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THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF ONKGOPOTSE ABRAM RAMOTHIBI TIRO!!
by Mayihlome
Onkgopotse Ramothibi Abram Tiro
Source: http://www.sahistory.org.za
1 February 2014 marks the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of
Onkgopotse Ramothibi Abram Tiro way back in 1974, while he was exiled in
Botswana. This writer has previously written about the life and times of Tiro
in Mayihlome News and other publications. This time around I will focus on
trying to bring to book, so to speak, those who were responsible for Tiro's
death and also make readers understand why the killers of Tiro got away with
murder in the so called 'new' South Africa. I will let the facts speak for
themselves.
In my previous articles I mentioned that the author of the book Inside Boss
(1981), Gordon Winter, who is a former Bureau of State Security (BOSS) wrote
that Tiro was killed by The Z-Squad. The following extract from the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report, Volume 2, Chapter 2, at page 99,
corroborates what Winter revealed in his book.
At paragraph 211 the report states that: "The Commission has no corroborated
evidence of any external assassinations during the 1960 to 1973 period for
which South African security operatives can be said to have been responsible."
The report also states the following at paragraph 212: "The first known
cross-border assassinations in the 1974-79 period occurred in February 1974,
when, within two weeks of each other, MK founder member John Dube (aka 'Boy'
Mvemve) and former South African Students' Organisation (SASO) founder member
Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro were killed by letter bombs in Zambia and Botswana
respectively."
The report further states at paragraph 213 that: "The Commission received no
amnesty applications for these two killings. Former BOSS agent, Mr Gordon
Winter, alleges that the killings were the work of BOSS's recently formed
covert unit, the Z-squad. At a Commission briefing, a former BOSS and later
senior NIS and NIA member confirmed the existence of the Z-squad and named
amongst its small band of original members Mr Phil Freeman, an explosives
expert, and Mr Dries Verwey."
Paragraph 214 of the report states the following regarding the operations of
the Z-Squad in relation to Tiro's assassination: "Another former BOSS agent, Mr
Martin Dolinchek, also confirmed Z's existence. In an interview published in
the New Nation (9 August 1991), he named Kuhn and Verwey as "among those
responsible for his [Tiro's] death". In an interview with the Commission,
Dolinchek stated that Tiro was killed by the insertion of an explosive device
into a package addressed to him from the Geneva-based International University
Exchange Fund (IUEF). At that time, all mail destined for Southern Africa
(including the BLS states, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and the Seychelles)
passed through the airmail sorting office in Germiston near the then Jan Smuts
airport. The actual running of that office was contracted out by the Post
Office and, according to Dolinchek, South African Airways (then a state
corporation) deliberately bid low to gain the contract so that the security
police could have easy access to the millions of pieces of mail, including
diplomatic traffic that flowed through it annually."
Lastly, paragraph 215 states that: "According to Dolinchek, in the 1970s and
1980s some 400 police, mostly retired officers, worked in the facility, amongst
them Security Branch officers. Dolinchek claims that Tiro's package from the
IUEF was "doctored" at this facility. That particular item of mail would have
been a strategic choice as the IUEF, an international anti-apartheid
non-governmental organisation (NGO), worked closely with SASO and was
channelling funds to the organisation. Tiro was in regular contact with the
IUEF and a package would not have aroused suspicion."
I have previously stated that another South African spy, Craig Williamson, who
had infiltrated the ANC, worked for the IUEF. In one of my articles on Tiro in
Mayihlome News, a relative of Tiro's, Ratanang Tiro posted a comment to the
effect that the late Tiro's mom passed away not having known who the killers of
his son were because they never came forward. Unfortunately it would seem the
ruling ANC provided them with a cover because of the secret deals clinched
between the ANC and the former Apartheid government officials.
In fact, a US researcher, John Judge revealed in an interview titled
Assassination as a Tool of Fascism that "Many of those scientists, many of the
munitions and aerospace experts, many of the spies, (about 300 of them, in
fact, under General Reinhard Gehlen, who had headed up Hitler's intelligence
network for the east and the Soviet Union) were brought, from 1943 up until
even more recently in the present day, into the United States and into other
countries around the world, South Africa included. There's quite a bit of
collaboration between the South African government and World War II Fascists
and Nazis. But the Fascism was an indigenous problem in many, many countries.
It didn't just exist in Nazi Germany. There were groups of Fascists that the
Nazis were able to use in many countries as collaborationist governments."
I encourage readers to look for John Judge's interview on the internet and
read it in its entirety. They should also search and read John Judge's Good
Americans article to learn more about the Gehlen Network and its nefarious
ways.
One would have expected that when the so-called new South African government
came to power twenty (20) years ago, it would search for the records of these
fascist Nazis and prosecute those that they could find for the atrocities they
have committed, including political assassinations.
Colonel Huyghe, a Belgian rogue who shot Patrice Lumumba on the temples has
been living in South Africa for the past fifty (50) years. Interestingly, the
ANC government is not bothered by this. Perhaps many people are asking
themselves why the ANC government is protecting these white supremacists. I
have already alluded to the secret deals the ANC and Apartheid government
officials signed and agreed that the ANC would not expose Apartheid war
criminals and while the former Apartheid government officials would not expose
who, among the ANC leaders, were spies, key amongst them Nelson Mandela, who
was named a British M16 spy in the book MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations,
authored by the acclaimed intelligence expert Stephen Dorril and another book,
The Big Breach by Richard Tomlinson.
The Black Consciousness organizations and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of
Azania must demand justice for the Tiro family.
By Sam Ditshego
The writer is a Fellow at the Pan Africanist Research Institute (PARI).
Mayihlome |
February 1, 2014 at 12:01 pm | Tags: Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro, ANC, Apartheid,
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