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Zulus attack Indians in Durban. At least 137 people are killed and a thousand or more injured. The government complains abo
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. 1886. Zulu Mission: a Condensed Sketch. 1835-1886. Boston: American … Dublin: J Dollard, Printer. BERGLUND, Axel…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… the oppressors. Any one language, English, or Afrikaans or Zulu, ma1, be used to oppress other people, or to liberate people. Zulu, spoken by Buthelezi, is…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… life, when the teacher and organizer (and later elected Zulu chief) engaged the world of sport through his … struggle in South Africa. Mvumbi ("continuous…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… ethnic groups: namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana … (16%), Venda (2.4%), Tswana (8%),…
Goodluck Mbhele
… Goodluck Mbhele was born in 1987 in Kwa-Zulu Natal. He started to like photography when he was 12. …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… the politics of the anti-apartheid struggle. He brokered Zulu ethnic nationalism, feeding a measure of credibility … as the founder and stalwart campaigner…
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, eldest son of King … He recieved formal instruction in traditional Zulu customs while he was at his father's…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… professionals. The council included the likes of Paulus Zulu, the then-chair of the South African Broadcasting … Jacob Zuma, who was then the chair of the…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke away from their Zulu kindred in the 1820s and moved from present day Kwazulu …
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… Allegedly Zulu Paramount Chief Dinuzulu (Dinizulu) refused British … military law had been imposed on the region and the Zulu people were armed by the…
Louise (Lulu) Latsky, SA author of children’s books and the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at the University of Stellenb
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… South African music. The 1930s also saw the spread of Zulu a cappella singing from the Natal area to much of South … year with the song "Mbube", an…
Allister Starke
… in 1980 and attended Weston College in Mooi River, Kwa Zulu Natal. From 2003-2005 I travelled by public transport …
Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says
ArticlePaper Wood and Allied Workers Union (PWAWU)
… breaking down ethnic divisions between Mpondo and Zulu workers in Natal. …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… Over 7,000 British troops were called out to suppress the Zulu aggression and 4 000 rebels died. The Bambatha Rebellion … to colonial rule for nearly fifty…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… ethnic groups; namely Nguni people which consisted of: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi, Sotho people which consisted … schools. The largest ethnic group in…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War . Years later in 1847, an Irishman named; Jim Rorke, … between what Britain controlled…
ArticleBattle of Blood River 1838
… the Ncome (Buffalo) River. Dingane was the King of the Zulu's at the time and most historians site that his army was …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… The homeland of KwaZulu (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 … development', it was intended to be the home of the Zulu…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… farmers were unable to secure enough workers from the Zulu population because they still had access to land. In later years the colonial frontier expanded…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… the OFS. Fynn had previously made contact with Shaka, the Zulu king, whose suzerainty included the bay area, and he introduced Farewell to the royal Zulu…
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for Humanities …
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for Humanities …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… place, but most of them were not caused by Shaka and the Zulu. This unit investigates the recent research and explores …
A convoy of the British 80th Regt. is over-run at Ntombe River, northern Zululand by a force of 2 000 Zulus. Of the sixty m
The British (no 1) supply column moving up the North Coast towards Eshowe is attacked by about 5000 Zulus as they cross the Nye
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… as 'Shaka's Day,' in commemoration of the legendary Zulu king, King Shaka Zulu . When the proposed Public Holidays Bill before the New … Party (IFP) , a…