ZAMBIA: ANC SECRETARY-GENERAL ALFRED NZO REACTS TO CALLS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA TO BE LIFTED

Record ID: 644050

  • Title: ZAMBIA: ANC SECRETARY-GENERAL ALFRED NZO REACTS TO CALLS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA TO BE LIFTED
  • Date: 12th February 1990
  • Summary: ZAMBIA, LUSAKA (FEBRUARY 12, 1990) ( REUTERS - LAWRENCE THOMPSON) SVS "FREEDOM FOR NELSON MANDELA POSTER" (2 SHOTS) ALFRED NZO SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH SOT) (2 SHOTS) "THose in the international community who are expecting us to abandon our struggle, in favour of what they perceive as the only course our struggle should persue from hence forth , because of negotations will l obviously meet a disappoinment.The commencement of negotations , if and when that happpens will not settle immediately that the apartheid system will from that moment onward ceased to exist. The application therefore to continue the struggle will be on us unitl aparthed is irrrevokably ended ". (1.10)
  • Embargoed: 27th February 1990 12:00
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  • Location: LUSAKA, ZAMBIA
  • Country: Zambia
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABZS5K057WF5KR3Z2YRR68BO93
  • Story Text: The exiled Secretary-General of the ANC (African National Congress) in Zambia, Alfred Nzo, spoke out strongly on Monday (February 12) against any lifting of international sanctions on South Africa.

    Nzo said that those within the international community who now expect the ANC to abandon its struggle, merely because of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, would meet with disappointment.

    ANC leaders plan to meet later in the week to formulate an official response to Mandela's release and to re-evaluate ANC strategy. They will also decide whether to return to South Africa.

    Some ANC leaders remain unconvinced by the policy of negotiation and are reluctant to give up their militant stance towards the apartheid regime.
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