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ANC's Anti-Apartheid Movement:
Most Successful Stalinist Front Worldwide!
Paul Trewhela, Mutinies in the Liberation Armies: Inside Quadro
(Searchlight South Africa, Vol 2, No 1: July 1990 p.30-35)
Excerpts: Mbokodo: Inside MK: Mwezi Twala - A Soldier's Story
by Mwezi Twala and Ed Bernard
Jonathan Ball Publishers
Mbokodo: Inside MK: Mwezi Twala - A Soldier's Story, by Mwezi Twala & Ed Bernard [*Amazon*] |
In 1981 began a time of terror and death for ANC members in exile. In February a strong ANC National Executive Committee entourage which incuded President Tambo made the rounds of all ANC camps in Angola. Cadres were warned of the presence of a spy network and the need for vigilance was emphasised. Enemy agents and provocateurs were rudely warned by Piliso, in Xhosa, '.. I'll hang them by their balls.' An 'internal enemy' psychosis had been whipped up and whenever ANC leaders visited camps they were heavily guarded. Many men and women were apprehended on suspicion of dissidence were to be exterminated in the most brutal manner in the months ahead. Those disiullusioned MK cadres who returned from Rhodesia were the first to go.(p.49)
I became aware of these developments by word of mouth, but I was to discover later on, by personal experience, the terror of Quatro, to name but one death camp. People were removed from amongst us -- taken to Quatro or Camp 13 -- and disappeared forever without reason. Many of them were slaughtered by one means or another and their ultimate destination was a shallow grave. We heard rumours of execution by being buried alive, amongst many other techniques beyond civilized imagination. The purge created great fear amongst all of us, to the point where the smallest criticism, such as of badly prepared food, was seriously reconsidered by every individual, for one could never be certain that a 'best friend' would keep his mouth shut. (p.49)
Our own security people became exceedingly arrogant, to the point where an innocent slip of the tongue or even a simple gesture could land you in a torture cell at Quatro. Security men of the lowest rank and intelligence -- fourteen to eighteen year olds -- became our masters, with the power of life or death in their hands. They acted on a mood with impugnity. (p.49-50)
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Oliver Tambo visited Pango [Camp] at the height of the terror. The path from the entrance to the admin building was lined -- like a scene from 'Spartacus' -- with men, bloodied and filthy, hanging from trees. When his entourage arrived at admin, where I was officer on duty, Tambo's chief of staff told us that there would be a meeting at 'the stage' (a clearing in the jungle... where we held meetings and discussions). Runners were sent out to notify everyone in the vicinity. On his way to the stage [Oliver Tambo] again passed the men tied to the trees. Being officer on duty, I could not attend the meeting, but my deputy went. After a while I saw guards come up from the stage, release the prisoners and take them to the meeting. There, my deputy told me, instead of objecting to their treatment, as I had hoped, Tambo berated them for their dissident behaviour and appeared to approve when Andrew Masondo declared that on the presidents next visit they would be in shallow graves behind the stage. The prisoners were returned to their trees.. where the president [Oliver Tambo] passed the unfortunate men without a glance on his way out, and they hung there for another three months -- followed by three months hard labour. (p.51-52)
Scene from 'Spartacus' |
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Mutinies in the Liberation Armies: Inside Quadro
by Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa,
Vol 2, No 1: July 1990 p.30-35)
The first-hand testimony by former combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) about the ANC prison regime… are an event in South African history. Never before has such concentrated factual evidence been presented about the inner nature of the ANC and its eminence grise, the South African Communist Party.
If people wish to understand the operation of the ANC/SACP, they must look here. This is the view behind the proscenium arch, behind the scenery, where the machinery that runs the whole show is revealed in its actual workings.
The ANC/SACP did a very good job in preventing public knowledge of its secret history from emerging… Those who survived the Gulag system of the ANC/SACP did so knowing that to reveal what they had been through meant re-arrest, renewed tortures and in all probability, death. They had to sign a form committing them to silence..
This regime of terror, extending beyond the gates of the ANC/SACP ‘Buchenwald' of Quadro, was a necessary element in the total practice of repression and deception which made the Anti-Apartheid Movement the most successful Popular Front lobby for Stalinism anywhere in the world.
In its 30 years' existence, the AAM put international collaborative organisations of the period of the Spanish Civil War and of the Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill alliance to shame. Extending to the press, the churches, the bourgeois political parties, the trade unions and the radical, even the ‘trotskyist' left, the AAM has been an outstanding success for Stalinism... Vital to its success has been a practice of open and covert censorship now blown wide open... The ANC's prisoners were its necessary sacrificial-victims.
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A Miscarriage of Democracy: The ANC Security Dept. in the 1984 Mutiny of Umkhonto We Sizwe
Bandile Ketelo, Amos Maxongo, Zamxolo Tshona,
Ronnie Massango and Luvo Mbengo
Searchlight South Africa
Vol.2 No.1 (No.5), July 1990: (p.35-68)
Prelude to Mutiny
On 12 January 1984, a strong delegation of ANC National Executive Committee members arrived at Caculama, the main training centre of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in the town of Malanje, Angola. In the past, such a visit by the ANC leadership - including its top man, the organization's president, Oliver Tambo -would have been prepared for several days, or even weeks, before their actual arrival. Not so this time. This one was both an emergency and a surprise visit.
