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Goozo

lines on the record: 21
first: 1992-07-16
most recent: 1992-07-16
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“What is important in South Africa is that people must now stop clinging to empty slogans and ideologies; address the realities of South Africa - a heterogenous society which needs to be approached on those lines; achieve a federation, or federal system of Government, to accommodate all minorities and have all checks and balances; develop a strong economy based on free-market principles instead of socialism and talks of nationalization; and realize that there is an urgent need for all leaders to have respect for each other, tolerance for each other's viewpoint, and an acceptance that not one party can ever hope to dominate all the others. These are the realities of my country. I pray that all leaders here today will call upon the wisdom of Almighty God to guide them in their decisions. May God save South Africa.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“The ANC is now calling for mass action, which means confrontation with the forces of law and order. The ANC would welcome such clashes with deaths and injuries, which would once again occupy the front pages of world newspapers and the commentaries on radio and television. I assure members it is the wish of all South Africans that whenever an opinion is required all leaders should be consulted, including the leaders of independent and self-governing states in South Africa who have been branded for propaganda purposes as irrelevant and Stooges of the South African Government.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“It has been reduced to a futile exercise by the militant and uncompromising people who refused to negotiate when they realized they could not prescribe to CODESA. That is a fact. The ANC/SACP strategies have now resulted in 40 per cent of the population - that is, 6 million people - being unemployed; 50,000 jobs lost in the first six months of this year from only four employment sectors; armed robberies increased by over 20 per cent in four months and hijackings have increased by more than 54 per cent in the first four months of this year. The ANC has openly declared its opposition to investment in South Africa by foreign Powers and companies. The ANC does not want a prosperous South Africa in which they would quickly lose the Support of the people and find it hard to stir the people to violent action.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“And what has been disappointing and sad is that much of the world media has propagated this to make the world believe that South African security forces are, in fact, involved in these dastardly acts. Of course, some have been found to be involved, but not all, as it is claimed. Let me state that not a single person in my country has lost his life or property as a result of South African security forces or police action - and many people have died in my country. All deaths, injuries and damage to property have been caused by the ANC and their followers. CODESA did not fail. It was sabotaged by the ANC under the direction of the South African Communist Party. It should have been the opportunity for all of us to solve our differences with dignity and purpose.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“In any case, the ANC would not accept a peace-keeping force, or any other force - or any other organization, for that matter - in South Africa unless it complied with ANC's demands. The revolutionary forces in South Africa are making it difficult in practice, and will make it difficult for any professional force to execute its tasks efficiently and effectively because of their attitude and intimidation activities. These make it difficult for the masses to cooperate freely with the security or law enforcement agencies in combating violence. The ANC armed units have masqueraded as security forces on a number of occasions and committed crimes of despicable violence so as to implicate the forces of law and order.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“In my country youths are being recruited by the ANC so that they can be trained abroad and returned to usurp the Government and defy existing authority. The ANC continues to stockpile weapons in various parts of South Africa. Why? Surely the answer is obvious now. They want power through the barrel of a gun. And to say that they are fighting apartheid is no longer relevant. They are fighting anybody that opposes them. The truth is that the South African security forces are well trained and well equipped to deal with any crime, subversion, or terrorism, as well as any civil disobedience or uprising. That is why they incurred the wrath of the ANC. For this reason a peace-keeping force will not be a success. It would inevitably have to serve ANC interests.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“They support, and are supported by, terrorist groups and organizations in many parts of the world. They have openly admitted this on a number of occasions. The ANC believes in eliminating its political rivals, especially leaders. I speak with the benefit of sad experience because I have been the victim of these tactics. The ANC is intolerant of opposition. They have stated that the very existence of a political movement in my area - which espouses a contrary view - is provocation in itself and should be destroyed. This statement has been followed by no less than 148 violent attacks. People were killed, harmed, maimed and injured; their property was destroyed by petrol bombs, arson and confiscation; their dignity was offended by harassment and insults.