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South Africa " will continue supporting the Saharawi people until independence", affirms Mrs. Zuma
07.04.05




Smara (refugees camps), 07/04/2005 (SPS) South Africa " will continue supporting the Saharawi people until independence", affirmed the South African Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, during a popular meeting in the wilaya of Smara.
 
Paying an official visit to SADR Today, Mrs. Zuma expressed, on behalf of her Government, President Thabo Mbeki and South African people, "their solidarity with this heropic people untill it can live freely and democratically in its country".

Touched, with tears on her eyes, she recalled the hard conditions of the struggle of the South African people against the apartheid, comparing it to the Saharawi people's struggle against the Moroccan colonialism. She estimated that the struggle of the Saharawi people was "an exemple to us and to many other peoples who struggle for freedom".

"President Mandela was emprisoned for 27 years, President Thabo Mbeiki for 30 years and I spent 30 years in exile", recalled Mrs. Zuma, underlining that "in no single moment have we doubted that South Africa will be independent one day for us or for our children".    

She exhorted Saharawis to "abnégation, unity and to struggle to get back your legitimate rights to freedom and to independence", calling the international community "and the UN, in particular, to work for the decolonisation of Western Sahara".

Accompanied with a staff of her ministry, Mrs. Zuma was received before by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salek, in the room of honour in the aeroport of Tindouf. Then she headed to Smara where Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, and the members of his Government and of Polisrio Front's leadership were awaiting her in the entry of the Wilaya.

Mrs. Zuma will have in few hours meetings with the Minister for Foreign Affairs before been recieved for launch by the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, it was indicated. (SPS)

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Prime Minister hails South Africa's "undefectible support" to Saharawi people and to SADR




Smara (refugees camps), 07/04/2005 (SPS) Prime Minister, ABdelkader Taleb Oumar, hailed, on Thursday in the wilaya of Smara, "the undefectible support of South Africa to Saharawi people and to SADR", putting forward the political maturity of this great African nation, which struggled few time ago of rits freedom and independence and which is now "reconbciliating in an exemplary atmosphere of peaceful coexistence and democracy".

"Saharawi people can never foget the inconditional support of the ANC and the courageous position of South Africa when it recognised SADR. They can never forget the historical letter sent from President Thabo Mbeki to the king of Morocco in which he defended Saharawi people's right to self-detrermination in front of the intransigence of Morocco and its denial of its engagements", underlined Mr. Taleb Oumar.

He estimated that the recognition of SADR by South Africa is "an insurence of peace for the region, which opens real perspectives for a solution to the conflict within its legal framwork and is also a reference to other countries of the world".

The Prime Minmister deplored that Rabata "did not got yet the lessons of the experiences of other nations in colonisation", despite 30 years of Colonial presence in Western Sahara during which "Morocco was unable to consecrate the recognition, should it be of a single country, to its colonial fait accompli".

He adressed a message of gratitude, on behalf of his people to the South African Government, to the President and South African people. He asserted them "the determination of Saharawis to continue the legitimate struggle for freedom and self-determination untill the final victory".

South Africa has got diplomatic relations with SADR at Ambassadors level since the recognition by Pretoria of the Saharawi Republic in September 15, 2004, it should be recalled. (SPS)

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The President of the Republic honoured Mrs. Zuma with the National Medal of Honour






Chahid El Hafed, 07/04/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, honoured Mrs. Zuma, the South African Minister for Foreign Affairs, with the National Medal of Honour, "20 May", during her visit to SADR.

"Today we decorate Mrs. Zuma with the National Medal of Honour, "20 May", for her noble historical positions besides Saharawi people's struggle and for her indefectible support to its legitimate rights to self-determination and independence", underlined the Head of the State during a launch he offered in the honour of his guest.

Mr. Abdelaziz insisted on "the old privileged relations that links the two peoples and states especially in their armed resistance against the colonial invasion for freedom, self-determination and to haste the decolonization of the African continent".

He recalled the special friendships established during the struggle with the Historic leaders of the African National Congress such as Mr. Nelson Mandela, the late Oliver Tambo or the current President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeiki. "Men with whom we fought side by side, in the same trench, for self-determination in South Africa and in Western Sahara", he said.

The Head of the State finally deplored the fact that "the peoples of the region were not able to realise their dream to stability, development and peace because of the intransigence of Morocco, who continues to undermine the international legality by depriving Saharawi people from freely choosing their destiny through a free and just referendum on self-determination". (SPS)

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Mrs. Zuma impressed with the emancipation of the Saharawi woman






Chahid El Hafed, 07/04/2005 (SPS) Mrs. Nkozanana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, South African Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared to be "impressed with the emancipation Saharawi woman reached in exile", during a press conference she jointly animated with her Saharawi counterpart, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, in the Woman school "27 of February".

Mrs. Zuma, who was achieving an official visit to SADR she started this morning, recalled a quotation by the late Oliver Tambo, former leader of the African National Congress (ANC), in which he said that "no nation can get free without the freedom of the woman".

She also put forward "the preoccupation of Mr. Mbeiki for your legitimate right to self-determination, to which you should have access conforming to the UN Charter", she said.

"We work together with the African Union, to which we are member side by side with SADR and with the UN so as to allow Saharawi people enjoy their recognized universal right", she added.

She showed a particular sadness in front of human rights violations in Western Sahara, underlining that her country "does not tolerate human rights violations".

Asked about the themes she discussed with the President of the Republic, Mrs. Zuma revealed that they tackled the international and regional situation, the last developments of the Morocco-Saharawi conflict as well as the means to strengthen the Pan African organisation and the changes and improvement of the UN. (SPS)

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