Neto: one rule in Angola

Press, 10 June 1977, Page 5

Neto: one rule in Angola

NZPA-Reuter I.ondor The Angolan news agency Angop. in a report sent tc Reuter in London has quotec President Agostinho Neto ar saying that his ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola has set up » dictatorship in Angola. “It is a dictatorship carried out by the M.P.L.A. by the people for the people and not a dictatorship <it one person or group of persons." he told the visitins Transport Minister of the Cape Verde Islands (Mr Her culano Vieira). Referring to an abortive coup on May 27. President Neto repeated that those guilty would be severelypunished. The agency quoted President Neto as saying: “Siner May 27 we have been livim. in an exceptional period, anc therefore the dictatorship will be a little stronger now." He added: "In Angola yvhat does not function in accordance with our orientation will be dissolved." President Neto joinei other Angolan leaders in filing past the coffins of seven Government and M.P.L.A leaders assassinated in the coup attempt, which has been blamed on the former Interior Minister. Mr Nito Alves, and a former armed forces political commissar, Jose Van Dunen. The funeral of the victims will take place on Saturday. According to the Angop message. President Neto told the Cape Verde Minister: “We are the M.P.L.A. and Iwe have set up a dictator- ! ship under which we live. 'We are not a bourgeouis dictatorship, in yvhich everyone has his own theory 'about yvhat we should do. It is the M.P.L.A. which lays down the path to be folI lowed.*

President Neto added: “I believe that within a few days we shall dissolve several union commissions (which have not been completely transmitting our orders.”