Tiro’s ‘Turfloop Testimony’ Speech Raises Vorster’s Ire On 6 June 1972, the Johannesburg newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail, wrote the following in its first page, “… we have policemen who…
Mother of the Struggle: Albertina Sisulu Passes On in Johannesburg On 2 June 2011, mother and stalwart of the liberation struggle, Albertina Sisulu, fondly known as “Mama Sisulu”, the wife…
MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested Forty years ago, on 7 March 1986, after the apartheid President PW Botha had lifted the state of emergency during a speech…
ANC Politico-Military Strategy Commission (PMSC) Appointed On 1 January 1979, a Politico-Military Strategy Commission (PMSC) was appointed at a Special African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting in…
The Bureau of State Security (BOSS) vs. the Anti-Apartheid Struggle On 19 November 1970, the head of the apartheid Bureau of State Security (BOSS), General Hendrik Van Den Bergh, briefly…
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…
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…
Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: The Black Consciousness Movement (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…
BPC and SASO-Organised “Viva Frelimo” Rallies On 25 September 1974, “Viva Frelimo” rallies were held in Durban and Turfloop inspired by the establishment of an Interim Authority towards the achievement…
Stephen Bantu Biko: Brutally Murdered in Detention On 12 September 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko died alone in a cell after having been driven in the back of a Land Rover,…