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Today's events for Dec. 7

The Post and Courier 06 Dec 2023
TODAY. A candle lighting will be held at 5.30 p.m ... today ... 11. The rain date is Saturday ... His topic will be History of Colonial America Part 3. The History of the Carolina Colony and McCormick County ... Friday at the Center for African American History, Art and Culture, 120 York St ... Batiks, Adire, Zulu and kente styles will be among the textiles on display ... N.
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Today's events for Dec. 6

The Post and Courier 05 Dec 2023
TODAY. A candle lighting will be held at 5.30 p.m ... today and Thursday ... 11 ... Dec ... to 4 p.m ... His topic will be History of Colonial America Part 3. The History of the Carolina Colony and McCormick County ... Friday at the Center for African American History, Art and Culture, 120 York St ... Batiks, Adire, Zulu and kente styles will be among the textiles on display ... N.
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Today's events for Dec. 5

The Post and Courier 04 Dec 2023
TODAY. A candle lighting will be held at 5.30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, at the historic Graniteville Cemetery. Candles and bags will be available at the GVW Fire Department from noon to 4 p.m ... 11 ... 9 ... S.W ... 3 ... Friday at the Center for African American History, Art and Culture, 120 York St ... Batiks, Adire, Zulu and kente styles will be among the textiles on display ... .
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Desire Marea’s Genre-Melting Music Stirs South Africa, and the World

New York Times 07 Nov 2023
The 32-year-old’s work in Zulu and English traverses styles and explores queer histories. This week he releases a new EP, “The Baddies of Isandlwana.” ... .
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South African Navy Naming Ceremony of Multi Mission Inshore Patrol Vessel

The Maritime Executive 03 Nov 2023
During the ceremony, the vessel was officially named SAS King Shaka Zulu ... The use of King Shaka’s name is significant as it stands as a symbol of strength, which will now live forever at sea, paying tribute to Zulu nation’s significant role in South Africa’s rich history.
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A quick guide on things to do in Mzansi this summer

Independent online (SA) 25 Oct 2023
To learn more about Zulu history and customs, you could visit the Shakaland Zulu Cultural Village, where visitors are encouraged to attend traditional ceremonies, meet inyanga (herbalists) and sangomas (healers), sample home-made beer and food and purchase handmade beaded art.
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Ancestral Star: Desire Marea Interviewed

The Quietus 09 Oct 2023
This deep connection with the spirituality of his Zulu identity comes alongside a fascination with the history of the Zulu people ... Even if Cetshwayo himself wasn't queer, Marea uses the title The Baddies Of Isandlwana as a defiant statement of queerness being a part of Zulu culture throughout its history.
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Obituary: Remembering Nothando Zulu, master storyteller

Pioneer Press 29 Sep 2023
Vusumuzi Zulu remembers the first time he met Nothando ... Nothando Zulu, the cofounder and president of the Black Storytellers Alliance, died Sept ... In 1976, she and a group of performers including Lou Bellamy, the founder of Penumbra Theatre, and Vusumuzi Zulu, who by that point was her husband, launched the Black Theatre Alliance.
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Best Grand Strategy Games Set in the Modern Era

Game Rant 26 Sep 2023
Picking the right units, skills, and upgrades, then rewriting history to become ...
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa

Economist 21 Sep 2023
What was not in doubt was that, in the chaotic and often bloody years of South Africa’s transition to democracy, he was the most powerful man in the Zulu nation ... The greatest moment in Zulu history was the rout of British forces, with assegais, in 1879 at the battle of Isandlwana.
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How Antiques Roadshow became The Antiques Guilt Trip: With its po-faced sermons about our colonial ...

The Daily Mail 20 Sep 2023
A visit to Powis Castle near Welshpool in May had Fiona Bruce (pictured in a 2021 promotional image) fretting about 'Britain's difficult colonial legacy', as she examined the Robert Clive collection, which has 'a controversial history' ... 'Occasionally on the Roadshow, we see items that shed further light on the history of the British Empire.
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Creatives must continue to tell the stories of South African people and history for nation-building, ...

Independent online (SA) 18 Sep 2023
“This spectacular and ambitious epic based on the history of King Shaka and the formation of the Zulu kingdom has become one of the most successful South African productions ... to craft stories and histories about South Africa’s people from their perspective and through their eyes.
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Photos Celebrating Indigenous South African Spirituality

Vice 18 Sep 2023
Despite being only a small proportion of the population, Europeans have had an overwhelming impact on South Africa’s culture and history ... I’d say my passions in life and my drive comes from a concern with the urgent matters of our time and how they relate to the history of marginalised communities.
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Desire Marea Details New EP, 'The Baddies Of Isandlwana'

The Quietus 15 Sep 2023
Researching this battle amid a personal quest for his own history, Marea started to contemplate the lives of the LGBT+ soldiers in the Zulu army.
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On memory, the Boipatong massacre and society’s shame

Mail Guardian South Africa 15 Sep 2023
So books of history, books of science and books of language are instruments to connect us to a world we never inhabited ... On the evidence, as I shall show later, these were Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa and Venda speakers ... It has been said before that these attackers were Zulu men ... Now, with the benefit of history, we know that this was manufactured nonsense.

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