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Article posted by: White Nation editorial–January 03 2017
SOUTH AFRICA- FAILED LAND OF COMMUNIST ANC ORGANIZED CRIME ,LIBFARTS, UNION CHAOS , MISDIRECTED RAINBOW MONKEYS – AND WHITE GENOCIDE
LONG before the so-called CODESA treason and eventual hand-over of South Africa took place with the decisive stroke of a pen by the white traitor Roelf Meyer– there were a long prelude of clandestine meetings with the communists in waiting that took place beforehand- with many white liberal heathens attending this meetings. In the article below we will expose most of these treacherous (mostly white) villains that formed part of a huge liberal drive to- on the end- assist in pushing a once healthy country out of white hands and into the black communist abyss we know today. These reptilians had no shame or patriotism- not even carried the interest of the country at heart- but instead were looking after their own scrawny back-sides in the hope to receive “acknowledgement” for their cowardly acts from the communist criminals -in-waiting when the final hand-over eventually was completed by the hand of one of the worst traitors white South Africa ever knew bar Jan Smuts– one F.W De Klerk.
Please note the name of Max Du Preez– who featured prominently in many of this meetings. Most of these meetings took place in deep secrecy- and most of these white reptilian spawn still are walking free in a ravaged country which they helped create.THAT is the typical character of a white liberal traitor- going behind your back unseen and cavort with your worst enemy. There are many, many more that do not appear on these lists below who played an integral part in assisting the communist take-over the likes of Harry Oppenheimer, Zach De Beer, Pik Botha, Tienie Groenewald, Anton Rupert and Neil Van Heerden for instance- but these ones we list are the ones still playing a part in today’s messed-up South Africa. It must be noted that while literally hundreds of young 18-year old white Afrikaner sons and daughters were forced to fight another politician’s war in South West Africa- and many were sent back all shot-up and in body bags- these reptilian seed we list below were cavorting behind the scenes with the same enemy those innocent young Afrikaner boys and girls fought against and were dying to what they believed- protect civilian lives against car bombs, limpet mines and terrorist attacks.
These kids’ lives were sniffed out at a young age- and today they are unceremoniously “forgotten” and demonized by the SAME white trash that in the first instance- were cavorting with the enemy these children were sent to fight against. We place the article as is- and note that this article was written by liberals–who now are glorifying these dastardly treacherous acts- but then again it gives us a very clear picture who the real traitors was responsible for the final capitulation of the lame-duck National Party cowards. Much of the meetings and those attending still are unclear- which comes to show these acts were deviously back-stabbing treacherous missions by these wretches that had felt no remorse for the white kids who are dying for a lost cause on the SWA border- or had no guilty feelings for this evil acts they commit bar their own selfish interests. . Looking at this list and the amount of fornication that took place between these devil spawn and their communist bed-fellows- one can just sit in amazement to see how low these criminal white liberals decent and how many times they stabbed the white Afrikaner in the back. Today there are more than 4000 white farmers who’s cold bodies lies in graveyards across the landscape due to the treacherous acts of these white liberal criminals. Today more than 70 000 white people have been brutally attacked and murdered through the treacherous acts of these liberal spawn of Satan. Today South Africa is in a total criminal mess and on the brink of a financial collapse due to the treacherous acts of these white psychopaths. Yet still these reptiles proceed with their evil actions and still assist the communist Satan to exterminate white Afrikaners at a genocidal rate. It is through these evil doers and their dark conspiracies that heathens like Julius Malema were given an umbilical cord to start another very dangerous chapter in South Africa’s history. Today many of these white psychopathic liberal criminals live in rich predominantly WHITE suburbs behind their high security walls and electronic devices- far away from that farmers that are murdered on a daily basis-far away from that cold graveyards they helped to dig, far away from the crime and the chaos they created- still bellowing liberal trash against conservative Afrikaners in the newspapers.
You will also conclude how devilish the “church” pulpit pigeons acted in getting involved in some serious political treason as well. ALL these liberal and crypto-Jew criminals were sucking up SO deep in the commi arse- only their pedicures stuck out. AND all for what- to cover their OWN selfish backsides from possible “persecution” and make sure they receive “amnesty” when the children of the lesser god take control. BUT now one can see on what magnitude these devil spawn operated behind closed doors. ( Please note that when the article refers to ” people or groups/ South Africans” from within South Africa that “trekked” to meet delegates of the communist ANC, PAC and other communist groups- it actually means white LIBERALS and crypto- JEWS.)
