UN General Assembly
1992

Serious as our domestic preoccupations are, we shall be remiss if we fail to see events taking place elsewhere as important. It is in this vein that we must once again register our deep concern over the bloody violence that in recent months has been visited on the people of South Africa. The massacres in Boipatong and, even more recently, in Ciskei have today become a metaphor for the struggle against apartheid - just as Soweto was decades ago. How many more lives have to be lost, how many more families must taste the bitter fruit of violence, before the South African Government realizes that the campaign of terror being waged by its agents merely increases the scepticism over its real intentions? If the South African Government is to continue to receive the cautious approval of the international community for its agenda of political reform of its society, it must demonstrate good faith by arresting the descent into anarchy and bringing the perpetrators of the violence to justice. Denials can