ANC-Mozambique Relations’ Impact on the Armed Struggle
ANC-Mozambique Relations’ Impact on the Armed Struggle On 30 May 1983, a New York Times newspaper article maintained that “Mozambique could be ruined by South Africa, and that appears to…
Haile Selassie I Crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I Crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia On this day, 3 April 1930, Haile Selassie I, born Tafari Makonnen on 23 July 1892, was crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia.…
Taking MK Recruits for Advanced Guerrilla Training in Algeria – March 1963
Taking MK Recruits for Advanced Guerrilla Training in Algeria – March 1963 On 26 March 1963, a group of thirty-three Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) recruits that left Dar es Salaam,…
Mandela Pays a Visit to the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale)
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,…
Joe Nzingo Gqabi Arrested
On 26 January 1963, Joe Gqabi was arrested with nine fellow members who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and were deported back to South Africa after being captured in…
The Arrest of the First Ethiopian-Trained Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Cadres
On 26 January 1963, Detective Inspector Roderick Ivy of the Southern Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police (BSAP) headed to Bulawayo Central Railway Station on information received from the Northern Rhodesia…
African Unity in the 21st Century
(Extracts from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997) For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated…