UN General Assembly
1972

133. The exploiters of the valiant peoples in South Africa should be made to know that sooner rather than later Angola will be free, Mozambique will be free, Guinea (Bissau) will be free, Zimbabwe will be a sovereign African State, and Namibia will have its own representatives in this family of nations. What the rulers of Portugal and Rhodesia and the racists in South Africa are trying to do is simply to stop the irresistible winds of change. We regret the lives and energies that are being needlessly sacrificed and the time that is irretrievably lost. Vicious attempts against Senegal and Guinea have already been defeated. Left to themselves, the countries of Africa were able to put a quick end to the disputes which could no longer be fanned from outside. We rejoice in the successes obtained by the States of Somalia, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zaire in their latest efforts for conciliation and peace. We hope similar successful efforts will be repeated everywhere, in all areas of tension and not in Africa alone.