AZANLA
Theme: Pan-African Unity or Perish: A Call for the Abolition of Neocolonialism Greetings from the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) to my fellow panelists and revolutionary activists across Afrika and the globe. There is no overstating the correctness of our desire as oppressed peoples of…
TRIBUTE TO MORAKENYANE THABANG “COBRA” MOTLOLISI 30th OCTOBER 1964 – 05th MARCH 1991 SOCIETY is divided into different and distinctive categories of people. There are those who never challenge the status quo but conform to the current practice by submitting to the authority of the…
GODUKA GUERILLA: A TRIBUTE TO CDE ADVOCATE KABELO LENGANE Political activist and human rights lawyer Adv Kabelo Lengane (56) breathed his last on 17 March 2019 at his house in Bryanston, Johannesburg. It was such an ambush to all Azanians that many of us…
Lest we forget The first Sharpeville Shootings commemoration was held in Sharpeville on 21 March, 1973, at Sediba Lower Primary School. It was called Heroes Day then by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) family of organisations. And that was organised and hosted by the…
On 12 April 1980, the Conference of the Black Consciousness Movement in London managed to bring together most of the disparate BC formations in exile. The Black Consciousness Movement of Azanian (BCMA) was born as an umbrella body that brought together the various BC…
Makhwenkwe Jonathan Mathe, a former Robben Islander and AZANLA soldier, who was popularly known around Pretoria as Fastback, passed away on Wednesday, the 17th February 2016 in Atteridgeville after a long illness. His death has robbed AZAPO of a veteran and a community leader…
Reflecting on his own life, the Bolshevik Novelist and Commissar, Nikolai Ovstrovsky, wrote thus: “Man’s dearest possession is life and since it is given to him, but once-he must so live as not to be besmeared by the shame of a cowardly existence and…
AZAPO Kwazulu Regional Newsletter Volume 1 Issue No 1 – February/March 1996