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In Paths to Freedom, veterans of Namibia's liberation struggle tell how they formed OPC (Ovamboland People's Congress), OPO (Ovamboland People's Organisation) and SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organisation) to fight to an end to the cruelties of contract labour and to demand the withdrawal of South Africa from Namibia. Told against the contexts of the United Nations' responsibility for Namibia and the Winds of Change sweeping across Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, the film tracks the many journeys Namibians undertook to campaign for freedom and finally launch the armed struggle at Omugulugwombashe on August 26, 1966
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00:14While the Security Council is considering the grave situation, it may be pertinent to quote Taibo, her men, ya Taibo.
00:25We are Namibians and not South Africans. We do not recognize your right to governance.
00:39You are undressed, standing naked, to look at your behinds, as if you have tails or something.
00:50That is when now you have to be classified. What else depicts slavery than that?
01:01It was humiliating to such an extent that we said enough is enough. We have to do something.
01:19When I passed the police, I deliberately did make sure that you can see this is a black engagement.
01:27When the course was clear, you start talking politics to mobilize the people.
01:35We are the blacks who could not even make a needle. How could we, independence, to do what?
01:52When I was taken out to Kobo building, where I found Captain Swampu.
02:01Swampu asked me a few questions.
02:07Swampu asked me a few questions.
02:19Swampu asked me a few questions.
02:26Swampu asked me a few questions.
02:53Swampu asked me a few questions.
03:14They had six guns and I thought how could these people with six guns liberate the country?
03:28They took off quite early I think it was 6.45. With him was Captain Swanepo plus a captured terrorist
03:37who was going to show them the way and where the camp was.
03:42They took off quite a call. They took off quite a call.

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