Samora Machel: The People Will Triumph

Samora Machel: The People Will Triumph (Extracts of a Speech Delivered by President Samora Machel on 14 February 1981, following the racist aggressive incursion into the People’s Republic of Mozambique where exiled South African patriots living in three separate residences in Matola, were butchered by the fascist cut-throats). “They say they attacked us because of our support for the African National Congress (ANC). They want to divide us, to weaken us. They want to stop solidarity with each other. It is unthinkable that this solidarity between our people and the South African people be severed. “The ANC is the oldest liberation movement in Africa. The ANC is the vanguard that has been leading the liberation struggle of the South African people for 70 years. The ANC is the vanguard that bears its tradition of centuries-long resistance to foreign occupation; the vanguard of the whole South African people in their fight against apartheid. “What is apartheid? Why is this system condemned by all humanity? Apartheid is the system that maintains 23-million oppressed, humiliated, segregated, denied their very status as human beings … South Africa is the country where the blacks live in the backyard of the towns. South Africa is the country of suburbs for whites only, and, separated areas, locations and ghettoes for Indians, Coloureds and Africans. “This is the country where love between people of different races is a crime, where there are jobs reserved fo