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  2. Mzala Nxumalo - Wikipedia

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    Following the Soweto Uprising, the apartheid South African regime would mark Nxumalo as a threat. As a result, Nxumalo, like many others, would leave South Africa in exile. [3] While in exile, Nxumalo would join the ranks of ANC's Umkhonto weSizwe and the Communist Party. He would Dedicate time to the liberation movement in Mozambique and Tanzania.

  3. uMkhonto weSizwe - Wikipedia

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    uMkhonto weSizwe (Xhosa pronunciation: [um̩ˈkʰonto we ˈsizwe]; abbreviated MK; lit. ' Spear of the Nation ') was the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC), founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government to bring an end to its racist policies ...

  4. uMkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association - Wikipedia

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    Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) during apartheid.After being banned by the South African government in 1960, both the ANC and MK operated primarily in exile elsewhere in Southern Africa, where large numbers of young South Africans received military training to conduct armed struggle against the apartheid government – primarily sabotage ...

  5. Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) - Wikipedia

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    Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) is a reggae album by Prince Far I, released in 1984 and which he was recording when he was murdered in 1983. [2] The album is named in honor of the fight of the struggle of the militant wing of the ANC. The album was engineered by Overton "Scientist" Brown and Sylvan Morris.

  6. Flag Boshielo - Wikipedia

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    Flag Marutle Boshielo (born 1920; disappeared 20 August 1970) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and communist.He went into exile with the African National Congress (ANC) after the party was banned in 1960 and served as political commissar of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) from 1969 until his disappearance in 1970.

  7. South Africa's new MK party seeks majority win in pivotal ...

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    South Africa's new uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party is aiming to win a parliamentary majority in a May 29 election so that it can implement reforms without resistance from opponents, former President ...

  8. Hermanus Loots - Wikipedia

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    Loots was born on 19 July 1936 at Tamboekievlei (also known as Hertzog; later Mhlangeni) on the banks of the Kat River near Port Elizabeth in the former Cape Province. [1] He was the second of seven children born to Gabriel and Minnie Sophia Loots, [2] who were poor farm-workers descended from the so-called Bastards, a group of Cape settlers of mixed European and Khoi heritage.

  9. James Ngculu - Wikipedia

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    In exile, Ngculu was recruited into the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and also joined the South African Communist Party. [2] After periods in the Soviet Union and war-time Angola as a secretary and commissar , [ 2 ] he rose through the ranks of MK, becoming a founding member of the military intelligence unit and later deputising ...