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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Congressional Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
Telephone: [phone]
TO: Mr. Philip L. Christenson
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate
WnqbingtnD rtS 70510
Phil,
5 December 1988
Enclosed are a few articles by Simon Barker
that we could locate. I still think you should
check with CRS;, they may Subscribe to these
English-language publications.
Deputy Director, Senate Affairs
Office of Congressional Affairs
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Bad medicine
CURIOUS dilatoriness,
? hinting at a weakness of will,
seems to have overtaken the
monetary authorities as tw-
ee of a surge of consumer spend-
accumulates by the day. The
in supply Is going out of con-
, the, balance of payments ? un-
threat, credit creation p
ce, and consumers - the east
:thable Of creatures - are ally
rtgaging their futures as qiough
rest ra were fixed fo ver.
II this s
ation, ano
if the curt
3ur trouble
sap their 1
it from the
re money. It
th African way
reckless.,
le Reserve
givate sector
wing anxiet
?s rise. A fe
e saying
e of one-h
necessary gnat now
he need f r a rise of
Is another shrge of
er erosion o /the val-
cy, anothe round of -
as work try to
es, a d another
civil ervice for
ome the
, profligate
being urged
omists, with
et interest
ago, some
in Bank
ould send
he oppos on is not ec
political. The October
electio -4 lie ahead,
,ional Pa y on the rack,
wings-7- decently off-stag
quite out if sight is the lo
le fl of the State Presid
patien with free markets
tring and he is surrminde
tdvisers ho want the country to.
iver tO a iege economy with. the'-
panopl of controls. This, per.;?:?.,
s, is not e time to piit
ey talk
nomie
unici-
the -
d
but ??.7,
? .
cal thumb into President Botha's
baleful eye.
President Botha will not look
kindly on monetary ? 'licy that -
hurts consumers in adv nce of an
ithportant election by aising the
coit of their mortgages id the cost
of 11 ing on the nev -never, as
South 'cans are so find of doing.
Much the moment of the Con-
servati e Party deny from a per-
ceived dpeline in th standard of
living of Irge sectio of the white
communit. A renew I of recession-
ary conditi woul ominous
political im erton The Reserve
Bank, while comm dably indepen-
dent, has shoWn i in the past not
to be entirely oli ous to the politi-
cal calendar, abd the political ef-
fects this time oft unwed economic
stringency are ely, to be more
than ordinarily leasant
Yet there is n ble alterna-
tive to.letting in t rates rise to
dampen deman ' ing banks'
cash reserve ra inhibit their
capacity to lend so e merit, but
this impacts on fl ed invest-
ment. Import ntrols ii ght -pro-
tect the balm; of paym its for a
while, but the impact ould be
inflationary. Th requirem its for
hire-purchase' 'ght profits ly be
tightened - 1''% mortgage nds'
-and three-year nsumer c t is
the type of cial slackness t
ot in any ev
the, loopholes are
int is that control
has slipped once
ntrol needs to be.-
this country
afford but
'many and vani
The essential
Of money suppl
again, and that
7:asserted quickl
?,:,.
, s ? ?4,--''':= . , ;.... ,'Fil .
SOME Affairs alidtniiiiii' ;_, that tiiiiiiini.'Of infoiiiatiiiiiiwki
tionk Minister : StOffe17161.1iiincomtsassa'-fieedOinit the media
has askeda4Siiiiith sAfrieni ..,,,,..'4 and freedom of speechis". indivisible':
subinitnheir proposals for im.':-.7I=T-fronifPublic-moralitY.' ? . ,
in e` country's taiv' 'Next we offer' fai
WATCHING THE Reagan
administration play out
its last cards in Southern
Africa brings nothing so
much to mind as the final scene
in Roman Polanski's "China-
town".
The Faye Dunaway character has
been shot dead at the steering wheel.
Her father is slobbering incestuously
over her - their - daughter, and is
getting away with the murder of his
son-in-law.
Jack Nicholson's J J Gittes, the
private detective who unwittingly
made most of this possible, is led
away by his assistants. One of them
mutters the immortal epitaph:
"Come on, Jake, it's Chinatown."
When Chet Crocker leaves his
office on the sixth' floor of the State
Department, at a guess next Janu-
ary, a similar parting line will be
In order just before the credits roll
and some enthusiastic new sucker
arrives to star in "Africa - the
sequel".
For Africa, especially the South-
ern bit, really is the "Chinatown" of
American foreign policy: an alien,
impenetrable 'place where outside
intentions go wrong in almost per-
fect proportion to their worthiness
and where only the profoundest cyn-
ise.advice. for. t
next US. preside
leave
t ?
?
SIMON BARBER in Washington
?
?
not inherit -7. power at the end .of
, "?;.,..:Tti
successors will be ' able to do any and 'however we may construe. our
the :colonial . interlude:
better? They could do worse (and if .
they are appointed by President interests there."
If Kitchen does have a fault it is ? The Soviet rethink of Africa at a a other worth,. the two main-pur-
. . ?
Michael Dukakis; 'they almost cer- ? that, in her attempt to have both theatre .for superpower rivalry is poses, of sanction- at understood . by
tam! will than to turnto the wool. . ? candidacies read and digest her ad- ? genuine; though :more 'complicated their sponsors- ? blackmailing Pre-
vice, she finds it difficult to call a than is often portrayed. In any event, toria into "genuine" negotiations or
ic (France comes to mind) has any.. .par,a1).. .ly sober. doyenne of Washing- vice,
? a spade. Which is one reason US policy has been. far too reactive provoking revolution- are nOt cur-
real hope of staying, canalata,atl", .ton s Abric.anists, Dr Helen Kitchen, ..
had to summon Koch to deliver ; to Soviet actions and far too slow to rently achievable and- will unlikely
sane: d herew. ' stud"'' "Some Guidelines. ? P.
. ' ? "'s' ' ' in Africa th-Next Prudent," the place
important counsel -? leave . develop relations with African states be promoted by the desperate mea-
;
ernlur-,7 upon one yery ?sinple idea -- less lal -lielp,A.4"."-ond .: particularly if you :ads, commercial as well as politica , Democratic .candidates. -- .;.., ?.:.-,:. . .-
haven't,?sitecifically been invited - . regardless of the Soviet factor. , ? ;,.".?.' ? The nekt'US'administration'would
and' Whyi'i.,Many of her other key : In this regard, *successive US ad- -' be .fir wiser to recognise, however
the place-alone, if you can possibly -.. when such relations are in US inter- sures' - currently', espoused . by . the
Let us sum up hew Bouih. , .,._., - ? ? ...
??, it: Kitchen'texcellenV",advice`J'tnrtiPe?
nd.-InternationalShidins.-- .7-1 .,.7,.
Iiublished bY the Centrelor.Stra ?
will probably lookwheni'the-Reagaii.7,' pointa.are,:, phrased as rhetorical . .-. ministrationehave -put ? excessive -, %uncomfortable, that a stalemate ex-
more ','-'. as exprestied 111'1985 by Noelt,..,
era ends. What will Washington,. in '-'.- -.Kanh,--the..then ..prinopai .Asetottottv; ; questions,' ??:-.. ,,.?', ? ? ? ? ? ? store on how - African governments - ,.-- ists and that Western energies Would
. all its governmental branches; fief-. -.- Since,- as :..well she knows, the - . vote at the United Nations and in ' be much better spent keepuirlifies of
Secrefalor-Defence for Interns, '-',.?
? doms and ideological factions, have,: tonal, 'aira:,, :;::: rr ,::,., .. -.. ? . ... - ?-, ,..-1,i.'?Wrong answers to her questions will : ,other international forums on non-; ,.,.communication open with ail 'sides,
z.' We...iiiiiit'r-not,.111'11 fit of
'that detective Gittes'ia!!ChinniOsvii? 7, :,r :threofCAerVour;' iieric piiiiiiilead to yet another "Chinatown" de- . ? 'African issues.. - ? 1-?-?'? ,. ? ". ? ----:-..;.; the South' 'African 'government and
achieved over the. past eight years: :".? .?,
i, to -. do.. mare,zVnouement Smile four years hence, I. ? ....- The purpose of having .relations ..i?:i'the ANC inCluded,?;whilchelping.the
did not? ? , - ':.;?: c,-.1,...... . .-'-':, .iV,I..,,,.,?-?. !goad garmitee than she heaf.,-wa.2.:tiltrust she will not mind if I translate ? . with other states is not to 'ensure"-, .diSerifianchised - "Piepare :them-
For ill America's*:attemptsZ,"t--; ,.,,?s '?-.' .must not; -lie rasliiiiiicalculatioloc;::1he fruit of her considerable wisdom = '', unswerving loyalty . in the General ..:.v selves' for, leadership :roles intPoliti-
.some high-minded; some less so s-'7' to' the SovieVihreat to us -Interests hi. ''..:-Aint? ? declarative sentences. Thus . Assembly or other public utterance,. ::. cal; administrative,. economic and.
surcilaildopanidvothcan.er;.?..'"?,..,:sOctieertylp.,heres,:. ,. .of...a.- post-apartheid,.?....:c ,
, Sixties, perhaps More so':-4f, ,:.--''''.-t-,`,1 '*themselVes
?
as truculent and as entrenched iniW;-.'
cure the region's ills; Pretoria will be -,-.;... Aftina",t.0440reacittillthat..apoparenf Afrit...:1:.!,:miiiiiijnshelO.tt.:rnistc;:,? it::icoramdiesco;o!t,,maSodfoerallotvz
blossoming fascisniasIt Was. In the , ?
?4-- ,--??,=.4,:- ? :Lt?-? - ?caws a
threat;be'dnubt,the'ria
t 1 '' ' ' - - .:With:it- ??
? 00-gi? fighters,' "democratic," ? ? ..,? . - .. .
'.ripti!...aPitalist4'.;,9,4..`pro-conimunist,''_iT:-T? -only6be counterproductive Note ,..- - .?,',.; (.:3-i`...t!-"Note thmild'alSo be taken".
'...????sitIclid the
tOoaltsteti:Ptbur
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...,P...P. ) ..F.,,. - t..rat ? --
" Mozambique; under increasingly ? ....; rist," while ban-..': . ... ....t. . .,. ? ? , .trecent et .enunseV.thatttlWlong.
simulated managenienawRbeless. ectibtilitiln ' political rhetoric and ' ? ,?.,:; '7terixf ? Interests 'r of the 'forces 'for
... .
Aiiithinking7m -''shorthand on both , .. . ,.. ? . ? ,
? it country than a charnel VA , ' ,;',- ...`:chinge-in SA will not b0s,iii,erved by
'?-national borders."-:',..TIF'.-? ' ... , _:.4 , ..--..,,i:Jsides of Atlantic rarely mean in. itchen asks one. question that I ..",..actiOns calculated to demolish the
1..-: Barring a miracle;,.NliObla ? 1012' --,.. 11,thliiii, without ever ionfront7. zj,.,..rdifrica What they mean in the Vest. -.?, -will not attempt to answer for her. It ?-, Infrastructure of - the. regio_res--. in to Closer to independence than it..74:,: ing tlieSOilets.directlYblAfrick"the?P:,-The'liality- distorted by words of -. ' is bold enough. as it ?standst.-. 1 ;:.- -rdeed,:Africa's. most sophisticated
Zhas been fora decade. And in Angola; .? Western democracies 'prevail- ::7:this kind Is that most African re'''.' ' ,''' "TO What extent should ?US'pOlicif'.:economy.,":,_ ,' .. ? 1...ti.'?..1., ,''
thli -.Week's talks in London notwith- :there by force of our values, by help, :::'-';rginieS' and, their oppositions "(thiii int.',F toward Africa' be .influeiined-..by_the -...'..Unforturiateli:Pars Establishment
.,stiiiitillig, the 'war will. be ' playing ? ? ing where helpis needed and asked . slightly amended form-might apply4... consideration that some-12% .oLUS..? .though-sht is, Kitchenls'adviee-:will
:itself' out : in an interminable end-- for and'WotherwiSestepping back ?.: to SA, too) are still "largely preocup-?:.;;citizens are of African descent and ? ... not be heeded. Americans Mall poli-
:'gani. 1 e,.. probably at historic levels .of and letting Africa find her own desti-',-.-?'. 'pied with the distribution of privi ''.t.hat black Americans increasingly', ticarpersnasions areAnterfilitiOn--
?-blOodshed. . -3.. - ? ny. Which she will surely do, anyway,. ? lege' and power within' the middle:''''': identify with , the. commitment ot.."ists M'heart. The "Chinataiiie'syn-
l7-1s.'.1t. conceivable . that Crocker's' whatever policy %ie. here may . set,' . class elite' that inherited",- or did _ ! .. theire.ethnic kin to bring an end .ito ? drome. Will:continue. i ' :Z.f- --
.? ,. .... .
privileged white minority rule in
SA?" ?
This consideration has clearly
been extremely influential and is the
primary reason the US currently has
in place the broadest sanctions of
any of SA's major trading partners.
