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List Of Xhosa People
This is a list of notable Xhosa people. Kings * King Zwelonke Sigcawu, Aa! Zwelonke! - King of the Xhosa nation in Nqadu Great Palace, Willowvale. * King Maxhoba Sandile, Aa! Zanesizwe! - King of the Rharhabe sub-group of the Xhosa nation in Mngqesha Great Palace, King William's Town. * King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, Aa! Zwelibanzi! - King of the abaThembu in Bumbane Great Place, Mthatha. * King Sabata Dalindyebo, Aa! Jonguhlanga! - King of the abaThembu and father to Buyelekhaya. * King Zwelenkosi Matanzima, Aa! Zwelenkosi! - King of Western Thembu in Qamata Great Place, Cofimvaba. * King Ngubengcuka, Aa! Ndaba! - Great King of abaThembu and great-grandfather of Nelson Mandela. Chiefs * Chief Sipho Mangindi Burns-Ncamashe * Chief Bhurhu kaKhawuta * Chief Langa kaPhalo * Chief Justice Thandathu Jongilizwe Mabandla * Chief Malashe ka Khawuta * Chief Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela * Chief Alphin Mbuso Mqalo * Chief Falo Mgudlwa * Chief Ngqeno ka Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xhosa People
The Xhosa people, or Xhosa language, Xhosa-speaking people (; ) are African people who are direct kinsmen of Tswana people, Sotho people and Twa people, yet are narrowly sub grouped by European as Nguni people, Nguni ethnic group whose traditional homeland is primarily the Cape Provinces, Cape Provinces of South Africa, however the skulls from Mapungubwe empire shows that they have always been in Southern Africa like their kinsmen and had developed a sophisticated culture as well as civilization. They were the second largest racial group in apartheid Southern Africa and are native speakers of the Xhosa language, IsiXhosa language. Presently, approximately eight million Xhosa speaking African people are distributed across the country, and the Xhosa language is South Africa's second-most-populous home language, after the Zulu, again we must qualify the former statement as in great countries like China, Xhosa and Zulu language would not be classified as different languages, rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malashe Ka Khawuta
Malashe ka Khawuta (born late 1700s) was the younger son of King Khawuta and a younger brother of King Hintsa and Chief Bhurhu.{{Cite web, url=http://www.sahra.org.za/sahris/sites/default/files/heritagereports/CHIA%20Final%20-%20Nqabara%20Lodge,%20Mbashe%20Municipality,%20EC.pdf, title=Nqabara Ecotourism and Volunteer Center, Mbashe Municipal District, Eastern Cape, last=VAN RYNEVELD, first=KAREN, date=2011-02-21, website=SAHRA.org.za, page=25, access-date=26 June 2017 As sub-chief of the Gcaleka, Chief Malashe was active in wars that Hintsa led the Xhosa nation in, functioning as Hintsa's advisor. Malashe's descendants still hold royal status and head a sub-section of the Xhosa nation in the Centane Centane, formerly Kentane or Kentani is a settlement in Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated at approximately from Butterworth. History Centane was the site of the battle of Centane o ... and Willowvale areas. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitembele Mzamane
Sitembele Tobela Mzamane (born 30 January 1952) is a South African Anglican bishop. He is a former Bishop of Mthatha, and although the first bishop to bear that title, he is the 10th incumbent, since the bishopric was previously known as St John's. Early life Sitembele was born in Ngxaza, Tsolo, Transkei in 1952. His mother was Cynthia Sylvia Nozipho Mzamane (née Dlwati) and his father Joab Cornelius Mhlangenqaba Mzamane who was an agriculturalist. Sitembele was married to Hazel Tobeka Mzamane (née Gobingca). His grand father Shadrach Mzamane was also an Anglican lay preacher in the Ngcele area. Joining the clergy After receiving a Diploma in Theology from St. Bede's College in Mthatha, Sitembele was ordained to the diaconate in December 1975 and the Priesthood in December 1977. Church ministry While Priest in Charge of St. Barnabas Manzana, he completed a Bachelor of Theology degree from the University of South Africa. In 1988 he was appointed rector of St. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zithulele Patrick Mvemve
Zithulele Patrick Mvemve (31 May 1941 – 6 July 2020) was a South African Roman Catholic bishop. Mvemve was born in Evaton, South Africa, and educated at St Martin de Porres High School in Soweto. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969; he served as titular bishop of ''Luperciani'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg from 1988 to 1994, and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Klerksdorp The Roman Catholic Diocese of Klerksdorp ( la, Dioecesis Klerkpolitana) is a diocese located in the city of Klerksdorp in the Ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg in South Africa. The second bishop of Klerksdorp was His Lordship, the Right R ..., South Africa, from 1994 to 2013. Notes 1941 births 2020 deaths People from Emfuleni Local Municipality 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Africa 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Africa Roman Catholic bishops of Klerksdorp Roman Catholic bishops of Johannesburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mtuze
The Revd Professor Peter Tshobisa Mtuze is a poet, priest and academic. He worked as an interpreter in the law courts of the old South Africa, a radio announcer, a salesperson for a publishing company, a civil servant in the homeland government structures, a lecturer at Unisa, an Editor in Chief of the Greater Dictionary of isiXhosa at Fort Hare, before joining Rhodes University as Professor and Head of the isiXhosa Department. Early life Mtuze was born on a farm in the district of Middelburg, Eastern Cape in 1941. He grew up in the districts of Middelburg and Cradock where he passed the then Junior Certificate and started working in the South Africa civil service as court interpreter clerk in various towns. He joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer, producer and translator at the King William’s Town studios in 1969. From 1971 to 1976 he worked for Via Afrika Publishers and from 1976 to 1985 he worked in the Ciskei Government Services in various c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malusi Mpumlwana
