If Julian Cobbing is right in his contention that the root causes of the mfecane lie not in
Zululand but in disruptive forces emanating from Mozambique and the Cape, then rethinking …

One of the most extraordinary features of the present assault on the Mfecane concept is the
self-induced amnesia exhibited by its proponents with regard to the historiography of pre …

A guide for interpreting the mfecane's role in history Was the mfecane a figment of historians'
imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu …

The 'mfecane'is a characteristic product of South African liberal history used by the apartheid
state to legitimate South Africa's racially unequal land division. Some astonishingly selective …

The “mfecane” was a notion that existed virtually unchallenged in the imaginations of large
numbers of people, including virtually all academic historians of southern Africa, from the …

The mfecane was for most of the twentieth century regarded as a historical certainty for the
South African public and the Apartheid government, as well as for historians here and world …

The success of Thomas Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa is already beyond question. 1
The book was widely and favourably reviewed when it first appeared in December 1991; it …

The so-called 'mfecane'has been explained in many ways by historians, but never
adequately. Julian Cobbing has absolved the Zulu of culpability for ongoing regional …

A school has no textbooks: the teachers are told “débrouillez-vous,” use the notes you took
as a pupil. The pickup truck breaks down and will go no further: the passengers realize they …

The accounts of the Difaqane written in all the major histories of South Africa are based on
three books which were written over fifty years ago: GW Stow, The Native Races of South …