Tracing Sadc roots from Tanzania

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The Frontline States had gone through years of great pain and loses as they fought against apartheid and segregation during the liberation struggle. The beginning The regional cooperation began in 1980 as a bloc of the frontline states in Lusaka, Zambia, where leaders of six states including Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Samora Machel (Mozambique), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) and their host, Kenneth Kaunda, met.

Mr Kikwete was accorded a stunning ovation when he made a speech at Mandela’s funneral as he detailed about how Tanzania contributed immensely to the liberation struggle of the southern African states. Mr Kikwete told mourners, for instance, that in January, 1962, Man-dela sneaked into Tanganyika with-out a passport and held talks with Mwalimu Nyerere about the struggle for the liberation of South Africa. Following the talks, Nyerere decided to allocate pieces of land for the liberation fighters of South Africa to set up camps for military activi-ties in the areas of Kongwa (Dodo-ma), Mgagao (Iringa), Mazimbu and Dakawa (Morogoro). Through the influence of Nyerere, residents of Kihesa Village, Iringa Region, offered the Mgagao area for the accommodation of the South African freedom fighters. Among the freedom fighters, who happened to have lived with the late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, is the incumbent President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, who led the liberation struggle from Kihesa Mgagao.

Tracing Sadc roots from Tanzania

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