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Black Traitors Face Class Fury

Socialist Press no. 91, 15 March 1978 · scan p. 2 · about 282 words

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of doing things at the wrong time'. This rueful comment was Bishop Abel Muzorewa's response the raid into to Zambia the security by forces the racist of regime.

The supporters of his fellow collaborator, Chief Chirau, expressed the same meaning with a crude clarity.

Arguing that the attack was justified by the military situation, they confessed that: "The interim government will find it difficult to interfere with decisions made by the commanders of the security forces"

To make such a frank admission of the wretched political betrayal involved in the 'internal settlement' would hamper Muzorewa's current role.

The Bishop has been allotted the task of selling the deal to an impatient international market.

His objective is to politically isolate or compromise the leaders of the Patriotic Front-using the professional assistance of the Carter administration and the agents of imperialism in the British Labour cabinet.

Muzorewa, Chirau and Sithole have now openly declared themselves as enemies to the black liberation fighters.

Their South African partner in class-crime, Chief Buthelezi, experienced on Sunday the kind of reception such figures can expect from the masses they claim to represent.

When Buthelezi attended the funeral of Robert Sobukwe (one-time leader of the Pan-African Congress), he was greeted with a hail of stones from militant black youth.

The Zulu chief was forced to leave, along with other prominent black 'leaders' The youth were expressing their violent hostility to the form of class-collaboration practiced by these dignitaries in working within the legal apparatus of the apartheid system.

This latest action reveals that the process of building a new leadership to direct the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed South African masses has reached a crucial stage of development.

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