Lilian Ngoyi Passes On On 13 March 1980, a 68-year-old anti-apartheid revolutionary activist and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Lilian Ngoyi, passed on. Ngoyi was…
Charlie Parker Dies at a Very Young Age 70 years ago, 12 March 1955, was the sad passing day of Jazz Virtuoso Charles Parker Jr., born on 29 August 1920,…
The Remarkable Bophuthatswana Insurrection On the morning of 12 March 1994, several news agencies reported on the events of the 11 March 1994, which referred to President Lucas Mangope having…
King Moshoeshoe Passes On On 11 March 1870, King Moshoeshoe I, founder and first Paramount Chief of the Basotho nation passed on and was buried on Thaba Bosiu, which he…
WE REMEMBER KING MOSHOESHOE: 155 YEARS ON “Take the chance that right has to conquer evil no matter the odds, and push for a life where ideals are worth more…
Lucas Mangope Retreats On 10 March 1994, President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid Bantustan, Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after…
ANC and Unrests in the Bantustans On 9 March 1990, the African National Congress (ANC) veteran leader, Walter Sisulu, denied allegations levelled at the ANC by the apartheid South African…
Rhodesmustfall Movement On 9 March 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus of the University of Cape Town,…
Moses Mabhida Passes On On 8 March 1986, Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, political revolutionary, former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Political Commissar and General-Secretary of the SA Communist…
MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested On 7 March 1986, after the apartheid President PW Botha had lifted the state of emergency during a speech in which he…