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Henry Eric Isaacs

… area of Pietermaritzburg.His family was of diverse racial composition:one grandfather was an Afrikaner,one grandmother Zulu,two aunts were Indian.In 1966 he completed high school and worked as a cleck and lab assisted,then enteres the …

Mafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017

Mafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture

… lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala was a prominent South African …

Chief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi

… the abakwa Zondi chieftaincy, and his mother, principal wife of Macinga, was the daughter of Chief Pakade of an important Zulu chieftaincy, the Cunu. From early childhood, chief Bhambatha became renowned for his athletic skills, the use of …

Rev. George Champion

… (present-day Durban) from Cape Town on “The Dove” and proceeded to the capital of Dingane at Mgungundhlovu to obtain the Zulu king’s permission to work among his subjects. Despite Dingane’s indunas voicing some objections to their presence in …

Phillmon Velangetshe Sangweni

… district where he works as a sculptor of figures and animals in wood. He is particularly concerned with the depiction of Zulu cultural history, of myths and folklore. He has participated in several group exhibitions from 1980 in South Africa. He …

General South African History Timeline: 1800s

Enos Mabuza

… in Vryheid. He later completed his matric in 1964 and registered for a BA degree in 1966, which he completed in 1969 with Zulu and Psychology as majors. In 1974 he completed his Honours degree in Psychology. From 1960 he lectured at the …

African Nationalism

… self-determination. African nationalism attempted to transform the identity of Africans. Rather than seeing themselves as Zulu, Xhoasa, Sotho, etc, nationalist leaders wanted Africans to view themselves as South Africans. After World War I …

Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi

… corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He organizes stretcher-bearer corps that serves during the Zulu uprising Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest philosophy of Satyagraha 1908 Gandhi is arrested for the first time, …

Prehistory of the Pretoria area

… began as a result of the movement of several Nguni groups across the Drakensberg from KwaZulu Natal, in order to escape Zulu expansion. Mzilikazi , a general who had fled from King Shaka's army, was the cause of much of the destruction of the …