Oliver Tambo: New Year Message to U Thant On 29 December 1964, the Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, Oliver Tambo, sent a New Year…
Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King: “Appeal for Action Against Apartheid” On 10 December 1962, Chief Lutuli and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. initiated a joint…
Oliver Tambo: The Victory Of Our Cause Is Assured (Extracts of an Address by Oliver Reginald Tambo, Acting President of the African National Congress, before the Plenary Meeting of the…
Umkhonto we Sizwe Cadres Removed from Kongwa On 1 September 1969, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) approved the prolonged stay and training of…
First Confrontation Between PLAN and the Apartheid Security Forces On 26 August 1966, the South West African Liberation Army (SWALA), the predecessor to the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN),…
Freedom Can Be Won Only Through Struggle (Extracts from Thomas Sankara’s speech to the Thirty-ninth Session of the UN General Assembly on October 4, 1984). “The truth of the righteous…
The Largest Group of MK Recruits Arrested in the Early 1960s On the morning of 10 June 1963, at approximately 06:00, when apartheid Police Sergeant Ferreira arrived at the Rustenburg…
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…
Southern African Liberation Movements Meet with the Soviet and Cuban Leadership On 29 March 1977, in Luanda, Angola, leaders of the southern African liberation movements, Oliver Tambo of the African…
“In 1958, the General Assembly of the United Nations established a Commission on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources, and instructed it to conduct a full survey of the status of…