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Mantashe urges more efforts for South Africans

Mantashe urges more efforts for South Africans
By Larry Moonze in Cuba
Fri 26 Mar. 2010, 09:20 CAT

AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) general secretary Gwede Mantashe has said a lot still needs to be done for South Africans in the post-apartheid era.

Mantashe, who is also national coordinator of the South African Communist Party, leading an ANC delegation visiting Cuba said the reality in South Africa was that since the fall of the apartheid regime, work was being done in favour of the people.

“A lot has been done in favour of the people although we still have a lot to do,” he said, according to Cuban News Agency reports from Santa Clara.

The ANC delegation that arrived in Havana last Friday is on a tour of the central province of Villa Clara where it has paid homage to Che Guevara’s museum and met some 100 South African students.

Mantashe thanked the local authorities in Santa Clara for the opportunity to “visit the historic museum and the mausoleum where the mortal remains of Guevara and his guerrilla comrades who died in Bolivia rest.”

“We feel inspired by Che’s example,” he said. “He taught us solidarity and internationalism and Cuba is a bastion against injustice and in favour of people’s freedom.”

Mantashe acknowledged the greater role Cuba played for Africa’s struggle for political independence.

He said due to Cuba’s assistance, the African peoples got rid of the infamous apartheid regime.

Regarding the friendship ties between Cuba and South Africa, Mantashe said they were very close and that the delegation’s visit was an example of that.

He also stressed ANC’s support of the struggle for the release of the “five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998.”

Communist Party of Cuba politburo member Misael Enamorado said the visit would strengthen the historical bonds existing between the PCC and the ANC including the South African Communist Party.

Labels: ANC, GWEDE MANTASHE, SACP

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