It was not difficult to guess the reason for such a visit. For several days, sounds of gunfire had been filling the air almost every hour of the day at Kangandala, near Malanje, and just about 80 kilometres from Caculama, where President Tambo and his entourage were staying. The combatants of MK had refused to go into counterinsurgency operations against the forces of the Union for Total Independence of Angola (Unita) in the civil war in Angola and defied the security personnel of the ANC. They had decided to make their voice of protest more strongly by shooting randomly into the air. It was pointed out to all the commanding personnel in the area that the shooting was not meant to endanger anybody's life, but was just meant to be a louder call to the ANC leadership to address themselves afresh to the desperate problems facing our organization.
Clearly put forward also was that only Tambo, the president of the ANC, Joe Slovo the chief-of-staff of the army and Chris Hani, then the army commissar, would be welcome to attend to these issues. An illusory idea still lingered in the minds of the MK combatants that most of the wrong things in our organization happened without the knowledge of Tambo, and that given a clear picture of the situation, he would act to see to their solution.
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Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO
Dec 6, 2009 12:00 AM
By Paul Trewhela, Times Live
In this edited extract from his book, Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile history of the ANC and Swapo, Paul Trewhela sheds light on a past that the ANC would prefer to forget.
The ANC's Quatro was best described in a terse statement by Zaba Maledza, when he said: "When you get in there, forget about human rights."
This was a statement from a man who had lived in Quatro during one of the worst periods in its history, from 1980 to 1982.
Established in 1979, Quatro was supposed to be the rehabilitation centre of the ANC, where enemy agents who had infiltrated the ANC would be "re-educated" and would be made to love the ANC through the opportunity to experience the humane character of its ideals.
Regrettably, through a process that still cries out for explanation, Quatro became worse than any prison that even the apartheid regime - itself considered a crime against humanity - had ever had.
However harsh the above statement, however disagreeable to the fighters against the monstrous apartheid system, it is a truth that needs bold examination by our people, and the whole of the ANC membership.
To examine the history of Quatro is to uncover the concealed forces that operate in a political organisation such as the ANC.
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Sexual Abuse of Young Women in the ANC Camps
Olefile Samuel Mngqibisa, Searchlight South Africa
Number 11 October 1993 (p.11-16)
Sam Mngqibisa, an Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier, describes the education of an Mbokodo officer in a poem he presented to the Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses in ANC detention camps, chaired by Mr Sam Motsuenyane.
Give a young boy —16 years old— from the ghetto of Soweto,
an opportunity to drive a car for the first time in his life.
This boy is from a poor working class family.
Give him money to buy any type of liquor and good, expensive clothes.
This boy left South Africa during the Soweto schools uprising in 1976.
He doesn't know what is an employer.
He never tasted employer-exploitation.
Give him the right to sleep with all these women.
Give him the opportunity to study in Party Schools and well-off military academies in Eastern Europe.
Teach him Marxism-Leninism and tell him to defend the revolution against counter-revolutionaries.
Send him to the Stasi to train him to extract information by force from enemy agents. He turns to be a torturer and executioner by firing squad.
All these are the luxuries and the dream-come-true he never thought of for his lifetime...
This Security becomes the law unto itself
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The ANC Prison Camps: An Audit of Three Years, 1990-1993
Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa,
Vol 3, No 2: 10 April 1993 (p.8-30)
Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO, by Paul Trewhela [*Amazon*] |
As the Weekly Mail pointed out, several high-ranking torturers and killers continue to work in the ANC security department operating out of party headquarters in Shell House, Johannesburg. These include Nelson Mandela's personal bodyguard, MB Mavuso (Umkhonto traveling name 'Jomo'), a former guard at Quatro who is 'widely alleged to have been directly involved in torture', (ibid)
Another torturer currently working in ANC headquarters, traveling name Sizwe Mkhonto - a former student at the Moscow Party Institution, trained in intelligence in East Germany and the USSR — was camp commander at Quatro for several years, starting while still in his teens. This brutalized youth called the principal leader of the mutiny, Ephraim Nkondo, from his cell in Quatro on Saturday 26 May 1984. This was shortly after the crushing of the mutiny in Pango camp. Nkondo was seen the same day being pulled through the camp with a rope around his neck.
The next day he was found dead in his cell, with a rope around his neck. Without strict accounting for the torture and murder of individuals such as Nkondo, the ANC continues to carry the mark of Cain.
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A Death in South Africa: The Killing of Sipho Phungulwa and the Mandela Monarchy 'M Plan'
Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa,
Vol 3, No 2: 10 April 1993 (p.08-30)
[Ed: Assassination of Mbokodo detainee: Sipho Phungulwa]
The Principle of Monarchy
The Mandela myth was mainly the creation of the South African Communist Party. As the most important organizer of ANC politics within the country and internationally for thirty years, especially through the media, the SACP in the late 1950s and early 1960s set about the creation of a very specific cult of personality.
