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…
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January 21, 2025
1961-1964 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)
Amilcar Cabral and the African Revolution
“If it is true that a revolution can fail even though it is based on perfectly conceived theories – nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory.”…
January 21, 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
Driving Socio-Economic Development and Transformation in Southern Africa
“The availability of land anchors all land-based productive activities, including agriculture, mining, forestry, animal husbandry and tourism. Labour provides the skills which combine with technology and capital for transformation and…
January 18, 2025
Patrice Lumumba is Coldheartedly Executed – Part 2
Patrice Lumumba was sentenced to six months in prison. The trial’s start date of 18 January 1960 was the first day of the Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels, intended…
January 17, 2025
Patrice Lumumba is Coldheartedly Executed – Part 1
On the night of 17 January 1961, between 21:40 and 21:43, Patrice Émery Lumumba, the first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, was put in a line-up…
January 17, 2025
1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
PAC Announces the Suspension of Its Armed Struggle
On 16 January 1994, the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) President, Clarence Mlami Makwetu, announced the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for participation in elections by its…
January 16, 2025
Patrice Lumumba: Extracts of the Speech At the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo’s Independence
“…no Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle, a persevering and inspired struggle carried on from day to day, a struggle, in which we were undaunted by…
January 16, 2025
1967-1968 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Battles / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Maintaining the Frontline
On 15 January 1967, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda wrote to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lieutenant General Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, outlining the results of a policy rethink…
January 15, 2025