Sbu ndebele biography definition
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I was born on Sunday July 4, 1948 in Johannesburg at Coronation Hospital. My mother, Regina Makhosazana Ndebele, uMaTshabangu, was a nurse there. 923 John Mohohlo Street, Western Native Township was my home where I became the third child and first son inmy family. We lived not that far from Coronation Hospital. It could have been as long as it took us to walk to Christ the King Anglican Church in Sophiatown. A busy main road and a tramline that ran parallel separated us from our more famous township neighbour.
My father, Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele, taught Arithmetic and isiZulu at the prestigious Madibane High School at Western Native Township. By many accounts, he was an outstanding teacher. On the many occasions that I met Archbishop Desmond Tutu, he would say to people: “his father was my teacher: an outstanding teacher!” On another occasion he wrote: “Your dad was a superb teacher. He taught me arithmetic in forms 1 to 3 and then Zulu in Matric. He held our attention wonderfull
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Introduction: A historian from Mafikeng
This article is the product of prolonged conversations with several colleagues, whom I would like to thank here. Neil Parsons and Jan-Bart Gewald first supported my use of Seetsele Modiri Molema’s papper in my PhD thesis and asked for a stronger engagement with the context of their production. This was reiterated bygd John Wright in the comments on my doctoral research he kindly provided me with. Discussions with Pierluigi Valsecchi and Carolyn Hamilton on the role of African intellectuals in West Africa and southern Africa enriched my perspective on a continental level. Sections on the figure of Seetsele Modiri Molema were presented at the ASCL in universitet in 2021 and to the doctoral students of the University of Pavia in 2023, and I thank the audiences of both occasions for their engagements and feedback. Exchanges with John Comaroff, Brian Willan, and Arianna Lissoni were crucial in reaching the precision required for this preliminary essay. T
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Northern Ndebele people
Bantu ethnic group in Southern Africa
This article is about the Matabele people. For other uses of the terms Ndebele or Matabele, see Ndebele.
Ethnic group
| Ndebele | |
|---|---|
| Person | liNdebele |
| People | amaNdebele |
| Language | siNdebele |
The Northern Ndebele people (; EN-də-BE(E)L-ee, -ay; Northern Ndebele: amaNdebele) are a Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Significant populations of native speakers of the Northern Ndebele language (siNdebele) are found in Zimbabwe and as amaZulu in South Africa. They differ from Southern Ndebele people who speak isiNdebele of KwaNdebele.
Regional classification
[edit]The Northern Ndebele language spoken by the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe is generally the same as the isiZulu language spoken by the Zulu people of South Africa with a few pronunciation and word meaning differences. Northern Ndebele spoken in Zimbabwe and Southern Ndebele (or Transvaal Ndebele) spoken in South Africa are separat