The 'M Plan' of 1953, in which 'M' stood for Mandela, did more to surround the leader's name with a mystique than reorganize the ANC on a cell-system, as it was supposed to do. Ten years later, after the arrest of members of the High Command of Umkhonto we Sizwe at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, the emphasis was not principally on a collective call: Free the Rivonia nine.' The fate of an entire generation of political victims was absorbed into the fate of a single individual: Free Mandela.' Such personification of thousands of individual acts of imprisonment by the state might have been good media politics, but it was the negation of democratic accountability. It represented the introduction of the monarchical principle as a staple into modern South African political life. More urgently, it was a trivializing of politics which took the issue away from matters of substance and concentrated attention on the persona of one man.
... And thus we come to Caesar's wife. As the decades of Mandela's imprisonment went by, the mystique of royalty, the principle of divine right, passed by law of succession to his wife, who became the representative of the idea of the sacral on the earth of township politics. In so far as Mandela in prison was mystically always present through his absence, Mrs Mandela as consort played a very material Empress Theodora, or perhaps Lady Macbeth. The more the myth grew through Mandela's unworldly situation in prison—alive, yet dead to human contact, the unseen mover in the power play of southern African politics—the more an extraordinary status attached to his wife.
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Mbokodo Quatro Uncensored Evidentiary Reports {To be Uploaded/Not yet located}:
- [14 March 1984: ANC Stuart Commission Report] Stuart Commission Report: Commission of Enquiry into Recent Developments in the People’s Republic of Angola, March 14, 1984, Lusaka, Angola
- [July 1990: Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 2, No 1: p.30-35] Mutinies in the Liberation Armies: Inside Quadro
- [July 1990: Bandile Ketelo, Amos Maxongo, Zamxolo Tshona, Ronnie Massango and Luvo Mbengo, Searchlight South Africa: Vol.2 No.1: (p.35-68)] A Miscarriage of Democracy: The ANC Security Dept. in the 1984 Mutiny of Umkhonto We Sizwe
- [July 1990: Ex-ANC Detainees, Searchlight South Africa: Vol.2 No.1: (p.35-68)] An Open Letter to Nelson Mandela from Ex-Detainees
- [Jan 1991: Letter to the Editors, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 2, No 2: (p.91-94)] The ANC Conference: From Kabwe to Johannesburg
- [July 1991: Elty Mhlekazi, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 2, No 3: (p.49-53)] The Case of Samuel Mngqibisa (Elty Mhlekazi)
- [1992: ANC Skewiya Commission Report] Skewiya Commission Report: 1992: Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Complaints by Former African National Congress Prisoners and Detainees
- [Dec 1992: Amnesty International Report] Amnesty International: South Africa: Torture, Ill-treatment and Executions in African National Congress Camps (Dec 92)
- [Apr 1993: Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 3, No 2: April 1993 (p.8-30)] The ANC Prison Camps: An Audit of Three Years, 1990-1993
- [20 Aug 1993: ANC Mostuenyane Commission Report] ANC - Commission of Enquiry into Certain Allegations of Cruelty and Human Rights Abuse Against ANC Prisoners and Detainees by ANC Members (Motsuenyane Commission)
- [29 Aug 1993: ANC NEC Response to Motsuenyane Commission Report] NEC Response to Mostuenyane Commission Report: African National Congress National Executive Committee's Response to the Motsuenyane Commission's Report
- [Oct 1993: Olefile Samuel Mngqibisa, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 3, No. 3, (p.11-16)] Sexual Abuse of Young Women in the ANC Camps
- [1994: Mwezie Twala & Ed Benard, Jonathan Ball Publishers] Excerpts: Mbokodo: Inside MK: Mwezi Twala - A Soldier's Story
- [April 1993: Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 3, No 2: (p.08-30)] A Death in South Africa: The Killing of Sipho Phungulwa and the Mandela Monarchy 'M Plan'
- [April 1993: Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 3, No 2: (p)] Women and Swapo: Institutionalized Rape in Swapo's Prisons
- [Oct 1993: Paul Trewhela, Searchlight South Africa, Vol 3, No 3: (p.34-52)] The Dillemma of Albie Sachs: ANC Constitutionalism and the Death of Thami Zulu
- [6 Dec 2009: Paul Trewhela, Sun Times] Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO
- [10 April 2010: Kings College, Cambridge: Centre of International Studies (CIS) in POLIS & the Centre of African Studies] Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Exiled Liberation Movements in Southern Africa; Presentation by Prof. Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford), Prof. Saul Dubow (Sussex) and Prof. Stephen Ellis (African Studies Centre, Leiden & Free University Amsterdam) with Paul Trewhela, author of 'Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO.
- [28 October 2010: Paul Trewhela, Politicsweb] The Thami Zulu Question
- See also: Radical Honesty SA Amicus Curiae to Concourt
» » » » [Submitted as List of Authorities to Concourt in The Citizen v. McBride, on behalf of Argument that TRC's 'Crime of Apartheid' was a Falsification of History; in Radical Honesty SA Amicus Curiae in Support of Population Policy Common Sense Interpretation of the TRC Act (PDF)]
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