Efforts to Revive the M-Plan in the 1970s On Sunday morning, 13 April 1975, Bhekisisa Nxasana was in the yard of his house in Clermont, Durban, when a man approached…
Peter Nchabeleng Dies in Detention On 11 April 1986, while on his way home from a United Democratic Front (UDF) meeting in Mankweng, Turfloop, Nchabeleng was told that police were…
50th Anniversary of the Dar es Salaam Declaration of 1975 From 7 to 10 April 1975, the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity…
Chris Hani – Fighter for the Workers and the Poor Extracts from The African Communist Editorial Notes (1st Quarter 1993) The assassination of the General Secretary of the South African…
OR Tambo: First Visit to the Soviet Union On 9 April 1963, returning from a trip to the Soviet Union, based on the invitation of the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee,…
The African National Congress (ANC) is Banned On 8 April 1960, the apartheid Justice Minister Frans Erasmus informed Parliament in Cape Town that the apartheid government had just signed a…
Charlotte Maxeke is Born On this day, 7 April 1871, Charlotte Makgomo (née Mannya) Maxeke was born. Charlotte Maxeke was a social and political activist, religious leader, the first black…
Hamba Kahle King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo – Qhawe lama Qhawe On 6 April 1986, Comrade King Sabata Dalindyebo passed on in Lusaka, Zambia, where he had lived for more than…
HAMBA KAHLE SOLOMON MAHLANGU On March 2, 1978, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was sentenced to death. He had pleaded ‘not guilty’ and as the death sentence was passed, he raised his…
Mandela and De Klerk Meet for the First Time On 5 April 1990, an informal three-hour meeting in Cape Town between Nelson Mandela, as a “free man”, and President F.W.…