Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current situation in South Africa. The regime over the past few weeks had launched a counter-offensive, isolating the ANC, attempting to liquidate the armed struggle, undermining the frontline states and attempting to reduce the international isolation of apartheid South Africa. Mentions Reagan administration as an ally of the apartheid regime.
Archive record
Statement

- Origin date
- 16 March 1984
- Updated
- 26 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Statement. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0117949
South African History Online (2016) 'Statement', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0117949 (Accessed: 25 September 2026).
South African History Online, Statement [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0117949, (accessed 25 September 2026).
"Statement." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0117949. Accessed 25 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Statement." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0117949.
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