By raising it Kitchen deftly sug-
gests that the next president will be
obliged to devote a lot more concern
to domestic black aspirations if he is
going to have any hope of having a
Southern Africa policy he can call his
own, much less one that escapes the
deadening dialectic of the sanctions
debate.
Kitchen herself evades the dialec-
tic by refusing to confront the issue
head on n - again a wise manoeuvre
- but rather dismissing it by insinu-
ation.?
Reagan's successor, she says, must
recognise that "conditions for negoti-
ation do not exist'on either side of the
racial divide, and the black majority
lacks loth the organisational cohe-
sion and the military capability to
launch a classic revolution '.
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curate, fa
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ganda and
& weighed on I
's the light of s
' be gleaned fro
ten conflicting
, On its own
offering the Sovi
- both SA and the
the opportunity..
themselvesJrom
Itrass.."Citing" !Soviet
;,.,;?Gorbacheira terms f
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EORGE .:SRULTZ, tthe`t,
American7Secretary of
State, is waiting his time
trying. to :broker a settle.
.cded.. message ?- ? eStinianS in the MCOied !erPti3r.
? 1; ieS. SO Sap Dr 110.017 K!,1'.;.
' Mr Shuttle Diplomacy
. ? . . gsr-arement will not
The Isia
meat between Israel and the Pal-
EFENC,E , Minister. Magnus' -7vient Into Angola in 1975. SAivants negotiate, ' ger argues, untillt
believes the -Palestinians to be so
exhausted that they will take what--
ever deal they are offered. ?
He further considers that this is
probably, the best course open to Je-
rusalem To which end; in his view,..
the insurrections on the West Bank
and in Gaza should be quelled as
quickly as possible, overwhelmingly
and, if necessary, brutally. ?
In the meantime, it is essential
that the suppression be kept out of '
the public eye. It is better to inflame
International- passions-by -throwing
television cameras out than to let the
cameras inflame passions by staying
in.
Malan has sent an in
signaL to the Soviet
about war and peace
r the SA public, who
diers and the money
golan excursions,
e is in cod
ot know what is
beyond their
n's signal
a ba
Info
tarY
cealmen
Own m
Info
gitaMstialhtalea sal
vicitllif not Insist
? government in'An
not insiston 4
thiridei that' two
tigoVernment based
tWeen theruling
FSavimbi's? Unita, -I
-,'pos.nbillty that the
.....mightbe the excl
?
.: As there wM be .
ht until:Unites d - no.prospect military, ctory, it 18,
0 nation gevernm in Luanda are. time for the liticians to talk-.
., met; this addresses ty as much ? 'big. If that is what Malan's =wage.
? as it seeks a place the sun for the means, the sooner. they start the ,
fore= SA has ba since It first.;? better: . ? ? . ' '?
? . :? ? ? 4 ? ? .-?? - ' ". - 7.1. '
i??? a. ?
guing , the, estimated 4000 Cuhmktropps
Union Ut of Angola, but they can Only go
Ango-. ;Once 'Unita's military offensive has
vide ,'?? ended And once there is agreement
for Ma-,.On a with awal, the focus -
uch of' will
because : .bia, no
ppening versa
rdem Whethe
ot be as part o
d of ac- to be
on denied ?.falan's
of propa. ed suggest!
it must be -is willing
ts and in settlement
tion as can -.down Soviet
be and of- and elsew
? also willing
what SA is both have
uld? provide, . to. take
Union with ; :the
extricating..
olan ..,-,bides are
der . Mikhail 5: 4 Mr/ -reali
tch to a se
approa
of non
SA will
an An
as
41
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,
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ent In Nami-
thelOth an*
mplementation.
gree to that, too,
olan deal remains
e follows repeat.:
t the Soviet Union
nsider an Angolan
Gorbachev scales
perialism In Africa
USA and Angola are
compromise.-- and
their readiness
anal discussions
deal may 'exist:.
t political atU-.
reflection of
mill-
ty hidden 'from :
SA's, Insistence'of ?SADF
for
an attempt to :
It is clear
wing from
still heavily ,
borders1:1 a !
forces and :
ding sophlk
t prevent 4
decisive:
sides see
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av tis
a.
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nuitting"Af-:- th.e:Pehlic-
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a .prci-SoviaritiOliein
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one. He added hide Unita
e to be a that, far
eal ? be-. Angola,
Jonas . ? committed
,the.ii,t The buil
deal .' Soviet .w
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SA's Imo'
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a
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HE return of Helen Stizinan as , policy' statement from IICT) the
,Aspealter,,- on ,Wits' campus right to express dissent b ,."exer-
7uniarks.n.Welcoine step In the :ctsed in such a way that it does not;
sirehibilitatioi:of the umo.ers-, ?. limit the freedom of expression and:
z"-PiftF'as:aliberalInstitution, , ? . ? 'speech of other people
': The decision to allow her tcispeab . We repeat,our suggestion that the
----wart no doubt made easier by the. university, having repented, should',
fact that no election - at least, not commemorate its lapse into Miber- ?
1.1
anithat Matters - was in the off-: ? alism by sponsoring as an annual
Jae- The danger that," say,. Denis" event an "Unpopular Speakers Pro-;
Worrell; whose hatefulness to some :gramme" to which it might invite
.nfthp.iu,rnnus community Might such provocative _PM&as Chief
Demands-formrinternationalcorr-
ference should be rejected, Kissinger
continues. Instead, once order has
been restored, Israel should be ready
to announce unilaterally what terri-
tories it is prepared to cede and un- ,
der what conditions,- namely, that
the relinquished areas mustremain ' problems of temperament, but he is
entirely demilitarised and their new no morepsychotic than his Israeli
governments not be Controlled 'counterpart, or Kissinger.- Or even,
the ? for that matter; President Abraham
-I ? ? ??"- ? Lincoln The latter, America= tend
?riminuitically to forget, suspended a
' swathed this country's most cher-
n sum: "Th_ere are n_onawards forrn bhvtl libeities War.?at the start of the
IO w .
giumuger euuined igu muumuu), ? While this is in noway Intended to ? to ct into itscal,.... llonsA ...how. low. :' ,, - , ? ? . -. .....:77.7.i..r,r? . . i ? .........; ? . ....&.....--...? xie'l
dations in. a mwt.thilast week with . condone ' the extraordinary, new to survive: ., .....??' %,.-;,,,:,? ket., i?...,.65,..,,,., Those who yetTiet in militating for jtw denim. y
what watatiataa lamina
American: Jewish' readers, none:of ...i 'round of ,hannings'''tfle arrest of '? ? , ? --,',1,? ?,,' , : ? ??"'l f17?-. '''''' ' 't ... genuine Pliucal rights 'will meee''' - s' - e t=1" - South-Africa
whom appeared to. have been .espe- - ArchhishoP? Desmond Tutu -or the .-. while cease to be heard. Their over- .:,to coe9 nes , X . . . ,
? ,,. t :.-: : '. ... ,. funding wiuheeut.eff,They ww ,..;.,but conservativewhitedissidents as
'None called his suggestions aberra: .-
bloodsheC4- '" ' . ix
daily purturbed by what he said. ? remotion of the ,Orderly Internal '
tional - or a recipe for disaster and meats under threat have throughout
history
ys Bill,tendedthetoftict.behals thavet thgo.vvere govern- . standindngsbice they cannot grasp thzi-4, - :be. Odvenferedtimthefre, thereeompriassofkin ?I "mmat major.' ? 4;uteptamweiHt? 7lait,3i'ibe;:.r.rtaiWliiiii*ttitettilitarianli-liiaY be
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they havethaeventtbleesstargchaerebasofwaundysvo'i ... zehth, w!ltrcornoubietiakthrte be conyi..andeeththet: t2,"anaindtvidual_. avoids theicriatr representative
Had
' Had. he be" talking !oboist how- much much the .same map if not to 1,1,r . : - making what pahlthey do succeed ht ,mends. ore. ? riro-,:q government, bid or
same degree" `11.13.14'1r.- 0.4 " - .7 inflicting redound to its own benefit., i , owo?,oieu and . hopes.. ,,iev.;t.'.'inadness";",,Itkis,,riot.IWsov
ever, such criticisms -- and worse
would have flowed with a vengeance:: . ? . The temptation teconfusennpoP0^,.%. - All the evidence, which the sane; 1..: ? t ,.? ?..,,.... ?,,,,, , ,t..4,:itfu.?,;. biD4vhav,woulat.beclinicallyicertifi-
' -My..point?is not to remark on the ! Aar or unpleasant behaviour with de-. - tioneers stubbornly continue to 1g- ' , ? -..,:.._ : - . ._?iiy.?Api ? able would he folipietakiicto.lieeede
different treatment accorded SA and :viant mental processes also has a. ?nore, suggests. that What Pretoria,: : ., ' . .. . ..........-.. ' ..-: ? . 7 .-7,' , --to the demands : of foreign Capitals,
Israel, but . rather to highlight the , lt,'ng histet7.. . .7:i*., . ..-?:. ?has in mind for the coming decade is: ':. ', , .ii,-,ii ?,?-- 7_--,,', 6.... cAtt,. 1.v,,-,..4!. ,,,:loWever-:;:wortiti;-00.04deMands
tionar for as it has over ? - ? . .. ? 7--,..1-.1, -...- ,s...t,...c....,.:,,,,..- - dons Ilimley's..l1Brave?Newdtiorldt'? I -4.. ihelState nieahweile,'"ilWill'fa0,-"C sane Is a 'idiffeient:iiiiitteKentirely
absurditY-oll'iloc:lerilln4PretorkCirra: 1 .? ?: ;', k., ..? ??,?,',1;,.,,,, ; .., (:.,, ;; , : . the fascism not of "1984" but of Al ; :_..,,-,,,,- ?,..-9 ? : .. ..-? :-.?,? - -. ,. . .'ektuighi, bEiggie,:autuerieieu",..., ,and
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SA government is 'mad as Helen .-.1:. n'placee tore the Soviet Union the : . hausted majority is to be ?co-opted.' 1 caused by senctionrandetheroxterilktreideninefatietlenotilelibertitely
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the past few weeks. o say that the: :;,- .., , ... ,..1..,,i, . . ..,, I_ ,- The powerless and increasinglY ea': 1. .tempt: so to: allocate -the"- hardship,4froniblee -FmOltieArgl.statesnunilike
Swimag.4t,d on American radio thei,:?,? =fusion has often been deliberate. -? less by brutality than by the delivery; i nal pressures_ . , '7.71.tistibark on_liolliiietthf_ nt:gWfmdt._
other, daymierel - the issue:'-?, In the 41S it has rquAlarly been ,ttri : 7-of-material happiness.' . r-,40::' : '-''' I- ly selected wdoirto .-6714-Jatheleofei'deliblktionzeapeNally
.frustrated opponents, is dangerously ? truths - among them that Pretoria's them that they do not fee!, =loud from Merest of thriworld,it. least iii4F,MMNION411ARBERls: ;on gen-
spurious. ? .?? .
examplesanctions;I:for ' - be,o:' it need treatment .e.44.,?- ?Vil 1. 4r,":,;', proving, they will be te happtto?loirt fully In the Sanctions' charade);,, ''-' *aid ilt000fceolkt'ionfftwal
"brought to. their ...r r .. ' .:' ? ? ' In the., context' of ''51tr this ' blinds': , wait and see what's going to happen; government will..beetringthenedyettir; 'effeetiVease Glieniyikat appears
where It been energetically fos. be ones in Congresi in particular, to. 10 years from now are going
tered by government's increasingly a number of -rather' fundamental things are going so m better for ---'? 'entail- of7neittotarbolation5_,IbilildgedieffectiVe.li,
pool:ton i of?. yet iumore,i ??," those who refuseto*WMfullY to coWt-r'llf People see their condition tin-, Westan'aMet if they; eve.rAgreetikr.4. Tethecentritry.SaneletelmfAhe
The State President may have rthle sense and have been taken iii,,' "' In return for not complaining that .r.,. ultimate4;oodierillitANClinOTOU, . ihtsfole tefla'ATio MintA
I that P W Botha and cringing ad- everybody knows we have -the bed. in an almost. too 'honest interview" V:Par 'from being:vienlie.neifeitlie,sivewhilinhig4 congrreasen"'iity
- In particular t raises the posaibil-'? 7 accident ? of '. egocentric liberalism: ' - ? AS surdara's Fred du nessis put #: 1 for protection, 91' ''''''''.'"?.101:eliitere . :.haS..___.,...'sPreal.larivel:
? This notion, prevalent in the West, American policy makers the would-- . ..: we need a situation w friple-., ,- forma.- , ; ,--::,.17, 7-?-; a bft?watimate,-g04-lovernmenrs
visers.might somehow - b the apt , system, so it stands to reason that iv with the Washington Postrecently; .. ?effertkof the- ,-US."..Ctinar=a,.(anclatirtheY, should,. .8e4.
