Carl NiehausSouth Africa’s Military Veterans Act No. 18 of 2011 was a solemn pledge to honour those who sacrificed their lives for freedom, promising them dignity through benefits like housing, ...

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 ...

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.

"There’s no MK (uMkhonto we Sizwe) soldier who was ever instructed to go and kill a farmer just because they are Boer,” he said.

It was then taught to Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres, along with the toyi-toyi, by their ZIPRA instructors in training camps in Zambia in the late 1970s. The words the trainees were made to chant, ...

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 ...

The soldier with the ID card purportedly said he was born in 2005 and was serving in the North Korean military as a rifleman since 2021.

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 ...