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Trial exposes Buthelezi as collaborator

The trial of Magnus Malan and the other apartheid generals in Durban is revealing the extent of Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi's sordid collaboration with the apartheid regime. It is now apparent that Buthelezi himself was part of the conspiracy to create apartheid-backed death squads.

Documents published by the Weekly Mail and Guardian reveal that the decision to establish hit squads was made by the State Security Council. The highest officials of the apartheid state sat on the SSC, including current GNU members deputy president F.W. de Klerk and mines minister Pik Botha.

An SSC subcommittee organised the training and arming of 200 Inkatha loyalists to counter the popularity of the United Democratic Front and the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, in KwaZulu/Natal. The group was trained by the SADF special forces in the Caprivi Strip in Namibia in 1986.

Throughout the 1980s, as Pretoria stridently denied charges that Buthelezi was an apartheid puppet, documents show the SSC's operation was cynically code-named "Project Marion", derived from the word "marionette". The core of the project was to boost Inkatha and other black conservative groupings militarily and politically.

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