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Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958

… communities, you occasionally get a dictator, like my own Chaka who was undoubtedly a dictator but not typical even of the Zulu chiefs. I don`t think that you would suggest that Napoleon was a sample of the best in Europe. Incidentally he and Chaka …

Chapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg

… others asked why. They said it sounded like a Xhosa word but they did not know it. The reason was that it related not to Zulu at all but to General Eisenhower, who called his World War Two headquarters SHAFE – Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces …

Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner

… was killed and one other was injured before the incident 'resolved itself into a factional dispute between Basotho and Zulu (Bantu World, 15.5.1937:18). This last detail hints at the real source of the trouble. The Basotho, at least, were …

Soldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars

… of this article, the citation given to Lucas Majozi, NMC, for the DCM is given below: No N 17525 Cpl Lucas Majozi, NMC, a Zulu from Zastron, Orange Free State att. FFB - Distinguished Conduct Medal. The citation to the Award says: 'On the night of …

Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela

… and culminating the outrageous Land Acts from 1913 onwards, had turned the once free and independent Tswana, Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu and other peasant farmers of this country into a nation of landless outcasts and roving beggars, humble "work - seekers" …

Chapter 7 - Defining the process

… that the formal proceedings finally got under way at about 4 p.m. The IFP did sign the amended Declaration of Intent, but Zulu traditional leaders protesting against the exclusion of KwaZulu and demanding the full participation of the Zulu King handed in a petition to the meeting, and the Bophuthatswana government insisted that it could not be part of any …

1. The Way to Fox Street

… to Robert Edgar, 24 May 1985.) One of the Nhlapo chiefs, Mlambo, was a favourite of Moshoeshoe. Mlambo was an emissary to Zulu king Shaka, taking animal skins and ostrich feathers as tribute to insure that Shaka's army did not attack the Basotho …

”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973

… the right to seek employment. Here, too, there is a concession to one of apartheid's most important platforms: that a Zulu's right to live and work outside KwaZulu is a privilege and not a right. To deal with an outbreak of faction fighting in … people. This is why KwaZulu makes proposals for the easing of pass laws incorporating acceptance "for the present" that a Zulu cannot seek employment in a "white" area as of right. This is why, instead of calling on the working class to reject the …

History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida

… the importance of the masajid to non-Muslims; * ten thousand pamphlets on What is Islam in English-Afrikaans and English-Zulu; * weekly pamphlets in English-Gujarati explaining the significance of various festivals, months and personalities in … on a part-time basis, a new comer to Islam, the Reverend Rashid Tahir King , and provided him with Islamic literature in Zulu. In 1959 Amina Tahir King , wife of the foremer Reverend, laid the foundation stone of As-Salaam Educational Institute …

Chapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg

… to take up arms. One makes one's choices and lives with the consequences! That is life! "C'est la vie", or "kenjalo-ke" in Zulu. Some years later I toured Canada and received an unexpected affirmation when I met several exiled South Africans. One …