Amazing grace
Sir: The Director of Christian Aid (Letters, 11 July) says that the 'patience and forbear- ance of . . . the ANC [in the face of apartheid] is a miracle of grace'.
I quote from the ANC's official organ:
From the perspective of underground activi- ty, a very important factor is the systematic assault on, and elimination of, policemen res- ident in the township, stooges and informers ... This means that the masses have created some form of free zones in which under- ground activity by the liberation movement can be carried out ... Here collaborators and informers live in fear of petrol, either as petrol bombs being hurled at their homes and reducing them to rack and ruin, or as petrol dousing their treacherous bodies which we set alight, and burn to a charred despicable mess. (Sechaba, November 1985.)
Is this what Mr Taylor means by `patience and forbearance' and 'a miracle of grace'?
Milan Becker
41 Gloucester Place, London WI
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