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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban

… 1906, whose Centenary we have and are commemorating this year. Gandhi led an ambulance corps to help the wounded among the Zulu people. He later wrote in his autobiography that: "The Zulu 'rebellion' was full of new experiences and gave me much food for thought. The Boer War had not brought home to me the …

Hawaan Forest, Umhlanga

… classic example of coppicing from its base. Its naturally swollen bases of branches look exactly like knobkerries used by Zulu tribesmen as an attacking tool. But they also look almost impossible to remove, the wood is so hard. Birds love the …

Walter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003

… with the significance for Afrikaners of this historic victory by vastly outnumbered Boers against the might of the Zulu army. 1962 7 February, Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg and rally support amongst …

PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE

… by your site. It's not SA history, it's one facet of SA history - race. Isn't there anything better to write about? Shaka Zulu, the Boer Wars (1 & 2), Sterkfontein, the 'Border Wars' .... heard of them? Your chronology of the struggle of women …

Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s

… Registration Act, four key pieces of apartheid legislation. The Inkatha Backlash After a pamphlet was distributed in Zulu hostels in the PWV region, warning Zulus that the ANC planned to drive them out of the province, clashes between …

Chapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg

… the Black Consciousness Movement, the Pan Africanist Congress and especially Chief Buthelezi’s Inkatha, originally a Zulu cultural movement. It was one thing to support them in Europe against the ANC but they financed them inside South Africa … and internationalist poet Robert Burns. In true Scottish fashion having taken sufficient whiskey, I sang Auld lang Syne in Zulu. I also read aloud a poem by the modern internationalist poet Hamish Hamilton’s Freedom come all ye. In translation from …

Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction

… of wattle and daub with a corrugated iron roofing but with no ceiling.”Š 4 ”‰To Standard I and II students, she taught Zulu, English, hygiene, and scriptures. In addition, to Standard III and IV students, she taught nature study, short stories … on industrial education and self-help had been transplanted to Natal in the early twentieth century by an American trained Zulu, John Dube. Washington's principles permeated Dube's own school, Ohlange Institute, and they had a significant impact on … but a moSotho. . . . And I think we didn't realize it . . . but it kept us as a black community without saying, "You are Zulu. You are Tswana. You are Xhosa."”Š 14 ”‰ TEACHING AND THE LAW After leaving Adams in 1936, Lembede took up a series of …

The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer

… All he spoke about was the importance of religion and death. The funny thing was that because the head minister is Zulu they had to resort to speaking a Zulu-like dialect and this is something for Xhosas, because they are very racist. They look down upon other people. I suppose … worst. Swazis and Zulus have a way of saying ' Umuntu phe ?' meaning 'Are you a person?' as if, if you are not Swazi or Zulu, you are not a person. It's the same as the Boers thinking only whites are people. This church had one funny custom. The …

Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950

… While the Xhosa was being expropriated, the Boers, abetted by British settlers from Natal, tragically defeated the Zulu, under Dingaan. The work of Dingiswayo and Chaka was not completely undone by this defeat. After their miserable vassalage under Mpanda, the Zulu people were to rise in defence of their land under Cetewayo and, later, Bambatta. The British did not achieve by the Boer, but the final military destruction of the Zulu after the discovery of diamonds. The same applies to the Basuto, the Bechuana, Matabele, Swazi and Mashona. It is a …

Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951

… Bantu Social Centre in Durban in November of that year. It is one of his early ,political speeches and was delivered in Zulu. This translation,in a slightly edited form here, is from the Carter-Karis Collection (item 2:XC9:81/6).This speech …