On 6 January 1995, Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's revolutionary struggle and national reconciliation, died after a long battle…
On 5 January 1965, three members of the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba and Andrew Masondo, including an unknown Raymond Nyanda, arrived…
On 4 January 1953, hundreds of Black women assembled in Langa Township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. The apartheid regime’s influx control measures and pass laws…
On 26 December 1987, Mncube and one of his comrades, “Peter”, decided to flee, while the helicopter machine gun fire pursued them. After the helicopter ceased the pursuit, Mncube informed…
On 3 January 1987, Mthetheleli Mncube (aka "Caesar") could no longer walk properly, as his feet were full of thorns, one of his knees was giving him problems, and he…
On Thursday, 2 January 1986, Colonel Eugene de Dock was in Vlakplaas, where he instructed Riaan Bellingan to go to Cape Town, where he was going to operate under the…
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 Luanda, Angola, following the visit to…
On 31 December 1989, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) ex-mutineers considered the issue of resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This followed a document issued on 28 December 1989,…
On 30 December 1962, the lorry that brought the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) recruits to Mamre for military training arrived to collect them, as they got at the back in…
(Extract from the January 8 Statement, delivered by African National Congress President Oliver Tambo, 1987) We must unite all these forces, both Black and White, around the democratic perspective for…