Celebrating the Oliver Tambo MonthOliver Tambo: Southern Africa, South Africa and the Revolution
(Extracts of Sechaba Interview: Oliver Tambo, Acting President-General of the African National Congress of South Africa Replies to Questions on Southern Africa, South Africa and the A.N.C.)
“Our delegation has been to Algeria and Tunisia. Other ANC delegations have visited other States. The need for the delegations to undertake these missions arises directly from the unfolding crisis in Southern Africa. After all, we are not fighting an individual cause. Africa has committed herself to the total liberation of the Continent before any individual independent state can consider itself truly independent. At the moment the greatest problem facing Africa in terms of liberation is in Southern Africa. And within Southern Africa itself the hardest core of reaction is the South African regime. It has always been clear to us that an armed struggle against South Africa poses immediate dangers and threats to the entire continent of Africa, if it supports that struggle.”
“We have always warned that South Africa’s annual military budget … has designs not only to the ruthless suppression of the Liberation Movement in South Africa, but also for the support of all reaction in the rest of Southern Africa and for the invasion of the African Continent itself. We think it dangerous to minimise the threat to the independence of the African states. And as it is part of our plan to inte