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“The world insists on democratic process towards a new South Africa, and yet there are those in responsible positions who continue to support the ANC which implements undemocratic ways to achieve their goals. Again, we ask why? We are not stooges of the South African Government or any other Government or organization for that matter. We demand a hearing, because our people are suffering and have suffered for too long, because we are all bona fide South Africans, born and bred there. And it will get worse unless the ANC's activities can be stopped and it is brought to negotiations. By no stretch of the imagination could the ANC achieve their objectives of being the Government through negotiations and democratic processes without intimidation. The ANC still maintains outdated ideologies.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“More and more we are led to believe that it is not what South Africa is or was, or what South Africa has done or is doing, but what South Africa has and they - the States and Governments who support the ANC claims - want it and want to control it unfettered. What else can we believe when we see just how much the ANC is revered out of all proportion to their representation in South Africa, where millions, yes, multi-millions, oppose them but dare not say sO because of reprisals and intimidation; and the wherewithal to implement reprisals and intimidation has been supplied by the people and Governments outside of South Africa. To achieve their objectives the ANC and its allies have vowed publicly to render South Africa and Ciskei and Bophuthatswana ungovernable. Is this democratic?”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“We are nations of varying cultures and languages in a country which has in the main been wrongfully villified when superhuman efforts are being made to rectify the past. Of course, apartheid has wrecked all our lives. But we have got to give it a chance to change. We have got to trust the whites in South Africa to change. Yet the prejudices increase and are maintained against South Africa, even by one of its minority players - as far as representation is concerned - the ANC. Surely by now it is obvious what their game is and what the ANC want to achieve through violence within South Africa and propaganda on a world-wide scale.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“The ANC claims that it represents the majority of South Africans. It is a blatant lie. In numbers their representation is but a fraction of the total population of black, white, Indian, coloured and other Asiatic races within the borders of South Africa. It is the very refusal to acknowledge that there have been radical and far-reaching changes in South Africa - and more changes are still in the process - that is a major cause for the continuing violence and unrest. And the world looks on, and for inexplicable reasons, backs a minority party, nay, an organization which has yet to declare itself a political party, for so-called majority rule. They just do not represent the majority of the people of South Africa, no matter how many times they say so.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“The fact of the matter is that their activities impact negatively on the process of change. It promotes resentment, intimidation and resistance to authority. Disagree or oppose the ANC in any way and you become a target for violence. However, there is growing opposition, reaction and response to all this. Violence is met with violence, because the most peaceful man will protect his loved ones and his property with everything that he has. The vicious circle of events continues day and night. The ANC does not want negotiations. To continue to negotiate would mean that the ANC would have to share power, and all that goes with it, with other parties and organizations. The ANC wants it all: absolute power. There have been world wars to prevent just this. Why must South Africa be an exception?”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“Violence is not an accident. It is orchestrated in a number of ways by those who will not acknowledge the realities of change. When the policemen get in to stop this violence, they are damned and chased away with propaganda and world-wide media coverage, and these people are turned out of their townships. Immediately they are out of the townships violence starts and the world again is told that the South African Government, or the Ciskei Government, or any other of these State Governments, refuse to stop, or do not want to stop, violence. That is a fact. The ANC wishes to impose outdated and unsuccessful foreign ideologies on peaceful religious and traditional people. Is this democracy? Is this not a violation of peoples' human rights? They promote mass violence, which they think will bring about change. This change is already in process.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“But a bigger and more sinister form of apartheid is now emerging. It is perpetrated by the African National Congress and their alliance. It is with a viciousness beyond description. The people of my country have a problem with substituting black racism for white racism - black apartheid for white apartheid. The myth of black-white politics is over. What matters now to my people is the question of shared values and standards, not the question of colour or separation. To be shot dead is merciful compared with the slow mental and physical torture from a necklace. Fear haunts the people in my part of the worid today, especially in the townships where amenities are very sparse, fear drives many people to murder because they have to avenge or protect themselves. That is the reality of South Africa and my country today.