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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 13, 1986.
arlier in the year7 Mrs. Mandela was quoted in the Soviet TASS agency as
elling its correspondent in Harare, Zimbabwe, that the Soviet Union acted
a beacon for freedom-fighters and was a true friend of all oppressed
eople fighting world reaction.
Mrs. Mandela, it appears, is far more politically outspoken than her
imprisoned husband.
(The phenomenon of the more radical spouse has been
observed in other historical cases as well.>
In a series of recent
interviews he granted in prison, the charismatic Nelson Mandela has
sounded almost conciliatory--yet uncomprom1s1ng on the key issues of
power. He told interviewers:
"I want to impress this on the whites of
South Africa. Although we will be the majority, that doesn't mean the
minority will lose their power, their participation, their economic life.
I believe that the whites here, unlike anywhere else in Africa, belong
here. This is their home. We want to share that home, and share power
with them." But concerning recent reforms, he said: "The Government has
only been talking about pin-pricks.
It's not my ambition to marry a
white woman or swim in a white pool. The bottom line is political power.
That's the only thing we're talking about. Not these trivialities."
It would appear that South Africa's trial is already in the advanced
'beginning stages.
Letters to "The Plain Truth" tell of the incredible
barbarity of the "liberation" now underway: the horrors of the "necklace"
m4rders; the abduction and impressing of African youths into revolution
raining; of township businessmen and taxi and bus owners forced to
contribute their goods and services free during political demonstrations-
in short, the wholesale intimidation of the majority population to the
"cause."
One "Plain Truth" reader, a foreign-born white, said he was
"terrified of the consequences of the wanton acts of premeditated freedom
ighting."
Recently a letter was sent to "The Plain Truth" regional office in Cape
Town by a black minister in South Africa, an individual who had once been
a "freedom fighter" in Zimbabwe. Here are excerpts:
IT
was born in Rhodesia, my father was a minister of religion
\ ;nd I was educated in a missionary school. My schoolmasters
thought well of me.
I went to the University College of
Lesotho to study political science and became interested in
socialism by reading Marx, Lenin and Mao. I was convinced by
my masters that Jesus Christ is not the Saviour of the black
man, but the .European's God.
They also convinced me that a
country can only be liberated by fighting for it••••
When asked whether I would like to be free I eagerly said "yes,
of course, I love freedom!" I was subsequently sent to Zambia,
from there to Tanzania and eventually to Prague University for
two years and thereafter promoted to Moscow to the Patrice
Lumurnba University•••to study political science and labour
administration for another two years. These universities train
third world terrorists to establish socialist Utopias, Marxist
governments and to colonize the whole world•••• While at that
university I met the present President of Angola and the
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