Democratic Palestine : 11 (ص 31)
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regime is not a reformist regime...On the
contrary, it has gone further than any
previous regime in South Africa’s history
in an advance towards the implementa-
tion of the essentials of apartheid... The
least important reforms (which some-
times attract the most attention) such as
allowing a Black to actually share your
park bench, your restaurant, your foot-
ball field, and perhaps even your bed,
are part of a larger package deal...de-
signed to imprint race domination finally
. and irreversibly into South Africa's social
fabric
«Botha has proved to be the most
efficient sales representative of this pac-
kage deal...What is actually being sold is
final solution...Over half of the African
population have already been proc-
birth...Botha the reformer has put new
energy into the resettlement program
the veld over four million African
souls... The very foundation of apartheid
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intervention...it is during their tir
the Black political opposition has fel
heightened level of brutality.
of the Bantustans, the defense of White
cohesion had to be carried out in com-
- munities which, although segregated,
interracial sex and marriage, etc.) These
mechanisms no longer play the same
important role as they previously did in
perpetuating White exclusiveness.»
_ (Sechaba, February 1985)
__ In short, the aspects of apartheid
which the regime contemplates remov-
_ ing are no longer necessary, for White
domination and the exploitation of cheap
Black labor are now __ structurally
implanted. Developments have proved
the validity of Slovo's thesis with martial
_ law being the culmination of Botha’s pur-
ported reform moves. What apartheid
now needs is brute force to keep down
the South African version of the Hitlerian a
laimed foreigners in the land of their
which, in the last two decades, has :
uprooted, transported and dumped into
__- the Bantustan creations and the frag-
mentation of South Africa (with one of .
the fragments, covering 87% ofitsarea = —<i—st SS
and 99% of its riches, going to the
«Before fragmentation had reached —
such an advanced level with the creation
| were sharing common urban and rural |
territory. (Thus the need for laws against
the swelling tide of the majority's oppos-
ition.
«Call to the Nation»
The size and sustained nature of
the protests show that an increasing
number of Black South Africans have no
illusion that their freedom will come
through reform. Other features of the
cillors.
Leaders who advocate peaceful change
obedience alone. Workers’ strikes have
increased the past year; for the first time
political strikes have been launched by
major Black unions.
The mass upsurge was the basis for
the ANC issuing its «Call to the Nation»
_ in May, focusing on concrete means for
consolidating the people’s power in
struggle: making it impossible for the
regime’s agents to enter Black
townships; forming popular committees
to replace the puppet administrations;
expanding covert structures and armed
struggle; and preparing for an extended
general strike and possibly an armed
uprising. While the ANC sees the strug-
gle as a protracted liberation war, it
views insurrection as a means of making
1985 a real turning point in the battle to
defeat the apartheid regime.
lence, similar to Latin American death
- are running short of arguments in the —
face of the regime's terrorism and
- Botha’s refusal to speak even with Black
_ leaders who are involved in civil dis-
Ensuing events confirm this possi-
bility. Even the state of emergency has
so far failed to quell the mass upsurge.
Funerals as political manifestations con-
tinue despite the ban imposed on such
gatherings on August 1st. Protests and
clashes with the police are ongoing
despite widely imposed curfews.
Palestine and Southern Africa
- same enemy, same struggle
The mass advance in South Africa
provides an example for all people
struggling against injustice. The Palesti-
nian revolution feels a special affinity
with the struggling masses in South
Africa, for the enemies we face are much
the same. Despite differences in the
modalities of implementation, both ‘Is-
~ rael’ and South Africa are colonial settler
states, built on the dispossession of the
native population and institutionalized
racism. Both exercise state terrorism -
shooting down demonstrators in the
streets, arresting and torturing those
who fight for their rights. This official rep-
ression is supplemented by settler vio-
i a eee ee
squads. In early August a prominent
Black woman lawyer was assassinated
at her home. She was to defend 16
United Democratic Front activists facing
treason charges. The statement issued
by the «unknown assassins» reminds of
the threats of ultraright Zionists to rid the
land of ‘Israel’ of Arabs. In South Africa,
the assassins’ slogan was: «Those who ®
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