BUT here is a list of many of these white liberal conspirators and the meetings that could be tracked for you to take note of:
A chronology of meetings between white liberal South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
PREFACE
IN THE decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of “concerned” WHITE LIBERAL South Africans undertook to make contact with exile communist leaders of these organisations, travelling long distances to hold meetings in Europe or in independent African countries. Some of these “treks”, as they came to be called, were secret while others were highly publicized. The great majority of treks brought together (liberal white ) South Africans from within South Africa and exile (communist) leaders of the African National Congress, and its close ally the South African Communist Party. Other treks involved meetings with the Pan Africanist Congress, the black consciousness movement, and the remnants of the Non-European Unity Movement in exile. This account focuses solely on the meetings involving the ANC alliance, which after February 1990 played a central role in negotiating with the white government of F.W. de Klerk and his National Party regime to bring about a new democratic order. Without the foundation of understanding established by the treks and thousands of hours of discussion and debate that they entailed, it seems unlikely that South Africa’s transition to democracy could have been as successfully negotiated as it was between 1990 and the first democratic election of April 1994.
The following chronology focuses only on the meetings of internally based South Africans with the African National Congress (ANC) when in exile over the period 1983–1990. Well over 1 200 diverse (white liberal) South Africans drawn from a wide range of different groups in the non-governmental sector and cross-cutting political parties, language, educational, religious and community groups went on an outward mission to enter dialogue with the ANC in exile in a search to overcome the escalating conflict inside South Africa. The ANC had become a banned and prohibited organisation in South Africa on 7 April 1960 and subsequently its leadership was imprisoned or went into exile. In the two decades between 1960 and the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, all of sub-Saharan Africa’s forty-odd white-ruled colonies became independent countries, except two – Namibia and South Africa.
It was chiefly in the early 1980s that concerted attempts to start a dialogue between people located within South Africa with the ANC in exile took place and systematic initiatives began in a search to establish the preconditions for negotiations. The rapid increase of these meetings from the early 1980s mirrored the growing conflict within South Africa and the urgency of starting negotiations to end the violence and to establish a democratic state. On 2 February 1990 the ANC was unbanned and soon thereafter political prisoners were released and negotiations started. There appears to be no single source attempting to present as full as possible details of when such meetings between the ANC in exile and people and (liberal) groups from within South Africa occurred and specifying where they occurred, with what organisations, and who was present at such meetings.
The nearest approach to such a chronology can be found on the SA History Online website (www.sahistory.org.za), which notes: “More than 100 delegations took place from early 1985 until the ANC was unbanned in 1990. Many of these were not publicised and facts about them have not yet emerged in the historical literature.” While valuable this chronology, drawn up some years ago, understandably is far from complete and provides little detail, and also is over-cautious in its estimate of the number of meetings that took place. The History Online website contains other valuable and informative documents, such as “Delegations and dialogue between the ANC and internal non-government groups” detailing some of the meetings and their content, which considerably add to our knowledge but again it does not provide a comprehensive chronology.
Without doubt the chronology in this document also is incomplete. Few of the meetings that took place have been properly documented and there are very few known records that these meetings generated. The precise dates of some meetings presently are unclear, and for many meetings there appears to be no public record listing the names of those attending. Some meetings appear consciously to have taken an understandably cautious decision not to publicize that they took place, nor to release the names of those attending, so as to avoid any possible recriminations against the organisations or persons involved from the draconian SA security legislation then existing. As the pace of these meetings sped up the need to attempt to protect those taking part in them from possible action from South African security legislation lessened. However the documentation on these meetings still remains fragmentary, particularly as the dialogue about the possible shape of a future dispensation became detailed and full of possibilities and “off-record” explorations multiplied.
Some cautionary notes are needed about this chronology. First, it lists only the meetings the author been able to identify using personal networks and it could well miss listing some important meetings. Second, the chronology also excludes listing what could be termed “operational meetings” of the ANC and MK with people located in South Africa focusing on the planning, or strategy and tactics of the armed struggle within South Africa. ( Note how these liberal reptiles were helping the terrorists in their strategies to murder many innocent civilians.) No attempt has been made to identify such meetings. The important task of documenting the course of the armed struggle is different from that of creating a chronology of meetings focusing on enlarging and furthering the dialogue between the ANC and South Africans at home. Third, the weaknesses of the chronology also reflect the nature and frailties of human memory about undocumented meetings. Names of both individuals and of organisations at such meetings often are fading from memory. However, even with respect to those meetings that are documented, disputes now arise about whether particular individuals were present. Fourth, there is seldom clarity if the initiative for a meeting came from the ANC side, or from the internal South African side, so the chronology is silent on this detail.
To properly document South African history it is important to continue trying to create an accurate and full chronology of meetings. The present chronology captures the known 167 meetings over the period of 1983–1990.
