Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom - Revision 4 - Chapter 10 Page 13

1994 and again in June 1999. We used as ammunition against him facts which are of common knowledge that he was a Bantustan leader, that although he refused to take independence as other Bantustans had done, he worked hand in hand with the apartheid regime, that they gave him funds to oppose sanctions and the armed struggle, that he formed the trade union Uwusa to under- mine the progressive and dynamic policies of Cosatu and the SACP. We even had more damaging allegations than those set out above. All these failed to tarnish his reputation, and he remains to the present day a powerful public figure that cannot be ignored. But few will deny that there is still a hard core of arrogant and influential traditionalist who think that they are superior to other African groups in the country. At a meeting