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Cyril short story He is a revolutionary man. I appreciate his contribution to South Africa's history. http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cyril-matamela-ramaphosa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa was born in  Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew up in the South Western Native Township (Soweto), attending a local primary school and Sekano-Ntoane High School, Soweto. In 1971 he matriculated from Mphaphuli High School in Sibasa,  Limpopo . In 1972 he registered at the University of the North (Turfloop) for a BProc degree. He became involved in students politics and joined the  South African Students Organization ( SASO )  in 1972. In 1974 he served as the chairman of the branch. In the same year, he was chairman of the Student Christian Movement. After the pro-Frelimo rally at the University in 1974, Ramaphosa was detained for 11 months under section 6...

Chinese people in South Africa Chinese South Africans ( simplified Chinese : 华裔南非人;  traditional Chinese : 華裔南非人) are  overseas Chinese  who reside in  South Africa , including those whose ancestors came to South Africa in the early 20th century until Chinese immigration was banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1904, [2]  Taiwanese industrialists who arrived in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and post- apartheid  immigrants to South Africa (predominantly from mainland China), who now outnumber locally-born Chinese South Africans. Some history between them. Despite being a tiny minority in the country for most of its history, Chinese immigrants have been part of South Africa’s cultural heritage since the first colonists settled in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Maybe even further back than that. According to Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man, in their book...

vendas in south africa The  Venda  (Vhavenda or Vhangona) are a Southern African people living mostly near the South African- Zimbabwean border. The  bantustan  of  Venda  was created to become a homeland for the Venda people. The Venda people, like their  Tsonga  neighbours, are South Africa's minority groups, they currently number 700 000 speakers in  Limpopo Province , while the Tsonga at their doorsteps number 900 000 people, also in Limpopo province. Some history about the Venda's From 800AD, the Mapungubwe Kingdom emerged, stretching from the Soutpansberg in the south, across the Limpopo River to the Matopos in the north.  The Mapungubwe Kingdom declined from 1240 , and the centre of power and trade moved north to the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom. A shifting of focus to Zimbabwe's Khami and Rozwi empires followed, but the culture did not come to a standstill. South of the Limpopo Shona-Venda and Venda pottery styles developed in the 14th...