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BRIEFS
7 killed In attack
- S ven people died and
everal were wounded in
B1 ck town hip violence in
South Africa, police id
Saturday. In one incident,
poli e aid worn n wa
killed and even other peopl
were wounded when an
unidentified attacker to ed a
: grenad into a funeral crowd.
Official apologizes
A federal mental health of­
ficial apologized Saturday for
racially insensitive remarks.
Dr. Frederick Goodwin, head
of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse
and Mental Health Ad­
ministration, said his com­
ments at a Feb. 11 meeting
were "carelessly phrased."
When omeone talks about
"primate tudie and then
mat the link to inner citi ,
unfortunately it carries the
connotation that there goes
someone making a link be­
tween Blacks and monkeys,"
he said.
u.s. detaining
Haitians �ho carry
the AIDS virus
The United States is hold­
ing up the entry of 230 Haitian
boat people .who may be
eligible for political asylum
because they are infected with
the virus that causes AIDS, ad­
mi nis tra tion offici al said
Thursday.
Meanwhile, the House
Judiciary Committee, ignor­
ing a veto threat from the Bush
administration, voted 2i-12 to
impose a six-month
moratorium on repatriating
Haitians being detained at the
U.S. naval base in Guan­
tanamo Bay, Cuba.
White South
Africa to vote
. on their future
South Africans were left
gasping at President F.W. de
Kle rks political daring
Thursday in announcing a
snap re fe rend um on his
reforms within weeks.
De Klerk laid his own
political future on the lin by
vowing to resign if he 10 es
this battle.
South Africa's 30 million
Blacks once again find their
fate in the hands of the seven
million whites, as white
politicians geared up for a bat�
tie for white support that
promises to be one of the most
crucial conte ts in the nation's
history.
African National Congress,
clearly taken back, i ued a
brief statement condemning
"the notion of racial and ethnic
referenda and any exercise
aimed at giving whit a veto
over the future or our
country."
But if refrained from
directly criticizing de Klerk,
whose political fortunes are
now inextricably entwined
with its own.
Pan Africanist Congr S
of Azania (PAC)
statement b for th
48 h session of the Un
·Commission on Human
Rights Geneva - 27th
January to 6th March
1992 delivered by Dr.
S.E.M. Pheko under
agenda items 5 & 6
r. Ch rm n,
De pite the n id of the in-
di enou ric n people by th
South Afri n coloni t minority
regime; i terilization of African
women i p din of the di -
o AIDS amon th Afri
ni (S.Africa) the regim
ed through a highly ophi u­
cated campaign of deception to cre­
ate a climate of euphoria and fal e
hope that it' di mantling aparth id.
The regime i on the contrary
reforming partheid, notwith tand­
ing the fact that this vile ystern i a
crime g i t humanity according to
the 1973 United Nations Convention
on the Supp ion and Punishment
of the "Crime of Apartheid.
The South African regime has for
instance, tinkered. ith apartheid
la uch repealing the Land Act
of 1913. But it till keeps 87 percent
of the total I nd are of the country
for 13 percent of the white privilegea
minori ty population. Africans till
wallow in the quagmire of poverty as
a result of thi rand - robbery.
The regime insis that the whites
acquired this land "lawfully." The
truth of the matter, however, is that
the land Ji grabbed from the
African by rmed aggre ion,
colonialism and fraud. And of
course, to this ate thi African'
country which was colonized by
Britain remains a colonial scandal of
thi century, manipulation of inter­
national law and decimation of the
true his tory of this African country
- AZANIA. This African country
w colonially named South Africa
on September 20th, 1909 through a
tatute of the Briti h Parliament
called South Africa Act 1909.
IN 1991 THE South African
regi me murdered over 5475
Africans. That i 15 people per day
in the so-called Black-on-Black
violence. This is, in fact, "white-on­
Black" violence.
It is done through Buffalo Bat­
talion 32 and mercenaries from An­
gola, Keovoets from Namibia,
Renamo from Mozambique and
Selous Scouts from former Iari
Smith's Rhodesia.
WORLD/NATION
rejected a
general amnesty apartheid nd
The campaign w well-or-
che trated cam� i n of � ption by
th South ncan regim nd i
friends; It h re ulted in the prem -
ture lifting of n tions nd the in­
volvem nt of orne mem rs of th
international community in exer-
OU H I 0
been illeg By importing weapons
from the Uni d S t 0 Am ric .
In 0 m r 1991 two court c e
involving a South African arm cor­
poration and ecret gent were
rd in th E t rn Di trict Court,
Phil delphia. The two incidents
were:
- USA Government V. Arma­
men Corporation of uth Africa
- USA Government V. James H.
The State Department announc d that 3,403 Haitian refugees had b n returned from the
Guantanamo base, Including the , who sat Thursday on the deck of a Co st Guard cutter for th
trip home. Caribbean leader gathered for regional summit talk aid recently that they would
eek a me tlng of foreign ministers of the Organization of American State In Washington to
consider stronger measures to re tore Haiti' democratically elected Government.
