Afric.n Nation.l Congress Decl.re> for Rmed Struggle

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14 1 } The .NC in 4 strtement issucod from its offied in /lgiers dcclnradthat the .frieins in South Lfrica, like people of other parts of the continent, would win independence ond scizo politics] powum through their own struggle. Tho statomont signed by Member of the NG Nntional Executive Committes Robert Resha and its represent: tive in Morocco, Johnny Moke tini, wis enrried by 4]Cha ob. The statement snid that the South Africsn governent which had used every conceivable means to crush tho South .fricnin Peoples Liberation struggle wis at present preprring to unleash s hot wir igninst then. The statement further declared: "The African Nationnl Congress, os the londcr nd spoiesman of nillions of oppressed -fricnons, his accepted the challenge. I+ hns asked the /frican people to mobilise theaselves on an unprecedented senle in order to ba ready for . bitter conflict. For a politics] orginisntion to insist on peiceful and non-violent struggle when confronted with the constint ag -pression of the enemy forces is an act of tretson against its pooplg" the statement odds. Ths stetement pointed out to:t workers, revyolutionery intellectuals in South African citios and pensints and progressive chiefs in its countryside were all saying; "Freedom Now or Denth". lt was preciscly in this revolutionary situation that the Omkont We Size (Spenr of the Nation), an orginisntion which wns ecnrrying out armed struggle wns born. The stntoment snid thnt this orgonisntion would be n militery wing of the L.fricin Netionel Congress.