MK's Popular Influence
In 1984, musician Prince Far I's album Spear of a Nation: Umkhonto we Sizwe was released (posthumously) in an act of solidarity with the MK.
Zimbabwean-born African-American author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr. embraced the initials MK after Umkhonto we Sizwe.
University of California Irvine (UCI) professor Frank B. Wilderson III writes about his experience working with MK in his 2008 memoir Incognegro.
Dave Matthews Band song "#36" is dedicated to Chris Hani, the assassinated chief of staff of the MK and the leader of the South African Communist Party, and includes the refrain, "Hani, Hani, won't you dance with me?"
| Apartheid in South Africa |
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| Events and projects |
| 1948 general election Coloured vote constitutional crisis Treason Trial Sharpeville massacre Rivonia Trial Soweto uprising Church Street bombing Khotso House bombing Cape Town peace march CODESA St James Church massacre Shell House massacre |
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| P. W. Botha · Mangosuthu Buthelezi · Steve Biko · Yusuf Dadoo · Sheena Duncan · F. W. de Klerk · Eugene de Kock · Ruth First · Bram Fischer · Chris Hani · John Frederick Harris · Barbara Hogan · Trevor Huddleston · Helen Joseph · Ronnie Kasrils · Ahmed Kathrada · Jimmy Kruger · Moses Mabhida · Winnie Madikizela-Mandela · Mac Maharaj · D. F. Malan · Nelson Mandela · Kaiser Matanzima · Govan Mbeki · Thabo Mbeki · Robert McBride · Billy Nair · Hastings Ndlovu · Alan Paton · Hector Pieterson · Harry Schwarz · Walter Sisulu JG Strijdom · Joe Slovo · Helen Suzman · Oliver Tambo · Eugène Terre'Blanche · Andries Treurnicht · Desmond Tutu · H. F. Verwoerd · B. J. Vorster |
| Places |
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| Related topics |
| Cape Qualified Franchise Afrikaner nationalism Apartheid legislation · Freedom Charter Sullivan Principles · Kairos Document Disinvestment campaign South African Police Apartheid in popular culture |
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