Talking with the ANC

Bureau for Information, Talking With the ANC. Pretoria: Bureau for Information, 1986.

Saddle-stitched pamphlet, wraps, 42 pages, a few illustrations.

Wraps very lightly scuffed. Very good condition.

Early steps on the road to 1994.

'INTRODUCTION

This publication provides essential information on a question which is currently exercising many concerned South Africans the question of whether or not negotiations should be conducted with the ANC. 

The South African Government's position in this regard was clearly stated by State President P W Botha in Parliament on 15 May 1986: 

"As far as the Government is concerned it remains adamant that it is prepared to negotiate with citizens of South Africa, provided that they do not resort to violence as a means of attaining their political and other goals, or call in foreign agencies to support them ...

"Negotiation of necessity implies that participants should accept that not all their requirements are likely to be met; it implies a willingness to listen, to discuss and seek solutions. But these solutions will result from deliberations by South Africans in the interest of South Africans. 

"Essentially it is a process of give and take during which people are required, on the one hand, to scale down their demands and, on the other, to be lenient when required to make concessions to satisfy reasonable demands". 

The question is whether the ANC can comply with these reasonable requirements. 

This publication is based primarily on the ANC's and the South African Communist Party's (SACP) own statements and documents and presents a strong case that: 

the ANC has a formal alliance with the SACP and both are committed to the violent overthrow of the present system of government for the purpose of seizing total power for themselves; ..."'