? ."*, latest decisions make perfect, if hot.'; about Political Power." . .: .''. ''.:. ? - the cultural' and diplomatiesensee,".?iibitc:1411?imixtOidthintWfm 'Maui on
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. In all likelihood; this procesi,avill,,..t.latestraundof itycigdadigheid_mnst
. _ _ ? ... ? .,.
full consciousness of the Possible : they have little :or.zio say over hose the other old-lizie :opposition *we
ternational and domestic conie:. their country is..-rtui,- the disenfra- 1" been squeezed out of the systent or
quencei. ?? ??. chlsed majority -"will ;receive flux- into -a more ethindiantform at any
z ? As a result of said blindness, Con- ? lay's "soma? the euphoric-drug rate government willinvitenego-
Howard' Wolpe, Randall that held the Brae :new world to- gallons on a newjirderiiid its invite-
Robinson and their fellow sanction gether - the ban *of better living 'thin will he, grateluji. i.9!?e_elit#:di. ?
.eers simply cannot comprehend that conditions, jobs, wages' and schools. . ? ", - ;
?. the target of their obsession has al- Their quiescence will be rewarded as. ,
read factored all the they hope the funds raise.dAprivaintion al-
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I ? A
i RY FREEDOM" is a cu-
C
rate's eggish film, ex-
traordinary in parts,
stodgily didactic in
others. Sir Richard Attenbor-
ough's cinematic view of the life
and death of Steve Biko will al-
most certainly receive an Oscar
or two ? if for no other reason
than the academy which awards
the things will be accused of rac-
ism if it does not.
What its manichean vision of SA
will not do is promote any original
thought about solutions. Afrikaner-
dom does not emerge in a charita-
ble light. In fact, it is safe to say
that most audiences are likely to
be converted, if they have not been
already, to the cause of full-scope
sanctions.
7 : . The scenes of Crossroads being
bulldozed and Soweto demonstra-
: ? t.ors being gunned down are inex-
pressibly harrowing. Further-
more, they are so very nearly true
. that they will be nigh impossible to
refute. Horror can rarely be dimin-
ished by footnotes. i
' Nor, having personally attended
every day of Steve Biko's inquest,
t can I quarrel with the depiction of
i 'the security policemen who caused
him to fail the Extensor Plantar
reflex test: - .. ? ? ? -
:&'-.I? .: . .- . :* ' :1 ?
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t,.
It did not matter to me then that
Why SA
will be a
risoner
f its
istory
0 WOODS... escape in tedious detail
SIMON BARBER in Washington
Kruger's 'successors:are slicker :, camps and two world wars.
and better protected from public :?? ? While the parallells between Na-
exposure. Opponents do?not die in zism and apartheid may be the
their own fates, not brutalised ob-
jects to whom and for whom things
are done.
It is a pity Attenborough felt
unable to use his medium to paint a
fuller picture of the man and his '
philosophy. Instead, he kills him
off less than half-way through the
film when he has served his pur-
pose as Woods's authenticator and
tour guide to the obscenities of
apartheid.
I do not know what Sitio would
be asking of the world if he were
alive today, and it would be worse
than condescending to ascribe any
particular prescription to his
memory.
But that, functionally if not in so
many words, is precisely what
"Cry Freedom" attempts. Its sub-
text is that Biko, like Woods, would
be calling for the total economic
and political ostracism of his coun-
try. , ? ?
Perhaps, in desperation, he
would. Yet reason ? as opposed to
the raw, xenophobic emotion pro-
voked by the film ? suggests that
such a course will not fulfil his
dream. Indeed, that it will deprive
black South Africans of what tools
? - ' they have to achieve."' what .be
.., such obviouslyattributable ways,stuff of 1 irresponsible rhetor- ? chose American actor to ?
theirthese)eople might, in the bosoms
'wortlraoticing now. :They 'come .
But let Us ' grantthaf things are ,'", that,,-' like ? Denald Woods, whose trick is being played., ?- ? .: i,pI9Y.P1A., ?NI" ,n. !command Abe ,
? .,,,:are. :,lensiotr. :of lie',1*Y4.'iinConeru.
. , , . L.= ?? become more su tie- , ., . ? . - My chief quarrel with the film is ? : =ivo y performance, but a
4-acre*" as embodiments of evil for .
' reintheri'can be no mitigation, :?. ',..?. -4tzimom.hr,willv.alsytAkiLsn.i'bet." a.mb..le.tto.
better todaY.: ..It' Still would ? not I ..."-bookniris 'faithfully based on, it . For-US audiences; the man lying-
make "Cry Freedom" unfair, even '' ? devotes so little timeieBiko hint- - .? comatose on ? the' floor of , a: Port. . '.: ;??"7:-.A"'L'Airt,,,--- ..-- 7-rti.;7 771.1-4:7"'
..,itil-1#iii!.;?-',Flif bat In-Y?ii,4" Kru,..-: though most who see it ;will not _; 'Self"' Simply:, in ? the ` film's eft ''.! "Elizabeth jail cell is not only a :' .:: rf--`---.4:?:?.?"r.?.?:?:?.7?'?'-?,i..j.:t ?
kntfP7-? no quarter. as Muster ". make the distinction between 1976-, : ?ternis; le is an infinitely more in;'' '. - simulacrum of Biko.',He is also the A,'. p4 With a .stronceconomf. and, the
, ce..He meritkand gets, none :??? 77-and 1987. There is no statute 'of,"literesting'ihiracter than the editor, ., attractive young intern in-"St Else-'-- ' help ni? access mcaPital which the '
,;:hithe'filiri. In atheoretical Nurem- ' limitations **barbarity. Nor do* whose, 'escape to., Lesotho is re- ? ',' `, *here," the, television ,hostritarukaandinneera '.woninlden314,bInek
birg trial tif apartheid,
ixetai-.?.dereudeuLit dichittek-e At.7 It e one whit of difference that ?-?' ',Counted in ? tedious hagiographic "' 'Series. ' - ? ? . . - 4F t 'T:South Africans can 'achieve .a con- ? 1
to the north, behave equal-, , ?deceit.... . : .-? . , ??? ' . Unavoidably perhaps, the result's ?Ltralust intemstinIthe -companies
irtenboroughlto_atimulate:auch apq . -
easy,' but for whoseinterior Preached'
real ities empathy is not.- , The mina vibrant the Soui AM- .'
? can economy, the more it belongs
ought is il.iteranesting that Attenbor-'
to those without -whose-labour it
Now they s' I disa - I too white SA. at much "Cry , play. B .
Attenborough does not ? find it on an ta ca..on ? ve would not exist the more it is
of families, be human beings:- .de. tieY mcIP ein PSearlis ? pc4dere makes dear. iko Denzel Washington
gle:ra del.etgl mew,- g (aud surely theirs to control. So lone as there
conclusion,*though he does, desas-
latingly * ? ?
1'
Iii,rebiitting?;CrY Freedom,"it
will, probably be said that that was
Uien, this Is now. The da ? before
the opened, Govan
titfilm MfiekI was) ,.,,wastshamining".4,.-5 and thAt'Snilti Awhom,hei(and Western audiences) ; consider that this version of Biko /LA vt?cr374, 4., j?plaev?eni?tt194gly it
released:- :? '., ' ? . 0,, -1,*of j',t ..willt be the". terrible birthright of could ernpithiie TO get inside Bi.:.,..1 / was scripted edited and directed .;!' ,tell,S?a;largesmeasnia ,offidescript
" '''.. t his?cited.fin '10 'livery white baby -born in SA for' ? ko's world Would have been artisti, 4: by , whit*, and subjugated , to a. 11-0Ye thith,,hopeiteencgurage jell-
ears. EiactlY hovim - it hi im- . generations-to tome.: 1,-. 5it" 4 -cally.(and commercially) risky be- white man's adventure story. 4-4.:,,FIcieuthat..will promoteit.he4very
-ble to tell. Unless you hajipen, tWest Germiny;is a prisoner' ot i ' cause it was ,...+.1ind is+ a placelar ,k? ? ? The ;real -Biko's central Misty:, kind of black) subservieBiko
oit the sharp end, atrocity in. its history anus forced to live withiti-', beyond the director's and his audi-.= was that -:blackaSouthY''Africans died try.ing:to. cinrSaf:,11'.1,14 ,,i-
Bo* unknowable to report it .1 :the endless literary and cinematic -. ence's:, experience: ',a place for.::-i?? 'must escape the psychology of vie-' '# qt is that part of the curate's egg -
item:4.- . ? ? ?,..- P r ''' rehashing \MI the concentration ri who* grim externalssyrn,pathy is 03 tinihood and become managers. 6E4- 'ohl,itisrPaElici41,131;10atilome:i
? , ' ,- , ??? ' ? , ,. -1?? ? ? ? .4,- I i- `,. , nv-'1,. t- 14,,?3 ? 11?' ,'?y - `f ,, ? , ,... : S,3#. b. ? 9 - . ' :.... t.:u 14rio4 swo ,
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act is that as a nation white
uth Africans; have done, wrong,
Is that the founder of the black :' *Abet employ, theiti,,, and'; thence,
consciousness movement is em-' 'since mass mdilidagunvnershiP
in e outside world's mind ; ? ?
ickeningly wrong:They.cazry the f...,iouriieT-if was much ? in frankly alien termiimikeurious71,,,power in the state that presently
? t ;of Sergeant tWilken who- ?conyenient,..for Attenborough to, irony when:you think about:it. .finer-41:ML.,7,.!!7:. .1
eclared that even in 'death focuCoa, inf; idealistic white with is even more curious when you h?q, ? ?
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Me.
?.
The wrongs of human rights:
EACH EACH YEAR at this time, the
State Department publishes its an-
nual country-by-country report on
human rights- practices. A quick
flip through its 1 500 or so densely-
packed pages indicates that practi-
tioners are rare.
Take. sub-Saharan Africa
(please). 'Of the 47 countries the
report includes in this category,
just four ? Botswana, Senegal,
Mauritius and Gambia ? techni-
cally speaking afford their citizens
"the right to change the govern-
ment" without resort to the death
option.
Not to pick exclusively on
Africa, the region the State De-
partment designates "Near East,
North Africa and South Asia" con.
tains only one fully functioning de-
mocracy ? India. Two, if you
count Israel without the occupied
territories.
FcsPntially, then, the report re-
? mincLs us that the .,At of the planet
SIMON BARBER in Washington
Oh yes, and on the apparent
premise that whites are more In-
teresting, not to say candid, than
blacks, the State Department ac-
? cords SA a rather longer chapter.
The reason for the similarity is
scarcely startling. Most states,
especially the more recent ones ?
and therefore, obviously, most of
Africa ? are the virtual property
of elites for whom the devolution
of power on anything but their own
terms holds absolutely no thrill.
This is a very simple point and it
should not be necessary, even for a
US Congressman, to have to sweat
through the human rights report to
gr3.3sP
Reserved
?
is a pretty un-Jeffersonlan place.. ???? To. save time, the Congressman
. Quite what this reminder is sup; : ?might ? aimPil read the opening
posed to achieve is unclear. In thei.ft' 'Paragraphs 0 the Africa chapters.
toy, Its purpose is to helpCO=13 Here are two, picked at random: -
to?eraluate who (other than t ,-.',- ',GABON: "Gabon has a single-party
and Israel) should receive Ameri- ' Political system in which effective
can -aid and who should not As a , Peelitical .P.47cycv in ..coanC.c:Inri.Ite.d.A1!?
etieeli.i.-' matter, the the?thing 'te..'' taam PendriTaint to tie marcheoustiT
iarjeiY? -o---- ? ' ? -'?' '.' ? .',..,i . ..tion - restrict candidacy in future
711aprotfotluiendiUyS:abnosharoriLwi:th.. a...,. , . .:..hant7l: .2'.1.-.. presidentialoieio/odfor pi.rese!clenIrsetinatt Bonge rPeasr, .. 1:-. .
-0f its allies may be vit/rt.hY,,.1..m.t7g'.#,...":?; th Of Gabon; thus reServing candi7
concept of good ROvernin t ,.....:.
.
,aimostde,-, :proteria;:triand thewLothittnrc')1014icyl ii.:.!,..iTitisArqgAm....Nye:i.0 iggs President Ju-
-especiallydwiteliglajloaffaced'i.limli;Z:and sanctiotvitinedy th cv.rec.ijoeremereergir:.:
-MOBt Its -thi 1-711alaian
:.thm.orothatewitscienpotweEreuiaconftd. ZonsientderInlYdV.Ja....,r,g71,,i...;itolichaiuorma. in;dToaplin:e
' It differs Olefly from
' '' i!tialiis' ' as before' the chairman .
