Freedom Can Be Won Only Through Struggle (Extracts from Thomas Sankara’s speech to the Thirty-ninth Session of the UN General Assembly on October 4, 1984). “The truth of the righteous…
The KaNgwane and Ingwavuma Plot Systematically Halted On 18 June 1982, the Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the…
TELLING OUR OWN STORIES, OUR HISTORY, OUR HERITAGE Storytelling, especially about our history, has always been at the heart of African culture and life. Through song, art, poetry, dance and…
The Incredible Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…
Morogoro Consultative Conference Strategy and Tactics The African Masses – the Main Force for Liberation It has to be acknowledged, and it cannot be denied that the major accomplishment of…
The Spirit of Bandung: O.R. Tambo’s Reflections on the Bandung Conference Extracts from the Speech of the then African National Congress (ANC) President O.R. Tambo on the Bandung Conference, which…
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,…
The African National Congress (ANC) is Banned On 8 April 1960, the apartheid Justice Minister Frans Erasmus informed Parliament in Cape Town that the apartheid government had just signed a…
Charlotte Maxeke is Born On this day, 7 April 1871, Charlotte Makgomo (née Mannya) Maxeke was born. Charlotte Maxeke was a social and political activist, religious leader, the first black…
Apartheid South Africa Withdrawn from the British Commonwealth On 15 March 1961, at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, apartheid South Africa announced that it was to withdraw from the Commonwealth…