Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… December 1956, Chief A J Lutuli, President-General of the ANC, was arrested together with 155 other freedom fighters … their grievances, the government reacted by banning the ANC in all these districts. In April 1960 the government went … African patriots. The very same day it was outlawed, the ANC issued a public statement announcing that it would …