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Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

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… 1998, then spent several years teaching until coming back to South Africa in 2007. He became a lexicographer, collecting Zulu folk songs and translating classic works of literature and his own poems into Zulu. The most recent edition of Sounds of a Cowhide Drum includes Mtshali’s Zulu translations alongside his original English poems. …

Grade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa

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… Kimberley Mounted Police and compound 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 chiefs between 1799 and 1802 saw the displacement … adversaryalike, throwing both into further economic affliction and forming the foundation for future conflict. King Shaka Zulu. Image source The Portuguese in Delgoa Bay, from 1815 onwards, began exporting large numbers of slaves obtained in the … of KwaZulu-Natal as migration and marauding stimulated the emergence and decline of successive powerful chiefdoms like the Zulu.With the military innovations of Shaka, the Zulu were able to consolidate themselves into a powerful highly centralized …

Umlazi

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… Umlazi got its name from the Mlazi River, on the southern bank where the settlement was established. Mlazi is a Zulu name for ‘whey’ (milk curdle) referring to its colour and the flavour. The name Umlazicould also conceivably have been adapted from " umlaza " (Zulu for the sour acid produced from fermented milk or sour milk). According to Zulu tradition it was believed that when the Zulu King Shaka , who reigned from 1816 to 1828, was passing through the area, …

‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske

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… ‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 Jon Soske Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of History University of Toronto 2009 ABSTRACT My … and Hindi merchant and landlord class provided the ersatz urban infrastructure utilized by both Tamil-speaking workers and Zulu migrants. In Indian-owned buses, stores, and movie theatres, a racial hierarchy of Indian over African developed based … the majority of academic writing on the province employs a race-based framework that focuses on either Indians or Zulu-speaking Africans. As a result, Natal’s African/Indian racial dynamic plays, at most, a secondary role in most …

Mazisi Raymond Kunene

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… and earned a Masters degree in the Arts from the University of Natal in 1959 for a paper entitled “An Analytical Survey of Zulu Poetry, Both Traditional and Modern".He went to England on a scholarship from Christian Action in 1959,leaving on exit … 1982, were received with critical acclaim, establishing him as one of Africa's literary greats. He was also famous for his Zulu version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, known as Mabatha.  He published books in Zulu including Isibusiso sikamhawu (1994), Indida yamancasakazi (1995), Umzwilili wama-Afrika (1996) and Igudu likaSomcabeko …

A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005

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… and indigenous peoples are portrayed either as dangerous savages or given the role of the faithful servant, (Quartermain's Zulu retainer eventually gives his life for his master). 1883 Olive Schreiner's novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883) … follows the trajectory of the Tswana people during and after their military encounter with the Zulus under Shaka, the Zulu conqueror of the 19th century, and encompasses their earliest encounters with the white people moving into the interior. … the bottom, Millin's views represented those held widely at the time. 1925 Thomas Mofolo's Chaka reinvents the legendary Zulu king (commonly referred to as Shaka). The novel was published in 1925 and the first English translation came out in …

The Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs

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… was enrolled at Bhekuzulu College, the training institution for the sons of chiefs and headmen in Nongoma, and tutored in Zulu customs privately at the Khethomthandayo royal residence. Following his father’s death on September 17, 1968, Zwelithini … parliament, the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly (KZLA). Under the terms of the homeland’s new parliament, as defined by the Zulu Territorial Authority constitution and negotiated while Zwelithini remained in exile, the young king’s position remained ceremonial and the Zulu royal household remained alienated from the leadership of the new Bantustan. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, as chairman of the …

Margaret Roach Killie Campbell

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… was a book collector and antiquarian who built up a private collection of Africana, particularly relating to Natal and the Zulu people.  The collection started by her father, Sir Marshall Campbell, a friend of both Mahatma Gandhi and John Dube , … to record their reminiscences. As early as 1912 she had assisted her father in organizing an essay competition for Zulu and Sotho speakers who were invited to record the history of their families. Later she sponsored similar competitions, … to her was made by Donald Morris in the foreword to his book, The Washing of the Spears, which deals with the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. Morris wrote: "I owe the greatest debt of all to the most remarkable person, Dr Killie Campbell of Durban. …

South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)

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… State ). The rest headed for Natal (present day KwaZulu-Natal ) where they appointed a delegation to negotiate with the Zulu king,  Dingaan , for land. Thomas Bains painting of Trek Boers Dingaan granted them a large area of land in the central and southern part of his territory, but as the voortrekker delegation left they were ambushed and killed  by the Zulu . The newly elected Voortrekker leader  Andries Pretorius  prepared the group for a retaliatory attack and the Zulu were subsequently defeated at the famous 'Battle of Blood River' (16 December 1838), leading to the founding of the …

Mhlathuze River

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… The Battle of Mhlatuze River was a battle fought between the Zulu and Ndwandwe tribes in 1820, following the Zulu Civil War . The Ndwandwe hierarchy was a largely scattered population after this Battle. The Ndwandwe, with the … Zwide , the Ndwandwe Nation destroyed the Mthethwa under their king Dingiswayo, and the power vacuum was filled by Shaka Zulu and the Zulu tribe. Zwide makes a mistake by thinking that he can surprise Shaka, and hastily sends off his much greater …