South Africa's white liberal opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, has formed an alliance with chief Gatsha Buthelezi to fight for what it calls 'the dismantling of apartheid by non-violent means'.
The Convention Alliance, as the new called, was launched at a 150-strong conference in Johannesburg last weekend.
Buthelezi's chief contribution to non-violence his Inkatha movement in armed vignante squads to attack and break up anti-apartheid demonstrations and strikes. he is one or South Africa's most hated DECK coma donaters the apartheid regime.
Buthelezi was responsible for widely pupaused attaçks on Cape Indians last WELC conducted at the behest of the South African security wedge between Indians and the black resistance to apartheid.
the white Progressive Federal (PFP), with 27 MPs, now claims 20 per cent of the WHILE vote South body is Africa. It is best known abroad for the work of susman. JULE celebrated South Africa's lone white VUpositionist MP. Rising support for the party is a product of growing ealisation among whites verkrampte' hardline, apartheid's days are numbered The PFP is therefore looking for new ways of protecting white privilege.
Helen Susman clarified her party's objectives in a frank with the Daily Telegraph published last week. muto-raci policy 'Our is for governineal not simply for transter of power trom a rotten white minority black majority government', she said.
Set aSUC outrageous racist assumption inat black government will be 'rotten' and the PFP's objec- to preven black people securing their rights through the overthrow of apartheid. This is the long publicised in the West as a reacon of progressive opposinot to apartneid, Mas chosen this exact moment to forge links with aDal theid's most detested colEqual The notion of multiracial' government in 'multi-racial' as ODDOSed 'non-racial', society rightly overwhelmingly rejected by opponents of apartheid concedes the taise orinciple on which apartheid is based. namerv that South Africa, its parliament, its government, and its society, should be organised on a racial basis. The black opposition increasingly and rightly asserts the vien that South Africa is one Africa consists in a unitary nation. solution South state which citizens have equal rights.
Helen Susman's proclear just how important these principles aic. She 'constitutional devices to protect minority groups ... we have what is known as the minority veto whereby cent of MPs consider a Bir is destructive of their interests they can exercise a veto against it. ' This conthat the white minority vote down any measure not to ineir nking. A minority, and not the majority, would determine the policy of the country. t is a proposal which is the very opposite Susman finally gave the game away, and show-