Remembering Oliver Mtukudzi
‘‘Why do we sing, why is there art? Art is to give life and hope to the people. Art is for healing broken hearts. Like in Zimbabwe, you don’t sing…
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January 23, 2025
Patrice Lumumba is Coldheartedly Executed – Part 2
Patrice Lumumba was sentenced to six months in prison. The trial’s start date of 18 January 1960 was the first day of the Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels, intended…
January 17, 2025
Patrice Lumumba: Extracts of the Speech At the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo’s Independence
“…no Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle, a persevering and inspired struggle carried on from day to day, a struggle, in which we were undaunted by…
January 16, 2025
Albert Luthuli: Freedom is the Apex
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…
January 7, 2025
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…
January 4, 2025
Battle of Santa Clara and Batista’s flight
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…
January 2, 2025
1943-1960 / African National Congress (ANC) / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)
ANC adopts the Youth League Programme of Action
On 17 December 1949, the African National Congress (ANC) adopted a Programme of Action at its 1949 December conference, which marked one of the most important turning points in the…
December 17, 2024