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“They await the day they can take their place alongside the new South Africa which is painfully emerging. Why are they ignored by the international community and their Governments which must - and should - know what is going on in the southern part of Africa. May I regretfully Suggest that it is politically expedient not to recognize facts and to ignore reality. Why undermine their existence and cause further misery? For what purpose? For what evil end? And unfortunately that is the only conclusion we can come to, that it is an evil concept of power grabbing and greed. The leadership of these independent States cannot be wished away. It is the truth that the ANC want these leaders who do not support them to be eliminated - and attempts have been made to do so. That is the fact. The old apartheid is a corpse to be buried.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“When they do not get their own way, the ANC resorts to violence in order to save face in front of their international supporters whom they have misled. Their activities and attitude are no longer those of a progressive liberation movement but of an oppressive movement bent on seizing power by revolutionary means. Their only interest is just the transfer of power from white to black, which ceases to be a realistic proposition. It becomes racial. South Africa has 10 homelands. Whether they are recognized internationally or not is beside the point. They exist. They are there with millions of people within their borders. Six of these homelands are self-governing. Again, if this is not believed by some or all, it is denying existing facts. Four of these States are politically independent and autonomous, like my country Ciskei.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“Nineteen are represented at the CODESA negotiations, which have received world-wide publicity. That is reality. Many other groups are not at these negotiations. Nevertheless, the truth is that these groups not at CODESA represent people, and this is what the United Nations is all about - people and their right to live in peace on planet Earth. And yet the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) adopts a pseudo-sense of superiority that presupposes a right to negotiate on behalf of all others. They forget that in terms of the Declaration of Intent signed at CODESA they are equal participants in the constitutional process and no more. They have no justification for any other belief. The ANC propagates a perception that they will be a future Government. This is presumptuous.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“Because of this unrealistic attitude and refusal to accept the present situation, which is in their eventual favour, 36 million people are suffering needlessly, and ANC policies and demands are being backed by States and Governments outside the borders of South Africa. Why? It is just not true that the National Party, under President De Klerk, represents ali whites. And it is ridiculous and irresponsible to suggest - and even worse to believe - that the ANC alone represents black political aspirations in South Africa. The continual selective reporting and a merciless propaganda machine have convinced even responsible Governments that the ANC represents all black people in South Africa. It is just not true. Over the years many political groups have mushroomed in South Africa. That is reality.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“That cannot be denied, even by implacable enemies of the system, like us as well, as South Africans, black South Africans. But the ANC continues the struggle, conducting 1950 politics, revenge politics, which means violence, intimidation and disruption of people's daily lives, with its negative consequences on the country's economy. We can never hope to contribute positively to a liberated future when we refuse to let go of the enslaved past. We must all be liberated in our minds first. Those committed to change in South Africa have not yet realized, either deliberately or influenced by ANC propaganda, that they are already liberated. Political parties and organizations which were proscribed are now free to operate almost at will.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“I am particularly conscious of Senator Bradley's words at the Democratic Party convention here in New York earlier this week: "At another time in our history, Martin Luther King Junior wrote from his jail cell that 'We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of bad people, but for the Silence of good people'. I do not wish to repent for remaining silent, The truth is that political violence and cruel intimidation stalk South Africa day and night. It is important to know some historical facts. First, during the 1950s the African National Congress was a genuine liberation movement - 1 repeat "genuine", It fought against oppressive laws, rules and regulations of apartheid. But this apartheid is coming to an abrupt end, and it is history.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“Mr. GQOZO: I should like first to thank the Council very much and to extend my country's appreciation for the invitation to be heard in the Council. It is indeed appreciated, Mr. President, that in your wisdom, in your leadership of the Council, you have seen fit and deemed it necessary that some other parties that are a reality in South Africa should also be heard, irrespective of their recognition by the Council. We thank you, Sir. The truth about South Africa has to be told. Failure to understand the realities can and will lead to disaster for the whole African continent. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I am here today to tell you the truth. Even as much as a word deviating from the truth would be an injustice to the people in my part of the world.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source