Battle of Santa Clara and Batista’s flight On 2 January 1959, Comandante William Alexander Morgan, an American-born Cuban guerrilla Commander, leading the Cuban Revolutionary Directorate (RD) rebel forces, captured the…
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…
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…
OF YOUTH – Tomb of the Unknown Warrior In December 1980, the Editors of Dawn – the Monthly Journal of Umkhonto we Sizwe – published an article titled “Of Youth”,…
Oliver Tambo: New Year Message to U Thant On 29 December 1964, the Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, Oliver Tambo, sent a New Year…
Oliver Tambo: On Talks (ANC President O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Radio Freedom on Visits of Multi-National Corporations to the ANC, January 1986). The ANC met many people both openly…
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…
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…
Nelson Mandela on the ‘Third Force’: I Have Never Seen Such Cruelty While many aspects of “third force” violence are not clear, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report showed…
Sipolilo Campaign – ‘Advanced Group’ to the Zambezi River From 18 to 20 December 1967, the “Advanced Group” of the joint Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and Zimbabwe African People’s Revolutionary…