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PlaceEcho Caves, Limpopo
On the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa. The caves, today are declared a National Monument. These Caves are found near Ohrigstad and were opened…
PlaceWhite River, Mpumalanga
… gives the river that skirts the town, its name. In Swazi it is known as 'Mhloppemanzi' (which means white …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… people in South Africa (later split to form Xhosa , Zulu , Swazi and Ndebele groups). Their move down to South Africa …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… same year. A white army in alliance with a 12000-strong Swazi contingent defeated the Pedi standing army of 10000, …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… Seeking support against the Zulu Mswati, chief of the Swazi, grants all land bounded by the Oliphants, Crocodile …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… c. 1850 In response, the Boers formed an alliance with the Swazi in 1846 against one of the larger chiefdoms in the … Transvaal, the Pedi. In return for…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Nguni. The Southern Nguni consist of Zulu, Ndebele and Swazi people and the Northern Nguni comprises of Xhosa, …
ArticleXhosa
… the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… those of the Sotho (present-day Lesotho) and of the Swazi (now Swaziland). This denuded much of the area into …
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
The Natal Indian Association (NIA) was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) amalgamated.[1…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… In 1864 the alliance was attacked, and defeated, by a Swazi force acting at the instigation of the Boers, leaving … and the four years of civil war which…
ArticleZulu
… the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas, and the …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… South Africa on 4 March 1932. She was the daughter of a Swazi woman, Zenzi, and a Xhosa man, Caswell. She was the …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… dates back to the formation of the SANNC in 1912. Swazi queen regent Labotsibeni and crown prince Sobhuza, who … – British policy sought to incorporate…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
Afrapix members, associated members and contributors
Anna Zieminski (member) Biddy Partridge (founding member) Billy Paddock (member) Brett Eloff (contributor) Cecil Sols (member/associate) Cedric Nunn …
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… between the Sotho and the Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Swazi). The Sotho people tend to group their homesteads in …
Buy the Insurrection Ensemble's music
EXPERIENCE a unique sound! Buy a CD by the Insurrections Ensembles, a collection of poetry-music collaborations between Indian and South African artists. It…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
This feature looks at the various important 'passive resistance' or 'non-violent' campaigns in 20th Century South Africa; therefore the lists of key players…
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
Rumours had it that the Insurrections Ensemble was working on a piece loosely based on Aime Cesaire’s version of the Tempest for 2015. It has been hard to say…
ArticleNdebele
… the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… This broadened his perspective by exposure to Sotho-, Swazi-, Zulu-, etc. speaking people. Nelson Mandela completed …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The Evolution and Dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state , (Cambridge University Press), pp.53-60| C. H. …
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… ‘No longer rare birds in London’, Zulu, Ndebele, Gaza and Swazi envoys to England: 1882 – 1894, in Black Victorians, …
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
… were a mixture of Nguni (a language group which includes Swazi, Zulu and Xhosa), and Tsonga speakers (Ronga, Ndzawu, …
Insurrections: The Storming
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
List of Robben Island Political Prisoners
Shamar Abduraghman Maduna Abednego Chiloane Abel Sibene Abishayi Mkhonza Abner …