Azania Woman: Comrade Boniswa Ncukana

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AZANIA WOMAN July 1985 KILLED 10 MARCH 1985

OMRADE BONISWA NCUKANA

E DIED FOR ALL AZANIAN WOMEN

1800.3

OPINION.

EDITORIAL

poaie:

BONISWA NCUKANA, THE WOMAN WITH A DISTINCTION

"A

of

the

P.A.C.

Ncukana

was

born

taken

from

his

side

for

this

above

stated 5

her

proud

extremely

are

women,

Azanian

and

she

that

so

alongside

Nek

could

she

her.

Boniswa

Comrade

the

Bantustan

Her

father,

make

Africanis

at

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became.

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fools.

the

Gobe

and

in

cause

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and

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to

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fell

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universe,

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of

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wars,

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the

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to

like

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fallen

politics.

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the

between

whole

this

our

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that

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also

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by

contaminated

fought

was

to

flourishing

was

he

cheeky

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up

there

environment.

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be

still

that

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to

saw

Ncukana

G.G.

more

the

was

home

Mr.

themselves

Boers

atmosphere

this

forefathers

that

are

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month.

harassed

was

he

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would

appeared,

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treason.

the

was

he

that

businesses.

his

abandoned

more

whites.

and

every

nearly

to

equal

are

sabotage

to

thought

a

own

area,

that

in

they

the

until

locations

Macibe

Boniswa's

noblest

The

her

of is

Ngcayichibi,

wonder

heart.

as

region

they

police

Boer

have

under

that

and

think

businesses

product

district

area

on

carried

therefore,

is,

that

could

he

a lion's

with

a man

of

tantamount

the

man,

another

been

whites

be

to

by

searched

he

known

popularly

is

as

first

the

to

also

and

a butchery

store,

G.G.,

that

of

beginning

the

being

is

by. the

man

hated

a tradimg

this,

of

most

own

to

Centane

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car.

Ncukana,

was

by profession,

a teacher

Govan

family.

a rich

from

comes

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Africa.

in

Centane,

at

1949,

November

12

the

on

South

Transkei,

of

Gwebumzi

in

African

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we,

And

comrades.

male

slave,

Qacha's

at

died

Ncukana

Boniswa

Comrade

that

truism

his

is

It

to him".

equal

and

helpmate

his

be

may

was

she

feet;

of his

out

created

been

have

be

to

made

a aantien aks she

head,

of Adam's

out

created

been

have

could

she

otherwise

a man,

over

to rule

made

never

was

woman

the

Azanian

people

Mankind.

said

educated despite

at

the

woman all

beginning and

that

that

a woman

she

Boniswa

from

decided

to

a rich leave

{

comes

from

family

she

everything

a rich had and

family.

everything. join,

an

As

But

pell-mell,

a

hands

been

at.Robben

Police for

‘confinement

to

and

service,

said

the

that

monopoly

of

REST women

Long

live

the

Long

live

P.A.C.!

Struggle

10

the the

said

In

the

Ncukana the

YOUR

of Lesotho

that

Comrade

will

BLOOD

HAS

forge

NOT

the

on her

borders

Jackson

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ahead

BEEN

the

funeral

Maud

a revolution

women

became

She die

died

She

Officer.

during

read

Women,

proved

Kingdom

to

revolution

P.A.C.

Africanist

Nek.

Qacha's

message

P.A.C.

BONISWA,

of Azania!

our

a telex of

that

IN PEACE

Continues!

of

at

the

decided

she

1983

Pan

the

of

Liaison

Labour

1985

March

history

Boniswa

of

She

men.

revolution.

The

on

as

her

appointed

in

status

a refugee

of

middle

the wing

external

the

join

got

in

however,

immediately

She

left.

of

end

the

at

detention

from she

where

from

Coordinator

death

released

solitary

in

jail

Idutywa

the

at

kept

Puppet

Transkei

the

to

her

destined

not

was

whe

woman,

tough

14

those

her

interrogated

who

transfer

to

decided

Azania.

Chief

the

a

to

in

country,

own

of her

was

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She

woman

African

first

Boniswa

movement,

union

comrades

65 male

police

started

immediately

P.A.C.

with

days.

Azania.

of

Congress

90

Motherland

her

leave

she

trade

the

joined

The

was

and

Boniswa

1980.

