Azapo
Animals in Johannesburg

However, we have recognized that we must be much better than just digging holes in the ground, taking out minerals and looking after plants and animals.

He started his schooling in 1951 at the Ikalafeng Primary School. Today, organisations and individuals have claimed responsibility for the uprising. He is married to Thabile and they have two children. We in AZAPO believe that people that take pride in themselves are likely to make a meaningful contribution to a quest for true humanity. The BCMA operated as a sister organisation to AZAPO in exile and grew to establish chapters and offices in Botswana, where Onkgopotse Tiro was assassinated, Zimbabwe, England, the United States of America, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany. In the same period AZAPO successfully campaigned for the isolation of apartheid South Africa by tirelessly and vigorously waging the cultural boycott in the country. After assessing the nature, character and possible outcome of the CODESA negotiations, AZAPO did not participate in the negotiations and in 1993, as a matter of principle, decided not to participate in the 1994 general elections. AZAPO rejected the interim constitution that would govern the elections and the period leading up to the adoption of a new constitution. The agreements entrenched property rights effectively legitimising the dispossession that Black people had experienced over a period of close to four centuries. The government positions held by the apparatchiks of the apartheid regime would be retained as per the agreements. The government set up after the election would not be a true reflection of wishes of the people as a government of national unity was guaranteed up until the next elections. Further to this, the parliament formed as an outcome of the elections would not have the power to change the interim constitution. Twenty years after the inauguration of the new South Africa, South Africans are increasingly beginning to see the argument of AZAPO and its assessment of the negotiation process. Today, voices in dissent to the mainstream view and assessment of the negotiations are becoming louder in society, they can be heard in the labour movement, in various civil society formations and in conversations of ordinary Black South African who still live in poverty and their future and that of their children is not any brighter. AZAPO remains committed to the struggle for total liberation which aims for the total abolishment of any form of political oppression, economic exploitation and marginalisation and social degradation of Black people (as defined by Black Consciousness). To this day AZAPO mobilises Black people and all people of conscience for the ushering in of a state and society where all forms of oppression, exploitation and marginalisation shall be done away with, where the free development of all is a necessary condition for the free development of one.