Apartheid

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Battles / 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) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) / Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)

Apartheid Enemy Agents: The Shishita Report and Challenges of Fazenda

Apartheid Enemy Agents: The Shishita Report and Challenges of Fazenda On 17 March 1981, a team from the African National Congress’s (ANC) Department of National Intelligence and Security (NAT) Security…

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March 17, 2026

1961-1964 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

Apartheid South Africa Withdrawn from the British Commonwealth

Apartheid South Africa Withdrawn from the British Commonwealth On 15 March 1961, at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, apartheid South Africa announced that it was to withdraw from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…

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March 15, 2026

1969-1974 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage

Apartheid and Jazz: Arts, Culture and Heritage Focus

Apartheid and Jazz: Arts, Culture and Heritage Focus (Extracts from an Article by Peter Sinclair, published in Sechaba, August 1970) “On my arrival in South Africa some ten years ago…

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March 15, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / Sanctions / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

ANC Headquarters in London is Bombed

ANC Headquarters in London is Bombed On 14 March 1982, the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in Islington, London, England, was bombed. Historically, these offices served as the ANC’s headquarters…

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March 14, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism

Lilian Ngoyi: These Are Also Hours of Serious Danger

Lilian Ngoyi: These Are Also Hours of Serious Danger Remembering MaNgoyi: 25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980 “The minister of native affairs has announced that African women will in…

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March 13, 2026

1967-1968 / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / South African Defence Force’s (SADF)

Minister of Defence P.W. Botha and Rebuilding the SA Defence Industry

Minister of Defence P.W. Botha and Rebuilding the SA Defence Industry “South Africa had taken part in a secret international conference ‘at service level’ with friendly nations of the Southern…

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March 12, 2026

1990 – 1994 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / National Democratic Revolution / Negotiations / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The Massive Collapse of the Bantustan “Homelands” System

The Massive Collapse of the Bantustan “Homelands” System On 9 March 1990, the African National Congress (ANC) veteran and stalwart leader, Walter Sisulu, denied allegations levelled at the ANC by…

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March 9, 2026

1994 – Beyond / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism

Cuba-Africa Solidarity

Cuba-Africa Solidarity (Excerpts of President Nelson Mandela’s address at the opening of the first Southern African Cuba Solidarity Conference in Johannesburg in October 1995, held in Johannesburg from 6 –…

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February 22, 2026

1984-1990 / 1994 – Beyond / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / SWAPO

Remembering The Perennial Activist: Jesse Jackson

Remembering The Perennial Activist: Jesse Jackson On 2 November 1985, Reverend Jesse Jackson addressed a massive anti-apartheid rally, a crowd of approximately 120,000 to 150,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square.…

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February 18, 2026

Samora Machel: The People Will Triumph

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / FRELIMO / Front Line States / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Samora Machel: The People Will Triumph

Samora Machel: The People Will Triumph (Extracts of a Speech Delivered by President Samora Machel on 14 February 1981, following the racist aggressive incursion into the People’s Republic of Mozambique…

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February 14, 2026