On 25 January 1965, Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, failed to arrive in court, forfeited his bail and disappeared. He went underground and was…
On 24 January 1994, The Times of London newspaper reported that with South Africa’s first multi-racial election campaign kicking into high gear, the apartheid National Party (NP) opened an office…
On 5 January 1965, three members of the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba and Andrew Masondo, including an unknown Raymond Nyanda, arrived…
On 25 December 1820, during his imprisonment on Robben Island, Makhanda drowned as he attempted to escape along with 30 other prisoners. The other prisoners survived, who were mostly Xhosa…
On the evening of 15 December 1986, at around 22:00, when the Chairman of the ANC's Regional Political-Military Committee in Swaziland, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, was watching television with his gardener,…
On 12 December 1986, at around 02:00 in the morning, Msizeni Shadrack Matthews Maphumulo, an African National Congress (ANC) Acting Representative in Swaziland, died in police custody after he had…