Mazisi Kunene

Mazisi Kunene

male, deceased (2006)
university of natal University of California, Los Angeles Zulu poet English durban … Zulu language
Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene (born May 12, 1930 - died August 12 2006) was a South African poet best known for his poem "Emperor Shaka the Great".... More
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

male, deceased (1947)
Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal Province Death from meningitis bantu linguistics stranger Zulu … Zulu language
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (January 6, 1906 - October 26, 1947) was a South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. In 1946, he became the first... More
John Langalibalele Dube

John Langalibalele Dube

male, deceased (1946)
anc Union of South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Province Anti-Apartheid activist Zulu natal … Zulu language
John Langalibalele Dube (1871 - 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was... More
Clement Martyn Doke

Clement Martyn Doke

male, deceased (1980)
poet South African linguist Zulu shona university of the witwatersrand … Zulu language
Clement Martyn Doke was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages. Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages... More

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

male, 68 years old
Columbia University poet South African Zulu apartheid English … Zulu language
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (b. 1940) is a South African poet. He has written in both Zulu and English. He studied at Columbia University. Mtshali... More
Edwin Cameron

Edwin Cameron

male
Gugu Dlamini Scottish South Africans Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford HIV-positive Maties … Zulu language
Edwin Cameron is a Rhodes scholar and Supreme Court of Appeal judge who was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was... More

Zulu Kantombela

male
Zulu Zulu king sky heaven Zulu language KwaZulu
Zulu kaNtombela, son of Ntombela kaMalandela, was the founder and chief of the Zulu clan from ca. 1709. In the Zulu language, Zulu means "heaven",... More

Anthony Traill

male
linguistics South African Zulu language Khoisan Tsonga language Tsonga
Professor Anthony Traill was a linguist (specifically a phonetician), who was the world's foremost authority on a San (more broadly, a Khoisan)... More
Joe Mafela

Joe Mafela

male, 66 years old
Sibasa 'Sgudi 'Snaysi television in South Africa Limpopo Province SABC Zulus … Zulu language
Joe Mafela (born 1942, Sibasa, Limpopo Province, South Africa) is a noted South African actor, writer, producer, director and businessman. Mafela... More

Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal

male, deceased (1990)
Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes bantu School of Oriental and African Studies Zulu missionary university of cape town … Zulu language
Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes (1919-1990), was a South African linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages. Ernst Westphal was born at... More