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1912–2003 South Africa
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), he was Accused No.2 in the Rivonia Trial and was incarcerated on Robben Island where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment for his anti-Apartheid revolutionary activism.
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We have a greater job to do and this time not for a particular country, but on a global basis.
Mineworkers have a crucial role to play in the liberation struggle.
The people are driving forward to freedom. I am quite confident that liberation will come!
The women are the backbone of the movement.
There is no liberation without women.
We began to look at them and realized what a tremendous advance we were making, having good relations with the Nordic countries. Its importance was beyond our understanding.
Yes, more difficult, because it involves by and large the question of non-racialism. We now have to lead other countries in this direction. We have difficulties in getting people to understand it at home and yet it is the greatest task that we must work for.
Now we are not talking about black domination, we are talking of non-racial democracy. We are not counting faces, saying this is dark, this is darker, this is light. We are counting the merits of each person.
No doubt. It was a tremendous move to have such a relationship. O.R. Tambo did great work, particularly in that field. He was able to analyze the situation. He was a diplomat and a politician.
What is new is the political consciousness. Even in the ordinary kid in primary school. The quality of the young people who are now handling the situation is very high. When we were running things, we never reached that stage.
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