APARTHEID murdered Solomon Mahlangu because that is the onlv wav it can deal with black opposition. Mahlangu and four other members of the National Congress were hanged dawn Friday, 6 April.
Solomon Mahlangu because he was not prepared to accept that the racist regime had the right to send its police shooting their way through his town like gunslingers Western set.
Mahlangu was at school in Soweto at the time ol the student uprising in 1976. concrusion ne drew trom the police massacres was the need for armed struggle to bring down apartheid.
So he left the country for military training with the ANC.
Socialist Challenge 12 April 1979 Page 12 He returned secretly 1977 and was captured by ponce m sonannesours arter a shoot-out.
Two whites died shooting and although Mahlangu was not directly involved he was still tried and convicted oi uruer.
Murder is a strange category Africa. because it does not seem to matter whose finger is on the trigger. Solomon Mahlangu's was not, out mey tound nim guilty all the same.
And strange too because it applies only to the death of whites. The hundreds of blacks The gunned down in sowelo in 1976 were not murdered according And so, the apartheid regime decreed, Solomon had to die.
And we say that is murder.
in in the Strange Mahlangu Picket of South Africa House London Anti-Apartheid on the day of the execution. Rowland, CHICHELS threaten eering, through its subsidiaries Empress Nickel Mine and Tinto once dubbed the 'unacceptable face of capitalism' by a Tory Prime Minister - manages to combine brazen of SanCLIOnS for black Certai Lonrho has close relations pro-Western African such Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda The company's owner-director, Tiny' understands that superficially radical measures, such as nationalisations or joint ventures with African governdo necessarily Lonrho's interests he weakness of capitalism on vorld scale. An the movements themselves are undifferentiated agents of British imperialism. Quite the reverse!
But capitalism - and British capitalism above all will cling on to Zimbabwe with all Ene esources at its disposal.
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