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PlaceMamelodi
… but also Vatsonga/Shangaans and Vhavenda. Batswana and Ndebele people had lived in Tshwane for over two centuries … and men that came from different…
PlaceKwaNdebele
… KwaNdebele (or place of the Ndebele) was granted self-government in 1984 and was intended to be the new home for the Transvaal Ndebele people. It was…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… were attended by large and enthusiastic gatherings (Ndebele, p149, Gwala 1984, pp. 44-45). Jol ’nKomo, is …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… was unleashed and for over five years, 20,000 largely Ndebele civilians were brutally killed while many others were …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.3 1983
… The Monkeys by Francis Bebey; The Test by Njabulo S Ndebele;. Poetry: Keith Gottschalk, Steve Jacobs, Maori … Meg Jordi. Features: ART AND SOCIETY- Letters…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… and Leaders The Rise of the Zulu Kingdom Mzilikazi and the Ndebele Kingdom Moshoeshoe and the Basotho Kingdom The Swazi … and experiences of specific…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… practices of some of the Nguni monarchs (Zulu, Swati, Ndebele, and Xhosa). Cultural experts have explained that …
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… and The High Commissioner of Refugees . 1980 The picture Ndebele Woman , is published on the front cover of National …
PlaceZimbabwe
… Other kingdoms include the Mapungubwe , Mutapa , Rozvi and Ndebele . In the 1880s the country became a British Colony, … dynasty. Last of the migrating…
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… siege of Makapane's Cave took place after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makapane) massacred 23 Voortrekkers, … of the ZAR, at the risk of his life…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana groups, the … South Africa. These are English (9.6%),…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… status” in 1 February, 1973 ) kwaNdebele – Ndebele (“Self-government status” in 1984) Once a homeland …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… the time of his arrival , King Mzilikazi and the southern Ndebele peoples (referred to as Amatebele) had been living in …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Mineworking by Greg Latter; The Prophetess by Njabulo S. Ndebele; Mamlambo by Bheki Maseko; To Fly by Steve Jacobs; Go … by Sipho Sepamla; The Revolution of…
ArticleXhosa
… the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the Ndebele people of the Northern Province and Mpumalanga. … of different groups or clans). Unlike…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… The Voortrekkers first major confrontation was with the Ndebele group led by Mzilikazi in 1836. The Ndebele were in the path of the Voortrekkers expedition. …
ArchiveANC Negotiations and our future
… Democratic Association. Speakers, Terror Lekota and S'be Ndebele. …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter is born
… during the battle of Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape …
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… This photograph of two Ndebele leaders is entitled on its reverse: ‘Chiefs “Babyon” … leaders of Lobenguela Khumalo (1845–1894), the second Ndebele king. [i]…
EventTwo rival movements merge in Zimbabwe
… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), led …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… of the area saw even these conquerors defeated by the Ndebele. They, in turn, were ousted from the region by a … in the early part of the 19th century,…
EventZimbabwe’s interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the Ndebele-speaking region of the country and the ruling …
ArticleThe Homelands
… was only for Zulu people, Lebowa for the Pedi and Northern Ndebele, Venda only for Vendas, Gazankulu was for Shangaan …
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th century. …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… In 1974 the establishment of a tenth homeland, South Ndebele, was envisaged. Two years later (1976), the first …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.1 1984
… and Some Thoughts on South African Fiction by Njabulo S. Ndebele; Forward With the Workers' Struggle by Lawrence …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… ZANU with backing from the Shona majority, and ZAPU the Ndebele minority. …
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… forces, led by Major Patrick Forbes, drove the native Ndebele from the town. The flag consisted of a Union Jack …
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… Joshua Nkomo, Ndebele nationalist leader, is served with a restriction …