From: barnhart@netcom.com (Aaron Barnhart)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: IPS:SOUTH AFRICA: INKATHA IMPLICATED IN
Date: 20 Aug 92 05:25:30 GMT
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Area: Africa, southern
Title: SOUTH AFRICA: INKATHA IMPLICATED IN GUN-RUNNING


johannesburg, aug 1 (ips eddie koch) -- a senior official of the
conservative zulu movement inkatha has been implicated in a
racket involving smuggling weapons out of mozambique into south
africa.

a self-confessed arms dealer told reporters in johannesburg
that bruce anderson, a white inkatha official deported from
south africa last month, acquired about 40 ak-47 rifles and ''a
few anti-personnel mines'' from contacts in mozambique and then
arranged for them to be dropped off in black townships near the
port city of durban.

they were presumably to be used in the violence that has
gripped the townships here between inkatha and the african
national congress (anc).

the gun-runner claims to have personally supervised
arrangements for anderson's alleged cargo of weapons to be
transported from mozambique to durban.

pretoria's department of home affairs has refused to comment
on the reasons for anderson's sudden deportation to england
last month and inkatha declines to say why their official was
booted out of the country.

but sources close to mozambican intelligence this week
confirmed that anderson had close ties with renamo rebels in
mozambique and has long been suspected of involvement in the
movement of weapons from that country into south africa.

it has also been established that anderson visited washington
last year where he made contact with a number of right-wing
movements and made enquiries about obtaining weapons for
renamo.

the mozambican intelligence sources added that president
joaquim chissano had discussed the issue of arms smuggling
between the two countries with president fw de klerk when the
two leaders met at the opening of the new polana hotel in
maputo last month.

''de klerk said he would take action against anyone who was
supporting renamo from south africa soil if concrete details
were supplied to him'', a leading frelimo member told the
jonannesburg-based weekly mail newspaper.

british diplomats, who ask not to be named, say they are also
certain that anderson's expulsion from south africa was
related to the inkatha official's involvement in gun-running.
(more/ips)


south africa: inkatha (2)

anderson was the chairman of inkatha's branch in
johannesburg's upmarket suburb of sandton. he was also a
delegate for the zulu movement at the convention for a
democratic south africa where abortive attempts have been made
to devise a constitution to replace apartheid in this country.

he came to south africa in 1981 after being convicted of
fraud in zimbabwe where he lived for a number of years. anderson
became a confidante of renamo leader afonso dhlakama as well
as ndabaningi sithole, zimbabwe's rebel nationalist leader.

he was also a member of britain's neo-fascist national front
before he emigrated to rhodesia in the late 1970s.

anderson was declared a persona non-grata in south africa on
jul. 17 this year and was given a one-way ticket to england on
that day. (end/ips/ek/oa/92)

-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@netcom.com) -- posting from Evanston, Illinois