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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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Kings, Kings, Kings…

Ben Themba Silindza — Sun, 03 May 2020 13:06:54 +0000

Kings, Kings, Kings – I wonder why they receiving a salary. What is that salary for? What are they doing for us? Maybe they are paid for being part of the system that is destroying Africa? What is their duty to us? Some people they say their duty is to preserve our culture and i [...]

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