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ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa address to the Summit of Liberation Movements, Kempton Park, 27 July 2025: “we must be the architects of the new world order that we seek”
https://youtu.be/kOq6wIF7eUY [Ramaphosa’s speech starting from 2:12:22]
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/this-is-a-new-scramble-for-africa–cyril-ramphosa
Unrevised transcript
It is with a great deal of honour, revolutionary pride and heartfelt gratitude that I greet you all on behalf of the African National Congress, the hosts of this summit and the people of South Africa. The Liberation Movement Summit is more than a conference.
We gather this year on the 64th anniversary of the independence of Tanzania, the 50th anniversary of the independence of Angola and Mozambique, the 45th anniversary of the independence of Zimbabwe, and the 35th anniversary of the independence of Namibia. It is a moment not just for celebration, but it is also a moment for critical reflection. We must honour the memories of our founding giants Julius Nyerere, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Agostino Neto, Sam Nujoma, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Kenneth Kaunda, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, and many others.
We are also pleased that we have amongst us fraternal parties from across the world. This is what makes this summit so special, so impactful. We welcome the Communist Party of China, the Polisario Front from the Sahrawi Republic, FATAH from Palestine, the FLN of Algeria, United Russia, the BNF of Botswana, the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, and the PAC of Azania, as well as other continental organisations that are here represented, and other parties that I may not have mentioned.
It is our responsibility as liberation movements to draw on that desire and that energy to undertake a new struggle with youth of our various countries at the forefront. Our youth leagues must not be ceremonial wings of our movements, but they must be engines of ideological clarity, economic innovation, digital activism, and organisational unity and renewal. We support the establishment of the Permanent Youth Secretariat and the Liberation Youth Development Fund, as well as the call for continental political education through our party schools, as well as youth exchanges and policy participation across our region.
As liberation movements, we must advocate for people-centred regional migration policies that affirm dignity, rights, and solidarity as well. We must never forget our freedom struggles were international in nature. Our freedom was achieved not only by the tireless struggles of our peoples but by the efforts of people from across the world.
Drawing on that experience, we reaffirm our support for the peoples of Palestine, Western Sahara, and Cuba. We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes against humanity and the genocide committed by the apartheid state of Israel against the people of Palestine. We are particularly horrified by the deliberate starvation of the people of Gaza.
Our position remains very clear. Liberation is indivisible. We are not truly free until all are free.
Going forward, we must establish a framework for deeper inter-party collaboration across governance, socio-economic transformation, and ideological education as well.
We should champion the vision of a multipolar, multicultural, equitable, inclusive, and a just world order. We should demand reform of the political and economic global governance institutions and the end of unilateral sanctions and the creation of a just global governance system rooted in dignity and in fairness. Working with like-minded forces across the world, we must be the architects of the new world order that we seek.
History demands that we don't allow our legacies to be buried under the rubble of revolutionary nostalgia. We must ensure our relevance through bold action that we must take. We are the custodians of Africa's unfinished revolution.
We need to reaffirm that there shall be peace and friendship, that there shall be houses and security and comfort for all as set out in our freedom charter adopted in 1955, 70 years ago here in South Africa. Let us not only defend the gains of liberation.
This is the hour and the moment that we need to regain our strength and move forward, renewed and reinvigorated, forever moving forward as we all in unison say, Aluta continua. Amandla! Amandla!