"easiebmadlnallY-bassidy. get asked their people
iaid6On.?T.'"..,:....tv-,. iron......p.t.0,!??)..?n..., 1.eti. e!ct'l.,4.!..
relatively open Botswana, uses SA
as a crutch upon which to justify;
both to their own populations and
the oh-so-guilt-ridden West,tthein
. Unless they are very small and chronic and very largely self-in-1
blessed with oil or some other . duced economic and political ruiq
valuable commodity for which ? ruin which they could not re
there is fairly inelastic demand,. verse without putting .themselve
countries run as the private fief-. out of power.
doms of a party or some other ? For example aside from an fin(
narrow political elite cannot hope
to be economically successful.
To begin with, the allocation of
resources and capital must inher-
ently be inefficient if the main cri-
terion is to maintain the allocator
in office and perquisites and to
fulfil his absurd ideology or
probable outright victory by Unita
the most terrifying thingthal
could happen to the Angolan
gime would be peace. It would
mean some form of settlesseni
with the "SA-backed bandits" an4
at best a dilution of the MPLA'
hitherto total control.
grandiose dreams.
Without SA, the "internationa -
Then there is the matter of what list" allies would be gone and the
economic expansion does to revolution over. A luta must con-
it
discovered, it can be downright Vittin'tfilnopreneitiFerlhilfarewainsiei
autocrats: As It. Shah of 7.
dangerous.
Dos
la are just as much fictions as
madeil lasted. t ue opS:o ft Santos,
va
countries (Mozambique and Ango-
Interdepende.ncy
Lebanon), would be extremely bad
? It has the unhappy habit of ere- news for; Pretoria, ;and not only
sting new centres of power making from the standpoint of -their being
? their ovnidecisiwis based on inter- : able to laid genuine support to its
etas that do, not necessarily actuate ? opkoneats.:4-0'..,,-z,;
with those of the regime., . f' The': list ithingpSA's: autocrats
? 0 NyERERE sanctioned L No totalitarian, .01 the left of ' need is a stirring example On their
t, wants to see 'the rise ore border of how, the. future: might
.? _ ? I
all levels of society through its sys-. middle of entrepreneurial class or work Without-theist-7 .t.. ;
tem of 10-family cells." omfovanemeinn.dtepneiirdene tpowtraecrife:l. unialib7. a 1--lnytisesu,ihtte. a?.v.e370_04..aexcenizYbigen.t0tpvs_r0.
And so on -*Jr.!. ?
The ; standard; excuse for this ., , surging demand for labour.... , tem [lithe region,' it would be nice
state of affairs can be roughlY.:-. This leads, in -America'CpoileY:mahers Went
summarised ihtie African coen- an interesting ; thought about thir:.; back to their rights report
: tries are the 'artificiaicreations of ' interdependency of -SA's and, and gave some. consideration' to
- the former colonial &rowerevhrits. : region's ruling elites. Very bluntly,, w.hir- its f.iadjeolst are droofy;
? bran
the
they need fhautiviligp ttrilireirerbiliPreYgennInb:eisit4irenosi::.- ,14)a7:t1:11F2,iprecisely the tOiiflthy t.;ingdisc'ELliimileg-iel:11ViittgYat7n7g.-t
people who necessarily ; Ev75::17iinb, : the, Frontline' tby bei;g7yth.x ,ie.!o_th47th., What
..
want to live with one another. l'states;.-ezeeptithe they are:i...4 ,
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IF YOU are accosted by a raving
madman in the Street, it Makes little
sense to adopt his style of discourse
and rave back.
Unfortunately, this is precisely how
many otherwise sensible South Africans
seem determined to deal with Michael
Dukakis, the Democratic presidential
nominee, and his fellow lmbecllesln the US
Congress.
I use the word imbeciles advisedly.
Nothing else comes to mind for a collection
of politicians who can vote, as the House of
Representatives did recently, to attack
apartheid by punishing American entre-
preneurs who do business with companies
that do business in SA.
Without debate they , passed a Bill that
could make owning a Xerox machine a
crime punishable by the denial of govern-
ment loan guarantees.
Last week there was much to-
=fro-ing over whether
advocates basing F-it
fighter-bombers in Botswana to
strike the "terrorist" camp at
Voortrekkerhoogte every time the
SADF mounts a cross-border raid.
Ilse record of the candidate's
May 25 debate with the Rev Jesse
Jedium in which he is alleged to
have made this suggestion is
clear. The man was babbling, as,
indeed, was his opponent.
The relevant dialogue, to
give it altogether too grand a
title, *vent as follows:
? JACKSOM 'The State Depart-
ment has released a repert now
that Renamo, a South African-
backed group in Mozambique, in
the last 20 to 24 months has killed
10.000 to Mg 000 people
? Heinous
"Me State Department has
rather cosservative language. It
says that its the most heinous set
of crimes siou the holocaust of
World War .Two, because they "
were killing without any political
motivation,. just fascist
Now Rename has sonacbases
In-
side of the (Inaudible) in South
Africa. ,
"Would your anti-terrorist poli-
cy include the partial use -of
. bombs in South Africa, to break ita
Rename in the South Africa
nation.
MAIN: 'The it thing we ?-?
ought to do, Jesse, Is pass the
Dellums Bill and start applying -
some real . pressure to South
Africa. And the second thing we
ought to do is stop vetoing emote- '
tiom before the Security Council
on S
? ns mith Africa"
that would imps/ A international
sanctions
sfl asking..
DIJHAKIlli Titers the way
JACKSON: 'I'm asking a very
DUKAKIS "Bur gralrespend--
different kind of
ing Jesse, by saying Umt the first -
steps to be tidcen le stop this !dud
of naked aggress- Ion against its
nelithbaere *It& go* Afriea Is
ftpting im lit to Seethe tcolli we
ham, tq impose tOup-economist.
.(sancUons) an? Walls Africa-led
stop opposing the imposition cd
' those sanctions internationally.
"I want this Country to lead
those efforts, and the way you do
it is through international Waite-
tions and with your neighbours
and allies"
JACKSON: "But the original
JESS
JESS
question wax What kind of mili-
tary action would you take
against terrorists, whether to Lib-
ya -or some other place?
'South Africa is spotraring ter-
resist raids into neighbouring
states. Does the same, terrorist
policy ugly (sic, as throughout)?
relattitreSomiethoAhicataP me'
DUKAKIFs "Well, Pre-laid out
that policy, Jesse. And, yes, one
aswt of a tough terrorist policy
is the use of military force against
terrorist base camps.
"But there are many ways to
attack terrorism. And tee way to
do it is to get tough . on South
Africa, and that means the
DeUums Bill. And that means the
United States leading the effort to
make that an international boy-
cott instead of continuing to veto
resolutions over anima again in
the Security council."
There you have It, Hardly ?
great minds at work, but let's
critique it any way. .
- Jackson opens with a sales of
typically mon bet politically ir-
refutable exaggerations about the
State Departmentl Mozambique
He knows Dukakis supports the
Dellums sanctions package now
before Congress, but In not going
to let this take the wind from his
sane South Africa is his subject,
the aim upon which he aspires to-
the be the leader. The ante must
beD= igth7lutimsite briefing
-book pantries mediums his lima
the the priggish, slightly awk-
ward school prefect he so often
resembles. South Africa? Ah, yu. :
Dellems BM, multilateral actions
through the UN.
'Jackson presses. Dukakis may
favour putting South Africa on the
economic equivalent of Mars but,
unless he caves in and utters the
For the hell of it, I asked the
adviser ? an-otherwise sane indi-
vidual when wearing his other hat
as a policy analyst ? to explain
the difference between Israel's
raids on Palestinian camps and
South Africa's actions.
. "It's a question of targets. South
Africa goes after non-combatants
Israel has gone after comba-
tants"
This is the stuff of political
campaigns. It is beneath con-
tempt, but because it has to do
with South Africa the Republicans
woe't touch it.
, ? Dukakis' even says he will bully
? .? Maggie Thatcher into, toeing his
; ? line. Golly.
Thoughtful South Africans
would be well advised to be kind
to their blood pressures and treat
. this as the egregious rubbish it is.
In Use real world, the place
? Dukakis and Jackson dr not-im
. habit, the tide is Wake against
sanctiersa, imiaercePllet lierhaPe
but efts among Democrats.
- Convention
. . .. . ..
The . worst course is to ' be
suckered' into playing the candi-
dates' idiotic games. Par better to.
? ignore theta while seeking quietly
to ma-opesate with those, both in
, Congress and the professional be-
1
reancracy, who will be keeping a
Kish on policy *serer wins.
Besides, I am beginning to sin-
,. pact the winner mmy be Vice.
. ,.3 President George. Huh. ? What
? ?,.: . with Jackson going ballistic be-
! cause -Dukakis didn't telephone
. ; i? ? ? - him to say be bads:boas Someone
-.- -. ebe as his riming elate, next
.? 10 week's Democratic ecevention
-
'I" word, he's weak on $mith
Africa, a Closet racist. Be dodges
With the cute lilt!. cliche abst
"naked -aggression"
' Jackson presses agent Sudden;
? M Israel forms in mind.,
If belt not careful and fails to
make the right noises about the
option; he's g=fetrio lands
backed into
.t.teraell anti-
? 'Marta it eut tochVrtrgrt,
Antadui :on terrarist base tamps
are ONJ
Game to Jackson. 'Dukakis trim'
to recoup by returning to his eti
nal script Bat It's too late. He's fel
himself be set up, ready to be
shaken down when, once elected,
he fails to follow through.
The "terrorist" language has
since become part of the Demo-
eratic Party manifesto alit to
bear Dakidde's advisers
. -
"A very specific Cannel
one of them told me last w
wouldbe a mistake to say
has ceded anything to Ja
' -A/I arrant Us
,e.???
prosaism to a salsas*
" vised lunatic asylam.,
Ask what am you any about a
?candidate wham main pitch is
that le wM pat Americalmok. to
work when imunployinent has
reached what mast economists
believe is as Irredicibli misti-
me
THERE IS NOTHING new or original about
Mr Neil Kinnock ? a man who thinks and
talks in clichea of stupefying if alliterative,
banality. Neither is there anything new or
on about a politician who is in trouble at
home seeking solace abroad.
It is a game Opposition politicians especial-
ly love to play: making promises they are not
In any position to fulfil to ctple who will
them ?
The resulting warmth of their
welcome in foreign climes is a
pleasant if spurious balm to spir-
its bruised by domestic failure
and discord. And beneath the wide
Welsh grin, Mr Kinnock's spirits
must be bruised indeed.
A year after leading his party to
its third crushing defeat ins row,
his personal popularity among
Britain's voters is at a new low
and his credibility on defence poli-
cy in tatters.
Even if, as expected, be sur-
vives the coming Bennite chal-
lenge to his leadership, his long-
term prospects look dim. Indeed
many of his supporters, from-the
hard men of the Transport and
General Workers' Union to the
soft left of the Gould Tendency,
have begun to wonder whether
deep down Mr Kinnock is just too
shallow for the job in hand.
Dever be ill a position to vote
Fleur de
Villiers
Merely a
sideshow
The view
from London
tics. For the fact is that what the
, Labour leader says or does Is not
With tbe role -of statesman important, nor is bit likely to be so
Med to him at home, it is little tor very tong ine to code.
wetter that he has seized the ?P. What the British Prime Minis-
ter thinks about South Africa is
vital to its future. And her
thoughts at the moment are said
to be not over-friendly or benign-
Certainly
. there was an andible
sigh . of relief in Whitehall this
week when Mr Kobie Coetzee
postponed the hanging of. the
Six, thus reprieving
South Africa's teats= relations.
with Germany anbtrUlget stay
of execution to the
. Mtn the United Statist and a
slew of European sanctions.
portunity to play it abroad, ox-
changinj love and kisses with Mr
Oliver Tambo and hyperbole With
President Katmda, -and
with fearful fascination an/alb:II!
ing across the Zambezi at the
country he refuses to visit; afraid
presumably that neither his mo-
rality nor ? his Ignorance would
emerge unscathed from- the ix?
What has emerged unscathed is
his reputation for silliness. Eves
thme British commentators who
support his position on sanctions
have disapproved of his steadfast
refusal to gain first-hand
knowledge of South Africa and his
flouting of the code on foreign vis-
its by his ad homisiem attack on
Mrs Matcher:
All of which will doubtless
leasbownelanthe_present tenant of No 10
Street who likes nothi
spectacle ser Isgothinato need more. tang*
Kitmock makinga fool of lima rrerg, her wa. beet.
