Coetzee, ( divisional commissioner of the police in sowero starea Derore une state of emergency was declared, "In our operations the South African police the South African defence force The last time a state of emergency was Introduced in South Africa was after 1960. Then it lasted for 156 days and effectively suppressed the revolt.
Today the situation Is very differenț. The depth and spread of the revolt is que crasis of apartheid rat deeper, greater.
Inflation in South Africa is running at 16 per Photo: THE VOICE Mrs Kassam and her three sons South Afriea's population Botha government tried to introduce a 'second tier' of based on black councillors mayors in the townships. By these means it hoped to develop layer collaborationist black comBut the elections for these collaborators positions boycotted.
Last September, when the regime introduced rent rises the already inadequate serthe black townships, the revolt 450 deaths. Repression, however, has not quelled the movement.
It is no longer simply well-known names such as Soweto, Sharpeville, Langa which figure in the headlines.
In the last few months, black anger has been directed the regime's collaborators in the LOWSHID More than 360 police, 240 councillors and evacuated. Most of the VALID townships are 'no-go areas - known locally as free zones - for whites.
There more blacks in South than whites - for the first Guic In the history. In Soweto last week workers at the Ikwez bus depot forced the company to provide buses take the township to Protea where 105 young blacks were or charges of attending an illegal meeting The links between the ARTADICO youth of the townships student organisations, and the trade unions are continuing to deepen. The ex tent of this organisation is unprecedented in South African history. Power The United Democratic Front (UDF) now em braces 500-600 student and community associations. Its heterogeneity enables it to throw up new leaders to replace those murdered or arrested by the regime.
In the last few months, black anger been directed at the regime's collaborators townships. More than 360 police, 240 councillors an‹ 27 mayors have had to b evacuated. Most of the townships "no-go areas - known locally as free zones - for whites. The police enter only in armoured cars in massive force , The young blacks face this force with intransigent courage. At the funeral in Craddock, of four activists murdered by the death squads, they carried placards sayın. "Tambo, we demand Al 47's'. : (Tambo is the leader in exile of the African Na tional AK47 is an assault rifle).
The radicalisation to day is far deeper than afte Sharpeville or the Soweto rebellior 1976 geographical spread, higher level of black self organisation are the beginning of a prolonged crisis for the regime.