Oliver Tambo: Church and Our Struggle (Extracts from a Statement by the President of the African National Congress of South Africa, O.R. Tambo, at the World Consultation of the World…
Wankie – The First Confrontation: The Battle of Inyatuwe River On 13 August 1967, at approximately 00:30, just after midnight, Patrol Officer Hopkins and an African tracker crossed a dry…
Remembering Florence Mophosho (1921 – 1985): Forty Years On (Obituary, “Florence Mophosho, 1921 – 1985”, Sechaba, November 1985) The South African national democratic revolution lost one of its most stout-hearted…
Establishing the Butterfly Unit – The Beginning On 6 August 1985, Commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Natal Machinery, Thami Zulu (real name Muziwakhe Ngwenya), met with the African National…
Mandela Provides Feedback on His Trip Abroad On 28 July 1962, Joe Slovo informed his wife, Ruth First, that a convergence of people working in the South African Communist Party…
Luthuli Detachment: OR Tambo Reacts to Luthuli’s Mysterious Death On 22 July 1967, following a memorial service held for the late President-General of the African National Congress (ANC), Inkosi Albert…
Frantz Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom (Extracts of a Speech by Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black African Writers, 1959) A frequent mistake,…
PW Botha Declares a State of Emergency – 20 July 1985 Exactly forty years ago, on 20 July 1985, at a press conference in Pretoria, apartheid President P.W. Botha claimed…
The Rivonia Arrests – Apartheid Security Branch Pounces on the MK High Command On the morning of 11 July 1963, Lieutenant van Wyk of the apartheid Security Branch had a…
Fidel Castro and Religion (Christianity) According to The Washington Post, the late former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro’s letters from prison suggest that he “was a man of unusual spiritual…