1986 Lesotho Coup D’état: An Analysis Forty years ago, on 20 January 1986, apartheid South Africa’s pressure, which was applied since the beginning of the year, helped to engineer a…
Hands Off the People’s Republic of Angola: Africa Stands Firm Against Imperialism On 13 January 1976, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua, issued…
MK Botswana Machinery Unit Compromised On the morning of 13 January 1979, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Botswana Machinery Unit of seven combatants were waiting in the bush on their…
The Sebokeng Nangalembe Night Vigil Massacre On the night of 12 January 1991, 45 people were killed while attending an all-night vigil held in a tent at 11427, Zone 7,…
Limpet Mine Explodes Substation in Durban Forty years ago, in the evening of 9 January 1986, a limpet mine exploded and damaged a substation in Jacobs, Durban. Later a second…
ANC Declares 1986 the Year of Umkhonto we Sizwe – the People’s Army Exactly forty years ago, on 8 January 1986, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National…
Oliver Tambo: Emulate Moshoeshoe “Today, the voice of Moshoeshoe is calling on us to unite. The enemy is busy trying to set African against African, and black people against one…
The Hani Memorandum Around 7 January 1969, Chris Hani and six other Comrades signed a document, later known as the “Hani Memorandum”, that accused the African National Congress (ANC) in…
JOE SLOVO: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE – THE SACP IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (University of Western Cape Conference to Mark the 70th Anniversary of the SACP, 19 July 1991).…
ANC Politico-Military Strategy Commission (PMSC) Appointed 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…