This is an extract from a poem addressed to the South BREYTENBACH. Breytenbach, a white South African of Eder te Terroriem et end the mine prestien af Act and the Suppression Communism Act in 1975. He has been held in solfary death santence.
1 stand on bricks before my fellow mon with electrodes on my balls trying to acream light into the dusk on my skin and over the floor chako on the rope of the intestines slip on soap and break my bones to deliverance on a street among people and you butcher vou who are taxed with the securily of the state what do you think of when night reveats hor skaistan and the first chattering shriek is squenzed out wit an the tuids or pertuntion? are you humble before this bloodied thin with the torn breath of its dying LORS SOUF THAT USA DES TOrO when you touch the limp limbs with tha same hands trat will fondle your wife's secreta? exile to the butcher gress was Jound scriously wanting during the events in Soweto its analysis of South Alnica now has a real resonance amongst such people.
MILITARY TRAINING Bur their policy of sending militants back into South Africa after military training has resulted in various maritzhurg continues, and yer another on hasstarted in Pretoria with 12 ANC militanurs on trial. Their ability to influence the course of events in South Africa remans nu; the strategy they adopt represents a retreat from the teat nroblem bi engaging the binck working class successfully in the liberation SIrUSSIE.
The overall strength of the urban blacks remaine, with a significant retreat being inflicted on the white regine over the attempt to incitase renes in the townshins. Increascs of around 50 per cent were proposed, increass which were delested continues to soar, with increnses in bus and other prices. Sorne strikes still occur, such a the erikeof miners at Vereeniing wilh 3601 workers refusing.towork.
Londer pressure the economic crisis besetting Souch Atrica these contradictions must grow: The organisational form best able to advance such astrugale is for underground 1olcVS013 103325030BSICAHIROARAE any apportunity to further the workers