Number of identified external meetings between the ANC and (liberal) South Africans 1983–2000
1983 – 4 meetings
1984 – 9 meetings
1985 – 19 meetings
1986 – 27 meetings
1987 – 23 meetings
1988 – 32 meetings
1989 – 39 meetings
1990 – 14 meetings
TOTAL – 167 meetings
These meetings involved several hundred South Africans “from home”. Over 1 200 names appear in this listing but it is far from complete, as there were also many “delegations” whose size and membership cannot be determined. The number of meetings and the diverse names of those at them alone is a testimony that there were large numbers of South Africans actively involved in the search to escape from the shackles of apartheid. (sic) What is now needed is to add further information and detail to build up as complete and accurate chronology of these meetings as possible from which to analyse and interpret their content.
In compiling this document the author has consulted with many individuals (listed below) and now thanks them all greatly. This chronology would be much the poorer without their detailed help and input, and without many of them also kindly lending me their relevant notes and documents. A very particular debt of gratitude is owed to Professor Gail Gerhart, who not only supported the project enthusiastically but contributed her private notes while doing so, then corrected earlier versions of this document, and overall provided much valuable information and advice. However any errors in this chronology are the author’s alone. The hope is that by placing this document in the public domain it may enable others to contribute to the far more important task of undertaking an analysis of what went on at these meetings and how the meetings may have contributed to the liberation of South Africa from apartheid (sic) and helped lead to the creation of a democratic state.
A CHRONOLOGY OF MEETINGS BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICANS AND THE ANC IN EXILE 1983–1990
1983
1983 Charles Villa-Vicencio met with the ANC. “There were several important off-the-record meetings with Thabo [Mbeki], [Alfred] Nzo,Mac [Maharaj] and others during 1983 and 1984 ”¦ I also saw records of these and related meetings in the NIA/S files during the TRC days.”
(Personal communication, Charles Villa-Vicencio, 30 May 2012)
1983 Archbishop Denis Hurley, President of the SA Catholic Bishops Conference, met with President Oliver Tambo of the ANC for three hours at a Paddington hotel, London, at a meeting organised by Ishmael Coovadia of the SACP. (AC)
1983 African American Institute meeting at which the “ANC was heavily represented” and John Dugard and Johnny Makatini were present, in Harare (JD)
1983 Alan Boesak, Simon Gqubule, Bishop Philip Russell, John Thorne and Charles Villa-Vicencio met with members of the ANC during a World Council of Churches assembly, in Vancouver, Canada.
August 1983 The United Democratic Front was launched at Mitchells Plain in Cape Town.
1984
8 January 1984 Max du Preez, together with a member of the Argus Africa News Service, met with those members of the ANC attending the organisation’s annual birthday party, in Lusaka.
March 1984 South Africa forces the government of Samora Machel to sign the Nkomati Accord; MK expelled from Mozambique.
August 1984 H.W. van der Merwe (Director, Centre for Inter-group Studies, UCT) began his mediating initiative to encourage dialogue and contact between the ANC and the SA government by meeting with the ANC (Alfred Nzo, Thabo Mbeki), in Lusaka. (AduT)
This initiative included meetings with Mandela first at Pollsmoor Prison (on 8 October 1984) then later at Victor Verster Prison, meetings with the ANC in Lusaka, Harare, Dar-es-Salaam, London, and Stockholm, and meetings with SA Cabinet members Louis le Grange and Kobie Coetsee. Documentation on the initiative exists in his papers in UCT Archives, in his book Peace Making in South Africa: A Life in Conflict Resolution and in the ANC Archives housed at the University of Fort Hare.
February 1984 Cassim Saloojee, National Treasurer of the UDF, met with the ANC (Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki & Thomas Nkobi) at a meeting arranged by Trevor Huddleston, in London. (GG)
August 1984 H.W. van der Merwe met with the ANC (Alfred Nzo, Florence Mophosho, Gertrude Shope), in Lusaka.
10–12 September 1984 H.W. van der Merwe met with the ANC (Thabo Mbeki and Alfred Nzo) at the Anglo American Corporation offices, in Lusaka
September 1984 “The NIS is reported to have made ‘tentative contact’ with the ANC in Geneva.”
(James Sanders, Apartheid’s Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service, p. 234.)
November 1984 Largest political general strike in South Africa’s history occurs as an estimated 800,000 workers stay home for two days in the Transvaal.
25–28 November 1984 H.W. van der Merwe and Piet Muller (Deputy Editor, Die Beeld) met with the ANC (Sipho Makana, Thabo Mbeki, Alfred Nzo), in Lusaka. (AduT, HG)
H.W. van der Merwe and Muller each published articles on this meeting in the summer 1985 issue of Die Suid-Afrikaan (H.W. van der Merwe “Skadubeeld van Afrikaner-nasionalisme” p. 20–1). Muller also published two articles based on an interview with Thabo Mbeki in Die Beeld.
