The statement was isued in reponse to an article in the Daily News dated 4th July 1973. In the article Chief Gatsha Buthelezi makes a derogatory reference to the anti-apartheid activist Professor Dennis Brutus as a "graduate of Robben Island". The article makes reference to Chief Buthelezi as a person committed to working with the oppressors of Black people and echoes Nationalist propaganda-type sentiments.
