January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… of the rest of our Continent. The brighter day did not rise. The darkest night of colonial oppression and … the gallows. As had happened elsewhere throughout human history, some from among the oppressed were hired to wield … a people not after its own image, but a people that had no history, no culture, no names, stripped of their dignity. In …