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Dinah Molefe

… Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift and it was acquired by that Gallery. She began with traditional geometric decoration seen in Zulu woven basketry and beadwork and she used oxides, glazes and applied clay coils to decorate her hand-built pots. For over …

Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo

… English very well. He also spoke Tamil, Telegu, Hindustani, Creole (which he had learned in Mauritius as a child) and Zulu. He came to South Africa with his sister and brother and started a business when he was 14 years old, in Kimberley, Cape …

Julian Raymond Cobbing

… his contribution to the writing of South African history in the form of his controversial and groundbreaking research into Zulu culture of the early 19 th century. His journal article, “The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo” …

Jan Gerritze Bantjes

… which is now of historical importance. His most important legacy is the manuscript of the treaty between Piet Retief and Zulu King Dingane in his handwriting. Bantjes also served the Voortrekkers in a teaching capacity, and the later presidents …

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 …

Chief Sekonyela

… royal family and later became the Chief of the Batlokwa people. His father was Mantatisi, who was expelled by King Shaka Zulu from the area he had conquered. In 1821 his father attacked a small Hlubi tribe and killed their headman and retaliation …

Ernest Methuen Mancoba

… guidance in wood carving there from Sister Pauline CR. On completion of his course, he remained at the College teaching Zulu until 1929. In 1933, Mancoba enrolled as a student at the University of Fort Hare. During this time, he served as the …

Phila Portia Ndwandwe

… or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami Zulu or “TZ”) operating from Swaziland . She was in the unit headed by Ayanda Dlodlo that was responsible for the …

Matabele Wars 1836-1896

… Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke away from their Zulu kindred in the 1820s and moved from present day Kwazulu Natal. It is unclear exactly why the split came about. Some …