2–5 December 1984 H.W. van der Merwe met with ANC (Alfred Nzo, Florence Moposho), in Lusaka.
1984 Kobus Jordaan, of the Department of Constitutional Development (formerly a Bantustan official and previously a denominational missionary in Zambia) at the request of Chris Heunis (Minister of Constitutional Development) met “in secret” with the ANC, in Lusaka.
SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT WHITE LIBERAL TRAITORS THAT CAVORTED WITH THE COMMUNISTS BEHIND THE BACKS OF WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Left to right: Charles Villa-Vicencio, H.W Vand Der Merwe, Max Du Preez, Van Zyl Slabbert and Zach De Beer
1985
January 1985 David Willers of the South African Foundation met with the ANC (Seretse Choabi and Solly Smith [pseudonym of S.S. Khunyeli]), probably in London.
(James Sanders, Apartheid’s Friends, p. 235.)
8 January 1985 Max du Preez, together with a representative of the Argus Africa News Service, met with the ANC at the organisation’s annual birthday party, in Lusaka.
28 January 1985 Barry Streek (journalist with the SA Independent group, and political activist) met with the ANC, in Lusaka.7
15 August 1985 P.W. Botha delivers his so-called Rubicon speech to the National Party Congress.
September 1985 Gavin Relly (Chair, Anglo American Corporation), Zach de Beer (formerly Progressive Federal Party MP and AAC Board member), Tony Bloom (CEO, Premier Milling), Peter Sorour (Director, SA Foundation), Hugh Murray (Editor, Leadershipmagazine), Harald Pakendorf (Editor, Die Vaderland), Tertius Myburgh (Editor, Sunday Times) met with the ANC (Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani, Mac Maharaj, Pallo Jordan, James Stuart [pseudonym of Hermanus Loots]), at Mfuwe Lodge, in eastern Zambia. (HM, TB).
(Tony Bloom’s 30 page typed memo of this meeting is lodged in UCT’s Manuscripts & Archives, and the ANC memorandum on the meeting is Document 126, pp. 577–80 in Gerhart and Glaser [2013].)
6–9 September 1985 H.W. van der Merwe met with the ANC (Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Victor Moche), in Lusaka.
September 1985 Dries van Heerden (journalist on Die Vaderland) met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
27 September 1985 Peter Gastrow met with ANC in Lusaka to prepare for the meeting with a PFP delegation.
11 October 1985 PFP delegation led by F. van Zyl Slabbert, with Colin Eglin, Alex Boraine and Peter Gastrow (PFP MPs) met with the ANC (Alfred Nzo, Thabo Mbeki, Mac Maharaj, Thomas Nkobi, Gertrude Shope), in Lusaka.
30 October 1985 Tony Heard (Editor, The Cape Times) met and interviewed Oliver Tambo, in London.
(Heard published this interview in The Cape Times four days later on 4 November 1985.)
November 1985 Nico Smit of NGK met with the ANC representative Neo Mnumzana, in New York. (GG) (A planned meeting between the ANC and the NGK was called off during 1985.)
November 1985 Eight University of Stellenbosch students met with the ANC youth department, in Harare.
December 1985 Delegation from the Soweto Parents’ Crisis Committee (led by its founder Rev Molefe Tsele) met with the ANC, in Harare.
December 1985 A delegation led by Jay Naidoo from the newly formed COSATU met with the ANC (Joe Slovo, Mac Maharaj and others), in Harare.
1985 Chairmen of leading corporate groups (Sir Timothy Bevan (Barclays Bank), Lord Barber (Standard Bank), Evelyn de Rothschild (Chair of Rothschild’s), George Soros, with representatives of Shell, Courtaulds, BP and Gold Fields and (from SA) Tony Bloom (Premier Group) and Chris Ball (Barclays), invited by Anthony Sampson to lunch at the Connaught Rooms, London, to meet with Oliver Tambo, in London.
(Anthony Sampson, The Anatomist, p. 228).
1985 Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, University of Stellenbosch (Profs Johann Kinghorn, Bernard Lategan, Lourens du Plessis, and Etienne de Villiers) met to discuss their document “The Option for an Inclusive Democracy” with the ANC, at Cold Comfort Farm, Zimbabwe.
December 1985 Anglican Church delegation led by Bishop Philip Russell, of Natal, met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
December 1985 Student leaders from Stellenbosch, UCT and UWC met with ANC, in Harare. (This meeting was facilitated and attended by H.W. van der Merwe, who was attending a World Council of Churches conference in Harare at which three ANC NEC members were present.)
