Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev? Today marks the 95th birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, who was born on 2 March 1931, and unfortunately passed on 30 August 2022. Mikhail Gorbachev was a…
Oliver Tambo: War and Peace (Statement of O.R. Tambo, President ANC – SA – to the International Preparatory Committee of the World Parliament of the Peoples for Peace, Sofia, Bulgaria,…
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: The Cold War Resuscitated (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…
Beginning of the MK-Angolan Eastern Front On 22 August 1983, the Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in Angola, Uriah Mokeba, wrote a second letter to the Head…
The 26th of July Movement The 26th of July Movement was a revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro in Cuba that aimed to overthrow the authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista,…
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…
Apartheid South Africa Signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) On 10 July 1991, apartheid South Africa, which was by then a nuclear-armed state, signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), after…
The Incredible MK Transvaal Urban Machinery On the morning of 4 May 1979, various newspapers reported that on the evening of 3 May 1979, guerrillas, which consisted of Nicholas Nicky…
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…