This article explores the formation of mounted frontier raiding groups of diverse origins in the
mountains of the north-eastern Cape Colony. It addresses concepts of creolisation, identity …

Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty
democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always …

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with
an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic …

If the authorship of rock art by particular groups is assumed, the very object under study can
unwittingly be falsely attributed. Our interpretations have largely failed to incorporate …

Over the last four decades researchers have cast the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains as a
marginal refuge for 'Bushmen'amidst constricting nineteenth-century frontiers. Rock art …

Remarkable similarities across colonial encounters where Africans believed projectiles
could be influenced by ritual practices (medicines, behaviours, observances) demand …

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling
sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth …

With a higher rate of literacy and mass-education in Zimbabwe, books on history have
become increasingly important. Previously history was orally transmitted, but today history …

ABSTRACT The north Eastern Cape is well known for its exceptional fine-line rock art.
Recently, two non-fine-line traditions have been identified in the high mountains of this …

In December 1996, Miss Sinqobile Mabhena was installed as chief to rule over the Nswazi
area of Umzingwane district in Matabeleland South. Twenty-three years old and the eldest of …