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The melody of freedom
… In addition to jazz, mbaqanga (the name derives from Zulu, meaning something like steamed maize bread') has become … Mackay Davashe. Around 1960, the simanje…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… protest against what it regarded as the disregard for the Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini's traditional role as …
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… continued on to Natal (KwaZulu Natal), the home of the Zulu people. At the time, King Shaka ruled the territory with …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… spectacular military resistance was that of the mighty Zulu kingdom in 1879. At Isandhlwana, the Zulu impis inflicted a devastating defeat against the…
EventAIDS activist stoned and stabbed to death by her neighbours
… Dlamini disclosed her HIV status on television and on a Zulu-language radio station. Her public disclosure was met …
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… the dominating Voortrekker Monument with a replica of a Zulu hut at its feet. In the photograph a white child stoops …
PlaceUtrecht
… of Transvaal. In 1854 the Buffalo River Community gave the Zulu King Mpande 100 cattle in exchange of the grazing land. …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… cereals are grown. Over 96% of the inhabitants are of the Zulu-Xhosa race, and a considerable part of the district was …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Bibliography
… Jeff. The View across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism . Cape Town, David Philip, …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… peasants. We are children of Africa We cry for our land Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho unite We are mad over the Land Act A …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… a business near the mines. Such people were the AmaWasha, Zulu laundry washers, Zulu 'houseboys' who served as domestic workers for white …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… on the plateau. In this interpretation, Shaka of the Zulu was one of the prime causes. Recent work, however, has … or absorbed local Sotho-Tswana. In about…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… in South Africa but other populations groups like the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazis and Basotho and Sotho’s were also …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… the Drakensberg from KwaZulu Natal, in order to escape Zulu expansion. Mzilikazi , a general who had fled from King …
The Pioneers
… by the name of Abenig came to work as a fulltime carver: Zulu showed me his work ... and told me that when he saw what … craft. Jack Grossert, Inspector of…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… to a wider variety of poems and other works than the Zulu works she had been exposed to growing up. Though she had a heart for this Zulu storytelling, Mabuza…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… the possibility of marriage and a bride price as Zulu tradition dictates. "Yes, if we had reached an agreement …
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… editor for The Black Review in 1973. He co-edited Musho! Zulu Popular Praises with Liz Gunner in 1991. As a student …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… at the end of 1918 and early in 1919 in English, Zulu and Sesutu. Document 19: 'Communism in South Africa' …
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… that during one particular night police had escorted a Zulu group intent on attacking the community. The police …
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
… to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word 'uThongathi' , which refers to the river running …
PlaceVoices of Women Museum, Durban
… work done by among others; Janine Zagel; Leonard Zulu; Tholakele Mdakane; Mrs. Gumbushe and Martha Webber. …
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Durban Metropolitan Municipality. Populated primarily by Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda is known as the home of …
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… are also depicted. The exotic array of sculptures includes Zulu chiefs and tokoloshes (African imps), gods of creation …
PlaceLouwsburg, Zululand
… Private Game Reserve, which is home to Africa's Big 5. The Zulu name of the Town is; 'Ngotshe', which means cave. It is …
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… ICU branch was established in 1925 and it appealed to many Zulu workers. Yet by the end of 1927 the union’s popularity …
PlaceEhlanzeni District Municipality
… and Gert Sibande in the South. The meaning of lowland in Zulu is: 'Ehlanzeni' . Ehlanzeni is comprised of four local …
PlaceHellenic Football Club, Pretoria/Cape Town
… to Benoni -Gauteng and renamed themselves: "Thanda Royal Zulu Football Club". In 2011, the Hellenic Franchise took … it to Benoni, Gauteng, which was renamed…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… Buthelezi. The IFP draws its support base largely from Zulu ethnic groups. The party places particular emphasis and … monarchs. This was particularly…