ECSA Bulletin

Contents: NATIONAL PARTY'S PROPOSED "CONSTITUTIONAL DISPENSATION" TO PREVENT MAJORITY RULE ('DOMINATION') TO ENSURE A RIGHT TO SEGREGATION • FATHER MICHAEL LAPSLEY • The newsletter reports on the new constitution proposed by President F. W. De Klerk in September. It is laced with references to ''participatory democracy," "separation of powers," "independent judiciary" and such American icons, designed first of all a PR document to win Western support. But in coded language understood by South Africans, it protects essential white privilege in a future "non-racial" South Africa. The newsletter says there was an assassination attempt against anti-apartheid Anglican priest Father Michael Lapsley, SSM. Lapsley is currently in New Zealand and will arrive in the United States October 15 for a one-month national speaking tour. The newsletter reprints newspaper and magazine articles including: "Clean-up or cover-up?" by Gaye Davis, "Apartheid is still alive and well on the statute books" by Gavin Evans, "Hit-man names his police bosses" by Ryan Cresswell, "Beyond protest politics" by Glenda Daniels, "Other Pretoria townships," and "Youths and civics in rural areas" by Tony Harding. It also reprints excerpts from WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FOR WEEK NO. 36 From 02/09/91 to 08/09/91 by the Human Rights Commission. The newsletter discusses a black majority government, a bicameral parliament, the African National Congress (ANC), the National Party (NP), the Butterworths' Statutes, racial laws, the Population Registration Act, the Democratic Party, the Republic of South African Constitution Act of 1983, the Electoral Act, the National States Citizenship Act, Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Venda, the KwaZulu Police, the Black Authorities Act, the Aliens Act, the Black Local Authorities Act, the National Education Policy Act, the General Pensions Act, the Health Act, the Provincial Government Act, the Defence Act, the SADF (South African Defence Force), Sipho Madlala, Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, Sergeant Grobbelaar, warrant officers Wolfgang Warber and Peter Scott, Major Coert Marais, an informer, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA), formal repression, political prisoners, Joseph Koetle, MK, hunger strike, Phyllis Fante, SAP (South African Police), the Atteridgeville-Saulsville Residents Association (ASRO), PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), Azapo (Azanian People's Organisation), the UDF (United Democratic Front), the National Interim Civic Committee, Dr. Abie Nkomo, Dr. Ernie Jacobsen, the Pretoria City Council, the Transvaal Provincial Administration, Dikgang Moseneke, Patrick Molala, Reeves Mabitsi, Barney Desai, democracy, Strini Moodley, the Civic Associations of Southern Transvaal (CAST), the Johannesburg Metropolitan Chamber, Mayor Mathebula, Patrick Lephunya, Humphrey Ndaba, the ANC Youth League, the Bantustan Lebowa, the mass political struggle in the townships of PWV, KwaNdebele, Gazankulu, KaNgwane, Venda, militant youth, student representative councils (SRCs), the Department of Education, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), the Freedom Charter, Peter Nchabeleng, death in detention, the Native Affairs Department, land, tribal funds, Pierre Cronje, the Trust Feeds community, P.W. Botha, and rural areas.