P1 EFF STATEMENT COMMEMORATING THE 1992 BOIPATONG MASSACRE Wednesday, 17 June 2020 The Economic Freedom Fighters remembers the Boipatong Massacre in which 45 black lives were lost, and many other black people maimed after a brutal and violent crusade by 300 Inkatha-Freedom Party- aligned hostel residents. The Boipatong Massacre, which was orchestrated by an Apartheid government led by F.W De Klerk represents one of the many instances of violence and bloodshed that characterised the transition to democracy which many distorters of history want us to forget. The loss of black life in the Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Boipatong happened in the midst of CODESA negotiations between liberation movements and the National Party. The National Party led by the murderous De Klerk, funded and supported the massacre in order to undermine negotiations and paint a picture of black on black violence in South Africa which would suggest that black people were not ready to govern their own affairs. We remember the lives lost in Boipatong as a result of De Klerk’s political ploy to retain power and sow division amongst black people. It shatters the untruthful and racist narrative that the