Challenges Over the Bechuanaland Route Into South Africa
Challenges Over the Bechuanaland Route Into South Africa Exactly sixty years ago, on 29 May 1966, Mack Futha, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, was deported to Zambia, which implied…
Challenges Over the Bechuanaland Route Into South Africa Exactly sixty years ago, on 29 May 1966, Mack Futha, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, was deported to Zambia, which implied…
Bram Fischer: “What I Did Was Right” Exactly sixty years ago, on 9 May 1966, Abram “Bram” Fischer was sentenced to life imprisonment for his political activities against apartheid and…
The United Republic of Tanzania is Born: A Beacon of the African Revolution On 26 April 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania (Kiswahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) was established…
Nelson Mandela: The Struggle By Other Means On 21 April 1964, newspapers were selling like hot cakes following Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the Pretoria Supreme Court the…
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…
The 1966 Traitorous Coup D’état in Ghana On 24 February 1966, a coup d’état occurred in Ghana, codenamed “Operation Cold Chop”, overthrowing President Kwame Nkrumah while he was visiting China…
Remembering The Intrepid Malcolm X Malcolm X was assassinated on this day, 21 February 1965. Malcolm X, who was born on 19 May 1925, as Malcolm Little, and later became…
Leonid Brezhnev: The World Revolutionary Movement After the Second World War, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev served his country and people with edifying devotion first as second Secretary and later First Secretary…
Revisiting Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Revolution (Review of two books by the Martinique and Algerian revolutionary, the late Frantz Fanon, by A. Langa, The African Communist, No. 25, Second Quarter…
Claude M. Lightfoot: The Lessons of History “In this regard American policy makers obsessed and possessed by some theory of their superiority have learned nothing from the lessons of history.…