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…
Haile Selassie I: Throughout History (Haile Selassie’s famous speech condemning inaction and the failure of the League of Nations regarding the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was made on 30 June…
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…
Remembering Gamal Abdel Nasser 55 Years On On this day, 28 September 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second President of…
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…
The Gruesome Sharpeville Massacre The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, outside the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville, in the then Transvaal. After a day…
Joseph Stalin Passes On On 5 March 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died of cerebral haemorrhage in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, Soviet…
On 22 December 1988, representatives of Angola, Cuba and South Africa signed a final Tripartite Agreement in New York City which called on the parties to request the United Nations…