State terror brings slaughter in Boipatong Buthelezi - leader of inkatha thugs THE BOIPATONG massacre last week show the stark reality facing the black masses of South Africa. De Klerk's regime has been trying to force a settlement with the carrot and the stick - the carrot of a share in power for the black middle class, the stick of violent repression.
The police and army have worked hand-in-glove with Zulu leader Buthelezi's reactionary Inkatha movement in murder and mayhem in the townships. The aim is to demoralise and intimidate the militants; to make them think there is no option but to negotiate a Neison Mandela lousy deal. That lousy deal with enshrine the veto of the white minority.
The Boipatong massacre was the regime's response to the strike of one million black workers last Tuesday. Because of the massacre Nelson Mandela had no option but to call off the Codesa peace talks.
But the struggle now faces a turning point. At the base of the ANC there is a determination to fight. Either there will be a mass mobilisation to defeat the racists and their Inkatha accomplices; or state terrorism will demoralise the freedom movement and it will slide toward defeat.
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