Word: makatini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Birds, the first novel of Lewis Nkosi, a young Black South African writer, is a story set in and expressly concerned with the current political and social conditions of South Africa. It is short, clear, direct and intensely unforgiving--a cry from the heart, dedicated to "my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write...
Recognizing that an all-out arms struggle in South Africa is the next step, the U.S. must recognize that when South Africa's white regime falls, so too will the multinationals claiming a neutral stance in a situation where there can be no neutrality. According to Mfanafuthi Makatini the international representative for the ANC, an end to apartheid will mean the socialization of all companies in South Africa...
...Makatini and others foresee an inevitable full scale arms struggle and "bloody battle" in South Africa, he said...
...Makatini is the ANC director of international affairs and represents the organization at the U.N., where it has observer status...
...Makatini said the point is moot, "The issue is not how the country is governed, but who governs the country. The only way the ANC sees is universal adult suffrage. That will bring majority rule...