Nakumbuka Kule South, mambo ya aina hii yalipozidi, na wao ANC waligeuz mwenendo
Sasa hapa TZ sijui kwa nini hiki chama cha watu wasiojulikana kinaharakisha mtindo huu mbaya.
THE TURN TO SABOTAGE BY
THE CONGRESSMOVEMENT IN
SOUTH AFRICA*
Before the 1960s, the African National Congress (ANC) and its
allies were officially committed to the use of exclusively nonviolent
means in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
But in December 1961 a new organization, Umkhonto we Sizwe
(‘Spear of the Nation’), announced its launch with a wave of
bombings of unoccupied government installations. In the
manifesto they released at the time of these first attacks, the
commanders of the new body declared that ‘The government
policy of force, repression and violence will no longer be met
with non-violent resistance only!’ Though Umkhonto (MK)
described itself as a ‘new, independent body’, it had been
founded by Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Joe Slovo of the
South African Communist Party (SACP), with the authorization
of both bodies. Ten months after the first bombings, the ANC’s
national conference formally recognizedMKas the ‘military wing
of our struggle’.1
Why did leaders of the ANC and its allies in the broader
Congress movement 2 abandon their exclusive reliance on
nonviolent means in the struggle against apartheid?