On 22 December 1988, representatives of Angola, Cuba and South Africa signed a final Tripartite Agreement in New York City which called on the parties to request the United Nations…
On 19 December 1992, apartheid State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two Generals and four Brigadiers, were being forcibly…
On Saturday, 18 December 1982, four explosions occurred at Africa's only nuclear power plant, Koeberg, situated north of Cape Town. The banned African National Congress (ANC) accepted responsibility for the…
Accordingly, on 10 November 1984, Robert Dumisa noted in his diary that his Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit Commissar told him that the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF)…
Following his visit to Swaziland on 28 August 1984, the Commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit, Robert Dumisa, was on 1 September 1984 back in Ingwavuma, where he…
On 11 December 1984, the apartheid security net was closing on Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit, since in Emachobeni Royal Area of Ingwavuma, the police arrested Vusumuzi Nyawo while…
On 10 December 1981, in Swaziland (now Eswatini), Swazi Police Commissioner Titus Msibi, his Deputy E. Hilary, Secretary A. Dlamini, Lieutenant Colonel Dube, Lieutenant Colonel J. Ndzimandze and Captain S.…
In the early hours of 9 December 1982, racist South African Defence Force (SADF) commandos crossed the border into Lesotho. Their target was a cluster of houses on the outskirts…
G.C. “Castro” Khwela holds a Masters Degree in Military Science from Stellenbosch University and a Bachelor of Administration degree from the University of Limpopo. He joined the Faculty of Military…