Oliver Tambo: On Talks
(ANC President O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Radio Freedom on Visits of Multi-National Corporations to the ANC, January 1986).
The ANC met many people both openly and in other circumstances last year. They came from the cream of democratic trade unions locked in mortal battle with the racist system of apartheid. They came from the civic associations and other democratic organisations, from student organisations to left and right, academics seeking solutions to the problem of South Africa.
They came from the board rooms of both South African and international industrial and financial power houses. They came from the very heart of yellow political parties of the Republic administration of Ronald Reagan and to the bloodred friends of the Blacks from the socialist countries and left political parties in the West.
Journalists came – from obscure newspapers right up to the pinnacle of the opinion makers of the world. It was however the meeting with the South African businessmen and soon thereafter with the Progressive Federal Party which greatly excited the media and drew a lot of comment from virtually everyone both locally and on the international level.
Why are the barons of international and local multi-national corporations desperately meeting the ANC now when the ANC has been in existence for 74 years? The president of the ANC, Oliver R Tambo, told Radio Freedom what the ANC is telling this particular group:
“They assess the apartheid
