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South Africa and the Olympic Games

… was a wild guess from an American official. Because they were black and from Africa he assumed that they were from the Zulu nation. Amongst these people the surnames Lentauw and Yamasani are unknown. It was only when an old newspaper clipping …

African National Congress Timeline 1866-1909

… kaMancinza , takes place in Natal. The armed rebellion is fought in response to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by British Colonial rule. The SANC and the Transvaal Native Congress condemn the Natal government’s handling of the …

Johannesburg the Segregated city

… of bubonic plague receded and the suspected carriers returned to Johannesburg, the camp was taken over by turban-wearing Zulu ‘Ama Washa’. These were Zulu men who did laundry for Johannesburg’s White, single male residents, using the stream on the southwestern part of town … for their washing. After 1906 the Johannesburg municipality regarded the use of the stream as a health hazard, forcing the Zulu Ama Washa to use the health camp in Klipspruit as an alternative. It is true that outbreaks of bubonic plague had taken …

Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998

… of this university are imbued. These were the stamping grounds of King Shaka, where he held sway after uniting the Zulu nation. This is the soil in which the rich Zulu culture sprouted and bloomed, enriching in its turn the diversity and vibrancy of our South African nationhood. To come … gained here for the betterment of your fellow citizens and your country. Ekugcineni ngithanda ukufisela iYunivesithi yakwa Zulu ukuba ikhule idlondlobale iqhubeke ukuthiqiza, abafundi abanohlonze futhi abayokwenza lelizwe lakithi liziqhenye ngabo. …

Suggested Gandhi Trail, Through Durban

… Gandhi is in the forecourt of the Temple. Continuing on through terrible Roads, Dundee awaits where there is a Museum on Zulu Culture . The Courthouse where Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba, were tried and sentenced on a number of occasions for …

Pre-colonial history of Southern Africa

… when the Hlubi moved out of KwaZulu-Natal and attacked the Tlokwa on the plateau. In this interpretation, Shaka of the Zulu was one of the prime causes. Recent work, however, has shown that Shaka was a result, not a cause, and that causal … near Pretoria. With a large and powerful force, he defeated, subjugated or absorbed local Sotho-Tswana. In about 1830, the Zulu attacked Mzilikazi, so he moved his headquarters west near Zeerust. Thus, Mzilikazi only stayed in the Pretoria area for …

All That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza

… the eastern Transvaal, the Pedi. In return for their support, the Swazi expected the Boers to help them in the event of a Zulu invasion. While Africans still had access to the land, they resisted working for the Boers. It soon became difficult for … onwards? Source 9 During the 1850s, the Pedi lost much of their cattle through raids. Their land was threatened by Swazi, Zulu and Trekker communities in the Northern and Eastern Transvaal in this period of shifting frontiers. The Pedi needed guns to defend themselves, their land and their cattle. Other African chiefdoms like the Zulu and the Basotho, for example, got large number of guns through trade with colonial markets. But the Pedi had limited …

Africa Timeline

… power of the Fatimid caliphs and slowed trade in the region. Early ironworks are used in what is currently known as Kwa-Zulu Natal . 12TH Century CE The first state in Southern Africa, the Kingdom of Mapungubwe , arises. The Kingdom attained its … and caused the resident Tsonga people to the Northern Transvaal over the Lebombo Mountains. 1820s CE Shaka, of the Zulu people , establishes a centralised Zulu kingdom. It would go on to conquer most of its neighbouring kingdoms, and in turn cause mass disruption within much of …

From the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019

… collections include Jo’Liinkomo (1977) and No More Lullabies (1982). He also worked with Liz Gunner and co-edited Musho! Zulu Popular Praises (1991), a literary commentary on Zulu poetry, which includes two of his praise poems. Among us blacks no one has bothered to ask, why did Steve have to die? … moulded in the name of black cultural identity and self reliance. There were various projections towards an artificial Zulu unity. Therefore, I held that cultural politics not only had to be closely monitored but had to be rejected outright. …

Mamelodi

… in Mamelodi that are descendants of the Coloured people and descendants of people of Indian descent. There has always been Zulu-speaking people in Mamelodi from the time the township was established, as well as families that originates from Malawi, … heroes and heroines of our township. These are women and men that came from different backgrounds, they were Ndebele, Zulu, Shangaan, Venda, Pedi, Coloured, Tswana, etc and they contributed in many ways to making Mamelodi what it is today - A … original families that first occupied this township, you’ll probably never find a single “pure” Pedi, Tswana, Shangaan, Zulu, Venda, Coloured, Indian because we reflect human movement, interaction and evolution. The movement of people into …