The Beginnings of the Anglo-Zulu War: 11 January 1879 On 11 January 1879, when General Chelmsford’s ultimatum to the Zulu Ingonyama uCetshwayo kaMpande to disband the regiments and lay down…
Haile Selassie I: Throughout History (Haile Selassie’s famous speech condemning inaction and the failure of the League of Nations regarding the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was made on 30 June…
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…
Ahmed Sékou Touré Ahmed Sékou Touré, born 9 January 1922, and passed on 26 March 1984, was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first President of…
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…
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).…
Remembering the Incredible Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born James Ngugi on 5 January 1938 and passed on last year, 28 May 2025. Ngũgĩ was a Kenyan revolutionary…
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…
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…