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General South African History Timeline: 1920s

… Luthuli marries fellow Adam's College teacher Nokukhanya ('The Bright One') Bhengu, the granddaughter of a hereditary Zulu Chief. The Native Administration Bill is passed. However, the Pact government fails to have the Native Bills, which is …

Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction

… he stood for. This killing must stop. 1 Umkhonto we Sizwe - the armed wing of the African National Congress; (Xhosa and Zulu) literally, Spear of the Nation acolyte - an assistant or follower Mandela’s leadership helped to avoid a race war that …

Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo

The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan

… into a number of principalities (or paramountcies as the colonialists preferred to call them); in the north east the Zulu Kingdom; the Tsonga kingdom; and the Venda Kingdom. On the highveld were the baPedi kingdom, the Tswana and southern … the same newspapers, belonged to the same sports clubs and shared the same political ideals. Thus one person could be of Zulu birth, be a member of the Congregational Church, work as a clerk on the mines, be a star soccer player, a reader of The … with the PAC on the issue of "Africanism"? Or better yet, can the ANC ever hope to outdo the IFP in the promotion of a Zulu ethnicity and chauvinism? And, if it did try to compete on such terrain, what price would the movement have to pay in …

Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy

… with the Natives of South Africa. She knew no distinctions between white and black races. She loved the Indian, the Zulu and the Bantu as her own children... Such precious men and women have also been born and bred in South Africa." In 1909, … and plantation managers, attempted brutal suppression of the strike. Several workers were killed; some were stabbed by Zulu guards, on orders from the managers; thousands were brutally assaulted in mine compounds turned into prisons - but the …

Gauteng Province

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

… two years in Brandfort showed that she was seen to be the second most important political figure in the country after Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . Part of what kept Winnie motivated was her exceptional ability not to become demoralised …

General South African History Timeline: 1980s

… 1981 The Status of Ciskei Act No 110: Enabled Ciskei to get its independence. 1981 KwaZulu: Act on the Code of Zulu Law No 6: Commenced: 29 October 1982 1981 Commission of Inquiry into Security Legislation Mandate: To inquire into, … earlier. The figures included more than 1,000 killed in Natal Province over the past two years in the conflict between the Zulu-based Inkatha movement and the United Democratic Front. Meanwhile, in a related development, the Johannesburg-based …

Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920

… you Bantu workers. Unite as workers, unite! Forget the things that divide you. Let there be no longer any talk of Basuto, Zulu, or Shangaan. You are all labourers'. Let labour be your common bond. The native mine workers have followed this advice …

Heilbron, Free State

… and local tribes fought bitterly over the area in the mid 1800’s before the Boer’s finally beat back the Ndebele and Zulu warriors and officially established Heilbron in 1890. Today it is a quiet town, surrounded by maize, wheat and sunflower …