate we negotiate .

I have stressed again and again that Ulundi will not be just wished away . It will be here even in the circumstances which the most radical developments could produce . If you are a doctor or an agricultural extension officer , or a nurse , or a teacher or a clerk working for the KwaZulu Government , the patients will need you , the farmers will need you , the sick will need you , the pupil will need whatever happens needed clerks you and the will still be in national

politics .

Bosses may change , formulae may change , administrative control may will Service but the structures here in the KwaZulu Civil change whoever them need to on because the people will continue remain governs .

What

we

do

in

our response

to poverty and what

we

do

in

our

response to improve social , economic and political conditions for black course regions must of everblack neighbourhoods and increasingly be easier but that

fashioned to make the continuity continuity will be there .

I

am talking

about

There is unfinished business in the KwaZulu / Natal Indaba because no moved matter how events have there is still the need for negotiations downwards . will not

from

the

ground

upwards

as well as

from

the

top

There will not be the winner - takes - all politics . There move from be a Constituent Assembly which can a war

situation to a new government in place and working within the timespans that happened in Namibia .

South

Africa

is

just not Namibia

and it most

certainly

is

not

Zimbabwe or Mocambique . Things will yet move with awesome rapidity overnight . Africa but we will not have a new government South in upwards bottom the not abandon negotiating We from dare just because we are busy putting negotiations at

the top on track .

I want now to turn to look at the kind of politics which is already taking shape in South Africa and for which we must better prepare ourselves .

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Firstly , took He

the

State

President's

over leadership at

a

leadership of the National I and a great many

Party . others

time when

were becoming very concerned that the National P.W. able to make the transition that Mr. be

Party just would not the Botha promised

In the actual event of change in the National world he could make . political astounding Party saw what can only be described as we and they did astound South Africa events . They were astounding ; was world and in the space of a couple of months South Africa the hurled

into an entirely new historically important

direction .

There are many factors which lie behind the astounding change and I believe , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , that we really must pause here and look at these factors . There was something at work that took us all by surprise in the sense that the extent of the National Party's year ago .

we do not If happened what

adjustment would

understand what

never have been predicted

happened

to the National

in the National

Party and

cannot

if we

today a

Party make

and this

between what happened in and what distinction important happened to , will find that we ourselves will be picked up we and dumped somewhere in an astounding way .

Inside the National Party there had been dynamics at work for some now . believe that change inside the Party years I was change such . concomitant upon a metamorphosis of Afrikaner society as The days when Afrikaners had to band together in self - protection to share of the white - led economy and to claim their acquire the powers of government and infiltrate their people where their people had never been before in decision - making roles , have passed .

Afrikanerdom decades and

has they

established

been

are not

in government

English - speaking

poor

economy . for its

Having achieved the objectives of the Party became less and people , the

securing

what Afrikaners

needed

for

over

cousins

1948 less

in

four the

National Party important in

from then onwards .

but I understanding of Afrikanerdom is obviously not complete , more are lot a 1990's of the Afrikaners that understand - to and consumerism use a term to indicate modern Americanised The modern Afrikaner in modern life - styles in a consumer society . on on attending nagmaal , the city does not depend on his deacon ,

My do

showing

all

the

signs

of

conformity and being rewarded

for

good

church , good Party and good volk behaviour and in general he is not He depends on dependent on the National Party even or his church . Afrikaners as Afrikaners have himself , or she depends on herself . they that so integrated in institutionalised South Africa become as much dependent on Whites on their own Afrikaner volk .

are

of

all

language

groups

as they are

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This gave rise to cross - cutting ties in white society . And then of course the all important change which we must bear in mind is the and growth of white dependence on Blacks . In the late 40's the 1950's cities the Afrikaners really did dream of making white whiter ; they really did dream of having a so - called White South Africa

in which Blacks would simply be there as

who could The

only remain on

1990's

has

at the pleasure

seen this dream shredded

passing

migrants

of Whites .

and

tramped upon .

So much

so that Party , church and even State began to emerge as a threat to being apartheid They saw interests of Afrikaners . the vested now were of the things upon which they as Afrikaners destructive dependent .

and metamorphosis This demanded adaptation by the National Party it particularly demanded a radical change leadership in style . This is what we saw in the passing of the P.W. Botha era and the

emergence of an era

of National

Party enlightenment .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , when one tries to say so much in there is always a danger of sounding glib . such a little time , It are is I think necessary for us to look at what Afrikaners and distinguish reality from political myth which has been built the minds of the black masses .

up in

When

War the allies were at war with Germany in the Second World - almost inhuman fit only to every German was perceived as a Nazi be conquered and subjugated . It was a war of bullets , justified by a war of hatred . After the War the Iron Curtain slammed down and in the Cold War every Russian was perceived as evil and tainted

with the worst

that

the public were

conditioned

to

see

in the KGB .

Here in South Africa apartheid was hideous . We know that because under Blacks were battered by it , suffered from it and died it . Like people everywhere , Blacks resorted to mental perceptions and Every world views in which that which hurt them was seen as evil . · Afrikaner was a ' boer ' something not nice , evil in intent .

The longstanding cry was that apartheid could not be reformed , it could only be destroyed and the whole armed struggle and

that the

whole of the campaign to isolate South Africa socially, politically economically , and rested on Whites being beyond the pale , beyond redemption

and

being incapable of

Klerk is

fact

now responding .

in

responding to

the

way

Mr.

de

Speaker , Mr. I ask Honourable Members just to cast their minds back . Think of the 1960's - and perhaps even more particularly the 1970's . Who among us here would have predicted that Dr. Nelson Mandela

would

sincerity and

come

out of

jail saying

that he

integrity of a South African State

believed President ?

in

the

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I say today very simply that I accept Afrikaners as White Africans . They are my brothers and sisters , they are my compatriots and the transition that Mr. de Klerk is now leading in is a transition that is rapidly leading to the point beyond which race and colour will cease to be determinants of who is allied to whom .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , because apartheid has endured so the long and because violence has reared its ugly head in Black liberation for there danger that new struggle , is the a whole to generation of Blacks will emerge to harbour racist antipathies White

South Africa .

I want to put the record straight . Government , have never attempted to have

never been racist

We are just racism .

The

struggle

fight in our motivation .

anti - apartheid .

struggle has

for

I,

in South

racist

and

the

KwaZulu

racism with racism . We We are not anti - White .

We have ingrained

liberation

never been a

Inkatha

in us

Africa

struggle

a

loathing

beyond

either .

for

Inkatha's

When

Chief

Albert Luthuli brought the ANC to its zenith of power in the 1950's would He did so holding out a hand of friendship to Whites . he Whites with down sat joyfully and willing , gladly have ly to then a establish thinking about compromise solutions of how to share democracy .

Julius Nyerere , one Dr. on more than great occasion That other referred to Whites as White Africans . whose have people and who has suffered so much Africa of son

That

great

son of Africa ,

suffered so much in support of the Black struggle for liberation in - President Kenneth Kaunda - has always the urged country this ns ise ica te ica th tes t ogn ld . Afr Whi are Afr Sou in Whi tha to rec wor

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , I will deal with anybody , even the devil himself in order to eradicate apartheid - tear it out of the fabric of South Africa - leaf , twig , branch , stem , roots and all . What I look forward to in dealing with Whites now that Mr. de Klerk is to him , has taken his bold steps across the Rubicons of others , Afrikaners and Whites generally , working with me of the fabric of South African society . There

must now be an alliance between Afrikaners

tear apartheid

and

Inkatha

out

and

there can now be an alliance between Afrikaners and Inkatha because the alliance can now be this side of the apartheid fence , our side apartheid fence . the alliance now emerge Let as an of the alliance Inkatha liberation . which strengthens the struggle for the have an alliance with any white group in fact , that can now walls of apartheid are fast crumbling . It is these walls stood as obstacles to these kind of non - racial alliances .

that

have

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the that do not read history well and cannot perceive who a in culminate liberation must necessarily for struggle

Those Black

Black /White joint effort to establish a true democracy just have no a into struggle will fail if it turns The victory . of vision faith I have a deep unshakeable against Whites per se . struggle When I say this I am talking that the struggle will be victorious . the with 1912 the struggle which started in non -violent about when African leaders buried the hatchet and of the ANC , formation vowed to look for peaceful

solutions .

We in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly and in Inkatha long ago saw Whites ; that it was in fact possible to deal with that it was possible to get around a table with Whites and negotiate and end up Whites , with something worth having . Today when Blacks speak to and as

in particular speak to Afrikaners , if it is the first of its kind .

villification

If

the

for

it

is reported it We did

in headlines and endured

it .

Buthelezi

Commission had

fallen

flat

on its

face

because

this was not possible and if the KwaZulu Natal Indaba had collapsed because it was just not possible for Blacks and Whites to talk and negotiate successfully with each other , my politics would today be very different .

You will remember that at the time the KwaZulu / Natal Indaba was at formulating becoming work was very constitutional proposals I disillusioned with the ability of Whites to see political reason . one can A had seen how White opinion -makers - or perhaps what roughly call upper echelon Whites - could sit with us and could respond to us in the Buthelezi Commission and the KwaZulu / Natal When , Indaba . however , I saw the ordinary White here in Natal of all places vote as solidly as they did for Mr. P.W. Botha's horrid constitution , new I became terribly disillusioned . I was not Afrikaners in particular , disillusioned with but with Whites in general ,

regardless

Members

will

of

language ,

remember that

where this

I threw out

is in their interest .

a challenge to

Whites

to

state what they thought of my leadership , what they thought of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly and to say simply whether or not we are wasting our time

Then

in being

reconciliatory towards

there was that vitally important

exercise

them .

in which I wrote to

5 000 White South Africans in every language group in every part of Thousands and thousands of letters started pouring Africa . South that written by Whites assuring me and this House into my office there was a great

appreciation

for the

stands we have taken .

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Those

letters

came

as

much from Afrikaners

English - speaking South Africans . between race bridge gulfs created wasted . I have torn myself do , and in fact would like that I could go to Whites where they Whites are .

pleaded

and now I think we

I have

cajoled ,

can say that

I

have

I have been

that there an Inkatha , and y reason talking Assembl

has been

there That Legislative

they

came

from to done was not

away from a great many things I need to So to do amongst Black South Africans to them as in their places and speak white My door has always been open to

I have spoken ,

visitors .

as

The work that we had groups by apartheid

reasoned ,

I

have

successful .

KwaZulu a been has being pragmatically

concerned about all South Africans is very , very important . there and had we not spoken and acted as we have been not

Had we spoken

there would not have been the back - drop of black reason and acted , on stage rationality and enlightened pragmatism to form the and which Mr.

Mr.

Klerk has

de

Speaker ,

come

out with his

Honourable Members ,

astounding

I am not going

politics .

to

approach

the

negotiating table with a Black /White divide in my mind . I am going issues above Africa first and I am going to put to put South mandate prejudice . I am going to the negotiating table with a which I get from this House and therefore from the people whom this And House represents in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly . I am and going to the negotiating table with a mandate from Inkatha black grass root society which Inkatha represents . I am going to South the negotiating table with mandates from institutionalised when I read these mandates together , come the Africa and I to following and conclusions about what I am actually mandated to do to strive

for

in negotiations .

In blend broad terms I believe that responsible leadership has to what responsible leadership sees as being essential for , and what the it sees as good for South Africa , with what it understands majority of people want .

I

use the word blend

and know that

it

is

rather a vague

term

and

could be seen to people make to

include action which amounts to conditioning minds what ideology says want they should want . I more the personally am not concerned about the ambiguity because one deviates into this kind of undesirable interpretation of the blending process , the by short more likely one will be brought backlashes - the unexpected and unwelcomed reaction of opposition .

There

are

subtleties

in politics

and

I must

tease

this

one

out .

people Hard - line Marxists think they know what people want because uncontaminated , and if free them by nature are people who , for could the kind of socialist society even the Russians want would perhaps

only have dreamt

of .

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want Hard - line Marxists see the process of blending what people with what is good for the State - and indeed what is good for the - as instigate to people a revolts process in which they have against

The

anything

fact

that

else .

this

kind

of Marxism is now abandoned

in the USSR and

East Europe as Stalinism or something else , is not going to deter hard - line Marxists from doing their hard - line Marxist revolutionary thing in South Africa . For them the victory over apartheid is only a first phase victory which sets the scene for the real struggle which must now follow - the struggle for a socialist South Africa .

We will be living with hard - line Marxists for some time to come but perhaps more importantly we will be living with elements in the ANC to come not which will want to appease hard - line Marxists and confrontational

terms with them .

of appeasement is I believe now taking the form demanding economic , continued international sanctions and a continued wider taking political and diplomatic isolation of the country . It is the form of calling for the continuation of the armed struggle and This

it

is

taking the

form of insisting on nationalisation

spheres of South Africa's

economic

in

important

life .

South Africa is , I believe , vulnerable and this appeasement action It is dangerous because appeasement is being made in is dangerous . in situation a which breeds appeasement demands for more and appeasement more appeasement will produce backlashes and will backlashes produce internal conflict and internal conflict will produce a halt in the healing process and a halt in the process

of reconciling race

groups

in this

country .

Mr.

Members , I am talking about blending what Honourab Speaker , le leadersh what and good for South Africa is knows leaders ip hip an I have been saying that there is people as wanting . perceiv es democratic open , way of doing this blending and there is a hardway of doing it , line Marxist and I am saying that there is a

mixture of open ,

democratic

blending and

in the policy of appeasement which we

hard - line Marxist

are now seeing

blending

in the ANC .

to Christ believe in God and I believe in man because God sent I will good that I believe South Africans . in believe I man . a in triumph . believe that responsible leadership is working I I believe that good is greater world in which good will triumph . is Inkatha that I believe of any individual . merit the than now Africa South gather that good together which to attempting But I also believe that if Inkatha fell by the wayside the needs . another pick up there and the good would be still would good political Party and another political somebody to work for the good I really can put the good of the State before the of the country . good of the

Party because

I believe

in good .

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Mr.

I wonder ,

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

just

how many of the

ANC's top leadership and how many ANC members actually believe that South between ANC is not really an organisation which stands the I can conceive of good government under Africa and total disaster . the ANC cannot see own . their Most This . Inkatha under government good a see certainly the ANC cannot which is unfortunate but which cannot be is the chasm between us , wished away . I still hope that it can be bridged .

different Parties but I am quite sure many under any other Party government good a

These have

all been digressions

negotiate .

I

see my mandate

in talking

as

a mandate

that but

about to

my own mandate

exercise my

around the negotiating table in blending what I believe South Africa and what I believe my constituencies want .

to

judgement

is good for

I go to believe

the negotiating table with one very real advantage . People in me . They know I have been constant . I am a tried and tested leader . People have seen that for decade in and decade out that I have been principled in my politics and I have added

principle to pragmatic

I

will

therefore be

the blending

that has

has to be offered

realism .

trusted to go to the negotiating to be done and to offer the

to achieve

the peace

table to

compromises

do that

to do the blending .

I say to those who are sending me to the negotiating table that I in will do this blending and I will do it openly and I will do it return to will I public gaze and the of light full the my for confirmation that my blending is what they want constituencies and represents

the

kind

of give

and

take

that they want .

I say to all my constituencies that I sum up their respective baseWestern - type line needs as a need to normalise South Africa as a modern democracy resting on the maximum use of responsible free enterprise .

I go to the negotiating table willing to be flexible in all things other than being totally uncompromising about the very principles of democracy on which we will have to build everything else . I do democracy . not have some strange weird idea of the principles of The the principles I espouse are not even ideological they are principles which are

In speaking about

there wherever democracy

them I

list

the

is

at work .

following observations :

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1.

South Africa must be one

I

am

not

even

prepared

sovereignty of the 2.

sovereign

There can only be

to

State

talk

about

the

indivisible

South African State . one

sovereign

Parliament

we problems ' However deal with South Africa's ' minority must not detract from the sovereignty of Parliament . We

we may

devolve power downwards , structure a provincial

we may apportion responsibilities on in a unitary State , or on a federal structu re but , structure or even perhaps a Swiss Canton - type we will not succeed if we try to erode the sovereignty of Parliament .

3.

There must be universal

adult

franchise

Nothing else will work and under no circumstances will I be We must find ways prepared even to talk about anything else . in and means of securing civic rights of individuals either the form of an entrenched Bill of Rights or in the form of a Bill

of

Rights

protecting

associated

minorities

one South African of

with

without

one

or

another

way

in any way making the vote

lesser or greater importance

and

of of

utility

than the vote of any other South African . I anticipate that there will be some hard negotiating in these matters . South African Government is already declaring The adult franchise that it rejects the notion that universal necessarily elections .

implies a

common voters '

roll

for

parliamentary

We will have to talk very seriously to the Government on this issue and seek ways of avoiding this issue leading to real deadlocks

4.

There must

in negotiation .

be the rule

of

law

I have differences of opinion with some of my learned legal who friends in South insist that there is the rule of law laws the They Africa . say that the rule of law is good but which rule are bad .

As

far as I am concerned there was no rule of law Mr. when J.G. Strijdom packed the Appelate Division with judges who helped him rob the Coloureds of their franchise rights . There may be rule of law where law does rule , but there is no rule of law in the true sense of the word when Ministers take on Draconian powers wish so to do .

and do as they wish to do with whom when they

The courts of the new South Africa must be above politics and they must be beyond the manipulation of Parliament . The rule of law really must

be entrenched .

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5.

The Universal Declaration

of Human Rights

Africa , the one South the sovereignty of stressed Having for need the , nt Africa gnty South in soverei of one Parliame I , law of rule the for e need the and universal adult franchis than cy more works is to add that democracy where democra have a Democracy is also constitution and law and voting rights . and spirit the and solving h problemto and an approac spirit the by useful for democracy is captured the most approach Universal

6.

Democracy ,

Declaration of Human Rights .

Politics

and Economics

discussions not intend getting bogged down in do polemic ies one - Party h crac are whic e her demo true are ther whet about ies crac which in e demo true her are es ther not or Stat or whet I

that All I know is there is either capitalism or communism . the sanctity the spirit of contract , where democracy works , and individual of and the steadfastness word of man's a corporate

undertakings ,

I know that democracy , up and politics that political democracy .

tool

is

are present .

politics and economics are always bound attempts to use economics as a Party

always

politics

that

ends

up a

liability to

banking , mining of and of nationalisation the in South Africa rings out warnings of times tough democracy . for There must be the redistribution of ion but talking about nationalisat is actually talking

Any talk industry ahead wealth about South

slaying the

goose

that

lays

Africa will end up with a

the

golden egg .

responsible

free

enterprise

system because it is only with the acceptance of the need for such a system that we can achieve the required political consensus to make democracy work . Democracy to me is not democracy

if it does not work .

The going less one adopts non - negotiable stances the better it is to be for South Africa and the politics of negotiation . I have said what I want to say about that which I will just not negotiate I about and I have just indicated that when it comes to economics strive to make pragmatism prevail . fight will I will personally for the acceptance of free enterprise as providing South Africa with the greatest possible hope of generating the kind of that any and every government would need after apartheid . cost a force .

lot

of money to avoid ending up having to

wealth It will

rule under brute

They want The poorest of the poor do not want dreams and promises . They do not pap and meat and beans at least and a lot more too .