October

stand.

Police

Boer

The

crack.

Security

her.

respect

days ‘still

to

people

Azanian

the

which

cause™ion.

ther

PLAGCs,,

of

cause

the

sell

to

refused

she

talk,

to

nefused

Boniswa

days.

consecutive

14

for

tortured

and

interrogated

, brutally

was

she

where

Station

Police

Cambridge

notorious

the

to

taken

was

She

wanted.

they

what

got

Police

The

Africanism.

Pan

on

Legum

by Collin

a book

and

Documents

Basic

P.A.C.

Nyerere,

Julius

of President

Speeches

with

book

a

confiscated

Police

Security

Boer

The

Township.

Mdantsane

at

house

her

searched

they

strike,

to

decided

Police

Security

London

East

the

1980

July

In

a courier.

as

used

being

was:

she

that

convinced

were

They

suspicious.

very

be

to

area

that

in

Police

Security

Boer

the

made

Keke

Zolile

‘and

she

between

association

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years.

ten

for

before

Island

had

who

Keke

Hamilton

Zolile

like

activists

P.A.C.

other

of

good

in

fell

she

London

in East

Fortunately

Rowntree.

Wilsons

called

factory

a sweets

of

laboratory

the

in

job

a responsible

got

she

where

London

East

to

went

she

70's

early

the

In

a gun".

carry

to

I want

soldier,

a woman

to be

want

"I

say,

to

used

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heart.

her

burning

were

country

her

for

love

the

and

Patriotism

back.

looked

never

she

then

From

Azania.

occupied

inside

movement

underground

P.A.C.

the

joining

of

decision

heroic

a

made

she

that

1967

June

in

was

It

revolution.

and

of politics

sea

SHED

with

the

IN VAIN.

AFRICAN SOCIETY AND WOMEN By:

authority

lost.

which

This

in the more

women

in societies

we find

do not lose or change

Mambhele

or MamCira

even

many other African of course

our

Mmantatise,

their

military

Other

are full

and while we salute

branch

Mrs.

of names

Mlambo

the equivalence the brave figures

such

(1950's)

In

property

and

produced

Matomela

and Sibongile

as who

These were

have emerged

as Mrs.

such

such as Nehanda

in the 1890's.

resistance

Ginya.

leaders

of whom Europe never

of national

of the A.N.C.

of illustrious

in Zimbabwe

women

they remain

or Mrs.

during the Mfecane,

resistance

leaders

that African

they marry,

have

societies

capitalist

they are able to own or inherit

who led the Batookwa

its women. Elizabeth

names when

when they become

struggles

strategists

industrialised

and

of identity

a measure

such as in the Cape,

clan

societies

led the anti-colonial

Doubts Qunta

have preserved

women

African

ways,

In certain

Christine

amongst

since then,

of the Port

Mthembu

of the S.S.R.C.

(1976) we are not going to be conditioned by the enemy press into worshipping women who are always on the front-page of the Johannesburg Star or the Weekend clubs,

the fashion

the police, leaves

because

World

shops and the schools

who carries

or hides

her home or goes

in the pages

single black woman

every

to prison

of writing

who gives up the night-

or job, every black woman

guns for the liberation is a hero.

and the hearts

We must

of our people,

movement,

emblazon

who faces who

these

they must never

women

be

forgotten.

Burdens and obstacleson women's Because

of the contempt

intelligence

couriers, fulfil

areas,

womén and men. factors.

they can

clothe

While

has for women

combat

children

of women

the industrial

work for men

freedom

and women,

a highly paid job at the harbour,

excellent

fighters

and politicise

in these

revolution

they make

Those who do not

cadres.

and accommodate

also educate

The participation

of the need for separate people to think

the enemy

and sometimes

these tasks can feed,

the combat various

which

contribution

tasks

has done

prejudice where

other

is limited away with

still

a person

in

by most

causes only

SE

presses

a button

to move

dying culture.

a huge load

Unfortunately,

confine women

to jobs which

These

tracing,

include

preparation

etc.