Malusi Mpumlwana is a bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church. Along with Steve Biko, he and his wife Thoko Mpumlwana were activists in the anti-apartheid Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. He is currently the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), spearheading its work to lead common Christian action that works for moral witness in South Africa, addressing issues of social and economic justice, national reconciliation, the integrity of creation, eradication of poverty, and contributing towards the empowerment of those who are spiritually, socially and economically marginalized. Malusi worked for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation The W. K. Kellogg Foundation was founded in June 1930 as the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg. In 1934, Kellogg donated more than $66 million in Kellogg Company stock and other investments to ... which is headquartered in the city of Battle Creek, in the state o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enoch Mgijima
Enoch Mgijima (1868 – 5 March 1928) was a Christian Xhosa prophet and evangelist. He formed his own church, known as the Israelites, a breakaway from the Church of God and Saints of Christ, and led them through a clash with the white Union of South Africa government, which left 163 Israelites dead, 129 wounded and 95 taken prisoner, in what became known as the Bulhoek Massacre. Personal life Enoch Mgijima, the youngest of nine children – five girls and four boys, was born in Bulhoek, 25 km southwest of Queenstown to parents Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima and MaKheswa in 1868. His father, a successful farmer, Jonas Mgijima, was among those Mfengu people who accepted land from the British in a buffer zone - Ntabelanga, or Bulhoek - in return for their support. Like many Mfengu families in the area, the Mgijimas adopted British ideas like wearing Western clothing, raising their children as Wesleyan Methodists and sending them to mission schools. Mgijima's brothers studied at Lovedale I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makhanda (prophet)
Makhanda , also spelled Makana and also known as ''Nxele'' ("the left-handed"), ( – 25 December 1819) was a Xhosa witch doctor. He served as a top advisor to Chief Ndlambe. During the Xhosa Wars, on the 22nd of April, 1819, he instigated an abortive assault on the town of Grahamstown, in what was then the Cape Colony. Life Makhanda was born near the coast around 1780 in the Uitenhage area. His father was a Xhosa named ''Gwala'' of the Cwerha clan and his mother was a Khoikhoi of the Gqunukhwebe clan. After Makhanda's father died when he was a young boy, he was brought up by his mother strongly influenced by her village's Khoi traditions. His mother was a spiritual diviner and medicine woman. Makhanda was later recognised as an ‘'inyanga,'’ which seemed rooted in the early guidance of his mother and her traditions. The Xhosa also particularly held the Khoikhoi and San spiritual guides in high esteem. His mother took him and his siblings to the Great Fish River Valley, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mata Dwane
James Mata Dwane (1848 – 1916), priest and founder of the Order of Ethiopia. Early life Dwane was born in Kamastone near Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, in 1848. He was educated and later taught at Healdtown Methodist Missionary Institution. At the mere age of 19, he decided to start a school in a nearby village and enrolled 60 learners whom he taught all he had learned. He then left for further education and formal teacher training at Healdtown Methodist Missionary Institution where he later served as a teacher. During this time, he became painfully aware of the difference in quality between white and black education. In an effort to advance his education vision he joined John Tengo Jabavu in a local newspaper in King William's Town as Co-editor for Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion). Methodist minister After a period as a lay minister, Dwane returned to Healdtown in 1872 to study theology. His studies completed, he began his work as a probationer minister by assisti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mvume Dandala
Mvumelwano Mvume Dandala (born 26 October 1951 as Mvumelwano Umdandalaza) is a former presiding bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and a former head of the All Africa Conference of Churches. He was the presidential candidate of the COPE in the 2009 South African general elections. Background Mvume was born on 26 October 1951, the son of the Reverend Killion Dandala, a Methodist minister in the small village of Dandalaville (named after his great grandfather), in Mount Ayliff in South Africa's Eastern Cape, the last born of four children. He was a pupil at Ndamase High School, near Umtata before attending the Federal Theological Seminary in Alice where he became the local chairman of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) where he was involved in the exploration of black and liberation theology and in developing programmes to assist communities with basic amenities such as dams, schools and clinics. 1980s He has an MA in Theology from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Knox Bokwe
John Knox Bokwe (15 March 1855 – 22 February 1922) was a South African journalist, Presbyterian minister and one of the most celebrated Xhosa hymn writers and musician. He is best known for his compositions ''Vuka Deborah'', ''Plea for Africa'', and ''Marriage Song''. As a young boy, Bokwe ran errands and worked for Dr. James Stewart's family. It was also in their house that he learnt to play the organ and the piano. In the same year Dr. Stewart took him into the general office of the Lovedale Mission as messenger, and later as his secretary, a post he filled until he left Lovedale in 1897. Meanwhile, in 1869, he was admitted into the mission's college department, where he was to remain until 1872. As an established writer, he joined John Tengo Jabavu in producing the newspaper Imvo Zabantsundu ("African Opinion") in King Williams Town. He played a role in the foundation in 1916 of what is now the University of Fort Hare (originally the South African Native College) in South-E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngqeno Ka Langa
Ngqeno ka Langa (about 1759 - 1 April 1846) was the chief of the ama Mbalu clan of the Xhosa Xhosa may refer to: * Xhosa people, a nation, and ethnic group, who live in south-central and southeasterly region of South Africa * Xhosa language, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa, principally spoken by the Xhosa people See als ... nation from 1794 until his death. Langa was the oldest son of Langa ka Phalo the founder of the amaMbalu Xhosa clan. Xhosa people Rulers of the Mbalu 1759 births 1846 deaths 18th-century monarchs in Africa 19th-century monarchs in Africa {{Africa-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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