Page 4068 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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ANC insurgents captured only a few weeks ago in Natal/Kwazulu (after the ANC had agreed to suspend the activities of its armed wing) admitted they had been sent to "stoke the violence" in the region and to "eliminate" Inkatha members.
I rest my case.
Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, President,
Inkatha Freedom Party, Ulundi, South Africa.
Yet, who in Canberra, or who in Australia, knows the truth about the funding that is going from Canberrans, and from all Australians, to support such terrorist activities that involve murder and the horror of necklacing which is used to simply terrorise people to prevent them from speaking out; to silence them against the communist, the Marxist takeover of the South African Government? That is what the ANC stands for. Yet we in Australia are paying $16m already, and another $15m is to be paid to support activities supported by, and ascertained by consultation with, the ANC.
I think it highly relevant that the ANC has such tiny support in South Africa, whereas Chief Buthelezi, who has long called for peaceful democratic reforms in Africa, has a paid up membership of 1.8 million people. Yet where does the money that is taken from Canberran taxpayers, in part, go? Instead of supporting schools it goes to support terrorism in South Africa. It is simply not okay.
The suggestion by members of the ACT Labor Party that it is appalling that someone should speak out in this matter is, in itself, perhaps an atrocity. The fact that you could have an Australian member of parliament stand up and decry someone who revealed the truth of money going to support terrorist activities is an appalling indictment of what has happened in Australia to our political system in so many instances. People in Canberra are vitally concerned about the school system. The Federal Government made promises that it would give us money. It broke those promises. We should not simply lie back when it says that it will not give us the money. We should take whatever actions we need to take to make sure it honours its promises and obligations. We are in a unique situation in Australia to do that. We happen to largely control the ACT where its Federal Parliament is.
There are any number of ideas that could be used to bring pressure on Federal politicians to honour their responsibility to people within the ACT to fund the education system in the ACT which it was responsible for setting up. Instead, it gives money to support terrorism in South Africa. We should force it to support schools in the ACT.
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