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Govan Mbeki Quotes

b. 2001

Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki (9 July, 1910 – 30 August, 2001) was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961. He was also the younger son of Chief Skelewu Mbeki and Johanna Mabula and also the father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.

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You can say what you like but your words have no effect because the wires are not connected to an exchange.

I stand by it. If it means going back to jail, I'll go, but I'm not going to deny my membership of these organisations.

I was open about my membership, as I was open about it at the trial in Rivonia.

The peasants ... had demonstrated to the movement in practice what it had always preached in theory, namely, impoverished peasantry, many of them semi-proletarians, constituted a revolutionary force of immense potential, once organised.

I was answering the questions that were put to me. If anyone says that I should have said no, then one is suggesting that I should have told lies, and I was not going to tell lies.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Govan Mbeki (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.