Comrades and Compatriots,
Once again, history tests our resolve. In 1960, we rose against the hated passes, for they marked us as strangers in the land of our birth. Today, in 2025, we are confronted with a new scheme — the attempt to divide our country and tear the heart of Africa from its body through the false promise of “Cape Independence.”
This is no different from the passes: it is apartheid reborn, clothed in the language of “self-determination.” It seeks to rob us not only of our land, but of our unity. And to this insult, the African people must answer with one voice: Africa is one and indivisible!
I call upon the Pan Africanist Congress, the party of the African masses, to awaken once more to its historic duty. Let us recreate the spirit of 21 March 1960 — disciplined, fearless, and united. Let us march not for the memory of freedom alone, but for its preservation to CapeTown.To the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), the spear of the nation, I say this: The struggle before us is long, and no single weapon will win it. Prepare not only your ammunition, but also your schools, for the mind must be sharpened as surely as the blade. Prepare not only your rifles, but your fields, for a people must be fed if they are to fight. Prepare not only your soldiers, but your allies across Azania and abroad, for no liberation movement triumphs in isolation.
And let us remember the words of Scripture: “Be renewed in the spirit of your minds” (Ephesians 4:23). Renewal is not once, but daily. Renewal is not only spiritual, but national. We must remember renewal — renewing our courage, renewing our discipline, renewing our unity. For only a renewed people can give birth to a renewed nation.
The struggle is total. It is political, it is social, it is cultural, it is spiritual, it is military. It is a struggle to reclaim the soul of Africa itself.
As Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe marched at the head in 1960, so too must today’s leaders march in front — sharing the risks, bearing the burdens, and proving that leadership is sacrifice, not privilege.
Forward, comrades — not back to the chains of partition, but forward to the complete liberation, unity, and dignity of our land.

Sincerely .
For the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania