On 2 February 1989, apartheid State President P.W. Botha announced his intention to resign the National Party presidency while remaining State President, after suffering a mild stroke, on 18 January.…
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…
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…
When Colonel Eugene de Kock, Head of the C10 Vlakplaas Unit of the apartheid Security Branch, with former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, Glory Sedibe (aka “September”), who had been…
On 19 January 1990, a meeting of all African National Congress (ANC) members stationed in the Lusaka area was held in a hall in the Mulungushi Centre, wherein approximately 1…
On Monday, 15 January 1990, while Jacob Rapholo (aka “Thabo”) was standing outside a house in a village near Moria, in the northern Transvaal, a Combi stopped at a nearby…
Around 7 January 1969, Chris Hani and six other Comrades signed a document, later known as the “Hani Memorandum”, that accused the African National Congress (ANC) in exile of being…