Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing to Southern Africa Support and Human Right Groups. The mailing says the halo of sainthood is beginning to wear off of F.W. De Klerk; on April 29 police Captain Brian Mitchell was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in connection with the slaying of 11 women, men and children now called the Trust Feed Massacre; four Black policemen were also sentenced to 15 years each for carrying out "lawless orders" in the massacre; six days later, the South African New Nation newspaper announced that it had evidence personally implicating De Klerk's chief of military intelligence General C.P. van der Westhuizen in the 1985 murder of anti-apartheid...
Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing to Southern Africa Support and Human Right Groups. The mailing says the halo of sainthood is beginning to wear off of F.W. De Klerk; on April 29 police Captain Brian Mitchell was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in connection with the slaying of 11 women, men and children now called the Trust Feed Massacre; four Black policemen were also sentenced to 15 years each for carrying out "lawless orders" in the massacre; six days later, the South African New Nation newspaper announced that it had evidence personally implicating De Klerk's chief of military intelligence General C.P. van der Westhuizen in the 1985 murder of anti-apartheid activist Matthew Goniwe. The mailing says in just a week, the government's role in the violence was laid out for all to see. The police who actually shot the victims, the use of Kitkonstables, the government's commissioned Black street thugs who barely have any training, the campaign of blaming the killings on factional fighting and the elaborate cover up which involved senior police officers; the Trust Feed Case had it all. The mailing says the violence must be stopped; the international community and in particular the governments of the West can no longer afford to have the policy of not rocking the CODESA cradle; in the same week that the international community reacted in horror to the deaths of 51 people in Los Angeles, the only comfort South Africans received was that their weekly average of 83 deaths for April was lower than that of March; action must start now; efforts to curtail the violence will be hindered if the security forces of the country are left in the hands of the De Klerk government. The mailing says as negotiations begin at Codesa 2, South Africa has three possible futures, a Zimbabwe scenario, where the violence is reduced, a Mozambique scenario with the slow death of RENAMO type violence, and the all out war case of Yugoslavia; the longer it takes and the more power is left with the National party, the less likely the first option becomes; South Africa needs strong transitional councils now! The mailing includes a newspaper article "De Klerk Faces New Complication" by Philip van Niekerk. The mailing includes reports by the Human Rights Commission including PRESS SUMMARY ON WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FROM 29/04/92 TO 5/05/92, PRESS SUMMARY ON WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FROM 06/05/92 TO 12/05/92, and SUMMARY REPORT ON REPRESSION FOR THE MONTH ON APRIL 1992. The mailing reprints a newspaper article "Playing games among the ruins" by Beathur Baker. The mailing discusses the African National Congress (ANC), Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto, Sicelo Mhlauli, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Cradock, rule of President Pieter W. Botha (P.W. Botha), the South African Defence Force (SADF), the South African Community Party (SACP), the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Saul Tsotetsi, and the Law and Order Ministry.
