Chris Hani: Burning Questions of Our Times
(In February 1985, the Army Commissar of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Chris Hani, made an evaluation of the revolutionary situation inside South Africa to Dawn, February 1985, and proposed certain interventions to escalate the conditions).
“The fight against the enemy is in full swing. Hardly a day goes by without some form of confrontation between the enemy and our people taking place. Our people have reached a level of political consciousness where they react against all manifestations of oppression and brutality.
“We have witnessed and are still seeing the ongoing struggle against high rents, high transport fares, slave education, military occupation of the townships, the sacking of the Sasol workers, shootings of UDF (United Democratic Front) leaders, etc. The prisons and police cells are crammed with thousands of patriots detained for no other reason than the participation in the massive democratic struggle.
“The enemy has declared war on the people. Thousands of its troops are deployed in the townships in a massive show of force. Sjamboks, birdshot, rubber bullets and live bullets have become gruesome methods the enemy is using in it futile attempts to crush opposition.
SPECIAL POLICE
“A special black police force is being organised for deployment in the townships to provide protection to the already discredited blackguards and cut-throats of the Community Councils. It is thus clear that the reaction of the enem