Biped* as his southatrAfriean ".
safari wan an attempt to upstage Rla tribe hopedjoihis own and
her own visit planned for early Ids country's sake, that Mr Botha
next year. Is prepared to give her that prom
Which should be a sabering .Itilikleese mileage over the us.
thought for whits South Africans neck sideshow Man very liegeket
adtpancamme tO: it should sot disgust South Africa'
over MrXlimock5s as-, from the man event,
. But by the ender dieyear when
the sets off on laMpwa eauthess
African salmi as possibly the (sly
.Western leader left:who stM'
? Heves -friendly: persuasion worki
where threat fails, Mrs Thatcher
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COMMENT
Cycle of illusion
1F the British Deputy Foreign Sec- shiftelthe camera focus to Israel
retary, Lynda Chanter, did in- (whe at least the effects seem to
deed say in Harare that she bay been so far less damagum) and
hoped for an end to "apartheid it has been left to the print media to
u-aeitt year, she should seek new b or reinforce the expectations
'sour Of information. Her wish is of /imminent disaster. Some have
wo but fatuous. . . content to reinforce the un-
- ' Of ,there is a chant* that ptions (good guys win, . bad
- she co ' "apartheid" with the ys get their just deserts, fade-out
? Group Act, but it is More to the sunset), others have tried to
::;likely that she thinking of a trans- some balance. But the tact
for of power f the minority to f the Matter is that, Collectively,
the majority. That twill not be ey-have failed, to convey to their
"achieved in 1989 ev. if Chalker' ders ? including, apparently,
-.Persuades her Prime .i to < ynda Chalker - any realistic
. send the Falklands ire
land at Bloubergstrand.
;Meanwhile, it is pernicious
,,debilitating for senior officials
? any government - and particular'
7:the British government which has a
ACreputationfor:VitemlOS m9re.- about
.
Africa than other people 4 :to talk
"-to this It persuades tilLsorts
thent.(ArelibishO'
1."lutn,-ito take a sherkeinfsiad'
view of the."- South .-Afri
,:probleM:, The *tilt Is to give sp
;loos credibility to such follies as th
-
,,mse-more-push sanction
The IntriguIng4feitlati"trir.6
,':?-peoplelikeChalker still talk in
.. fashion. It is true that in
1-7tiOner.te1evIsIo teethe,
Yevery episode of violence for -wha -
4..ever .soapie drama they could
or invent, did create in the -West
Perception of South Africa as
v- on the brink of revolution 41 ? -
,--etent that this perception was
rated,lhe TV news coverage
4.;" lie, and it deceived ita; Poor Mrs Chalker doesn't hav
.:-The ban on teleyision- foctage" .t.heoe?,- ?
?
Nee to sease of the possibilities. ,
4%
South 'Africans are usually pus- ,
sled, and often genuinely hurt, by
? this phenomenon. The events- at
Saturday night's banquet . of the
oreign Correspondents' Assort-
at .n where insolent questioners
rude audience. provoked
Minister Pik Botha into g
ma
play of insult and
rude'
le
clue to the pro'
vein
In
li in
ey should be in the
with'
wield
people th-
ple who,
and
0 .
; and
Forei
ness,give
The foreign,
the wrong city
capital), talk mo
out power than to
power, takes: theol
eon view of the soCie
enter into the fray- as
held some residual colonial
sibilfty. They are confirmed in
, scorn for government, and
? fore' to their prejudices, Whenev
people like Botha accuse them con-
of, %Minute and pre;
a-cisme ?
they
Poo-
'
,The 7 I
S
c
fly
,
HE iiippearance of !an anti- 1! they use the'. pointless-
apartheid Afrikaans: ,weekly ness, of -trying to organise an Eng-
newspaper' the ',cultural lish minority to overthrow in Afrk
? counterpart of ; the `govern- kaner majoriti; theirproper field Of
)1,-mentauspendetil,Weekly Mail is endeavour 41S,'Afrikanerdom itself.
not an isolated event. In publishing Nor are they liberals in the Angle-
It follows the launching of the Intel- ' Saxon mould but at beat social
Ilectual journal; DieSuld-Afrikaan, ' democrats in the German mould;
and in politics the defeetiodeif, Aran with an added, touch ofagrarian
trZyl Slabbed from thC,PFP'iltid.,thet
formation of the NDM by - ?
Malan
?
SOMETHING of the order of
95-million Americans, rep-
resenting a little over half
the eligible voting popula-
tion, will head for the polls today
to elect a new president,
culmi-
nating a campaign that is broad-
ly said to have been issueless,
trivial, apathy-inducing and, in
the words of a recent Washington
Post headline, the "TV era's nas-
tiest".
I say the campaign is "said" to
have been all of these things because, '
like all huts small minority of those
who will vote, I have watched most.
of it in the translation provided by
the television networks and a ha
ful of newspapers. -
That translation may gain some'
credulity from the fact that it is syn.,
optic - those responsible" for it are
Is remarkable herd-like accord
about what it is they have been cov-
ering - but the fact remains that.
supposedly the most important poli-
tical determination an American
citizen basin make is based upon the
judgment of others over whom the
average citizen has no control
Tom Wolfe, author of "Radical , -
chic". "The Right Stuff" and most
recently "The Bonfire, of the-Vani-
ties", has complained that his broth-
ers In journalism start not by observ-
ing the world about them but from a ' .
hypothesis of how that world ought,'
lobe. They see;4it other words, what
they have decided in advance they, ,
one Is encily.right-..The
tion you and I think we are witness-
ing Mm, not exist. It is chiefly taking
place inside the minds of a narrow,
bigoted, self-congratulatory and ?
largely sacrosanct elite. It is a piece
of theatre based only distantly on.,
what the candidates thelves are4 BUSH ? ? ? " taunts and countertaunts maximum ey win sneer
trYin$ to eag:0;.?, ;iscr ? ? play, It then die baeb_anliAmniqyT that the low Want lessignthakthe-
Let us um the' charge
Mat the taring , each successive' tut-tuts about negativism. - 4 ._ nors rivals, first Democratic Sena- new president has0o,nu, miattythe
Republicans have made this an elee.....7 Hw a new law In bad taste. - : Two weeks attbe accusathin of tor Albert Gore dining the New York better to begin elite-Ps otteair)In4
Election marred
by the US Press
and its prejudices
SIMON BARBER in Washington
unknownst to the populace, are thigh
deep in position papers and fairly
specific policy proposals.
Unfortunately, the latter have no
place in the screenplay written by
the television networks which cannot
be bothered with such things. What
television, In particular, wants is
drama, and since television Is their
only certain conduit to the public, the
candidates have had no choice but to
, The National Hockey League offi-
cially disparages -the fist lIghts its
players are prone to, but' privately
, encourages them, knowing that may-
, hem keeps, up attendances., ,
, 4
341!'. : ?
the .Press eggs on the,-;
candidates to have at each other.
relentlessly forcing more drama'
-
from each camp giving 'their
tor Lloyd Bentsen, into making it in
public.
Reporters then started baying at
Bush and his surrogates for a rebut-
tal. For several days, as far as .the
ordinary news consumer was con-
cerned, it was the only issue in the
campaign. Both sides may have
talked about other things during that
-time, but you would have only known
that if you were actually at one of
their rallies.
Thus the Press invents a Contest
based almost exclusively on its own
prejudices, creating a degraded soap
opera out of what, in reality, is a
serious debate, and turning the can-
didates into cheap gladiators unfit
for its hypothesis of what the presi-
dency should be all about
To close the circle, it then con-
ducts a poll of what the public thinks
about the election and the candi-
dates. Lo and behold, the answer
comes back that the public Is turned
off and that 60% would prefer an
entirely different set of choices.
Finally, in sublime arrogance, the
commentators ponderously mourn
about how, on eW.- thin day, the tur-
nout will be a pitiful 50%, as though
this were something new and disqui-
,
A ,?
a it haPpeag, the figure eis!,only
lilt 60% in four of the, pad
14 pr-mi-
dentlal election; 5597 may be low 't
compared with'other , democracies,
but It par here._.;
Which, in my view; shows a4aIrly
healthy aMil& to government That
" state has merit does not ob-
trude sufficiently Into peoples!,lives
that they feel obliged to make thew
selves heard --' as they undoubtedly '
would if the state Were to interfere in
or*, a manner of which theydisaPproVed:
This, of ,toursOAWill*the SO4 :h9.
tion , of unprecedented dirtiness."1". Seism. to cite just one es:amide. Is
theme that has dominated the beickm- Corlyeniently forgotten.- That year,
lines, both print and electronic, Prysident, Lyndon Johnson , ran a-
so compelling that Michael Dukakis, quite ?-itlY/ that Ms opponent,
thethan a month and has become ,,;television advertisement, stating
the Democratic candidate. has made,;.' Senator garryj Gekheater,..w
It the centrepiece of his stand. plunge the worm into nuclear how,
,,?? American political campaigns are ,
not and never have been Socratic But that is the beginning. Hai-
thalognes. Candidates routhlelY.edit decided .r.the Present WM-
re
ellen
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knothmsaYet uallythatronti,,,negg; ,ithivezia.p7n otlt fit and rothein turialstshadthernift4 on ,
always no and. belittles den:1?1214;a
George Bush waii!tacisr, this based -
the hear' was t Vice-President " , priineit mei gasii.,,r1, ,=,,,ril nchim down once be ' ?.;.,takeU his
_ ? . _ . . , . ,... of office..i...; tr,41kteeit-;?:-':'...-41- ' '
upon television advertisements. 11;1_d Dials PromPur rerigt:YE:41-r The Whiny here Is that politics is :
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.tencei without hope of , parole. Was, ,?___ devastating, me of the Matter ProVed,ftoblely.the,tress'it?fitilt,7..-the shier .?
'
One such furloughee,was-an espe- - orrosso,leSegh:ao.ailosffirl_ otio...,;usiiiof the conitryaa theioracions." ,
.; daily vicias individual *the name i source is NBU'S camp had the nese with which central government ,
; . of Willie Horton; who took the oppor- ;,,.., bright idea of suggesting that be- . :,i2ffeeiter,netr$,powets rand ' re-
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'`..eiziwa and obliged to watch his 'wife ','? racial _Lemma: 1. ' 0 V' tins trefiilso very much to
,.. being ' raped,. for '. several,-:' boars, ? . - The charge was yirresponsi,. :bringing . ,closer:i
. mounted a , small Crusade. to have . ' - ble; of course, but Pr= would' i'Ilieni to treat each other with a
DWtalde review his policy. It natu- ? ...got rest until it had prodded both' '..?*.Y cisni that neither; '.101124;oi. all the
.?? rally. caught . eye : of the Gover- Dukakis and his running mate, Sena- '':.. electorate," deserves,-. -.;.:r.;1"
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16 ? DAILY DISP`AT61, THURSDAY, ?man la, ion
Daily Dispatch
The sanctions irony
In the name of righteousness there
is much perfidy. Figures pub-
lished yesterday reveal that in the
rust nine months of 1987 South
Africa's major exports to the
United States declined by 417 mil-
lion dollars, following the imposi-
tion-of sanctions by the U. S. Con-
gress in 1986. The biggest losses
were in iron, steel and uranium.
? The Republic also suffered ex-
? port losses, in these commodities
in trading with 22 other countries,
stated the report which was issued
to senators principally .respon-
sible for the punitive measures,
Edward Kennedy and Lowell
We icker:
? The sanctions were intended to
? Punish the South AfriCan govern-.
ment for apartheid, but, of course,
? they harm everyone living in the
country, black or white, for or
against discrimination. The dam-
.'age does! not stop at boundaries
'.;but spills over the whole Sub-Con- .
, tinent, further.' affecting..,. the
already rocky economies of many
countries propped up only by
' siderable, aid from relief agencies
and the United States itself:,
,Souty-West Africe,1116iimbique,
'Lesotho,' Swaziland, Zambia and
Zimbabwe all depend on suPPlieS,:.
equipment, fuel, expertise and
money: emanating in :one way
another "from the Republic, At- '
tempts in the United States and?
I, z
elsewhere to wreck the .economy of
the sub-continent's powerhouse '
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assuredly will further push many
other African, countries into
greater penury.
There is a terrible irony in what
the West is doing to Africa in the
guise of this righteousness ? dis-
pensing free food grown in Canada
and Europe but neglecting the es-
sential internal distribution, and
agricultural education; propping
up dictatorships and limping one-
party states; giving :with the one
hand, hitting with the other.
Whether intended to help or not,
most of the West's action is to the
detriment of Africa, driving away
the best and the brightest with
their expertise and capital, and
'ensuring that it remains the.
paupercontinent of the world as a
mere producer of primary prod-,,
ucts for the more developed and
affluent countries. .
There might be some justificti- ?
tion in the misguided course taken.:
by Edward Kennedy and his ilk if
it would Conceivably result in a:
peaceful, :non-discriminatory
South Africa; and if he pursued,
? thereafter the considerable task of
restoring the economy of the re-'.
lion with as much zeal as he con-
tributed to its destruction. But
then there would be little domes
tic political gain in that for him,
even :as proPfinents of. sanctions
began to discover that what is of-
ten lightly switched off, is not 'im:
.mediately or easily switched back
on again.
Girl
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The Marriot Marquis
Hotel in New York is an
extraordinary structure,
half hanging garden of
? Babylon, half prison
block on a heroically
totalitarian scale.
?. Its 50 storeys of verti-
ginous corridors face
onto a covered atrium in
the middle of which
? stands a pillar the size
of a moon rocket with a
dozen see-through lifts
' gliding up and down its
flanks.
