The struggle is my life.
Those who are vote less cannot be expected to continue paying taxes to a government which is not responsible to them. People who live in poverty and starvation cannot be expected to pay exorbitant house rents to the government and local authorities. We furnish the sinews of agriculture and industry. We produce the work of the gold mines, the diamonds and the coal, of the farms and industry, in return for miserable wages. Why should we continue enriching those who steal the products of our sweat and blood? Those who exploit us and refuse us the right to organise trade unions? …
I am informed that a warrant for my arrest has been issued, even though I haven’t been arrested and sent to jail I have been ordered to stay quite. I was told to be dragged by people with whom I refuse to share ideas with. I Had two choice at that point, either I stay quiet and work for a government I despise or I can choose to go my separate way .
I have chosen this latter course, which is more difficult and which entails more risk and hardship than sitting in goal. I have had to separate myself from my dear father and brother and the rest of my family, so I can flee from my home land as an outlaw. I have had to abandon my profession, and live in a country that is forging to me, as many of my people are doing. … I shall fight the government side by side with you, inch by inch, and mile by mile, until victory is won. What are you going to do? Will you come along with us, or are you going to cooperate with the government in its efforts to suppress the claims and aspirations of my people….our people? Or are you going to remain silent and neutral in a matter of life and death to my people? For my own part I have made my choice. I will not give up, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.”“
