Axel-Ivar Berglund - Nordic Documentation on the Liberation ...

Bertil Högberg: In agreement with the ANC?
<strong>Axel</strong>-<strong>Ivar</strong> <strong>Berglund</strong>: Yes.
Bertil Högberg: But then it took a different path?
<strong>Axel</strong>-<strong>Ivar</strong> <strong>Berglund</strong>: Yes, it took its own way.
Bertil Högberg: What was the reaction in Uppsala at CSM? How did they deal
with it, because the Inkatha thing cuts through the church completely.
<strong>Axel</strong>-<strong>Ivar</strong> <strong>Berglund</strong>: Yes, very much indeed. I really don’t know how the CSM
folk in Uppsala interpreted this gradual process that was taking place.
Sometimes I wonder whether they were really aware of it. Certainly the
indications were such that one thought that they regarded him as an individual
and not as a representative of the nation, a fact that was very bad. One
occasion when the whole thing became pointed was during the extension of
the Ceza hospital to the Ngalonde area, where one built a TB hospital and
named it Thulasizwe Hospital. Gatsha was there and played a very
dominating role. Then it became very clear that it was no longer a cultural
issue only, it was on the way to become a strong political movement. I don’t
know whether the ANC was represented there, but certainly the Inkatha
people were there in great numbers. I think that there were no fewer than 3 or
4 cattle slaughtered on that particular day.
Bertil Högberg: What time was that, the end of the 1970s?
<strong>Axel</strong>-<strong>Ivar</strong> <strong>Berglund</strong>: Mid-1970s. Anna Berndtsson and Märta Adolfsson say
something about this in their book.
Bertil Högberg: CSM concentrated its mission in Kwa-Zulu Natal, but then that
church was joined together with the churches built up by other missions to
create the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa.
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