Even when things are
quiet, it can take a good
ten minutes to navigate
from your 250 dollars a
night room to the world
outside. That is, if you
don'too wn and you
really-wantto get there....
? The neighbourhood be-
yond the creat hollow
henge is one of Manhat-
tan's most festering, a
sort of Calcutta with
peepshows.
It was. an odd place to
hold round 7.5 of An-
gola-Namibia peace-in
(it did not rate a whole
-number, being techni-
cally "informal" so as
not to offend Congo's
President Denis Sassou-
Nguesso who has been
promised the kudos of
hosting the break-
through) but also a pe-
culiarly apt one. ? ?
`- The talks are begin-
' ning (if they have not al-
ways) to inhabit a uni-
. verse as separate from
exterior reality as their
latest venue. The ses-
sions have taken on an
air of ritual as the van-
Not the real thing
ous delegations roam
about in flying wedges
to group and regroup in
all the possible permu-
tations, trying to make
something happen that
is beyond their own ear-
thbound grasp to create
for themselves. .
In the absence of
hard, political decisions
by their masters, the SA,
Cuban and Angolan ne-
gotiating teams have de-
veloped, with the help of
the American media-
tors, a series, of ever
more inscrutable myste- ?
ries in honour of the'
great god nuance. Their
labours have reached
such a state of perfef-
tion that almost any-
- thing that can be div-
ined about the
mysteries' true meaning
is automatically wrong.
If the' negotiations are
going to succeed several
obvious things are going.
to have to happen, none
of which the negotiators
themselves may discuss
without. risk of blas-
phemy.
Principally, Angolan
President Eduardo dos
Santos must decide the
time has come to make
peace with Unita and,
unless he can be re-
moved or . otherwise
translated, Dr Jonas Sa-
vimbi. Fidel Castro must
decide, unreservedly,
that the time has some
to bring his boys home. tioned are, first, to
P. W. Botha must make maintain a little disci-
up mind with equal ab- pline among the negotia-
sence of casuistry that tors, and second, be-
Namibia is to move to cause no-one has yet
independence under the found a way to say this
terms of the UN plan in particular emperor is
its current form. The naked without being
Americans and the Ras-. blamed for his being so.
sians must unequivo-
cally of last weekend,
cally agree to terminate
the delegations had
military support for
gone beyond the "nitty- ?
Unita and the MPLA
spectively. Fifty", beyond attempt-
?ing to "crack the nut",
Unless all . these beyond even , the mol-
things -occur,- and, occur ecular structure of a
pretty much simultane- deal and were ventur-
ously,. the preserk talks ing Into; its-,subatomic
? will remain- ientirely Rest fassured.
.
open-ended, motwith- that witlioutithe abcive.
standing piously ,reiter- . mentioned . decisions,
ated commitments to the they will be trying to
November 1 date agreed subdivide its muons be-
'upon in Geneva last Au- ,fore long. .
gust for the implementa- Broadly', what they
ti f UN resolution '
435: 7 were talking about was,
. In Dr Chester Crocker's
In the real world, if, poetic phrase, the
not according to the Tal- "rhythm" of Cuban rude-?
muffle scholars on the ployment-north ? away.
negotiating teams, that ,; from the Namibia ? and
date is a dead letter any-, west, which is ,to say
way.' It is too late for C across the Atlantic: How
martti Ahasaari and his . _quickly how many; move
UN transitional assist.' above what parallel an-
ance group to have their &or home.
machinery up and run: Such discussion was
ning, : and insofar as- made. possible by SA:s
November Lis observed,. concession, 'at, the last
It will almost 'certainly' Brazzaville round, that
be with a 'formula - of' ? words rather . than ie.:. 'seine Cubans could re-
main in northern Angola
lions - ?- - - ' ? 'after the South African
l'x? ? ;1'9
The only reasons the flag came down in Wind-.
date is still being men- _ hoek. In return, the An-
golans and Cubans ac-
cepted a reduction in
the length of the overall
withdrawal timetable
from three years plus to
"somewhere" in the 24
to 30-month range.
The Cubans wanted
27000, or 'roughly half
their existing comple-
ment, still in the country
at Namibian indepen-
dence: The South Afri-
? cans said this would not
fly, citing as one reason
"right-wing hysteria"
back home? and pushed
for much heavierfront-
.thloaadt omninythet'tc,thatiohrys
too ?close to the Nami-
bian, border would have
an *intimidatory effect
on theAconstituent elec-
tions "to' be held seven
. months after the kick-off
of the UN independence
plan.
, e
, The Cubans and An.
golans objected that too
much '..."front-loading"
-Would be?bad for -inter-
nal security,: and would
mean once again ceding
most of sciuthern Angola
to Unita. The unmentio-
nable ghost,- of ,Savimbi
began ? to hover , ever.
.more oppressively at the '
-negotiating table. 'To
save, themselves ,from-'
unholy thoughts, the del-
egations devoted them-
selves to minutely. study-
ing the infinite possible
proportions .y,of loading
absolutely, positively October 26, municipal.
committed to going all election day, which at
the way in Brazzaville least has the merit of
before the end of the coining before Novem-
m eo
ber 1, or November 8,
wWrnehtnhic'.th' of course, they really After all; American election day,
which doesn't. It defies
reason to believe that
one of stated reasons for
the inconclusive out-
Dos Santos is not wait-
come was that they ing to see if Governor
Michael you-can-have-it-
needed to consult with
their politicians ? who
quite patently have yet.
themselves to make up'
their minds. -
SA foreign affairs di-
rector-general Neil van
Heerden perhaps came
closest to hitting the
nail squarely when he
ngola-Nami
?
waiting for
all-for-free Dukakis is
elected. He would be a
fool if he was not.
Agreeing to Cuban
withdrawal, however
timed, loaded, or veri-
fied, means acknowledg-
ing atbest a draw with
Unita. The shape of any
internal settlement that
follows is in turn predi-
i a, cated in large measure
?upon..thesplume4of.out...,
?
; _side suppoFt upon which
Unita can rely. 1
By the same( token,
Pretoria would'. be rash
to play the' Namibia
'November 8
? card hen,W,threatened
with an Americ,an presi-
dent deterinined to and the' the verification
thereof.
And, such questions
being fundamentally
specious to the real de-
cisions that must be:
made, got nowhere. 'The
parties' chief agree-
ment, when the talks ad-
journed on? -Sunday
afternoon,. *as -to say
they had got somewhere,
that they now had abet-.
ter understanding what
kind of equipment was
needed to count the an-
gels on the head of a pin,
and that they were still
remarked that at least
stroy its economy
the cessation of hostili- whether or not resol-
ition '435 is iraple-
ties between SA and piented. Such, uncertain-
Cuba was holding, and ,
. ties 'must be -removed-
the, joint monitoring 'before the ? only deet- .
commission 'doing its
sions. that count are
job. In other' Words, we ,made' -
should be grateful that , -
something out there in And until that hap-
the real world is work- pens, consultations like 4
Ing, because not much of those. just completed
anything Is going on in may serve some purpose;
here... in easing current ten-
? shins and developing
Nor will it, until the ?the practical mechanics"
' parties actually' decide of a final settlement, but'
they -want it to., At the they should -not 'be con-
earliest, that Will prob- ? fused with' the real
ably; not be ?until after thing.,
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Daily Dispatch
War of the purse
When the going is good even the
prudent housewife may not be as
careful as perhaps she should be
but in times of roaring inflation, :
Barend du Plessis and less dispos-
able income there will obviously
be greater appreciation not only of
the need to cut costs but to protest
when it seems necessary.
It is happening more frequently
in South Africa: the age of con-
sumerism and greater shopper
sophistication has arrived. The re-
tail marketing accent in the corn-
ing years will focus increasingly .
on a square deal for the customer.
Integrity will hold the high ground
as proven already in Britain where
a reputation for honesty and qual-
ity has given two major groups' a
considerable share of the market,
though they are by no means the
cheapest.
Clive Weil has already fired a
major broadside in this battle for
consumer allegiance, giving away
in the process some secrets of the ?
retailing trade. Many South Afri-
can shoppers who thought the
su-
permarket business was merely a
matter of buying at one price and
selling at another will now know'
there are such practices as bay.;
backs, particular trade 'arrange-
ments, rebates, and incentive vol-?
ume discounts.
Clive Weil alleged that a state of,
"commercial? terrorism" existed
between supplier, and buyer in
South Africa with the consumer
the ultimate victim. He said bribes
had all but eliminated any ele-
ments of honesty and integrity in
the retailing sector and products
were being forced on to the con-
sumer not through merit but to
boost bottom-line profitability.
There was a disproportionate con-
centration of power among retail-
ers and suppliers, he said.
This led to Raymond Ackerman
saying that Weil had disparaged
the entire industry and sending
him a "legal letter", which has
been referred to counsel. Also on
the rolling, and perhaps increas-
ingly bitter battle for the con-
sumers' (voters') loyalty is the fi-
nance spokesman ' for the
Progressive Federal Party,, Harry
Schwarz, who said that if there
were any attempt to push the issue
aside, he would raise it in parlia-
ment and ask for an investigation.
Obviously, this is a matter for
urgent inquiry by the Competition
,Board, which should hopefully ap-
proach it both with teeth and with
the sole motive of ensuring that re-
tailers, manufacturers and the
consumers get a square deal, with
priority and concentration on the
little buyer at the end of the
queue. Clive Weil's charges alleg-
ing "commercial terrorism" with
the consumer the ultimate sufferer
are much too serious to be ig-
nored.
The Eastern Cape division Boys Brigade band in action during their Founders' Day parade at Parkside
In East London.
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Cca_3 CIF,pettel K(y
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1
: flatly requested to do so military - represents-
al. Mr President, you ere ? settlement is redefining
, Today was supposed to Unita, it has lost it and . ? . . ..: -?
-, 00"' '
day, Namibia - formally.' somehow incorporate Dr message was unequivoc- is that the approach of a
' .
have. been, historic; the must settle on terms that by Savimbi himself. His tives. What is happening
.- a. triO.r. S. . ..-3!'
? being hoodwinked' by the issues at stake in
."-.pendence?-. under' , UN ,Mo, seems to be having
N started moving' to lode- Jonas Savimbl.- Havana, '''..
.southern Africa for US
...... ,, c ,? your sta.te,..., department...t,
in affairs. - . ? ? ? .. Since 1975, they have
and their friends in the
? .? ?? ' ? . ".????'., - ? looked to SA to right the
1 Resolution 435 That the some difficulty coping ?
? deadline is slipping by with -a new reality Fidel ,,.
. . 1-40 ?; conservatives. ? .
.
i may principally be Castro's Soviet patrons . . .
, blamed upon the MPLA
. no longer have the use ? - ,- .? SA department of. fore-
Soviets.for, them, just as
t ' .. '?? are?
iand Cuba. ??? ? they once had for him.
Contras,. ln'.;',Nicaragua
thei have.' looked to the
His days of empire are' --f... ' ' ?'?-?
? : .
... ?i?? : ? I asked one oftlie-staff;.%
I,' South
Africa has over and the time has ? .
corner whether this was,
members in the -Helms' .
and-the Mujahedeen in .
' sions that could reason-
J?made all -the conces- ' come for his little island ' ? .. . . ,.,. , _,
to return to banana re- ? ? ....
.ore royalist than the
not being ? somewhat - hAfghaveabenisetant?blehtoat otIg3;
, ably, and in some cases publicdom.
..,... ? king.' The decision ? to almost nothing in return
4 pected of it. ? It . has Unfortunately, Angola ?.: '
d Cuba t th '..- '..',4'.. :".7:' .. :
4 - C17 Ti111.
' unreasonably, be ex-
beyond: ? an ? often
lit-pulled out of Angola and.
only parties who are re- *- .":? 7..' -S. ..-., . . :., -gt -,7 ?? , -?: ?.:..-.1- ?-,..-s- 404 .?:.> ? ; ? , - StMOIsT BARBER
_
.. ? . , leave Namibia was Pre-:.:
? toria's prerogative, .
all, and, SA- "-surely... counter-p;riductive : ?
?Yti.' resisted the urge to re- _ , -, writes from . .
? writes
? .
. ,z,,;.say.
' should be' tea-.
? . man
_ sanctions is, material.
' turn.; .It ' has ? acknowl- t in. fusing to recognise how;',.... .. ?...,.? 1.2_ , .. , ;,.....,,,,..7 ,.. itiii-f-.:.,.. .i,...,.._:ii?t.. sr, ..v.??.,i...?',37, 4,?:: , . - :
fundamentally g In y tion; it must be said, that ? . whose bidding on almost ...Ito :
They have ielamected SA
rearguard action against
.,.
t 435
i.,;Sgne.-- Deas. iteatiloslymsyltaits--,shoams echial.ingweda.0,0Thneere9n.are_a.7,,.int 1988 a sanatiaa.,..r.re,., zl .?? .... .; .cy,
, ,,,yheaasr,cponni5atr..izbts,!utel,d.,H,ton,Lm, a_k7,--? ,..alyn.ps.sub..je?c,,,.D.
