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… of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into four distinct groups; the Northern and Central Nguni (the Zulu-speaking peoples), the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas, … Africa as early as the eleventh century - see South Africa's general history timeline . Language, culture and beliefs: The Zulu language, of which there are variations, is part of the Nguni language group. The word Zulu means "Sky" and according to oral history, Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about …

Zulu Community

… Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Zulu people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the nominally self-governing homeland of KwaZulu, now … both part of the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Today it is estimated that there are more than 45 million South Africans, and the Zulu people make up about approximately 22% of this number. The large majority of the rural Zulu population remain in the …

Zulu Family History

… Zulu Kings 1781 to 1816 Senzangakhona 1816 to 1828 Shaka 1828 to 1840 Dingane 1840 to 1872 Mpande 1872 to 1879 Cetswayo … Mchiza, married 25 July 1992. Zola Zelusiwe Mafu, married 2004 Children 27 (As of 2003) HRH Prince Lethukuthula Zulu (by Queen MaDlamini), born 1970. HRH Princess Sibusile Zulu (by Queen Buhle MaMathe), born 1972. HRH Prince Dennis Njeru Mucheke aka Charles,born 1984, is currently pursuing …

The Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal

… us with a dynamic account of the miseries of the indentured Indian in Natal, to read his report click here . The Anglo-Zulu wars In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under firm political control had undermined the … access to labour. These societies attempted to resist the extension of colonial control over them, one of which was the Zulu kingdom. Sir Bartle Frere was appointed British high commissioner to South Africa in 1879 to realise the Policy of … under common control- with a view to implementing a policy of economic development. Sir Bartle Frere saw the self-reliant Zulu kingdom as a threat to this policy, a belief which was supported by Shepstone, the Secretary for Native Affairs. …

Shaka Zulu

… Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region … by many independent Nguni chiefdoms. During his brief reign more than a hundred chiefdoms were brought together in a Zulu kingdom which survived not only the death of its founder but later military defeat and calculated attempts to break it up. Shaka was a son of Senzangakhona, ruler of an insignificant small chiefdom, the Zulu. His mother was Nandi, the daughter of a Langeni chief. Information about Shaka's early years is gleaned entirely from …

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a young boy and his mother died in the early 1940s. Zulu started his primary schooling at Hlazakazi Magogo at Nguthu and completed his secondary schooling at New castle …

Mangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history

Chief Buthelezi

… under a democratically elected government. Prince Buthelezi (95) was born on 27 August 1928 in Mahlabatini into the Zulu royal family. His mother Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu was the daughter of King Dinizulu . His grandfather was the prime minister of King Cetshwayo . So, he was the first-born in line to the Buthelezi chieftainship. His Zulu identity became the decisive compass for his career in politics, and personified the ambiguities between ethnic identity … influence. His political role remains a controversial and heavily criticised example of how a quest for power based on a Zulu identity as regional-ethnic particularism can take a huge toll on lives. Under apartheid In 1948 Buthelezi enrolled to …

Phikinkani Zulu

… “so intense was the resistance in Zululand that King Cyprian, who had accepted the system, had to flee to Swaziland when Zulu peasants from the Thomas district of Nongoma threatened to kill him for siding with the BA.” Arising from this conflict, banishment orders were issued on 11 December 1959 for Phikinkani Zulu and his cousin Nelson Zulu. Documentation related to their banishment orders, from Usutu Area, Nongoma District, Natal [now Kwazulu-Natal], …

Nelson Zulu

… “so intense was the resistance in Zululand that King Cyprian, who had accepted the system, had to flee to Swaziland when Zulu peasants from the Thomas district of Nongoma threatened to kill him for siding with the BA.” Arising from this conflict, banishment orders were issued on 11 December 1959 for Nelson Zulu and his cousin PhikinkaniZulu. Documentation related to their banishment orders, from Usutu Area, Nongoma District, … and having no regard for the Chief’s orders. Their activities and attitudes also questioned the Chief’s authority. Nelson Zulu was accused of regularly attending meetings in Durban and Johannesburg, and ofgetting inspiration from ‘vyandiggesinde’ …

Zulumathabo Zulu

… Zulumathabo Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including The Sesotho … certified Prince2 methodologist. With more than 18 years of Canadian experience in the software engineering industry, Mr. Zulu has worked as a software engineer for companies Montage IT Services, Nortel Networks, Bell Northen Research including … engine for in-game content. He has performed reverse engineering for both the Canadian government and the private sector. Zulu is the inventor of Thekwini Visual Canvass, a software engineered for therapeutics at the School of Computer Science at …