Peter Nchabeleng Dies in Detention On 11 April 1986, while on his way home from a United Democratic Front (UDF) meeting in Mankweng, Turfloop, Nchabeleng was told that police were…
Chris Hani – Fighter for the Workers and the Poor Extracts from The African Communist Editorial Notes (1st Quarter 1993) The assassination of the General Secretary of the South African…
OR Tambo: First Visit to the Soviet Union On 9 April 1963, returning from a trip to the Soviet Union, based on the invitation of the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee,…
HAMBA KAHLE SOLOMON MAHLANGU On March 2, 1978, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was sentenced to death. He had pleaded ‘not guilty’ and as the death sentence was passed, he raised his…
ANC Calls on OAU (Organisation of African Unity) to Increase Our Striking Power Extracts of the Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation…
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…
Haile Selassie I Crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia On this day, 3 April 1930, Haile Selassie I, born Tafari Makonnen on 23 July 1892, was crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia.…
Nelson Mandela’s Historic Political Rally On 1 April 1990, African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, addressed a crowd of over 300 000 supporters in Port Elizabeth in what…
State of Emergency Declared in the Natal Province On 31 March 1994, apartheid President F.W. de Klerk imposed a state of emergency in the Natal Province, coinciding with a report…
The War Continues – 1977 Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, guerrilla leader and trade unionist, who founded and led the…