African History and Biographies Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Prof Chabani Manganyi, JET’s first CEO

Motsumi Makhene — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:15:46 +0000

As the first Executive Director of the Joint Education Trust, along side Nick Taylor, Prof. Manganyi became the champion benefactor to support the establishment of the Funda Community College, as we imagine it today, in 1994. As a close associate of Prof. Eskia Mphahlele he contributed towards 1. The building of the new Central Administration [...]

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Sobukwe Speaking to a Basotholand African Congress Party, Conference in Lesotho in 1957

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sons and Daughters of the soil, I wish, in opening this conference, to quote the caption which appears on “Mohlabani” since it expresses so clearly the reason for our sustained struggle: “Tsoara thebe e tiee oa Rasenate, Oa bona fatse leno lea ea.” ( Hold fast thy shield, son of Rasenate, Thou [...]

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Reminiscence Of Apartheid: Illegal Migrants, Foreigners & The Dompass

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:57:45 +0000

The death of Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot two weeks ago is not only a tragedy of a people captured and confined in an Orwellian type of ‘animal farm’, but, in fact, a consequence of the dominance and persistence of racist colonialist concepts and the ignorant consumption of eurocentric definitions of reality and phenomena. Nyathi, like [...]

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King Moshoeshoe

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:56:46 +0000

Founder and first paramount ruler of the Basotho nation, Moshoeshoe I was one of the most successful Southern African leaders of the 19th century, and he is revered as the Father of the kingdom which later became known as Lesotho. Born in 1786, near the upper Caledon River in Menkhoaneng, northern Basutoland (north of present-day [...]

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Shaka Zulu

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:46:11 +0000

Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent Nguni chiefdoms. During his brief reign more than a hundred chiefdoms were brought together in a Zulu kingdom which survived not [...]

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King Mzilikazi

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:18:43 +0000

Source: www.sahistory.org.za Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. He was born ca. 1790 near Mkuze, Zululand (now part of South Africa). The son of Matshobana whom many had considered to be the greatest Southern African military [...]

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King Sekhukhune

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:04:16 +0000

Source: www.sahistory.org.za Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King of the Basotho people, was an illegitimate ruler who came to power using military force. As a result, his half brother, and legitimate heir, Mampuru was forced to flee from the Kingdom. [...]

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Chief Maqoma

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:32:47 +0000

Born on 1798 in the right-hand house of Xhosa chief Ngqika, King of the Rharhabe division of the Xhosa people. Throughout his life, he was opposed to his father’s strategy of ceding land to the Cape Colony; as a result, in 1822, he went back into the Neutral Zone in order to establish his own [...]

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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:43:48 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born on 21 July 1921 in Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). His father’s first wife with whom he had three children died of influenza. Mutwa’s parents met in 1920. At the time his father was a builder belonging to the Christian faith, while his mother (a young Zulu girl) practiced [...]

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Moses Josiah Madiba

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:15:20 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although Ndebele-speaking, Madiba preferred Northern Sotho as a communication medium. He received his primary education in the Pietersburg district at Ga-Madiba, Mashashane Lutheran School and Setotolwane. From 1926 [...]

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