MK Special Ops Apartheid-Shattering Church Street Bombing On Friday, 20 May 1983, at approximately 16:28, a huge blast on Church Street made a black plume of smoke to emanate from…
The George Hodges Hijacking Incident On the morning of 19 May 1989, a contingent of 174 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres, who had been withdrawn from Angola as part of…
The Pango Mutiny: Part 1 – the Brutal Sunday On 13 May 1984, at the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) camp in Pango, approximately 45 kilometres from Quibaxe town, north of…
The Incredible MK Transvaal Urban Machinery On the morning of 4 May 1979, various newspapers reported that on the evening of 3 May 1979, guerrillas, which consisted of Nicholas Nicky…
Victory of the People’s War Against Fascism: 9 May 1945 Every year on 9 May in the former Soviet Union and now in the Russian Republic the day is celebrated…
The Morogoro Consultative Conference of the African National Congress (Merged extracts of articles from Sechaba, July 1969 and July 1979) “CLOSE RANKS! This is the order to our people; our…
The Spirit of Bandung: O.R. Tambo’s Reflections on the Bandung Conference Extracts from the Speech of the then African National Congress (ANC) President O.R. Tambo on the Bandung Conference, which…
OR Tambo Passes On On 24 April 1993, after suffering complications following a stroke, Oliver Tambo passed on at the age of 75. His death came 14 days after Chris…
The Pretoria-Based Moses Mabhida Unit In the early evening of 15 April 1988, Odirile Meshack Maponya (aka “Mainstay Chibuku”) was driven by Peter Maluleka through central Pretoria, and they stopped…
MK G-5 Unit Attack on the Booysens Police Station On 4 April 1980, the golden Ford Valiant that was used in the attack of the Booysens Police Station in the…