COSATU is proud to be in alliance with this mass movement that has led our people for nearly a century. The ANC is the longest established liberation movement in Africa, built on the foundations of long struggles against colonial domination. It led a heroic and victorious national revolutionary struggle against colonial oppression, which at the time the ANC was launched in 1912 was being systematically and ruthlessly imposed. It went on to overthrow apartheid, one of the worst racial tyrannies the world has ever seen.
But, as always on this day, we need to remind ourselves that this struggle was fought at a heavy price, and we must honour the hundreds of martyrs to the ANC cause, most of them unsung heroes and heroines, who sacrificed their lives so that we could enjoy the fruits of the victory of April 1994 that their struggle helped us to win. Their names may be forgotten but their sacrifices must be remembered forever.
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