Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate
According to the February 1992 edition of Searchlight,
an "anti-fascist" magazine in Great
Britain, two self-professed members of the Civil Cooperation
Bureau (CCB), an undercover unit of
the South African security police, fled to England after
awaiting trial for over a year in connection
with the bombing of a taxi line which injured 15 Black
people. The two fugitives, Adrian Maritz and
Henry Martin, reported that as CCB operatives, they were
instructed by superiors to join the Church
of the Creator in order to recruit South African racists
into a "dirty war" against the African National
Congress (ANC). The two COTC members also alleged that they
had knowledge of "several
operations through which large quantities of arms were
delivered to the Zulu Inkatha Party"; the
security force is reputed to have used armed Inkatha members
in a "campaign of atrocities" waged in
Black townships.
Nelson Mandela, the leader of the ANC, had visited the
two men in a South African hospital
after they had gone on a hunger strike to protest their
arrests. He declared himself "convinced they
have very valuable information about the role of the
National Intelligence Service and military
intelligence, who instructed them to commit some heinous
offences."
To date, further developments regarding these allegations
remain unclear.
Nonetheless, Searchlight also reported in the same
issue that two other COTC activists, Jurgen
Matthews White and Johannes Jurgens Grobbelaar, were killed
in a gun battle with South African
police while they were reportedly attempting to smuggle
weapons and explosives into an alleged
"survivalist" compound in Namibia. The two "Creators" were
stopped by police suspicious that their
vehicle had been stolen. According to the report, while
being escorted to a nearby police station, the
two detonated a smoke bomb and attempted to escape. After
coming across their abandoned vehicle
five miles away, police came under fire from the two
suspects. who lay in ambush. Two officers were
shot, one fatally, before law enforcement agents returned
fire. The COTC members died in the gun
battle.
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