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want care

idealism . They want a roof over their heads for the sick . They want education for their

they do not get these against whoever rules . revolution has

We are going to country .

and they want children . If revolt things , people in South Africa will Wherever mass poverty has spread in Africa ,

followed .

face very difficult

economic

There is going to be an urgent

an urgent humanitarian need , as effectively as we can .

circumstances

political

need ,

to redistribute wealth As tough as it sounds ,

in

as

this

well

as

in South Africa I know that if

you take all the wealth from the haves and spread it over the havenots there will still not be enough and the next day they will have Government less because the wealth will have been consumed and the of the day will not have a magic wand to create more .

The

redistribution

of wealth is

something

that

big

business

and

government after apartheid will have to discuss in the search for a without do which each can best do what each can best in formula have will We . Afri Sout of ca h the prod ve capacity producti the destroying uctive the talk not do I econ . mixe kind of anot omy one d have or to her language of nationalisation because I think that is fatal talk . If disputing we talk nationalisation too hard the wealth which we are white will finally be consumed in a racist conflagration as about Simp . ly poli eart cy h earth policy meets black scorched scorched abou talk t than you kill rath woul Africans South er White d put , priv whic in Stat ate h soci -type e Marx a alist under living ist language of the exist . talk we If not ownership does nationalisation , not one foreign company is new investment into South Africa .

likely to bring

in any

Honourable Members , about Mr. unduly worried , Speaker , issues politics negotiation economic in the of . There is such a for a responsible free enterprise system that groundswell demand I

am not

can produce

the

jobs

and create the wealth that we need ,

that that

is what we will end up with.

divide There are going to be formal alliances which will emerge to camps into and inevitable is This . forces negotiating the I that we will go through what could possibly be unnecessary suspect time - consuming exercises in presenting issues and adopting delaying tactics aimed at strengthening the alliance groups around the table be to There are bound attempting to solve problems . than more feel they until start to those who do not want the problem- solving secure in what they see as a commanding position .

More importantly , however , I see alliance politics at a different which really does contribute to problem- solving . level Here I am about talking informal alliances which are cross - cutting in the sense that everybody around the negotiating table will in the end have to agree on some things while they disagree on other things . am People I allied to will be supporting action and stances of

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other groups support

around the negotiating the

from

allies

table

and

I

will

sharing

be

of those groups which support what

am

I

doing .

and

We are going to be involved in coming to consensus decisions not coming head - counting politics to decisions in the negotiation . Problems tackled at the negotiating table are

of

going done .

to be solved until there is consensus about what ought to be Formal alliances as I used the term above - alliances which cluster people together in groups to act as blocks - will become less

and less

the

At

important

negotiating

as negotiations

table

I will

proceed .

side with anybody who

for

fights

the principles of democracy I have mentioned and seeks to establish society a run in the idiom of the International Declaration of Human who

Rights . will fight

principles

I

of

I will with

side with anybody at the negotiating table on for an economic system based the

me

responsible

am making the point ,

free

Mr.

enterprise .

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

that

I

am

going to the negotiating table to put South Africa first . I am not When we there have a going to seek a Party political victory . democracy many and all are really free and equal , we can have as Party political fights as we wish to have . fight for a South Africa in which we can

But now is the time to have Party political

fights about who is best equipped to govern South Africa the way it can be governed under a democratic constitution .

I return political

now to the point I made earlier that it will in fact be Parties which go to the negotiating table . going It is

to be political

Parties which fight an election and there will be a political Party or a coalition of political Parties which will actually be forming governments after apartheid . It is therefore right it that must be political Parties which sit around the negotiating

table .

the I believe in thinking about the actual negotiation process and and we need at negotiating structures that must be put into place , the In detail . this to pay attention to matters in some stage We are Inkatha is not a political Party . legal definition of it , Democratic not registered as a political Party in the way that the Parties . Party or the National Party are registered as political The ANC

is

also not

a

legally registered political

Party .

that On the one hand I say This position is obviously anomalous . table . only political Parties must be admitted to the negotiating On the other hand I say that as we are legally defined , the Inkatha and the ANC are not political Parties . If you remove the problem by

stipulating that

and political

Parties

political

organisations ,

should be admitted to

the

political

movements

negotiating

table ,

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there

will

difficulties

be

in deciding which of

all

sorts

of

cliques or associations of one or another kind claiming to groups , Party , a political movement or a political a political group , be should be admitted .

These may sound like tedious nitty , gritty issues but Trojan horses need not only be larger than life . Big problems can be carried the Some have into negotiation process by small Trojan horses . said

that there

negotiating

with

should be elections to determine who will end up however , with this whom . I, see problems

approach .

who's me you have elections about policies and you choose the candidates policies your politics on the basis of what of You also face the fact that an election to choose leaders support . We will have to to negotiate is putting the cart before the horse . should about how such an election should be run and who negotiate able to put up candidates for such an election so we would be be For

who

back to

square

in any event .

one

discussing Honourable Members , I will obviously be Speaker , and Parties with Government and with other political issue this th inking here and it is right that I now state my organisations

Mr.

so that the people publicly going to act .

can see how I

am thinking and how I am

I believe that the Government should bring a Commission into being Parties , composed of all parliamentary political together with Inkatha , the ANC/UDF , PAC , AZAPO and the SACP and at the first sitting of this Commission representations from other interested political

Parties

or organisations

should be

considered .

In this approach all the notable players in the field can each have their say in what should or should not be done and have it in such a way that it is out in the open . My concern is deepening about complications multiplying

One

of my concerns

to the ANC about

its

is

and growing while we talk about

that

in the

preconditions

talks .

South African Government in the politics

of

talking

negotiation ,

it is going to be talking to the ANC about issues I will be talking to The release of political prisoners the Government about . is something I have long campaigned for and I am going to continue campaigning

for it .

The release of political prisoners

is not

of

interest only to the ANC . The lifting of the state of emergency is between the a matter that should be left to discussions only not and Government the ANC . The presence of the army in black townships is something which very definitely is as much my business as it is ANC business .

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If

talking

about talks involves talking in a number of different

there

be

will

different organisations , talks about which in

which agenda items of number a talks with

about

then we are being plunged into a situation and negotiations becoming start talks

negotiations are fragmented with the right hand is doing .

left hand not

knowing what the

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , there are numerous examples around the world of negotiations breaking down when one or another of the leaving home goes negotiating Parties just packs its bags and All the ANC is negotiations hung . indications to me are that preparing to do this as one of their options when the going gets this tough . The going will get tough and if they are thinking in direction ,

It

then they will walk out .

probably not worth starting

is

assurances that are they doing without

There

threats

are

negotiations

unless

those who are negotiating are serious and will face whatever difficulties

are there what about there are

of walk - outs .

very fundamental

some

document

have

issues which already

is the

official

summary of the

been ANC's

The Harare tabled . This is a totally no - go document as far as position at the moment . hand It expects the South African Government to am concerned . I the Whether . demands document the what is that because over power hands it whether or itself ANC the to power hands over Government handing over it is still to a Constituent Assembly , over power If the power ; it is still divesting itself of the power to govern . and dared do that , problematic there would be a very Government

even unmanageable white

backlash .

Warmongerers and hawks can smile with glee at the prospects of such because not a white backlash they do want the politics of negotiation to succeed if success depends on negotiating a multiParty democracy

If

the ANC

politics the up South of

into being .

is not

going

to adopt

confrontationist

positions

Africa

and

South Africa .

continue lining action against isolation they do not need the punitive economic confrontationist If they are not going to be ,

they do not need to continue with Umkhonto and the armed So I do add my plea to that of President Kaunda and the Bishop's Synod , that this is the time when consideration given to abandoning

Mr. and

in the

of negotiation , then they do not need to countries of the world for international

Speaker , actually

negotiations .

the

' armed

struggle ' .

Honourable Members , I roll our sleeves up The stage

struggle . Anglican should be

say we must now cut the cackle and get on with the job of

is set for it ;

history demands

it .

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I earlier referred to Dr. Mandela and said that I would to have talk to him about the kind of issues I have been raising in this be Policy Speech . I cannot stress how urgently this now needs to done .

Anybody reading what I have been saying could perhaps provocatively between construe it as being said to precipitate a confrontation absolutely not That is so . In interviews Dr. Mandela and myself . the United States , reported in Dr. Mandela refers to me as his absolutely is friend of many years , and that true . He has certainly still has

had

my friendship ever

it .

positions

We will

at this

remain

juncture

Even then it is only on a agree to disagree .

since

friends

I was

a young man

and

he

even if we do hold different

of South African political development .

few issues

on which

I believe

that

we

can

I make the point that when Dr. Mandela talked about the need for the armed struggle to continue ; when he talked about the need for when he likened Israel to South Africa ; nationalisation ; when he called for continued sanctions against South Africa and he was not attacking me per se . international pressure ,

continued When I

question these things , I am not attacking him per se . My respect for Dr. Mandela is still very profound . All I say is : " My friend , you are very wrong on these issues . You are wrong for yourself , you Africa . " are for wrong for the ANC and you are wrong South That is all but and for the

this does not diminish my love and

sacrifices that you made

for all

respect

for you ,

of us .

issues , differ on Dr. some and differ While Mandela and I fundamentally on some issues , there is a great need for dialogue there because are some things that both he and I must be joined for example , preserving . He has , in spoken of joint together in spoken He has rallies instead of separate and partisan rallies . sincerely of the need

for black unity .

There is a broad South Africanism which will now emerge as friendly democracy and Dr. Mandela and I need to make quite sure to that either of us does separately , what or what perchance we can do together ,

Dr.

nurtures

Mandela

white

fear .

this democracy- kind new South Africanism .

has publicly stated the importance of dealing with Again what we do separately and what perchance we may

be able to do together must be done with the need to deal with fear per se . It is not only white fear . counter - acting There is a black fear leading to left -wing radicalism . White fear leads to right -wing radicalism , and here I am talking about left wing and right -wing radicalism as destructive radicalism . I am not talking about radicalism in centre - stage politics which must bring about radical

change with a radically different new constitution .

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When a surgeon sees cancerous cells he does not cry foul and become morally indignant . He sets about curbing the damage and excising the source of the problem . When Dr. Mandela and I see white fear or black fear we do not cry foul and admonish the afraid . We must deal with it , we must curb it and we must excise it out of South Africa's body politic .

Now I again come back , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , to the need for unity . a multi - strategy approach for the achievement of Black Dr. Mandela is now a free man and his own person and he can pursue am I his own tactics and strategies and set his own priorities . If , the areas just as free and I can do just the same . however , where we differ preclude dialogue and discussion in the vast areas then our in which there are no fundamental differences between us , several and joint under - achievements must only be laid at our Own feet .

Differences

between

Black and Black are primarily differences

of

about how to achieve and how to secure the values we hold in common and they are differences about what circumstances would best suit the preservation of the things we value in common . There are politically

sound

the acceptance

be

of a multi - strategy approach .

which if we do not will run out

reasons why there must

Black unity based

either tackle together or help preserve

of hand to be

on

There are some things together

a danger to both of us .

White fear is one such thing but there are other things as well . Violence in politics whether it is in KwaZulu / Natal or whether it is in Gazankulu , Katlehong , in Mandela's cause should both be

We in

or Ciskei or in Port Elizabeth black townships , or is another thing which will do damage to both Dr. and to my cause and is another thing in which we

involved

in curbing .

should both curb the wrong things and nurture the right things whatever we do . We need dialogue on what there is we hold in

common and what

can be done about

these

things we

hold in common .

thing all black political groups should now be looking at struggle for whole question of national morals after the South Africans are human beings amongst other liberation . Black human globe . beings psychiatrist , Every on the surface of the the every sociologist , worker , in and indeed all social every sciences ion that of oppress the kind you that tell , will social

Another is the

apartheid

has

been is

bad

for the development of the human psyche .

Every theologian and every religious thinker will tell you that the political endure circumstances that people to have and social either nurtures or damages

their spiritual development .

33

Apartheid has done damage to Black South Africans and the younger Black the South African is who is damaged the more irreparable damage becomes . I am concerned about how best to bring that great yearning and striving for freedom amongst our youth into the most productive possible will develop use . We very a undesirable society if the idiom of what has been happening in our strife - torn areas is carried into a new political era . I do not know what kind of husbands and friends and what kind of citizens hideous violence confrontations are going to produce in Black- on - Black among our youth .

There is a

is something which runs very deep real appreciation that political

in my political soul and it based on power , anything received other than the power of acting out real mandates honestly consultations with the people , can in real democratic only be

passing power .

To know what people want is for me so very , very important . What very so is to difficult , very on the other hand , want , people ts statemen times have we not heard sincere many How establish . have made by National Party spokesmen who down through the decades P.W. ned support Black he maintai ? Mr. Botha said that they have had

majority Black

How

many

times

support even until the day he

have there not been

office .

left

landslide victories

in

even

democracies where there is a maximum efficiency in Western mediainformation conveyed which have totally astounded political observers ?

Opinion is one thing and can perhaps be measured by opinion polls . Opinion , however , can turn out to be fad and part of fancy which is fickle and which is here today and gone tomorrow . very It is the that determination of the deep aspirations of mankind is more difficult .

One

must

I

think look at

the

faces

of the people

in

the

street ,

listen to talk at bus stops , read what newspaper editors think that want take opinion polls into do people to hear , account and everything possible it is which

to gauge

public

opinion .

In the end ,

only the tried and tested democratic elections finally indicate who is wrong and who is right

I am sobered ,

however ,

of governments among leaders .

Mr.

Speaker , Honourable Members , by realisations of how wrong political leaders can be . To take a British example and look at what the Labour Party is saying and doing and look at what the Conservative Party is saying and doing , you will find that both are saying and doing what they believe in gathering support and what

they believe the people of Britain want .

34

closer

Come

home

and look at

White

South

Africans .

Dr.

A.P.

Treurnicht

is tragically sincere in his belief that he is going actually gather white support and eventually form a government . is sincere in his belief that Whites are going to reject Mr. Klerk and the National Party . No matter how folorn we know he going

to be ,

he will act

of the politics

I

out his of negotiation .

am sobered when

I

think of

these

He

de is

pattern of attempted destruction

things

and when

I

look at

Black

South Africa . Absolutism is dangerous in politics and it is fatal in South African politics . I again plead with all Black South African leaders to come together in unity of purpose , and to accept the need for a multi - strategy approach so that at least some can be right some of the time .

Some dictators who think they are right , are wrong all the time . bloc Look at the Communist Parties in the USSR and in the eastern Germany . Countries ; look East of at the Democratic Republic of They thought they had the ultimate political truth all these years for generations now . It is only now that they are admitting their mistakes publicly . Look at Russia , they believed what they wanted to believe for more than 70 years .

If political Parties in South Africa are wrong all the time because are they cannot pool wisdom and they cannot share the things that between held valuable in common and must underplay the commonality them in Party political one - upmanship games , danger ahead .

Mr. the

Speaker , KwaZulu

KwaZulu Africa Indian

then there

can only be

I would like to consult Honourable Members about what Government should do to establish what the people of

aspire to and how on the one hand the rest of Black South White , see these aspirations and on the other hand how Coloured South Africans see The and these aspirations .

South African Government spends money on opinion polls and research people attitudes of into current values held and into the on crucial issues on which Government must make policy decisions . The South African Government has the Human Sciences Research Council and through the HSRC

funds university research in the humanities .

I would like Members to debate whether we in the KwaZulu Government Services are not duty - bound to establish what the best approach to of the politics negotiation ought to be . When I am at the intensely be negotiating table as President of Inkatha , I will Mr. Speaker , aware that I will have to report back to this House , much as I will have to report back to any as This other group . House this House should know what the people of KwaZulu want ; should

find out what the people of KwaZulu want ;

research what

the people

of KwaZulu want .

this House

should

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It is because we in this House represent the people of KwaZulu that I am making this suggestion . Each of us is here because the people However much we know , we of KwaZulu put us here . and on balance a five year have done what the people wanted us to do , term of time office is a long time and it is a particularly long in situations

of

flux

and

change .

have the option of either establishing a Social , We Bureau of Economic and Political we Research or have the option of commissioning research with established and research accredited institutes . university Whether we commission research from a institute or whether we do it through the HSRC , or whether we do it through the Inkatha Institute , will depend upon our judgement of who could do the most efficient and unbiased research of that which investigate .

we want to

I

am tabling

as I times .

issues which require

will ,

Events

immediate debate .

at keep saying with some force , move with awesome rapidity We will be irresponsible if we are left flat - footed and I

believe that we should build on the information and the we that have already paid for as the KwaZulu Government

insights in the

Buthelezi

in

Commission

Commission

and

work .

I believe

We spent money on research

it will be

update our knowledge and insights does not become wasted money .

irresponsible

of us

that

now not to

so that that money we then

spent

We simply must do some in - depth research into constitutional issues and ways and means of evolving power from the centre outwards and and downwards we do need to do research into the various ways in which first , second and third tier government structures be can integrated

Both work

in we

into an overall

constitutional

model .

the Buthelezi Commission and in the KwaZulu / Natal Indaba have seen how important the inputs of the political and

constitutional theorists were and how much research can assist . We really must do something about developing a research capability . Obviously

we must

start

off with maximising

the

advantages we have

from research capabilities which have already been developed Inkatha Institute .

in the

Research must be ongoing but while we are researching , we cannot expect the world to wait for us . We must adopt positions because if we say we are prepared to start negotiating then we must back this with stated negotiating positions . We what up all know obviously Inkatha has said over so many years and how I have been constant on a number of key issues .

The

ANC

has

Declaration

stated

its

opening position

and we from our side need to

our starting position

is going to be .

I,

clearly state in

in

quite fact ,

the

Harare

clearly resent

what

the way

36

in

the Harare Declaration was drawn up and the way it was launched . The politics of negotiation are going to take place in South Africa . Negotiations are going to be by South Africans about which

South African issues . What the ANC actually did in launching its Harare Declaration was jump the gun to to opening their make position an internationally supported position as though there is just

going to be them and the South African

spotlight

international

of the

Government under

the

community .

African The Harare Declaration throughout talks about the South but liberation movement - not movements , not Party or Parties a "movement . " the around

We need a clear statement in which the status of those spelt negotiating table is out . Each and every

political Party at the negotiating table as far as we are concerned be We need our clearly will free , equal and independent . own views stated position document to declare this view and the other we hold about

I

negotiations .

the

present

draft paper for debate

to this House

and

I

have

already presented it to the Central Committee meeting of Inkatha . I can I to hope that it will be finalised so that present it Inkatha's Annual General Conference rejection .

THE

1990

for acceptance ,

modification or

INKATHA DECLARATION

PREAMBLE

an Quite clearly South Africa is in the process of transition from multi - Party democracy old apartheid society moving towards a true , and in this historic ripeness of time , it is imperative that all patriots

put the good of South Africa

political

Parties

that

they do

first and now demand of

all

so too .