Since

with

liberation

movement

and simply

keep women

reduced

the

incorrect

must

What

Freire

calls

their

culture

that

influence

the task of creating

rebellion

against

establishes

Practical

We must

our

builds

then we must

set

and encourage and re-

nation-hood

our

women

and participate

struggle.

limitation.

struggle,

also

of the western

Stories

There

be eradicated.

each other,

with

certain

is, apart from the general

should

colonialist

be written

with

culture

services

should

the cultural

not

enter

to

a

being

We must

be

despite

need to record

The diseases

for our children.

with

of the male

must

a need to write capitalist,

steriotype

the protected

able to fight for and protect practical

and politically

both militarily

The cultural

are.

and the woman

fully

see to it that we are as efficient

We must

gun as our male comrades

minds.

which

outside the

the mind

frees

into

accept

If we

and economis,

half

about

areas

base

the day.

which

is needed

dignity.

prepare

the protector

culture

club.

and developed

activated

carry

a culture

oppression,

tasksof

map up our

will

that

constitute

will

be

might

which

education

in the rear

both

politics

influences

ourselves

women

politicised,

in Azania

the movement

anti-colonial times

At all

and if they are

and cadres,

and inside

action",

attitudes.

the population

concept

"cultural

be

the

them as a supporter's

keeping

own

will

into

come

themselves

about

have

of them

some

in the

for their

militants

women

in

out

participation

instruments

When

now,

The

If men

women's

of active

number

be hindered.

will

tasks

be carried

to encourage

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food

these

of the men.

to them as either

not be used to justify

to change these leaders

afresh

the

the

minding,

child

must

of the minds

it means

then

attitudes

movement,

learn

advocates

to fulfil

woman

of the African

attached

struggle

and the

as

such

to

dulls the brain,

with the male comrades.

in conjunction

do not

or status,

amusement

Lenin

is part of a

it continues

low paid and which

of tasks

the decolonisation

This

is so slow that

and housework.

scale

job".

we are not in a position

of the mind

decolonisation conjunction

typing

share them,

then we might

its death

are boring,

of a large

collectivisation

is "a man's

our

of the mind their

image of the African

}

= person rather than some Mickey Mouse drivel the women's

position

very nature

dissatisfaction pay,

unequal

within women

of the white

discrimination

in other

exploitative system

Finally,

not

Third

World

against

the regard

by the following

Our fight

society.

colonial

demand

from

liberal as

things

It thus

of Azania

We the women

struggles

such

etc.

place

in the work

with

woman

intellectual

of capitalism.

the bounds

It originates

and reformist.

petit bourgeois

is by its

movement

The feminist

of the West.

movement

feminist

bourgeois

of

in the

of women

to that

as opposed

struggle

in our

& Jane, which teaches

point to the nature

times,

at all

Also we must

them to hate themselves.

and Tarzan

seeks

reforms

in particular

the total

overthrow

is alongside

our men

and

of

against

the

them.

in the struggle

we have for our women

is illustrated

poem: Our mothers

are weeping

their wailing dissolving roofing

is spiralling

into the sky roofing

the open

of their

sons

graves

and daughters

tortured! Slashed! Shot ! Our mothers

moist

are

rivulets

crying

|

of despair

|

are running down the folds of their

their

dark

sons

|

skins

and daughters

|

are imprisoned!

|

Beaten! Hanged!

Our mothers

with

their

empty

|

eyes

and busy hands

through

heard

centuries

insults

of outrage

from white

mouths

and sounds

black

of gunfire

and people dying

souls felt the tremor

in their

bodies

the cry

in their

blood

and our mothers,

robbed

in hues

of anger

are now shouting! bring your

blue

bring your

batons!

your

armoured

your

endless

bring your

eyed men

your

your

birdshot!

dogs!

and jails!

saracens!

sneeze

and fire

carriers!

laws

your

of iron

your

hippos!

machines!

and your

stern

guns!

BRING THEM for we,

the bearers

and men

and women

smothered

in lives

of sons

and daughters

of misery

we are also the bearers guns

of

for the tyrants

stones songs

for the uniformed for our

garlands

disgust

little

dogs

black

for our million

angles

heroes,

dead

and alive

for the cowards

and death for the murderers!

The successful

resolution

of our

struggle

events

in this era of imperialism

Signal

the final

national

defeat

oppression

therefore seriousness

a very demanding and discipline

one

be one of the most

and social-imperialism

of ‘super-power

by a white

will

minority

competition

settler

and we must

it demands.