1985 Soweto Parents’ Crisis Committee met with the ANC, in Lusaka. (AduT)
1985 Andrew Boraine of NUSAS met with Thabo Mbeki, in Lusaka. (AB)
1986
8 January 1986 Max du Preez and a representative of the Argus Africa News Service meet with the ANC at the organisation’s annual birthday party, in Lusaka. (MduP)
23 January 1986 United Democratic Front (Arnold Stofile, Valli Moosa, Cheryl Carolus, Hoffman Galeng [Huhudi Civic Association],Sydney Mufamadi, Raymond Suttner) met with the ANC (Oliver Tambo, Alfred Nzo, Aziz Pahad, and Mac Maharaj), in Stockholm. (GG)
28 January 1986 George Bizos and Ismail Ayob met with ANC (Oliver Tambo with others), in Lusaka.
(Bizos, Odyssey to Freedom, p. 420–21.)
1–3 March 1986 Enos Mabuza (Chief Minister of the self-governing KaNgwane homeland) led a delegation of 21 persons, including his entire cabinet, of the Inyandza National Movement and met with the ANC (comprised of 22 person group), in Lusaka. (HM)
5–6 March 1986 COSATU delegation (Cyril Ramaphosa, Sydney Mufamadi, Jay Naidoo, Chris Dlamini and others) had a tripartite meeting with the ANC (Oliver Tambo, Mac Maharaj, Chris Hani and others) and SACTU (John Nkadimeng, General-Secretary SACTU, and Kay Moonsamy), in Lusaka.
7 March 1986 H.W. van der Merwe and the Norwegian Ambassador Ola Dorum met with the ANC representative in East Africa (Stanley Mabizela ambassador to Tanzania), in Dar-es-Salaam. (GG)
(Mabizela’s account of the meeting appears in Volume 6 of Gerhart and Glasser, From Protest to Challenge, pp. 595–99, Document 132.)
March 1986 UDF leaders attending the funeral of Moses Mabhida in Maputo, met with the ANC, in Maputo. (GG)
March 1986 F. van Zyl Slabbert (after resigning from Parliament) and Dick Enthoven met with the senior leadership of the ANC (including Thabo Mbeki, Pallo Jordan, Mac Maharaj and Joe Slovo), in Lusaka.
March 1986 Delegation from the National Education Crisis Committee met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
31 March–2 April 1986 NUSAS eight person delegation (Brendon Barry – NUSAS President, and the SRC Presidents of UCT – Glenn Moss; Durban – Meryl Plasket; Pietermaritzburg – Bruce Robertson; Wits – Claire Wright; Rhodes – Barry du Toit; the Chair of the Stellenbosch University NUSAS Local Committee – Dave Waddilove, and the South African Student’s Press Union President – Steve Kromberg) met with an eight person ANC group (headed by two NEC members Mac Maharaj and James Stuart [psuedonym of Hermanus Loots]), in Harare. (Andrew B)
(See the 32 page report back booklet NUSAS Talks to the ANC published and distributed by NUSAS in 1986.)
15–17 April 1986 Delegation of the SA Catholic Bishops Conference (led by Archbishop Denis Hurley, with Bishop Wilfred Napier of Kokstad, Bishop Mansuet Biyase of Eshowe, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa [then a prominent UDF leader and a future Deputy-Minister of Education and mayor of Pretoria/Tshwane]) met with the ANC delegation (led by its President Oliver Tambo and includingRuth Mompati, Mac Maharaj, Steve Tshwete, John Nkadimeng and Peter Ramakoa [pseudonym of Joel Netshitenzhe]), in Lusaka. (AC, GG)
(An abridged transcript of the meeting appears as Document 80, pp. 437–47, in Gerhart and Glaser [2013].)
May 1986 National African Federation Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC) delegation (led by its President, Gabriel Mokgoka, and including Sam Motsuenyane) met with the ANC (Oliver Tambo, Joel Netshitenzhe and others), in Lusaka.
May 1986 Second meeting of NAFCOC with ANC, in Europe.
June 1986 Government declares a national State of Emergency, imposes press curbs and begins a vast wave of detentions.
3 June 1986 Peter Soal and Philip Myburg MPs met with Oliver Tambo and Pallo Jordan of the ANC at the State House, Lusaka.
8 June 1986 Professor Pieter de Lange (Chairman of the Broederbond and Rector of RAU) and Thabo Mbeki were both present at a New York conference organised by the Ford Foundation (ANC members at the conference included Mac Maharaj and Seretse Choabi) also present were Charles Villa-Vicencio, van Zyl Slabbert and Peggy Dulany. During the conference Mbeki and de Lange met alone for five hours at de Lange’s hotel.)
(“It is likely that Esterhuyse also facilitated the 1986 meeting in New York between Mbeki and Professor Pieter de Lange ”¦” Maritz Spaarwater, A Spook’s Progress, p. 175)
June 1986 H.W. van der Merwe met with Thabo Mbeki, in Lusaka.
