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Chieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa

… patriotic women and men who were under the leadership of Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The IFP draws its support base largely from Zulu ethnic groups. The party places particular emphasis and value on traditional leadership and authority. The party’s focus … provide the institutional roles, authority and status of traditional monarchs. This was particularly applicable to the Zulu Monarch in KwaZulu Natal. However, powers and responsibilities given to traditional leaders in the Constitution was less …

Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline

… of a mobile phone belonging to a local man who was killed. On 8 April 2015, a spate of xenophobic violence occurred after Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini made comments that foreigners should go back to their home countries because they are changing …

Greytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal

… began in Greytown, almost a Century ago, with the Bhambatha Rebellion. This uprising against white authority by a local Zulu chief forced white residents to shelter in the Town Hall which was built in 1897. (It is worth a visit when in … are filled with many to Bushman paintings. Where the road drops into Weenen, a cairn of stones was placed by early Zulu travellers who passed here, for good luck. …

European missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries

… Also, although some groups such as the Basotho and the Tswana openly welcomed missionaries, others like the Pedi, the Zulu and the Pondo vehemently rejected their presence as a matter of national policy. Despite Campbell's claim that: … the continuing spread of a missionary presence into southern Africa during the 19th Century, by the time of the Anglo-Zulu conflict of 1879 very few converts had been won over to Christianity (Etherington 1977). Success in making converts also …

African National Congress Timeline 1910-1919

… Mqoboli At the conference it is also decided to establish Abantu-Batho (‘The People’), a multi-lingual (English, Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho language) weekly newspaper. 23 February, The Natal Native Congress (NNC) agrees to affiliate to h the SANNC at …

Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan

… until they were also incorporated in the Cape in 1894. The most spectacular military resistance was that of the mighty Zulu kingdom in 1879. At Isandhlwana, the Zulu impis inflicted a devastating defeat against the British army. However, shortly afterwards, at Ulundi, the Zulu kingdom was dealt a blow from which it never recovered. King Cetshwayo was removed as king and his kingdom was broken …

Anna De Koningh

… properties of the Cape. At the time of her death Anna owned 27 slaves, one of which was from Bengal and one even a Zulu from Natal. As the mother of 12 children Anna, like her mother, is one of the stammoeders of South African society and …

Sibusiso Robert Duma

… With Welcome Danca, African Art Centre 2007: “Revision”, African Art Centre 2007: Bad “Best Of African Design” 100% Zulu, London 2008: “Haibo”, Fresh Paint Gallery, Durban 2008: ‘Sobathathu’, Joint with Welcome Danca and Bheki Khambule, …

John Matshikiza

… Wah-Wah (2005), Richard E Grant's exploration of the pre-independence Swaziland of his youth, Leon Schuster's There's a Zulu on My Stoep (1993) and Hijack Stories (2000). He also appeared with Kevin Bacon in The Air Up There and Angelina Jolie …

Ashley James Kriel

… into manhood. Gary Holtzman remarks in Action Kommandant that he was surprised to find that Kriel was now ‘proficient in Zulu’. He was trained in the use of various small firearms as well as in the use of homemade explosives and unarmed combat. …