Oliver Tambo: South Africa and Imperialism
(Extracts from the ANC Statement to the Preparatory Meeting of the Non-Aligned States, May 1970)
“The South African racists’ allies, the imperialist powers, … have been building the White regime into a dangerous, aggressive and expansionist state. It is this imperialist conspiracy which today is guilty of the crime and atrocities against the people of South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa, Asia, Latin America for which Hitler Nazi bandits were arraigned and convicted by the world at the Nuremberg trials.”
“Just as in the case of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, this criminal conspiracy is aimed at regaining lost colonial territories and countries, the plunder and exploitation of the peoples and the resources of their country, and the perpetuation of a system of amassing fabulous profits for industrial and armaments monopolies. It is a desperate plot for the imperialist second Reich in an era when socialist and national revolutions have made empires shrink.”
“South Africa clearly demonstrates the wolfish nature of this conspiracy. … The merger of White South African capital with international finance has been a specific feature of South Africa’s penetration in the economies in many countries in Africa and elsewhere. There is no other country in the world in which the imperialists have been prepared to relegate their differences to the background and unite their efforts economically, technically and militarily as
