Oliver Tambo Visits the Soviet Union
Oliver Tambo Visits the Soviet Union On 9 April 1963, returning from a trip to the Soviet Union, based on the invitation of the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, Deputy President…
Oliver Tambo Visits the Soviet Union On 9 April 1963, returning from a trip to the Soviet Union, based on the invitation of the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, Deputy President…
Apartheid’s ‘Total Strategy’: Arming the Racist State – Part 1 Introduction On 31 March 1977, the apartheid government released a Defence Force White Paper in the House of Assembly, which…
Three Senior ANC Cadres Arrested in Swaziland Fifty years ago, on 22 March 1976, Jacob Zuma and Albert Dhlomo were arrested in Manzini, Swaziland, and were found with ammunition and…
Oliver Tambo: Addressing the OAU Ad-Hoc Committee on Southern Africa On 22 March 1989, addressing a one-day meeting of the Organisation of African Unity’s (OAU) Ad-Hoc Committee on Southern Africa,…
Minister of Defence P.W. Botha and Rebuilding the SA Defence Industry “South Africa had taken part in a secret international conference ‘at service level’ with friendly nations of the Southern…
The Imaginative Joseph Stalin: 73 Years On Joseph Stalin passed on this day, 5 March 1953, at the age of 75, after having fallen ill and collapsed three days before.…
Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev? Today marks the 95th birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, who was born on 2 March 1931, and unfortunately passed on 30 August 2022. Mikhail Gorbachev was a…
Olof Palme is Assassinated Close to midnight on 28 February 1986, Sven Olof Joachim Palme was walking home from a cinema with his wife, Lisbeth Palme, in the central Stockholm…
Recalling Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo: 35 Years On On 22 February 1991, Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo died in London at the age of 35. The African National Congress (ANC) and its…
Leonid Brezhnev: The World Revolutionary Movement After the Second World War, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev served his country and people with edifying devotion first as second Secretary and later First Secretary…