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Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no91016447

Variants

African National Congress. Spear of the Nation
African National Congress. Umkhonto we Sizwe
Mbokodo
MK
Spear of the Nation (South Africa)
Umkhonto weSiswe
uMkhonto weSizwe
Umkonto wa Sizwe

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no91016447

Identifies RWO

Associated Locale

Additional Related Forms

African National Congress

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cno+91016447#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Umkhonto We Sizwe Label from public data source Wikidata
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)

Sources

found: Dawn (Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)). Dawn, Oct. 1981:t.p. (Umkhonto we Sizwe) p. 22 (Umkhonto we Sizwe; African National Congress); Oct./Nov./Dec. 1982: p. 60 (Umkhonto we Sizwe; MK; estab. 16th Dec. 1961)

found: Gastrow, Shelagh. Who's who in S. Afr. pol., 1985:p. 148 (Umkhonto we Sizwe; military wing of the ANC)

found: Rosenthal, Eric. Encyc. of Southern Afr., 1978:p. 523 (Umkonto wa Sizwe; Spear of the Nation)

found: Mbokodo, 1994:t.p. (Mbokodo; MK) jkt. (Mbokodo, ... security branch of the African National Congress)

found: South African History Online, viewed June 11, 2015(Umkhonto weSiswe, in banner; Umkhonto weSizwe (MK); Zulu and Xhosa for 'Spear of the Nation')

found: South African History Online, viewed February 19, 2019(uMkhonto weSizwe (MK))

found: Wikipedia, February 19, 2019(Umkhonto we Sizwe; uMkhonto we Sizwe; MK was integrated into the South African National Defence Force by 1994)

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Change Notes

1991-07-01: new
2019-02-25: revised

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