Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

The African was defined and treated as being of a lesser human species than even the lowliest among the colonizers.

We are convinced that the risen masses must stand at the heart and in the vanguard of the great historic process to eradicate the legacy of slavery, colonialism, apartheid and neo-colonialism.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.