Page 3703 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 October 1990
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Mr Wood: Don't you support that?
MR STEVENSON: No, I do not support for a moment, Mr Wood, the violent overthrow of the South African Government. I think it is important to understand some of the motivation for Mr Mandela. In a publication that he wrote in longhand titled "How to be a good Communist" he stated, on page 1:
The aim is to change the present world into a Communist world where there will be no exploiters and exploited, no oppressor and oppressed, no rich and poor.
On page 27 he writes:
Without a hard, bitter and long struggle against capitalism and exploitation, there can be no Communist world. The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation, to liberate mankind and to ensure peace and prosperity to all.
On pages 30, 31 and 34 he writes:
We test a Communist Party member's loyalty to the Party, to the revolution and the Communist cause by the manner in which he absolutely subordinates his interests to those of the Communist Party ... In the Party our members should not have personal aims independent of the Party's interest ... A member of our Party is no longer just an ordinary person. He is a conscious vanguard fighter of the working class.
Such is Mandela's support for the Communist Party.
I think recent events in the world have shown the obnoxious nature of communism. Finally, after the deaths, reportedly, of over 100 million people in the push for communist control of the world, much of that appalling regime's control of many countries throughout the world is beginning to be thrown off. Indeed, we are starting to get towards some democratic freedoms not supported by the communist parties in those countries that were overtaken and subjected to one of the greatest violences ever known in the history of mankind.
I think Zulu Chief Buthelezi is the one that should be supported and looked to as a valid leader, for he supports many changes within the country of South Africa, but through peaceful means - not through sabotage and not through necklacing.
Perhaps it is worth mentioning what necklacing is. The "necklace" is a motor car tyre placed around a person's neck. His or her hands are tied with wire, and petrol is
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