"Did they come with any sand to this country? At which point of this country did they enter with sand in their bags to claim they own the land in ... Read More

Three years after the start of the Defiance Campaign, anti-Apartheid activists held a Congress of the People in a Johannesburg suburb, Kliptown. Delegates ratified the Freedom Charter. The document set ... Read More

Gamal Abdel Nasser had already been acting head of state for Egypt since 14 November 1954 as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council (as well as taking over from Muhammad Naguib ... Read More

"Every one of us is able in his own way to perform a miracle." Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt from 25 June 1956 to 28 September 1970, a quoted in ... Read More

Considered by Winston Churchill as "one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war", Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika captured Tobruk on 21 June 1942. Allied forces were overrun and ... Read More

During the pre-revolution period before 1952 there were three main political groups in Egypt: Wafd, a nationalist organization which opposed British influence; King Faruk I, installed by the British, and ... Read More

"The children have shown us all the inevitable consequences if this government continues to display the insane arrogance and power satiated pride which is rapidly bringing us to disaster." Sheena Duncan, ... Read More

On 11 July 1963 a raid was undertaken on Lilieslief farm in Rivonia, near Johannesburg, which was being used by the MK as headquarters. The remaining leadership of the MK ... Read More

A law suit, dating back to 1996, and which according to Jennie Green (a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights who initiated the lawsuit) "was one of the first ... Read More

"Honestly, I wish that all Africans could behave in the same way, that is to say, as though the country belongs to everybody ... Mandela and De Klerk have ... Read More

Following the secession of Biafra on 30 May (announced by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu), the Nigerian government initiated a 'police action' with two columns of Federal troops heading into Biafra. The ... Read More

Jacob Zuma announced a new public holiday in South Africa -- Mandela Day -- in his maiden State of the Nation address, 3 June 2009, Cape Town, to the cheers ... Read More

"I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any ... Read More