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Paper Wood and Allied Workers Union (PWAWU)

… Natal and the Western Cape. One of its achievements was successfully breaking down ethnic divisions between Mpondo and Zulu workers in Natal. …

Josie Palmer

… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) but moved back to Potchefstroom in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the surname ‘Mpama’ when she moved to a Black township to be with her husband, …

João Albasini

… on buck he soon became a skilled elephant hunter and traded ivory with interior peoples. Albasini was 20 when the exiled Zulu chief Shoshangane and soldiers attacked Delagoa Bay, massacring many White people and abducting him. He escaped six …

A history of Kwaito music

… They were representing us and talking about what was happening in the ghettos, and they spoke in a mixture of English, Zulu, Sesotho and Iscamtho (slang)." The word Kwaito is derived from the Afrikaans word kwaai, which translates to "angry" in …

Sydney Brenner

… emigrated from Latvia in 1922. Although his father was illiterate he could speak English, Yiddish, Russian Afrikaans and Zulu. Brenner was highly intelligent and learned to read at an early age. One of his father's customers convinced Mr. Brenner …

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… school in 1954 without matriculating. He moved to Durban where he worked as a reporter for Ilanga newspaper, published in Zulu and English. He later moved to Johannesburg where he joined Post and later Drum magazine . He also freelanced for …

Ari Sitas

… the World in 80 Days-the India Section" is about to be published by UNISA Press. His poems have been translated into Zulu, French, German, Greek, Turkish, Urdu and Hindi and many have been set to music. Before his appointment as a professor …

Walter Sidney Felgate

… Southern Natal regional secretary until 1968. He conducted field research in the Ingwavuma area, during which he learned Zulu, he lectured in anthropology at Rhodes University from 1968 to 1971.He then did labour research for the Chamber of …

Peter Engblom

… Educational Institute for Photography before returning to Zululand. In 1997 he created a CD-ROM about Zululand and the Zulu people entitled A Land called Heaven , available on the website www.cdromshop.com. He has held a number of one person …

History Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers

… response to the implementation of the 1913 Natives Land Act? (2 x 3 marks) Source A shows how Africans, whether they were Zulu, Xhosa or Sotho, united to fight against the injustice of the 1913 Natives Land Act. This source, which is a protest …