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MK commander Vuyani Tshotsho Manani carries the flame celebrating the ANCs 100th anniversary, which arrived in Cape Town yesterday.

JANELLE SCHROEDER

Staff Reporter

The flame celebrating the ANC’s 100th anniversary has arrived in Cape Town .

Anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg received the torch at the Bo-Kaap Museum just before 3pm yesterday.

President Jacob Zuma lit the torch in Bloemfontein last month, and the flame arrived in the Western Cape on February 1. It will travel to all the provinces.

“You are not just handing it over to me, you are handing it over to all of us,” said Goldberg as he took the torch from his ANC comrades.

More than 100 people were on hand for the flame’s arrival. It will travel around the Western Cape until February 28, when it will go to Robben Island as part of a candlelight vigil. The following day it will move on to Mpumalanga.

“It’s the flame of freedom, a victory over oppression,” Goldberg told the crowd.

“South Africa belongs to all who live here.”

He spoke of the meaning behind the flame and encouraged the audience to carry its spirit in the years to come.

The flame travelled to Langa later in the day.

Goldberg spent 22 years in jail after being found guilty with Nelson Mandela and others at Rivonia Treason Trial in the early 1960s. He was released in 1985 and sought exile in London. He returned to SA in 2002.

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