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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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Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:04:43 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese shop in Sophiatown. When Joe was three years old he left Johannesburg along with his mother, who was expecting her second child. They returned to Limpopo [...]

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Sindiwe Magona

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:53:56 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona earned her secondary and undergraduate education by correspondence, and later won a scholarship to study for her Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia University in the [...]

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Arthur Maimane

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:45:29 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Arthur Maimane was born on 5 October 1932 in Pietersburg. He completed his matric at St Peter’s College in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, which was also known as the Black Eton of South Africa. Oliver Tambo taught Maimane Maths before becoming a lawyer and president of the African National Congress (ANC). Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Father Trevor Huddleston also taught at St [...]

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