June 1986 Group of Business men from SA (including Chris Ball of FNB and Neil Chapman of Southern Life), from the US (including George Soros) and the UK held talks with Oliver Tambo, in London. Later BBC-TV carried a debate between the business men and the ANC. (The meeting may have been organised by Consolidated Goldfields.)
June 1986 Federation of Industries met with the ANC. (AduT)
July 1986 Delegation from the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (Blade Nzimande, Elrena van der Spuy, Ivan Evans, Jo Beall and Doug Hindson) met with the ANC education department (also Pallo Jordan) and later informally met Oliver Tambo, in Lusaka. (EvdS)
14–17 September 1986 Delegation of nine persons from UCT (led by Stuart Saunders with George Dall, Jon File, James Leatt,Mamphela Ramphele, Charles Villa-Vicencio, and SRC leaders Glenn Goosen and Carla Sutherland and AZAPO student leader Chris Mzimane) were joined by three UWC leaders (Jakes Gerwel, Jaap Durand and Jairam Reddy) and by Professor Mohanoe of the University of the North and John Samuel, and met with 16 members of the ANC (Alfred Nzo, Thabo Mbeki, Jack Simons, Ruth Mompati,Billy Modise, Vuyiswa Nokwe, H.G. Makgothi, Mendi Msimang, Ivy Matsepe, Barbara Masekela, Mandla Langa, W. Njobe, Sipho Makana, Thomas Nkobi and Andrew Masondo), in Lusaka. (SJS, JF)
26 September–2 October 1986 Conference on “The Southern African Economy after Apartheid”, among those from South Africa attending were Collette Caine, Georgina Jaffee, David Niddrie and Glenn Moss, and among those from the ANC attending were Essop Pahad, Wally Serote and Harold Wolpe. The conference was held at the University of York, United Kingdom. (GM)
20 November 1986 COSATU leaders (Chris Dlamini, Sydney Mufamadi, Alec Erwin, Phumzile John Gomono and Maxwell [Kulu?]) met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
November 1986 Delegation from the SA Council of Churches (led by Dr Manas Buthelezi) and the Lutheran Church (led by Dean Tshenuwani Simon Farisani) that included Beyers Naude, Wolfram Kistner and Charles Villa-Vicencio and the heads of other SACC member churches, and also Paul Boateng (UK MP), met the ANC (including Oliver Tambo, Alfred Nzo), in Lusaka.
December 1986 H.W. van der Merwe met with the ANC representative in Scandinavia, Lindiwe Mabuza, in Stockholm.
1986 Jules Browde (Convenor, National Convention Movement), met with Oliver Tambo, in Lusaka.
1986 F. van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine of IDASA met with the ANC, together with SWAPO members, to discuss concerns about the Southern Africa region, in Lusaka.
1986 Dr Sam Motsuenyane, President of the National Federated Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC), met with the ANC in Europe.
1987
1987 Second meeting of the Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, Univ. of Stellenbosch (Profs Johann Kinghorn, Bernard Lategan, Sampie Terreblanche, Colin McCarthy and Hans Miller),with the ANC at Cold Comfort Farm, Zimbabwe.
January 1987 Dr Sam Motsuenyane, President NAFCOC, met with ANC, in Europe.
March 1987 Archbishop Desmond Tutu met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
March 1987 Newton Park Initiative (first of three meetings, the others appear below and were held in March 1988 and November 1988, organised by the Jubilee Centre, Cambridge – other meetings in this initiative took place in June 1988 inside South Africa in Pietermaritzburg and Soweto but are unlisted in this chronology), a delegation led by Jubilee Centre’s Executive Director Michael Schluter, and including Willie Esterhuyse, met with the ANC at Newton Park, UK.
(Esterhuyse, Endgame, p. 115.)
28 March 1987 Desmond Tutu, then Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg (“Comrade Bishop”), held four hours of talks on violence in SA with the ANC-National Executive Committee, in Lusaka. (GG)
6 May 1987 Early general election returns National Party to power; Progressives lose ground; workers and students stage national two-day election stay-away.
14 May 1987 NGK ministers attending a World Council of Churches conference of its Programme to Combat Racism, and a delegation of leaders of the South African Council of Churches (including Beyers Naude and Frank Chikane) attending the meeting, met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
14 May 1987 Beyers Naude, attending the WCC meeting, held talks with Oliver Tambo.
26–27 May 1987 Richard Rosenthal met with Thabo Mbeki, in Frankfurt. (This was the first of three meetings that took place with the ANC in exile in the Rosenthal initiative. The other meetings (listed below) took place on 1–3 July 1987, and 10–11 December 1988. (The initiative is described in Rosenthal’s book Mission Improbable.)
