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Transkei, South Africa's first "independent" Bantustan, has not had diplomatic relations with any other state in the world.

That is because its Prime Minister, Paramount . Chief Matanzima, in a petulant outburst, broke off diplomatic relations with the racist South African state which spawned his regime and is still the only country to recognise it.

The Bantustan-pocket sized states for blacks only- were set up by the apartheid state in order to siphon off some of the explosive social tensions of South Africa.

Economic crisis

As the economic crisis in South Africa deepens, greater and greater pressure is put on the Bantustans to fulfil their role.

For instance, in tens of thousands, squatters and unemployed workers are dumped by the racists into the Bantustans of which they are "citizens"

But there is no hope whatever that the poverty-stricken Bantustans can contribute any• thing to solving the pressing material problems of jobs, housing, land and wages.

So these areas are plunged into an even deeper crisis.

The bourgeois press talks of the Transkei as a scenic land of 1.7 million people. This Matanzima reality 1.7 million starving peasants, thousands of whom are forced to sell their labour power working in subhuman conditions in white South Africa.

Contorted

In response to the demands of the masses Matanzima twists and contorts himself in order to divert their wrath from him to someone else-at present the South African government against which he has made puerile threats of a military attack.

All this posing has no relevance whatever to the Xhosa masses in the Transkei:

The ties which oppress them are not diplomatic but those of bondage and exploitation to the South African state and South African captialism.

Matanzima is no enemy of this. He is its direct agent.

In the "free" Transkei his dictatorship has adopted every detail of South Africa's repressive laws and added a few more besides.

Matanzima is a multi-millionaire who owns a good part of the limited industry in the Transkei.

As a tribal Paramount chief he owns nearly all the land.

He is not the only oppressor ad exploiter in the Transkei. Second in command of the government, Minister of "Justice" and the second biggest owner of land and industry is none other than Matanzima's brother George.

This family firm, however, cannot expand fast enough to employ the hundreds of thousands of Xhosa workers seeking jobs.

Matanzima would like to attract some international capital to help or even aid from the independent black African countries and the Organisation of African Unity.

Dispel This is impossible as long as he remains an international pariah as the most prominent black collab. orator of apartheid.

That is the image he aims to dispel through his present antics.

He may even want to be cut off by South Africa (which provides half the expenses of his sham state) in order to get international recognition.

Though he does not deserve to fool anyone there is a real danger that certain petty bourgeois of the Southern African liberation movements will opportunistically create illusions in Matanzima's "opposition" to apartheid as they have with others like Chief Buthelezi, whose thin skin of opposition to racism covers the ample flesh of collaboration.

These false prophets of "black liberation" must be ruthlessly exposed.

The only way for the masses of the Transkei to break the stranglehold of apartheid is to reject their oppressive leaders and develop an ever closer unity with the whole South African working class in the common struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist apartheid state in South Africa.

That struggle will sweep aside all enemies like Matanzima, no matter how much they posture as leaders of the "struggle for liberation" secret police to come up with even a lead on Moro's whereabouts after a month of search becomes plain, the pressures for more police state measures are growing.

The , kidnapping has brought to a head sharp differences on this and aty this and many the Communist Party.

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Dissolution

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