The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa's African National congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about ...

As a former guerrilla com-mander of the African National Congress, Joe Modise was an unlikely architect of the new South Africa's multi-racial defence force. As the country's first black defence ...

Joe Modise, a guerrilla fighter who led the armed struggle against apartheid and became South Africa’s first black defense minister, has died in his home near Pretoria, government officials said. He ...

Days before Joe Modise died in November 2001, President Thabo Mbeki arrived at the Modise home to carry out a deathbed award of the “Order of the Star of South Africa (non military) class1: Grand ...

At the time of his death, Joe Modise’s closest associates were a band of white arms company executives drawn from the greasy brotherhood of the sanctions-busting era — a strange legacy for a man ...

Tributes from different embassies including those of Germany, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates were still pouring in on Tuesday night to the family of former defence minister Joe Modise, ...

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Saturday said the government would build a monument in honour of the late Joe Modise and in commemoration of his contribution to South Africa. ”We will build a monument to him ...

Joe Modise, 72, who led the armed struggle to topple apartheid and went on to become South Africa’s defense minister in 1994, died Monday of cancer in Pretoria. As defense minister, Modise oversaw the ...

Pretoria — Friends, comrades and colleagues of Joe Modise, who died last month, on Thursday lauded the former Defence Minister and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander for his role in the struggle against ...

The Democratic Alliance said on Friday that claims former minister of defence Joe Modise abused his office for personal gain was a further blow to the government. Spokesperson Raenette Taljaard said ...

The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about ...