A Victorious Revolution This was a guiding principle developed by Mao Tse Tung, emphasising that successful revolutionary leadership requires a triad of theoretical understanding, historical knowledge, and practical, on-the-ground experience.…
Remembering Moses Mabhida: Forty Years On “Our (party’s) alliance with the national liberation movement has stood the test of time and the strains of illegality. There are not significant differences…
International Women’s Day: Women Must Take Up Arms On 8 March 1971, more than 200 women delegates attended a rally in Lusaka, Zambia, called jointly by women of the liberation…
MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested Forty years ago, on 7 March 1986, after the apartheid President PW Botha had lifted the state of emergency during a speech…
Ideological Deficiency Within the National Liberation Movements “It is often said that national liberation is based on the right of every people to freely control its own destiny and that…
Angola Women’s Day: In Honour of Deolinda de Almeida Rodrigues On the declaration of independence on 11 November 1975, the newly installed government of the People's Republic of Angola declared…
Independent Ghana at the Forefront of the African Revolution On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the…
Organise or Starve: The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) On 5 March 1955, the motto was “Organise or Starve!”, coming from the Inaugural Conference of the South African…
The Imaginative Joseph Stalin: 73 Years On Joseph Stalin passed on this day, 5 March 1953, at the age of 75, after having fallen ill and collapsed three days before.…
ANC Meeting with the Inyandza Movement of KaNgwane Bantustan On 4 March 1986, delegations of the Inyandza National Movement and the African National Congress (ANC) issued a Communique following a…