FEATURES
Wan be
unity with the smaller Black Consciousness tween systems which succeed one another..
forces. Only Mandela has alluded to the one has to accept the need to go through a
Jemand during the past three months. Link lengthy prcess of transition' (Marxism
this to the ANC's equivocation on majority
"lengthy process of capitalism is just what De Klerk's party of Afrikaaner business want. They would do it without the ANC and SACP's collaboration if they could restrocture the African market at
this to the ANC's equivocation on majority
rule, nationalisation, and the alienation of the homeland protestors, to see the dangers.
The timing of any govemment deal with the ANC, and therefore the SACP, will be set by how seriously De Klerk views the
hame and throughout the continent hy them- selves. But a political settlement is necessary. for example, before the South African bour- geoisie can join SADCC or the OAU, and get rid of the extra costs of importing Westem capital and paying premiums for white skills,
collaborators
electoral and security threat from the white ultra right, as against the pressure of the
a view. em the white
masses. Yet, while the Conservative Party is defying the govemment's death squad in- quiry, campaigning for one million white votes for the 1994 election, and planning a "Freedom Manifesto" in May or June, the ANC Icadership is trying to defuse black
and militar i
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nomeland
Implicit in all this is the nood for the non- racial and black unions to be depoliticised,
protest Who will do the policing of the black masses?
which is just what has happened under ANC
influence of the COSATU leadership over the
past few years. This was demonstrated by
their subdued presence at the December Con-
TER SINNSO
der AN:
newet th
and co-opt bureaucracy and anned forces.
White politicians are calling on the ANC
to speed up establishing internal branches to
while ANC quell the
bureaucracy in Lusaka is doing a survey of
exiles to assess the costs of retum. The
White politicians are calling on the ANC to speed up establishing internal branches to
wrence
ference for a Demncratic Future and their al-
the worker's charter proposals to a liberal constitutional rights
tempts to relegate
plea.
Constituent Assembly now
mis way "l
will accept 1
tirins hack door dealing and propaganda by
ANC national conference inside South
Africa is only scheduled for Deceniber 16,
and decisions on the workers' charter ae
only scheduled for September. The im-
mediate danger is that the ANC leaders will
allow De Klerk to exploit more "popular" homeland leaders
future Buthulezis
launched with the ANC leadership's blessing
whom he could substitute for the ANC and
delay and compromise any democratic settle- ment. as Pretoria did with the DTA in
Kiera
no. the ANC-SACP leadernin have ec.
ANC leaders. Yet, instead of initiating the call loud and cicar for in immediate constituent
freely elected on
franchise, and directing mass protest at this
the mine the v
The demana was absent to pollcy statemen on neontiann» December, when the Conterer atic Future called for it in 11- sibian ections and the nerd fo
Namibia.
The Tories' nightmare, our
dream opportunity!
a universal
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