Botha's constitution, like others before it, is a constitution for injustice which, among other things, seeks to perpetuate apartheid in education. Consequently, as we continue to intensify our assault on the entire edifice of apartheid education we should relate this to our offensive against the apartheid constitution. Thus the democratic student movement should relate the struggle for a just system of education to the struggle against the apartheid constitution. By July, the General Sales Tax will have gone up twice within the year. A new Income Tax has been introduced which will hit the underpaid black masses hard.
Prices continue to grow by leaps and bounds.
The number of unemployed increases with each passing day. In the meantime, the racists have sharply increased expenditure on their war machine. Large sums of money have been and will be spent on the implementation of the new constitutional scheme and the further refinement of the apartheid system as a whole. The wages we take home buy less each passing week. We spend more money in the shops and return home with half-empty baskets.