■ % s ? . SECHABA JANUARY ISSUE 1982 □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ P.O. BOX 38, 28 PENTON STREET LONDON N1 9PR UNITED KINGDOM TELEGRAMS: MAYIBUYE TELEX: 299S55ANCSAG TELEPHONE: 01-837-2012 CONTENTS SEND YOUR ORDERS NOW TO SECHABA PUBLICATIONS P.O. 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Wednesday, Friday; 70th anniversary. 31 m band —6,15 am Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□QaaaQDQDDaDa0aGQaDaaoonQaDna Editorial UNITY . IN• ■ ACTION4 • The ANC has dedared 1982 a year of subject to exactly the same exploitation. Unity in Action. On the occasion of the Whilst we do not overlook these aspects, 70th anniversary of the ANC this is a fitting we do not emphasise them. Our task is to tribute to the founding fathers of the strengthen these forces, to broaden and ANC. These men and women achieved a deepen their outlook. What is foremost lot — during their life time — and therefore in ' our thinking is the cause we represent left us with a legacy which we cherish. and in the pursuance of our goal the We should remember that the idea of the question of further deepening the cohesion formation of the ANC was democratically of these forces is of vital significance. Unity adopted: it was put to a vote and passed in action means unity of all those forces unanimously, with loud cheers, all delegates that stand against Apartheid, racism and standing. It was a popular decision. There colonialism regardless of their class back­ was more to it. The formation of the ANC ground. It also means a relentless struggle meant an establishment of African political against racism, anti-communism and opinion as an autonomous factor in its tribalism. It means grappling with the * own right in South African politics. daily problems that face - our people in Since then much has happened inter­ factories, on the farms, in the Bantustans, nationally and nationally. The working at universities and in the battlefield. It plug! within our country has become a means efficiency, quick reaction and dynamic component of the liberation response, humility and understanding. These struggle; the C-P. played and still plays an are aspects of shat we call discipline. But important role in our liberation struggle; there is more to it — political awareness, the Indian and Coloured communities understanding of our situation and its have identified with the African people; solution. We must study the Freedom the Freedom Charter was adopted; Charter. As Oliver Tam bo has said: Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing “In summary we can therefore say that of the ANC is using a new type of weapon an urgent and continuing task that faces against the white minority rule; a growing the African National Congress is and has number of white resisters — including been the unification in action of all the war resisters is gradually coming closer black oppressed people, whatever their to the positions of the ANC and numerous class origin, to fight for victory of the organisations have emerged recently among democratic revolution. The ANC and its the black oppressed masses. allies also have the task to build up the It is these forces the ANC is appealing democratic movement among the white to for unity in action. We aware that inert people and to strengthen the bonds of are many problems to overcome. Some oi unity between the white people and the these organisations do not share our outlook oppressed majority, in one common struggle — but they adopt anti apartheid positions. for theliberation of this majority, We should also remember that each people Organisationally the enemy seeks to and indeed even each locality has its own destroy the ANC and its allies physically, historical experience — and this may to ensure that no force exists within the influence in one way or another the form country that has the influence and capacity of unity in action. We should not forget to mobilise and unite the South African that these various forces have not been democratic forces. In place of the genuinely organisation* and leaden of oui we- hare put forward the perspective of a people, the enemy ia trying to createand democratic South Africa bringing to the fpontor his own to replace those whom fore the truth that Is the the patriotic duty years o f extreme and brutal reaction bite of the entire people to rid our country of the tyrannical rule of the radst-fasoint Jailed to destroy. ____ In the struggle to build up the strength regime. This is a perspective and an and raise toe level of unity of the increment orientation which must, necessarily infuse a n d fire the will of all the national and for national liberation, the African National C o n m i relies t o t and foremost on the forces whom we have already described as haring an objective interest in the victory fact that the cause we represent is just and meets the fundamental aspirations of the of the national democratic revolution”. of oui people. Consistently, therefore 2 Mandela and Nana Sita • Unity in Action ANC 70th ANNIVERSARY South Africa was conquered by force and and later the combined forces of Boer it today ruled by force. Whether in reserve and British were checked in their advance — or in actual employment, force it ever­ however, superior aims helped them to present. This has been so ever since the slowly push the indigenous people of South white man came to our country. In order Africa back beyond the Great Fish River, to fully appreciate the political and social occupying part of their ancestral land. significance the ANC expresses, the necessity Yet, as was the case throughout the country, for the type of organisation we have today, our people were never conquered by the we have to look into the past; we have to Boers. look into the history of the contact between In order to continue their march into African people and the whites, in South the interior the Boers were forced to change Africa, a bitter fcnd grim story o f national course, to turn northwards and abandon struggles and historically unbroken and the easterly direction they originally self-sacrificing resistance against foreign intended to follow. Wherever the Boers invasion, plunder and political, economic went, they met fierce opposition. They and social domination. We have to look were fought and defeated in Natal, Basuto­ into the past to see what forces forged and land (now Lesotho) and in the Eastern inspired the formation and functioning Transvaal and were reduced to roving of our national liberation movement bands of brigands. Had it not, in fact, been European settlement in South Africa for the arrival of the British forces the Boers dates back to April 6th, 1652. Because of would eventually have been defeated in the intrusive, predatory and aggressive -their quest to occupy, dominate and enslave policies of the invaders, disputes which our country. As it 8 the Boers never ruled soon led to war ensued. Having defeated any section of the African people, managing the Khoisan people who inhabited the to merely levy tributes from the small and Cape Peninsula, robbing them of their land, weaker tribes. When they arrived in the their livestock and frequently their lives, Cape every inch of our country was the settlers devoted themselves for a brief occupied. It was not a ‘no man’s land’. spell to farming the fertile land. However, The arrival of the British forces in South disagreements soon arose between the Africa at the beginning of the 19th century farmers and the Dutch East India Company marked a qualitative and quantitative over economic and political policies and change in the resistance struggle, immensely the amount of control the Company had strenghtening the forces of colonisation and over settlers. Some left the Peninsula and oppresnon. With their overwhelming gradually penetrated the interior until superiority Is arms and numbers of well- they reached the Cape Western Plateau, trained men, they were able, after grim and an area inhabited by the Xhoaa-speaking bitte): battles, to eventually subdue all section of the African people. In the Cape military opposition to their fraud designed alone 9 wars of resistance against white to colonise and exploit our country and encroachment were waged covering a time people. Effectively, the defeat of the span of almost 100 years. First the Boers Bamhata Rebellion in 1906 brought to a dote this first, 250-year phase of resistance in.