18 October 1999
As South Africa holds a memorial service to mourn the death and celebrate the life of the ex-president of Tanzania, comrade Julius Nyerere, the SACP adds its voice to the people’s chorus of grief and praise. Incorruptible, modest but forthright, an African patriot and a socialist, Nyerere was one of the great politicians of our continent and our century.
In the critical decade of the 1960s, Nyerere led one of the poorest but most generous countries of Africa. In that decade, many key leaders of the ANC, FRELIMO and other liberation forces were stationed in Dar es Salaam, thanks to the generosity of Nyerere and the Tanzanian people. It was in that period, and under the protection and influence of Nyerere, that a truly sub-continental collective revolutionary leadership and cadre was forged. In the 1990s we have lost some of that unity. In the coming decade, one of the ways to remember and honour Mwalimu, Julius Nyerere, is to seek to build once more a revolutionary unity of democratic cadres throughout our region.
The South African Communist Party dips its flag in honour of this outstanding son of our African soil.
Issued by the SACP Department of Information & Publicity
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