ON JANUARY 27,1992 the day
this Session of the Commis ion
opened, the Secretary-General of the
Pan Africanist Congres of Azania .
was arrested by the pretoria regime. •
The police also fired on a crowd of
over 1000 people protesting against
high rents, electricity and related'
civic matters.
The regime' force prevented by
force thousands of prole ters enter­
ing the Ennerdale Stadium in Johan­
nesburg to be ddressed by the PAC
Secretary-General, Mr. Benny
Alexander. ' ·
On January 29th, 1992 two days :
after thi Commission sat, the per- ,
sonal law office of the 2nd Deputy :
Presidentofthe PAC, Advocate Dik­
gang Moseneke was bombed. TIle:
roof of his office in Pretoria was :
extensively damaged. Advocate t
Mo eneke had the previous night ap- I
peared on a TV program in which:
PAC demanded a democratically:
elected Constituent Assembly uper-:
vised by the OAU and the Untied I
Nations. :
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On January 14, 1992 a 6O-year- t
old African was beaten to death by a :
group of Europeans because hi :
female dog had mated with a:
European couple's male dog. This t
victim of apartheid and colonialism:
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See COUP, 8-4:
A campaJgn 1n1ti&ted by The Africa. Fund.
��S1rI()� 4: Who are the victims of this apartheid violence?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ANSWER: The imag ot: mindl ss wholesale tribal viol nce is
a li • Th violenc is v ry sy tematic. The minority r gim ha
targeted peopl on the cutting edge of the freedom struggle:
labor, ch�rch, and civic eader. There are also military tyle
massacres of innocent people but there is a consistent pattern of
cor activists being killed. Many of them wer involv d in
township level negotiations to try and stop th violenc.
��S1lI() 1: How many people have died so far as a result of
the political violence in �outh Africa?
�SWEIt: More. than 11,000 people have been killed as a
result of the violence in south Africa since 1984, over half this
number since Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990.
()�S1fI()� 5: How is the U.S. government involved in thi
violence?
QUES1lI() 2: Who is resportsible for the violence?'
ANSWER: The Bush Administration has sent Inkatha more than ,
two million U.s. dollars. We must stop George Bush from u ing
our tax dollars to fund Inkatha killers.
A SWElt: The regime of F.W. De Klerk is responsible for much
of the violence. In the two years since Nelson Mandela walked out
of pcison the security forces hav directly kill d at least 421
peopl and injured over 4,000, according to statistics from the
Human Rights Commission. Hit squad have killed many more. In
January 1992, the Johanne burg Weekly HAil produced army
documents detailing the military' effort to establish, finance
and run coX rt hit squad that target d local leaders and
organizations sympath tic to the ANC. One r port to th army
G n ral Staff set out how "cultural organizations" were used to
"create conflict" between th ANC and other black groups.
According to the Human Rights Commission, black vigilante gangs
hav accounted for an estimated 5,471 deaths since the middle of
1990. The Commission reports 53 a assination of political
organiz r in 1991. The gov rnm nt has n v r fully investigat d
the hit squads and the department that ran these hit squads was
still listed as receiving funds in the 1991 budg t document.
What can I as an Individual do to help stop the political
violence in South Africa?
First, demand that Pretoria end the violence by flooding the
apartheid ambassador in Washington with calls, faxes and
letters. .
Ambassador Harry Schwarz
Embassy of South Africa
3051 Massachusetts Ave. N. W.
Washington D.C. 20008 Tel. (202) 232-4400
QUES1rIOl 3: I nIt it true that Blacks ar killing Black's?
�SWEIt: For over 40 y ars th policy of apartheid has been
to do very thing to keep Black South African firmly oppr ssed.
Thi ha includ d as ault, tortur , and murder. The minority
gov rnm nt has al 0 work d to incit black to fight ach oth r.
It cr at d nd continu to financ ten tribally ba d hom lands,
including the KwaZulu homeland oper t d by G tsha Buth lezi.
Buthel zi form d Ink th , a mov m nt he u e to run the KwaZulu
hom land for the Pretoria r gim8. Inkatha and Pretoria's polic
ar r sponsible for mor death than anyon 1 e. B cau e Inkatha
i an organization of Black South Africans, th killing ar
dismissed as incid nts of "Black on Black violence", but Inkatha
in fact is a tool of the Government. '
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Second, Write and demand the U.S. stop the funding of
Inkatha killers.
President George Bu h
The White House �
Washington D.C. 20500
Third, during the week of March 28 to April 4, hold a
candlelight vigil at your church, school, or
a Federal Building, S.A. Consulate, and strike a light for
peaceful change in South Africa.
� The.Atr1ca Pund, 198 Broadwa.y, New York, N.Y. 10038 (212) 962-1210
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