Article: Zulu rebellion century ago remembered in S. Africa

Article: Searching for family roots in beautiful, divided Lebanon; Roland ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  November 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... left it too late - there was no one in South Africa who could tell me about my sittoo ... Lebanon in 1899 or 1900 and come to South Africa as a 15-year-old bride. She died ... at the same time in 1969 as he did in South Africa. The family still lived in the town ...

Article: Out of South Africa; Theater preview: Master Harold ...
Seven Days;  July 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... actors rehearse a play set in South Africa a half century ago. The shade of the barn ... Mountains is nothing like that of South Africa. Well, it sure hasn't ... two black men imprisoned on South Africa's infamous Robben Island ...

Article: Various Gumboot Guitar: Zulu Street Guitar Music from ...
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2004 ;     530 words ... ... recordings were made in recent years) makes it especially pertinent. The guitar became a common instrument in South Africa about a century ago, and musicians began using it to play traditional Zulu melodies--the concertina followed shortly after ...

Article: SWAZILAND: CAUGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA'S IRON GRIP
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... GIN) -- The grip of South Africa's powerhouse economy is ... away by British colonists a century ago, and now depends on South Africa, which surrounds it on ... from economic dependence on South Africa, the opposite is happening ...

Article: A town like Alice; South Africa.(Ten years of ...
The Economist (US);  April 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... good, bad and ugly--of South Africa's first decade of democracy A QUARTER of a century ago, P.W. Botha, then South Africa's prime minister, ordered ... It is now ten years since South Africa became a proper democracy ...

Article: South Africa: seeing is believing. (the beauty of ...
Town & Country;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... recently returned from South Africa. But instead of being ... honeymoon. Honeymoon in South Africa? Had someone suggested ... to me a quarter of a century ago, I'd have raised ... Melissa's report: "South Africa has changed tremendously ...

Transcript: Zulu King Demands South Africa Grant Him Title ...
NPR Morning Edition;  March 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... NEAL CONAN, Host: In South Africa today African National ... land of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group ... the Zulus more than a century ago, incorporating their land into what is now South Africa's easternmost province ...