Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Hlubi chief Langalibalele is sentenced to life imprisonment and banishment to Robben Island after a widely criticized treason trial in colonial Natal.
PoliticsOn this day — February 9 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic, diplomat and politician, is born.
Birth
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1940 J. M. Coetzee, South African novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, is born.
Birth