Born White Zulu Bred

Born White Zulu Bred
Author: GG Alcock
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2023-04-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1998958701

You may have read GG Alcock's books about the kasi economy; now follow his journey to the dynamic world of KasiNomics and learn about the tribal forces that shaped him. Born White Zulu Bred is the story of a white child and his brother raised in poverty in a Zulu community in rural South Africa during the apartheid era. His extraordinary parents, Creina and Neil Alcock, gave up lives of comfort and privilege to live and work among the destitute people of Msinga, whose material and social well-being became their mission. But more than that, this is a story about life in South Africa today which, through GG's unique perspective, explores the huge diversity of the country's people – from tribal Zulu warriors to sophisticated urban black township entrepreneurs. A journey from the arid wastes of Msinga into the thriving informal economies of urban townships. GG's view is that we do not live in a black and white world but in a world of contrast and diversity, one which he wants South Africans, and a world audience, to see for what it is without descending into racial and historical clichés. He takes us through the mazes of township marketplaces, shacks and crowded streets to reveal the proud and dignified world of township entrepreneurs who are transforming South Africa's economy. This is the world that he moves in today as a successful businessman, still walking those spaces and celebrating the vibrant informal economies that are taking part in the KasiNomic Revolution. GG's story is about being truly African, even as a white person, and it draws on the adventures, the cultural challenges, the informal spaces and the future possibilities of South Africa.

Learning Zulu

Learning Zulu
Author: Mark Sanders
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691191468

"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.

White Zulu

White Zulu
Author: Howard Whitehouse
Publisher: Zmok Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781945430350

Being a Memoir of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, including Hints on Piano Theft, Theatrical Costumery and Acts of Arson, in the Service of Queen Victoria, God Bless Her. Being a Memoir of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, including Hints on Piano Theft, Theatrical Costumery and Acts of Arson, in the Service of Queen Victoria, God Bless Her.A historical farce in the same vein as the Flashman books, White Zulu describes adventures and misadventures of Colonel Bagshot, late of her Majesty’s Hussars in the battles of Isandlwana and Rourke’s Drift. Solidly based in historical events, it plays on the “unseen events” of war to tell a tale in his retirement

Zulu Dog

Zulu Dog
Author: Anton Ferreira
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2002-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374392234

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White Zulu

White Zulu
Author: Fiona Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
ISBN: 9781786292537

Born in Durban in 1950, Fiona Ross grew up in the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal, one of four girls of a dysfunctional family in paradise. White Zulu tells her story in easy prose inviting the reader to ride the veldt, share her formative years with her wonderful Zulu nanny, Evalina, and share her family home with her imposing father, her headstrong mother and her sisters who constantly snipe as most sisters do.After sundry romantic adventures she finally finds her man, everything a parent could wish for. But it comes at a price, because eventually she will have to leave her beloved South Africa to emigrate to her husband's home in Scotland.White Zulu is an intimate portrait of South Africa and a girl growing into womanhood. It is a delightful read.

Some of My Best Friends are White

Some of My Best Friends are White
Author: Ndumiso Ngcobo
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

Some of my best friends are white is a collection of sharp, satirical essays on contemporary South African issues from the point of view of a successful corporate professional - who just happens to be Zulu. Crossing various controversial, amusing and downright confusing racial divides, the title delivers a healthy dose of black - and white - humour as it explores some of the rainbow nation's defining characteristics, its many colourful characters and its myriad mysterious idiosyncrasies.

The Eight Zulu Kings

The Eight Zulu Kings
Author: John Laband
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1868428397

In Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present. Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and Cyprian, to today's King Goodwill Zwelithini whose role is little more than ceremonial. In the course of this investigation Laband places the Zulu monarchy in the context of African kingship and tracks and analyses the trajectory of the Zulu kings from independent and powerful pre-colonial African rulers to largely powerless traditionalist figures in post-apartheid South Africa.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 578
Release: 1895
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Missouri Botanical Garden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1901
Genre: Botany
ISBN:

Publishes scientific papers along with the Director's report to the Board, and various other information about activities at the Garden.