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 …

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 …

Faku was king of the Mpondo from around about 18 18 to 1867. Although there is not an
overwhelming amount of evidence for his reign up to the establishment of a Wesleyan …

Sekonyela's downfall is commonly attributed to his personal defects—to the love of war by
which he alienated his neighbours, and to the rough treatment by which he alienated his …

THERE can be little doubt that the new Oxford History of South Africa represents a major and
essential first step in the rethinking of South African history. While in the 1930s and 1940s …

This article attempts to assess the importance of Asante influence in the consolidation of the
Fante in the eighteenth century. It shows at the outset that mis-translation of Willem …

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 …

The purpose of this article is primarily to examine the relationship that emerged between the
Hurutshe, a Tswana-speaking community living on the western fringes of the southern …

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 …