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Every case set in what is now South Africa, best-known first. Cities, states and old kingdoms count under the country that holds them today.

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Cases in South Africa

Best-known first. Each card opens the full cited case.

Cases
11
Years
1220 to 2021
Region
Africa
Main subjects
Egypt and Africa, Fame and fortune, Royalty, Modern estates
Updated
30 October 2026
Nelson Mandela: From Wash D.C. Longworth building October 4, 1994. Mandela's first trip to the United States.2013 · Qunu and Mvezo, Eastern Cape, South AfricaNelson Mandela's grandson moved three of Mandela's children's graves to his own village, and 16 relatives won a court order to return them to Qunu in 2013Three of Nelson Mandela's children were buried in the family graveyard at Qunu, his childhood village in the Eastern Cape: his daughter Makaziwe, who died as an infant in 1948; his son Madiba Thembekile, killed in a car accident in 1969; and his eldest son Makgatho, who died in 2005.mg.co.za and 4 moreAI illustration: Rhodes's grave on the granite dome of World's View in the Matopos hills, 19021902 · Muizenberg, Cape ColonyParliament cancelled the Kaiser's 15 Rhodes Scholarships in 1916, and Zimbabwean officials called for Rhodes's body to be removedCecil Rhodes signed his eighth and final will on 1 July 1899 and added codicils until March 1902. The will created 60 Oxford scholarships and left £100,000 to Oriel College.Internet Archive and 5 moreSolomon-linda: Solomon Linda in 1941 (color corrected version)1962 · Johannesburg, South AfricaSolomon Linda sold "Mbube" for 10 shillings, and his daughters seized Disney's South African trademarks to win a share of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"In 1939 Solomon Linda, a Zulu migrant worker, recorded "Mbube" in Johannesburg's first recording studio. He assigned his worldwide copyright to Gallo Record Company for 10 shillings.wipo.int and 4 moreAI illustration: The Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg2021 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe Zulu king's widow challenged his will as forged, and his successor's recognition went to South Africa's highest courtKing Goodwill Zwelithini ruled the Zulu nation for 50 years, had six wives and was sole trustee of the Ingonyama Trust, which holds about 2.8 million hectares of KwaZulu-Natal. He died on 12 March 2021.mg.co.za and 2 moreNelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela 19942013 · Pretoria and Qunu, South AfricaMandela's eldest daughter put his ID card, shirts and a Robben Island key up for auction in New York, and the state fought the sale to the Constitutional CourtNelson Mandela died in 2013, aged 95. He had spent 18 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island. In 2021 Guernsey's, a New York auction house, announced a sale of his belongings.Smithsonian Magazine and 2 moreConstitutionalCourtofSouthAfrica-20070622: The Constitutional Court of South Africa at Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.2002 · Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South AfricaSouth Africa's Constitutional Court made two Khayelitsha girls sole heirs of their father and struck down male primogeniture in 2004Vuyo Elius Mgolombane, a carpenter, lived from 1990 with Nontupheko Bhe, a domestic worker, in a temporary informal shelter in Khayelitsha.collections.concourt.org.za and 4 moreTzaneen tea plants: Tea plantation in Tzaneen, South Africa. August 2003.2001 · Nwamitwa, near Tzaneen, Limpopo, South AfricaSouth Africa's Constitutional Court upheld the Valoyi community's choice of Tinyiko Shilubana as its first woman Hosi in 2008Hosi Fofoza Nwamitwa, chief of the Valoyi traditional community in Limpopo, died on 24 February 1968 without a son.collections.concourt.org.za and 4 moreSol Plaatje 002: Photograph of Sol Plaatje from his 1915 book Native Life in South Africa.1913 · Orange Free State, near the Transvaal border, South AfricaUnder the 1913 Natives Land Act a farmer named Kgobadi was ordered off his land by sunset, and his baby died on the road and was buried at night in a stolen graveThe Natives Land Act, No. 27, was passed on 19 June 1913. It barred Africans from buying or hiring land in about 93 percent of South Africa and aimed to end sharecropping.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreDingane - 'Bulalani abathakathi' - 1897: Dingane got up and yelled "Bulalani abathakathi" ("kill the magicians") and the warrior immediately killed the Boer representatives. In rea1828 · KwaDukuza (Stanger), KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaDingane and Mhlangana killed their half-brother Shaka in 1828, and their brother Mpande took the Zulu throne with Boer help in 1840Shaka ruled the Zulu kingdom. In September 1828, while his armies were away, his bodyguard Mbopha and his half-brothers Dingane and Mhlangana stabbed him near his barracks at Dukuza. His body was buried in a grain pit.Internet Archive and 5 moreBarney Barnato00: Portrait of Barney Barnato (1852-1897)1897 · at sea near Madeira; Johannesburg, South AfricaDiamond magnate Barney Barnato went overboard from a mail steamer in 1897, a blackmailer shot his nephew Woolf Joel dead the next year, and his son inherited at twoBarnett Isaacs was born in London on 5 July 1852. He reached Kimberley in 1873 with about £50 and took the surname his brother Harry used there, Barnato. The brothers started the diamond firm Barnato Brothers in 1874.jewishencyclopedia.com and 4 moreUP rhino: Golden Rhinoceros at w:en:Mapungubwe Collection, SA1220 · Mapungubwe Hill, Limpopo, South AfricaMapungubwe's royal dead were dug up in 1933 and reburied on their hill in 2007, but the gold rhinoceros stayed in a university museumMapungubwe Hill was the centre of a state that archaeologists date to about 1220 to 1290. The elite lived on the hilltop.repository.up.ac.za and 7 more