The transition from an old order to a new order must be a people's negotiating incorporate process transition and the must all political

Parties .

will be one South Africa with one people moving to but a destiny develop should to strive and negotiation a model and aim at establishing not only political constitutional acceptable orders to the also orders but social and economic There

single

majority of

people

in the

country .

A DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM TO MEET SOUTH THE REQUIREMENTS OF AFRICANS

Whatever

democratic

negotiation it 1.

All land

is

system is

imperative

the people shall be of adoption .

finally adopted ,

in the politics

of

land

or

that : free

in this

their

of

birth

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2.

3.

all and people shall have freedom of worship the All regarded be land shall the of temples and churches sacrosanct .

the

All

the

the

people

shall participate

in the

governing

of

as

country on the basis of total equality before the constitution on freely and the basis of universal adult suffrage through chosen representatives . 4.

The

rights

regardless

5.

There

of individuals of race ,

colour ,

shall be protected under creed

shall be an independent

judiciary and the

supported by practice and law in the of all for right the be shall right

expression and the

7.

9.

law

bounds

reason

of

civilised world and there and opinion of freedom

to propagate

ideas

through any media . the

There shall be the right to freedom of peaceful assembly association and there shall be no enforced membership of association .

and

be freedom of movement

shall

There to

shall be the

fair and

just

right

11 .

There shall be the right in all it does in the

shall be the

There

for all to work and the

conditions

There

welfare

and

of South Africa .

10 .

12 .

of

residence within

There borders

8.

rule

guarantees .

speech within the

freedom of

be

shall

There

lav

or sex .

shall be protected by constitutional

6.

the

right

to

right

any

of all

of employment .

form and

join trade

unions .

to equality of treatment by the State enforcement , fields of law social

and in education . shall

education

be the right of parents

they

when

tuition

to choose

the kind of seek private

wish for their children and to

the education of the State does

meet

not

with

their approval .

13 .

in There shall be the right to exercise rights and freedoms such a way that everyone is subject only to such limitations are determined by law solely for the purpose securing as of freedoms of recognition due and respect for the rights and morality others of and of meeting the just requirements , public order and the

14 .

There

shall

be

general welfare

the right

in a democratic

for all to

own

fixed

society .

and

movable

property .

15 .

shall be the right of protection from arbitrary There arrest and and the right of being arrested only for public hearing all

shall

be

regarded

as

innocent until proved

guilty .

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DEMOCRATIC A SOCIAL SYSTEM TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF SOUTH AFRICANS

16.

There shall be the right of all to be treated with the respect properly befitting the status belonging to a unique creature of God and be treated with a human dignity which shall be respected at

17 .

There status courts

18 .

all

times .

legal and be the right of equal constitutional the shall have the right of appeal to

shall

for all and all of the

land to uphold

social

equality .

There shall be the right of any members of any cultural group to culture preserve his or her culture and to put his or her into practice in ways limited only by desire to do so and by the legal restraints commensurate with the rule of law and the need to take reasonable steps to uphold the social order .

A FREE AND EQUITABLE ECONOMIC 19 .

There

shall be the

right

their entrepreneurial 20 .

There

shall

for all people to be

skills within the bounds

be the right

of

all to own

or as a member of a

individuals

21 .

SYSTEM

There be shall the philosophy of equal for gain , businesses

There

shall

be

property

for work right to work for equal pay , provided only always

consultative

pursue

either

as

group .

public order is not disturbed and the rights infringed .

22 .

free to

of the law .

mechanisms

gain , and that

within the to establish So in doing

of others are not

set

up

in

which

organised agriculture , mining , commerce , banking and industry advise participates to the Government on the best ways to avoid the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the dangers the and one hand of State control that curbs productivity on the other hand . 23.

There

shall

be the right

of all

of protection by

against unfair economic exploitation and of the State to maximise the most distribution of wealth in the country .

the

State

duty it shall be the equitable possible

THE PROTECTION OF MINORITIES 24 .

There which

means protection of minorities in ways and and spirit the the not violate of statement above and which do not violate the principles of

shall do

be

principles democratic government in any way . 25 .

There

shall be no domination of one group by any other group .

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THE 26.

POLITICS OF NEGOTIATION

and above that principles the THEREFORE DECLARE a if Africa South be introduced to best can statements and debate is reached in non - violent settlement negotiated

WE

NOW

action and we declare our willingness to commence negotiations negotiations the South African Government provided that with initially deal only with meeting demands that : 26.1 All political prisoners are released judicial body is established to act as political case .

Parties

26.2 Legislation

can appeal

for the

is enacted giving

from jail and that a an ombudsman to which

review of any

political

Parties

particular

the

right

to

appeal to the courts to end a declared state of emergency when there are reasonable grounds to believe that doing in So normal law enforcement agencies can sufficiently protect life and property and keep good public order or appeal to the courts to prohibit any unnecessary use of troops in situations which would normally be a matter for the South African Police to deal with .

26.3 A mutually agreed procedure for the devised by all negotiating parties .

26.4 After the

successful

conclusion

conduct

of negotiations be

of the negotiations

fair election for a new democratic government shall be held .

a

free and

for South Africa

NEGOTIATION AS A PROCESS

27.

In order to maximise the bridging of chasms that apartheid has be must due recognition South African society , in created should African South compromi Black . s se to the need to given de F.W. Mr. reciprocate the boldness of the State President by returns no of lines stepping past politically in Klerk abandoning

28 .

" all - or - nothing "

should strive to establish agreement on how best Negotiation to achieve the salvation of the best that there is in South Africa while we

29 .

politics .

jettison apartheid

in part and in whole .

Nothing will be the risked if all those negotiating with the Government for the eradication of apartheid and establishment the of the kind of democracy spelt out above , to Government undertakes to enact legislation to give effect decisions taken in the politics of negotiation as and when they are taken .

The

failure of the Government

put opponents of apartheid nationally and commanding political position . Let

there be trust

in the Government's

to do so would

internationally in a

integrity until

it

is

proven that trust must be withdrawn and let the South African Government have to trust that the opponents of apartheid will

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not destroy the politics destroy the Government's

of negotiation by combining image .

forces to

-0--

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , I ask you to debate this document as a and to adopt it in its present form or in an amended form document this House supports . I have already placed it before Inkatha's Central Committee for consideration and possible amendment , and referral back to this House or referral Annual General Conference , whichever the case must be .

I

must

go to the negotiating

table with clear

world must know what those mandates

to

mandates

Inkatha's

and

the

are .

position it behoves us to take what we formulate as our examine the positions of others as they formulate them so that of politics the best to pursue constantly can how seek

Obviously and we

reconciliation .

I therefore simultaneously table the Harare Declaration and I table Five -year the National Party's election manifesto in the form of a Plan of Action as its most recently published position paper . Obviously this paper the latter is now rather dated by what Government document .

itself has done since the National Party formulated this I do not want to interfere in the State President's

responsibility to interpret his current action as action either because within an existing mandate or necessarily going beyond it of new political developments .

The National Party's Five - Year plan of Action reads

as

follows :

FIVE YEAR PLAN OF ACTION OF THE NATIONAL PARTY 1989 - 1994

Five Year Plan of Action is based on the Programme of Party , Principles and the 1987 Election Manifesto of the National well these as as the complete Plan of Action of 1989. All of

This

remain relevant and valid and , Year Plan of Action .

indeed ,

opened

the way for this Five

THE GOAL :

The National Party aims to create a new South Africa in which every prosperity and dignity , both as South African will live in safety , group . member a of individual and a as an

The new South Africa must

be a democracy in which :

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no individual or group dominates or is dominated ; the independence of the judiciary is upheld and honoured ; civilised norms apply ; a dynamic economy thrives , based on free enterprise ; everybody lives in safety and harmony ; and as good neighbours to the international community

In short A SOUTH AFRICA TO BE PROUD OF !

COMMITMENT :

We ,

the National Party ,

to

the

ideal to to

energetic

for the

commit ourselves :

pursuit of each of the key points

of

this

future ;

show real progress within the next five years with regard of each the key objectives contained in this Plan of

Action ; to uphold

the

commitments

contained

in

our

Programme

of

Principles and our Manifesto of 1987 ; constitutional principles the electorate any new to put to before implementation , and to Parliament for approval .

A democracy :

submit

constitutional

participation

changes to

for all

Every South African has the right to participate in decision - making subject to at all levels of government which affect his interests , the principle of non - domination .

The

National

Party will ,

within the

next

five years :

promote those values which unite us ; leaders of groups who are the engage s solution in talks and negotiations ;

committed

to

peaceful

develop institutions in which these leaders can participate in the creation of a new South Africa ; review the position of the Head of State , his functions and powers , and the manner of his election .

THE

NATIONAL PARTY'S

PLAN FOR NEGOTIATED PARTICIPATION FOR EVERYONE

IS THE ONLY PLAN THAT CAN CREATE A JUST SOUTH AFRICA OF WHICH ALL SOUTH AFRICANS CAN BE PROUD

No domination :

The

diversity

in

protection

for individuals

the South African population

and groups

necessitates

protection of individuals and minorities . Domination , form , will bring bloodshed , poverty and misery .

the

in whatever

To ensure a lasting democracy , the participation of all groups and individuals must be permanently protected with checks and balances to prevent domination .

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The National

Party will ,

within the

next

five years :

the peaceful settlement of political disputes , and promote non -domination , as cardinal values ; promote self - determination regarding own affairs , along with of joint decision - making on general affairs , by means the and the devolution of power in a non - discriminatory division

manner ; inject a new dynamism into the process to seek agreement among leaders on :

of negotiation in order

a basis for eliminating and preventing domination , deadlock - breaking an objective and depoliticised

1 take final decisions and meaningful basis

in case of disputes , on which groups may

be

1

mechanism to more just a

defined for political participation , constitutional expression to the protection give rights - both individual rights and group values ;

of

human

give content to the overall judicial and structural protection of groups in constitutional structures ; reinforce the process of negotiation with independent expert research and advice .

ONLY

THE

NATIONAL

PARTY'S

PLAN CAN

OFFER

JUST

AND

EFFECTIVE

AND SO PROVIDE THE BASIS PROTECTION TO MINORITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA , ON ALL BY FOR CO - OPERATI

The

judiciary and

equality before the law

strong , independent judiciary is an essential guarantee for the of individual rights and group values , and ensures a protection stable democracy and justice for all .

A

The National Party will ,

within the next

five years :

continue with law reform in order to ensure justice for all ; inviolability of the offices judges guarantee the of and judicial officers , ensuring the independence of the judiciary ; ensure the conduct of proper and lawful public administration through the office THE

of the Advocate General .

GUARANTEES A SOUND , PARTY STRONG AND INDEPENDENT FREE OF JUSTICE AS THE CORNERSTONE OF A JUST AND

NATIONAL

ADMINISTRATION

SOUTH AFRICA Civilised norms : Each

individual

and each group must have the

community

life

people of " live and

South Africa , let live " .

The

practical

embodied groups ,

in

social welfare

of his

choice .

freedom to

enjoy

Because of the diverse needs

this must be expressed

in the

a

of the

principle of

eventually be must application of this principle to arrangem acceptab mutuall , ents le set of y a all

arrived

at

through negotiation .

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The

National

Party will ,

within the

next

five years :

negotiate with leaders to find a mutually acceptable basis for life , own the maintenance of an own community residential areas and own schools for those who so wish , and and utilisation of public amenities ; levels , at all education effective promote available means ;

the

provision

the

within

promote home ownership and appropriate welfare housing ; make progress in respect of the housing needs of rapidly

urbanising groups , within affordable limits ; make available new and established residential

areas ,

after

thorough consultation with the residents , providing for people who prefer living in free settlement areas ; residential areas according to the Group Areas maintain own firm , Act in a yet sensitive manner until an acceptable alternative method can be put into practice ; make progress in the provision of public amenities in order to provide , as far as possible , for the needs of various the communities ; amenities , open up place

without

where necessary and where this can take serious conflict - amenities which have

causing

been successfully opened may not be closed again ; ensure hazards the prevention of health and poor social conditions caused by over - population and illegal squatting

through

the proper implementation of local by- laws

and

other

CAN

BRING

applicable measures . PARTY'S NATIONAL THE SATISFACTION BECAUSE

PLAN

IS

ONLY

THE

ONE

IT GIVES ALL SECTIONS

WHICH

OF THE

COMMUNITY

THE

OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THEIR CHOICE AND OFFERS AN ORDERLY EXISTENCE TO ALL

A dynamic economy

A healthy and dynamic economy

is

essential

for stability ,

peace and

prosperity . Adversities

such as the worst drought

in living memory ,

a prolonged

slump in the gold price and the most vicious international campaign economy African to break the South than two decades , more over have strained the sanctions and disinvestment , boycotts , through and business every country and the position of the of economy household .

A concerted effort by the government and the people of South Africa is economy necessary to restore the health and prosperity of our and the well - being of all our people .

The National Party will ,

within the next

five years :

to rates reducing marginal lower tax , income personal far of at the income level of R100,000 ( as 40 % maximum in terms possible R80, 000 ; at

of

1989 values )

instead of the present

a as 45 %

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together with the phasing company tax from 50 % to 40 % , out of tax abatements as recommended by the Margo Commission ; an attain to deficit before borrowing State's the reduce reduce

acceptable level of around 3 % of the Gross Domestic Product in order to relieve pressure on interest rates ; reduce inflation ; and privatisation of continuous a programme follow deregulations ; implement an industrial

strategy focussed

and import replacement ; beneficiation promote the further

of

on export South

promotion

Africa's

raw

materials ; continue to reconstruct the agricultural sector ; large tourism potential of our country .

promote the

PLAN , AND ECONOMIC NATIONAL PARTY'S REALISTIC RESOLUTELY CONSISTENTLY IMPLEMENTED , WILL PLACE SOUTH AFRICA ON THE ROAD OF

THE

SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY

Security their state or government's first duty is to protect people and Efficient security property against enemies and criminal elements . community . services are indispensable for an orderly and peaceful This provides a stable climate for political , economic and social

A

development . The National

equip

Party will ,

the

resources maintain

within the next

South African

five years :

Police adequately with

and

manpower

to enable them to fight crime more effectively ; the readiness of the South African Defence Force

in

terms of both manpower and equipment to enable it to withstand the internal , regional and international threats against South Africa ; members , limit the involvement of Citizen Force and Commando taking as far as annual camps are concerned , especially account the security situation ; enable the South African Prison Services to perform its of custody and

rehabilitation even more

into role

efficiently .

THE NATIONAL PARTY WILL ENSURE THAT A STRONG DEFENCE FORCE AND POLICE FORCE WILL REMAIN THE BASIS FOR A STRONG AND JUST SOUTH AFRICA

The international

community

the The Republic of South Africa must regain its rightful place in community , international while maintaining the honour and dignity of our country .

The National Party will ,

within the next

five years :

* promote the successful conclusion of the independence for South West Africa / Namibia ; stability peace in all the countries and promote

process of

the

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southern

African

region ,

and

particularly

Angola

and

Mozambique ; promote economic

co-operation amongst all the

southern Africa ; counter boycotts

and sanctions while working to improve

countries

of

the

image of South Africa THE NATIONAL PARTY CAN BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA IN SOUTHERN AFRICA AND IN THE REST OF THE WORLD BECAUSE THE NATIONAL PARTY PUTS

SOUTH AFRICA FIRST !

is It my hope that the South African Government will now forward with a new preparedness to demonstrate bona fides in politics of negotiation by doing what Mr. P.W. Botha · formulate a Statement of Intent with black leaders

come the

refused to do which would

dispell fears and make possible the maximum degree of inter - racial co -operation in the establishment of a new South Africa .

The Harare Declaration that I table here is in fact the OAU version of the original ANC draft . I table this version because it is this version of the ANC document that was placed before the United Nations ,

the Commonwealth meeting and Non - Aligned Countries .

DECLARATION OF THE OAU AD- HOC COMMITTEE ON SOUTHERN AFRICA ON THE QUESTION OF SOUTH AFRICA HARARE , ZIMBABWE - AUGUST 22 , 1989

1. 1.0

The people OAU , the throughout

of Africa , single , collectively and acting through peace are engaged in serious efforts to establish continent ending the by by ending all conflicts through

negotiations based on the all . 2.0

principles

of

justice and peace

We reaffirm our conviction which history confirms , colonial , racial and apartheid domination exist , neither be peace nor

3.0

PREAMBLE

Accordingly ,

we

for

that where there can

justice .

reiterate that while

the apartheid

system in

South Africa persists , the peoples of our continent as a whole achieve the fundamental objectives of cannot justice , human dignity and peace which are both crucial in themselves and fundamental to the stability and development 4.0

With

regard

to

the region of

Southern

of Africa .

Africa ,

the

entire

continent is vitally interested that the processes in which it leading to the complete and genuine independence is involved , as well as peace in Angola and Mozambique , should of Namibia ,

46

succeed in the shortest possible time . Africa Equally , is deeply concerned that the destabilisation by South Africa of all the countries in the region , whether through direct aggression , other means ,

5.0

sponsorship of should

end

surrogates ,

economic

subversion and

immediately .

We recognise the reality that permanent peace and stability in the can Southern Africa only be achieved when system of apartheid in South Africa has been liquidated and South Africa democratic and non - racial country . transformed into a united , should We therefore reiterate that all the necessary measures be adopted now , to bring a speedy end to the apartheid system , Africa , interest of all the people of our in the Southern continent

6.0

and the world at

large .

believe that , and We as a result of the liberation struggle international pressure against apartheid , as well as global efforts

to

liquidate

regional

conflicts ,

possibilities

exist

for further movement towards the resolution of the problems facing the people of South Africa . For these possibilities to fundamental Africa , lead to change in South the Pretoria regime must abandon its abhorrent concepts and practices of racial

domination

to

honour

agreements , all of which have already resulted in the So many lives and the destruction of much property

loss of in the

countries 7.0

and

its

record

of

failure

of Southern Africa .

reaffirm We our recognition of the right of all peoples , including those South Africa , of own to determine their destiny , and to work out for themselves the institutions and system the of government under which they will , by general consent , live and work together to build a harmonious society . The Organisation do of African Unity remains committed to everything and necessary , possible to assist the people of Africa , South in such ways as the representative the of s oppressed may determine , to achieve this objective . We are that , certain arising from its duty to help end the criminal apartheid system , the rest of the world community is ready to extend

8.0

We

similar assistance

make these

commitments

to the

people

of South Africa .

because we believe

that

all

people

respect , are equal and have equal rights to human dignity and We believe that all regardless of colour , race , sex or creed . men and women have the right and duty to participate in their No individual or own government , as equal members of society . others without individuals has any right to govern of group these all system violates The apartheid their consent . Correctly characterised fundamental and universal principles . death it is responsible for the as a crime against humanity , of countless numbers to dehumanise entire

of people peoples .

