Category : International

Julius Malema, in full Julius Sello Malema, (born March 3, 1981, Seshego township, South Africa), South African politician known for his fiery outspoken nature and...

British South Africa Company (BSAC, BSACO, or BSA Company), a mercantile company based in London that was incorporated in October 1889 under a royal charter...

Cetshwayo kaMpande also spelled Cetewayo, (born c. 1826, near Eshowe, Zululand [now in South Africa]—died Feb. 8, 1884, Eshowe), last great king of the independent...

Anglo-Zulu War, also known as Zulu War, decisive six-month war in 1879 in Southern Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus. During the second...

Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the...

King Hintsa was born in 1789 and died a painful and brutal death on the 12th February 1835 along the banks of Nqabara river (Lower...

Makhanda (sometimes called Makana), also known as Nxele (the left-handed), lived from about 1790 to 1820 and was a skillful Xhosa military leader, orator, philosopher,...

THE BAMBATHA rebellion was a Zulu revolt against taxation in Natal in 1906. It was led by Bambatha kaMancinza, leader of the Zondi clan, who...

The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga, and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two-thirds of South Africa’s Black...

After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands became known as the Batavian Republic and the...