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ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… by Marks and Majoro in English, with translations into Xhosa and Sotho. They resolved to strike on 12 August. AMWU … of the labour force – tended to be more…
Mission Stations - I-L
… one of which was used for a school. There were a few (Xhosa) huts near his dwelling, and fifteen kraals within six miles. "At sunrise, a congregation of…
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… other hand, belonging to the Nguni subgroup, like Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele, Siswati has the click sounds, borrowed …
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… one of the four Khoekhoe clicks that does not occur in Xhosa and Zulu. [60] It is made by squeezing the blade of the … clicks as they are produced by many…
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
… of Nguni (a language group which includes Swazi, Zulu and Xhosa), and Tsonga speakers (Ronga, Ndzawu, Shona, Chopi …
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
… geography is out by a thousand kilometres. Ideas from the Xhosa music – complex rhythms; overtone singing; the …
List of Robben Island Political Prisoners
… Gordon Makgothi Gordon Hendricks Gordon Ngalo Guga Xhosa Gugushe Andile Gusha Malamba Guy Harry (Mphephethwa) …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… been composed at the end of the nineteenth century by a Xhosa poet. Today, it is half of independent South Africa's …
Zulu Community
… homelands or Bantustans , and KwaZulu was ‘set aside’ for Xhosa people. Later, these regions were proclaimed …
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… European settlers were Christian while the Khoikhoi and Xhosa people originally followed traditional African …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… been composed at the end of the nineteenth century by a Xhosa poet. Today, it is half of independent South Africa’s …
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… The confusion led to many refugees settling among the Xhosa and Thembu as Mfengu along with the remainder of the …
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… van Griekwa en Tswana;Khoikhoi en Afrikaner;San en Xhosa;Keurling, Blanke, Indier en African. Dwarsoor die land … of Griqua and Tswana;Khoikhoi and Afrikaner…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… the apartheid regime. He also founded and edited Isizwe, a Xhosa language popular newsletter that circulated in the …
ArchiveCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
… we’ve done that in four languages, in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Khoekhoegowab, which is also also known as Nama, …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… Knox Bokwe began composing hymns that drew on traditional Xhosa harmonic patterns. The development of a black urban …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… Mandela attends his first day of court in a traditional Xhosa leopard-skin kaross. 7 November, Mandela is sentenced …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Geelbooi Magoqwana and Bettie Nothemba Mgxaji, were of Xhosa origin. They named their son Zwelidumile, or “a person …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… known as the Wild Coast. Capital City: Bisho Bisho is the Xhosa word for buffalo, which is also the name of the river …
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… Indian team and a South African representative Zulu, Xhosa or any other Bantu (sic) national team can compete in …
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… Xolela Mangcu, and Moeletsi Mbeki portray him as a Xhosa messiah/prophet/martyr. Another self-styled Biko scion, …
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… and a discourse referring to his being a victim of the “Xhosa nostra”. It should be noted that this ethnic …
African farmers in Southern Africa
… are. MAIN LANGUAGE GROUP SUBDIVISIONS Nguni Zulu Xhosa Swazi Ndebele Sotho Tswana South Sotho North Sotho …
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… them. They were all read out in English, Sotho and Xhosa so that everyone must understand. And then people spoke …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… by the Houteniqua Khoi, but also an early example of Xhosa. [71] The German explorer Franz von Winkelmann managed to record a list of eastern Khoekhoe (and…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… by the Houteniqua Khoi, but also an early example of Xhosa. [71] The German explorer Franz von Winkelmann managed to record a list of eastern Khoekhoe (and…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… equality, including Nelson Mandela. Born in 1893 to a Xhosa-speaking family in South Africa’s Transkei region, Xuma …
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… today. Another group to arrive in the late 1880’s were the Xhosa people from the Eastern Cape. They built the railway …
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
Mangosuthu Buthelezi refused to attend a meeting organised by the African National Congress (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the…