Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
The African was defined and treated as being of a lesser human species than even the lowliest among the colonizers.
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It is here that the masses that Frantz Fanon correctly called the wretched of the earth turn against one another not in rage, but in despair.
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We are convinced that the risen masses must stand at the heart and in the vanguard of the great historic process to eradicate the legacy of slavery, colonialism, apartheid and neo-colonialism.
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Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
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South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
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The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
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No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity.
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When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
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