MK Natal Machinery

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Armed Struggle / FRELIMO / National Executive Committee (NEC) / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Post-Nkomati Accord Challenges in Swaziland

Post-Nkomati Accord Challenges in Swaziland On 19 April 1984, a combined Swazi Police and Army contingent went to a house in Manzini’s Old Ngwane Park, in Swaziland, where they experienced…

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April 19, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / FRELIMO / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

A Tense Mozambican Atmosphere after the Nkomati Accord

A Tense Mozambican Atmosphere after the Nkomati Accord On 24 March 1984, a New York Times newspaper report claimed that according to African National Congress (ANC) officials in Maputo, the…

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March 24, 2025

1979-1983 / Apartheid Police / Battles / FRELIMO / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The Matola Raid

Sometime towards the midnight of 29 to 30 January 1981, Dick Mtimkulu, the watchman on duty at the headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK’s) Special Operations Unit in Matola, alerted…

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January 30, 2025

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

‘Operation Butterfly’ Unit Operatives Arrested

In the morning of 24 December 1985, the apartheid Security Branch reported that it had arrested top ranking African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives in Durban…

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December 24, 2024

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit Suffers Arrests – Part 3

Accordingly, on 10 November 1984, Robert Dumisa noted in his diary that his Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit Commissar told him that the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF)…

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December 13, 2024

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit Suffers Arrests – Part 2

Following his visit to Swaziland on 28 August 1984, the Commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit, Robert Dumisa, was on 1 September 1984 back in Ingwavuma, where he…

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December 12, 2024

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit Suffers Arrests – Part 1

On 11 December 1984, the apartheid security net was closing on Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Ingwavuma Unit, since in Emachobeni Royal Area of Ingwavuma, the police arrested Vusumuzi Nyawo while…

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December 11, 2024