A story of a young orphan girl and a catastrophic historic calamity… At the centre of this disturbing, ruinous tale is a young orphan girl whose intriguing spiritual prophecy “captures” her community, ...

DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille has come under fire for comparing lockdown consequences to the Xhosa cattle-killing movement which took place in 1856 in the Eastern Cape. In her criticism ...

I don’t know much about global warming, but I do know a little something about the dangers of precipitous action, especially when its advocates appear to be caught up in something akin to religious ...

The DA's federal chairperson Helen Zille has again criticised Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma for using the government's lockdown regulations for what she says is “control and authority”, exercising power “for ...

IN 1856 in what is today the Eastern Cape, a teenage prophet called Nongqawuse prophesied that the spirits had, in a vision, told her that her people should destroy their crops and kill their cattle.

Nongqawuse’s millennial prophecy was that the Xhosa nation must burn all livestock and crops as sacrifice so that the mighty Xhosa ancestral spirits will rise concealed by the strength of a mighty ...

On 30 May, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe is back in court, fighting against the people of the Eastern Cape. If Mantashe has his way, he will override their objections to ...

Johannesburg — WHILE the vocabulary of our politics has degenerated to the imagery of animals - Congress of South African Trade Unions leader Zwelinzima Vavi recently used the term "hyenas" to ...

The Heart of Redness By Zakes Mda Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24 A central character who returns to post-apartheid South Africa after a long exile sounds a trifle passé -- until you open ...