4–8 July 1987 Free The Children Alliance (Ivan Abrahams, Audrey Coleman, Peter Harris, Mamphela Ramphele, Mike Rice, Terry Sacco and one youth) met with ANC (Reggie September and the ANC representatives in Washington and New York), in New York and at a Symposium in Washington on Children in Detention (MR)
(See Human Rights Quarterly, 10 (1), February 1988)
9–12 July 1987 IDASA organised meeting of 47 internal South Africans (led by F. van Zyl Slabbert, Alex Boraine [both of IDASA],Breyten Breytenbach together with Tommy Bedford, Hardy Botha, Andre Brink, Ampie Coetzee, Pierre Cronje, Maresa de Beer, Trudi de Ridder, Braam du Plessis, Lourens du Plessis, Max du Preez, Jaap du Randt, Andre du Toit, Theuns Eloff, Adrian Enthoven, Gerhard Erasmus, Grethe Fox, Revel Fox, Jannie Gagiano, Peter Gastrow, Jakes Gerwel, Hermann Giliomee, Albert Koopman, Jaques Kriel, Albert Koopman, Ian Liebenberg, Chris Louw, Leon Louw, Wayne Mitchell, Errol Moorcroft, Beyers Naude, Christo Nel, Andre Odendaal, Andrew Savage, Michael Savage, Lawrence Schlemmer, Hennie Serfontein, Franklin Sonn, Randall van der Heever, Johann van der Westhuizen, Manie van Rensburg, Willem van Vuuren, Phillip Verster, Braam Viljoen and Tony Williamson), and four persons from outside SA (Heribert Adam, Hans Christoph Buch, Theo Hanf and Klaus von der Ropp), met with 16 ANC exile members (led by Thabo Mbeki together with Kader Asmal, Selwyn Gross, Pallo Jordan, Brigitte Mabandla, Lindiwe Mabuza, Mac Maharaj, Penuell Maduna, Reggie Mbono, Francis Meli, Alfred Nzo, Essop Pahad, Albie Sachs, Tony Trew and Steve Tshwete) met in Dakar, Senegal.
(The names of those present, with the exceptions of the missing names of Albert Koopman in the SA delegation and the name of Selwyn Gross in the ANC delegation, and substituting Essop Pahad’s name for that of his brother Aziz Pahad in the ANC delegation are given both in Alex Boraine’s autobiography A Life in Transition (Appendix 1), and in F. van Zyl Slabbert’s book The Other Side of History, pp. 79–84).)
August 1987 Alan Boesak and Charles Villa-Vicencio met with the ANC in Geneva. (AduT)
27 August 1987 The Executive of the United Congregational Church (Rev Joe Wing, John de Gruchy and Ron Steel) met with members of the ANC, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. (JdeG)
September 1987 Richard Steyn, Editor of the Natal Witness, led a delegation including Denis Worrall and Tommy Bedford which met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
September 1987 Group of Lawyers from Natal met with the ANC in Lusaka.
24–27 September 1987 International Conference on “Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa”. “Almost 300 South Africans, the majority of whom had come from inside the country, met with over 200 representatives from more than 150 organisations from all over the world”*. Among those from within South Africa were: Rashieda Abdulla, Ashraf Abrahams, Mrs Amiena Abrahams, Ismail Ayob, Jean Benjamin, Vanessa Brereton [later a self-confessed government agent], Rev Frank Chikane, Barbara Creecy, Enver Daniels, Andy Dawes, Jo-Ann Collinge, Johnny de Lange, Bruce Duncan, Farid Esack, Don Foster, Rev Blessings Finca, Edith Fries, Mrs Joyce Gwabeni, Mongesi Gwabeni, Peter Harris, Nicholas Haysom, Pius Langa, Rev Lionel Louw, Dr Zonke Majodine, Dr Greg McCarthy, David McCoid Mason, Dorothy Mfako, Marumo Moerane, William Modibedi, Essa Moosa, Glenn Moss, Rev Beyers Naude, David Niddrie, Bishop Simon Nkoane, Dullah Omar, Farieda Omar, Dr Wendy Orr, Hans Ramrak, Dr Freddy Reddy, Brian Robertson, Lisa Seftel, Tina Schouw, Illona Tip, Dr Ivan Toms, Cynthia Tinto, Ramesh Vassen, Monica Wittenberg, Chris Vick and Joanne Yawitch also present were Burras Nhlabati (then at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania) and Naude Moitse (in exile in Zambia).
