The Gunning Down of the Notorious Sergeant Hlubi On Sunday, 25 June 1978, at about 01:30 in the morning, Detective Sergeant Orphan “Hlubi” Chapi arrived at his home in Rockville,…
African National Congress Reaction to the 1988 Piet Retief Ambushes On 15 June 1988, following the June 8 and 12 Piet Retief ambushes, the African National Congress (ANC) launched an…
Second Piet Retief Gruesome MK Natal Machinery Ambush In the morning of 12 June 1988, apartheid Security Police Officer Flip Theron received a phone call from a woman who had…
The Moroka Three: Judiciously Murdered by the Apartheid Regime On 9 June 1983, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) operatives, Jerry Semano Mosololi (aka “Dragon Mosepedi”), Thelle Simon Mogoerane (aka “Seiso Moletsane”) and…
Reaction to the MK Special Ops SASOL I and II Attacks On 4 June 1980, African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo’s predictions that the SASOL attack would herald an…
The Arrest and Conviction of MK Commander James April On Monday, 31 May 1971, after the news of James April’s imprisonment reached the headquarters of the External Mission of the…
The Assassination of Theophilus “Viva” Dlodlo On 22 May 1987, after a brief appearance at a party in the Thembelihle location of Mbabane, Swaziland, Theophilus Sidima Dlodlo, (aka “Viva Zenge”),…
The Sudden Arrest of the Western Cape “Mobile Unit” In the morning of 16 May 1987, apartheid Security Branch Captain William Liebenberg produced a photo of Pieter Jacobs during his…
Lizo Bright Ngqungwana – Commander of the Western Cape At around 02:00, in the morning of 23 April 1986, while Lizo Bright Ngqungwana was asleep in a three-roomed hut in…
The Fascinatingly Unearthed McKenzie Affair On 16 April 1987, Keith McKenzie arrived as a detainee in the African National Congress (ANC) detention camp in northern Angola, officially called the Morris…