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BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender (more popularly known as Ronnie Govender) was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His…
PlaceKaNgwane
… KaNgwane was the Homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated along …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to a Zulu father and a Swazi mother. He created more than 800 sculptures in wood, …
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… the territory is historically and culturally part of the Swazi kingdom. The areas demarcated for the hand over were …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… Bophuthatswana, Gazankulu, Kwazulu, Lebowa, QuaQua, Swazi Homeland and Venda. In 1974 the establishment of a …
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
… to their ethnic identity. KaNgwane was the homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated along …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… 15% were hired by the administration. Kangwane, called the Swazi homeland and granted self-governing status in 1978, saw …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… K. Matthews and D. D. T. Jabavu, a representative of the Swazi monarch and the secretary of native affairs. When a …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… the world's highest. Vilane, with dual South African and Swazi nationality, took part in an international team …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Beads as Regulating the Social Life of the Zulu and the Swazi . African Studies, September 1951, Vol 1O, No 3. …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… the Ndebele Kingdom Moshoeshoe and the Basotho Kingdom The Swazi Kingdom Other New Formations The Experience of … African states to resist complete colonial…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… . During the 19th Century the Caves were inhabited by the Swazi People , and saw many a bloody battle during the fight for the Swazi throne . Later the…
EventSwaziland welcomes SA's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… the territory is historically and culturally part of the Swazi kingdom. The areas demarcated for the hand over were …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi mother and a Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… first group of people to settle around the Area were the Swazi people, in 1864 after the defeat of Mswati forces by … linguistic affiliation is with Zulu;…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be Swazi for "the large one' or 'eternal one'. Also recorded as …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… after an unsuccessful assault. 1864 The Boers ask the Swazi to help mount an assault on the Kopa of Chief Boleu. … Machel as first President. 1978 Kangwane,…
Testimony of the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress, Ermelo, before the Eastern Transvaal Land Committee,January 8, 1918
… apart for natives on the highveld. Joseph Hlubi. I am a Swazi and representative of the South African Native National … representation as an individual. John…
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… away to study, whilst her oldest daughter had married a Swazi Prince and moved to America. Helen Suzman captured the …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… trade unionism to a more militant nationalism. A number of Swazi chiefs in the Nelspruit area, for example, went so far …
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
The inability of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic) under President Francois Burgers to score a decided victory in the Sekhukhune War,…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… the company that published the newspaper. Labotsibeni, the Swazi Queen Regent provided financial assistance which was …
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… , which struggled on without him. He did represent the Swazi king at a high profile legal case in London in the …
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… the ANC had already held two sets of discussions with the Swazi authorities on the South African "offer" of the … while the Prime Minister, Prince Mabandla…
PlaceCrocodile River Bridges
… Transvaal Land Commissioner, Abel Erasmus and an unnamed Swazi chief, in which the Swazi border was pushed 80km Southwards, (this was done in …
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… frontier district and the whole area was much plagued by Swazi raiders, from Swaziland. There was still the plague of … to establish a Scottish buffer zone…
PlaceBotshabelo
… There were unsuccessful early attempts to evangelise the Swazi and in Sekhukhuneland. Merensky sought refuge amongst …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… them the Koni and the Southern Ndebele, and later the Swazi to the south, whose stonewalled settlements are …
PlaceKomatipoort
… being in 1887. The name of the Town is derived from the Swazi named ‘Komati’ River, meaning literally ‘river of cows …