Southern African Liberation Movements Meet with the Soviet and Cuban Leadership On 29 March 1977, in Luanda, Angola, leaders of the southern African liberation movements, Oliver Tambo of the African…
Cuito Cuanavale and the Success of the African Revolution in Angola After the 23 March 1988 reversals at Cuito Cuanavale, apartheid South Africa began talks that culminated in the December…
The Disbandment of the Apartheid SADF 31 Battalion On 7 March 1993, the apartheid South African Defence Force’s (SADF) 31 Battalion was disbanded at a public ceremony in the Cape…
MK Mutiny in Viana – The Leadership Intervenes On 7 February 1984, Chris Hani, Andrew Masondo, Joe Modise and two members of the Organisation of African Unity’s (OAU) Liberation Committee…
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…
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. ……