This newly updated, comprehensive history of South Africa presents the country’s turbulent history in a fresh, readable narrative. Grippingly retold by leading historians and scholars under the ...
In the heart of a Cape cheesewood tree that had fallen among the stone walling of a forgotten civilisation is the story of one of the worst catastrophes ever to hit South Africa. This disaster ...
This article discusses one of the more debated topics in the history of South Africa over the XIX Century: the Mfecane period. The given name to the period and its meaning are a part of the debate, ...
Hundreds of thousands of people - possibly even a million or more - across southern Africa died from starvation and war during the 'crushing', the Difaqane or Mfecane, of 1816-17. One of the main ...