The payment of salaries had had a “detrimental” effect on the outlook of those on the steady payroll as “such payments corrupt cadres at any level and have the effect of making people perform their duties or fill offices because of money inducement rather than dedication to the cause – they become in effect merely salaried employees of the movement

Hani Memorandum Signatories

The 1969 Strategy and Tactics, adopted at Morogoro, said that the purpose of our struggle:“…is the complete political and economic emancipation of all our people and the constitution of a society which accords with the basic provisions of our program, the Freedom Charter.”

“We have suffered more than just national humiliation. Our people are deprived of their due in the country’s wealth; their skills have been suppressed and poverty and starvation have been their life experience.

The correction of these centuries-old economic injustices lies at the very core of our national aspirations.”