SECHABA: “Taking the Struggle to the White Areas”
In the December 1985 issue of the African National Congress (ANC) journal, “Sechaba”, it reproduced a leaflet that had been distributed inside South Africa titled “Take the Struggle to the White Areas!” The leaflet began with a belligerent slogan, which declared, “Make the whole of South Africa ungovernable! Paralyse apartheid!”
It then had a topic, “The Battle Lines Are Drawn”, in which it maintained that through resolute action, many parts of South Africa were rendered ungovernable and the apartheid system of government in the African ghettoes were smashed, while at the same time rudimentary organs of people’s power were evolving. Furthermore, the leaflet asserted that despite enemy brutality, the people were engaged in mass action around all issues affecting them.
Moreover, according to the leaflet, the ANC had managed to create combat groups and mobile units to defend the people and their leaders by confronting the racist army, police, death squads, agents and stooges within their midst. By using all forms of struggle, the people had thrown Botha and his clique into confusion. The leaflet then said the goal was clear, which was “to destroy the system of apartheid colonialism and establish in its stead a democratic, non-racial system in The People Shall Govern!”
In the following heading of the leaflet, “The Enemy is Desperate”, the ANC averred that Botha and his generals were resort
