The Matola Raid
Sometime towards the midnight of 29 to 30 January 1981, Dick Mtimkulu, the watchman on duty at the headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK’s) Special Operations Unit in Matola, alerted…
Sometime towards the midnight of 29 to 30 January 1981, Dick Mtimkulu, the watchman on duty at the headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK’s) Special Operations Unit in Matola, alerted…
On 29 January 1980, Petrus Mashigo who had been arrested in White River, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province), was handed over by Major van Wyk to apartheid Security Branch Warrant…
On 29 January 1980, ANC President, OR Tambo, issued a statement acknowledging Silverton Trio’s membership of the African National Congress (ANC) and made a tribute to their actions. “The Apartheid…
On 28 January 1982, the Senior Staff Officer of apartheid South African Military Intelligence’s liaison project with Swaziland, dubbed “Operation Santa”, met with the Chief of Staff of the Royal…
When Colonel Eugene de Kock, Head of the C10 Vlakplaas Unit of the apartheid Security Branch, with former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, Glory Sedibe (aka “September”), who had been…
On the morning of 13 January 1979, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Botswana Machinery Unit of seven combatants was waiting in the bush on their route to Ga-Rankuwa. The Unit…
“The real solution lies in the victory of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of the apartheid machinery and the transfer of political and economic power to the democratic majority.” “……
On 1 January 1979, a Politico-Military Strategy Commission (PMSC) was appointed at a Special African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting in Luanda, Angola, following the visit to…
On 29 December 1983, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former Commanding Officer of the Simonstown Naval Base, and his second wife Ruth Gerhardt, were sentenced to life imprisonment and ten years’ imprisonment…
On 28 December 1981, at around 11:00 in the morning, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, Jerry Joseph Mosololi and “Bruce”, were inside their G-6 Unit’s underground dwelling in the Apies…
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