STATEMENTS BY AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES AT UNITED NATIONS MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

(Compiled and edited by E. S. Reddy)

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ANC DELEGATION IN 1963

• Statement before the Special Committee against Apartheid, 10 July 1963

OLIVER TAMBO

• Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, 8 October 1963
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, 29 October 1963
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 March 1964
• Paper prepared at the request of the Special Committee against Apartheid, June 1968
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm, 18 June 1968
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 2 April 1973
• Statement, on behalf of liberation movements, at the International Conference in Support of the Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo, 9 April 1973
• Statement at the International Conference in Support of the Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo, 11 April 1973
• Statement in Committee II of the International Conference in Support of the Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo, 11 April 1973
• Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 26 October 1976
• Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid, Lagos, 23 August 1977
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid Year, 21 March 1978
• Statement at the International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, 21 May 1981
• Statement, on behalf of the national liberation movements, at the special meeting on Africa Liberation Day during the International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, 25 May 1981
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 11 June 1981
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 11 January 1982
• Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 5 November 1982
• Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 9 November 1982
• Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
• Statement at the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 19 June 1986

ROBERT RESHA

• Statement before the Special Committee against Apartheid, 18 March 1969

ALFRED NZO

• Statement at the meeting of the Security Council in Addis Ababa, 1 February 1972
• Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 1976
• Speech at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 12 October 1981

DUMA NOKWE

• Speech in the Security Council of the United Nations, 25 October 1974

MFANAFUTHI JOHNSTONE (JOHNNY) MAKATINI

• Statement at the 1992nd meeting of the Security Council, 25 March 1977
• Statement at the 2037th meeting of the Security Council, 25 October 1977
• Statement at the 2046th meeting of the Security Council, 4 November 1977
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, November 15, 1977
• Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council, 9 December 1977
• Statement at the 2059th meeting of the Security Council, 31 January 1978
• Statement at the 377th meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th birthday, 10 April 1978
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 24 November 1978
• Statement at the 2137th meeting of the Security Council, 26 March 1979
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 7 November 1979
• Statement at the 2194th meeting of the Security Council, 31 January 1980
• Statement at the 2227th meeting of the Security Council, 6 June 1980
• Statement at the 2274th meeting of the Security Council, 27 April 1981
• Statement at the 2295th meeting of the Security Council, 27 August 1981
• Statement at the 2409th meeting of the Security Council, 16 December 1982
• Statement at the 2451st meeting of the Security Council, 1 June 1983
• Statement at the 2488th meeting of the Security Council, 26 October 1983
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 18 November 1983
• Statement at the 539th meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 1984
• Statement at the 2549th meeting of the Security Council, 17(?) August 1984
• Statement at the 2617th meeting of the Security Council, 7 October 1985
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 30 October 1985
• Statement at the fourteenth special session of the General Assembly on the question of Namibia, 19 September 1986
• Statement at the plenary meting of the General Assembly, 6 November 1986
• Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council, 19 February 1987
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 17 November 1987
• Statement at the 2763rd meeting of the Security Council, 20 November 1987

THABO MBEKI

• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 21 March 1979
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 8 November 1989
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 5 December 1990
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 18 November 1992
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 13 December 1993

THOMAS NKOBI

• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 10 October 1980

STEPHEN TSHWETE

• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Sharpeville Day), 26 March 1986

NELSON MANDELA

• Statement at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 22 June 1990
• Statement at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 3 December 1991
• Statement at the meeting of the Security Council, 15 July 1992
• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 24 September 1993

WALTER SISULU

• Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1991

EBRAHIM ISMAIL EBRAHIM

• Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 12 October 1992

ANC WOMEN'S LEAGUE

"On December 16, 1980, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution inviting women's organisations to proclaim an International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa (resolution 35/206N). The Special Committee, after consultations with a number of organizations, decided to proclaim the international day on the anniversary of the great women's march on Pretoria on August 9, 1954, in protest against the extension of passes to women. On December 17, 1981, on the recommendation of the Special Committee, the General Assembly invited all governments and organizations to observe the international day (resolution 36/172K).

"The Special Committee held special meetings on the international day annually from 1981, and invited representatives of the liberation movements as well as women's leaders from other countries. The following are some of the speeches of the leaders of the ANC Women's League at the meetings of the Special Committee on the international day."

• Mrs. Gertrude Shope
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
• Miss Barbara Masekela
  Speech at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1982
• Mrs. Lindiwe Mabuza
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1983
• Ms. Florence Maleka
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1983
• Mrs. Mabena
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 10 August 1987
• Ms. Yolisa Modise
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of the Women of South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1988
• Ms. Lyndall Shope-Mafole
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1989
• Ms. Thutukile Eileen Bhengu
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1990
  
• Mrs. Gertrude Shope
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of the Women of South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1991
• Ms. Ruth Mompati
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with Women in South Africa, 10 August 1992
• Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 9 August 1993

YOUTH

"On November 9, 1976, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 16 June (the anniversary of the Soweto uprising) as the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (resolution 31/6I). The Special Committee against Apartheid held special meetings on that day and invited the liberation movements to make statements. The following are some of the statements of the ANC representatives, mostly from the youth league, at these special meetings."

• Mr. Mokoena
  Statement by at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling people of South Africa (Soweto Day), 14 June 1985
• Mr. Mphahlele
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1987
• Mr. Reginald Mpongo
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1988
• Simon Ntombela (South African Youth Congress, SAYCO)
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
• Ms. Sebe Portgeiter
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 17 June 1991
• Khaogeso Legoro
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa, 16 June 1992

SOUTH AFRICAN

• Ms. Miriam Makeba
  Statement in the Special Committee against Apartheid, 16 July 1963
• Miss Sikosi Mji
  Speech at the meeting of Special Political Committee of the General Assembly on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1976
• Ms. Gail Eliot, Detainees' Parents Support Committee
  Speech at meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia, 10 August 1987
• The Reverend Tshenuwani Simon Farisani
  Statement before the meeting of the Special Committee on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 12 October 1987
• George  Bizos, a South African lawyer and a founding member of the National Council of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1989

OTHERS

• Abdulhia Jassat
  Testimony before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
• Moosa Muhammed Moolla
  Testimony before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
• Indres Naidoo
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 10 October 1978
• Reverend Gabriel Seteloane
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
• George Naicker
  Statement at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1982
• Nzo Mnumzana
  Statement in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
• Andrew Masondo
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1985
• James Stuart
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against apartheid to observe the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1988
• John Nkadimeng
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1988
• Dennis Goldberg, ANC
  Speech at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 12 October 1987
• Nathaniel Masemola
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Sharpeville Day), 21 March 1990
• Tebogo Mafole
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, 11 September 1990
• Tebogo Mafole
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa, 16 June 1993
• Tebogo Mafole
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Observance of the day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 2 November 1993
• Welile Nhlapo
  Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Sharpeville Day), 21 March 1994
• Mzwandile Piliso
  Statement at meeting of Special Committee against Apartheid, 27 March 1974