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ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana groups, the Shangaan-Tsonga groups, and the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… people (later split to form South Sotho (Basuto and Sesotho), the West Sotho (Tswana), and the North Sotho ( …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… the regions of the Transkei and Natal, and also with seSotho speakers in the North and Northwest parts of the …
PlaceFisantekraal, Cape Winelands
… of these people speak Afrikaans and Xhosa. Only 5% speak Sesotho. (According to a Census taken in 2011). On Wednesday … of these people speak Afrikaans and…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
PlaceKopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate
… kept; and Fauresmith horse endurance run. The name is a Sesotho word meaning ‘meeting place or where people are …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
Stephen Joel Chifunyise[i] was born on 21 September 1948 in Nhema, Shurugwi, in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). He started school…
PlaceNorth West
… place of rocks”) Principal languages : Setswana, isiXhosa, Sesotho Premier : Thandi Modise First premier (1994): Popo …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… Xhosa was the only language they knew, and they were in Sesotho country. For them neither English nor Afrikaans had … the funeral ceremony. The speeches were…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… The new Coat of Arms enhances Batho Pele Batho Pele is a Sesotho phrase meaning ‘People First’, committing the public …
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… and entered. His torchlight did not pick me up. I heard Sesotho being spoken Johannesburg style. I heard Xhosa as …
1. The Way to Fox Street
… over a century from their ancestral home and living in a seSotho-speaking area, still retain their Nguni language and …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of the Mfecane (IsiZulu for "the crushing") or Difaqane (Sesotho for "forced scattering or migration") in the 1820s …
PlaceMpumalanga
… (There are 11 Official languages . They include: Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
PlaceBasotho Cultural Village
… The duration is 7 hours. ‘Basotho’ is the word in the Sesotho language meaning ‘the Sotho people’ and you can … The duration is 7 hours. ‘Basotho’ is the…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… country are given recognition. These languages are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, …
ArticleThe Basotho
In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the Mfecane. There were a number of conflicts…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and had offices in Botswana, England, the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… bursts of activity and short-term support. I draw on Sesotho columns of The Communist and other newspapers and …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Kunene, Dan. Thomas Mofolo and the Emergence of Written Sesotho Prose. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989. Kuper, Adam. …
PlaceQuaqua
Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
Cross border raids 1975 August Invasion of Angola. 1978 4 May Air and ground strike on SWAPO refugee camp at Kassinga inside…
BiographyOliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
Introduction Following British victory in the South African War, the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the British Commonwealth. The Union…
ArticleNdebele
… the northern Transvaal were assigned to the predominantly seSotho-speaking homeland of Lebowa, which consisted of …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… because everyone could read between the lines, as the Sesotho proverb tells us: Lelefung hoa tseoa (Of course, … me. And there I went, speaking in a mixture…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
1942 28 June, Martin Tembisile, who later becomes known as Chris Hani, is born in the village of Sabalele in Cofimvaba (then named St Marks) region, Transkei…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… differentiate between the leopard and the cheetah. In Sesotho lengaung, rather than Manguang denotes leopards. The …