Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Leaflet issued by the Command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1961) Units of Umkhonto we Sizwe today carried out planned attacks against government installations,…
Preserving and Advocating Umkhonto’s Captivating Heritage Introduction In a statement on the state of organisation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, delivered by the then Umkhonto we Sizwe Army Chief of Staff,…
Oliver Tambo: Our Will and Readiness to Free Ourselves (Opening address by President Oliver Tambo to the ANC’s National Consultative Conference held in Johannesburg from 14 to 16 December 1990).…
OR Tambo Returns from Exile On 13 December 1990, exactly 35 years ago, Oliver Reginald Tambo, the exiled Deputy President and later President of the African National Congress (ANC), returned…
Gang of Eight Expelled from the African National Congress (ANC) Exactly 50 years ago, on 11 December 1975, the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) issued a Statement on…
Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King: “Appeal for Action Against Apartheid” On 10 December 1962, Chief Lutuli and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. initiated a joint…
The Freedom Charter is Our Lodestar: 70th Anniversary “We defend, fight and die for, the ideals enshrined in the Freedom Charter, not because it is an all-time document, but because…
Oliver Tambo: War and Peace (Statement of O.R. Tambo, President ANC – SA – to the International Preparatory Committee of the World Parliament of the Peoples for Peace, Sofia, Bulgaria,…
Michael Dingake Arrested in Figtree, Rhodesia On 8 December 1965, Michael Kitso Dingake, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Secretariat, based in Ramoutsa, in Bechuanaland, was on a…
“El Che, Guerrillero Heroico” Letter from Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, October 1965. “Che wrote a confidential and rather personal letter of resignation to Castro when he left for the…