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Isolezwe is a Zulu-language newspaper launched in 2002 by Independent News & Media. It is published daily in Durban, South Africa, in the tabloid format. Editor Kiki Ntuli describes their target market as "the modernising Zulu ... [s]omeone who may go back home to the rural areas to slaughter a cow to amadlozi [the ancestors], but is as equally ...
IsiXhosa. Country. KwaXhosa. The Xhosa people, or Xhosa -speaking people (/ ˈkɔːsə / KAW-sə, / ˈkoʊsə / KOH-sə; [2][3][4] Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ⓘ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to South Africa. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language.
The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names of stars, plants, and flowers that grow or seasonal changes that happen at a given time of year in Southern Africa. The Xhosa year traditionally begins in June and ends in May when the brightest star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, Canopus, signals the time for ...
A newspaper for the "literary and religious advancement of the Xhosa" (September 1850), it was edited by J. W. Appleyard of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. The newspaper was published at Mount Coke (Wesleyan Mission Press), near King William's Town, Cape. It averaged four pages with editorials and news stories in English.
I'solezwe lesiXhosa became the country's only Xhosa newspaper when it was published on 30 March 2015, with the newspaper starting as a daily. It is now published weekly every Thursday and distributed in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, predominantly Mthatha, East London, King William's Town and Port Elizabeth.
King Ahlangene Sigcawu Aa! Vulikhaya!, King of all amaXhosa and leader of amaGcaleka, Nqadu Great Place, Willowvale. King Jonguxolo Sandile Aa! Vul'ulwandle!, King of the AmaRharhabe Xhosa, Mngqesha Great Place, King William's Town. Chief Sisanda Sipuxolo Burns-Ncamashe, Chief AmaGwali Traditional Council, Alice. Chief Langalivelile Mabandla Ah!
Vulikhaya (The-Current-Reigning-King). AmaRharhabe-Kings: Right-Hand-House. King Rharhabe KaPhalo , Prince Mlawu KaRharhabe , Regency-King Ndlambe kaRharhabe , King Ngqika KaMlawu , Prince Maqoma KaNgqika , (Also the Commander of the AmaXhosa-Armed-Forces – Aa!
John Bennie prior to leaving for the Cape Colony in 1821. John Bennie (1796–1869) was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and early Xhosa linguist. [1] In 1816 he became associated with the Glasgow Missionary Society while still in Scotland and [1] sailed to South Africa on the ship Woodlark as a catechist where he carried out his missionary ...