Riyaz Patel
“Today, we have come home. We have returned to the place which, for three decades, provided shelter, comfort, nourishment and knowledge to thousands of South African freedom fighters,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa as he began a tour of the Solomon Mahlangu Campus in Morogoro, Tanzania.
The Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College #SOMAFCO, was established by the exiled ANC in 1978, providing educational & vocational skills to young South Africans who had fled the country after the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Solomon ‘Kalushi’ Mahlangu was an operative of the African National Congress’ militant wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, who was executed by the apartheid regime in 1979. He was 23-years-old.
Ramaphosa underlined that “No account of the anti-apartheid struggle is complete without Tanzania and in particular, Morogoro’s chapter in that inspiring human narrative.”
“Tanzania will forever be remembered as the heart of the Southern African liberation struggle, and the people of
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