It has sought in South Africa . It has imposed a brutal war on

resulting in untold loss region of Southern Africa , destruction of property and massive displacement of This scourge and affront to innocent men , women and children . in its totality . eradicated and fought humanity must be

the whole life , of

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9.0

We

have therefore supported and continue to support all those who pursue noble this objective through South Africa in political , armed and other forms of struggle . We believe this

to be our duty ,

carried out

in the

interests

of all humanity .

10.0 While extending this support to those who strive for a nonracial and democratic society in South Africa , a point on which no compromise is possible , we have repeatedly expressed means . our preference for a solution arrived at by peaceful We know that the majority of the people of South Africa and their liberation movement , compelled who have been to take up arms , upheld this position for many decades have also and continue

to do so .

11.0 The positions contained in this Declaration are consistent with and are a continuation of those elaborated in the Lusaka Manifesto two decades ago . They take into account the changes that have taken place in Southern Africa since that Manifesto was adopted by the OAU and the rest of the international community . regime to system ,

They constitute a new challenge to the Pretoria in apartheid join the noble effort to end the

an objective to which the OAU has been committed from

its very birth .

12.0 Consequently , we shall continue to do everything in our power international to intensify the liberation struggle and help is pressure against the system of apartheid until this system united , is a into transformed South Africa and ended democratic and non- racial country , with justice and security for all

13.0

its

citizens .

In keeping with this solemn resolve , and responding directly the to the wishes of the representatives of the majority of people of South Africa , we publicly pledge ourselves to the positions contained hereunder . We are convinced that their implementation will lead to a speedy end of the apartheid system and therefore the opening of a new dawn of peace for racism , all which the peoples of Africa , in colonial be domination and white minority rule on our continent would abolished forever .

II .

STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

14.0 We believe that a conjuncture of circumstances exists which , if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in negotiations genuinely and could possibility to seriously, the create end apartheid be an through negotiations . Such an eventuality would expression of the long - standing preference of the majority of to the people of South Africa arrive at a political settlement .

would therefore

encourage the people of South

as Africa , negotiate to get together to part of their overall struggle , end to the apartheid system and agree on all the an measures

15.0 We

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necessary to transform their country into are that democracy . held position the support We racial

non-

a by

the

objectives , majority of the people of South Africa that these system , apartheid the amendment or reform of the and , not should be the aims 16.0 We

are

should

at one with them that the outcome of such a process a new constitutional order based on the following

be

principles , 16.1

of the negotiations .

among others :

South Africa state .

shall

become

a united ,

democratic and non- racial and

citizenship 16.2 All its people shall enjoy common and equal nationality , regardless of race , colour , sex or creed . 16.3 All its people shall have the right to participate in

the

government and administration of the country on the basis of a exercised through one person vote , universal suffrage , one under a common voters '

roll .

16.4 All shall have the right to form and join any political party of of their choice , provided that this is not in furtherance racism . 16.5 All and 16.6

shall enjoy universally recognised human rights , freedoms liberties , civil protected under an entrenched Bill of

Rights . South Africa

shall

have

a new

legal

system

guarantee equality of all before the law. Africa 16.7 South shall have an independent

16.8

judiciary . There shall be

created an economic

which

and

non- racial

order which shall

and advance the well - being of all South Africans . 16.9 A democratic South Africa shall respect the sovereignty

and

territorial

integrity of

all

shall

promote rights ,

countries

pursue a policy of peace , friendship and mutually co - operation with all peoples .

and

beneficial

17.0 We

believe that agreement on the above principles shall constitute the foundation for an internationally acceptable solution which shall enable South Africa to take its rightful place equal as an partner among African the and world community of nations . III .

18.0 Together essential

CLIMATE FOR NEGOTIATIONS

with the rest of the world , we believe that it before any negotiations can take that place ,

is the

for negotiations be created . The apartheid regime has the urgent responsibility to respond positively to this universally acclaimed demand and this thus create climate .

necessary climate

19.0 Accordingly the present 19.1

Release

all

and refrain

political

regime

should ,

prisoners

at the very

and detainees

from imposing any restrictions

least :

unconditionally

on them ;

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restrictions

and

bans

all

19.2 Lift

restricted organisations

19.3 Remove all troops

19.4 End as ,

on

all

proscribed

and

and persons ;

from the townships ;

the state of emergency and repeal all the Internal Security including

and

circumscribe political

19.5 Cease all political

activity ;

trials

such legislation , designed to Act ,

and

and political executions .

in are necessary to produce conditions the measures al ion al essenti an place take can discuss free politic

20.0 These which

in condition to ensure that the people themselves participate listed The measures process of remaking their country . the above should therefore precede negotiations . GUIDELINES TO THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION

IV .

21.0 We support the view of the South African liberation movement climate , that upon the creation of this the process of negotiations 21.1

should

along the

following lines :

Discussions should take place between the liberation movement the South and African regime to achieve the suspension of hostilities ceasefire .

21.2

commence

on both sides by agreeing to a

should

Negotiations the

adoption

others ,

the

of

mutually

binding

for then proceed to establish the basis on , among agreeing

a new Constitution by Principles enunciated above .

then the parties should on these principles , mechanism for drawing up new the necessary

agreed 21.3 Having the negotiate constitution .

21.4

The parties shall define and agree on the role to be played by community the international in ensuring a successful transition to a democratic

21.5

The

parties

shall

agree

order .

on the

formation

of

an

interim

government to supervise the process of drawing up and adoption of a new constitution ; govern and administer the country , as well as effect the transition to a democratic order , the holding of elections . 21.6

After

the

adoption

of

the

new

hostilities will be deemed to have

21.7 For

its

sanctions

constitution ,

including

all

armed

formally terminated .

the lift international community would that have been imposed against apartheid SA .

part ,

21.8 The new SA shall

qualify for membership of the

OAU .

the

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PROGRAMME OF ACTION

22.0 In

pursuance of the objectives

OAU hereby commits 22.1

Information

document ,

stated in this

the

itself to :

governments

throughout the world , General Assembly , UN and others of these

and

organisations

inter - governmental

including the Non - aligned Movement , the the Security Council , the Commonwealth

perspectives ,

22.2 Mandate the Frontline the OAU to remain

states , seized

and

solicit their support .

acting as the representatives of of a political of the issue

resolution of the South African question ;

22.3 Step

all - round

up

for the

support

movement and campaign in the this objective ;

rest

of the world in pursuance of

mandatory for campaign In this . SA against apartheid

22.4 Intensify

liberation

African

South

and

the

regard

comprehensive immediately

sanctions mobilise against the rescheduling of Pretoria's foreign debts , and work for the imposition of a mandatory oil embargo and the full observance by all countries of the arms embargo ; 22.5

that

Ensure measures

the

African continent does

for the total

isolation of apartheid

to monitor the

22.6 Continue necessary

support

independent

relax

not

situation

to Swapo

in its

SA .

in Namibia and struggle

existing

extend a

for

all

genuinely

Namibia ;

of the governments 22.7 Extend such assistance as Angola and Mozambique for may request in order to secure peace their peoples ;

22.8 Render

and

all

possible

assistance to the Frontline

enable them to withstand destabilisation and round

support

Pretoria's

enable

campaign

them to continue

to the people of Namibia

and

states

to

of aggression and to give

their all-

SA .

appeal to all people of goodwill throughout the world to 23.0 We support this programme of action as a necessary measure to secure the earliest liquidation of the apartheid system and the transformation racial country .

Everything

I

say

prospects of a new, said

against

the

of SA into a united democratic

and

non-

and about the politics of negotiation the vibrant democracy emerging in South Africa is

background

of my own concerns

about

the

politics

of negotiation now promising to out - run the politics of violence as a determinant of South Africa's future . I say promise because just there is too much violence on - the - ground for me not to be really

concerned that the

incipient violence which

is perhaps

" in

the

air "

and

which may need remains

neutralise it ,

some kind of

cathartic

to

process

a threat .

Mr.

in Members , my violence to attitude Honourab le talking about in and now very well documente by d of in the context of what I am saying about the politics violence only the I want to summarise what I have said over , negotiat ion political indeed what I have stood for over my entire and years , life . Speaker , is politics

It

was

I who said that non-violent

opposition to

apartheid

would

prove to be much more powerful than the use of violence could ever be . It was I who established Inkatha with non-violent programmes after a decade and a half of a failed armed struggle . It was I who no said to the politics of violent confrontation when we drew up Inkatha's

aims

and objectives

and gave

it

a constitution .

then , in the mid 1970's , who warned the whole of White that violence was looming ahead .

It was

I

South Africa

After the initial and only- to - be - expected violence I was predicting erupted in 1976 , I was put under very considerable pressure by Mr. of others - even in the Steve Biko and South African Council - to Churches lead in the politics of confrontation which I knew inevitably lead Speaker , violence . Mr. to Honourable Members , poured I refused to do so and as a consequence scorn was on my head and I was told that Inkatha would become nothing and

would

lost

to the

struggle .

that

I was

The

uglier violence became and the more

it

spread

and

the more

changed from violence against the State to violence between Black , the and more adamant Inkatha became that violence

it

Black would

achieve nothing worth achieving .

When the the ANC really did think in its own misguided way that South African Government was on the run before violence , I warned that over the decades the South African Government had always got stronger where it was attacked most with violence . I warned that a war could not be won against Pretoria . President Machel when he and alive was did not think a war could be won against Pretoria that

it

was

why he withdrew support

for the armed

struggle

and

in

the

endorsed ANC Umkhonto personnel out of Mocambique .

Now

I am being proved

right .

Violence was

ill - conceived

first place because it could never be the primary means of bringing about the liberation of South Africa . This is what the ANC raised The 1960's are in fact the years up violence to be . that the locusts of violence ate in the struggle for liberation . A national committed to the non -violent opposition to front apartheid would circumstances is , have produced today's. much earlier . That however ,

spilt

milk .

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however , What being we are now faced with , is not milk that is spilt but blood that is being spilt despite the fact that it has been proven that violence has less utility than non - violent action against

apartheid .

history It is now recorded ANC's in the own broadcasts and documentation that the ANC attempted to fight a conventional armed struggle and that became impossible when because of President Machel's action against the armed struggle , the ANC turned to establishing what they called the people's war and they encouraged the UDF in its attempts to make South Africa ungovernable . That strategy of making the country ' ungovernable ' has never been abandoned .

If

the

original

genuine

classical

armed

struggle was a

disaster ,

the blunder in turning a lost armed struggle into a people's war is a disaster of horrendous proportions which we are now tasting in the blood of the people spilt in internecine Black - on - Black confrontations .

I become absolutely infuriated when people talk about the fact that not only there there is a Black - on - Black confrontation but is Blacks have the right to violence against the system . oppose right the fight system . They have to apartheid within the apartheid than more

in a

arenas where apartheid can be trounced . right - they have a duty to do so when

They have fight this sell -out against apartheid from within the system is castigated as and out . In consequence , politics death sentences are meted unspeakably ugly things are unleashed .

We

have reached the

stage

in South Africa where

it

is

documented

it was revolutionaries who encouraged the violence that now so but who was originally responsible is mars Black political honour , started Whoever when it comes to establishing peace . irrelevant that

it violence it is now a reality which must be dealt with , and the with must be dealt with by everyone concerned and it must be dealt by everybody together .

Mr.

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

it

is

really very early days

to

make pronouncements and to talk judgementally about the efficacy of what Dr. Mandela said in his Durban rally . He called for an end to violence . and He called on people to throw their guns , knives pangas

into the sea .

His

call was

followed by days

of violence

in

being and around Umlazi where yet more people died . His call is followed by violence directed against Amakhosi and Indunaa of the Ndwedwe area . His call has been followed by the further spreading of violence along the

South Coast .

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Our understanding of the violent situation in which we live is that it has spread beyond Party political control . The perpetrators of they are violence are not Party political activists doing what doing on specific

instructions .

They are doing what

they are doing

in the idiom of past specific instructions and they take these past work . specific instructions as being a mandate under which they They

can say no

to the changes

We

to changed

instructions because

they are not party

of policy that were made .

know that violence is perpetrated dominantly by bands of under nobody's Mr. Archie who are control . Ask people who are under

all

young

Gumede , the UDF's President in Natal , and he will tell you that the UDF control the bands of comrades who actually perpetrate cannot the violence . When they say people must burn , they do burn . They deed to the word that the UDF denies responsibility add for , but the deed

is done

in

We continue to live that the criminal political

the name of the UDF .

in a violent situation . You can be quite sure jumped has element which on this violent

bandwagon is going to be determined to continue

in

what

they are doing .

Mr. Speaker , what we should now today on courtesy of a

Honourable Members , on the question of violence and do about it , I must record for posterity that even this day in March 1990 I have not even received the reply from the President of the ANC on the need for

he and I to talk about violence . It just does not wash when people His indisposition say that the President is ill - disposed . cannot There are people acting be allowed to paralyse the Movement . in his

stead .

It is a matter really to be regretted that Dr. Mandela spoke on the question of violence in Durban without so much as a consultation with me about what best can be said and what best can be done . This is , is just

of course , not criticism of what he said in Durban but it conciliatory that more and it would have been so much before Dr. better if such a consultation had taken place , Mandela went to Durban on the 25th of February . I again do not this pointing out to be misconstrued as an effort on my blame Dr. Mandela for this .

want part

my to

I am very aware that arrangements

for these rallies to welcome exare made by the National Reception Committee consisting of UDF /COSATU office bearers and supporters . They decide who goes to these why rallies . That is mutterings there were of dissatisfaction when Dr. Mandela mentioned the role which Inkatha had played to ensure their release . Just the mere mention of this prisoners

drew murmurs of dissatisfaction from certain people that huge throng of people .

in the midst

of

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I was quite surprised to read in a newspaper while I was abroad that when Mr. Sisulu was asked whether I had been invited to the March 25th rally at which Dr. Mandela spoke , he said I was just an individual . They do not invite individuals . I found it odd that Mr. Sisulu said this at the very time when he and his colleagues visiting were areas torn apart by this violence . that I found irreconcilable utterance was of ostensibly his with what his mission in this

Region .

not be eliminated

Violence

in the

KwaZulu / Natal

region will

in one - man or one - Party efforts .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , not a day of any week goes by when campaign Inkatha is not doing something to stop violence . We constantly . We operate against violence in the circumstances thrust on us . violence ; combat violence has We do not want we We

violence . occasioned continuing

want violence .

to heal the rifts in black With or without moral

in our struggle

against

society that support ,

have

we

are

violence .

In many areas where we have worked so hard for peace , violence does abate but then so frequently it is rekindled to flare up again . When peace does finally come - and we pray God that it will finally - it will come in large measure because of what we have done come to bring about peace .

I

anything

welcome

Whatever

he

Dr.

doing . are we Mandela can add to what only can Whatever anybody can do

can do will help .

But the levels of violence which there are now in so many help . and which is ready to break out in the areas in KwaZulu / Natal , areas , really other areas and flare up in so many other many whole politics the unity but Black only not threaten

of so do of

negotiation .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , how can we sit around a table with killers are despatched those from whose political hearth and home , to necklace , murder , maim and loot ? How can there be real have to be exercised to keep negotiations while abnormal powers minimal degree of normality in black areas so that Blacks can least

commute ,

a at

work and eat ?

I say yet again I am opposed to violence : I abhor violence for the use of political purposes . Violence of passion , violence of greed , violence of fear , violence of anger , remain violence which I detest . ends

But above all else ,

the use

of violence

to

achieve

noble

is despicably worse .

I say yet again that Inkatha has more to lose from violence than anybody else . Inkatha has less to gain from the use of violence . We did not declare an armed struggle ; armed into a people's war ; struggle South Africa ungovernable ;

we are not

we did not attempt to turn an we did not attempt to make aiming

at

a

one - Party

State .

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need violence for these objectives ; not do We and we do not violence violence ; reject we

we use

do not want violence for

is broken , both sides are broken . both victim and victor have been

When violence violence . in

political purposes .

When a window pane hammers a victim ,

Part of the hideousness of violence is that it leaves no innocence behind it . Inkatha has been drawn into violence . The ANC has been COSATU drawn into violence . The UDF has been drawn into violence . into has been drawn into violence and the PAC has been drawn violence .

Everybody

must make a

supreme

must

joint

now cease being

effort

holier - than - thou .

We

to eliminate violence .

Mr.

Speaker , of Members , Honourable I now turn to the issue proposing that I extend an invitation to Dr. Mandela to come to this House and to address Members here , Mr. Speaker , on the question of violence and what we can do to avoid it . You will remember ,

Mr.

speaker ,

that we have on previous

occasions held out our hand of friendship to those who lead in the factions which have perpetrated violence against Inkatha . We invited Mr. Archie Gumede to come and address this House on the question of violence . He of course did not come . However , now that Dr. Mandela is not only released but has been given a formal role in the ANC heirarchy , we can appeal to him to stand in for his President , Mr. Oliver Tambo , as his Deputy , and do what Mr. Oliver Tambo can not now do because he is

indisposed .

suggestion will be criticised by some among you for making this never has Tambo Mr. insulted that feel you because all , at Archie because Mr. and responded to my offer to meet with him I

Gumede has never responded positively to our past

I say though ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

invitations .

give

Dr.

Mandela a

chance to be his own man in this matter . Let us not pre - judge him Give him his own by of what his predecessors have done . chance showing his

political manhood

and his power of

leadership .

I issue the invitation because I have a high regard for Dr. Mandela and I know he is a man of integrity . I know that if he does not come it will be because he has been restricted by his organisation . I think , however , he will come and this invitation is not simply a pro forma invitation , it is a real , genuine request to Dr. Mandela to talk with us in this House about what we from our side can do to curb violence .

There are many things that Black leaders can do when ng acti acting with one mind on this question of the need to curb violence . Firstly , we can form a powerful delegation and demand from the Government that black policemen are no longer sent to in KwaZulu / Natal .

South African spots

trouble

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We

know that

it

is

alleged

that

some members

of the

African

South

against acted Police have not always acted impartially and have acted has and UDF say they know that the SAP ANC The Inkatha . I am sure that if you looked at the incidents on against them too . black that find you would which are based , accusations these When Black fights policemen were dominant in the action concerned . the Let every Black must either be seen as foe or friend . Black a have be a force which is perceived not to force peace - keeping vested

interest

in what

happens .

What the people think politically is important . what actually happens . as important Let us

At times not

it

wrangle

is as about

whether or not black policemen have sided with Inkatha against the UDF or sided with the UDF against Inkatha . Let us not be all coy about possible wrong . Let us and simply say people sensitive believe it .

it

and

the

belief

is

damaging

so we must do

something about

have could concerned by all black leaders approach combined A with and discussions with the editors of the daily press serious the called what is so strangely and quaintly in involved those is violence that how point out could We press . alternative reported determines whether

it

flares

or does

not

I am not

flare .

asking for censorship , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , I am asking giving factual reporting , honest reporting and for reporting for both

We

of every conflict

sides

mount propaganda

could

SABC TV studios so that our of violent - stricken areas .

rights

equal

campaigns joint

to have

their say .

against violence

voices are beamed

sharing

by

into the

heart

We could platforms

actually hold specific rallies for peace where we share what this issue of violence , on regardless of other we need to have . The eliminate Black - on - Black differences confrontation

leading

to violence

is of

such importance

to me

that

I would even share a platform with the UDF or COSATU in order to be opposition able to say that black leaders are now united in their to violence .

