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EventDr D.F. Malan unveils the statue of Paul Kruger on Church Square, Pretoria
… is surrounded by historical buildings that boast beautiful architecture with the statue positioned as a central feature. …
ArchiveLetter from J L J van Vuuren, Chief Director of the Northern Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the Northern Cape, for a population survey of the Xhosa people residing in…
PlaceAnn Shaw Mission, in the Eastern Cape
… km South-West of Middledrift. Established in 1853 for the Xhosa under Chief William Kama by Rev. William Shaw, and named after his wife Ann. The Xhosa name…
ArchiveLetter from AH Stander, Chief Director of the West Rand Administration Board, to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Administration Board, with population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the West Rand Area, sent to the … Ciskei Commission as part of a population…
PlaceOld Morley
… wars. Most of them fled westwards and settled amongst the Xhosa . After some years of oppression by the Gcaleka Xhosa (who called the Fengu their “dogs”),…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… of some of the Nguni monarchs (Zulu, Swati, Ndebele, and Xhosa). Cultural experts have explained that Zulu monarchs …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… to subtropical agriculture and citrus, while the conservation impulse that Kruger's government had signalled …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… the island as a national and international heritage and conservation site. RIM strives to maintain the unique …
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. Gqeberha was … . The Area was previously inhabited…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… groups; namely Nguni people which consisted of: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi, Sotho people which consisted of … Province and Gauteng Province. The second…
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe receives an honorary degree
… Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, received an honorary M.A. Degree … in recognition of the major contribution he had made to Xhosa…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… was an ongoing conflict between these farmers and the Xhosa inhabitants on the frontier, as well as growing … themselves, they could not protect themselves…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… the life structure through the commonplace elements of architecture, condoning the mindset that governed, … on many South African cultures: Khoikhoi,…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… Boys High School in 1909. He left for England to study architecture at the Architectural Association. Following his …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of time. By the 1830's, a … By 1835, the relations between the Mfengu…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… or Fanakalo. Fanakalo is ‘the correct spelling in Zulu or Xhosa orthography’]. [1] In this essay, several factors about … mining operation can include…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… was designated as one of two homeland or "Bantustan" for Xhosa-speaking people. Xhosa speakers were resettled there and to Transkei, the other Xhosa homeland…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… style Drill Hall, and is one of the finest examples of architecture from its period. The Hall was opened in 1880, …
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name is Xhosa and means 'weaned calves'. Some sources link the name … is East London. Over 90% of its 892…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… building is characterised by Cape Dutch and Neo-Romanesque architecture, with a clock tower, Oregon pine wooden floors …
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… its rich art and cultural history, beautiful scenery and architecture as well as its signature Jacaranda trees. …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… and began from about 1950 began to put in place the grand architecture of apartheid. As the apartheid agenda was …
ArticleZulu
… Nguni (the Zulu-speaking peoples), the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and … that approximately 9 million South…
PlaceRosemount
… these two bodies of water lies well over 3 000 hectares of conservation area made up of ten Coastal Reserves and two …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… - Africa for the Africans. It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. Tension …
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… paper-felt roof, two or three rude cottages, and numerous (Xhosa) huts. About one hundred Tambookie families resided … received an excellent education by the…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
… demanding that the beautiful example of Florentine architecture remain, and that a new building not obstruct …
PlaceVrede
… mostly Afrikaans and Zulu speaking. The influence of Dutch Architecture became very pronounced in the Historical …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… came into conflict with first the Khoikhoi and later the Xhosa people (a Bantu-speaking group to which Mandela … of the subjugation of the Tembu, Pondo,…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… on Khoikhoi land. Later, in the East, they met up with the Xhosa, who also fought against the loss of their lands. Some … inland they began competing with…