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ing to be HILTON: HIGHER
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Th far, a major trength 0
our column continJ to be our
willingness to seek iq>ut, feed­
bee ml articles from readers,
scmlars arx1 practitio�rs.
Two years ago, we too a key
1ep when we began actively
seeking iOOividuals am organiza­
tiom interested in workingcl�ly
with m aOO o�rs with regards k>
cultural reaffinnation, aocuracy
nd consistency in news
ooverage.
Since that time we have
printed several exciting 8I1icles
from readers througOOut u.: na­
tion aoo world.
For example, Ken SmdgrmS
of Detroit wrote a two-column
piece titled "Education for Self
Auoromy." Oint Williams of
eorassa wrote a three-part ar­
ticle titled "A Soldiers Hero -
Summer Memories - Summer
Lesson," � Scott, a Spelman
graduate living in Nigrz, West
Africa, wrote a moving articlc
caJJcd "Some Notes On Education
In N"tger, West Africa. "
11IE WEEKLY readCIShip
of � African..American press is
well into � millions. At the same
�, � readelship of the larger
daily newspapers � dropping. .
It' our belicf that there are
tlx>UW¥Is of positive stories to be
written about African American,
African Caribbean, African
Latioo, Asiatic African aJXl Con­
tinental African academic
achievement
likewise, there are tens of
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A e ee poll revealed t
78 percent 0 Americans Interviewed
ould be unl' ly to re-elect their
embers of Con if they were
amon the 0 to nde . From the
van point 0 African-American
poli tic, ever I of the wor t
offenders were prominent BI c
politlc n: H rold E. Ford of
Tenn , with 329 chec .
The wo t African-American
offender Chicago Congres man
CharI y. Despite hi long and
dmirablc record a defender of
trade union nd progre sive
Interes , Hayes w di covered to
have written 716 overdrafts in I
than two years. Hay w narrowly
defeated by former Black Panther
VIEWS, OPINIONS
, 0
have 1 t confidence in the politi
of both parti within Co
Throughout much of the p t
decade, Con ' "job rating" in
public opinion poll bout
on third n g tive. But in the P t
four years, the political y tem
uffered through Ii of candals
and hoc .
Congress hiked i aries during
an economic reces ion; Democratic
Congressional leaders Jim Wright
and Tony Coelho were forced to
resign; Senators were implicated in
the massive saving and loan
candal, costing taxpaycrs billions of
dollars.
Finall y, the public fiasco of thc
Clarence Thomas hearings outraged
U able to get by
only because millions of pous
who ed to tay home have no
entered the labor m r et, bringing
home e tra incom. Others have
fallcn into the ranks of the working
poor, and even the homeless.
Millions feel an acute sense of
confusion and betrayal. The y tem
which had once been perceived
the victor over the "Evil Empire" w
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Dr. Manning Marable is
Professor of Political Scimce aIIIl
History, University 0/ Colorado,
Boulder, "Along the Color LiM"
appears in over 230 'Spapt:I's,
inteT7UllionaUy, and a radio veniolt
is broadcast by over SO starioIU
throughout North AmericG.
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outh African" fe" ndum
wa the gho t of ·aparth id
By DANIEL MAROLEN
It's over! President F.W. de
Klerk has won the "for whites only"
referendum in a close fight with
Andries Treurnicbt, an extreme
· apartheidist.
But the referendum was a racist
gimmick purported to maintain
Afrikaner domination of South
Africa. It was also a ghost of
apartheid ecause the vote was
ethnlc--and a return to apartheid
which is believed to be a tnmg of the
past.
In reality, the referendum ,was
only for the Boers who also call
themselves Afrikaners. It excluded
all the colored races from voting.
Either way the vote bad to go, the
Afrikaner were to be the
beneficiaries.
A "yes" or "no" meant victory for
one or other of the two .Afrikaner
parties - the Afrikner National
Party (NP) or the Afri kaner
Rightwing Conservative Party (CP)
led by Dr. Andries Treumicht.
