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underground. Here, from underground, is Walter Sisulu to speak
to you.
Sisulu then takes over from the announcer:
Sons and daughters of Africa! I speak to you from somewhere in
South Africa. I have not left the country. I do not plan to
leave. Many of our leaders of the African National Congress have
gone underground. This is to keep the organisation in action; to
preserve the leadership; to keep the freedom fight going. The
struggle must never waver. We of the African National Congress
will lead with new methods of struggle. The African people know
that their unity is vital. In the face of violence, many
strugglers for freedom have had to meet violence with violence.
How can it be otherwise in South Africa?
SAPA handed this document over to the police, who now possessed proof that Walter Sisulu had
not left the country. He was lying low somewhere within the boundaries of the Republic but where?
"Find Sisulu!" The order was relayed to every police station throughout the length and breadth of
the land. "Find Sisulu! He is somewhere in the Republic."
But the Republic is a vast country...
The telephone on the desk shrilled. Lieutenant van Wyk glanced up from the file, marked 'top
secret', in which he had been frowningly engrossed, and picked up the receiver.
"Security Branch. Van Wyk speaking."
"Hullo, Lieutenant." Van Wyk recognised the voice. It belonged to a man whom he knew well.
"Yes?"
"Could you come over here at once, Lieutenant? There's a man here who insists that he wants to
speak to someone from Security. He says it's important."
Van Wyk considered. He knew the speaker well enough to know that he was no false alarmist and
not one to be readily taken in by a hoax.
"Very well. I'll come right away."
A few minutes later the detective's car stopped in front of a building in another part of the city. The
man who had telephoned was waiting for him. "This way, Lieutenant."
Van Wyk looked keenly at the man who professed to possess vital information.
"You have something to tell me?" he asked briefly. "Well?"
"I know where Walter Sisulu is."
"You do?"
"Yes," replied the man coolly. "I also know where the headquarters of the ANC and the
Communist Party are."
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