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in the region

regime.

undertake

in that Our task

it with

the

momentous

it will and

is

In

the

middle

of

the

picture

Women,

Comrade

Maud

On her

left

Sister

both

the

of

is

theme the

of

the

invited

Comrade

by

general

in

particular.

and

Coordinator

the

on

had

to

the

women's

desk

has

also

leave

her

address

of

the

P.A.C.

on

top

of

was

West

Germany

Volunteer

She

particularly

says

counterparts; Boers

of

Philippines.

of

Geneva

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from

very

racist

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that

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was of

countries

suffer

injustices

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to

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suffer

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members

to find surprised the

on

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in

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be

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Group

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was

in

of

the

address

women

Germany

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discrimination the

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countries,

complaining

in

to

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Tanzania.

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women

is

been

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in

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friends

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This is the tombstone of the founding President of P.A.C., Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. It was

unveiled on the 15 July 1982 in the dusty town called Graaf Reinet. Rest in peace! We greatly miss you at this stage of our revolution.

Standing: Comrade John Nyati Pokela, PAC Chairman. Seated: Joe Mkwanazi, PAC Administrative Secretary. 25TH

ANNIVERSARY

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by

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our’ people

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CHAIRMAN

of Azania,

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and

BY P.A.C.

MASSACRE:

Chairman

On behalf genuine

OF SHARPEVILLE

self—determination.

Comrade

of

Chairman,

dates

liberation this

stage

have

during

to

that

long

developedas milestones

struggle inform

have

dispossessed’people

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struggle.

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at.

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foremost,

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PAC

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leader

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the

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campaign status—quo

cally

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happy

fascist

children

staunch in the the

and

the

regime

of Sharpeville.

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PAC fortress, internationl

oppressed,

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against

the

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racist

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political

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to characteristi-

violence.

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the

essense,

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fine.

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the

was

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unequivocally

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no

campaign

anti-pass

reactionary

Chairman,

minority

defence

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one

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occupied

in

resort

Comrade

the

21,

that

element

no

offer

would

therefore,

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new

in apartheid

oppressors

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Azania

of

people

dispossessed

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tell

to

times

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was

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Robert

under

slogan

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status—quo

of Azania,

Congress

Africanist

President

Mangaliso

Comrade

the

from

a conscious

it reflected

....

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reflected:'a

itself

slogan

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ACTION

campaign

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21,

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the

concede

differences?

campaign.

protest

fascist-colonial

of the

Chairman,

Comrade

Africa.

a mere

attitude

and

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not

NO FINE'.

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political

what

principal

the

were

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will

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quantitatively

and

launched

leadership

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DEFENCE,

was

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FINAL,

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that

note

observers

honest

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1960

21,

it

announced

and

will

just struggle

of our

observers

campaigns.

anti-pass

past

the

announce

to

of reckoning!

qualitatively

was

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PASS

PAC

of the

chose

he who

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the

mandated

was

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of Azania

President

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Sobukwe,

Congress

launch

to

and the

campaign.

campaigns.

March

PAC-led

the

that

day

PAC-pass

the

to

prior

the

Africanist

decided

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of this

launching

of the

Pan

LAWS

PASS

THE

Mangaliso

Comrade

of Azania,

of the

unanimously

AGAINST

ACTION

POSITIVE

conference

it was

1959

in December

date

the

and

189

only

the

men,

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shot

but

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women

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dead

Sharpeville.

overnight

parlance,

was

become

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women

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of resistance

in the

of Azania.

of

children

Sharpeville,

a symbol

part

the

the

when

69 men,

a watershed

people

on

violence

reactionary

struggle

of

changed

radically

1960

events

of

March

21,

It ushered

in

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era,

the

era

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brought

out

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reality

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state

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used

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racist

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context.

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South

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method

Sharpeville

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struggle.

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the nature

position.

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Mangaliso

Robert

Chairman,

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era

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arms

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and

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also

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Azanian

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armed

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from

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between

1961

and

1967.

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today

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day

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anniversary

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in

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colonialism

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realise,

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way

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we

12

total

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|

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Sharpeville

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to intensify

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emphasis

specific

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leadership.

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the

in

sustaine

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and

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struggle

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1984,

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home-made

armed

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form

combatants

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enemy.

