For most African societies in South Africa, the hallmarks of the nineteenth century were difficulty, conflict, dislocation, reorganisation and finally subjugation. The appearance of the Griqua north ...

Zimbabweans in SA are living in a perilous state of uncertainty as the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) system is due to come to an end in June 2023. There are reports of Zimbabweans, living and paying ...

In the heart of a Cape cheesewood tree that had fallen among the stone walling of a forgotten civilisation is the story of one of the worst catastrophes ever to hit South Africa. This disaster ...

Matiwane's road to Mbholompo : a reprieve for the Mfecane? Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

The office of a local ward councillor was petrol-bombed in the early hours of Wednesday 25 September. Simthembile Mfecane, councillor for Ward 85, was alerted to the attack on his office hours later.

The first ever Lifaqane-Mfecane Music Festival took place in Maseru, Lesotho on Saturday the 2 nd of May 2015. Organized by Ancestral Collective, a new nonprofit organization developed and structured ...

In his controversial analyses of African affairs, former president Olusegun Obasanjo often puts on scholarly airs on account of his experience in government. He had supervised an activist foreign ...

THE young Scot, Charles Maclean, heading north across the Tugela river in 1825, could scarcely believe his eyes. The heaps of human skulls and bones blanching the plains were sad monuments of the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people - possibly even a million or more - across southern Africa died from starvation and war during the 'crushing', the Difaqane or Mfecane, of 1816-17. One of the main ...