Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro
On 1 February 1974, when Abraham Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro opened a parcel at the house where he was living in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Mission in Khale, eleven kilometres south…
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February 1, 2025
1969-1974 / African National Congress (ANC) / Quotes of inspiration / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)
Vietnam: A People’s Victory – The Paris Peace Accords Signed
On 27 January 1973, the Paris Peace Accords, officially termed as the “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam” were signed. This was a peace agreement…
January 27, 2025
African Unity in the 21st Century
(Extracts from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997) For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated…
January 25, 2025
Amílcar Cabral is Assassinated (52 Years On)
On 20 January 1973, a disgruntled former PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) rival Inocêncio Kani, together with another member of PAIGC, shot and killed…
January 20, 2025
Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation and Culture
Whatever may be the ideological or idealistic characteristics of cultural expression, culture is an essential element of the history of a people. Culture is, perhaps, the product of this history…
January 20, 2025
1969-1974 / African National Congress (ANC) / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Preparing for “Operation J”
On 11 January 1971, Oliver Tambo, Yusuf Dadoo, Moses Mabhida and Fanele Mbali met a group of Soviet politicians, army generals and navy admirals. The meeting took place in a…
January 11, 2025
1969-1974 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Battles / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
The Hani Memorandum (An Analysis)
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…
January 7, 2025
1961-1964 / 1964-1967 / 1967-1968 / 1969-1974 / 1974-1975 / 1976 – 1978 / 1979-1983 / 1984-1990 / 1990 – 1994
The Clausewitzian and Heuristic: Evolution of the ANC Armed Struggle
The Dependent Pillar of the South African Revolution. The paper tries to address the armed struggle as one of the pillars of theSouth African revolution, especially its adoption, together with…
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December 6, 2024