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ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… to work as a teacher in the Karoo. BODY The History of Xhosa Renaissance Literature. Unomsa as Drama: the Treatment … as Drama: the Treatment of Education…
BiographyJan van Eck
Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children. He came to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… and defend the eastern frontier against the neighbouring Xhosa people, and to provide a boost to the English-speaking … Africa in 1822. During his term as…
ArchiveLetter from J L J van Vuuren, Chief Director of the Northern Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the Northern Cape, for a population survey of the Xhosa people residing in…
PlaceAnn Shaw Mission, in the Eastern Cape
… km South-West of Middledrift. Established in 1853 for the Xhosa under Chief William Kama by Rev. William Shaw, and named after his wife Ann. The Xhosa name…
ArchiveLetter from AH Stander, Chief Director of the West Rand Administration Board, to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Administration Board, with population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the West Rand Area, sent to the … Ciskei Commission as part of a population…
PlaceOld Morley
… wars. Most of them fled westwards and settled amongst the Xhosa . After some years of oppression by the Gcaleka Xhosa (who called the Fengu their “dogs”),…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… of some of the Nguni monarchs (Zulu, Swati, Ndebele, and Xhosa). Cultural experts have explained that Zulu monarchs …
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. Gqeberha was … . The Area was previously inhabited…
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe receives an honorary degree
… Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, received an honorary M.A. Degree … in recognition of the major contribution he had made to Xhosa…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… was an ongoing conflict between these farmers and the Xhosa inhabitants on the frontier, as well as growing … themselves, they could not protect themselves…
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of time. By the 1830's, a … By 1835, the relations between the Mfengu…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… was designated as one of two homeland or "Bantustan" for Xhosa-speaking people. Xhosa speakers were resettled there and to Transkei, the other Xhosa homeland…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… guards. Land Dispossession and Defeat of African Kingdoms (Xhosa, 1878 & Pedi and Zulu, 1879) An alliance between Khoikhoi rebels in the colony and the Xhosa…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name is Xhosa and means 'weaned calves'. Some sources link the name … is East London. Over 90% of its 892…
ArticleZulu
… Nguni (the Zulu-speaking peoples), the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and … that approximately 9 million South…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… - Africa for the Africans. It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. Tension …
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… paper-felt roof, two or three rude cottages, and numerous (Xhosa) huts. About one hundred Tambookie families resided … received an excellent education by the…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… came into conflict with first the Khoikhoi and later the Xhosa people (a Bantu-speaking group to which Mandela … of the subjugation of the Tembu, Pondo,…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… on Khoikhoi land. Later, in the East, they met up with the Xhosa, who also fought against the loss of their lands. Some … inland they began competing with…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873. It … accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Sun, the name is actually derived from the name of the Xhosa chief Langalibalele, who was imprisoned on Robben … Cape Town in the Western Cape Province. The…
PlaceAmaLinde, West of King Williams Town
… Xhosa name for the Debe Hollows of Kommetjie Flats, 19 km … in a battle of epic proportions that was to go down in Xhosa tradition as the battle of Amalinde…
PlaceNqamakwe
… Cape province of South Africa and traditionally spoke a Xhosa language (one of the Bantu languages). The Mfengu or … in the frontier districts of the…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… tragedy of 1855 finally broke the power of the Xhosa chiefs and the Xhosa nation as a cohesive force. There was little resistance … years the disputed…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… there was ongoing conflict between these farmers and the Xhosa inhabitants on the frontier, as well as growing … themselves, they could not protect…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… in a second conflict, one of many with local peoples, with Xhosa forces for the territory east of the Great Fish River. …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… the colour of the soil or "Im-bola" from which traditional Xhosa huts are built, while white stands for peace and the … as the Transkei incorporated many,…
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… site of frequent wars and skirmishes between the Khoisan , Xhosa , and European settlers . Its history is intertwined … with the broader history of the…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… their control to the east, they also fought with the local Xhosa inhabitants. There were nine wars between the government and the Xhosa, called the frontier…