Rhodesmustfall Movement
Rhodesmustfall Movement On 9 March 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus of the University of Cape Town,…
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March 9, 2025
1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / FRELIMO / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Moses Mabhida Passes On
Moses Mabhida Passes On On 8 March 1986, Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, political revolutionary, former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Political Commissar and General-Secretary of the SA Communist…
March 8, 2025
1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / National Executive Committee (NEC) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo Gunned Down
Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo Gunned Down On 25 February 1991, the president of the traditional leaders’ organisation, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) and African National Congress (ANC)…
February 26, 2025
Mandela’s Release Accompanied by Fighting Between the UDF and Inkatha
Mandela’s Release Accompanied by Fighting Between the UDF and Inkatha On the morning of 14 February 1990, the Natal Witness newspaper estimated that fighting around Durban and Pietermaritzburg had resulted…
February 14, 2025
Hlubi Chief Langalibalele Imprisoned and Exiled to Robben Island
Hlubi Chief Langalibalele Imprisoned and Exiled to Robben Island On 9 February 1874, considered to be in “rebellion” against the British Empire, the Hlubi Chief, Langalibalele, was imprisoned and exiled…
February 9, 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 / 1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Apartheid Police / National Executive Committee (NEC) / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / South African Defence Force’s (SADF)
De Kock’s Very Effective Traitor: Edward Lawrence aka “Comrade Fear”
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…
January 24, 2025
1953 Anti-Pass Campaign: Langa
On 4 January 1953, hundreds of Black women assembled in Langa Township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. The apartheid regime’s influx control measures and pass laws…
January 4, 2025