LEST WE FORGET: If you are a South African and you have never been forced into any of vehicles or shot by people driving these them or have a relative or friend who suffered the same fate, consider yourself very lucky because to some of us these bring tears, pain and nightmares.
“My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom. Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight.” ~ Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
“I am going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be.” ~ Steve Bantu Biko #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
“There is nothing the apartheid government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.” ~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
"It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will die." ~ Onkgopotse Abram Tiro #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
“Students today want to be recognized as human beings because we know if we don't do what we think is right for us now, our children will suffer the same way we are suffering.” ~ MacDonald Tsietsi Mashinini #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
“We take our stand on the principle that Afrika is one and desires to be one and nobody, I repeat, nobody has the right to balkanise our land.” ~ Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
“What I fear is that the liberators emerge as elitists, who drive around in Mercedes Benzes and use the resources of this country to live in palaces and to gather riches.” ~ Chris Thembisile Hani #WakeUpEverybody ✊🏿
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