Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan nationalists living in Lubango, Huíla province, stressed today, Saturday, in this city, that the events recorded on January 4, 1961, of the colonial repression in Malanje, are a historical landmark that reveals the resistance, courage and struggle to achieve national independence, on November 11, 1975.
The people concerned responded to this fact, in connection with the event that is celebrated today under the motto: “Angola 50 years – Preserving and valuing the achievements attained, building a better future”.
They stated that this was a just demand that was brutally repressed by the Portuguese colonial forces, which resorted to aerial bombardments, causing the loss of countless human lives, arbitrary arrests and the displacement of Angolans to neighboring countries.According to nationalist Carlos Cambundo, the events in Baixa de Cassanje marked a historic turning point in Angola, with the peasants of the former cotton company demanding an end to forced labor, the abolition of unfair tax payments, and improvements in the living conditions of the population.
For him, these were moments that also enabled the process of the armed struggle for national liberation, which culminated in national independence on November 11, 1975.
The provincial coordinator of the trade union confederation in Huíla also highlighted the increase in infrastructure in the health, education, energy and water sectors, social justice, the creation of trade unions since 1976 to guarantee workers’ working conditions, among other things that transcribe the reality of this same struggle over the last 64 years of conquests.
Nationalist Juliano Tyamukwavo considered that the fight against colonial repression brought benefits in the union and appreciation among Angolans from Cabinda to Cunene and from the Sea to the East, as well as in the emergence of more churches that contribute to the activity of evangelization.The activity on the date began on Friday, with a lecture on the theme “Angola 50 years – How to value and preserve the achievements achieved”, culminating today, at the Mitcha cemetery, with the laying of a wreath of flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier, in a ceremony presided over by the vice-governor of the province of Huíla for the political, social and economic sector, Maria João Chipalavela.
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