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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 16, 1985
begin to identify collaborators and enemy agents and deal with
them. Those collaborators who are serving in the community coun
cils must be dealt with. Informers, policemen, special-branch
police, and army personnel living and working among our people
must be eliminated."
This is precisely what has been happening! The single-minded aim of those
seeking power was openly expressed by Thabo Mbeki, the director of informa
tion and publicity for the ANC, which is supported by the South African
Communist Party. He wrote the following in a column in the August 13 NEW
YORK TIMES:
It will not do to argue that our struggle inside South Africa is
permissible only if it is peaceful•••• We will emerge victorious
in this struggle--however many people we lose in the process.
The July 30, 1985, AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE DIGEST reports that a "proto
revolution" is underway in South Africa, but that liberal Western politi
cians and news media are deluded as to what is occurring:
What the all-powerful media is either ignoring or simply lying to
us about is the role of Soviet-sponsored terrorism in South
Africa. Indeed, South Africa has a proto-revolution on its hands
which has escalated to the terrorism phase. Terror is used in
the early stages and throughout a revolution to force the masses
to go along with the revolution's campaign.
And, to be sure, terrorists are encouraged when the media focuses
on their acts and reports sympathetically about their cause.
Indeed, it may be argued that not Pretoria, but the U.S. media
and the U.S. Congress, are to blame for so much recent bloodshed
in South Africa.
International interference by do-gooders in
western governments and churches have incited increased violence
and encouraged rebellion. These liberals know nothing of South
Africa nor of the complexity of the apartheid question. South
Africa is not Alabama and apartheid cannot be "dismantled" tomor
row or in twelve months. Recent liberal action and pronounce
ments calling for the "end of apartheid" only serve to heighten
tension and encourage the radical terrorist element••••
[The] fact of Soviet imperial aggression in South Africa should
be the central focus of western concern in the matter. But, of
course, it is not. The well-oiled Soviet propaganda and disin
formation machine is humming along. Moscow's "useful idiots" are
at work.
In the riot-torn townships there are instigators inciting the people to
violence. The August 12 LOS ANGELES TIMES ran a gripping article detailing
the abuse and hatred leveled at black policemen in the townships. Many of
these men, their homes destroyed, have had to move their families away for
protection. The testimony of Detective Warrant Officer Templeton Sibaca,
42, a 16-year police veteran in Daduza township, was most moving:
"I never once thought they would turn against me after all I had
done for the community•••• I had joined the police force about 16