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Mandela

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1992-07-15
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  1. “In 1985, Matthew Goniwe and three other Eastern Cape leaders were murdered. In May this year, in a document whose authenticity has not been challenged, a message from the South African Defence Force military intelligence chief, General C.P. Van der Westhuizen, then a Brigadier, proposed to the State Security Council that that body should authorize "the urgent removal from society" of Goniwe and the others. No move has been made to suspend Van der Westhuizen from his position. No action has been taken to suspend the head of the South African Police forensic laboratories, General Lothar Neethling, after a Supreme Court civil-case finding in January 1991 that his involvement in the poisoning of activists was, on the balance of probabilities, true.”

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

  2. “The International Commission of Jurists and Amnesty International have blamed the Government for failure to act against the violence. Amnesty International notes the Government's "failure te bring to justice all but a tiny proportion of those involved in human rights violations". Judge Goldstone, in his report dated 6 July 1992, complains of several instances where the authorities have ignored the recommendations of his Commission. Not a single person has been convicted in connection with the 49 'massacres that claimed the lives of at least 10 people in each of the incidents that have occurred in the past two years in the Transvaal. Where there have been proper investigations and vigorous prosecutions, as resulted from the Trust Feed massacre of December 1988, convictions have been secured. Those convicted were policemen.”

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

  3. “In the face of this situation, it is also true that there are instances of counter-violence by members of the democratic movement. At the same time, it is a matter of public record that the ANC policy stands opposed to the promotion of violence. We remain firmly committed to this position. But our task of ensuring that this policy position is fully and completely adhered to is made more than difficult because of the practice of the State security forces, its surrogates and the fact that it is the police controlled by the regime which remains in charge of investigating the violence, in which the State security forces are implicated, and bringing the perpetrators to book. The ANC maintains that the Government's culpability for the violence extends to acts of commission as well as omission.”

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

  4. “The actions of the regime, including its persistent efforts to shift the blame for the violence and the responsibility to act against it to political organizations, have served to ensure the escalation of the carnage. Though the causes of this violence are many and complex, it is important that we should all have a clear perspective. It is the regime which controls State power with the capacity to bring the violence to an end. Complicity of State security forces is established by the evidence which emerged in numerous court trials, inquests and commissions and has been confirmed by the Goldstone Commission as well as reports of international fact-finding missions. It is also clear that the central thrust of the violence is to weaken the ANC and the democratic movement of the country.”

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

  5. “Faced with the horrendous escalation of the violence, as evidenced in the Boipatong massacre, occurring in the context of the negotiations deadlock, the ANC has been forced to withdraw from the multilateral process of negotiations which had been taking place in the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. The blame for this lies squarely at the door of the regime. It, and nobody else, has the law enforcement personnel and the legal authority to stop this violence and to act against the perpetrators. As the governing authority, it has the obligation to protect the lives and property of all the people. It has failed dismally to do this.”

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

  6. “It constitutes a cold blooded Strategy of State terrorism intended to create the conditions under which the forces responsible for the introduction and entrenchment of the System of apartheid would have the possibility of imposing their will on a weakened democratic movement at the negotiations table. However, as had been foreseen by this Organization, this violence also has the effect of making those very negotiations impossible. Already in April 1991, when this campaign of terror grew to new heights, we were left with no choice but to suspend the bilateral negotiations with the regime until it took various measures to address the question of violence. It is now common cause that the agreements the Government reached with the ANC in May 1991 aimed at curbing the violence have not been carried out by the regime.”

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

  7. “de Klerk." It then goes on to say that "Two political parties have clearly benefited from the Reef violence. The first is the National Party government ... . The second major beneficiary has been Inkatha." Another report deals with the 13 attacks on funerals or funeral vigils which took place on the Reef between July 1990 and July 1991. This study concludes that there is "an overwhelming predominance of acts of aggression carried out by supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Those attacks, moreover, are carried out with the active or passive support of the South African Police". It is more than clear to us that this violence is both organized and orchestrated. It is specifically directed at the democratic movement, whose activists, members and supporters make up the overwhelming majority of its victims.”

