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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 …

Sishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni

… City Johannesburg, one poem of Sipho Sepamla whose title I have now forgotten, and Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali’s Inside My Zulu Heart. It was also such sweet joy to read an excerpt from Zakes Mda’s We Shall Sing for the Fatherland, whose … Soyinka in his introduction of Poems of Black Africa in 1975. Mafika Gwala’s style was distinct in its powerful use of the Zulu traditional idiom of the izimbongi with various elements influenced by jazz, African music varieties, and many writers … In the early 1990s with Liz Gunner, Gwala researched and published fresh renderings of many variations rooted in the Zulu izimbongi tradition. One remarkable feature of this enterprise, was the presentation of izibongo (often called praises), …

All That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza

… African independence was largely destroyed by the 1880s. Two examples of this were the conquest of the Pedi and the Zulu kingdoms. The methods used to force Africans to become migrant labourers included taking advantage of internal conflicts … about R300 in 1996, which is about one third of a miners monthly salary today. British officials collecting taxes from Zulu chieftains in the early 1900's Imposition of taxes Soon the Boer and the British governments started to impose taxes on …

National General Elections 2009: List of candidates for the National Assembly: National-to-National, 2 March 2009

… SISULU Max Vuyisile VAN DER MERWE Susan Comber HOLOMISA Sango Patekile PETERS Elizabeth Dipuo MOTSHEKGA Mathole Serofo ZULU Lindiwe Daphne CHABANE Ohm Collins SIBIYA Noluthando Agatha HANEKOM Derek Andre` BOGOPANE-ZULU Hendrietta Ipeleng MPAHLWA Mandisi Bongani Mabuto TOBIAS Thandi Vivian MOTSOALEDI Pakishe Aaron MOLEWA Bomo Edana Edith …

Robert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024

… from the book. *** When the once ‘famous Nongamu’ – the name given to the half-Irish half-Herero Robert Grendon by his Zulu students – died, blind and impoverished, in rural Swaziland in 1949, his productive life was long behind him. In the …

South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014

… also contributed to several literary journals, including as the editor for The Black Review in 1973. He co-edited Musho! Zulu Popular Praises with Liz Gunner in 1991. As a student activist, Gwala was a prominent member of the National Union of …

List of people banned under Apartheid

… 9 (1) 28 April 1967 31/7/1968 Molteno Zuba, Christian Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967 30/6/1968 Lady Frere Zulu, Joshua Tembinkosi Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1972 28/2/1974 Camperdown Zulu, Nelson Banished Zulu, Phikinkani Banished Zuma, Kalweni Albert Banished. Forced to depart from Marion Hill. Zuma, Nkosazana Edna Act No. 44 …

Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History

… the traditional pattern of life within the tribal societies. The following long quotation from Absolam Vilakazi's book Zulu Trans formations (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1962, p. 111) describes the relationships between economy and society within Zulu life: The Zulu practised kraal economy. This is basic to the whole economic life of the people. All property, whether in land or in …

Indian South Africans timeline 1960-1969

… Natvarlal Babenia , Bernard Nkosi, Billy Nair, Zakela Mdhlalose, Kisten Moonsamy, Matthews Mayiwa , George Naicker, Joshua Zulu, Kisten Doorsamy, David Mkize, Curnick Ndlovu, David Ndwonde, Ragoowan Kistensamy, Siva Pillay and Riot Mkwanzi were …

History of Women’s Struggle in South Africa

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… backdrop to another hotbed of resistance on the part of African women. Beer-drinking was a popular social practice among Zulu men, while beer-brewing gave women an opportunity to make a small income and thus allow them to assert their …