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BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… sought to restrict the University of Fort Hare to Xhosa speaking Africans and was to bring the university under …
BiographySparrow Mkonto
… of the inquest people exclaimed “ kukudlala oku” which, in Xhosa, means “this is just a waste of time”, giving a clue as …
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… Dogter van die Zoeloe (The Daughter of the Zulu), the Xhosa text Lahliwe (Thrown Away), his short stories Matsiliso …
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
… apartheid’s early years, died suddenly. The family’s Xhosa domestic worker, Rosalina, stepped in not just to help …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… in a dairy. He returned home to undergo traditional Xhosa initiation rites, returning to Johannesburg in 1929 … and was secretary of the Orlando Brotherly…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga (1994-1999), Afrikaans poet and lawyer was born in Mbombela Township in Nelspruit. Phosa was an African…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… Ndebele , San , Lovedu, Zulu , Swazi, the Basotho and the Xhosa peoples. These were exhibited in Pretoria , …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed … due to colonial expansion which in turn…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… claiming that the Ndebele (a reference to the Zulu and Xhosa) were retarding the movement’s progress. As expected, … in Gauteng”¦ These complaints are from…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from hostile Xhosa and given to Thembu collaborators. Foremost among these …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… became known as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and … a systematic conquest of the Tembus,…
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtained a National Teacher’s Certificate…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… classes in Crossroads, she not only learnt to speak Xhosa fluently but also had first-hand experience of the …
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… when Khoi and San servants left the farms and joined the Xhosa in a rebellion against colonial rule, commonly known as … a buffer zone to prevent conflict…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 5: Colonial expansion in South Africa after 1750
… that were living there. We focus on the Khoikhoi, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Zulus and the Boers. We explore …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… the precipitation of the destruction of the precolonial Xhosa nation and their society. As a backdrop to this … event, it is critical to hold an…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… he started a paper, Indaba Zasemonti (East London News), a Xhosa-English weekly in which he lashed out at the injustices …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to … of the Eastern…
Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga and Afrikaans poet, is born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit.
The National Anthem
… The words of the first stanza were originally written in Xhosa as a hymn. Seven additional stanzas in Xhoza were later … the apartheid years. The first…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… Xhoza women smoking their pipes Image source The Xhosa tribes came from Central Africa and settled in the … about 500mm of rain during the summer growing…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The … needed land for their families and their…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… groups: namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana … (13.5%), Ndebele (2.1%), Sepedi/Northern…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… who had deserted the area due to attacks by the Khoi and Xhosa return. May, A peace settlement is reached between the … 700 men of the Cape Regiment drive an…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Town Journal argued in 1838, for example, that the Xhosa had been “the usurpers of the whole of the territory … and violence". The British were convinced…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… of their rule, colonial forces were at work fragmenting Xhosa society for the purposes of acquiring land and making … Firstly, we get a degree of…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… clans that were the ancestors of the Nguni (today's Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele peoples) and Tswana-Sotho language … chieftaincies. The result was the…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle name ’Mvuyelwa’ is Xhosa and means ‘he for whom the people sing’. Both his … Church, it was built on land, granted to…