Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus South Africa prepares for siege by Blacks by Antero Pietila the Baltimore Sun Johannesburg almost every week now there Are news reports about sabotage attacks against South african government from Power stations to Railroad More and More gun towers have begun not Only along the fenced perimeters of strategic but also along the runways of civilian and two of Johannesburg popular tourist Vantage Points the 882foot l Strydom Tower and its slightly lower counterpart in Brixton have recently been closed to the ostensibly because authorities want to upgrade the Security of these radio and television transmitter in the an average White South african probably still leads the and most secure life that can be imagined almost anywhere on unlike a resident of for in he does not need an armed watchman to guard his House at nor does he require Iron bars on the windows of his ground floor a Security precaution that in new York City would be an absolute a member of this country ruling White minority can still walk almost Day or without fear of being in while most Blacks on poorly lit Side streets on the fringes of Johannesburg commercial District pass a White in sulky a surprising number of them obediently Good White South Africa is clearly preparing itself for a roadblocks and body searches Are an almost daily occurrence now on the main roads leading to Johannesburg ghetto suburb of Mil lion under the National key Points legislation designated to protect Strate Gic installations of All including commercial ventures even private companies Are now required to form employee squads to defend their plants against possible and government authorities Are Quick to detain or ban any person or organization Black or White might endanger the continuity of this country White supremacist both the Security Branch of the South Afri can police and the outlawed african National Congress Anc which is headquartered in London and has bases in Zambia and Tanzania View the present situation As a prelude to More serious guerrilla we still consider this As armed says John a senior Anc we Are going to lift the struggle to a higher at the present says Kobie who Heads the South african Security Anc is a serious but Small organization that has neither the manpower nor the Logis tics to pose a grave threat to the government in in even though Anc sabotage activities have increased in recent the organization probably poses less of an immediate threat today than in the Early when it managed to operate three secret training centres inside South the 69year old Anc is the oldest Black nationalist organization in All of after decades of peaceful pro it launched its armed struggle against the South african government in since that Anc has had its ups and it was largely written off in the late 1970s As an ineffective Mili tary organization until the spectacular attack last summer on South Africa sensitive Yasol fuel processing the perpetrators of the which caused than million have not been while it is impossible to determine How much support Anc has inside South it has visible strongholds in such major townships As its symbolic Lead Nelson who is in jail on Robben Island off Cape is regarded by most Blacks As their most prominent National Manatini and Alfred general Secretary of who were inter viewed during the recent organization of african Unity conference in both refused to talk about the groups military Manatini that the big Gest problem that curtails the activities of us Shonto we size the Spear of the Ancs military is the Lack of staging you need rear he said in the Nairobi according to Jan do of the South african Security most of Ancs sabotage activities Are coordinated from Mozambique by Joe a former Johannesburg Law yer and the Only White in the banned organizations top a dedicated communist who slipped out of South Africa in 1963 after the government banned is believed to have masterminded the Yasol attack last elimination of Slovon was probably one of the chief Aims of the South african commando team that six months ago raided three Anc bases inside leaving 13 Black activists had quietly slipped away to East Germany Only Days Dupreez estimates that Slovon has some training guerrillas at his other estimates put the guerrillas strength As High As regardless of the actual its strength appears too Small to pose a significant threat to the Pretoria government As Long As the Overall Situa Tion in apartheid ruled South Africa re Mains were that to change because of Mas sive1 civil if they can Only manage to get in Here and Dis Perse them throughout the in a very Short time they can put together a hell of an Dupreez in he added that if Anc had a free hand to train and move around cadres in South in positive that the White people of this country would not last for even one that is Why the Security police Are the strongest critics of those who favor relaxation of South Africa Laws that restrict the movement of its Blacks and Force them to live in strictly segregated housing which Are usually located outside major cities and Are there fore easy to any relaxation of those Security officials would make it easier for Anc guerrillas and Possi ble other Black groups that believe in armed struggle distribute arms and at assures do who Black riots above Are warning signs to White South even housewives Are learning to use has 19 years of experience in these the Black people Are so infiltrated by the Security police that they cannot organize anything on any scale for any period of that is no empty South Africa Security system of layers of agencies with sometimes overlapping duties is so formidable that nit Hato a leading Soweto says that if three Black people one of them is sure to be an the tentacles of this machine also stretch to All sensitive White Organiza How pervasive they Are is indicated by the fact that three out of the six officers of the 19731974 student government of Johannesburg wit water strand University turned up As opera Tives of various Security if the Security apparatus has become More effective since the 1976 Soweto and hundreds of South from businessmen and leading academicians to journalists and Community activists of All have their telephones routinely tapped and their mail one reason for the stepped up Security is that the South african govern ment believes it is under a coordinate Moscow led total this is part of the East West Strug Coetzee said in a recent interview at the Security Branch head quarters in this struggle is not about Reform in South Africa it is part of the communist that is the official government and military Dupreez offered a somewhat different the african people Are not comm he referring to the 1976 Soweto he we take it for granted that there would have been an uprising in this country regardless of whether communism existed or the Soweto riots which throughout South Africa marked a watershed in what now seems to be the preliminary phase of Black armed struggle in this As Many As mostly Young fled the country to escape punishment and Many of them ended up in Anc the pan africanist con Gress which in 1959 had split with Anc Over differences on such questions As the role Whites should or could in the overthrow of continued experiencing internal the pics military be came less Active and has continued to be so even though Dupreez thinks it still May have about 300 trained Ger sports All the with Complete coverage and informed comment on National and International sporting Winnipeg free press Home delivery 9570550 Liberal party of Manitoba nominating meeting Burrows constituency october 1981 pros Vita Hall 777 Pritchard at Arlington big 4 sales flooring this family Hasgood reason to this family has More reason to smile Lan a photographer telling them to o you there confident about their financial sure Treyve worked hard for that but from the begin Treyve had an ally a 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