CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR MESSAGE
DISTRIBUTED ILLEGALLY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
DECEMBER 1973
(1)

Brothers and Sisters!

I send you warm greetings from the African National Congress on the occasion of Christmas and New Year.

Let us make the festive season an occasion for three things:

CELEBRATION, REMEMBRANCE AND DEDICATION

In the year which has passed our people - the workers, peasants, youth and professional groups - have begun to show a renewed defiance. A fresh mood of determination to assert our rights to better conditions and to rule our whole country has shown itself. Let us therefore enter the New Year with even greater confidence and to resolve to mould the passion of our people into an instrument which will finally strike down the enemy.

Let us Steel Ourselves for Sacrifice!

We Can and Will Overcome!

Amandla Ngawethu!

Maatla ke a Rona!

Power to the People!

1 From: Sechaba, Fourth quarter 1976