Cross-Border Raids

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

ANC Declares 1986 the Year of Umkhonto we Sizwe – the People’s Army

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…

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January 8, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Chris Hani: The Demand of the Time

Chris Hani: The Demand of the Time (Address by Chris Hani, the Deputy Commander and Commissar of Umkhonto we Sizwe, to the MK People’s Army, Luanda, Angola, January 1986) “1985…

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December 31, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Operation Butterfly: Fighting Continuously & Boldly

Operation Butterfly: Fighting Continuously & Boldly In the morning of 24 December 1985, the apartheid Security Branch reported that it had arrested top ranking African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto…

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December 24, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The Heartless and Vicious 1985 Lesotho Raid

The Heartless and Vicious 1985 Lesotho Raid Exactly forty years ago, during the early hours of 20 December 1985, at around 01:00, Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock was leading a…

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December 20, 2025

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / Patriotic Front / RENAMO / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

South Africa-Mozambique Talks in Paris

South Africa-Mozambique Talks in Paris On 5 December 1980, a four-man apartheid South African delegation led by the Director-General of Foreign Affairs, Brand Fourie, secretly met with a three-person Mozambican…

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December 5, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Oliver Tambo: The Spirit of Arusha is a Challenge to Us

Oliver Tambo: The Spirit of Arusha is a Challenge to Us (Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC Conference “Peoples of the World United Against Apartheid for a Democratic…

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December 4, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Our Common Victory is Assured

Our Common Victory is Assured (Address by Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM, at the Opening of the ANC Conference, Arusha,1 December 1987). “This year…

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December 3, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Landmine Warfare in the Northern Transvaal

Landmine Warfare in the Northern Transvaal On the morning of 26 November 1985, at approximately 08:20, an employee of Petermix, a cement delivery company, Elijah Mokgamatha heard a huge blow…

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November 26, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Our Right to Fight

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Our Right to Fight (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…

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November 19, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Political Maturity

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Political Maturity (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the President of…

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November 18, 2025