1953 Anti-Pass Campaign: Langa
On 4 January 1953, hundreds of Black women assembled in Langa Township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. The apartheid regime’s influx control measures and pass laws…
On 4 January 1953, hundreds of Black women assembled in Langa Township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. The apartheid regime’s influx control measures and pass laws…
There’s been a revolution, a black revolution, going on in Africa. In Kenya, the Mau Mau were revolutionaries; they were the ones who made the word “Uhuru” [Kenyan word for…
On 26 December 1987, Mncube and one of his comrades, “Peter”, decided to flee, while the helicopter machine gun fire pursued them. After the helicopter ceased the pursuit, Mncube informed…
If Poverty is not natural, why then are we failing to overcome it as we did slavery, colonialism and apartheid? Castro KhwelaGood afternoon fellow Compatriots!🙏🏾✊🏾👊🏾
On 3 January 1987, Mthetheleli Mncube (aka "Caesar") could no longer walk properly, as his feet were full of thorns, one of his knees was giving him problems, and he…
On Thursday, 2 January 1986, Colonel Eugene de Dock was in Vlakplaas, where he instructed Riaan Bellingan to go to Cape Town, where he was going to operate under the…
On 2 January 1959, Comandante William Alexander Morgan, an American-born Cuban guerrilla Commander, leading the Cuban Revolutionary Directorate (RD) rebel forces, captured the city of Cienfuegos as Batista fled the…
On 1 January 1979, a Politico-Military Strategy Commission (PMSC) was appointed at a Special African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting in Luanda, Angola, following the visit to…
A New Year is all about reminiscing about the bad and good moments of the year gone by. However, a New Year is also like a blank book, with the…
On 31 December 1989, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) ex-mutineers considered the issue of resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This followed a document issued on 28 December 1989,…