ANC Arusha Conference
On 1 – 4 December 1987, the African National Congress (ANC) called a Conference under the theme: “People of the World Unite Against Apartheid for a Democratic South Africa”. More than 60 countries were represented, and the conference was attended by more than 500 delegates. The ANC called on the progressive people throughout the world to come and devise new forms of struggle under the new conditions wherein the racist Pretoria regime was in a tactical retreat. This conference was called under the circumstances in which the Botha regime had dismally failed to defeat the people’s struggle, and when the people were not yet strong enough to defeat the regime.
On the first day of the Conference, 1 December 1987, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, President of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) of Tanzania, a party that succeeded the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), welcomed all the delegates attending ANC conference in the Tanzanian city of Arusha. The Mwalimu Nyerere called for an end to National Party (NP) rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech Nyerere stated that: “It is because of the resistance, and the active opposition, of all these people that the struggle for justice is still able to continue. Not all the might, the ruthlessness, viciousness and inhumanity of the South African racists has been able to subdue the ANC or defeat the cause for which it stands.”
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