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Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992

… Natal. And this was opposed bitterly by Inkatha which asserted that the formation of the UDF in Natal was splitting the Zulu nation. So all means for dissuading people from participating in the UDF were used. POM You were talking about when the UDF was formed, how it was opposed by Inkatha because they charged that it split the Zulu nation. AG Yes. And so there was care that any political organisation could not be penalised for furthering the aims … there was no need for opposition to this government, to this KwaZulu, because it was doing things for and on behalf of the Zulu people. POM What I want to get to, Archie, though, is we're going through the whole history of the UDF/Inkatha …

Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo

… believed this could only be achieved under socialism. In 1977 he was working on a simplified book on Marxism-Leninism in Zulu. The text seems, unfortunately, to have been lost. Nxumalo sometimes used Khumalo as his pen-name. He also wrote several …

SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens

… eight years before while he was still an undergraduate student in New York. His name was Pixley kaIsaka Seme. He was a Zulu barrister-at-law, practising in the Transvaal as an attorney of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa. In this … and best way to their mental, moral, material and political betterment.4 John Langalibalele Dube was the son of a minor Zulu chief of the Ngcobo line. He was first educated at the American Board Mission at Amanzimtoti, Natal. Then in 1887, as a … Institution in Natal based roughly on Washington`s principles of self-help. Later, in 1903, he also founded and edited the Zulu newspaper, Ilanga Lase Natal. There is a fair amount of information available about John Dube but almost nothing about …

Miriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick

… song in public you would be arrested. This album was also the first United States release to contain Swahili, Sotho, and Zulu languages (Makeba ‘Beware Verwoerd’). This is a big deal because it means it is the first time Americans can listen to …

Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910

… would focus on a wide range of issues such as the proletarianisation of the African worker, Pass Laws, chieftainship, Zulu traditions, and Shepstonian governance in Natal. Gumede’s introductory remarks bears pertinently on the sorry economic … traditions and customs behind? One possible answer to this question is to be found in Gumede’s belief in and sympathy with Zulu traditions and values. Gumede’s evidence clearly points to the growing identity crises many Kholwas had been … Zundel of the Berlin Missionary Society. Consequently Gumede could move easily between the world of his traditional Zulu society and that of the Christian mission. In his further evidence Gumede also spelled out major weaknesses in the Natal …

Nelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949

… in my heart. It was the first place I lived away from home." This broadened his perspective by exposure to Sotho-, Swazi-, Zulu-, etc. speaking people. Nelson Mandela completed a BA degree through correspondence. E.T Mofutsanyana and Alpheus Malibu …

Political assassinations 1974 - 1994

… PWV Mr. Madondo Thokoza Civic Association Killed in his house by a group of unknown men. 29 February Estcourt, Natal Mr. Zulu ANC official Shot and killed while driving his car. 9 March Sharpeville, PWV 'Doctor' Mkopidi Motsisi Witness to killing … home. February Tigane Andries Khoza, Koos Seokolo IFP Youth Brigade leaders Killed. March North coast, Natal Mbonlongeni Zulu Inkatha leader Killed; home torched. March Alexandra, PWV Mxibilo Phoswa Wife of Alex Inkatha general secretary, …

Timeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation

… parliamentary representation of Africans. It recognized eight African national units- North-Sotho, South-Sotho, Tswana, Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa, Tsonga, and Venda- and provided for the appointment of five Commissioners-General to represent the … township purposes; b) other displaced families who belonged to the tribe in the area the township is situated; c) or were Zulu persons who are legally employed in the southern portion of Durban; would qualify for the housing. Others who were …

uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile

… Caculama and Camalundi, to MK. It also donated a flat in Luanda to the ANC. The linguistic similarities between Ndebele, Zulu and Xhosa would also have facilitated communication between MK guerrillas and the local populations. This would have … during the peasant revolts of the late 1950s. The Isandlwana Detachment, named after the Battle of Isandlwana, – when the Zulu regiments defeated the British forces in 1879 – was another unit that came out of Angola. Detachments consisted of a … was the death in Lusaka in November 1989 of Muziwakhe Ngwenya, an MK Commander and member of SACP whose alias was Thami Zulu. He was detained for about 16 months after it was alleged that he was an agent of the apartheid government. Five days …

KwaDukuza

… Dingane and Mhlangane and his servant, Mbhopa. A memorial stone was erected over his burial chamber in 1932 by the Zulu nation and declared a national monument on 29 June 1938. The Town of Stanger was established on the old Dukza site in …