'Many of the women who contributed to our struggle for freedom are unknown, except as a numerical description, such as that “more than 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in 1956.' FILE: A ...

A newly launched book in Rosebank is offering a fresh perspective on one of South Africa’s most painful historical events. Dr Treive Nicholas’s In Search of Nongqawuse explores the tragic story of a ...

I read with great interest the Daily Maverick article dated 6 June by Dr JJ Klaas and felt the need to make my personal observations with regards to the Cattle Killing of 1856-1857, based on my ...

JOHANNESBURG - In the mid-1800s, a prophecy revealed by a Xhosa prophet, named Nongqawuse ultimately led to the slaughter of hundred of thousands of cattle. The story told was that the people believed ...

My book, Triangle of One Hundred Years Wars, provides a compelling African perspective which unravels the forgotten history of the Eastern Cape. It interrogates the longest unparalleled wars of ...

GRETA Thunberg is an adult now. She wasn’t when fortuity and a wide arch of coincidence cast her into the global spotlight that has since shaped her persona and brought in the renowned accolades. Her ...

Yesterday the DA suffered yet another blow of humiliation and disgrace. The modern day Nongqawuse, Mr. Mmusi Maimane, has once more showed the real reasons why DA hired him as the Leader of main ...

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Way back in 1858 Nongqawuse, a prophetess of the Xhosa tribe in South Africa had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by contaminated ...

"l am a simple African man doing my duty, in my own country in the context of our time." - AMILCAR CABRAL The history of philosophy is characterized by particular thoughts of philosophers. This ...