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King Shaka International Airport, La Mercy-Durban

… King Shaka International Airport is named after the founder of the Zulu Kingdom , King Shaka . King Shaka Airport stands on- iLembe District land, which is Culturally significant to the Zulu people. In 2011 the present-day Zulu king, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu , chose King Shaka International Airport to be part of the Bicentenary …

History of December 16

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History of December 16

… celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the Voortrekkers triumphed against the Zulu army led by Dingane at the Battle of Blood River, it became a powerful instrument in the arsenal of the White Afrikaner … celebrated by Afrikaners as Dingaan's Dag (Dingane's Day) in celebration for what Voortrekkers viewed as a 'victory' over Zulu warriors near the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. An estimated 10 000-20 000 Zulu warriors led by Dingane's generals - Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi - attacked around 470 Voortrekkers at dawn. …

Defining culture, heritage and identity

… to innocently enquire into the nature of "African Culture." Such an enquiry clearly makes little sense, for the Xhosa, Zulu, Pedi, Dinka, Himba, Berber, Arab, and so forth all represent vastly different modes of practice and have little in common save for the relative geographic proximity in relation to the rest of the globe. Even to ask about 'Zulu culture' is potentially wide of the mark, given how varied and dynamic the Zulu population is. While it is a stretch of the imagination to state that culture simply does not exist, as has been claimed …

General South African History Timeline: 1600s

… Nguni and Sotho groups begin splitting, as a result of strengthening chiefdoms, into the groups that we know today (Zulu, Ndebele, Tswana, Xhosa etc). 1601 Joris van Spilbergen, leading a Dutch fleet, casts anchor in the Bay of Saldaha … the Castle overland. His crew in the vessel Voerman are to explore the coast of Natal. 1670 According to oral history the Zulu royal line is founded. The word Zulu means 'Sky', Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in. 1672 The VOC attempts to transact a …

Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa

… into the Interior of Africa ... etc. London: Henry Colburn. AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. 1886. Zulu Mission: a Condensed Sketch. 1835-1886. Boston: American Board,. 1891. Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American … and Religious Research. BECKER, CJ. 1878. Guide to the Transvaal. Dublin: J Dollard, Printer. BERGLUND, Axel-Ivar. 1972. Zulu Ideas and Symbolism. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. BLUE BOOK ON NATIVE AFFAIRS. 1880. Ministerial … Transvaal Vernacular Architecture Society. FUZE, Eka Magema. 1922. The Bantu People and Where They Came From: a Zulu View. Pietermaritzburg: City Printing Works. FYNN, Henry Francis. 1969 The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn. …

Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity

… BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Josiah Gumede, who for much of his formative years offers no apology for his close identification with Zulu tradition and history, had his ancestral home outside Zululand. 2 Gumede was born on 9 October 1867 in Healdtown … the Eastern Cape. His history, however, does not start there. It dates back to a historical period in the history of the Zulu nation which historians call the Mfecane. 3 Josiah would come to know more of the Mfecane since his father was closely … or more sisters, the names of two being Mina and Joyce. 9 All of them were given Christian first names. In honour of their Zulu ancestry, Josiah was also given his father’s second name - Tshangana. In the up-bringing of his children John Gumede …

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of ancestors connected to a royal Zulu family from the Makabaleni area, north of Kranskop. Sardinia came from an aristocratic family who emphasized their … together – three boys and a girl. Herbert was the younger brother of Rofles Robert Reginald Dhlomo (R.R.R.), a prominent Zulu writer among Black South Africans in the early twentieth century. Together, R.R.R and Dhlomo and served as editors of … officially left his teaching profession to become a staff member of Bantu World, and later became assistant editor of the Zulu-English newspaper, Ilanga Lase Natal, to his R.R.R, the editor. His published writing included series of short stories …

Beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879

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… 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 supported by Shepstone (Secretary for Native Affairs), who averred that the Zulu people had revived their military power under Cetshwayo , making them more of a threat to peace and prosperity in South … On 11 December 1878, under the flimsy pretext of a few minor border incursions into Natal by Cetshwayo's followers, the Zulu were given an impossible ultimatum that they should disarm and Cetshwayo should forsake his sovereignty. The inevitable …

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… tutored. He lived at his father's official residence at Khethomthandayo and received formal instruction in traditional Zulu customs. In 1968 his father died and a regent was appointed to look after the administration of the Royal affairs while … In 1979 King Zwelithini denied the allegations, including a claim that he advocated violence in KwaZulu to overthrow the Zulu state. The KwaZulu government eventually restored his salary. In 1980 King Zwelithini was forbidden to give interviews … three decades of imprisonment. In 1991 he called for peace at a May Day Rally and accused the ANC was fostering anti-Zulu feelings. During the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) the King's status became a point of bitter …

Miriam Makeba

… Oil. Makeba’s mother was also a sangoma, or a practitioner of herbal medicine, divination and counselling in traditional Zulu , Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi (Nguni) societies of Southern Africa. Her father died when she was five years old, Miriam … biography (2004) Note: A sangoma is a practitioner of herbal medicine, divination and counselling in traditional Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi) societies of Southern Africa. …