20 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., DECEMBER 5, 1981!
Southern Africa
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Pretoria Blamed for SabotageInvasion'
AN It was perhaps
an unlikely setting
Malawi, whose govern
ment is the only one in
Africa , to maintain
diplomatic relations with
South Africa. And the
South African represen
tative was invited, along
with the rest of the
diplomatic community,
to attend the openeing
ceremonies. But when
the November 19-20
ministerial meeting of
the Southern African
Development Coor
dinating Conference
(SADCQ got down to
business, the South
Africans came under
heavy fire.
the white government
is trying to "drive a
wedge of dependence
through southern Africa
by sabotage and inva
sion," the conference
chairman, Botswana's
Finance Minister Peter
Mmusi, charged. And all
nine governments joined
in a communique accus
ing South Africa of try
ing to . destabilize their
region.
Conference par
ticipants were angered by
a whole series of actions
this year, beginning with
the January raid by
South African comman
does into Mozambique,
the large August inva
sion of Angola, and re
cent attacks on a
pipeline, rail and harbor
facilities in Mozambique
: that most SADCC
members want to use to
ease their trade pro
blems. SADCC was establish
ed last year to stimulate
regional cooperation and
decrease member-states'
dependence on the
economic giant of the
area South Africa. As
reflected in Mmusi 's
remarks, SADCC
governments see
economic as well as
political motives in
Pretoria's recent actions.
Six of the SADCC
' nine are landlocked, and
during thhe colonial era
most of their trde was
directed southward.. But
since independence, each
of these states has tried
to diversify by using
eastwest routes that do
not pass through South
Africa. : Botswana,
Swaziland, Zimbabwe,
Malawi, and Zambia,
for example, are .using
ports in Mozambique,
and to a lesser extent
Tanzania. Zambia's
plans to ship some of its
copper through Angola
have been stymied - by
continued fighting in ,
southern Angola.
(The ninth SADCC
member, Lesotho, is
completely surrounded
by South Africa.) ' '
Dealys in oil
Shipments from South
Africa have recently
forced the Zimbabwe
government to impose
rationing. Partly because
of this vulnerability,
Zimbabwe - had been
moving ahead with plans
to import-a significant
portion of its oil through
a pipeline from Beira,
Mozambique one that
lay idle during most of
the time that Rhodesia
was subject to interna
tional sanctions. .
But the pipeline, :
which had been schedul
ed to reopen in
December, was heavily
damaged by an explosion
on a road bridge over
thhe Pungwe River in
late October. The explo
sion is one of a series of
attacks on road and rail
links by the anti-
government NRM
(Mozambique National
Resistance), which
Mozambique says has
extensive South African
backing.
A 200-yard section
of pipe was torn from its
mountings on the bridge
and left suspended
across the water, accor
ding to Lonrho, the
London-based corpora- j
tion that owns the j
pipeline. Repairs are not !
expected to be completed i
until January at the
earliest.
A few days before the
bridge attack, Mozambi-:
que forces killed at least ,
one white man who was ;
among a group of six ;
persons attempting to ,
mine thhe Beira-Umtali
railway, which carries a
substantial portion of
Zimbabwe's trade.
White Portuguese are
involved in the NRM,
but the discovery of a
Portuguese-English
phrasebook, English
language notes, and
manuals and books from
South Africa in the dead
man's possession are
cited as evidence he came
from South Africa, cor
respondent Joseph
Hanlon reports.
A Mozambican patrol
came across the group at ,
Doeroi ninety miles west
of Beira and half way
between Beira and Um-'
tali, the Mozambicans !
fired a bazooka, blowing
up four men, three black
and one white. Accor-;
ding to Comandante
Estavao Nhaveni, who
led the attack, remains
near the scene suggest
that one or two addi
tional white men were
killed.
Mozambique says
South Africa trains the
NRM at a camp near
Phalabora in the
Transvaal Province, and ;
that it regularly ferries
supplies to the insurgent
bands in central Mozam
bique. But this is the first
time Mozambique has ;
actually claimed that
South African specialists
are working with the
resistance, Hanlon says.
In Washington, a
State Department of
ficial said the Mozam
bican charges "seem to
have some substance.
This was a very profes
sional job."
"The saboteurs knew ex
actly where to place the
explosives, how to han
dle them," he said. "The
NRM are very capable,
but we believe the
pipeline job went beyond
to respond in
terms.
- "Stop your doctor if
you hear a word you.
don't understand. . .
.and be sure you unders
tand the; plan of action
before you leave the end
of an appointment," he,
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said. Dr. Chez said pa
tients should understand
what the doctor says
about the side effects of
any medication. "Par
ticularly understand the
effects of alcohol and
drugs that depress the
central nervous system."
their capability. They
had to have had South
African help."
In another blow to the
region's transport net
work, all the marker
buoys leading into the
port at Beira were blown
up last month. NRM
spokesman Evo Fer
nandes in Lisbon said the
buoys were destroyed to
hamper use of the port.
Prior to these attacks
in Mozambique, Zim
babwe political and
business leaders were
suggesting that their
country was coming
under seige. Prime
Minister Robert Mugabe
accused South Africa of
"destabilizing his
economy." And Zim
babwe Chamber of
Commerce Chairman (
Abner Botsh said trade
from South Africa has
become subject toj
"obstacles we don't'
understand."
Eddie Cross, general;
manager of Zimbabwe's
Dairy Marketing Board,
told the Fiancial Mail: "I
believe that South Africa
has consciously decjded
that it would not be in its
long-term interests to
have stable, prosperous
neighbors. In my discus
sions with senior of
ficials of the South
African Department of
Foreign Affairs, my vew
was virtually
confirmed."
Addressing these
charges in Parliament in
September, . South
African Minister of
Foreign Affairs Roelof
.Botha deplored "the
drift toward confronta
tion and conflagration in
southern Africa." More
recently, as the alternate
routes to the sea in
Mozambique have come
under attack, some of
the bottlenecks ex
perienced earlier by Zim
babwe have been cor
rected. South African
Railways, for example,
which had withdrawn 25
locomotives from loan to
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-' 1 1, v the country's major.! Angolan , movement
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difficulty remains the
war with South Africa.!
According to the report, !
the large-scale attack
launched August 23
'caused major disrup- :
tions, cost millions of
.dollars in damages and
itook hundreds of lives.
; The agency claims
South Africa still con
trols all Angolan ter
ritory between the
'Cunene River and the;
Namibian border (an '
estimated 3 of
Angola's total land
area), thhe dissident "
ithe area, the agency says,
, strengthening its position
for additional attacks on
strategic transport
facilities in the central'
region.
London ' Financial
Times estimates that
Angola is spending half
of its foreign exchange
on defense, including
purchases of armaments
and payments for
Cuban, Soviet, and East
German military person
nel stationed in the coun-,
try. '
PREPARING FOR HOLIDAY GIVING The Student Government
Association of Saint Augustine's College makes an annual contribution of
food baskets to needy families in Wake County. Shown in the photo are SGA .
officers making preparation for this public service project, 1-r: Jerold Lewis,
attorney general; James Powell, president; and Austin Cooper, vice president.
Zimbabwe causing a
tremendous shortage,
has reportedly re-loaned
26 engines. And
agricultural and mining
shipmennts are reported
Transport problems
continue to plague
Angola as well. The
capital and principal :
port, , Luanda, has
reportedly been suffering
ly moving more rapidly. ,. from massive congestion
. fifty ships were said to
be waiting to offload last
month. But as the
Angolan news agency
reported on the sixth an
niversary of in-r
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