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of February

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observe

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capture

Chairman,

ourselves

from

as

struggle

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will

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armed

initial

documented

regime

racist

weapons,

MAIL

DAILY

the

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POQO.

as

known

be

that

Congress

Africanist

to

movement

liberation

national

1960

21,

March

Pan

Moreover,

struggle.

armed

of

led

and

sponsored

PAC

the

was

it

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well!

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for

to kill

prepared

be

must

we

henceforth

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freedom,

our

for

|

die

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prepared

were

we

today

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declared:

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Comrade

Azania,

of

Congress

Africanist

Pan

the

of

President

massacre,

Sharpeville

the

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minority.

oppression

the

against

majority

vast

the

by

violence

revolutionary

is

violence

reactionary

sustained

to

answer

effective

only

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decades.

three

last

the

in

intensified

and

years,

300

past

the

for

country

our

in

regime

colonial

facist

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of

policy

declared

the

been

has

genocide

systematic

even

and

tortures

killings,

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be

destroyed

armed

and

struggle,

with

the

full

participation

of

the

people,

must

be

the

principal

form

of

struggle.

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our

determined

liberators,

international

we

and

do

heroic

value

community.

and

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people

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countries,

including

your

own

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Western

to

sell

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are,

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PAC

towards

in

its

in

apartheid

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to

restate

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racist

'constructive' the

the

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moves

from

Azania

Federal

the

to

to

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policies

towards

our

support

various of

pursued

Administration

despite

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our

Republic

protecting

regime

are

gratifying

that

towards

minority

we

governments

here

the

and

of

and

Chairman,

in particular

condemns

must

for

morning

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peaceful then

and

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and

official

attempts

eliminating

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economic

by the

and

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apartheid.

policy

massacre.

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16

Azanian

the

the

end

of

throughout

are

observing

killings

situation

inside

are

on

going

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the

apartheid

racist

‘constructive South

of

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exploitation

of

the

day

this this

occupied

Africa

of

the

western

'is

western

policy effect

and of

intensify

of Azanians.

13

being

daily

regime.

blook

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at

Sharpeville

to rise media

tense'.

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to

are

anniversary

Azania

the

the

racist

bound

regime.

now,

cold

and

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you

in

day

comprehensive

to

killed

is

struggle

such

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number

serious

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of

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South

I speak

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forces

and

had

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Azania

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have

impose

against racist

international

liberation

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despite the

the

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the

to

community

people

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engagement'

Africa

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most.

compatriots

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wishes

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Azania

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reactionary

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sanctions

exploited

by the

of

international

must

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alone

the

regards

the

for

Reagan

struggle.

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duped

as

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hurt

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people

position

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be

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our

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not

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declared

mandatory

sanctions

the

peoples

Comrade

obliged

illegal

Chairman,

community

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the

Congress

that

support

encouraging

Africanist

essence,

as

principled

indeed

by

believe

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its

that

in

policies

reiterate

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are

unequivocally

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and

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Countries,

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struggling

Nigeria.

and

people

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because

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confirmed

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policy

of

investments

in

country.

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our

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in

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and

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immediately

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struggle

...

Chairman,

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have

have

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people

armed

the

past

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struggle.

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proud

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politicisation

...

entrusted

us

our

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liberation

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are

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to keep!

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country.

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we

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task

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to

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have

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the

and

has

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of

of repossession Congress

the

form

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including

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support

or fully

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and

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illegal

understanding.

and

experience

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community

international

the

upon

exception!

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Africa

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that

believe

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of struggle

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against

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people

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politically

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in history

oppressor

no

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the

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a positive

are

even

of playing

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more

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issue

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Africanist

role

this

in

proud

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appointment

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history

in we

THE BIG GUNS OF THE P.A.C. WOMEN

aei ——

ae Se eS _©. = ——

Above is Comrade Maud Jackson, the Chief Coordinator of P.A.C. women. Comrade Maud Jackson was born at Langa Location in Cape Town. In 1959 she left racist South Africa for Tanzania afd as the time went on she came into contact with PAC and joined her. In July 1983 she was appointed Coordinator of all PAC women, inside and outside occupied Azania. This appointment was made while she was outside Tanzania touring European and Asian countries.