THE AFRIKANERS (Bocrs),
only 10 percent of South Africa's
population. hold all political power
in a multiracial population of 40,000
souls!
The white racists of South Africa
all had a chance to cast their votes,
and have expressed their wish to led
de Klerk go on with his so-called
"reforms," which are but a enjoy the
vote on the country's most
mementous issue of ending or
continuing wi th issue of life or death
to them as a people ... They are the
"silent majority" ... But the silent
majority said, "Aluta continuer
The country is back at Square
One. The outcome of the referendum
says, loudly and clearly, that South
Africa is a white man's land, that is
why only whites had to vote.
The other 85 percent aren't white
are "uitlanders" (foreigDCrs) and the
Boer rulers of the land are the
dominant political group that lord it
over the indigenous inhabitan and
other immigran ho are not of the
Boer stock of racists.
The world awaited the outcome
of the referendum with gusto if it
were the cure-all (panaCea) of all of
South Africa's ongoing violence,
threa to civil war, genocidc and
AmuJgeddo1J. Yct it as not a
remedy to end partheid, but the
e calation of an impending
unprecedented war of the nations
and ideologies.
.
THE REFERENDUM WAS
only for the Beers for whom a "yes"
or a "no" meant gains either way. To
the re t of South Africans it was a cul :
de sac.
A "yes" meant a gain for
President de Kler and his NP. The
"no" meant gains for the CP and
Andries Treurnicht. Both Afrikaner
groups came out with something
gained from the referendum.
De Klerk will now go on with his
kind of delaying tactics to perpetuate
white domination as he has done
since he dragged Nelson Mandela
out of life imprisonment over two
years ago to help him democratize
South Africa.
And Andries Treurnicht i
hell-bound to unhorse de Klerk and
re-introduce apartheid with a
vengeance!
Ad a sequel of th outcome of the
referendum of Tuesday, March 17,
de KIerk is still at the helm of South
Africa' political struggle and'
turmoil, trying to remain in the
addle.
stone untumed in an effort to attain
the presidency of a resuscitated reign
of apartheid ...
But to South Africa's Black
majority, heaven-bound for a
democratic non-racial South Africa,
the outcome means only ardous toil
- blood, sweat and tears.
Aluta continual South Africa
must be for all its inhabitants -
40,000 souls without
differentiation or discrimination.
But, all in all, de' Klerk's
misfeasance, tardiness and racism
have opened a Pandora's Box in the
mineral-rich multiracial country in
turmoil
The extremist threats and
violence of Andries Treurnicht and
Eugene TcueBlachc who leads the
murderous Afrikaner Resistance
Movemem will be challenged arid
met with force by the truggling
native Africans, backed by the
goodwill of all justice-loving people
around the world, until South Africa
joins the ranks of a new world order.
The world must tell de IOerk in DO
unequivocal terms that South Africa
must be rid of his new guises of
apartheid; "protection" of the greed
of white minorities, and his hatred of
majority rule.
And TerreBlacbe's Nazi-fudsm
and voilence must be strongly baited.
And Treumicht's extreme apartbdd
arrogance must be destroyed in tile
�embryo.
All these forms of racism are
extremely raci t malpractices.
They must all go the way of Adolf
Hi tier and Benito Muasolinil
They're bigotry!
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FINALLY, NATIVE South •.
Africans must no end their
human-consuming faction flpta, .. "
fueled by apartheid. They mUll • .. " -
uni te under new leadership to atft a .. :
quietus to racism.
Ye , Pre ldent de KIert hal -.
betrayed Mandela, and hi.
negotiations are floundering.
They're not a cure-all, and mUll
be abandoned. on-racla1ism aDd
democtacy are the only cure-all.
World, the ghOit of apartbelcl
must not take South Aflica
Fo arcS to Dcmoaacy.
OW, LET THE victorious de
Klert leave his dclaying gimmicks
ONTHEOTBERhaDd,hisrival and get South Africa out of its
for power, Treumicbt, i leaving no ImpendiDgcalamity.