Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… peaceful gathering at Sharpeville was machine-gunned. The ANC called for a national protest strike. The country answered that call. The ANC was declared illegal, together with the Pan Africanist … the Emergency and even more so immediately afterwards the ANC put itself on an underground footing. Now Mandela`s "M" …