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Oliver Tambo Quotes

1917–1993

Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician, activist, and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.

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Our people are organising all over South Africa, and getting better all the time.

It is most important to bear in mind that the economy of South Africa is the bedrock on which rests the apartheid State machinery.

We are no longer asking for slight shifts in the official forms of domination by the white minority. We have travelled far beyond that point.

In our millions we have fought common battles together, recognising quite clearly that our strength lies in our unity.

The power should derive from the people as a whole. They should then use that power to create the kind of South Africa they want.

I’m afraid so. That is not merely a decision by the ANC. It is dictated by the expectations of the people.

What is of decisive importance is unity in action - action which draws the masses of the people into struggle against white minority domination and exploitation.

The real alternative is the acceptance of the just demands of the majority of the people of South Africa for a social system which is based on a recognition of their humanity.

This question is always put wrongly because it places the onus on us. We are reacting to a violent system.

Our strategy for liberation from this tyrannical regime, given its nature, which it is now trying very unsuccessfully to camouflage, is based on the concept and the practice that our liberation can only come through the united mass action of the people.

An independent Zimbabwe will, by the mere fact of its existence, by standing out as a product of the sacrifices that the people of Zimbabwe have made, affect our people as a material factor affirming that our own sacrifices will surely bring us liberation.

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