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… adopt the armed struggle and to create uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the nucleus of a national liberation army. It was not a … his military training in Algeria. In launching itself, MK issued its historic manifesto, with these timeless words; … future and our freedom``. On the 16th of December 1961, MK launched a bombing campaign against government targets. As …

… as a whole. The ANC, with the experience of the 1961- 63 MK sabotage campaigns, tried again between 1967-68 to infiltrate MK fighters into the country through Rhodesia, via the Wankie … was to result in a number of problems, especially with MK soldiers, to the extent that the ANC had to convene the …

… December 16, uMkhonto we Sizwe (The Spear of the Nation - MK) is launched.  A series of explosions takes place in … in its ranks South Africans of all races. Although MK is formed as an organisation affiliated to, but separate … new phase of the armed struggle is established when five MK members, Laloo Chiba , Sirish Nanabhai , Indres Naidoo , …

… also had members among the Treason Trial defendants and in MK when it was formed in 1961. Due to these more militant …

… 23 May, Joe Slovo , central committee member of the SACP, MK Chief of Staff and post apartheid’s first Minister of …

… shift from the sabotage thesis that informed the 1961 - 63 MK campaign, was still based on the belief that guerilla … the Party to have an organised presence, especially in MK camps. Secondly, the Party was not expected to have its … of the ANC, this even resulting in the establishment of MK's Lithuli Detachment. Thanks to the independence of …

… dance and other performances, we invoke and evoke the memories of our common ancestors and forebears who have … a rich inheritance and heritage to us. They bring back memories of the values, norms and morals that have shaped …

… work, especially his portraits. Ranjith Kally’s Natal memories: A magistrate in Mtubatuba Following tough years …

… sources; documents; personal memories; public commemoration; retrospective construction; … public had grown into being the primary bearers of the memories once held and passed on by the generations … related to this date as well: That uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the liberation-movement co-ordinated …

… since identities are closely linked to the common memories, including values, that a group holds. In the case …

… African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) activity was becoming more and more bold, and evident. In March 1980, an MK cache and ANC leaflets were discovered by police in a … its head office from Lusaka to Johannesburg. By 14 March, MK leader Joe Modise announced that the ANC was prepared to …

…  who was a very active cadre in the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) , the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Mk's cadre Thamsanqa Mnyele 26 June, 10 people are killed by …

… Afrikaner nationalists and conversely an important one for MK, as it marked commencement of the armed struggle. But …

… December 1961 the ANC’s military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was launched. With all overt political activity being …

… of 1962 was on the regional command of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) , the Spear of the Nation, the underground people’s army … became in time one of the outstanding commanders of MK and a leading member of the National Executive Committee … I had joined the Western Cape Province regional command of MK as a technical officer. I organised a training school that …

… 9 In 1964, according to Ronnie Kasrils, a founder MK member, he joined about 500 ANC members undergoing … he says, the ANC had between 800 and 1,000 people based at MK camps at Kongwa and Morogoro in Tanzania or on courses in … for guerilla training unlikely. Grundy’s estimate that MK had 2,000 guerillas in 1970 appears to be an …

… 16 December Umkhonto we Sizwe (The Spear of the Nation - MK) is launched. A series of explosions takes place in … in its ranks South Africans of all races’. Although MK is formed as an organisation affiliated to, but separate … requests a meeting in Moscow to discuss assistance to MK. ‘Technical consultations’ with relevant Soviet …

… that it is not the most pleasant thing to revive bitter memories, to invoke the pain and suffering of the past. But, … are saying with one voice: Never and Never Again! My own memories of the Second World War revolve around the hopes of …

… Will Never Make Me Leave My Work by Miriam Tlali; Kippie's Memories and the Early Days of Jazz by Kippie Moeketsi; The …

… Sachs said his world view was informed by his family memories of state-sponsored discrimination and oppression in …

… horror of a former deed, seeking to obliterate from our memories a cruel occurrence which, in its remembering, should …

… Death! Let us, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of MK, salute these heroes for their commitment to the justness … of Wilton Mkwayi and others, it appeared as if the guns of MK had been silenced for all time. Unprecedented State … accord proper place and recognition to that generant of MK we know as umgwenya, who by force of circumstance and in …

… Death! Let us, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of MK, salute these heroes for their commitment to the justness … of Wilton Mkwayi and others, it appeared as if the guns of MK had been silenced for all time.      Unprecedented State … accord proper place and recognition to that generant of MK we know as umgwenya, who by force of circumstance and in …