We tend to think of conversation as speech, but obviously listening is also a crucial part of every conversation — in theory, ...

South Africa’s defence establishment is staring down a policy and funding crisis decades in the making. At a recent session ...

South Africa's first Indian female uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldier, Rajes Pillay, who fought for her country during apartheid, is being remembered today with a special tribute at the 1860 Heritage ...

He continued: “There’s no uMkhonto we Sizwe soldier who went and killed a farmer. It’s a chant to motivate people. It was never taken literally. Even during the course of the struggle, it was not ...

He continued: “There’s no uMkhonto we Sizwe soldier who went and killed a farmer. It’s a chant to motivate people. It was never taken literally.

The soldiers were reported missing on Tuesday after they did not return from a training mission, according to the U.S. military. Their vehicle, an M88 Hercules, was found submerged in the bog on ...

"Kill the Boer! Kill the Farmer!" is actually an old Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) chant which dates from the Bush War in Rhodesia. It was then taught to Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres, ...

Dumiso Dabengwa’s death in May 2019 offers the opportunity to reflect on Zimbabwe’s fraught liberation struggle and its consequences today.¹ That Robert Mugabe’s passing was a few months later makes ...

An uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MKP) National Assembly (NA) parliamentarian was told by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga there is no increase in deaths among South African soldiers ...

Joe Modise (1929-2001), a Sophiatown bus driver-turned freedom fighter, was a humble man who tended to avoid the limelight. A protege of the Mandela leadership in the 1950s mass struggle, he was one ...

The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank ...