In the morning of 24 December 1985, the apartheid Security Branch reported that it had arrested top ranking African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives in Durban…
On the morning of Monday, 23 December 1985, Andrew Sibusiso Zondo and Thembinkosi Jacob Mofokeng travelled by taxis from Lamontville to Amanzimtoti, from where they walked to a Sanlam shopping…
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 21 December 1985, Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock reported to have successfully led a unit of six men on a raid in Maseru. De Kock was tasked with this…
During the early hours of 20 December 1985, at around 01:00, Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock was leading a unit of six men, as they were deployed at one of…
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…
On 8 January 1986, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) declared 1986 the Year of Umkhonto we Sizwe – the People’s Army. Delivering the Statement,…
Perhaps one should begin by saying that the relative freedoms we enjoy today, albeit not yet reflective of what we envisaged in the Freedom Charter, did not come cheap. It…
On the evening of 15 December 1986, at around 22:00, when the Chairman of the ANC's Regional Political-Military Committee in Swaziland, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, was watching television with his gardener,…
On 14 December 1981, members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Transvaal Urban Machinery’s G-6 Unit under the command of Simon Thelle Mogoerane headed to the Capital Park electricity substation…