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
1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Negotiations / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Oliver Tambo Meets with US Secretary of State George Shultz
On 28 January 1987, Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress (ANC), met with the United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington D.C. to use American…
January 28, 2025
1961-1964 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) / Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)
Joe Nzingo Gqabi Arrested
On 26 January 1963, Joe Gqabi was arrested with nine fellow members who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and were deported back to South Africa after being captured in…
January 26, 2025
1961-1964 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
The Arrest of the First Ethiopian-Trained Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Cadres
On 26 January 1963, Detective Inspector Roderick Ivy of the Southern Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police (BSAP) headed to Bulawayo Central Railway Station on information received from the Northern Rhodesia…
January 26, 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
Bra Hugh Passes On
On this day, 23 January 2018, a South African jazz and Afro-fusion music icon, Hugh Masekela, passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.…
January 23, 2025
Remembering Oliver Mtukudzi
‘‘Why do we sing, why is there art? Art is to give life and hope to the people. Art is for healing broken hearts. Like in Zimbabwe, you don’t sing…
January 23, 2025
The Battle of Isandlwana
On 22 January 1879, the Battle of Isandlwana was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British…
January 22, 2025
Inkinga wena kaNdaba iseSandlwana
(The Complication, Son of Ndaba, is What Happened at Isandlwana) “… the Zulus … did what no European army can do. Armed only with lances and spears, without any firearms,…
January 22, 2025
Lenin Passes On
On 21 January 1924, Lenin fell into a coma and died later that day. His official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. The…
January 21, 2025