":' ' . . ''ft;;:;?:;;;.:.'13-'C'Oit'Ci-n? i.i.ia.'s ...cutli.?...table.
i i".tiworerken?,extFebruary..... ..,. ,.... .,
' ? 1. ''...? ' .2.44 'Ai To which ;mile hgClift.ii?-to!spill,i its_%treasure'4: :r?
ngress returns to.??? .. .
.--- ? conciliation 7 was inevi-' '".th, .?,:'. en .y ,$,IA>.:?????fil t.1:..., caboyses., ef for their
e IntlithIO.bri,T
3-ittrittIngii.itEneeth_ and ? strange.;
1(r5itacks domestically, it
fieplyAivOlichti,,troasurithat ,e?oUltl.,,,hrii,e..1',,,
to
far Pretoria ..
eniVIreilignifleahtrt-;vd9-1" does;',i^! '-t.,411ettii-ionpd - ..
coalition who,
m -gOV.4.,..,alletter,frinatftea-gaies4
1.'"eVerYjInet,Anderstands
Besides ; he eontinueix;:.,..:,,',t*
rint:ii.faVnuri'-niAl!`fOlts-!..fthestan read,i.,c,0;171,ki#,,,,..
? government_ii s altered,.
e. ' 149i..' aryl- -4-7-ail'egre - t.;-?Zithet.prO4lnita-menatetAn, locklikitheradin-in- .??? i -Ait,
....' - v d ng- e't..,'Olrilt--trisk-,;???forie,-,4sirid? tration s-,retiqestt.!,e--11S4?'..,,,,independenc& andAn7?.,,sfr ? ?
otheiDernocra 'who hen s ..
lint:Oplyl, .y.c.9p kiS-;?:i:31. 'b-i'''ImargeinallY, mpllified by? :.,
ne 'r-- ' -.".-?.: Namibian?,
peated4telephone calls :
t,Privell ? and 'White-It as'afiiiilicotic,TelectiOn--"!Mnitikyic,torywithout_ . t,
shouldmotrbei dismissed .._ ply-, ' - -SA
' 'Waging-7 pea"ee-,..' through like the deal . b kered....
itiiiit:ItnatioeitOrecurity`,..icoun-, ,..thael4iInitivi.5iiiiq.:71.4,. .
3imayLbe?ipsr,aphrasedi.au?jbe-,speof ?bullillngq,,bet, 4 .?
'liut eieglon.14
li.illit-iffe,:eontext.;-,..;, ..,? '!*k.Y4:,:tifi???,,,.._Ntere-..
Igo, Crocker la ,
es thnivtline3;other;A- f_-,}teagiiieived:14-7jfations'on?
',..-iiiiii; last week, PreSij?jo,be, inclu e ,,,
p ciilled docri.
mitruiptctithinflien7lffraiid the DFAKOUreibica-.7.;41,12,11.79",-1.4...t.,::?;:t
encer5P21-1e cr.Cu an-.:Ici1.4:4dVieee.,t,general??.......1,.i , ,
,-?.it.g,"?.'hlinertliat- the adminis-.., thefonly Dnita under Dr .
-,ttlilloWi4--ffirst:-;Crockev.ler.societyanAk, I7tIt...0
IL.sjill, be Cubans IP ?i?inclUde4.bOtliki?Republif Le... .... ?,...
including50 sena,4,-?depend
withdrawal' EVerlACollitikiXeill,?-sviearffir t
?',,,Las_lli?,,yu ? partner
, :. must
.fe,..ireceptedilhatitliere'5,i'riliese.lehtleme41..in.e.V,lihii- limits to betray StivimbV,'
(Angola'-when its flag:. can.1,on. ,.em_ -predictiible-conser;,f;, more
can delivertqi, - legs, , from ,reconciles?ouurselyes..with
and cut. one ofthe last ng e,
7, .Now,:;thatAre.wtoextma 1
ctimei,,ldozwn r An Wind:, : lievattliatcroc , ,
di) ? -ecrats'.be:1;eativ.eslieea ease Helms asked that,. . .
',startlingly, 'free and fair.' tration had no intention ???,...siii,i*bi
.- 'b -.?... f - cutting supplies ,.?-?to't:-.
? ., major Percentage.of.the!. remaining-;;.
rAfopk,!aild4hat the .pv.in4ithet SA.de artio
liertinerfaii,dStevejAMims, but,.t-eleciiiins,..!111-.Angola.. e,,?o .,c.,
lemeritatliiiiiiti: 415-,V?
'Inak-iiiVourfriiii deStiiiy,---?
l' nt freedom:7 -s- ..
,..,..,-,,,,:n9.11.ecilimol...m....,
country?i
MO' a neW trine Second .1 ?4 , , , -....,
tn 'Ts ' ' it' ,Pretoria, 'Own people; ?-..weZ must?.
. people and territsio7cifii..unclo,Ohe,:jteagan ,,:doc- our neighbours and ;our r.
iiiilf.:3,id.ille7Z.,i-gr:--TO,eF.??,JOind,.?,.in,
17.;-cirile-qiiiie.,isitot,the,fi-.4_1/4foreign eno, of.,::riear fi,,;:eveFyksoutheribic, syn
-7.,.-*figiiith deinifidVentirelii4r.eceP.411-?P?41-4-1.:,;.
? ..everything "`--- chronisdwith iiikit Unita si;?,:y...a
4/''' ?f- th93L.'91-i"tliiaht'ciletahVt enTd':fiaittnikfiirecrYi4g
.eparture-,;but,?ftiejr?,,re-..Z"ancelo betrays
I'P411 baneful e.' P- ---Iiive",1PeatacreronjexcePti
valli...,,;7wiiii;.,Texas Lloyd Bent both
la l' national his.,.- t,?? 7 - ? ?
:.:7?" '-??:".1.i.H: itr:li4lit.....af.,whi:Ch7Ded-- the military still 'IA eriea'S'Teoirifortable
"Unitilbi7?:?' fighters until
been, '
a."' ''''"' ?itt,:e-t.fidiii.:teonohn isnhhho,:ixnul? 7.. rightAlkdrsa ,
nation " V, was farc.fromitn,lantpoest.t- , , A
iteplolimank": in ., sach.i.a
way that they will not be.., I think- that , 435 is fatally ,.beyontl. the ..OL,.-f.achLTL.,,,?
!:riigreed.,thtis,f,-, ' 7
l'idl,?4,435*'--fou :14,5It..,..?,;:ihnstlfhither,` -
.V.... -cons ? , - ? ;. . ? . t, necessary:, y,-, . . . , ,,?.7-asid ,n..,-,--'.?,,, .?,111,,eron'''.'cie41' '-',Ifeige:e.,04..iiiirsisi,it;,;,41i1,1,70-I,-- t-
''.4-gticist?...af:thetable'ofzflaWed anif,WillIwork'
eza settlement. oni,e'.eien.,;-eictstestrientlal .cand 7....,
to g+nc-omnilltee. F.hnie41.04,44,-77.:41.:51?1,14,4
'date),;....inii.i, the _
Daeco'IvriettniPS, Iltn.4
I'''''far in the, ..'_.-cjitadrIpartite.)-4.: Powell ..Its. ,-.. q
.riptve: h:nt lie eid7strIllard,z,At.?--J.en*inid;,iido ..tc?i',..Z7'f,,,471..z-.N.;2.1,1',11..,V-Arin-lifai .:;=!.ii'iit,,,i
i emotive,,languago to . .,.
thitng',:ofotribution; bA,.. t.ifouldr,,Fes,utt,AR,TOWkINT,Lqgktto'0,put,,IViiitiiiin'N
pay 'if, p`ofistilteil.,?,once4restablishingi,ot another 7powerfciaill,:iarAie;: /
de:. reco4piilef releasing thek-wat;w&IszpacjA.slag.;,thatiikeepliP,tlie: fight-their
S.,:?Narnibia:',-;"--....1,*14..icefiiiiing to'auttihanIt.ther
pnr,,,,?414;:liiitaiice'S.U.? A .1:?.F. .
13! 9 ' .Ih:-".gh.*
14.1' forses;;Nitlitil? , timifiecletrinrauilt;11,`;,7 . lie di-t-iiithere were meanwhile ?-ti,pes14,10:qii.es_tion.o..tn .
..4ti Thele . . K -4, Scribe thritIPI.A;calling.T,,:i
, -_ ,..V.-i';!3 riliko tniehiihhhdthee:Irogioh?r47:n-',rq,lfLhNiO941Ln:jttiftliI.,gtrj
,,,,feeiikot,:lo?ien after te,:!=;`""?WtIdat,t1fri:Id-i441. d ill 't ,`'.: 7!.7f! if t 4. # price-7 :of -,a:,.
4i. eittIVattlejnent re,?./4 mar*tfleginfen in yik: I writtenoff,:atisl :henget! i
hinito,IlionMbitaabnit.:.ititintyrbeemngtrra,atinAceemafitStac!",*9L0,arniplire::..T.,,,?'o,la'n,, leleetiOk.,..2concur-
anship.:.: Pretoriiihas,
?griisjied the neltle,'..or?ii,t;,,i',?lawldrop..,pf, ,South,r, f. 1;e1ind,-.5iiiiii
:for a. Unit*Arictoryto thet,I.D.
fnS fied;?14.'1Mack.' llonitlers:ettf.::,.,?5,,,:j!!1,ff.Keii 4 se' siiiiiriiideplai:.Thefigl,.fe,. Oaonomic,wr.against i
1?V ..V1:::::penople-7:areeriouii-aAnd,i.45?Arandlifi,itke,f55isujos',
? golan.z.government`,Axii-o-oper , ,...?
1......,,,,,i,m,43, ,,,....iiii., 44:14_4.saes7.,,t-hblaT?uctiitAeifr4t7npa,..?.1.:
, ,Bylcontras!,s o.
any.ra_te`;.mosfofit?p t-
'-`???" - ateXTtlieYikaref_Apartners!:`,WorklinISOme for the yn
iAft* .a o ,..; ,,
'TZeaPaj.0,1,?fo.ffhtorc,tPere'
nIttn_17-inasiilliteiln4wlioseigni.- igh-ttqlta:Ve.c.-4111;;IOsiln4hpairri-?!clg,lOse 14 `,Ciitinn;',:ilumz.?/..,L3k? ?hap, iiitlii,n24:;!fra:iteirl..?,p.:thioeY,':d011ia"Vethi'poWeVZ.or.,:tistpouti;e-,?,4?,.,cp3#0.
. ,i.,r zAssistitr,ce4GrguNAUNNINOihaPP*Ar.:1.1.1P., well,
...,_.,_.. rt- g? ntFiHe?simply.insisted.?
thatlea1.0thateihii...9neeflaiiiidak4;IN i?-r-:,.
1 l'biliealrkOvhich,' 4.C011idl!iteagep ? ., , ea
phoned, Helms his.--. .?,-..,,..-an.driegiet:yoweatie."'prepartd to pa
.? -'' ''-`tgOlneiiii,-,:thanflobbying*peolile,likemelm&might,t1
price
lthetdea that by : not win their oPPonlqcSt9;:e11.3 , d.equW0-3,i119.,6411.,,,it,"?loPic tii:,t.Nh"' -bleibe.,t?Tmoney,r.ptaevvf-re;,.41,:,;',?,,,,,.,...1,1, ....4',t .....i.,i,_..,: ,,-...,,,ei 14:1,,..41.ga-?,;:tts.I.,-ts..x..
... v.i?.--_,,, .,-.-..... -... Azc...2r-,?,,m-,,Y.--."*.+4-4.1r,,,,,-,ao-Ar?
liiiriistbeciVib?werjiivithorhic,.,,,taan,...ction,s9ppiri- n ,Pa gn,t .z, 3,,,,ti,:15.4:41?.44.,,i, m.,01.1.,..?71?,.44, .i. .4?,,,,,,,,,,...=, ..
,,,not:-cOme' to;?terms,twIthi,_Prepar.erlatoilWitlitiOitt,
leC-31,Iiii)*;Shouldl'.iit@be,,oid.,..tglaiplepientedt, .rt.r.Ithe'aleadet titWay: he would Units, 4 ,. . _
'not-h' i''' Uhtitt, rso-Attably,*, by-;,certa ns: .
1 'SA' Behold'.8'nevtenimrti.7
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, 8 ? DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988
Daily Dispatch
rase the fear
There are, always ideas and some-
times there are ideas.' whose time
has come;' usually wfieri .societies ?
have worked through other op.
tions.
