SAHO global search
655 records
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
Contents and Contributors Contents: Comment, A. W. Oliphant. Stories: An Owl on the Rooftop, Linda Colleen Saunders; Makoti, Makhanda Senzangakhona; The Rod,…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… to English as Senyesemane, to Zulu as Sezulu, and to Xhosa as Seqhotsa or Seqhosa, where in the case of the … A Tswana speaker using his or her own language…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… known in prison language as ‘stokkies’, from the Xhosa word isitokisi, meaning ‘prison’. [6] Renaming of …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… and styled 'reserves' or 'locations'. The old Zulu, Xhosa, Mthembu and Mpondo kingdoms in Natal and the Cape were …
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… is for them. Africa! We are in for big trouble. Initiates (Xhosa). On January 5 the schools had reopened for the crash …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… becomes secretary of the "Orlando Brotherly Society", a Xhosa organisation, which prompts an interest in tribal …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… returns to Johannesburg after undergoing traditional Xhosa initiation rites in Transkei. In Johannesburg Sisulu …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… ethnic lines. The University of Fort Hare was opened for Xhosa speaking students only, while the University of the …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… a third of these were in the Eastern Cape. Xhosa speaking people nicknamed the act Tung’ umlomo (sew up …
Afrikaner
… of the Cape after 1806 (i.e. conflict with the Xhosa as a result of the Eastern border and the anglicizing …
The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016
There is a popular view that Winston Churchill once said, “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” However it would seem that what Churchill…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… mobilisation and solidarity in manyanos (unions) - a Xhosa term for the Methodist 8 and frequently used of the … Missionaries to southern Africa settled…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… bass voice was enunciating his final message in Xhosa to the world he was leaving”. And who else, as the …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… such migrant. And another declared: ‘I not one of those Xhosa who try to ape the white manners I only want to appear what I am: a real Xhosa.' Usually this…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… on many South African cultures: Khoikhoi, Afrikaner, Xhosa, Indian, and Jew. He sees them not as isolated entities …
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… is permitted to be in the European languages, no Xhosa or Sotho can enroll in the University of Zululand, for …
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng, and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… returned to her Guguletu house. Dry, crumbly porridge (Xhosa). Men, men to the border (Xhosa). Long, flat blade. They are finishing our children (Xhosa)…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… mobilisation and solidarity in manyanos (unions) - a Xhosa term for the Methodist 8 and frequently used of the … Missionaries to southern Africa settled…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… language spoken in Matabeleland was similar to Zulu and Xhosa, South African guerrillas would be able to communicate …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Bongco , firebombed the house of a councillor to the Xhosa royal house of Phalo for supporting the apartheid …
Visit of Graca Machel, 9 October 1991
A delegation from Mozambique, led by Mrs Graca Machel, and a delegation of South Africans led by ANC National Chairman Oliver Tambo - comprising in total 118…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… in a welter of languages from English to Zulu and Xhosa, blanketed the country at maximum power. Its …
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… to do... Brothers, we are drilling the death drill. I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers, Swazis, Pondos, Basutos, we …
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… Thembu and insofar as he has wider links it is with other Xhosa speakers, not yet as an African. He had also been …
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… blacks sprang up first in Cape Town where the sons of the Xhosa Chiefs were educated in the Zonnenbloem College in the …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu, who replaced Matthews Phosa as the province's second premier, caused a storm within political circles with his now…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… the Eastern Cape, many Khoikhoi people were absorbed into Xhosa society. Consequences on the indigenous society at the …