On Saturday, 18 December 1982, four explosions occurred at Africa's only nuclear power plant, Koeberg, situated north of Cape Town. The banned African National Congress (ANC) accepted responsibility for the…
On 14 December 1981, members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Transvaal Urban Machinery’s G-6 Unit under the command of Simon Thelle Mogoerane headed to the Capital Park electricity substation…
On 10 December 1981, in Swaziland (now Eswatini), Swazi Police Commissioner Titus Msibi, his Deputy E. Hilary, Secretary A. Dlamini, Lieutenant Colonel Dube, Lieutenant Colonel J. Ndzimandze and Captain S.…
In the early hours of 9 December 1982, racist South African Defence Force (SADF) commandos crossed the border into Lesotho. Their target was a cluster of houses on the outskirts…
Towards the evening of 7 December 1981, Johannes Mnisi (aka “Victor Molefe”) of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Special Operations Unit, was in a car with two apartheid policemen, Major Frederik…
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…
On 5 December 1980, a four-man apartheid South African delegation led by the Director-General of Foreign Affairs, Brand Fourie, secretly met with a three-person Mozambican delegation headed by the Minister…