Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / Front Line States / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF)

Hands Off the People’s Republic of Angola: Africa Stands Firm Against Imperialism

Hands Off the People’s Republic of Angola: Africa Stands Firm Against Imperialism On 13 January 1976, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua, issued…

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January 14, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Heroes and Veterans Remembered

Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Heroes and Veterans Remembered (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…

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November 12, 2025

1974-1975 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO

Agostinho Neto: Victory is Certain!

Agostinho Neto: Victory is Certain! (Excerpts from a broadcast relayed from 1st May Square in Luanda, where Agostinho Neto, President of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)…

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November 11, 2025

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / FRELIMO / Front Line States / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Oliver Tambo: A Future Free of Exploitation

Oliver Tambo: A Future Free of Exploitation (Extracts from ANC President Oliver Tambo’s address to the First Congress of the MPLA – Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola –…

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October 25, 2025

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Oliver Tambo: Racists Humiliated

Oliver Tambo: Racists Humiliated (Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress of South Africa, spent two weeks in the People’s Republic of Angola as a guest of the Popular…

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October 21, 2025

1974-1975 / Battles / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The Disbandment of the Apartheid SADF 31 Battalion

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…

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March 7, 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…

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February 4, 2025