Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… that if he were able to speak to us today, observing the world we live in, he would ask to live his life over again. … were shot down in Katatura and Kassinga, and their South African counterparts were massacred in Soweto, Matola … the cause of liberty, and the murder of prisoners of war, as happened on June 9th, when the apartheid regime …