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ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012

… Kgalema "Wizard" Motlanthe, Fikile Mbalula, Paul Mashatile, Parks Tau, David Makhura, Danny Jordan, Mandla Nkomfe, Lindiwe Zulu, Dali Tambo, Teenage Dladla, Mark Fish, Phil Masinga, Martin Cohen, City Late Neo Lichaba, Patrick Molala, Roger de Sa, …

Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography

… University Press, 1993. Jensma, Wopko. Sing for our Execution . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1973. Marks, Shula. Natal, the Zulu Royal Family and the Ideology of Segregation . In William. Beinart and Saul. Dubow (eds.), Segregation and Apartheid in …

1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

… away the South African citizenship of Africans by creating 'homelands'. Africans were divided into 'ethnic groups' such as Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana or Sesotho. The already existing 'native reserves' were to be turned into 'independent states' for each …

Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991

… you will find that the people who committed the massacre did not ask people whether they were Inkatha or ANC or Xhosa or Zulu. They just went in there and shot people. They came in with pangas, they just went in there and cut people down. So it's … by and large most of the people resident are people from Natal, associating in particular hostels, now they would be Zulu speaking regardless of their political affiliation and also being, say now there is a strong Inkatha presence in that …

General South African History Timeline: 1930s

Cape Town, Western Province

… the Cape as a strategic base against the French, controlling the sea route to the East. In the 1820s, the celebrated Zulu leader, Shaka , established sway over a vast area of south-east Africa. As splinter Zulu groups conquered and absorbed communities in their path, the region experienced a fundamental disruption. Substantial …

Reminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019

… personalities. Arthur Magerman Arthur Magerman was brought up in Alexandra by his single mother, a fiercely independent Zulu woman. She saw Arthur through his schooling at Holy Cross, a local Roman Catholic Church primary and secondary school. …

Walter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday

This day in history

… was married to Walter's aunt. Walter's favourite subject was history and Makana, the great Xhosa chief and the legendary Zulu king, Shaka, were his heroes. He also loved Bible stories especially the story of Joseph because here was a small person …

Zimbabwe

… such as spears, axes, clubs, bows, and sometimes guns. The army fought in formations which resembled those of Shaka Zulu , and they are said to have favoured close combat. The army made sure all vassal chiefs paid tribute and stayed loyal. … to have been born around 1790 in contemporary South Africa . He was the leader of the Khumalo clan and served under Shaka Zulu until they had a falling out at around 1822. He fled north after this and came to contemporary Zimbabwe where he seized …

Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner

… to be in the European languages, no Xhosa or Sotho can enroll in the University of Zululand, for example, until all Zulu applicants have been taken care of; the effect is that in higher education there is no more mingling of the tribal … put up the most opposition to South Africa's continued presence there. 6. Gatsha Buthelezi is the Chief Minister of Kwa Zulu and Kaiser Matanzima is Chief Minister of the Transkei. These are the two most populous of the homelands. Buthelezi, who …