File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9712, message 124


Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 15:41:02 +1000 (EST)
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: M-I: In the matter of Winnie Mandela


At 09:37 AM 12/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I wonder if anyone here has kept abreast of the Faustian tragedy unfolding
>in South Africa.  It seems to me that Madikizela-Mandela is being hauled up
>as part of a campaign against the populist left in the ANC (is she also
>SACP? conflicting reports here).  And that Desmond Tutu -- vile creature --
>hasn't he taken a leading, though surreptitious, role in the witch-hunt?  I
>have never heard a satisfactory explanation of the part played by the ANC
>security division in the murder plot against Chris Hani.  International
>capital seems quite happy with their new surrogates in Johannesburg, though
>some doubts remain among US reactionaries.  Now, if they can only get rid of
>some of their more truculent followers.  Driving up the price, and all that.
>
>BTW, how many people do you suppose Bill Clinton has killed?
>
>Louis G
>
>

I have been monitoring this affair in the mainstream Australian media for
some time.  

I almost wept for Winnie M.  when she had to sit through the sanctimonious
bleetings of Tutu begging her to say sorry.  She must have felt like
puking.  Tutu is the execrable character that left a platform in England
because he did not want to share it with the ANC. 

Still Winnie Mandela's fate remains as always in the hands of the people
and I do not complain of the people in this instance.

My own thoughts on Hani are that he fitted into the category of a
"necessary murder."  There are some who will not do a deal and the
bourgeoisie know they must kill them.  Nelson M. on the other hand fitted
into the category of someone who would do a deal and he had to be kept
alive at all costs.  Witness the absolute panic in the establishment when
he contracted TB.

My only criticism of Hani is that when he was refused extra security he
should have known that assassination was very close.  He should have
immediately sought refuge in Soweto - where he should have been in the
first place in any case.

regards

Gary



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