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… African Anti-Apartheid leader Chief Albert Luthuli (Athens: Ohio University Press, forthcoming) and, with Benedict Carton, Zulu Diasporas: South Africa, the United States and Black Liberation. Benedict Carton is the Robert T. Hawkes Professor of … the author of Blood from Your Children: Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa (2000) and co–editor of Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present (2008). His recent essay on armed struggle, 'Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of …

General South African History Timeline: 1960s

… occur in Johannesburg and five others at Port Elizabeth. Handbills calling for sabotage are distributed in English and Zulu. During the night a series of explosions are set off, damaging a post office, several African affairs offices and … school. His maternal grandparents were Collin Campbell van Niekerk, a White Afrikaner, and Grace, a Coloured daughter of a Zulu-speaking mother and a Coloured father.Robert grows up in Wentworth, a suburb 11km from the city centre of Durban. … June, A spokesman for the World Council of Churches says in Geneva that the government has refused permission for Bishop Zulu to attend the world conference on ‘Church and Society’ in July. The Anglican Prelate was to have been one of the eight …

African National Congress Timeline 1920-1929

… Universal Negro Improvement Society (UNIA). Inkatha kaZulu is formed as a cultural movement and gains the support of the Zulu monarchy and becomes a rival to Congress, especially in Natal. March, The First Native Conference is held under …

Barberton, Mpumalanga

… where it is an official language, as well as in South Africa and Mozambique. The closest linguistic affiliation is with Zulu; also known as Swati, Swazi, Tekela, or Tekeza. Siswati is spoken in a variety of dialects, the main ones being Baca, … also a tonal language. The two main tones are high and falling. On the other hand, belonging to the Nguni subgroup, like Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele, Siswati has the click sounds, borrowed from the neighbouring Khoisan-speaking areas. Modern Siswati, …

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

… radio broadcasts into Southern Africa, and the Soviets set up the African Service of Radio Moscow, which had English and Zulu programmes. Dadoo visited Moscow again in October 1961, accompanied by Moses Kotane, who had studied in the country from …

The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)

… their intersections within social structures'.8 The Making of the Man, 1867 — 1879 In 1867, in rural Natal or Zululand, a Zulu-speaker — possibly of the Amazizi clan — named Numisimani Mathebula and his wife, Nompopo, celebrated the birth of a … him?'10 A few years later, possibly as a result of the political turbulence surrounding the accession of Cetshwayo to the Zulu throne, Numisimani chose to leave his native Zululand, and to re-locate his family on the farm of a certain Tom Porter … when it is appreciated that the surname was pronounced 'Not' by his black associates,16 and that in Doke and Vilakazi's Zulu-English Dictionary the word 'unotha is said to refer to 'native hemp, cannabis, satwa of the best quality'. 17 Thus, …

Bergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville

… exhibition are artefacts from Umkomaas, Msinga and the Tugela areas including iZingqoko (wooden meat platters), iZinkamba (Zulu clay beer pots), iZimbenge (beer pot lids) and iZingqiki (wooden headrests) amongst other items. Fascinating …

Credo Mutwa Cultural Village

… four-headed mythical creatures and traditional burial practices are also depicted. The exotic array of sculptures includes Zulu chiefs and tokoloshes (African imps), gods of creation and aliens. The collection showcases human and animal figures …

Football in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012

… South African representative Coloured team, a South African representative Indian team and a South African representative Zulu, Xhosa or any other Bantu (sic) national team can compete in the tournament.” A Whites-only team beats a Blacks-only …

Football in South Africa

… played its first official international contest in three decades. An integrated national team, nicknamed Bafana Bafana (Zulu for ‘The Boys'), defeated Cameroon 1-0, thanks to a Doctor Khumalo penalty kick. Nelson Mandela acknowledged the …