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threatened Brazil's zigzagging ruling rich are banking on a new privatisation programme. Since 1981 Brazil has had eight stabilisation programmes and 54 price control packages fail.
ANC leader dies African National Congress Chair Oliver Tambo died in hospital last weekend aged 75. Forty years in the leadership of the South African organisation, he was exiled in 1960. In the year before his return in 1990 Tambo masterminded talks in Harare, Zimbabwe, that drew the ANC into the continuing round of negotiations with the apartheid regime.
An ANC statement said it would 'not permit criminal and nooligan elements and hooligan elements to disrupt the funeral. The reformist organisation Is striving to retain the leadership of radical youth. Last week it intervened to force its militant Youth League to stop chanting "Kill the Boers, kill the farmers' at political rallies.
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humanitarian aid reaches Cuba Ships bringing aid from US charties and radical organisations reached Havana, Cuba, this week. Some ships had to turn back because of bad By Charlie van Gelderen THE MURDER of Chris Hani by a member of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), the para-military fascist organisation led by Eugene Terblanche, has brought to a head not only the critical situation facing South Africa, but the undercurrents of doubt in the ANC supporters in the townships.
Harry. Gwala, the ANC leader in Natal, a region which has seen more than its share of bloodshed over the last few years, has again voiced his op position to the current trend in sitional government of national unity.
This opposition has been echoed by Peter Mokaba, charANC Youth League. He said: ' Yes. we are an angry poopic, we are an angry organisation, we are an angry nation. The murder of Chris Hani is the murder of a people. We carmot take it any longer. We will act. But we will act with calm and discipline. There will be no racial war." There can be no question that this echoes the mood in the townships.
Macbeth Noaha, at 26 a vetcran of the liberation struggle, voiced the feelings of hundreds of thousands: "There's a lot of pain. Not just because of Comrade Chris - many others have been killed before him. Now we should take revenge. Now we should take up arms against the enemy:
Although Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo and other prominent ANC leaders have appealed for calm and not to allow the assassination of Chris Hani to railroad the negotiation process, there can be no doube that they will have to take serious note of this mood when they gather together round the negotiating table.
All negotiations now will have to be held in full view of the people. No more behind-the-scenes deals. The demand now is for carly elections, with one person one vote, but even such an clection will leave the liberation movement at a disadvantage, with most of the media firmly in the hands of the Afrikaner National Party or big business, and the security forces still under the control of the white elite. Right wing plotted Chris Hani's murder Mandela: under fire in the townships