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… into the ANC’s military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK) Luthuli detachment, under the code name ‘James Stuart’ … for sacrificing his tertiary education in order to join MK, thereby putting ‘the nation before himself’. [xxxii] This … 2016 ↵ [xxv] Anon. ‘Zuma mourns passing of Hermanus Loots, MK veteran’ in Times Live, 25 January 2016, url number …

… returned to South Africa in 1986, he was appointed to lead MK in Cape Town. A year after his return, while still trying …

… involved in politics and trained as an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla and became a unit commander several months …

… left the country to be trained as an  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  “The Spear of the Nation” soldier. The training was … Congress (ANC), to be trained as an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre. Mahlangu was part of a new generation of MK recruits dubbed the June 16 Detachment, as the group was …

… Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) is formed to "hit back by all means within our power in …

… The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and …

… The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and …

… a staging post for being transported to uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, camps in Tanzania, …

… John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South …

… he was doing this, however, he was still working as an MK operative, hand grenading police officers houses and … in 1987 and Vearey was alongside other members of his MK cell.Vearey was arrested in his classroom despite the fact …

… but when he was approached to join  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  towards the end of 1960, he accepted, as he believed … the trial the state claimed that he had become a leading MK organiser and chairman of the ANC's regional …

… He was one of the first recruits of Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), which was established in December 1961. Through the ANC, …

… trained as a guerrilla under u Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Angola instead, in order to oppose the apartheid …

… members of the ANC’s military wing  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)  which was launched on 16 December 1961.After the ANC …

… ANC was banned, Mati was recruited into uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). He was sent to Johannesburg , where he received military … ANC members in the Western Cape. In trying to ensure that MK recruits from the Western and Eastern Cape could travel …

… intended to use to accommodate trained uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres. Their activities were disrupted by the arrest of … known as Nzima. Nyawose’s quick rise to important roles in MK raised some eyebrows among ANC stalwarts and MK cadres who could not understand how a person who had not …

… is a book of black and white photographs, Cape Town Memories of the ‘60s - a collection of evocative images of …

… easy enough to rest on your laurels, and indulge in happy memories of a fine career. Not Mimi Coertse. Her restless …

… were struggling to make ends meet. The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) veteran was due to be hanged after spending eight years …

… into exile to Lesotho, where he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) with the likes of Thenjiwe Mthintso , Slumko Sokupha, …

… sacrifice were documented only in prison files and family memories. This erasure was part of the broader pattern of …

… Mac Maharaj , Pravin Gordhan , and other Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) operatives. During his two five-year terms in parliament, …

… the Special Operations Division of the uMKhonto weSizwe  (MK). Working together with Stephen Marais, Sparg smuggled … became the first white woman convicted as an operative of MK. As the negotiations between the South African government …

… also underwent military training with uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) during this period. In 1985 he spent a year at the Lenin …

… into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent military training in Ethiopia. On his way …

… the country with a group of the first uMkhonto weSizwe  (MK) recruits from Natal for military training. He was …