It

is

reached

our disunity that

buys

stage where the

time

for violence .

elimination of violence interests .

Surely

we

have

can and must

be

Honourable Members , this whole question of violence a question which must now be faced front As on . nation , and I am talking about us as a South African nation , face the following :

in a

put

the

above

Party political vested

Mr. Speaker , politics is

we

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L.

We live in a society which has been maintained by violence for there has only There has been no democracy ; 40 years . over normally the been dictation upheld by making the quest for of life acts . accepted freedoms criminal Hundreds of thousands of Black South Africans have been grabbed by police , thrown into police vans and dumped in jail simply because they wrong of were at the place at the wrong time in the land their birth .

I

do not want

has

Africa to belabour the violence on which South about It must be noted whenever we talk

always rested .

violence

and I do

so

right

at

the outset .

F.W. de Klerk and his Government - and even country no matter how much the majority of Whites in this now see that apartheid cannot be made to work and will never on be made to work and now want to restructure South Africa democracy , we live in an aftermath of the violence that has However much Mr.

maintained a society and

in the aftermath of the violence

this violence has bred as

First

then

we must

founded on violence

!.

The

basis

face the and

for violent

that

opposition violence .

fact that we live

in

a

society

challenged by violence .

reactions

to

circumstances

amongst

the

masses of Black South Africans still exists and this is a fact we must face . There is first of all the violence in the air produced by apartheid and Black rejection of apartheid . Then there is the violence that violence breeds . We must face the fact that violence breeds violence and the violence that is bred by violence breeds more violence .

There is a South Africa does not face this fact sufficiently . about lot of talk by very nice people about peace missions , peace initiatives , about peace - keeping exercises and about the reconciliation of warring factions . They somehow do not based understand the extent to which South African society is on violence and that the violence in it has bred more violence .

There is no national frontal attack on violence sufficient The curb violence . state of emergency under which Government has ruled now for so long quite patently will defuse the situation . We must face the fact that states

to the not of

interim arrangements to emergency can only ever be transient , allow re - grouping . When states of emergency become a way of life , to states of emergency begin themselves stimulate violence and become self - defeating .

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3.

is in There also the economic sub - strata of violence South Africa . Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , wherever you go in - real and find spreading mass the world poverty poverty , killing poverty , home - destroying poverty , community-destroying find social - you political degeneration , poverty degeneration , moral degeneration and the resolution of conflict

through violence .

society has

Apartheid

produced

a basic

racist

divide

between

This racist divide in a society the haves and the have - nots . this and by attacked violence ned and e maintai by violenc masses the society which in in a divide racist are to a rise gives intention , design and by impoverished justification to want who

for violence which is honestly grasped by those own their for employ violence even cynically

purposes or their own Party political ends .

Mr. that

Speaker ,

Honourable Members , we are talking about things Africans are not facing up to . We talking are fact that violence is legitimised for the masses .

South

about the

4.

Right

now the South African Government is doing its best to face up to realities around it but as a South African nation we demanding the people of South Africa are not sufficiently that South Africa as South Africa must eliminate move to violence

in politics .

intensely As a South African nation we are aware that apartheid is now being dismantled and that the whole of new society is being turned upside down by bold advances into political

terrains

on the part

of the Government and on

the

part of everybody else .

There is a national awareness of times of change into which we however , as a As a people , are being thrust in this country . South African nation however , it is more a looking at what National Party is going to do , what Inkatha is going to the what ANC is going to do , people than what we as a

the do , are

going to do .

As a people we are not the air .

5.

I

believe

facing the violence

that

is

there

in

that the vast majority of South Africans are now to back whatever has to be done to eradicate apartheid and to establish a fair and just society in which all sectors of the population can be governed the way they are willing to be governed . The reservations that there about are the ready

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elimination of apartheid could actually be turned into major work for democracy . factors at Those who oppose the rapid liberalisation of politics in South Africa do so because they are afraid that democracy will not means , This work . Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , that they want democracy to work . That is a starting point for us .

6.

The

fourth thing that we as a South African people are not facing up to on this whole question of violence is that violence on the levels which are now at work in South Africa are already working beyond thresholds in which there can be any democracy .

7.

If you cannot bring about

change

through democracy , you will This is something South facing up to . Whites fear

have democracy after change . not Africans in all race groups are not democracy

because

they fear Black majorities .

Some

fear democracy because they fear White minorities . is

there and it

precludes

Black and White

Blacks

This

coming together

fear to

pick apartheid up , screw it up , crumble it and dump it in the We do not as a South African nation want to come rubbish bin . that to eliminate apartheid because we are not sure together

democracy will work .

Mr. i)

Speaker ,

and

ii )

the

Face

I

in summary ,

fact that we

say that we as

live

South Africans do not :

in a society founded on

violence

in a society challenged by violence .

live

We do not violence

face the fact that violence breeds violence and the violence , that violence breeds also breeds and the that is bred by violence becomes father of

violence violence .

iii )

That

we

do not

become stimulants

iv )

We

do

social ,

face the

fact that

vi )

We

of

to more violence and become

not face the

fact

that

spreading mass

economic and moral degeneration and

live out dog - fights - dog qualities

v)

states

do not

face the

Africa ,

who must do

Inkatha ,

the ANC ,

fact that

of

the

only

poverty reduces

causes

people to

life .

it is we ,

the people

something about violence

the UDF ,

emergency

self - defeating .

and

of

South

stop blaming

National Party or whoever .

We are not facing the fact that current levels of violence thresholds have beyond already escalated which across democracy cannot work .

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do not

vii ) We

face

the

through democracy ,

considerations when playing

that

if we

we will not

Honourable

Speaker ,

Mr.

fact

cannot

bring

change

have democracy after

Members ,

I

put

Party

all

about

change .

political

I step right outside any political role aside . with I say we as South Africans must now deal

I am this

question of violence .

politics

violence the now be a great South African response to in there and there from our history there in the air , of in violence us make the elimination Let today .

politics respond fair and

a national priority and let us as a people of South Africa a to the challenge of removing apartheid and establishing just society .

there

Let

is

that

Right

now

as

I

talk

I

am very aware

that

as

I

am

uttering

these

very words , someone in the Greater Pietermaritzburg area is being somebody death . Somewhere hacked to else right now else is Somewhere right nowthere is a corpse lying on bleeding to death . ground . the Somewhere right now there are houses burning . Some Speaker , where right now - right now Mr. as I talk - there are groups

gathering to do more hacking to death ,

more

murder ,

more

burning .

Right

now as

I talk homes

families

are being destroyed ,

are being

dismembered and scattered . People are fleeing in the land of their Right birth as refugees from the violence of their compatriots . Honourable Members , this now as I speak , Speaker , there is Mr. violence which South Africa

is not

facing up to .

That is The news items bill the violence as Inkatha /UDF conflicts . of this form violence on this day . this I am decrying the violence behind the violence . I am decrying the violent society in which we live . I am decrying the violence which the man the in street , the ordinary person , blames others for . I am decrying the blaming ; their is

I

am decrying the lack of grasp by South Africans that it society which is being threatened by violence . It is their future which is threatened . It is the future and the destiny of their country which

I

am talking

about .

am I decrying a certain the lack of overall commitment in electronic and in the printed media to actually join in a national attack on violence .

Mr. to

Speaker , Honourable Members , I really must pause here and say every every editor and to every compiler of news bulletins and

producer of every television

commentary ,

that

I

am addressing

them

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all as fellow South Africans , as friends , as compatriots and I am yet evolved not attacking them when I say that the media has not into a national attack on violence

I

call

in society .

companies fund of South Africa's leading one to a convention of media workers to which every editor , every

on

national

compiler of news reports and every producer and every board industry , company which is involved in the media of every

member could

violence come together to define the role of the media in reducing negotiated a being enhancing there of prospects the in and settlement

in this country .

South Africa has strange anomalies despite and apartheid society ,

of and despite the hideousness every how law , Draconian some

miraculously those who run newspapers and those who are responsible for the electronic media can actually still walk tall because they have kept alive the hallowed traditions of a free press and they for have preserved the of demand freedom expression in the electronic media . Despite the hideousness of apartheid , there has been more press in South Africa than there has been in places in the world .

many ,

many

Let us salvage the best that there is in this country . Let the Let us now media now respond to its new circumstances . have a media - led , nation-wide rejection of violence and acceptance of democracy .

Let this convention take place . Let the media industry as a whole put resources together to employ international campaign and strategy campaign something | triumphant

Mr.

experts . for peace .

Let the whole of the South Let it do so professionally .

African

media be

Let there

like a two year nationwide build - up towards a great stamp of peace on the country by the media .

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

this

really could be done

and

it

really , really could be done . A national effort on the part of the media could pour shame on every act of violence in such a way that every act of violence shames somebody until it South African there now be a moral Let

everybody . shames to response the

opportunities that are thrust at us by history itself .

Mr. that

Speaker , Inkatha

Honourable Members , the world must hear me when I say has more to lose through violence than any other

Yet it is we , Inkatha , and political organisation in the country . we in KwaZulu , who are blamed for violence . Just look at what Mr. T. Lekota , the Publicity Secretary of the United Democratic The report has again been saying in Washington recently : follows :

Front , is as

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" BUTHELEZI

OBSTACLE TO NATAL PEACE ,

the main was Buthelezi Mangosuthu Chief leader ry the for ty secreta the publici peace in Natal , to

" Inkatha obstacle

Mr.

United Democratic Front , spokesman

UDF

The

also

Democratic Movement's

He

told

said he did

collective

Peace

about peace ,

noises

the

has

not

said

in the US . Mass

the

believe

leadership would be

favour

in

Zulu leader .

Carnegie

breakfast meeting of the

a

International

Mr. the

Terror Lekota ,

Nelson Mandela meeting

of Mr.

SAYS LEKOTA

Endowment

for

in Washington Chief Buthelezi made a lot of but questioned whether he really wanted it .

said the Mass Democratic Movement had plans to end Lekota ce absolute which had been designated an violen in Natal ,

priority . However , peace , " The

Chief Buthelezi

if

did not want to help bring

the movement would find peace by other means . sad

thing for Chief Buthelezi

faster than ever before , to kill him politically . shooting him ,

Lekota Mr. Buthelezi's and the

is he

is

losing

support

which means

effectively we are going

We will not

kill him in the

but we will kind him

politically , "

he

sense of said .

Chief into the movement was making inroads said friends even among his traditional support base ,

chiefs .

He said the democratic movement had decided to peace to Natal a priority because conditions needed to make progress . " If

about

make of

bringing calm were

we are going to discuss

have calm .

People do not

and debate our policies we need to think when they are emotional . "

big Mandela could make a said he was certain Mr. Lekota groups the as he would be able to bring in Natal , difference However , he did not think Mr. Mandela would closer together .

Mr.

meet

Chief Buthelezi ,

would not want

because the vast majority of the people

such a meeting ,

he

said .

" Mr. Mandela may make a case to meet Chief Buthelezi , but will be a collective decision . We are not in favour of it . "

it

Mr. Lekota has gone out of his way in Washington to stress that the ANC and the rest of the democratic movement wanted to make friends with the

South African white

community .

join said the Pan African Congress was welcome to Lekota be never democratic movement , but he warned there could the would the PAC if it meant the democratic movement with unity

Mr.

have to compromise its principle that no one " in a position to dominate another .

community would be

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This

is

the

kind

of sickening

journalism

which

just

adds

to

everything else which is producing violence in this country . Black activist would know that these words will not be heard

Evry

as in innocent words . They are killing words ; they demand my death and fact . They are inciting words . They demand people kill me they demand that people defend me . They are words that justify the ongoing crisis of violence in this country .

These things

are the kind of words which fit in with a whole lot of other which are taking place all around us . Look at the great

media silence there was when I exposed the SACTU document which was Speaker , Honourable Members , spread around Natal last year . Mr. SACTU issued the

following document :

SACTU POSITION PAPER

NEGOTIATIONS

" The debate around negotiations is intensifying as the Imperialist nations enter into dialogue with the Socialist bloc . This debate and has profound implications for the National Liberation Movement class Working dictate its democratic allies . interests our murderous impis and the puppet Gatsha's position towards union , UWUSA and the

issue

of negotiations .

Counter - Revolutionary Terror and

Inkatha .

Gatsha

and his impis are working in collusion with the racist proclaimed have gestapo and themselves the enemies of the democratic trade union and mass organisations inside the country . Gatsha has become more vocal and vicious than the racist regime in union dealing with trade and political activists . With the formation of the UDF

in

1983 ,

Gatsha declared the UDF a front

for

are the ANC and has seen to it that many UDF and COSATU activists killed , the ground houses other their burnt to and outrages committed in the name of counter - revolution . In Natal , harassment murder have become the order of the day . He has taken over and directly his from masters and has even assumed the position of bantustan minister of police . He has become Vlok's surrogate in killing stooge our people in Natal . It is clear that this and puppet Gatsha , the Savimbi in

a

is being groomed by the West and the regime , future free South Africa .

to be

Negotiations and Inkatha . It is therefore inconceivable that the democratic movement and the broader national liberation movement can reach accommodation with the puppets in Inkatha . The hand of truce offered by Gatsha is a hand , weak and a sign that the people have made massive inroads into Inkatha's power base and that the time to death blow this enemy of the people .

is right to deliver the The onus is on to us

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neutralise Gatsha once and for all , the snake people of South Africa needs to be hit on the

that is poisoning the head . In the face of intensify let us this onslaught against the trade union movement , our organisational capacity to fight back , particularly in Natal . The road to freedom is not easy and the liberation movement should not allow itself to be pushed into a compromise position by the their lackey . dealt Imperialist nations and Gatsha must be a serious

blow

and the workers must

show him that his

attempts

to

divide the workers will be met with revolutionary violence . The Democratic

Position

The besieged workers in Natal should be supported in their against the criminal attacks by Gatsha and his who impis collaborated with the bosses and the regime . Negotiations Gatsha must be seen as negotiations gestapo and a junior partner in negotiations can only serve short

fight have with

with a leader of the bantustan oppression and murder . Such term objectives and must never

compromise the long term objectives of the people , namely the total destruction of Inkatha and its corrupt leadership . Gatsha must be isolated from the people and convinced that he must abandon his leadership position . in Inkatha . It will be easier for the democratic forces to expose him when he is robbed of his support base . He must be forced into a position where he is a leader without a support base and Inkatha is a movement without a leader . Gatsha cannot be allowed to continue his indiscriminate destruction He must be stopped , of our organisations and structures in Natal . by fighting and not by talking . Conclusion

The forces of counter - revolution must be defeated if we to are continue on the path to Freedom Day because if Gatsha and his opportunists are not dealt with now we will have to deal with them after we have liberated ourselves . The democratic movement must not allow petit bourgeoisie elements within its ranks and pressure from the Imperialist nations to force a compromise . Inkatha has shown its true agenda in local negotiations and its warlords have continued their butchering , no effort must be spared to ensure that enemy this of the people is dealt the death blow So richly he deserves . The National Liberation Movement and the Mass Democratic Movement must formulate a unified position on this and Inkatha must be smashed .

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The Lekota

statements

create death and

to

and

the

SACTU statements work hand

justify the

climate

in hand to

of death .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , in a strange kind of way the media what in South Africa is so unrealistically out of touch with is really going on . This SACTU paper quite obviously was not regarded as important and it was not regarded as important because the media what as the media has not grasped the South African situation for it is .

dramatic , the search for the the search for the newsworthy , The for rep tha peo wou search believe orts and t which ple ld want to people like to hear , would is all part of successful newspaper Newspapers management . are in business to sell their editions and

the more they write what people want to read , they will sell .

I have ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

me and says yes ,

it

however ,

is true ;

yet to meet

I write

the more

newspapers

an editor who

smiles

lies about you because

at

that

is

what people want to hear . I have yet to meet a newspaper editor in whose newspaper there has never been a lie about me - and I am editors speaking about am as newspaper I friends . simply commenting on a dimension of the media .

It makes the media dangerously out The reporting of

of touch with

the dramatic and the

people want

to hear makes newspapers participants in euphoria politics , or not euphoria is riding for a horrible fall .

As some When

times .

reality at

reporting of what

whether

a politician I am quite sure that I will remain grumbling about aspects of the media even long after the day of liberation . real South Africa is really free and there is freedom of

movement ,

real

freedom of speech and

real freedom of

the media .

association ,

we will

still be grumbling about

No newspaper can write

in such

a way that everybody agrees with everything that

I grumble about the media but I will die fighting the media to be free to do what it wants to do . democracy

unless

there

is

freedom

expression . Newspapers must be free . newspapers will be free .

of

speech

is

said .

for the right of There will be no and

freedom

Under any government

I

of run

I am not grumbling about the freedom of the press - I am saying the press is free enough to do something dramatically important about the reduction of violence in this country . I am simply saying there newspaper is a collective responsibility amongst men women

that and

and television men and women . At this time of national crisis , Mr. Speaker , in which we must tackle the whole question of violence in our South African society , newspapers really must do

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something

about

putting their own house

whole industry as a national

Without this taking do to create the

in order and

using

their

front against violence .

place , the media will not do what the media can survive circumstances in which the media will

after change . It is in the vested interests of the newspaper men and women of South Africa and it is in the vested interests of the electronic media men and women of South Africa , that they all now come to make together to ensure that sufficient peace prevails the democracy possible . If they do not play their own role in process of eliminating violence ,

violence will overtake

all and we

will have change through violence which can only lead to government after change . by violence There shall be no freedom of speech under violent

government .

talking There is a whole way of life in this violent society I am democracy about that needs to be exposed . Daily events undermine Information flows to me daily - and on numerous different levels . sometimes even hourly - on events which are disrupting progress towards democracy . On the 20th March soldiers moved in to disrupt the I hear about this at an Inkatha meeting in the Ndwedwe area . has League Youth as I hear reports that the KwaMashu time same

members and

are

have received military training outside South who members for out right busy sending more now

Right now the KwaMashu Youth League is preparing is war against Inkatha that they are preparing for .

training . and it

Africa further for war

On the 26th March I received a report that Constable M.J. Myende's On that same day , house was petrol - bombed in Umlazi . 28 KwaZulu policemen were stoned by a mob . Just the previous day students at whole the Esikhawini Higher Primary School became violent and the On that same day - the 25th March school had to be closed down . the Obanjeni

Tribal Authority court was

petrol - bombed and burnt

to

the ground by the Obanjeni Youth League . The Inkosi of the area is now in hiding . The next day , the 26th March , a man was found shot dead in Mpumalanga . The next day I received a report that KwaMashu teachers are wanting to march in protest and are wanting to be put under the Department

Mr.

Speaker ,

of Education and Training .

Honourable Members ,

I am speaking now here

today on

Thursday morning , the 29th March , and right now while I am speaking hideous murder and disruptions are taking place up and down the coast of Natal and KwaZulu and all over in the hinterland the of region .

