Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… we Sizwe our people were now better equipped to grasp history into their own hands. Born of the people, combatants … are a proud record of a risen people making their own history with their blood, sweat and tears as we live out that … Every organised formation of our people - our workers, our women, our rural people, our youth and students, the township …