JOHANNESBURG (PTD): Former White minority regime in South Africa had actively promoted entity between people of Indian Origin and the Zulu people in the Kwazulu-Natal region, secret documents have revealed.

The shocking disclosures were made recently when secret documents of National Intelligence Service (NIS) were released to the media by minister of transport Mac Maharaj.

 Maharaj said he had obtained the documents from Anc’s own spy network within the Intelligence Service.

At one place, the report, drawn up by the NIS, expressed concern that the then White minority government  was losing ground to the Anc among the people of Indian origin.

“We are failing to infiltrate, identify, sever or plug into the communication of the ANC/communist party within the South African Indian community. We can expect a growing number of Indian youths to become active in leftist politics in the near future.” the repo compiled in 1980 said. The NIS recommended “divisive factices to drive a wedge between the different racial groups, particularly innately. The setting up of “a non-existent Zulu group who (would) circulate pamphlets to put a rift between Indian and Zulu political Communities” was considered.

“At present there is an extremely fragile alliance between Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha and M, J. Naidoo of the natal Indian Congress, and the circulation Of one set of pamphlets could set Off enough friction to make an Inkatha/Nic alliance impossible,” the report went on.

The documents also reveal that the cells of top political leaders on Robben I stand, including Nelson Mandela, were bugged by the former White minority government. Maharaj said the documents revealed that their every move, their letters, their visitors and families were bugged and monitored by the prisons department security branch.

He said he released the documents to the media because he wanted South Africans to come to terms with their pact. The documents, labeled the “Maharaj Files,” also contain key agents assessments of leading Anc figures on Ruben island, in exile and anti-apartheid activists within the country.

The national Intelligence Service has declined to comment on the disclosures saying if the Nis political head deemed it necessary the matter would be dealt with at an official level.

Article extracted from this publication >> August 12, 1994