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  1. “Consequently, the PAC reiterates the following: democratic @lections for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution must be held without delay; the regime must beforehand concede that the only legitimate and democratic forum for transfer of power and the creation of a new constitution is a constituent assembly elected on the basis of one-person, one-vote, on a common voter's role; a new restructured forum, free from the defects of CODESA, should be convened in order to facilitate negotiations in good faith and with the primary purpose of transferring power to a democratic majority. In conclusion, may I take this opportunity to thank members of the Council, as representatives of humanity, for setting aside time to share our grief, and to attempt to find a solution with us.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  2. “Save for the ANC and the SACP, the forum is prepacked with government-created puppets with no Support on the ground; it lacks neutrality, as there is no neutral convener, chairperson and mediators; it lacks transparency, inasmuch as media attendance of its proceedings and other forms of reporting are absent. In the wake of the failure of CODESA, the PAC has been vindicated in its assertion that CODESA is a kaleidoscope of political intrigue. It has now become abundantly clear that the minority regime has not been negotiating in good faith to create a genuine democracy and thus is not prepared to relinquish power. A double agenda has come to the fore which entails, on the one hand, the strengthening of its ruling power base, and on the other, weakening the overall position of the liberation movement.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  3. “The immediate task of the broad liberation movement in the current phase of struggle is the transfer of political power to a non-racial democratic majority. The only legitimate and democratic forum for such transfer of power and the creation of a new constitution is a constituent assembly elected on the basis of one-person, one-vote, on a common voter's role in a unitary State. The present regime cannot be, and is not the agent of democratic change; the masses of our people are. Our stand on CODESA is well-known. At its inception we contended, as we still do, that CODESA is unrepresentative and undemocratic.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  4. “The lifting of sanctions against the South African regime by sections of the international community was premature. Selective and voluntary sanctions should be strengthened and a moratorium on sports contacts should be introduced until peace and democracy have been achieved through the electoral process. The ongoing violence makes it impossible for the oppressed to prepare themselves properly for the sporting events in many parts of our country. Since the violence is political, its solution should have a political content. To this end, this meeting should empower the Secretary-General to identify a neutral venue and representatives of the United Nations urgently to convene, chair, verify, supervise and mediate the discussions on and the election of a constituent assembly.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  5. “I call on all persons present here today to ask themselves why any Government would want to keep batailions of foreign mercenaries and spend no less than R5 billion for covert operations when it is not facing any foreign threat from outside and its masses inside are ready to address the political problems democratically through the election of a constituent assembly. Foreign mercenaries, as I have already indicated, internationalize the problem. The Security Council must internationalize the solution. The United Nations should supervise the disbanding and expulsion of foreign mercenaries and investigate the true nature of the violence with a view to identifying the perpetrators and, together with the Azanians, work out solutions which will work. The PAC is ready to collaborate fully with such a commission on the violence.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  6. “Through its numerous resolutions and declarations in support of our liberation struggle and movements, the United Nations is seized of the matter of our freedom and, owing to the inhuman acts perpetrated against us, this is the most appropriate forum to assist in resolving the problem of violence to destabilize the United Nations recognized movements and to reduce the African population numerically. As I speak now, the problem is already internationalized through the involvement of foreign mercenary forces, like Buffalo Batallion 32, the Koevoet, and so forth.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  7. “They do not predict any curbing of the violence through their efforts. Beside the fact that the foreign faces in the Goldstone Commission represent an acknowledgement of the need for international involvement, their recruitment into failed and failing strategies leaves much to be desired. I have no choice but to call on the Security Council to condemn the South African regime for its involvement in the violence. Culpability extends to acts of commission and omission.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  8. “5 to 7 million Africans live below the bread line. Fifty per cent of African babies die. before they reach the age of five. Therefore, the legitimacy of ovr struggle to transform the status quo can only be equalled by the illegitimacy of the present regime to continue ruling. The PAC and the dispossessed African masses hereby formally extend an invitation to the United Nations to send an international commission to South Africa to investigate and recommend measures which could bring an effective end to the violence, for the following reasons: The violence is ongoing, inhuman, disruptive and escalating with no end in sight. I quoted earlier a statement made only a few days ago by the security force spokesman in which he said that they predict an escalation of the violence.