Among those present from the ANC were: Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Kader Asmal, Howard Barrell, Jenny Cargill, Ronnie Kasrils,Horst Kleinschmidt, Aziz Pahad, Ruth Mompati, Joe Nhlanhla, James Stuart (pseudonym of Hermanus Loots), Joe Slovo, Steve Tshwete, Jacob Zuma and among them “about two-thirds of its NEC” attended. The conference took place in Harare. (DF, AD)
(*Victoria Brittain and Abdul S. Minty [Eds.], Children of Resistance, p. 138.)
There appears to be no extant list of persons attending the conference, probably due to the implications of internal South Africa security legislation facing those attending the conference from within SA.
September 1987 Inter-faith delegation (including Bishop Tutu, Imam Solomon and Yasmin Sooka [Hindu]) met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
October 1987 Academics from UWC, together with a delegation from the Western Cape Teachers Union, met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
November 1987 Two delegations of lawyers from NADEL (National Democratic Lawyers) and BLA (Black Lawyers Association) and met with ANC, in Lusaka.
1–3 November 1987 First of seven meetings in the UK between Afrikaners and the ANC (hereafter termed the Mells Park Initiative). Those at the meeting were: Willie Esterhuyse, Willie Breytenbach, Sampie Terreblanche & Aziz Pahad, Wally Serote, Tony Trew andHarold Wolpe, and the meeting took place at the Compleat Angler, Marlow, Oxfordshire.
(The other meetings took place on 21–24 February 1988; 21–24 August 1988; 17–19 December 1988; 21–22 April 1989; 30 September–2 October 1989, and in February 1990 and are listed below. Details of all meetings are in Endgame: Secret Talks and the End of Apartheid by Willie Esterhuyse, who led the Afrikaner group. Michael Young of Consolidated Goldfields helped organise all meetings and kept notes that were lent to Richard Harvey and used in his book The End of Apartheid. Some further detail is provided in James Sanders Apartheid’s Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service.)
14 December 1987 Conference on “Culture in Another South Africa” among those from South Africa attending were Mono Badela, Jo-Ann Collinge, Libby Lloyd, Herbert Mabuza, Glenn Moss, Njabulo Ndebele, David Niddrie, Jeeva Rajgopaul, Chris Vick and Paul Weinberg. Among the ANC members present were Thabo Mbeki, Angela Brown (pseudonym of Louise Colvin), Patrick Fitzgerald,Barry Gilder, Barbara Masekela, Thomas Nkobi, Alfred Nzo, Yusuf Salojee and Marius Schoon. The conference was held in Amsterdam. (GM) (See Rixaka special issue)
December 1987 Richard Steyn (Editor, The Natal Witness), with Denis Worrall and Tommy Bedford met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
1987 Alan Boesak, Beyers Naude, Jakes Gerwel and Charles Villa-Vicencio met with Thabo Mbeki, Aziz Pahad and other ANC members, in London.
(Also see Alex Boraine, A Life in Transition, p. 157.)
1987 Christo Nel and Rosemary Grealy, involved with the process of forming the Consultative Business Movement, met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
1988
January 1988 Delegation from the Democratic Progressive Party of Transkei met with the ANC, in Lusaka.
15–19 February 1988 Wilton Park Conference convened by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Among the SA’s attending were Hermann Giliomee, John Kane-Berman, Andre Odendaal, Patrick Pasha, Aggrey Klaaste, Vusi Khumalo, Sebola Mohanje and F. van Zyl Slabbert, together with members of the ANC, at Wilton Park, Steyning, West Sussex.
March 1988 Meeting of the Newick Park Initiative, of Concordis International (later the Relationships Foundation), involving the ANC and persons from within South African.
“Early months of” 1988 Mohammed Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe, UDF members, met with the ANC Working Committee, in Lusaka.
21–24 February 1988 Second meeting of Mells Park Initiative (Willie Esterhuyse, Sampie Terreblanche, Marinus Wiechers & Thabo Mbeki, Aziz Pahad and Tony Trew) at Eastwell Manor Hotel, Kent.
February 1988 Dr Danie Craven (Chairman of the SA Rugby Board) authorised Louis Luyt to meet with Aziz Pahad and Essop Pahad, in London.
May 1988 Mandela has first of many meetings with a government secret team lead by Neil Barnard.
26 May 1988 Wynand Malan and the New Democratic Movement meet with the ANC, in Frankfurt.
May 1988 Dr Oscar Dhlomo (General Secretary IFP) met with the ANC, in Lusaka. (HM, GG)
In 1973 Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of the IFP, held discussions with the ANC in Lusaka and Nairobi, and during 30–31 October 1979 he led a 17 member IFP delegation, which conferred with an ANC delegation led by Oliver Tambo in London. This important meeting involved discussions of the IFP and ANC relationship and led to the final break between the two organisations.
May 1988 Louis Luyt, on behalf of the SA Rugby Board, met with Thabo Mbeki, in Frankfurt.
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