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.…
Oliver Tambo: New Year Message to U Thant On 29 December 1964, the Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, Oliver Tambo, sent a New Year…
HAPPY KWANZAA! TO OUR AFRICAN BRETHREN IN THE DIASPORA Kwanzaa is a time of learning, family and celebration. During the week of Kwanzaa, from 26 December to 1 January, families…
Michael Dingake Arrested in Figtree, Rhodesia On 8 December 1965, Michael Kitso Dingake, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Secretariat, based in Ramoutsa, in Bechuanaland, was on a…
“El Che, Guerrillero Heroico” Letter from Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, October 1965. “Che wrote a confidential and rather personal letter of resignation to Castro when he left for the…
Who Betrayed Bram Fischer? On 16 November 1964, a leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) stood up in court and pointed out eight persons who he said were…
Joe Modise Appointed as Commander-in-Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Exactly sixty years ago, on this day, 23 November 1965, leaders of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) External Mission visited…
First Confrontation Between PLAN and the Apartheid Security Forces On 26 August 1966, the South West African Liberation Army (SWALA), the predecessor to the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN),…
Amílcar Cabral: The Weapon of Theory (1966) Both in colonialism and in neo-colonialism the essential characteristic of imperialist domination remains the same: the negation of the historical process of the…
Challenges Over the Bechuanaland Route On 29 May 1966, Mack Futha was deported to Zambia, thus implying that his mission to establish a pipeline into South Africa through Bechuanaland was…