This daughter of Africa is Comrade Joyce Sifuba who is Deputy Chief Coordinator of the Azanian and PAC women. She was born in Johannesburg in Azania but committed herself to PAC eae she was a

because of his political aetivities Joyce left with him to Denmark where they were given a refugee status. In 1981 they moved to Tanzania where she became Chief Coordinator of PAC women. In 1984 she moved to Zimbabwe and is now Deputy Coordinator of the PAC and Azanian women.

15

These Women came all the way from Azania to Maseru, Lesotho, to bury their children and relatives, the fallen martyrs, the Oacha’s Nek 6. These fallerrPAC martyrs were buried on the 30 March 1985. Rest in peace brave Comrades.

a

Despite this calamity, the death of the Qacha’s these Azanian women still show a face of valour and confidence. Their sons and their daughter did not die in disgrace; they died for the finest

cause, he liberation of Mankind.

16

This

poem

is dedicated

in Lesothoon the

to the

10th March,

six comrades

who were

killed

at Qacha's

Nek

1985.

REST IN PEACE When you talk

about

You talk about Madi

freedom

Pokela the leader of P.A.C.

ke a Thami

Zani!

Madi ke aka Madi

ke arona.

When you talk about the struggle You talk

about

Zephania

Mothupeng

The Lion of Azania

Robben

|

Island o nketsang

Madi

ke a Siyabulela

Madi

ke a ka

Madi

ke a rona.

Black

man you

Remember

are

on your

own

Biko

Tiro ba tshwarele Africa

Madi

for the Africans.

|

ke a Boniswa

Madi ke a ka

i

Madi ke a rona.

iI

Harare,

Nkululeko,

Mketi,

Kuki

History will highlight your plight, For your death

Greetings

is not in vain.

to Mangaliso

Your blook is our blood The struggle

By Motshabi

continues.

Moleko

Sobukwe

|

Barnabas,

| ||

|

||

|

From

left

of P.A.C. country;

to

right

Women and

are

in America

Comrade

also

a Labour

Makanda,

the

and

Lesoana

Rejoice

Elizabeth

Comrade

are

at

the

United

Nations.

Both

at

the

United

Nations.

Forward

doing

18

Liaison

P.A.C.

a very

fellow

ever

Sibeko,

the

Officer

Deputy

wonderful

Compatriots!

Coordinator

in

the

Permanent work

for

same

Observor P.A.C.

Backwards

Never!

ee

This Comrade

Tshidi Muendane,

a qualified Social

Worker in the P.A.C. Department of Social Welfare.

she also comes from Soweto. She left racist South Africa in 1976.

This is Comrade Thobile Moremi, a student nurse. she comes from Soweto. She left her home, racist South Africa in 1976. She eats, sleeps and dreams P.A.C.

.

This is Comrade Diana Thamage, qualified journalist

with the P.A.C. Dept. of Publicity & Information. she

a

|

comes from Orlando West in Johannesburg. She left racist South Africa in 1977.

This is Comrade

Lina Masango.

She comes from

‘Soweto. She left racist South Africa in 1976. She is now in a pensive mood, thinking about the Azania revolution. :

!

PAC STATEMENT TO THE SUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOP/STUDY TOUR ON STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, NATROBI

—

3-8 DECEMBER,

1984

KENYA

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Central

to

thank

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and

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on

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of women

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women,

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Azania,

long

last

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be

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mothers

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price

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our

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the

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bastion

than

Azania

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PAC

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Azania

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Tour.

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Kenya,

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for

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of

people

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and

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independent

to

Workshop/Study

this

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Pokela,

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Comrade

Chairman

the

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of

people

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exploitation.

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workshop.

this

inspiration

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and

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Region:

menfolk.

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“| will fight for the ideals and the programmes of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania until I go into my grave. I will never quit politics. If I cannot defend my beliefs and principles who else can do it for me? There is no retirement in revolutionary politics”

By: Mfanasekhaya Pearce Gqobose.

In the right is Comrade Mfanasekhaya Pearce Gqobose. He is chatting with the Ambassador of Norway to Tanzania. Both have grey beards. Both were at the ECA Conferen ce of O.A.U. Ministers in Addis Ababa, in April 1985. Mzee Gqobose is now 67 years old but he refuses to quit politics; he is stell going strong. Read his story in August 1985.