On 10 January 1988, Mr Obed Amon Mwanza, a Zimbabwean, was killed and six African National Congress (ANC) members were injured when the car in which Mwanza was a driver…
On 10 January 1985, Daniel Ortega took office as the President of Nicaragua after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won with 67 percent of the vote at the November…
On 9 January 1986, a limpet mine exploded and damaged a substation in Jacobs, Durban. Later a second limpet exploded and killed a policeman and injured others and two electrical…
“In December the African National Congress (ANC) received an invitation from the Pan-African Freedom Movement for East, Central and Southern Africa (PAFMECSA) to attend its conference in Addis Ababa in…
The first January 8th statement of the African National Congress (ANC) in exile was issued in 1972, which signified the 60th Anniversary of the founding date of the Movement. This…
“I mean, you judge yourself, being around, crossing from the Zambezi River near Livingstone and then to Botswana and going all in zig-zags, see. And not moving straight along a…
Around 7 January 1969, Chris Hani and six other Comrades signed a document, later known as the “Hani Memorandum”, that accused the African National Congress (ANC) in exile of being…
Extract from Inkosi Albert Luthuli’s Speech to the SA Congress of Democrats (COD) One might ask, “Is this vision of a democratic society in South Africa a realizable vision? Or…
On 6 January 1995, Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's revolutionary struggle and national reconciliation, died after a long battle…
“The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don’t expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.” “In the West…