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  9. “For apartheid there is the 1973 International Convention on the Supression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Moreover, as already stated, there is genocide in South Africa. This crime is forbidden by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The recent referendum showed clearly that South Africa is still racist, that only 5 per cent of the population is still regarded as human beings. Africans are still voteless and landless. Despite so-called repeals, 87.3 per cent of our land is in the hands of whites. Worse still, even land that was promised to us as early as 1936 is still in the hands of whites. Therefore, it is arrogance of the first order to say that apartheid is dead. Less than 5 per cent of the total capital assets are owned by Africans.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  10. “The only time Azania will be an independent and sovereign State is when the vast dispossessed, indigenous African majority, whose country was colonized, regain control of their inalienable right to self-determination. Azania, after many wars of national resistance against colonialism, became four separate British colonies - Natal, Cape, Transvaal and Orange River Colony - until the British Statute of 20 September 1909 called the South Africa Act. One of the reasons the four colonies were united as South Africa was to fight what the colonialists called "native danger" ~ that is, the indigenous African majority. The South African problem is therefore an international problem. It involves colonialism and apartheid. Colonialism is a violation of international law.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  11. “The regime continues to oppose meaningful and effective international involvement on the grounds that international involvement will be interfering in the affairs of a sovereign State or alternatively will undermine the sovereignty of the State. It bases its sovereignty on the de facto relationships with various countries fiowing from certain international obligations. The naked truth, however, is that the indigenous African people of Azania were colonized and have not regained their land and national sovereignty as at the date of this meeting. So-called claims of sovereign statehood under these circumstances are feeble attempts to mutilate and fake the history of our country and to manipulate international law in the most scandalous and gigantic colonial fraud of the twentieth century.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  12. “Security Council resolution 554 (1984) of 17 August 1984 declared the 1983 apartheid constitution, which is still operating to this minute, "null and void". Immigrants who acquire citizenship under that constitution are illegal and their citizenship cannot be legally valid. The PAC therefore requests the Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding the South African regime to stop forthwith the recruitment of immigrants until there is profound and irreversible change in South Africa and a democratically elected Government is in place. The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania is the architect of the call for international involvement to resolve the crisis in Azania.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  13. “A Weekly Mail investigation this year revealed the use of extra-legal methods, including systematic use of false vehicle registration plates, some belonging to bona fide individuals and companies, to cover a police operation in the Vaal. The vigorous attempt to reduce the African population numerically takes place against the background of massive recruitment of white immigrants, especially from Eastern European countries. This white immigration is intended to increase the white population in South Africa. The recruitment of whites by the South African racist colonialist regime must be stopped until there is a new Constitution drawn up by a democratically elected Constituent Assembly dismantling apartheid in accordance with the United Nations Declaration of 14 December 1989.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  14. “Up to now no move has been made to suspend the head of the South African Police forensic laboratories, General Lothar Neethling, after a Supreme Court civil-case finding in January last year that his involvement in the poisoning of activists was, on the balance of probabilities, true. Despite the Harms Commission finding implicating several CCB members in political violence, none has been charged. At least 20 CCB members, and probably many more, remain on the South African Army payroll. In an official operation in 1986 the South African Army gave military training in Namibia to 200 Inkatha men, who were later absorbed into the Kwa-Zulu Police. In sworn affidavits several of the trainees claimed to have been trained in offensive warfare. Some of the trainees have subsequently been implicated in the Natal violence.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  15. “Commenting on the police deployment of ex-Koevoet fighters, Judge Goldstone said that whether or not they were involved in violence their "infamous reputation" could only cause further distrust and suspicion of the security forces. In assessing the regime's record, the following facts must be taken into account. Not a single person has been convicted in connection with 49 massacres which have occurred over the past two years in Transvaal. Ironically, the Trust Feeds massacre of December 1980 stands out as the major instance where convictions have been secured. Those convicted were policemen.