Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1984, musician Prince Far I's album Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) was released (posthumously) in an act of solidarity with the uMkhonto weSizwe. In 1987, a benefit hardcore compilation album Viva uMkhonto! was released on the Dutch label Konkurrel.
He was born Gcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile on 6 October 1957. [1] His father, Dumile Kondile, who died at the age of 90 in February 2023, was a prominent lawyer, magistrate in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape and was later appointed as a judge for the Pietermaritzburg High Court, KwaZulu Natal (KZN).
uMkhonto weSizwe (Zulu for 'Spear of the Nation'), abbreviated as MK, and often referred to as the MK Party, is a South African left-wing populist [4] [7] political party founded in December 2023. The party is named after uMkhonto weSizwe (also shortened to MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC) which was active ...
Events from the year 1962 in South Africa.This year is notable for its internal and international resistance campaigns against the country's Apartheid legislation. Umkhonto we Sizwe, the militant wing of the African National Congress, made its first sabotage attacks in 1961, and Nelson Mandela traveled to Ethiopia to rally support for Umkhonto and justify the attacks.
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan (1 December 1925 – 7 February 2020) was a white South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. [1] He flew for the South African Air Force during the Second World War, trained as an artist, then became Umkhonto we Sizwe's first explosives expert.
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 ...
uMkhonto we Sizwe was the military wing of the African National Congress. uMkhonto we Sizwe may also refer to: Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), a 1984 album by Prince Far I; uMkhonto we Sizwe (political party), a political party formed in 2023 and led by Jacob Zuma
Members of South Africa's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party were sworn in as lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday after boycotting the first sitting of the National Assembly nearly two weeks ago. MK ...