January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… one of us, South Africans all, has to decide whether we act in the present in defence of a terrible and outdated past … to say--we shall, as equals, compatriots and patriots, act as one, to bring the apartheid system to an end and … revolutionary base must have its combat forces which will act both to defend the people and to mount armed attacks …