Oliver Tambo – The Spirit of Bandung (On 18 – 24 April 1955, the first large-scale Afro–Asian Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference, which was a meeting of Asian…
15 April World Art Day: Evoking the Medu Arts Ensemble April 15 is celebrated annually as World Art Day, which was a global initiative dedicated to promoting the understanding, development,…
King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo – Qhawe lama Qhawe On 6 April 1986 – precisely forty years ago – King Sabata Dalindyebo passed on in Lusaka, Zambia, where he had lived…
Apartheid Enemy Agents: The Shishita Report and Challenges of Fazenda On 17 March 1981, a team from the African National Congress’s (ANC) Department of National Intelligence and Security (NAT) Security…
International Women’s Day: Women Must Take Up Arms On 8 March 1971, more than 200 women delegates attended a rally in Lusaka, Zambia, called jointly by women of the liberation…
MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested Forty years ago, on 7 March 1986, after the apartheid President PW Botha had lifted the state of emergency during a speech…
Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo Gunned Down On 25 February 1991, exactly 35 years ago, the President of the traditional leaders’ organisation, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) and…
The Brutal Murder of Bheki Mlangeni On 15 February 1991, 35-year-old Bheki Mlangeni, who was a lawyer working for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s, died instantly after…
OR Tambo Returns from Exile On 13 December 1990, exactly 35 years ago, Oliver Reginald Tambo, the exiled Deputy President and later President of the African National Congress (ANC), returned…
Michael Dingake Arrested in Figtree, Rhodesia On 8 December 1965, Michael Kitso Dingake, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Secretariat, based in Ramoutsa, in Bechuanaland, was on a…