“The White Men who Hold the Black A.N.C. Puppets' Strings” written in 1986 at http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/articles/Slovo_1986.html is an interesting read. Below are a few excerpts.
But around Slovo there was an unmistakeable aura of "I am boss here." Born in 1926 in Lithuania, now a Soviet republic, this former Johannesburg barrister is a high-ranking KGB staff officer; although reputedly a Soviet citizen, he travels on a British passport.
I do not know what persuades the British authorities to allow the unsavoury Slovo, founder and since 1985 Chief of Staff of "Umkhonto we Sizwe," the terrorist wing of the ANC, to come and go as he pleases between London, East Berlin and Odessa, as he masterminds the terror campaign. Ever since Harold Macmillan began the British stampede from Africa with his speech on the Winds of Change, there has been an ignorance in Whitehall, a reluctance to face up to the outcome of a Marxist takeover of southern Africa, a frantic desire to appease rather than to prevent.
But that role is undeniable: of the thirty-strong national executive of the African National Congress twenty-five are dedicated Communists.
One of their defectors, Bartholomew Hlapane, underscored this to a 1982 US Senate committee investigating terrorism in southern Africa. "I decided," he testified in 1982, "to pull out . . . because innocent people were being arrested and did not know that the Communist party had in fact captured the leadership of the African National Congress."
Hlapane revealed that it was Joe Slovo who had drafted the "Freedom Charter," ostensibly the cornerstone of the ANC programme. The ANC assassinated this squealer on December 18, 1983. They and the SACP have their own Mafia-style of ethics. Among Slovo's aides is White Communist terrorist Dennis Goldberg, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1960 by Pretoria along with the Algerian-trained Nelson Mandela for a conspiracy which included the manufacture of 48,000 landmines and 210,000 hand-grenades.
Early last year Goldberg undertook not to commit further acts of violence. Botha released him: Goldberg fled and surfaced in March 1985 in London again evidently declared persona grata by the Home Office as Slovo's principal lieutenant, having declared to shocked Israeli audiences on the way north that he intended to resume the terror campaign.
"Innocent people will be killed," Goldberg announced. "That's the price." Details of a new Marxist terror campaign in South Africa, using landand limpet-mines, were thrashed out at a unique secret ANC conference in Zambia last June.
The ANC makes no bones about its intent. "We want to make the death of a collaborator," explained Tim Ngubane at California State University on October 10 [1986], "so grotesque that people will never think of collaborating."
That is what it is all about. While world public opinion, steeped in the images of World War II, yawns at the soporific disarmament conferences in Geneva, the real war is already being fought and lost. "South Africa's 'liberation'," London's Communist Morning Star gloated on February 3, "will change the balance of forces throughout the world."
This is why the Joe Slovos have only one real fear now: that the Communist hand will be revealed before it can plunge the Black knife into Pretoria, and sever the economic jugular of the western world.