Mandela Pays a Visit to the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) On 18 March 1962, Nelson Mandela and Robert Resha departed from Rabat in Morocco by train, heading for Oudja,…
Reflecting on the Nkomati Accord and Southern Africa On 16 March 1984, the two leaders of Mozambique and apartheid South Africa, Presidents Samora Machel and P.W. Botha, proceeded to a…
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Novo Catengue Camp is Closed On 16 March 1979, a huge number of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) combatants arrived in Pango Camp, as well as others…
Olof Palme is Assassinated Close to midnight on 28 February 1986, Sven Olof Joachim Palme was walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme in the central Stockholm…
Fidel Castro Resigns On 24 February 2008, the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power unanimously voted Raúl Castro Ruz, Fidel Castro’s brother, as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary…
Birth of Alex La Guma On this day, 20 February 1924, Alex La Guma, was born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. La Guma was a South African novelist,…
4 February 1961 was the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence, called the “Dia do Início da Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional” (Day of the Beginning of the National…
On 22 December 1988, representatives of Angola, Cuba and South Africa signed a final Tripartite Agreement in New York City which called on the parties to request the United Nations…