All the people we knew were either in detention exile or killed. As young men, we were standing by eagerly to be secretly shuttled out of the country to join Umkhonto We Sizwe to train to ... brother ...

March 29, 1961 – Mandela is acquitted of treason. 1961 – Mandela begins organizing the armed struggle against apartheid, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nations). 1962 – Travels in Africa ...

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) community under the leadership of the African ... the liberation movement came to a conclusion that the struggle for liberation had to continue but had to include armed methods ...

Most South Africans probably assume that a senior ANC committee formally decided to launch an armed struggle prior to launching Umkhonto we Sizwe, but this is not so. Mandela was the key actor in this ...

Once seen as synonymous with South Africa’s liberation struggle, the ANC is now associated with corruption ... As the ANC weakens, opposition parties gain traction. In 2024, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), ...

So it was that Maroo spent 40 years in the struggle. His average built ... skipped the country to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the ANC’s military wing. In MK, Oupa’s nom de guerre was Harrison ...

Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have announced a working partnership, but the announcement has divided ...

Umkhonto We Sizwe Party (MKP) supporters march, 10 March 2025, in Pretoria, to the South African Reserve Bank, against the proposed VAT increase. The march follows a postponement of the national ...

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In an apparent growing revolt against President Jacob Zuma’s elevation of newcomers to the senior positions in the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, a senior KwaZulu-Natal party legislature member ...