Africa

1974-1975 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

ANC Calls on OAU (Organisation of African Unity) to Increase Our Striking Power

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…

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April 5, 2025

1912 – 1943 / African liberation movement / Battles / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Haile Selassie I Crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia

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.…

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April 3, 2025

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Pan Africanism / Sanctions / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Southern African Liberation Movements Meet with the Soviet and Cuban Leadership

Southern African Liberation Movements Meet with the Soviet and Cuban Leadership On 29 March 1977, in Luanda, Angola, leaders of the southern African liberation movements, Oliver Tambo of the African…

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March 29, 2025

1967-1968 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Battles / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC – 27 March 1968

Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC – 27 March 1968 Sechaba Interviews Oliver Tambo, Acting President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, on Southern Africa, South…

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March 27, 2025

1974-1975 / 1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Three Senior ANC Cadres Arrested in Swaziland

Three Senior ANC Cadres Arrested in Swaziland On 23 March 1976, when Thabo Mbeki was apprehended on the roadside, from Mozambique to Manzini, he did not know that Jacob Zuma…

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March 23, 2025

1943-1960 / African liberation movement

Joseph Stalin Passes On

Joseph Stalin Passes On On 5 March 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died of cerebral haemorrhage in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, Soviet…

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March 5, 2025

1994 – Beyond / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

Fidel Castro Resigns

Fidel Castro Resigns On 24 February 2008, the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power unanimously voted Raúl Castro Ruz, Fidel Castro’s brother, as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary…

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February 25, 2025

1964-1967 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

Remembering Malcolm X

Remembering Malcolm X Exactly 60 years ago, 21 February 1965 marks a dark day in African and American history. After receiving numerous threats, Malcolm X was assassinated at the young…

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February 21, 2025

1969-1974 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

African Unity in the 21st Century

(Extracts from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997) For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated…

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January 25, 2025

1969-1974 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

Amílcar Cabral is Assassinated (52 Years On)

On 20 January 1973, a disgruntled former PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) rival Inocêncio Kani, together with another member of PAIGC, shot and killed…

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January 20, 2025