Our beloved country is burning , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members . enough . dismantling Enough is will be no There of apartheid leading to the establishment of democracy unless we move against We violence . Present levels of violence are prohibitively high . cannot get the politics of negotiation off the ground these with levels

of violence

being maintained .

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of the very fundamental problems that we face One that people are just ignorant of the is violence It

is violence .

They know that there

matter .

is

eradicating in the of facts splashed

across

television and newspapers from time to time as the Pietermaritzburg There is , however , just the broad violence is now being splashed . no detailed of violence but no detailed analysis of it evidence explanation of it .

Headlines in a paper I saw a day or two ago stated that 50 had died in Pietermaritzburg . Whatever that figure is - and it is probably and a lot higher - it is presented as a general UDF /Inkatha clash images

are

created

there

is nothing that

This

is

just

killing does More air . very

true

the

built

into

the

reports

say

can be done .

Violence does

not true .

spread ,

it does

escalate ,

beget killing and there is violence and killing in the and more people are just swept into it . That is all has but let me move out of a situation in which it

already reached

During

in which notions

this

stage

last two weeks

of development .

a conservative

count

of the people

who

have actually died in the Umzumbe area is 34. I believe this is an under - estimate because one report , for example , says that there is this 34 plus another 20 bodies lying scattered in various parts of the bush .

This

violence ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

My information reported . 34 - or may be even these for a now stylised themselves claiming

paying groups

Policy

Earlier

in this

Umzumbe

violence had

Honourable Members ,

has not even been

is that this Umzumbe violence leading to 54 deaths - is the price the people are and typical breaking into a new area to be United Democratic Front .

Speech ,

started .

by

this I exposed how There was a visit to the area by a

Mr.

Speaker ,

the handing out of R50 per of people from Johannesburg , cash , giving a local Induna R500 person to those joining the UDF , build - up the and emotion the of and toyi -toyi'ing then the the is fermenting what over school a action at strike of Kombi - load

triviality classrooms .

of the kind of brooms the children of when climate a then And

should use to has conflict

sweep been

toyi -toyi'ing turned into a death march in sufficiently developed , killed , was one man and people five were attacked and which castrated before all the world to see .

Then

inevitably

hostility settled Members , we have

the

community

backlash

came

and

a

state

of

Now, on the community . Mr. Speaker , Honourable seen the next and most ugly phase of this kind of

entry into a new area by those acting

in the name

of the

UDF .

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of Now there is a new dimension added to the same area . A group adult armed men have come into the area and are , amongst other things ,

holding up buses ,

boarding them and

searching

for

Inkatha

personalities by name removing them from the bus , and then there is things death and more destruction and more revenge death and So escalate .

very provery stable , Umzumbe area was always a very quiet , The simply not is Inkatha area . It This is why it is being attacked . it is calculated , it It is cool , a matter of anger boiling over . This , Mr. Speaker , Honourable is cynically beastly in the extreme . This , Members , Mr. Honourable Speaker , is the armed struggle . Members , This , Honourable Speaker , Mr. the people's war . is - the people of South Africa - face . Members , is what we

This

is

the kind

of violence which now needs to be

shamed again .

and

It

is

so hideous that

it must be

shamed ,

shamed

condemned .

Because violence in the Greater Pietermaritzburg Area gets as messy got , as it has the world starts to believe that all violence everywhere is messy and cannot be stopped . This is just not true it can be stopped in Pietermaritzburg . It can most certainly be There , area . stopped in the Umzumbe Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members ,

it

shall be

stopped .

Enough is

enough .

H

hear the UDF calling for the cessation of killing and violence . I hear COSATU calling for peace . I hear the ANC proclaiming that that in it does not want the violence is taking place Mandela call for peace . KwaZulu /Natal . The whole world hears Dr.

And

yet there is no peace and violence continues to escalate . On first projections made on the violence already evident during the of this year , 1990 will be South Africa's most violent part year ever in the history of the country .

I

call

been

on Dr.

pointing

Mandela to

condemn the kind

to that are being employed

of tactics

I have

in the Umzumbe

area .

just I

call on him not just to condemn violence in general terms . I call on him to condemn this very specific sequence of acts . I call on him to condemn this kind of violent tactics and this strategies , hideous and to now more and more typical entry into a new area ensure violence

It as

erupts

there .

condemned is so hideous that it must be condemned . It must be the nation no tactical use of violence no civilised or

honourable organisation could dare own up to .

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And here , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , lies the real of violence , this kind this cynical kind of hideous violence leading to death is exposed , provocational scream innocence . They deny what they are themselves

rub . When deliberate

Parties all There doing .

is only accusation , counter - accusation and then mud - slinging and the end , there is only the impression that Blacks kill Blacks .

This the past

in

dead ; past week- end the people of Umzumbe were burying their people of Pietermaritzburg were burying their dead and this week- end ,

political

there

skirmishing

was

this

tragic

dilly - dallying

around death by the ANC as

it

and

refused

the to

support Dr. Mandela's call on me to go with him to Pietermaritzburg for and the two of us together now finally to do something about violence .

I write

this

that

future

1.

Dr.

into

the

record ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

generations will know what was happening

Mandela

telephoned me

in

and asked me whether I would

share a

platform with him to address the people in Pietermaritzburg an attempt to bring about an end to the violence that escalating there .

2.

It was his

initiative ;

he made

so

1990 .

in is

the move .

I immediately responded positively because I have been calling where black national leaders to share platforms in areas for violence is doing most

at its height because there is where we should be about violence - where violence is most hurting ,

maiming and killing people .

3.

Mandela called for the meeting , It was not only that Dr. but on he also called for a meeting to take place urgently either 2nd or Tuesday the 3rd . I told him that I Monday the 2nd . preferred the meeting to take place on Monday the He suggested the meeting stated that he would Harry Gwala

4.

should take place in the afternoon . refer the question of the venue to

He Mr.

in Pietermaritzburg .

and after I had put Obviously a venue had to be agreed upon , some made and enquiries and down telephone the then Ngema Amos Mr. to , subsequently asked my Private Secretary , speak to Dr. Mandela and suggested that the meeting be held at Mr. 10.00 a.m. at Taylor's Halt . Ngema reported back to me changed satisfie Mandela was Dr. d and had accepted the that not were people ensure would because that to 10.00 a.m. time wending

5.

their way home

in darkness

after the meeting .

The following day , Friday , I was totally astounded to receive this note the Honourable from Minister Education of and Culture ,

Dr.

O.D.

Dhlomo :

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MEMORANDUM

( Very Urgent )

To : From :

HE President

Subject :

Telephone Call from Mr. President of the UDF

of

Inkatha / Kgare

Secretary - General

Today

30/3/90

who told me the

at

12

noon

Archie Gumede ,

I received

Archie Gumede

a call from Mr.

following :

a Mandela has spoken to him and asked him to ask me to convey I informed Mr. Gumede certain message to the President of Inkatha . Mr. that it would be highly irregular for me to do this when both I . other each contact President are able to the and Mandela the phone Mandela should Mr. further that Mr. Gumede informed any was there if a letter him fax or immediately President the wanted to convey . gave me Nevertheless he he information

Mr.

follows :

message which is as

Mr.

1.

Mandela suggests that the meeting schedul ed at Taylor's Monday for be followi should cancelle for the ng d reasons : Halt

a)

He ( Mr. Mandela ) had not he because meeting the organisation . spoke to him .

b)

Supporters

of

He maintains

agreed to the venue and date of his consult to first wanted he

told Mr.

ANC - UDF maintain that

Ngema

this when he

fighting

is

still

going on and there is need first to calm the situation on sides , turn otherwise the meeting on Monday might both into a blood bath .

c)

his visit Durban on Monday Mandela will to meet supporters in order to talk about the violence and cool tempers . Only joint can therefore a rally be

Mr.

contemplated . d)

It might President

perhaps be possible Inkatha to meet

of

Mandela and for Mr. the in Durban on Monday for a

private discussion to plan properly for a

I

insisted to Mr.

Gumede that

I did not

see how I

joint

featured in

this and that the correct approach would be for Mr. and Inkatha directly of contact the President suggestion . O.D.

DHLOMO

30/3/90

-0-

rally .

Mandela convey

all to his

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Soon after I received this note I received a facsimile message from the Daily News asking for comment on the cancelled meeting which had received SAPA report .

information that the meeting had been cancelled

from a

In other words , the meeting was cancelled unilaterally without any then me at all and newspapers were advised and Dr. reference to this a message to me through Mr. Archie Gumede to sent Mandela effect . I of course immediately telephoned Dr. Mandela and it is what clear who quite from he said to me that it was not he the meeting . cancelled He told me when I spoke to him on Friday Archie Gumede , Dr. D. Mji and Mr. Harry Gwala who that it was Mr. advised against

holding a meeting in Pietermaritzburg .

The astounding , reasons they gave were Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members . They said that there was still too much tension in the for area a meeting to be held and that if we went ahead with the meeting , there would be a blood bath .

When people are killing each other , that is the time that you go to the killing . stop You do not wait until after they have stopped It was the killing before you go to stop the killing . because tensions were running high and killings were taking place that it was so urgent the area .

for Dr.

Mandela and

I to address

a public meeting in

colleagues , however , said they feared for his life . Honourable Members , I obviously also feared for Speaker , my is , Pietermaritzburg . That going to about thinking in life where front all about - being out leadership is what however ,

Dr. Mr.

Mandela's

leadership matters most .

We should go where duty takes

us .

Dr. Mandela also said that as we were talking over the telephone , a Mr. Harry large delegation from the Pietermaritzburg Area led by to Gwala were waiting in his house to make representations to him cancel

the meeting .

30th March conversation took place on Friday the telephone This That night , Walter Sisulu was proclaiming that Mr. after lunch . meeting the meeting , anybody whatever said about the cancelled should take place

and

it was

going ahead .

The ANC's refutation of him was the first withdrawal of the ANC's national leadership from peace initiatives . The second withdrawal came from the withdrawal from proposed talks that were going to be held on the 11th April with Mr. F.W. de Klerk . What , Mr. Speaker , is the ANC running away from? It is not from violence because after the reasons they gave for withdrawing from discussions with Mr. de Klerk , struggle .

the ANC reiterated its

intention to

step up the armed

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Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , remember that what Umzumbe is what some people interpret as " the armed

is happening in struggle " . It

is

the Pietermaritzburg - type violence that some people see as what is meant when people are talking about the " armed struggle . " It is black people killing black people that is seen as talking about a " people's war . " Our television and newspaper services must have eyes to

see

and

ears

The world must know what

to hear .

is actually

taking place .

Mr. put

Speaker , it is so utterly tragic that the ANC seem not able to leadership its act together and seems not able just now to

establish a strong leadership base inside South Africa . There is a set of leaders who have been rising from the ground during the There is a set of development of UDF and COSATU . That is one set . leaders who have come out of jail , that is another set . There set of leaders in Lusaka on the National Executive Committee is

another

Umkhonto . of leaders .

Then

is a that

set of leaders . There are leaders who are involved in That , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , is a fourth set

of course

there

of the word while Mr.

is no President Oliver Tambo

is

of the ANC in the ailing ;

real

nobody at the

sense top

really holding things together . It is so tragic that the ANC seems not able to put its leadership act together . We need an intact ANC best if negotiations are going to be got off the ground in the possible way .

I

first

We need

an ANC

heard that Mr.

that

can act

coherently .

Walter Sisulu would be

leading

delegation to have discussions with the South African Then I heard that that was changed and I heard that Mr.

the

ANC

Government . Alfred Nzo

would be leading the delegation . Then on Friday , it was announced , no , Dr. Mandela would lead the delegation . And then , astoundingly , on Saturday , the world was told that there would be no delegation .

It

is

so tragic that we

are having

this

leadership problem because a right now a coherent black body politic properly led from within number of different black political organisations acting together to put the politics of negotiation on track , could reach out now and take boldly and firmly that which we have struggled for for so many decades .

It is now that the end is near , that the victory is indeed ours for taking , that coherent black leadership South the we need a in Africa . We have actually now achieved the situation which is the end situation for the Black struggle for liberation for decades . We have brought the South African Government to the negotiating table where we have

always wanted

it

to be .

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Mr.

Klerk is genuinely committed to negotiations . we the matter . That is the position that

de

fact

of

That is a have always

Had the old attempted to establish in the struggle for liberation . ANC that was banned achieved what we now already have got at hand , would they have gone on to negotiate and to emerge as part of a

new ,

just

and

fair South Africa ,

negotiating day a

and they would have declared

the

national holiday for ever more .

We

can now negotiate a new South Africa into existence . We can now negotiate a just South Africa into existence . We can now negotiate a South Africa into existence in which there shall be no racist distinctions to disadvantage any group . We can now negotiate a South Africa into existence in which there will be total equality for all before the law and the constitution . We can now negotiate a South Africa into existence in which there will be universal adult franchise , a people's Parliament for the people . We can now negotiate

success

on the part of

but we are now hamstrung by political ineptitude leaders who cannot put their act together .

Part of the problem , itself it is not In

of course , one thing ,

is that the ANC is not one thing . let alone in the ANC alliance with left hand is now rapping the right

and the UDF . The ANC's over the knuckles . The great noble traditions not be allowed to be sullied like this .

COSATU hand must

of the

struggle

Honourable Members , I and Inkatha stand on the high Speaker , Mr. We are prepared to go peace . be there let moral saying of ground moral stand We on the high peace . make to war is where there ground of saying there shall be negotiations and we are prepared to We stand on the high moral ground of saying yes , there negotiate . we why That is is much that is hideously wrong in South Africa . of out negotiate to possible now is it because now negotiate will horror of apartheid .

this

Mr. Yes , Speaker , negotiations must be described as " risk business " . Whites must risk , Blacks must risk , Indians must risk , Coloureds must risk , the rich must risk , the poor must risk . We must go forward in risk to met each other , to negotiate with each other and to compromise with each other so that we negotiate risk to a minimum and success to a maximum .

We

in

Inkatha

stand on the high moral

ground

of

putting

South

Africa first . That is why we want to negotiate a fair South Africa by putting the salvation of the best that there is and the rejection of the worst that there is , as our first strategy . There great deal we risk is a can do with very little to get the negotiating ball rolling . To pout because there is violence in the air when you yourself are productive of violence on the ground , looks

silly in the

eyes of the world .

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It

is

so very ,

very tragic

that

Dr.

Mandela ,

that great

son

Africa and hero of the struggle , has come out of jail to be in the kind of mess which is quite obviously surrounding the

of

landed ANC's

leadership .

We are told that there are young people walking around with Mandela T - shirts with the head of Dr. Mandela cut out of the T - shirt . In the townships , there are rumblings against Dr. Mandela because he has called for peace . There are rumblings in the rural areas among young people who have been programmed hear these peace calls .

to kill and do not want

to

Pietermaritzburg meeting was more probably called off because The amongst other things the ANC and UDF could not be assured that their

own people would have

on to heed

the call

strongly supported

the rally and

gone

for peace .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , again I say Inkatha stands on the high moral ground . I know beyond all doubt that violence in our society function black is in part a of terrible economic There are deep frustrations among impoverished people destitution . who have no hope . There are thousands upon thousands who have reached the end of their tether . They are desperate human beings lashing my out in their despair and they call out to heart . I would go to call for peace among them with Dr. Mandela because that instant what is we should do , even if it would not produce an hostilities . cessation of In the end it is the bits that we do that add up to the great that must be done . even if we falter on doing the bits .

Last week I called This week after

for a the

The great must be done

national media campaign to shame violence . Pietermaritzburg and after the fiasco

withdrawal of the ANC from talks with the State President , there is more reason than ever for South Africa to rise up in its stature There is now more reason and in dignity and say no more violence . than ever for South Africa's visible conscience displayed to the world for the media which violence

We

must

is

launch

and the press

repugnant

our

to be seen to be a conscience

in

and needs to be shamed .

great

media

campaign

for

the

shaming

of

violence .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , in all this hideous conflict and astounding violence have been talking about , I one of the most things is the extent to which COSATU is there so often right at the core of the eye of the violent storm . It so to speak gives rise to the low begin pressure winds system around which the hideous howling and tearing

things

apart .

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That

imagery ,

is

analytical . structured ,

Mr.

Honourable Members , but it is the South African economy being badly They do . see the failure free of

Speaker ,

COSATU sees just we as

marketeering capitalism , just as we have always seen the failure of free marketeering capitalism . And they trace the deficiencies of the South African economy and the inequalities in our society to apartheid , just as we do and , indeed , organisation in South Africa does .

just

as

virtually every black

As a trade union movement COSATU then seeks to benefit workers on a really dual attack on poverty and discrimination . It mixes what are entirely pure trade union rights with what really should be left to political parties . It sees itself as some kind of giant straddling the whole of South Africa .

It sees itself as creating the labour negotiation structures at the national level which at the same time become platforms for worker campaigns for issues totally unrelated to the job and its content or its rewards .

That would in fact also be fine if human beings were not what human beings are . But benevolent dictatorships would be fine for a people if dictators did not grow meaner and hungrier for more and more

power

and

benevolence .

COSATU is society .

grow less

concerned about

Power corrupts

the

charges

of

and power corrupts dictators

their

totally .

of trying to rise like a giant straddling the totality far , It is trying to build power bases which go far

beyond any power bases an even dynamic trade movement would require to do its trade union job .

I predict , the

Mr.

Speaker ,

Honourable Members ,

COSATU dog bite the ANC master and

that we will yet

shake it

like

some

see

vicious

brute turned master killer .

COSATU

is

like

that

- that

is what

it will do

if

it

goes

on

developing as it has been developing . It turns to maul any worker Its clamour for power , its who does not agree with it . striking out for control

over all the

any way relating to workers ,

factors

in society which it

is dangerous

sees as in

in the extreme .

In the darkest days of terribly tragic . This is also so terribly , expanding rapidly in was economy the when deprivation worker black as exploited terribly being were workers and 70's 1960's and the who could be used and discarded disposable labour units , cheap or as the whims of bosses hired and either as prices rose or fell , fired ,

it was

I who came to the fore and

said enough is enough .

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It

was

I

in the

1960's and

rights for black workers . process which made possible

1970's who campaigned

unio

for trade

It was I who actually started the whol the development of a COSATU- type trad

union . Some of you may remember , and 1977 I was chancellor of Education .

Mr. the

Speaker , that between 197. Institute Industria. for

All

of you will remember just how embryonic black unionis trade in those years and how real trade unionism had to be nurture was into existence . The Institute for Industrial Education magnificent beginning to what will I still hope turn out to be

was

South African trade

Only

those who were

problems in those really took to get

At

union movement of international

that

Speaker ,

really involved

in grappling with trade

unio

early years can have any appreciation of what i the trade union movement going in South Africa

of South African society you

stage

people were whispering about

that

reputation .

will

remember ,

liberation

issues

Mr an

Up to the mid - 1970's black politica the rights of black workers . edges cutting gutless and without any discontent was formless , th came the years of exploding political enlightenment and Then when the Black Consciousnes vitalisation when Inkatha was formed , Movement

came

starte

into being and when the trade union movement

getting off the ground .

