ANC recruits receive military training

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

ANC recruits receive military training — ANC Image source

Security Police Chief, Brigadier C.F. Zietsman, announced that about 4,000 South African exiles were undergoing guerrilla training in Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania and Libya; about seventy-five per cent of them were training with Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC).

How we know this

01SAHO uMkhonto We Sizwe [online] Available at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 3 June 2013]
02ANC Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe Leaflet issued by the Command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16th December 1961[online] Available at: www.anc.org.za [Accessed on 3 June 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). ANC recruits receive military training. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012350

South African History Online (2011) 'ANC recruits receive military training', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012350 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).

South African History Online, ANC recruits receive military training [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012350, (accessed 7 October 2026).

"ANC recruits receive military training." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012350. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "ANC recruits receive military training." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012350.