Angola

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Operation Butterfly: Fighting Continuously & Boldly

Operation Butterfly: Fighting Continuously & Boldly In the morning of 24 December 1985, the apartheid Security Branch reported that it had arrested top ranking African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto…

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December 24, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cuito Cuanavale / Front Line States / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Tripartite Agreement Signed: Towards Resolution 435 Implementation

Tripartite Agreement Signed: Towards Resolution 435 Implementation On 22 December 1988, representatives of Angola, Cuba and South Africa signed a final Tripartite Agreement in New York City which called on…

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December 23, 2025

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / Patriotic Front / RENAMO / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

South Africa-Mozambique Talks in Paris

South Africa-Mozambique Talks in Paris On 5 December 1980, a four-man apartheid South African delegation led by the Director-General of Foreign Affairs, Brand Fourie, secretly met with a three-person Mozambican…

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December 5, 2025

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / Biographies and Obituaries / National Democratic Revolution / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Remembering Petrus Linda Jabane: “The Lion of Chiawelo”

Remembering Petrus Linda Jabane: “The Lion of Chiawelo” Exactly 45 years ago, on the morning of 21 November 1980, at around 04:00, members of the apartheid Security Police knocked on…

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November 21, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Our Right to Fight

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Our Right to Fight (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…

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November 19, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Pretoria Regime Alone in Africa

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Pretoria Regime Alone in Africa (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by…

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November 15, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Apartheid Crisis Deepens

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Apartheid Crisis Deepens (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the President…

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November 14, 2025

1974-1975 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO

Agostinho Neto: Victory is Certain!

Agostinho Neto: Victory is Certain! (Excerpts from a broadcast relayed from 1st May Square in Luanda, where Agostinho Neto, President of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)…

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November 11, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Consolidation and Further Advance

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Consolidation and Further Advance (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…

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November 11, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Counter-Revolution in the Frontline States

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Counter-Revolution in the Frontline States (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by…

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November 10, 2025