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Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)

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Corporate name headingUmkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)
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Variant(s)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
See alsoHierarchical superior: African National Congress
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Beginning date1961-12-16
Ending date1994~
Associated countrySouth Africa
Found inDawn (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)
Gastrow, Shelagh. Who's who in S. Afr. pol., 1985: p. 148 (Umkhonto we Sizwe; military wing of the ANC)
Rosenthal, Eric. Encyc. of Southern Afr., 1978: p. 523 (Umkonto wa Sizwe; Spear of the Nation)
Mbokodo, 1994: t.p. (Mbokodo; MK) jkt. (Mbokodo, ... security branch of the African National Congress)
South African History Online, viewed June 11, 2015 (Umkhonto weSiswe, in banner; Umkhonto weSizwe (MK); Zulu and Xhosa for 'Spear of the Nation')
South African History Online, viewed February 19, 2019 (uMkhonto weSizwe (MK))
Wikipedia, February 19, 2019 (Umkhonto we Sizwe; uMkhonto we Sizwe; MK was integrated into the South African National Defence Force by 1994)