The report says on June 7, 1990, in an address to the South African Parliament, State President F.W. de Klerk announced that the country's four-year-long national State of Emergency will not be renewed when it expires on June 12th; this long-awaited decision will affect all parts of the country except for the province of Natal, where a virtual civil war has been raging for the last four-and-a-half years. The report says at the same time, President de Klerk announced the imposition of new security measures; these include: adding an additional 10,000 members to the South Africa Police Force (SAP) within a year, while allocating R840 million (approximately $315 million) to improve police...
The report says on June 7, 1990, in an address to the South African Parliament, State President F.W. de Klerk announced that the country's four-year-long national State of Emergency will not be renewed when it expires on June 12th; this long-awaited decision will affect all parts of the country except for the province of Natal, where a virtual civil war has been raging for the last four-and-a-half years. The report says at the same time, President de Klerk announced the imposition of new security measures; these include: adding an additional 10,000 members to the South Africa Police Force (SAP) within a year, while allocating R840 million (approximately $315 million) to improve police effectiveness; using the South Africa Defence Force (SADF) to augment police law-enforcement efforts; and expanding the policing role of citizen's forces. The report says since the imposition of the State of Emergency in 1986, approximately 50,000 persons have been detained without charge or trial; thousands of these detainees have been children under the age of eighteen.; besides being deprived of freedom of movement and fundamental due process rights, many of these state of emergency detainees were the victims of torture, abuse, molestation, traumatization, and other physical and psychological injury. The report says the lifting of the State of Emergency is one of several preconditions to the initiation of negotiations under the ANC's Harare Declaration as well as the lifting of U.S. sanctions under the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. The report discusses peace and reconciliation, South Africa's back majority, the homelands, white right-wing vigilantes, the town of Welkom, the Internal Security Act (ISA), indefinite incommunicado detention without charge, the Minister of Law and Order, the Human Rights Commission, Inaktha, KwaZulu homeland leader Gatsha Buthelezi, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Natal's Centre for Adult Education, the African National Congress (ANC), and security laws.
