Oliver Tambo: A Call to Action
“Since August 1967, our brave fighters, together with their brothers of Zimbabwe, have met the oppressor bullet for bullet in Zimbabwe, and have seen him run. The myth of white superiority has been exploded in the field of armed encounter. The soldiers of John Vorster and Ian Smith have been taught a lesson they cannot forget easily. They fear our guerrillas. But this is only the beginning. They shall yet know the wrath of a people who have suffered centuries of white oppression and are now determined to break the chains of white domination.”
“We are at war. But not alone. In Mozambique and Angola, our brothers fight to liberate themselves from the terror of the Portuguese colonial rule and Portugal is taking severe blows from the courageous people of Guinea Bissau in West Africa. In Namibia the oppressed people have taken up arms against the foreigners from Pretoria. In Zimbabwe, the Smith regime is living on borrowed time and relying on borrowed white troops from apartheid South Africa. All Southern Africa is in flames – the flames of revolution and freedom.”
“On this day, June 26, we look back at the record of white rule in our country. The oppressors have stolen our land, driven us out of our home, enslaved us under their pass laws. They live like lords on the wealth of our country and the sweat of our labour. We toil like slaves and live in poverty. Thousands upon thousand of our babies and our youth die of starvation e