,
South 'Africa has had .its apart-
heid Option and hopefully' it has
lived through the option of total,
? takeover, that some refer to as sur-
render. Just as the apirthei&ii
sign was obviously no soilitiOn solt
'? :would prove with .a. total takeover.
that relied on coercion.lieOple'li12:
timately will not be bullied into tional criticismi?and-littie logical
,unacceptable Situations; the evi:7i offerings on a po-s-Sible,:soiutiOri,
: dence of this is being revealed al: - witness Neil Kinnoik*eliehe-iiil
*i? Most daily in the communist bloc:
In South Africw:thereAasto'-,be.
.,-partnership of.:,itsTe4pie; if it is to end
.workProPerly,on?a;baitif human Klaaste,:,,advoCated:'''qjOt ,
?
and equal right's' and building of black poiVer?itrUCtUresi'7.
nation that will be acceptable. to. . (so that: biaekS,and.
the world To ,:attairi:thilideal.:;,;. meet as equals) ank.effo.rtsitte
efej,Vvillhay:Ctolb...ketWityriir e:tek tiiO4,1iitelifeaf;7,ithriiarett
of fear the basis Of Our Picibleins. for : eaCir? iither!st-f.,StierigthiF4ir
i, ere would?-he.:no,.need=.fo-
Apartheie maYI:haVe-, been de-- ? minds ? ?
, ? - ? ., ? v?
..:Iignedris'a perpetuation of white ,violence hesamiT, . ? -?
'.cAfitrOI:.bitt;herieathi:41iii,lieenie*irAr;oHjs;vOiceis.:-onerofFhoPe:.an'd'iokv-
the rigid regulations and the iron.r4rive:-It..-efferp:;Tecenciliatiori;.and'
fist increasingly criticised on the, liet'.144"eftin a tortured country In
grounds of injustice has always tke,-;end it will be that reconcili
been fear fuelled primarily by the'''. ation partnership and co-opera
instince:Of:preseiVatiori::Jtlitik the tion that will be,the saviour of
r.erld;generallyiteiridtto make the SouthwAfrica.:'ffhetglopposing,,fitc2-4,
iiila,tak6 of hammeringat aYirit .tiecriSjittside-01451494sidt the Ite.7 . ?
.0iii:j(aaithleid) jiifh.er than try to public that cling totheir own di
understand the true &die and - verse pplicies that bithLhave the
move 'nearer to a practical and single ingredient & crcion will
workable solution which must in never know true peace, or be easy
apartheid. and totaLtakeover will A
not work,' SOuth Africa must look
'
elsewhere.' "
In an article published 1nthe
? Daily Dispatch on .0ctober,1,?;thik.,:'
? year, Aggrey Klaaste: the egitet-et:,:?.,
The Sowetan, homed in 'on' the -
black-white problems and cour-
ageously gave yoke ,to2A.:certain
new and.: creative thinking. A perE
yennia.f symptom -rif;the..aiiti-a-Aa".ft7
heid.:'.debate;OVer'llieldeeadeshie.
!been so much easiarid Sfie'rce eniCr-4
. den. and weary. conderrinatien.%aele
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It has been a couple of
years coming, but Her-
nando de Soto's' El Otro
Sendero (The other
Path) is about to be pub-
lished in English. One
can only hope . that
Harper and Row will
permit it to be sold in
South Africa or that De
? Soto will find a local
publisher. Even if it has
to be pirated, arrange-
ments must be made for
it to flood the country.
The ii4ortanee .of
this book is difficult to
overstate. The result of
,years of ground-break-
ing research by De Soto
and his Institute of Lib-,
? erty and Democracy
.(ILD) in Peru, it is a sur
-
? giCal analysis Of ?ho,vi ?
millidlialifordipary'Per-?
uviansi,Aiirven "solely ly
the desire.to' make bet-:
. te:4:ftlyes for themselves'.
-and their-children; have
..--eciritbined to overrun a
,.,;riarrovily,based,. selfish.
'7^ancl. highly . bureaucra-
tisettstate. ? ?'
To do: this they have
relied not on politics or
its,' instruments' of
Protest. They have' not
?".-sought outside help.
?;: TheYbave had no need
to resort to violent con-,
?frontatiOn, much less'
'the terror of "The Shin-.
'Ing Path", Peru's main':
communist group. Upon ?
?whose name the ? hook's
title plays. No ideology 4.
. has driven. thein :Other
'^ than that tifoat.basii? of.
?.? human ?asPiratiOnsi`,'llie
pursuit of haPpines,a;..?,^,'"
They ? haVe.,' 'treated
their successiVe gove4i1:
-ments much' astonx
sinners treat a *duet,
that they do- not: wish to
buy: they have ignored it
and 'looked elsewhere,
chiefly to themselves.
The result is that most of
the 27 000 laws and ad-
ministrative decisions
the Peruvian state has
issued on average every
year since 1947 have in-
creasingly lost any real
Meaning.
As De Soto himself
succinctly sums it up:
"We appear to be wit-
nessing the most import-
ant rebellion against the -
status quo ever waged in
the history of indepen-
dent Peru."
Though .. they have
changed ? with rather
more frequency, the re-
gimes De Soto describes
'in his own country bear.
striking' resemblance
to Nationalist rule in
., SA. Whether .of the left
or right, all have been
and remain "mercantil-,
:ist",' Using law to distrib-
'ate their society's re-
sources among, chosen
groups or coalitions.
While the latter may
vary with the political
stripe of those in power,
at any given moment
only a small minority of dwelling ?'! was ' $22 038,
the Country ever, ben- ,with an aggregate value
efits. The .rest are ex- of -$8,3 billion, equiva-
eluded by what De Soto- le.nt ?to..69 ^pere cent of
refers to as "a kind of Penis total external
legal apartheid". debt in 1984.
?Rather 'than wait for BetWeen? 1981 = and
some impossible godot 1884; the' state's housing
to redistribute things, investment came to only
back in its ? favour, El $173,6 million, a Mere 2,-:
Tem ,Profundo .(Forgot- 1 per cent of informal in-:.
ten, Peru) has biken-ita. vestment, As of 1984;
destiny ? into 'its own: total. public investment
,
bands, creating as if by ..;_in ? housing;' including
'second nature .an en-' ';homes,'
-tirely new order -7 in- represented' only 10,4
formal, technically "il- per cent of informal in-
legal" .but thoroughly vestment.
South Africa
could follow
em's
democratic ? based on
wealth and power it has
generated for itself. And
all without having to
have an Albie Sachs or a
Joe Slovo tell them how
to do
Consider the follow-
ing- statistical snapshot
taken by ILD in 1985: ,
ath
. ?
Unlicensed street ven- repair shops and other
dors (91 500) dominated infrastructure.
retail distribution of These ? numbers are
food and other con: far more _. than, a dry,
sumer goods in the city, measure of economic
They grossed $322,2 mil- progre0. . They . are a
lion kyear,,took home a . paeon 'to' the tenacity
net per capita income of and inventiveness of the
, $.58 a month, 38 per cent individual. The wealth
more than the minimum,. they represent did not
legal wage then in ef- , have to' be taken from
? In that year, 42,6 per
cent of all. housing 'in
Lima, the Peruvian capi-
tal, was "illegal", built
in defiance ,of, govern-
ment edict The average
?value of each such
fect, and supported be- .. anywhere; it was me-
' tween them, an, esti- ated &Om alniost noth-
mated 314 . , lug. largely by, peasants
'dependents... ' ,Who migrated to the city
only to find themselves
- A further 39 000 yen:
dors had. acquired
:locked out and discrimi-
enough capital to set upnated against by social ? ?
stalls in 274 informal and political elites who
markets valued at a total ".wanted; them, back
of 40,9 milliOn and Com-
where they "belonged",
prising 83 per cent of all But the migrants re-
Lima's markets. fused to leavei, building
themselves. over the
By 1984 informal op- years a sort of parallel
.erators :controlled 93 nation that has, begun to
per cent of Lima's trans- su,likaine the official
. port fleet, '74 per cent of one. -"As the. informals
Its 'haulage capacity and have 'advanced," De Soto
. 80 per cent of its seats. writes, Peruvian-
The replacement value ' state has fallen back,
of the vehicles involved' ?yiewitig.eich concession.
was $620 million. In aci., as temporati, 'Until the
dition, operators had in- 'crisis, is over, io.on in
vested some $400 mil- faCt.itis being forced to.
lion in petrol stations, adopt a strategy' of re-
SiMON BARBER
writes from
Washington
treat, a retreat which is
gradually undermining
its social relevance."
' One of the book's most
instructive chapters de-
scribes ? how.? the: mi-
grants obtained urban
land and continue to do
so. In many cases, they
have simply seized it,
but they have done so
with such organisation
and firmness of purpose,
and they have picked
their targets ? gener-
ally unused lots owned
by the' state so care-
fully, that ? successive
governments have had
no choice but to recog-
nise the process. It even
has an official name: in-
vasion.
"While some invasions
are organic;grandmoth-
er's foptsteps ? affairs
spreading over time
from a small settled nu-
cleus,' many are highly
orchestrated. ?
, In these instances, a
would-be community,
numerous enough to-re-
quire an unpalatable,
degree of force should
the state seek' to inter-
vene, assembles itself,
selects a site and, with
the help of private
architects and engin-
eers,- develops a de-
tailed town plan, demar-
cating homes, sewer
systems, schools, clinics,
administrative build-
ings and recreation
areas.
Leaders are elected, a
census taken and a tax
system agreed upon to
meet the costs of cre-
ating the settlement Re-
sponsibilities, including
law and order, are care-
fully apportioned. In
short, the invaders are a
fully-fledged; and in
most cases genuinely
democratic, polity-in-
waiting before they hit
the ground. ' ?
The ? invasion itself
? usually takes place at
night or on a public holi-
day when the author-
ities' guard is likely to
be down. Again, it is a
highly disciplined busi-
ness. The new town is
immediately staked out
-into lots, with families
promptly occupying and
starting to build on their,
future hoinesites. Pick-
ets are posted to ward
off counter-attack by the
state, a child-care
' centre established to
look after, children as
their parents go about
their appointed ? tasks,
and ,an,,
reached with .the 'near-
est informal bus com-
pany to include the sud-
. den suburb , on its
routes.
Presented with a fait
? accompli,; the state is
usually helpless. The in-
' formals have taken the
initiative irrepressibly,
providing ? for them-
selves in a manner gov-
ernment cannot even be-
gin to match. Indeed,
were government able to
match it, the invasion
would not have been
necessary in the first'
place. Once established,
the community can be-
gin to negotiate with the.
authorities, for formal
property rights, for ex-
ample, from a position
of strength. .
Pretoria's threshhold
of tolerance would, I ini
agine, be rather too low
for such actions to sue-,
ceed 'as well or as blood-,
lessly in SA. But then ?
the SA government has
yet had to deal with the'
kind ,of popular will dis- -,.
played in Peru.. Instead..
it has been confronted
by totalitarian fools who
seek to play and beat it
at its own game, and by
absurd romantics like
Archbishop Tutu who
believe salvation lies .in
high-pitched martyr-
dom.
South Africa will be."--
indeed is already being
? liberated, in the m n-
ner De Solo has do u-
mented in his hon e'
country. 4.. His ""other'
path" is the only path, ?
because, unlike the the-
ories of the social engin-
eers in both Lusaka and
Pretoria, it puts individ-
uals and their' aspira-
tions first Ordinary hu-
man - beings have; ;in -
genuinely, . democratic "
combination, an infinite
capacity to liberate
themselves.,The state, to
preserve itself, pretends ,
otherwise ? and, tends .
most often to enklave. ._??. .
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l:.12_.. DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1988
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. A historic ' statement ..was*. pub,. - - tradictions thrown up' by.the blun,
. lished on page one of the Daily. . .derland of apartheid .L-- rigidly
.?.Dispatch yesterday. It, said: `They anti-apartheid players and 'offic-
? (the participants) .agreed to .Work ' ials employed in the administrat-
? ?,..
'.. together.Jo achieve ? these . goals,,.? . ion of the rejected system, using ;
? .'? .and called on people of goodwill . grounds and venues that are sym-
*. ?inside and outside South.Africa to . bols of separation.. It badly. needs,
1.- support this process.".. to break from the cul-de-sac mould'
'.. It was made after the meeting in ? into better Coaching and facilities; ,
'7". Harare attended by leaders of the.: ?-? more finance, challenges ?and tar-
African ,..National'.- Congress, .the '..,..? 'gets. . '? .:;?.-,. ;', ,, .?;.:,.,.,?._.,....... ? :': ._ .,:f.,, ?::.
..,..,president:. of-,the...South African ...?? ... ...The totally cyniCaLmai,Viewtiie'.:
' Rugby Board, Dr Danie Craven,-.Y: ? agreement that rugby should come ...:!
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the chairman of the - Transvaal under under. one, non-racial body as 4...'.?
? ? - ? I.Rugby. Union, Mr Louis Luyt, and -,?... ? prOpaganda. Catililiii.thilktC?biiii:
? ' - members ' of the South ? African '.:- .those looking 'fora breakthrough?:2,,
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'came thia-meetingof...peOple.who1:0:;
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