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Indanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt

… receive an education at Inanda Seminary from 1960-1964 (Baloyi, 2010). At the time she attended the seminary it was mostly Zulu students. Baloyi believes that the seminary prepared her well for studying at University of Zululand. After graduating, …

State of emergency declared in 27 townships

This day in history

… Tutu had submitted a dossier to President de Klerk which alleged that during one particular night police had escorted a Zulu group intent on attacking the community. The police disarmed local residents while allowing the group to keep their …

The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017

… brings out the nature and feel of very language. When Prosperus is addressed, it is in the ringing tones of praise in Zulu reserved for a king and warrior. The Malayalam lyrics bring in both the classical register of affect and philosophy from the Sanskritic tradition as well as the demotic register of the folk. If the Zulu words recall power, the Malayalam resonates with spirituality and the possibilities of religious reflection and a … Through the operetta, various strains and styles of music circulate: Indian classical ragas, blues, isicathamiya or Zulu a capella traditions. So do several instruments: the plaintive sarangi, the sonorous sarod and veena; the electric …

Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996

… today, in this Natal on Saturday, this analysis on Mao and Buthelezi indicating that Buthelezi has placed his stamp on the Zulu nation, or on Inkatha, in the same way that Mao had done so that if you disagreed with Mao you disagreed with everybody … through his leadership qualities to wrest that position and to consolidate it and then build it to the position where the Zulu tribe, which was one of the smallest tribes, they were sellers of tobacco, became the name of all the tribes of this province and their language became known as Zulu. You see if you don't understand and don't read that history then of course you keep making assumptions that because a …

Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959

… But what is a nation? People use this word in many ways. Everyone has for example heard talk of a South African nation, a Zulu nation, and African nation. In each case something different must be meant, for the Zulus form part of the African … have the main requiÂtes of nationhood. We have only to settle the question of whether there can be said to be a common Zulu economy, or, in the words of Potehkin in his recent Liberation article, "a single national market. "The main …

The South African Communist Party and Mozambique

Mozambique - FRELIMO

… communist from the Soweto generation and Nkululeko Conquerer, a lawyer from Natal who translated the SACP programme into Zulu, were killed in Matola in 1981. [21] In 1982, the SACP’s headquarters were relocated from London to Maputo. Joe Slovo, …

St Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban

… St. Louis had Parishioners of many Cultures and Languages with 3 or 4 Masses on Weekends, with a well attended Mass in Zulu for people of Clearwood, Wentworth and the hostels within the Parish. From 1963 there was a steady decline in the …

Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002

… illiterate, you know, he couldn't read or write, couldn't speak English and he used to communicate with his employer in Zulu. Somehow he learnt Zulu, communicated in that and he was, you know, a person who used to socialise and so on because from Monday to Sunday he …

The banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s

… campus ahead of the commemoration of King Shaka day on 24 September 1983. Buthelezi was accompanied by machete-wielding Zulu warriors who indiscriminately attacked students, killing six and leaving scores wounded, some maimed for life. It is …

Delmas

… constitute 1%. Native Afrikaans speakers constitute 56.9% while native Southern Ndebele speakers constitute 8.5%, Zulu speakers 16.2% and English 7.2%. Bothibelong is one of the oldest townships in Delmas and it is located 3 km north of …