The Cape Colony, also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa.
Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 10 million people and as a second language by another 11 million, mostly in South Africa, particularly in Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng, and also in parts of Zimbabwe and Lesotho. It has perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language, with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items contained a click.
Grahamstown is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about 110 kilometres (70 mi) northeast of Port Elizabeth and 130 kilometres (80 mi) southwest of East London. It is the largest town in the Makana Local Municipality, and the seat of the municipal council. It also hosts Rhodes University, the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court, the South African Library for the Blind (SALB), a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and 6 South African Infantry Battalion. Furthermore, located approximately 3 km south-east of the town lies the world renowned Waterloo Farm, the only estuarine fossil site in the world from 360 million years ago with exceptional soft-tissue preservation.
The amaMfengu was a reference of Xhosa clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in the early-mid 19th century to seek land and protection from the Xhosa. These refugees were assimilated into the Xhosa nation and were officially recognized by the then king, Hintsa. The term derives from the Xhosa verb "ukumfenguza" which means to wander about seeking service.
Dion Angus Forster is an academic and clergyman. He is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, a theologian and author. He was formerly the Dean of the Seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, John Wesley College. Prof. Forster was the International Chairman of the 'EXPOSED – shining a light on corruption' campaign. He is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics, with a focus on Public Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University. He serves as the Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology and the Chair of the Department or Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University.
Mhlobo Wabantwana Jadezweni is a South African academic and author. He has degrees from the University of Fort Hare and Stellenbosch University. He has been attached to the Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch University since 1983, where he teaches Xhosa literature and language, and studies isiXhosa poetry. He has served on various Xhosa language boards since 1984 and is chairperson of the isiXhosa Lexicography Unit at Fort Hare.
The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities and the only such university in Africa.
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi was a Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic, novelist, historian, biographer, translator and poet whose works are regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20th century.
The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people are a Nguni ethnic group whose traditional homeland is primarily the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They are the second largest ethnic group in Southern Africa and are native speakers of the IsiXhosa language.
Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp was a military officer, doctor, and philosopher who became a missionary in South Africa.
Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger is Le Professeur Distinqué; and a distinguished author, the Head of the Hebrew Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, a champion of Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and an acting Rabba.
Christopher Michael Zithulele Mann(1948 – 10 March 2021) was a South African poet.
Monica Wilson, née Hunter was a South African anthropologist, who was professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
Godfrey Isaac Malunga Mzamane was a novelist, literary historian, academic and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa.
James Mata Dwane, priest and founder of the Order of Ethiopia.
Nontsizi Mgqwetho was a South African poet, "the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa". Her poems were published in Umteteli wa Bantu, a multilingual weekly Johannesburg newspaper established in 1920.
Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe was a South African Xhosa music composer, teacher, principal, choir conductor and organist.
Randell Langa Peteni was a Xhosa South African novelist and academic, and author of the novel Hill of Fools, which was adapted for television by the SABC. The novel was Peteni's only novel.
Dianne Stewart is a South African author who has published over 40 books for adults and for children. She writes in English, and her books have been translated both into African languages, including Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, and Afrikaans, and European languages, including French, Spanish, and Swedish.
Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904–1980) was a choral music composer and the first black South African to write a symphonic poem, in 1941.
