From: barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS:SOUTH AFRICA: NEO-FASCISTS TO SETTLE IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:50:37 GMT
Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

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Area: Asia, eastern
Reference: Agriculture
Title: SOUTH AFRICA: NEO-FASCISTS TO SETTLE IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE


johannesburg, jan 15 (ips) -- some south africa neo-fascists
are leaving their country to settle in rural areas of
neighbouring mozambique where they aim to set up lucratic
farming and tourism projects.

details of the neo-fascists' activities surfaced in london
last month by danie oosthuysen, once a senior member of the
ultra-right afrikaner resistance movement (awb) and a close
friend of its leader, eugene terreblanche.

he fled britain after being picked up by british security
agents on suspicion of buying arms for the neo-fascists, leaving
behind a pile of documents in his london hotel room.

one of the documents involves a bizarre scheme to create a
small all-white homeland in mozambique.

disillusioned by the white minority government's moves to end
apartheid, the neo-fascists are moving into mozambique and
offering the government farming and business skills needed to
rebuild a country devastated by 17 years of civil war.

the right-wing groups, the documents show, had entered into
secret pacts with the south african-backed former rebel
mozambique national resistance (renamo) to ensure their plans
succeed.

ranamo and the mozambique government signed a peace accord in
rome, italy. oct. 4 to end the civil war.

the documents show oosthuysen's company, sub-sahara
development company based in the northern transvaal town of
pietersburg, had been secretely dealing with the renamo
leadership while negotiating with the mozambique government.

oosthuysen was trying to raise investment capital for a
multi-million-dollar project that would have given the
rightwinger a large chuck of land in mozambique's gaza province
in exchange for upgrading the area and creating a game reserve.

''it is the company's firm belief, after initial contact with
renamo, that the security of the company's property and
personnel will not be jeopardised in anyway'', says a memorandum
in one of the documents.

''at no stage must the government of mozambique be informed
that renamo supports this scheme'', adds the memorandum.

terreblanche this week told mozambican journalists he is
aware of plans by various right-wing groups to settle on
mozambican land, but said his organisation was not interested
in the project. (more/ips)


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''the fact is if i had a single rand (the south african
currency), i would use it to buy bullets not land'',
terreblanche was quoted as by the mozambican newsletter
'mediafax'.

oosthuysen's scheme is the latest in a series of
controversial projects being set up by members of south africa's
right-wing in mozambique.

in 1989 col gert otto, commander of the south african defence
force's security operations in the kruger national park (a large
game reserve on the south africa-mozambique border) set up the
mozambique assistance and investment corporation (mozaic).

the company aimed to develop a large game reserve on the
mozambique side of the kruger park.

a senior officer in the south african police this week
said otto had extensive dealings with renamo, supplying the
rebels with arms and supplies until as late as 1989 while he was
setting up the company.

one of otto's state objectives was to ''provide productive
security information to the security community'', according to
a mozaic statement.

otto's plans were scuttled when he was transferred from his
post in the kruger park to the northern transvaal on suspicion
he was involved in illicit ivory tusk.

some of his men were using their contacts with renamo to
smuggle tusks from elephants poached in mozambique into south
africa.

in the middle of last year mozambican wildlife officers
foiled plans by a consortium of south african business persons
(including awb members) convicted of fraud and dealing in
illicit diamonds, to bulldoze a coral reef off an island in the
bazaruto archipelago (in southern province of inhambane) and
build an upmarket tourist resort.

the plan was aborted after ecologists working for the
mozambique government uncovered plans by a company called coral
island lorge to send front-end loaders, trucks and tractors to
the island of benguerra to carry out earthworks for the proposed
complex.

with the peace accord holding, the mozambique government is
concerned that thousands of its nationals will return to their
rural homes only to find their land occupied by white
afrikaners.

if the nea-fascists' movement into mozambique is unchecked,
it is likely to become a source of serious social conflict in
mozambique in the future. (end/ips/ek/apc/93)
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