Bob Marley: 80th Heavenly Birthday
Bob Marley: 80th Heavenly Birthday Robert Nesta Marley (better known as Bob Marley), was born on 6 February 1945 and passed on 11 May 1981, meaning that he would be…
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February 6, 2025
1961-1964 / African liberation movement / Battles / Cuito Cuanavale / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Angola: Day of the Beginning of the National Liberation Armed Struggle
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…
February 4, 2025
1979-1983 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration / South African Defence Force’s (SADF)
Agostinho Neto and Revolutionary Democracy
Antonio Agostinho Neto was one of the best and the more authoritative representatives of the “new wave” of African revolutionary democracy that came to power mainly in the mid-seventies. ……
February 4, 2025
1969-1974 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / FRELIMO / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane is Assassinated
On 3 February 1969, a book containing a bomb was sent to Eduardo Mondlane at the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) Headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It exploded when he…
February 3, 2025
MK Natal Urban Machinery Operatives Betrayed
On 31 January 1980, Grant Shezi and Jeremia Radebe of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Natal Urban Machinery, approached Inanda Seminary, north of Durban, for a meeting with the contact…
January 31, 2025
1979-1983 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / Battles / FRELIMO / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Natal Urban Machinery Ordnance Chief: Krishna “Goodwin” Rabilal
Towards the end of 1980, the apartheid South African security forces devised a plan (codenamed “Operation Beanbag”) for a simultaneous attack on African National Congress (ANC) properties in Swaziland and…
January 30, 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…
January 30, 2025
The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) “Pretoria Three” Arrested
On 29 January 1980, Petrus Mashigo who had been arrested in White River, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province), was handed over by Major van Wyk to apartheid Security Branch Warrant…
January 29, 2025
1979-1983 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
“Operation Santa” Fortified
On 28 January 1982, the Senior Staff Officer of apartheid South African Military Intelligence’s liaison project with Swaziland, dubbed “Operation Santa”, met with the Chief of Staff of the Royal…
January 28, 2025
1994 – Beyond / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Former MK Cadre, Vronda Banda, Joins the Apartheid National Party
On 24 January 1994, The Times of London newspaper reported that with South Africa’s first multi-racial election campaign kicking into high gear, the apartheid National Party (NP) opened an office…
January 24, 2025