Oliver Tambo: Solidarity in Deeds and Actions
(Extracts from Address by O.R. Tambo, Acting President-General of the African National Congress of South Africa, to the Oslo Conference on behalf of the Liberation Movements of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, 09 April 1973)
“Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle.”
“The key word in the declared purpose of this Conference is ‘support’. Seldom since the UN’s (United Nations’) famous declaration on decolonisation, or the 1963 OAU (Organisation of African Unity) declaration on decolonisation, has a conference of experts been assembled for the sole purpose of redefining the word ‘support’, in terms that have a real, practical, immediate and decisive meaning for the future of colonialism and apartheid in Africa, and a corresponding impact on imperialist designs against the freedom loving peoples of the world.”
“That is why we see this Conference as a development of the struggle against colonialism and apartheid, a product of the nature, scope, and progress of that struggle, a crucial moment in the growing offensive against the reactionary forces of the unholy alliance of Portugal, Rhodesia and racist South Africa. This offensive, led by the national liberation movement, by the masses of the people in the territories under white minority rule, has assumed dimensions of overall armed struggle at various stages of progress towards total victory.”