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  16. “The refusal to disband the special forces and insistence on using mercenary forces, such as former members of the Koevoet, Buffalo Battalion 32, Askaris, Selous Scouts and the Black Cat gang and the continuation of covert operations only reinforce public suspicion. The statement made last night by the De Klerk regime that it was disbanding Buffalo Battallion 32 and Koevoet, and that these would be integrated into the existing police force, is another ploy by the regime to mislead world opinion, and this gathering in particular, into believing that it has yielded to our demand. That is not the case. These mercenary forces will remain part of the security forces of the regime, and such integration falls short of our legitimate demand for the immediate and verifiable expulsion of these mercenary forces.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  17. “Since 1990, Africans have continued to die at a daily average of eight people. In 1990 alone, therefore, on that average, 2,920 people died. At this rate, without sounding cynical, it is fair to say that by the year 2000, eight years from now, we shall have lost a total of more than 23,000 African men, women and children, killed in an undeclared war by the South African regime. My people are being killed on a daily basis in significant numbers. I want to stress one point: the Boipatong incident is but one in a daily catalogue of murders for political reasons perpetrated by the racist regime.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  18. “In that massacre a nine-month-old baby, Aron Mathope, and an 85-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ndamase, were shot at close range and brutally stabbed to death. The perpetrators of this crime were transported in vehicies of the South African regime. In South Africa, Africans - the victims of apartheid and colonialism - are the only people who frequent graveyards with monotonous regularity. There have been many massacres before and after Boipatong. They coexisted with the so-called Convention for a Democratic South Africa. Our people have been subjected too long to the peace of the grave. The PAC, as their representative, can no longer take this genocide. According to the controlled media, over 12,000 people have been killed since September 1984, over 7,000 of them since De Klerk assumed the leadership of our country.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  19. “This special meeting of the Security Council is necessary because, contrary to the belief cf some governments, relaxing these pressures has not helped the suffering, oppressed masses, but instead piayed into the hands of this murderous regime. Mr. de Klerk simultaneously announced reforms and unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence: 7,000 people have died since 2 February 1990. According to a news conference held by Major General L.C.A. Pruis on 9 June 1992, the South African security forces expect the violence to escalate over the next six months. There is genocide of the African people in our country. The Boipatong massacre of over 51 unarmed women, children and men on 17 June 1992 is not an isolated incident; it is only the tip of the iceberg.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  20. “de Klerk has made way for sobering concerns and serious questions by the international community regarding his real motives. The euphoria was created by the unbanning of the PAC and other organizations and the repeal of certain laws. Mr. de Klerk was judged at face value and applauded. He received the red-carpet treatment wherever he went. My submission is that, from the beginning, Mr. de Klerk never had a change of heart. He was forced against his will to adopt a reformist posture by the twin pressures of heightened internal resistance and the international isolation campaign, which included punitive economic sanctions. In short, the reforms came not as the result of democratic good will, but because the regime had to embark on them to get itself out of isolation.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  21. “Allow me also, Sir, to commend your predecessor, Ambassador Noterdaeme, for the successful manner in which he conducted the affairs of the Security Council during the month of June. This is the first time in four years that a proposal of this sort is before the Council, since the unanimous resolution and decisions affecting the Sharpeville Six. I wish to thank profusely the members of the Security Council and all the other United Nations leaders and individuals who heeded the call to save our lives. We are hopeful and confident that as in the case of the Sharpeville Six, the decisions that you arrive at in these meetings will, this time as well, save many more lives in our blood-drenched country. The euphoria created by the seemingly wonderful reformist posturing of Mr. F.W.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  22. “Mr, MAKWETU: On behalf of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the majority of the oppressed, exploited and dispossessed people of Azania it represents, we wish to thank the Organization of African Unity and the African Group at the United Nations, whose swift and efficient administration made this urgently convened special meeting of the Security Council possible. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the Presidency of this very important organ, the United Nations Security Council. I have no doubt that your long experience and tested diplomatic skills, coupled with your incisive and analytical mind, will see us beyond the murky waters in which we are wading.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source