25 March: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade One of the most horrific crimes in history, slavery and the transatlantic slave trade,…
Remembering Moses Mabhida: Forty Years On “Our (party’s) alliance with the national liberation movement has stood the test of time and the strains of illegality. There are not significant differences…
International Women’s Day: Women Must Take Up Arms On 8 March 1971, more than 200 women delegates attended a rally in Lusaka, Zambia, called jointly by women of the liberation…
Masabalala Bonnie Yengwa: World Church Support for Liberation Movements (Extracts from a Report Provided by M.B. Yengwa on the Role of the World Church Movement in the Fight Against Imperialism,…
The Bureau of State Security (BOSS) vs. the Anti-Apartheid Struggle On 19 November 1970, the head of the apartheid Bureau of State Security (BOSS), General Hendrik Van Den Bergh, briefly…
Umkhonto Penetrating Mozambique Alongside FRELIMO Forces On 20 June 1967, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership decided that infiltration through Mozambique was impracticable. Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldiers would have…
MK Mobilising the First Group for the Wankie Campaign On 19 June 1967, following the meeting held at Dr Randeree’s plot in Lusaka two days before, a large group of…
ANC-Mozambique Relations’ Impact on the Armed Struggle On 30 May 1983, a New York Times newspaper article maintained that “Mozambique could be ruined by South Africa, and that appears to…
50th Anniversary of the Dar es Salaam Declaration of 1975 From 7 to 10 April 1975, the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity…
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…