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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho

… along ethnic lines, with the Sotho-Tswana groups in the Transvaal claiming that the Ndebele (a reference to the Zulu and Xhosa) were retarding the movement’s progress. As expected, the Transvaal Congress was weakened following the … letter to the Bantu World in November 1932 warned that “there are complaints here in Gauteng”¦ These complaints are from Zulu-speakers and Xhosa-speakers who are residents of the Transvaal. A call was made by the Transvaal Sotho-speaking men: …

The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission

… a document like the Diary of the Rev. Owen, who preached the foreign doctrines under the sceptical eye of Dingane, the Zulu chief, the Christian dogma was dismissed as unacceptable to reason. It was rare for a chief himself to become converted. … a branch of the maZulu who had broken away from Tshaka and settled further inland on the High Veld. Dingane, the Zulu chief, however, had as little time for the Rev. Owen of the American mission as he had for a handful of arrogant Trek …

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… Regional Free State Election list 2019- Third candidate Regional Gauteng Election list 2019- Third candidate Regional Kwa Zulu Natal Election list 2019- Third candidate Regional Limpopo Election list 2019- Third candidate Regional North-West …

Document 7 - The Freedom Charter

… in the 1820s; these were groups which eventually delivered a high proportion of converts. The southern Sotho and the Zulu, whom the mission frontier advanced in the 1830s, likewise in time came into the churches in large numbers. From 1850 … adult African churchwomen. Sewing schools for adult women were a weekly feature of mission stations among the Tswana and Zulu, for example from the 1830s, because to want to be 'dressed' or 'clothed' was synonymous with seeking Christian … in the Johannesburg area. The American Board Mission (ABM) which was Congregational, had its heartland in Natal among the Zulu. There, in 1912, a women's revivalist prayer movement called Isililo ('wailing') sprang up after African men at a church …

The First Slaves at the Cape

… 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 …

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

… to resist wrong and capacity to love his opponent which baffled his enemies and compelled their admiration. When the Zulu rebellion broke out, he again offered his help to the Government and raised an Indian Ambulance Corps. He was happy that …

How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg

… "People ask, how does Zuma survive? No one asks, how does Vladimir Putin survive?" "THE GRINDSTONE" Zuma, whose Zulu middle name, Gedleyihlekisa, means "the one who smiles as he hurts you", joined the ANC in 1959. The son of a policeman … "Zuma wanted someone young and green who is dependent and won't question him." Another was Nkosinathi Nhleko, a fellow Zulu whom Zuma appointed police minister in 2014. When Madonsela, the Public Protector, published a damning report on …

Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell

… in the 1820s; these were groups which eventually delivered a high proportion of converts. The southern Sotho and the Zulu, whom the mission frontier advanced in the 1830s, likewise in time came into the churches in large numbers. From 1850 … adult African churchwomen. Sewing schools for adult women were a weekly feature of mission stations among the Tswana and Zulu, for example from the 1830s, because to want to be 'dressed' or 'clothed' was synonymous with seeking Christian … in the Johannesburg area. The American Board Mission (ABM) which was Congregational, had its heartland in Natal among the Zulu. There, in 1912, a women's revivalist prayer movement called Isililo ('wailing') sprang up after African men at a church …

General South African History Timeline: 1700s

A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1

… a month to till the earth, tend, and raise the crops, and provide some of the domestic service which the barbarous Zulu was then not able to perform. The Indian labourer was for the most part hard working and thrifty. After three or six … lay side by side with the rich red beans of the 'Kaffirboom' and beads, products of Japanese factories, beloved of the Zulu maiden. Over all hung a mixture of odours and exudations of perspiring Natives, so reminiscent of phosphorus, and the …