MK Mobilising the First Group for the Wankie Campaign
On 19 June 1967, following the meeting held at Dr Randeree’s plot in Lusaka two days before, a large group of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres were gathered in Kaluwe’s Farm, approximately 40 kilometres east of Lusaka. The mobilisation began on 18 June, when a group of nine, namely Joseph Nduli, Daluxolo Luthuli, Leonard Nkosi, Kenneth Mzathi, John Makgotsi, Columbus Mohapi, Lucas Dolcin, Audie Moloto and Siphiwe Radebe, were taken from Kongwa Camp, in Dodoma, to a camp in Morogoro, in a Land Rover driven by Boy Otto.
At Morogoro, they found a number of other MK cadres already there. Breaking the ice, Daluxolo Luthuli asked Philemon Biyela, one of the Morogoro-based cadres, about what happed to Duncan Khoza. Biyela responded that Khoza went along with Styles Makama, Badman Ngwaxela, John Ngisi and Spy Motsila to the Mozambique area, where they were clad in khaki uniform with peaked caps, and each was armed with a Russian submachine gun and Chinese grenades. Their task was to reach the Shangaan-speaking areas of South Africa via the Kruger National Park. Apparently they were violently repelled by the Portuguese forces in Mozambique’s Niassa and Cabo Delgado Provinces and retreated back to Tanzania.
On 19 June, after the group from Kongwa had arrived in Morogoro, Berry Nkosi showed up in a Land Rover and took seventeen guerrillas south to Mbeya, where they found Archie Sibeko waiting, who then drove them into Zam
