By the 1970s the mfecane had become one of the most widely abused terms in southern
African historical literature. Let the reader attempt a simple definition of the mfecane, for …

Olden Times in Zululand and Natal… depends primarily on tribal lore garnered during four
decades of exhaustive interviews with native elders.…[I] t is safe to say [Bryant's] work will …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …