The year 1962 will bring no comfort to Verwoerd, the white racialists and the colonialists.

The final and complete liquidation of apartheid and colonialism is on the agenda of history. During the closing days of 1961 we have witnessed the liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu, the last remnants of colonial rule in India, from the tyranny of Fascist Portugal.

Tanganyika, yet another colonial territory, has joined the comity of independent States. The patriotic forces of Indonesia are poised to liberate West Irian from the clutches of Dutch Imperialism if the latter is not prepared to hand over power immediately to the Indonesian Government.

Three-quarters of Africa has won political independence and it will not be long before the remaining quarter overthrows the heavy and murderous yoke of colonial oppression.

Not all the dollars, arms and white mercenaries which Western imperialist Powers can provide, and not all the shady manoeuvres which they employ, will help arch-agent Tshombe to halt the onward march of the Congolese people, inspired by the heroism and supreme sacrifice of Patrice Lumumba, to bring the secession of Katanga and the powerful monopoly interest of the Western Powers to an end and build a great united democratic Republic of the Congo.

At the same time the triumphant journey of our beloved Chief Albert Lutuli to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and the proceedings at the United Nations should serve as a clear warning to the racialists of South Africa that the bell is tolling for apartheid all over the world.

The age-old dream of philosophers is coming true. We are entering into the great new epoch of the deliverance of mankind from the exploitation of man by man.

Verwoerd has no friendly voice left save that of Fascist Portugal and that voice is failing. Neither will the support of the monopoly capitalists of Britain and the United States be of much avail since their financial and political interests are caught up in the web of contradictions.

The unity and determination of peoples everywhere are wresting political power and independence. Our white supremacist rulers cannot escape the inexorable laws of social development.

It is therefore with supreme confidence in the future that I, in this new year of 1962, send my fraternal greetings to all the freedom fighters of South Africa. The era of Peace, Labour, Freedom, Equality and Happiness for all peoples of the earth is upon us.

Amandla ngawethu!
Power is ours!
Forward to freedom!

[1] New Age, Cape Town, January 11, 1962