In

those years

it was

I who was going to Prime Ministers ,

Cabine

cajoling

Ministers and whoever in eye - ball to eye -ball meetings , threatening , talking and persuading . I confronted government ar alike and warned them about exploitation and gave Blad capitalism South Africa

the dignity of

speaking

its mind .

could mee I came ou

people black they While when were only whispering in small little groups to talk about politics , huddled flying

the grand

getting the

colours

people to

of

liberation and it was

sing the

old

songs

and chant

I who the

came

old

οι

slogans

It I who said the black man will rise up and stand was tall dignity . they their workers that who said I to was It ha inalienable , rights to equality and justice in the wo God-given place and to all

forms

of advancement

in any

job .

Speaker , Honourable Members , modern memory is so fickle and Mr. It was I who was called upon to adjudicate shallow at times . a in t working for equality in workers ' rights those assist to Beyers Naude , with Profess 1970's . I sat on the panel with Dr. rig Thomas , with Mr. Benny Khoapa [ then Steve Biko's Wolfgang Sou in mine Natal ] and others to help the first in man hand Africa

and its

labour

force

to achieve parity in

pension ,

heal

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and

schemes

welfare

bungalow - type the endorsed

kind

payment of wages

In

those

It

staff

was

of enlightened

in

this

employment

modern

Panel

civilised finally

which

practices

in

which

below poverty datum lines was abandoned .

years

campaigned at

and to house its

accommodation .

I campaigned at the broad

specific company level

national

level

and

I

for worker rights .

Very few would know just how many times I had to leave my office and to an employer , go go and adjudicate somewhere where black workers were being hideously treated . I I championed workers ; stood by them ;

And once

then , I

had

I addressed them and

I was

embraced by them .

Mr. Speaker , being really committed to worker rights , done my political job and were there the national

breakthroughs practice , in

and Black trade unionism was legitimised I withdrew my Party political hand

legally and trade from

unionism .

Trade unions have a job to do . Black political Parties have a job these two to do and God help South Africa if we do not keep separate .

I come back ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

to express

concerns

about

COSATU .

The

way COSATU is developing , it is quite clear that COSATU is looking forward to becoming a COSATU government , over a COSATU - run South COSATU must Africa . COSATU is in the power stakes game . again become a trade

union or South Africa will

suffer .

basically COSATU , was COSATU , It which created the low pressure system around SAMCOL which originally sparked off violence which spread and spread and which is now enveloping vast areas around Pietermaritzburg and beyond . It is they - COSATU - which came to sow death and destruction .

The Financial Mail , " In

writing

considering

about

COSATU's

COSATU's

role

formation

in the

in

political

1985 ,

said :

arena ,

the

question the conference debated was not whether it should take an active role , but how this should be best achieved . The was emphasis on working in close co-operation with an progressive political organisations . ' But there is such important precondition placed on co-operation : that COSATU should То

outsiders

control

the direction of political

this may seem like an

unnecessary

campaigns . distinction ,

particularly given the rather vague terms in which it has been formulated . But if COSATU succeeds in its aim of becoming the in dominant force black politics this will have important

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consequences for the future whole in South Africa . "

of militant

black politics

as

a

very and powerful launched on the back of a was itself COSATU to It came out ambitious attack on myself and Inkatha . specific fight the giant domination .

because it wanted to achieve

a position

of

national

COSATU has again and again accused Inkatha of being the instigator March For example , of violence . in its press release dated 29th about Inkatha's war lords ; 1989 it talked it talked about the police assisting Inkatha and it talked about so - called research which shows that " the majority of identifiable incidents of The press violence were initiated by Inkatha members . " statement says : lords

" The police are reluctant to take action against Inkatha war are or Inkatha members . " They say that police unable or unwilling to protect township residents who have given evidence against

Inkatha war

lords .

Even more hideously the press

release

says

that

Inkatha members

are

used by the police to threaten comrades and certain individuals are taken to Inkatha households in order that they should be insulted and intimidated . And the press release also says that Inkatha they if are members are allowed to carry fire arms even not licenced and the

police

know this to be

the

case .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , this is the language of death that These hideous attacks against Inkatha I have been talking about . must stop . duets death

They go on even now . in their denigration

dearth durges which must now be

UDF and COSATU spokesmen play They of me and Inkatha . are

silenced .

the to speaks like this about Inkatha and then goes COSATU workers industrial estates of Natal and there disrupt the lives of personally political campaigning and their blaming me their with what earn workers in these industrial estates the fact that for Inkatha destruction . earn , then they are sowing death and they matter . the work in these estates know the facts of who members COSATU They become incensed and that is exactly what COSATU wants . When

wants

situations

of

conflict .

Honourable Members , it is all so very astounding to Speaker , black and rights I campaign for trade union do only Not but I also campaign for the creation of black get rights , workers estates , industrial when these jobs are created in our and jobs

Mr. me .

then COSATU comes

I

say

workers '

to

and blames me

for the workers '

you fix workers ' problems COSATU : say Inkatha has I organisation .

plights .

because kept

out

you of

are

a

trade

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I because unionism trade unions have a trade union job to do and Nor , will not tolerate political interference in trade unionism . trade Speaker , Mr. Honourable Members , union will I tolerate interference in my politics .

Many , many workers are a lot worse off because COSATU is pursuing its national politics of destruction . how Just look at many thousands upon thousands of black workers ' jobs have been lost because COSATU does whatever it can do to legitimise sanctions against

Mr. that

South Africa which actually destroy

jobs .

Alec Erwin read a paper to a Paris conference COSATU would like to see the economy turned

in which he said around so that

instead of having a low productivity / high price economic structure , South Africa has a high productivity/ low price structure . Yes , I wonderful , do that job . We all need higher say : get on with it , There will then be more jobs , productivity . there will then be South will then be more more worker benefits and Africa ask Mr. Erwin and I ask COSATU , competitive . But , I go to the industrialists who now want to pull out unrest

and

speak to

them about

There

are two totally incompatible

of Natal

because

of

labour

increasing productivity .

roles

that

trying

COSATU is

to

is trying to use workers and it is trying to spend workers in the pursuit of national political objectives , while it is trying Africa's increase economic worker South role to a define to

play .

It

efficiency .

While COSATU continues treating me as a leper and treating Inkatha as a pariah organisation , how on earth can we sit down and really Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , you will talk peace with them? year to remember that last I responded positively the first prospect of getting together with COSATU/ UDF national talk peace . As soon as this became a possibility , I issued an invitation to them they said , they would talk What kind of commitment is talk about will peace and

leaders to immediately

Yes , to come and have talks with me . Ulundi . but they would not see me in there to peace when you say yes , you insult in saying So , hurl against

somebody you want to talk to ?

I live and work in and around Ulundi . and works in and around Ulundi . Ulundi

His Majesty the is

a

King

proud place

lives for us , a

place where King Cetshwayo reigned and was finally defeated by the British army . our Ulundi rises out of history to claim a place in And then people politically spit on Ulundi and still hearts . I On this expect me to sit down and talk with them about peace . have dug my heels in because we then cannot talk peace peace ,

they can talk peace at

if we cannot full stop . Ulundi .

talk peace with If anyone wants

dignity , to talk

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Mr.

Members ,

Honourable

Speaker ,

one-

not be drawn into

I will

upmanship games with people at this level . I say simply come and talk to me here and then I will go to talk to you where you are . be quid pro quo , Let there but I say the insult must undone be before there

Every

can be

any quid or any pro .

one of us knows

that

COSATU is

part

of a very

much

broader

totality which includes the ANC and which includes SACTU . I remind Members of the kind of things SACTU is saying in support of a In a position COSATU /UDF attack on Inkatha which is ANC - backed . SACTU has a paragraph with paper on negotiations issued last year , the heading : " Counter Revolutionary Terror and Inkatha . " Beneath the heading it

states :

with " Gatsha and his impis are working in collusion racist Gestapo and have proclaimed themselves the enemies

the of

the democratic trade union and mass organisations inside the country . Gatsha has become more vocal and vicious than the dealing political union with trade and racist regime in activists . With the formation of the UDF the declared UDF a front of the ANC and has

in 1983 Gatsha seen to it that

many UDF and COSATU activists are killed , their houses burnt name to the ground and other outrages committed in the 01 Natal , have In counter- revolution . harrassment and murder

become the order of the day . He has taken over directly from Bantustar his masters and has even assumed the position of Minister of Police . our people in Natal .

Mr.

Gatsha

He has become Vlok's surrogate in killing It is clear that this stooge and puppet the is being groomed by the West and the regime to be

Savimbi

in a future

Speaker ,

not

free South Africa . "

language

ha

COSATU , been forthcoming from any single UDF or ANC leader . kind of language of COSATU is even today reverberating around

one word of condemnation

for this

Thi th

ન

great halls of ANC , COSATU , UDF silence . It is echoing and echoin ricocheting and from one quarter to another while the silence i maintained .

" It

is

and

the

The position paper goes on to say :

therefore inconceivable that the democratic movemen can broader national liberation movement read

accommodation with the puppets

in Inkatha .

The hand of trud

offered by Gatsha is a weak hand and a sign that people massive made inroads into Inkatha's power base and that time is right to deliver the death blow to this enemy of

hav th th

people . "

Then ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

" The onus

come the very ominous words .

is on us to

neutralise Gatsha

once and

t

for all ,

snake that is poisoning the people of South Africa needs hit on the head . "

to

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Honourable Members I share with you - and in fact I share with the whole world - today just what terrible disadvantages I suffer in the face of these kind of statements . these Firstly ,

Mr.

Speaker ,

kind of statements actually make even the necklacing of an Inkatha member , This SACTU position a legitimate , patriotic act . paper language gives a new throb to the pulse of death in and around Pietermaritzburg moral SACTU is regarded as and elsewhere . a authority

in

regarded as the

some radical

trade union circles . It is trade union twin organisation of the ANC .

the SACTU /ANC camp is seen as one camp . that UDF and COSATU have been involved Inkatha .

certainly In

fact

It legitimises the killing in perpetrating against

Mr. Speaker , that is one set of disadvantages . My gravest problem , however , comes with the demoralisation of Inkatha and it is not being Inkatha is demoralisation of because Inkatha attacked . proud get is and powerful and it will not out of the because the kitchen is not too hot for it . Mr. Speaker , not demoralisation of Inkatha comes from the fact that I do

Inkatha kitchen the give

the word to

Inkatha

to get out

and go on preemptive

attacks .

On no occasion have I ever mobilised to kill , even in self - defence . can People come to me crying for a word from me so that they get going with retaliation .

knows if I had to say yes , God let us go and clean that mess up , would there be an awesome spectacle of absolute power brute sweeping all the muck out

of the Greater Pietermaritzburg Area .

No , I say , that is not right . No , I say , real power is consumed in Killing being gentle . Real power is consumed in being democratic . Put the good ultimately is weakness . I say put South Africa first . of future generations first . Do not win victories by violence and these things have to govern by violence afterwards . I say all because they are and I will right and it is good to say them costs it continue doing them but it costs me and it costs me and costs me . It costs my people and it costs my people and it my

people .

on hang I can still still hang on and now particularly , can I into irretrievably the South African Government has moved because withdraw . to able which it will not now be positions new from ours victory is final the doomed and is it ; finished is Apartheid for the taking

of it .

Not only this

but

it

is now quite

clear that

history has pronounced that it is the politics of negotiation which sweeps of There are great powerful in South Africa . most is . beyond Africa and Africa Southern history of whole the across Globally Europe . East across history of sweeps great There are South there is a new expectation that negotiations can succeed in and good is know I which that hang to , on , Mr. Speaker I Africa . us carry I know that it has the survival value to because right

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the new era as the new 21st century opens up . to into I hang on non-violence in the last part of this century , because the ending of this century must end conflict .

I I will not be provoked into ordering killing by any trade union . and Inkatha do occupy the high moral ground . Inkatha is committed to using non-violent means to bring about the noble ends of the fair struggle for liberation . We are committed to establishing a begin and just society through negotiation . I am now ready to and negotiating about the constitutional future of South Africa not negotiations will soon get off the ground because if they do the ground now , get off they never will . It would be So much than better if everybody was there to start off with , rather possibly waiting until they do see that there are sufficient of us who are to get in South Africa serious about negotiations negotiations off the ground .

There

of is enough support for negotiations to make the politics negotiation the only centre - stage ' real politik ' of country . the

Inkatha

will not abandon commitments and it will not be pushed off Let its high moral ground to muck around in the political gutters . propaganda do its worst but let Inkatha remain intact and ready to leadership lead in middle - ground So politics where its is desperately needed .

Members , all we have been through this Speaker , Honourable Mr. the denigration of Inkatha times the The euphoria times , before . We have been through it before prophecy of doom for Inkatha times . and we have come out of the other end and we are coming out of the other end this time .

commitment , There is a new vibrance emerging in Inkatha , a new a look at us , new Inkatha saying hey man , we are fit , we are fine . There - a is going to be a new dynamic in Inkatha this year new claiming of new areas of centre - ground politics , a new striking new alliances and new accords to create ever -widening circles

of of

support bases for the politics of decency and justice . We must OF turn the 1990/91 KwaZulu Legislative Assembly year into a YEAR JUSTICE FOR DECENCY AND DECENCY FOR JUSTICE .

We

must

shame violence out

the same time be bold

of political

in our non - violent ,

contention and we must pro - active

at

politics .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , it really is quite astounding that there is so much blindness to very fundamental political issues in South Africa .

The ANC ,

SACTU and then COSATU and then the UDF

between them they ensure that then the OAU , Nations , and the United the Commonwealth

and

Non-Aligned Countries , individually all and

collectively put me in the camp of apartheid . Having done this , they then treat me as the enemy and then having done this and

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treated me as an enemy,

they then start blaming me for not

to them and they start blaming me

talking

for criticising them .

What on earth is Inkatha to do when it is dragged through the mud , trampled upon , maligned and cursed nationally and internationally ? What are the political consequences of all this ? Just as the UDF's slogan

' Liberation now Education

later '

is

actually coming home

to

roost and in doing so cursing what Dr. Mandela himself is trying to do to get children to go back to school , so the cursing of Inkatha is coming home to roost

in practical political

conflict .

international How can I not respond to this malicious national and maligning of Inkatha ? I must respond . People are dying around me because of it and they are dying around me basically because they support me in my refusal to join in the armed struggle and to chop investment off flows to South Africa which provide Blacks with jobs . My people are dying because they refuse to join in to make the kind of mayhem in and around townships and to disrupt the flow and people into and out of townships so of goods that violence erupts and there

is

confrontation and death .

decency We are attacked because we are strong in our commitment to and to tactics and strategies which are healing and destructive of apartheid at the

Mr. that

same

time .

Speaker , Honourable Members , it is so terribly tragic that now era political we are actually entering into an entirely new

We have already entered an era Blacks are at each other's throats . which Blacks could come together and with great certainty put a in new social economic and political system into existence of the kind and the long line that our forefathers could only have dreamt of , of heroes and martyrs

We can do it .

of the struggle always aspired to .

We can do it now but we will have

to do

it

together .

My cry is for Black unity and I say to people like Thabo Mbeki that press in conference they talking as he talked at a stop must prepared When asked whether he is Copenhagen in June last year . to participate in negotiations if people like myself was involved ,

he said :

the "Like bantustan

other chief .

Bantustan chiefs , Gatsha the end of the month , At

Buthelezi he

is

receives

a a

is to The daily task he carries out from Pretoria . salary system the section of the South African apartheid administer the head of the KwaZulu bantustan , Chief Minister . So , unless by his actions , he defines himself as belonging not to

the de Klerk

side ,

but to this

side . "

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In

this

interview

he

calls

me a minor chief who has

never

been and

elected to any position . He said I was appointed by Pretoria the " placed there , called Chief Minister , is paid at the end of all month , is supplied with a Mercedes Benz to drive around and And so , sure , let him come and sit to negotiate . But as I that . say , his place and his activities would define him as part of the de Klerk administration unless he acts in a way which defines

him . "

The problem with the ANC / UDF / COSATU front is that they just have no For them conception what democracy really means in South Africa . Full stop democracy is the mechanisms that will put them in power . end of story .

That is all they are interested in . Anything that did not work to empower them is to them undemocratic . They think they are the beginning ,

the end ,

the alpha

and the

is into this kind of context It against Inkatha and myself . Mr. world only sees attacks these sometimes

say to me ,

its that COSATU slots in attack Speaker , Honourable Members , the verbal as attacks and people

why worry about them,

do however , amount to a more than the rationale underground

omega of democracy .

just

leave

them .

They

lot more than verbal attacks . They are even for killing . They are part of a very ugly

scene .

Honourable Members , it is about time South Africans Speaker , looked at the facts of life in this country . The ANC declared the armed a then armed it struggle struggle ; converted the into

Mr.

In the people's war it then exhorted groups to train people's war . themselves , missions . arm themselves and to go out on violent to sent cadres into this country , ANC The and guns it transported bombs

and hand grenades

into

groups of young comrades ,

it distributed these

South Africa ,

sometimes

even groups

to

of teenagers .

time any of these groups took violent action the ANC claimed as proof escalating opposition to apartheid and saw it of . run the on being put was Governm African South ent that the

Every proof

Now when Dr.

Mandela

calls

for peace and

calls

on Blacks

to

throw

their guns and knives and pangas into the sea , the young people he calling out to , take scissors and cut his face out of their Tis That shirts . The ANC is itself now reaping the violence it sowed . is why they cannot

There are , at

work .

negotiate

at the moment .

Speaker , hard - core killing cadres . Killing talk is has Allow me to read you the text of a document that

Mr.

come into my possession :

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" COSATU /UDF / INKATHA PEACE TALKS Guidelines

for comrades

" The peace talks between the democratic forces and the reactionary Inkatha movement has the potential to once and for all establish the Cosatu / UDF alliance as the primary force in Natal . Because of media coverage given to these talks by certain elements within the media the perception has , however , been created especially amongst young comrades that Cosatu / UDF have sold them out and was forced to engage in peace talks . It is also a fact that Buthelezi is trying his utmost to create the impression that it was he who initiated these talks as to so take all the credit in the eyes of the public . In this he is aided by the racist SABC in especially their TV services . Buthelezi is continually also trying , because of the media exposure he gets , to take the issue beyond the Natal peace talks and pretends that he is the only man able to unify blacks in South Africa . of these days Buthelezi

"As be

This has also angered the comrades who say that one they will be forced to take orders from Inkatha and himself .

must talks are progressing very fast this situation immediately gains the to ensure that the movement

the peace rectified

maximum from it .

"As

a

proper

peace

to place the should be emphasised

important

is

first step it perspective .

It

another way of taking power .

