📅 1 September 1986
The summit placed apartheid and Namibia at the center of the international agenda. Representatives of liberation movements, including Oliver Tambo, pressed governments to move beyond condemnation...
📅 6 September 1986
The summit called for intensified action against apartheid, support for liberation movements and assistance to frontline states. This was a major effort to turn NAM’s anti-racist commitments into a...
📅 18 April 1980
The new state emerged after decades of settler colonialism, land dispossession and armed struggle. Independence enlarged African political sovereignty, while the settler land system and unequal...
📅 25 August 1980
The General Assembly admitted Zimbabwe as the UN’s 153rd member, five months after independence. Admission recognized formal sovereign equality, while the movement from colonial rule to material...