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

  8. “At the same time it was expected that, for its part, the regime would carry out various measures which would remove obstacles to negotiations, and that it would ensure that a proper climate for negotiations did in fact exist. Instead, as we have said, | we have been confronted with an escalating spiral of violence. An independent socio-political and development agency known as Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE) has prepared five reports with regard to the pattern of violence. One of these reports comes to the conclusion that "The violence appears to be switched on and off at strategic moments." It continues: "Behind the scale of brutality ... is the clear evidence that the violence erupts at points when it most weakens the ANC and its allies and dies down dramatically when it would most harm the Government of F. W.”

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

  9. “In that Declaration the General Assembly said that such negotiations shoula, as a result of agreements that would be entered into by the liberation movement and the Government, be conducted in an atmosphere free of violence. We were and are in full agreement with these positions. They were adopted by the General Assembly precisely because it was correctly foreseen that the process of negotiations could not succeed while a virtual civil war raged in the country. Pursuant to this objective, in August 1990 the ANC decided to suspend all armed actions. We did this unilaterally, both as a demonstration of our good faith and to help create an atmosphere free of violence.”

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

  10. “Our memorandum of 9 July 1992 to Mr. F. W. De Klerk, which has been made available to members of the Council, sets out the evidence of numerous acts of omission and commission, which bear out Government involvement in the violence. In particular, we draw the attention of members to one annexure of the memorandum entitled "Involvement of the Security Forces in the fomenting and escalation of violence", and another entitled "South African Government support for the Inkatha Freedom Party". Many years of struggle, both inside and outside of South Africa, brought us to the point in 1989 when, in its consensus Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, the General Assembly concluded that circumstances existed for a negotiated resolution of the South African situation.”

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

  11. “Unless government is forthcoming with a firm commitment to full democracy based on internationally accepted principles, and an acceptance of a sovereign and democratic constitution-making body, the process will not move forward. But the Council meets today because this process has been brought to a halt by the carnage in the black townships. Over the last five to six years, at least 11,000 people have died as a result of this violence. During the month of June 1992 alone there have been 373 deaths and 395 injuries; and 1,806 have been killed and 2,931 injured during the period January 1992 to June 1992, Control of State power by the National Party regime allows it the space to deny and cover up its own role as well as those of its surrogates and the State security forces in fostering and fomenting the violence.”

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

  12. “In the meantime, an extremely critical situation has arisen. Whereas in the Declaration of Intent adopted at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) on 21 December 1991 we all committed ourselves to set in motion the process whereby a Constitution would be drafted and adopted for a united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa, the process is deadlocked. With regard to this matter, the problem is that the ruling white minority government continues to look for ways and means by which it can guarantee itself the continued exercise of power, regardiess of its electoral support. The regime insists that the political majority, no matter how large, should be subjected to veto by minority political parties.”

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

  13. “South Africa continues to be governed by a white minority regime. The overwhelming majority of our people are still denied the vote. They remain deprived of the right to determine their destiny. Representatives of the South African Government will also address the Council today. However sweet sounding the words they may utter, they represent the system of white minority rule to which the United Nations is opposed. They continue to govern our country under a constitution which the Security Council has declared null and void. Precisely because its purposes have not yet been achieved, the United Nations must remain seized of the question of South Africa. It must continue to look for ways and means by which it can help to expedite the process leading to the democratic transformation of our country.”

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

  14. “Mr. MANDELA: First of ail, we would like to express our appreciation to the Security Council for agreeing to meet on the question of South Africa. We would also like to thank members most sincerely for giving us the opportunity to address the Council. The United Nations has been seized of the question of South Africa for the past 45 years. The reason for this is that our people have been subjected to the policy of apartheid, which the United Nations has determined is a crime against humanity. The decisions which have been taken by the Security Council and the General Assembly on the question of South Africa have been directed at ending this apartheid crime against humanity and helping to transform our country into a non-racial democracy. This objective has not yet been achieved.”

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