It cannot

that

talks is

in

a

just

talks

be expected of the comrades

to understand this new international tendency for peace and that is They possible . why these talks should be explained as simply as talks be told that the UDF / Cosatu alliance have identified should of as more effective strategy and in this also has the support a against This is just another form of the onslaught our movement . that it can also be said the situation demands it , If Inkatha . support

even the Soviets " On grassroots

level

the

such moves . following

steps

must

be taken :

- Buthelezi's call that Inkatha members should be allowed to return to their homes should be adhered to . Even if their homes fall within an area controlled by Cosatu / UDF . It must be remembered that most comrades .

Inkatha warlords returning These

leadership and be

have fallen victim to victorious Inkatha members would be without

easy prey for us .

- Comrades must be friendly with Inkatha members Refrain from using violence .

- After a meetings .

while

show that all discussed .

-

At

all

these

Inkatha

At these meetings

times

blacks

have

should

common problems

the

ensure that

direct these meetings

members

a

same

problems .

comrade

in a proper way .

is

in their township .

be

invited

must be discussed Solutions

in the

chair

to to

should be

So

as

to

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- If not use do Inkatha members do not want to attend at first even one , will some time some of them, attend violence . At because we have been friendly or they are scared we will use violence again . to - These tactics will have the effect of Inkatha members talking thus other each about our positive and new attitude and will their unity and strength . undermine More and more Inkatha members will then attend

comrades meetings .

successfully - When first meetings with Inkatha members have the start and problems we should move away from common held , been ( See . Inkatha and showing differences between UDF /Cosatu the with attached notes ) . Inkatha will then realise that UDF /Cosatu against we Sizwe constitutes the most effective weapon Umkhonto apartheid . - At this only

time

it must

also be

divides the people and

shown that Buthelezi is

and his

in fact working with the

Inkatha regime .

Buthelezi should be shown as power hungry and a man who sells out his own people to get more status .

- Later

qualified people must

more

points and to

- If certain Inkatha members attitude , selective violence

to

be used

finally crush Buthelezi's

illustrate

these

power base .

friendly do not respond to our For should be used against them .

our strategy to be successful these acts should only be directed to those who do not co - operate as this will subtly encourage those who listen to us to give their full

- Comrades regime .

should Some

co - operation .

at all times be vigilant against senior comrades have recently

spies

of

disappeared .

the The

only way to prevent this from happening is to keep an eye on one another . If something suspicious is seen or if a comrade thinks This will he is being followed specific steps should be taken . be conveyed

orally .

to boost the morale of our comrades , it should be said that it is a fact that the UDF /Cosatu alliance gaining is He is hand over Buthelezi and Inkatha . upper the losing ' his base and even some of his long time supporters are power moving Information on this will be given later . " over to our side . Finally ,

and

-

-0-

There

are

bands

of violent activists

in the

shadowy

and

murk

They will of cours regions of the ANC / COSATU / UDF front . Diliza Mji and Mr. Alec Erwi just as Dr. say they are not of us , of those who wrote this tract I have just read . When it wa said O.D. Dhlomo ar presented to them they said in a Memorandum to Dr. Dr. F.T. Mdlalose :

nether

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ro

" The attached document has come to our attention . We wish to inform made you on behalf of Cosatu and UDF that we have a thorough check on the

source of the document .

can state categorically that this document does not come We from any structure of Cosatu or the UDF in either Durban or Pietermaritzburg . We are very concerned about the effect of such a document and we can only draw two conclusions - firstly that an individual member of our organisation may have written should point However , out this . that none of our we possibility The second leadership had seen such a document . to sinister one which is that people are trying is a more sabotage our efforts .

This morning we were approached by the Weekly Mail and Dr. informed them of the position as we have set out above . " Yours sincerely .

I hear what clear . and

SIGNED :

A.

Erwin

Mji

21/9/89

D.Mji

they say , Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members . deafening What I most hear is the

I hear loud in silence

condemnation of the document . It is the killing campaign that this document represents which is legitimised by the killing talk that their the ANC splash out in press conferences and their publications .

Mr.

Speaker , Honourable Members , you will remember that it was in 1986 that a bomb was actually planted under the podium at Jabulani Amphitheatre before I was due to speak there in is It Soweto . have information that bombs , recorded arms and ammunition caches been

found around Mahlabathini

and Ulundi .

the There are sub - strata of violence out of control below the ANC , UDF and COSATU and they are not only out of control in the sense that also

they are in the

a threat to

sense

One of these groups the Transvaal .

South Africa .

control

They are out of

that they are a threat to the ANC itself .

is the Marxist Workers '

They came

to be

part

Tendency of the ANC

of the ANC .

in

We know they are

part of the ANC . We know they are part of the ANC / UDF / COSATU front¦ but every time that I have drawn attention to them when they have to come pour scorn on peace initiatives , the UDF and COSATU are embarrassed they are a

and do not

know which way to twist

splinter group but never once ,

Members , never once do in any way negate what

Mr.

they flatly contradict they say .

or turn . Speaker ,

them,

This

group was at work trying to stop the Jabulani

held

in December last year and

I would

like to read

They

say

Honourable

censure them or

rally that you , to

was Mr.

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Speaker ,

Members ,

Honourable

the pamphlet

they distributed

in an

rally :

attempt to wreck the

DONT'S LISTEN TO GATSHA BUTHELEZI ! BOYCOTT THE INKATHA RALLY !

Houses Natal . of are full in many of the townships caves been burnt down and many families have fled to live in . die more day Every . dead now are 3000 Two . the mountains in killing . The the did Inkatha weeks ago 30 people were murdered . killings a with against these protested Workers helped . SAP " Graveyards

have

Kloof

and

New Germany .

massive

stay- away in Pinetown ,

" Today

in Durban millions want to fight apartheid and capitalist Inkatha impis are trying to burn COSATU out of the

poverty .

factories , and the UDF out of the townships . They want to burn the struggle for freedom , democracy and socialism out of the hearts of Zulu workers and youth .

Saturday " On Inkatha is planning to [ hold ] a rally stadium . Buthelezi is coming to Soweto to spread his workers , youth and women will not

listen to

Buthelezi

at Jabulani poison . Zulu and

Inkatha .

WE CALL ON ALL WORKERS TO BOYCOTT HIS RALLY . PROTEST AGAINST THE MURDERER BUTHELEZI !

people " Zulu white have a proud tradition of resistance against carried that is domination . Today tradition on through the struggle of the black working class UNITED against apartheid and capitalism .

Zulu workers were at the

" Buthelezi is not a of the Nationalist and

Inkatha

" In

1976

youth ,

to

part of this tradition . government and the white

divide

Inkatha

forefront

the black working

turned

lost .

He is a bosses .

COSATU .

paid servant They pay him

class .

Zulu migrant workers

and many lives were

of building

in Soweto against

the

This will not happen again .

then black workers and youth have united as never before in " Since the state , Unity and all their puppets . struggle against bosses , weapon the black working class is the strongest of against the powerful white state .

" Inkatha

is

not

a

liberation movement

for the

Zulu people .

leaders are paid R10.000 by the KwaZulu government UDF supporters . " people .

" Inkatha railway Inkatha

In reality

Inkatha

is making

war against

formed COSATU . UWUSA to help the bosses fight In strike Inkatha supports the white bosses . supports the shacklords against the squatters .

rural areas

Inkatha

supports the chiefs .

Inkatha

" to do away with the

Zulu

In

the

Lindelani the in

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the to life better has NOT brought a government and Holomis , Sebe like just a bantusta the used Buthelez ns . masses i He got a home worth The people got poorer . He got rich . Mangope . Two million people got shacks . R500.000 . " The

KwaZulu

NO ALLIANCE WITH INKATHA !

"While plotting with de Klerk , Buthelezi says he wants to talk to the ANC leaders . Comrade Sisulu has said he will meet Buthelezi . This peace cannot bring peace . When COSATU and UDF tried to make with Inkatha before , Inkatha waited for the Congress youth to put down their arms "We want

and then stepped up its killings .

a free South Africa .

We want peace

in Natal .

" But this can only be won by campaigns to unite the mass of the black working class under the banner of the Congress . The Zulu black workers and youth are one of the most powerful parts of the working class . WE CALL

ON THE ANC LEADERS

Organise

a

undivided

South Africa .

Mobile

national

support

campaign

R200

conditions Organise

and armed

KwaZulu police ,

Fight

in Natal .

jobs , week ,

a minimum living housing , decent

self - defence against

SADF death

squads ,

SAP ,

No alliance with Gatsha ,

Holomisa

and

all

puppets !

for all .

rights

Build

a mass ANC to overthrow the government !

For one person one vote

Workers '

of way living

and Buthelezi's vigilantes .

Equal

Issued

an

education .

equal

tribalism !

Pretoria's

in

for one person one vote

for our comrades

a campaign in Natal for 40 hour working a for

Lead

TO :

in an undivided

by supporters of Congress Militant , Tendency of the ANC ,

South Africa !

paper of

the

Marxist

in the Transvaal .

There are other organisations , however , which are also provocative of violence which cannot be disowned as they attempt sometimes to disown the Workers ' Marxist Tendency . Take , for example , the South African National Students Committee . It is a UDF affiliate . It is part of the it reflects

structure of the ANC / UDF / COSATU front . When it speaks on all of them . When it acts , it shames all of them .

Mr. Speaker , Honourable Members , allow me to read to you a pamphlet that the University of Durban Westville Branch of SANSCO distributed very recently . It reads as follows :

DE KLERK ,

GATSHA ,

VLOK - STOP KILLING OUR PEOPLE !!

" In the past weeks about 50 people have been killed and 100 injured the the in new wave of violence that is sweeping across Pietermaritzburg that should be noted however , area . It this violence whole of

is not only confined to Pietermaritzburg but era We Natal . have also entered another

uprisings

that

is

sweeping across the whole of South

the engulfs of militant Africa

like

veld fire .

" The Racist

racist massive regime has again responded with police and soldiers are being deployed in our than ever before .

harsher responded of them .

In Sebokeng

repression . communities

the de Klerk Malan

regime

to the demands of our people by cold - bloodedly slaying 17 In Ntuzuma the hit squads are going around shooting like

mad men . These shootings have resulted in the death of four of our grenade hand was of followed by two incidents This comrades . the to civilians in the area but fortunately they escaped attacks has Umlazi a notorious vigilante - Zulu police alliance In attack . left refugees . countless of our comrades killed and some internal Recently we have witness [ ed ] the burning down of the home of one of that The latest news is SANSCO activist - Nhlanhla Dlamini . by the detained yesterday ( on Wednesday ) in Umlazi was Nhlanhla police . Zulu This proves that this violence directly affects our academic activities as most of our students are literally affected . Harmasdale , Tongaat , [ sic ] other are areas affected Amongst KwaMashu to name but a few .

country not black on " black is the sweeping violence " This think , as to us state and its allies would want the violence " instead allies

few it is a plan orchestrated by the racist regime and its movement democratic in black community to smash the the

under the have the

leadership of the ANC . interests

of the

It

is

people at heart

a battle between those who ( the

ANC ,

UDF ,

COSATU ,

etc. ) and those who have the interest of the ruling regime and the leaders , at heart ( the state together with bantustan imperialists Inkatha , etc. ) .

their youth terror , vigilante the has borne the brunt of " The emergence have been disrupted thus leading to the of programmes hand criminal elements in the townships . On the other organised education The is severely affected by the violence . effective students have been attacked within the school premises thus making attendance practically impossible . Several attempts have been made the by the Democratic Movement both at the grassroot level and

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leadership leadership

this violence . been held but violence

curb

with Inkatha's Meetings worsens . No amount of have peace ever bring the leadership will by platforms of literally are who active involvement of the people the

sharing without

to

affected on the ground . The leadership can only facilitate local the to liaise with has also it however , process

such a peace

committees who have been formed precisely to address such problems . Buthelezi ) cancellation of the meeting between Shenge ( Gatsha The this against viewed be should Mandela ) Madiba ( Nelson and background .

" Peace

with

Inkatha does

not mean that we

accept

the

Bantustan

but on the contrary shows our concern for more than 3 000 that have been lost . We are in principle totally against policies that Hence are set to divide our fight people . the although the against Bantustan policy must continue indeed we who and welcome support the compatriots in those Bantustans are policy lives

fighting

to death for their re - incorporation into

" SANSCO

wishes

actively

South Africa .

to make a special call to all our students to the attempts to in curb this violence .

involved

be We

believe that the support that you can give to the peace committees and be other democratic formations addressing the matter will of valuable

contribution .

THE FREEDOM CHARTER SAYS : " The

police

force and the army shall be

...

the helpers

and

protectors of the people "

" There

shall be peace

in

the

demands

NOW !

"We

"Let

all

and friendship ! "

democratic movement must unite

and

who love their people and their

fight

country

These freedoms we will fight for , side by side , lives until we have won our liberty . " UDF LOGO

SANSCO CALLS ON ALL STUDENTS

TO ATTEND THE

( UDW branch )

say : our

SRC MASS MEETING TODAY

affects

everyone !!

DOWN WITH BANTUSTAN SYSTEM ! ZULU POLICE - INKATHA ALLIANCE ! AMANDLA

Issued by SANSCO

now

SANSCO LOGO

in our townships

DOWN WITH THE

these

throughout

TIME : 12h35 VENUE : Main Hall

The violence

for

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attention , Honourable Members , draw Mr. to a I Speaker , very In the first paragraph significant statement in the pamphlet . it says : " We have also entered another era of militant uprisings that is sweeping across the whole of South Africa like veld fire . " What more positive terminology can there be ? The sentence says " We have also entered another era of militant uprisings " which can only be violence and used by people who approve of violence , use see violence as the anwser to South Africa's

Then astoundingly it says " with massive repression .

Again

we

have

the

" The

racist

problems .

regime

has

old vicious propaganda that

again

the

responded

killing

is

repression killing . It is totally astounding how the media and so many observers are just blind to the fact that the ANC /UDF /COSATU they say go in to use violence which they say is essential when that they must escalate the armed struggle , and then when violence and begets violence , they blame the begotten violence not the originating violence .

Mr. Speaker , In this pamphlet , Honourable Members , they also include the other old distortion . They deny that it is Black - onwitnessing actually Black violence that we are in the Pietermaritzburg area and elsewhere . They who use violence in an attempt to make South Africa ungovernable and in an attempt to topple the State in a direct classical armed struggle , could claim this with some possible legitimacy . perhaps When however as is the case in this particular resurgence of violence in the

Greater Pietermaritzburg Area - the violence was actually triggered off by brutal and killing attacks against Inkatha members returning home from the Thanksgiving Rally I held in Durban on the 25th March , then it is simply Black - on - Black confrontation . When a Black grabs a Black and necklaces a Black , that is Black - on - Black confrontation .

I

make

Speaker ,

yet

another urgent appeal

Honourable Members .

This

to time

Dr.

Nelson

I ask him to

Mandela , reflect

Mr.

on the

fact that this pamphlet is actually killing talk but even worse , is killing talk in outmoded and outdated political conceptions

it of

the South African problem .

is

great

big

print which says

At the bottom of the pamphlet

there

" DOWN WITH THE BANTUSTAN SYSTEM " .

It It

is we in the homelands who have destroyed the homeland system . the is finished . Like in people in the townships , people g marchin a to homelands are in a new transitionary South Africa , democracy . homeland new the There is no longer any threat in policy .

It

particularly ,

is destroyed . Black does

not

You do not have have

to kill

to kill Black to

now and

oppose

it .

more

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I really do appeal to Dr. Mandela to see how terribly damaging this now altogether unnecessary and totally unacceptable use of violence is to kill other Blacks in the name of killing apartheid which is doomed . Mandela , Stop , this already I ask Dr. being quiet on carnage

and this

terrible

shame of Black South Africa which is

wasteful of political energy , of life and limb .

as well as being

a hideous

so

squanderer

Black South Africa must now rise to walk tall in doing the right thing the right way and serving noble objectives with noble means . It is in that arena that Dr. Mandela's leadership heights that some have expected of him .

Mr.

Speaker ,

the more I

could

rise

to the

see this kind of violence around us ,

the

more I see the poverty of the politics behind it and the more I see violence itself ending up shaming the memory , the not only of Dr. Mandela but of many more who like him also have suffered for the sake of South Africa .

Mr. Honoura Speaker , Let me just add , that this is ble Members , perhaps the greates s o a t v a wastes h f l h i c a l a o t me t lence ually t the inspira t B S A h a d h l f the o f a l a r a r u r s w t awn ck th om ica ays tion that knowled i m h b h p t w h a a e o e s h a r v e n o ve t o e n o ple yrs urable ge the suffere for s o t p f m b t a f h u e a e h k e r l n c e e ir sued low ause y d honoura g t h m . T , D M o h o e h r a a r n a . a n l o o n t d s u u s e g r l h a ble a , is ble what you should be doing .

Speaker , Honourable Members , is that we are in for a Mr. My fear , withdraw The ANC said they are going to very rough ride in 1990. armed negotiations and that there is a need to intensify the from k s s - onBlac more It mean all know what this mean . We struggle . ng laci s neck mean it , more means It more violence . Black brutalising of more planting , means it bomb indiscriminate communities

Attacks Inkatha

and the destruction of homes and

families .

further targeted will be even against Inkatha because is not going to wait for the ANC to come to its sense .

Inkatha is going to get on with the job of negotiating with the Government , and with whomever else is prepared South African to negotiate .

I so hurt inside because all this is so totally unnecessary . Dr. Mandela and Walter Sisulu and others are now out of jail and more are now coming out . Every organisation has been unbanned . The ANC could have returned to South Africa and shaped its destiny here among the people . They could have participated in a newly - emerging Africa South to be really legitimised as part of the new future . The ANC will not succeed in importing a new future for us from abroad . They must come in from the cold .

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Mr. I am so committed to one South Members , Honourable Speaker , Africa , over with sovereign Parliament which will one an rule which electorate elects it on the basis of one adult universal franchise system , that I must participate in developing this

Let

there now be Black unity .

insist that the ANC returns

home

to

one South Africa .

Let there now be

Black

consensus

The whole of Africa is needing a about putting South Africa first . united come South Africa . us to Future generations now need Let us find a together in sanity and in patriotism and in honour . conflict to get and formula out of Black - on - Black internecine Black- on - Black violent

I say to Dr. honour him

destruction of honour .

Nelson Mandela that I have a great love for him and I indeed . I expect great things from him . We have

campaigned for his release because he is who he is . Anything and everything I have ever said about the ANC is said as a heart - felt plea for what is good for South Africa . What I have been saying today about violence and about the ANC is constructive criticism by There one who came forth into the political world from the ANC . must be an ANC conference in South Africa this year , otherwise the ANC will have to attempt to enter as politics and negotiate something alien out

There

is

there

in the outside world .

nothing

that is happening on the ground and there is nothing that the South African Government can do which can destroy the prospects of victory now over apartheid . There is no fear of failure to destroy apartheid . The only thing we need fear is our failure to put our act together and I once more hold out my hand of friendship and say let us talk , let us negotiate each with other . I again appeal for unity based on the mutual acceptance of need for a multi - strategy approach in finally dismantling in and finally securing the best possible future for apartheid everybody . Let the insanity and the immorality of Black - on - Black confrontations now cease as we are in the very sight of victory . the