GUSA an 11-year-old schoolboy Alexandra township, near Johannesburg.
was throwing when my tooth came out. I was bleeding a lot and Africar National Con(ANC in London said that the of emergency imposed in had already hidden from view a great deal of the killings, detentions and forced removals. these measures the apartheid regime are trying to totally crush the democratic movement in our country'.
The state of emergency was imposed against background of rising mass struggle the growth of United Democratic Front which now has 22 million members and organisations under umbrella, the formation of COSATU, the trade union confederation of more than half a million, with the fast-growing miners union as its backbone, the mushrooming of community organisations.
The apartheid regime needed attack this massive movement at its root. The hugely cessful strike on May Day and the wave of struggles townships which collaborators with the apartheid regime were assistance to it from outside the country.
regime 69,000 Mozambican workers, signalling a new offensive against the frontline states which has seen the murder of Samora Machel, heightened military attacks on Mozambique and Angola, the killing of anti-apartheid leaders in Lescro and a massively in crease repression in Namibia.
Last month, the courts confirmed that 1987 would witness a marathon trial of 19 anti-apartheid activists aimed at outlawing the UDF.
The press censorship laws proof positive that despite such repressive measures, the regime has been unable to stem the tide of the liberation said the move was 'a sign of the regime's desperation. It is unable to quell the nationwide resistance to its policies' Since the imposition of the state of emergency, all sections of the democratic movement have been engaged in struggle against the regime. From 300,000 students on strike or locked out of the schools in their fight against repressive regulations introduc ed in July; to over 600,000 workers including 300.000 miners who struck in response to the kinross disaster and to the 30,000 miners who took strike action against Gold Fields;
the saluatiot townships where authoritative "street comexist Al the El present the UDF, calls broadest scale grass-roots organisation ever. Despite the sharply in creased repression the regime has not succeeded in breaking the mass Extremely important has been the development of the struggle in Namibia, which has seen mass mobilisations and the formation of a new powerful miners South African attacks on the 'frontline' states have been he formation red formation of DADCU (South Africa Development Coor dinating Committee and the sending of thousands of Zimbabwean troops to the Mozambiquan government against the apartheid backed Renamo terrorists The apartheid state can make no real concessions the mass Every so-called 'modifica tion it has introduced, such as to the pass laws. has had its counter-policy rendering the whole reform illusory. In the case of the of the Group Areas Act sooner had it been floated than was it shelved. Violent repression endemic the : apartheid system As Winnie Mandela put it 'our country faces . grimmer days ahead. It is facing more more, violence.
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