Dedan Kimathi Executed In the early morning of 18 February 1957, Dedan Kimathi Waciuri was executed by hanging at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, and according to documentation, buried within…
UNombhekaphetsheya is a pipe smoked by Xhosa women in the Eastern Cape. The painting was inspired by a jazz song “UNombhekaphetsheya, Inqawe yaseGcuwa, uzuyiphathel’ intokazi”. EGcuwa is a Xhosa name…
What is the Meaning of a National Democratic Revolution – Part 3 The District Development Model as an Agent for Transformation Having employed the District Development Model as a unit…
The UDF Publicly Disowns Winnie Mandela On 16 February 1989, the United Democratic Front (UDF) publicly disowned Winnie Mandela following a series of allegations that finally estranged her from her…
The COSAS Four and the Callous Askaris On the morning of 16 February 1982, at approximately 08:00, police arrived at an old pump room in the mining premises near the…
The Brutal Murder of Bheki Mlangeni On 15 February 1991, 35-year-old Bheki Mlangeni, who was a lawyer working for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s, died instantly after…
John Dube, uMafukuzela was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, political activist, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding President of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC),…
What is the Meaning of a National Democratic Revolution – Part 2 Identifying an Appropriate Unit of Analysis To recap from the previous Part, for the past thirty years since…
Mandela’s Release Accompanied by Fighting Between the UDF and Inkatha On the morning of 14 February 1990, the Natal Witness newspaper estimated that fighting around Durban and Pietermaritzburg had resulted…
MK Mutiny in Angola: The Stuart Commission Report Following the acts of mutiny in the Viana Transit Camp, on 13 February 1984, the Working Committee of the African National Congress…