S. African scapegoats
Socialist Press1979 1979-04-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Mulder ment scandal continues.
And past and present Prime Ministers Vorster and Botha continue to protest their innocence in the face of charges by the dismissed Information Department leaders that Vorster was fully aware of the secret dealings of his own government.
The Erasmus Judicial Commission of Enquiry set up by the government as a result of pressure from "liberal" sections of the ruling class and dissension in ghe" National Party's own ranks, is due to present its "findings" as we go to press.
It seems most likely, of course, that Vorster and his cabinet will be exonerated and blame will be apportioned among the chosen scapegoats.
These scapegoats are, however, getting increasingly resentful and restless as we reported last week. paid by the bourgeois media to get some of the tapes in which one-time Secretary of the Department of Information, Eschel Rhoodie makes his allegations.
Bribery
These include acçounts of the successes and failures of Department of Information attempts to buy various publications and an enormous international network of bribery of political and labour leaders-in short, ' some of the dirtiest aspects of the secret deals and diplomacy whereby not only the wheels of South African capitalism, but of imperialism are greased.
Amongst the major allegations are claims that:
*In Britain, two Labour MPs received payments. the 1973 election was set up and funded by South Africa.
*In America an attempt was made to buy the Washington post Major bureaucrats inside the AFL-CIO were bribed to oppose programmes for trade union action in solidarity with black workers.
*Both Muzorewa and Sithole have received large 'donations'.
Inevitable Such fraud, corruption and deceit are inevitable in the capitalist profit system-as inevitable as the exploitation of the black masses by those "liberal" sections of the ruling class which enables them to finance the newspapers which now attack government misappropriation!
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