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BW Vilakazi
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African people, South African novelist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and author of Romantic poetry in the Zulu language. Vilakazi was also a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became the first Khoisan, Black South African to teach University classes to White South Africans. In 1946, Vilakazi also became the first Black South African to receive a PhD. Vilakazi Street in Soweto, which is named after the poet, is now very famous as the street where both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu once lived. Early life and education Benedict Vilakazi was born Bambatha kaMshini in 1906 at the Groutville Mission Station near KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Natal (now South Africa), the fifth child of Catholic Church in South Africa, Roman Catholic religious conversion, converts Mshini ka Makhwatha and Leah Hlongwane. His mother, Mrs Leah Hlongwane Vila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KwaDukuza
KwaDukuza is a municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2006, the municipal name was changed to KwaDukuza (which incorporates small towns such as Stanger, Balito, Shaka's Kraal, but the Zulu people in the area called it "Dukuza" well before then. The city has been under major economical construction since 2015, having built a multi-million rand regional shopping mall in 2018. History The city was founded about 1820 by King Shaka and was named KwaDukuza ( zu, Place of the Lost Person) because of the capital's labyrinth of huts. After Shaka was assassinated on 22 September 1828 during a coup by two of his half-brothers, Dingane and Umthlangana (Mhlangane), the city was burnt to the ground. In 1873, European settlers built a town on the site, naming it Stanger after William Stanger, the surveyor-general of Natal. KwaDukuza became a municipality in 1949 under the name Stanger and is the commercial, magisterial and railway center of an important sugar-producing district. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
