Yearly Archives: 2026

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Post-June 16 Youth: Responsibility to Achieve Socio-Economic Transformation

Post-June 16 Youth: Responsibility to Achieve Socio-Economic Transformation This theme is a powerful and necessary revolutionary perspective of how South Africa should view Youth Day. It shifts the narrative from…

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June 16, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / National Democratic Revolution / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Ciskei General Charles Sebe is Imprisoned and Convicted

Ciskei General Charles Sebe is Imprisoned and Convicted On 15 June 1984, former Commander of the Armed Forces of the Ciskei, Major-General Charles Sebe, brother of President Lennox Sebe, was…

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June 16, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

40 Years After the MK Bombing of the Magoo’s Bar in Durban

40 Years After the MK Bombing of the Magoo’s Bar in Durban On 14 June 1986, exactly a year after the Gaborone Raid, at approximately 19:00, Robert McBride showed up…

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June 15, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Biographies and Obituaries / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

Remembering Walter Rodney 46 Year On

Remembering Walter Rodney 46 Year On On 13 June 1980, a 38-year-old prominent Marxist scholar, activist and author, Walter Rodney, was killed by a state-planted bomb in Georgetown, Guyana. His…

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June 14, 2026

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / National Democratic Revolution

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the June 16 Soweto Uprisings

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the June 16 Soweto Uprisings. Castro Khwela Good morning fellow Compatriots!

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June 13, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Botha Declares a State of Emergency to Curb June 16 Celebrations

Botha Declares a State of Emergency to Curb June 16 Celebrations On 12 June 1986, apartheid State President P.W. Botha declared a national State of Emergency to curb June 16…

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June 12, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Armed Struggle / Pan Africanism / Sanctions / SWAPO

Oliver Tambo: Act With A Sense of Urgency

Oliver Tambo: Act With A Sense of Urgency (Statement of the President of the African National Congress of South Africa, Oliver Tambo, at the meeting of the UN Special Committee…

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June 11, 2026

1510 – 1906 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Bambatha Uprising: Significance to the Anti-Imperialist Revolution

Bambatha Uprising: Significance to the Anti-Imperialist Revolution Exactly 120 years ago, on 10 June 1906, British colonial troops under the command of Colonel Duncan Mckenzie, which consisted of a large…

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June 10, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / National Democratic Revolution / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Remembering the Moroka Three: Ruthlessly Murdered by the Apartheid Regime

Remembering the Moroka Three: Ruthlessly Murdered by the Apartheid Regime On 9 June 1983, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, Jerry Semano Mosololi (aka “Dragon Mosepedi”), Thelle Simon Mogoerane (aka “Seiso…

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June 9, 2026

1943-1960 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / National Democratic Revolution / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Johannesburg Bar Opposes the Suppression of Communism Bill

Johannesburg Bar Opposes the Suppression of Communism Bill On 8 June 1950, the Johannesburg Bar declared that if the Suppression of Communism Bill was passed, the freedom of people in…

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June 9, 2026