Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Hlubi chief Langalibalele was 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
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic, diplomat and politician, was born.
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CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1940 J. M. Coetzee, South African novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, was born.
Source: Britannica
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