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1992-07-15
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  1. “As the Council reaches its decision on the draft resolution before it, we hope it will bear in mind the ugly fact that the average black family in and around the townships lives in constant fear of unpredictable assault and murder, as the recent Boipatong tragedy indicates. Being predominately Christians, our only immediate neighbours, as they look to the skies also say "eli eli lema sabachthani", and casting up their eyes, ever drenched in tears, they have pinned their hopes on your Council as they say that they too deserve a protection force which hopefully will contribute to genuine negotiations by all South Africans acting in good faith. They too deserve peace.”

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

  2. “Koos Botha, who recently confessed to helping to bomb a formerly white Hillsview High School in Pretoria's northern suburbs last year, in June, in his constituency, a school that was to serve children of black political returnees. We also note the disproving of the so-called "black~-on-black violence" notion with the recent sentencing of police officer Captain Brian Mitchell to hang for leading a massacre of 11 innocent black villagers, wounding 8 in rural Natal, at the settlement of Trust Feeds. They were slaughtered simply because this Mitchell thought they were supporters of the United Democratic Front (UDF) which was reported by the apostles of "black-on-black violence" as clashing with Inkatha.”

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

  3. “Its inevitable resort to violent means in the past was a response to the violence of apartheid and the rejection by successive South African Governments of all overtures for peaceful dialogue towards the elimination of apartheid and the negotiation of a new Constitution that would usher in a new democratic South Africa for all its citizens. It is not our intention to catalogue all the pogroms that started in Natal in 1985, culminating with the atrocious Boipatong massacre by the brutes. We genuinely appeal to those in authority in South Africa seriously to address the root causes of this ever-escalating political violence, which is even shamefully instigated by parliamentarians of the likes of Mr.”

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

  4. “For instance, the Law and Order Minister, Mr. H. Kriel, in his recent statement referring to hot spots around the country, said that the Government had "ample provisions" to deal with those hot spots under present security legislation. Those "ample provisions", taken together with the sophisticated and efficient law-enforcement machinery, need to be employed to facilitate the creation of the necessary climate for negotiations encouraged by the consensus declaration. We continue to take courage from our knowledge that the South African liberation movements are not wedded to armed Struggle. As a demonstration of good faith, the ANC swiftly moved to suspend its armed struggle as talks with the South African authorities began.”

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

  5. “It remains our steadfast conviction that the responsibility for the protection of innocent lives and property rests primarily with the South African authorities. There must be some understanding of the black pain over the ongoing violence, and appreciation of the depth of anger and frustration in the black community, as a result of what appears to be a failure to contain the political violence. It is neither a virtue nor a sound economic principle to appear to be encouraging an increasing role of funeral undertakers or expanding the coffin industry. The traffic leading to the black graveyards should be reduced. The existing police force in South Africa, whose numbers have been reported to have swelled to 110,000, cannot fail to put to an end to the ongoing massacres, should there be a genuine desire to do so by all concerned.”

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

  6. “Nowadays, hostels are increasingly used as staging grounds for politically motivated murder. In rejecting the notion of so-called black-on-black violence, particularly as it involves hostels, South Africans of good will and good intentions have all observed that these hostel inmates are incapable of distinguishing between the policies, if they know what "policy" means, of the ANC, Inkatha or the PAC. We continue to reject the notion that in a charged atmosphere, weapons of any kind, including spears and machetes - "pangas" in the language of southern Africa - can be cultural necessities. At Boipatong, it is reported, a spear was used to butcher a nine-month-old baby, and a pamga was used to slaughter a woman eight months pregnant - weapons of cultural necessity!”

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

  7. “What some of us in Lesotho find hard to believe and to comprehend is that all of a sudden the police force, with the help of the army, which used to hunt freedom fighters and "law of the day" violators, is today incapable of policing and maintaining law and order in the very same areas of the country to stamp out violence. It is equally a matter of common knowledge that for years some elements in the security forces were trained and paid to destabilize liberation movements through assassinations, abductions and other dirty tricks that turned southern Africa into a human nightmare. In the chilling Boipatong massacre, at least 40 people were shot, stabbed and hacked to death. It is reported that police ignored warning of the impending attack from one of the many notorious hostels.”

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

  8. “The result of CODESA's second plenary session in May 1992 is well known to us all. It was a regrettable outcome indeed. The CODESA process deserves resurrection by all the main political players in South Africa, While the world was undergoing a revolution of rising expectations that a new order was emerging in South Africa, political violence turned black townships into war zones, and now the country appears to have degenerated into a morass of violence, intolerance, mistrust and racial hostility, brutalizing blacks and whites.”

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

  9. “The great leaders of the liberation movement also re-emerged on the political scene without rancour and targeted their efforts and energies towards the elimination of apartheid, en route to negotiations leading to the creation of a non-racial democratic South Africa as the ultimate objective. We are all witnesses to the road President de Klerk took, starting with the Cape Town Minutes; the Pretoria Minutes; the removal of some legislation which provided the bedrock of apartheid; amendment of the Internal Security Act; the political Peace Accord of 14 September 1991; and the coming into being of the CODESA process, born on 21 December 1991. Mr. Nelson Mandela and his followers, believing that they were on a genuine path to the ultimate destination, a new, democratic South Africa, continued to negotiate in good faith.”

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

  10. “The world at large welcomed President de Klerk's move to release political prisoners and the lifting of political bans. In that February 1990 historic pronouncement, President de Klerk appeared to come to a crucial understanding that his Government could no longer govern the country with the exclusion of the majority of South Africans. South Africa appeaed to be crossing a new threshold to an era filled with promise for all its citizens. The dramatic release of Mr. Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress (ANC), the late Zephania Mothopeng, then President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), and Mr. Clarence Makwetu, its current President, and other political leaders augured well for a new South Africa.”

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

  11. “It was in recognition of this fact that the international community adopted on 14 December 1989 the Consensus Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, which called, inter alia, for the creation of the necessary political climate for negotiations. In enunciating the guidelines to the process of negotiations, the international community expressed the view "that the parties concerned should, in the context of the necessary climate, negotiate the future of their country and its people in good faith and in an atmosphere which, by mutual agreement between the liberation movements and the South African regime, would be free of violence. (General Assembly resolution S-16/1, annex, para. 8). Notwithstanding that Declaration, violence has continued unabated, with an ever-increasing toll on the black people.”

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

  12. “Mr. President, may I say how very pleased we are to see you having assumed the Stewardship of the Security Council this month. We hasten to wish you much success, To your predecessor, Mr. Paul Noterdaeme, we say "well done". The Security Council is once more focussing on the South Africa problem following the senseless and brutal massacre of men, women and children at Boipatong on 17 June 1992. The atrocity of Boipatong was a chilling reminder of political violence that has always been a major obstacle to democratization and the reform process in South Africa. The political violence engulfing South Africa is the legacy of apartheid.”

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