Nelson Mandela on the Sharpeville Massacre The Sharpeville Massacre occurred 66 years ago, on 21 March 1960, outside the police station in the Vaal township of Sharpeville, in the then…
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: The Suppressed African Revolutionary On 27 February 1978, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe passed on in the Kimberley General Hospital because of lung complications after having been hospitalised in…
Signing the D.F. Malan Accord: 12 February 1991 On 12 February 1991, the apartheid South African Government and the African National Congress (ANC) signed the then secret D.F. Malan Accord,…
Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: The Black Consciousness Movement (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…
Remembering Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere “Neo-colonialism is being fought more effectively, I think, with a new leadership in Africa. And I believe the one region which can lead this fight…
BJ Vorster Tenders his Resignation as Apartheid Prime Minister On 19 September 1978, John Vorster shocked the nation by tendering his resignation as Prime Minister for the apartheid government, at…
Umkhonto we Sizwe Cadres Removed from Kongwa On 1 September 1969, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) approved the prolonged stay and training of…
Captain Dirk Coetzee Takes Over Command of Vlakplaas On 15 August 1980, Captain Dirk Coetzee of the apartheid South African Police arrived at a forty-four-hectare farm located approximately seven kilometres…
Mandela Reports to Luthuli on his Trip Abroad On 1 August 1962, Nelson Mandela met with the President of the African National Congress (ANC), Inkosi Albert Luthuli, in a house…
Mandela Provides Feedback on His Trip Abroad On 28 July 1962, Joe Slovo informed his wife, Ruth First, that a convergence of people working in the South African Communist Party…