The Difaqane/Mfecane was however much more than that - it was a social, political and military revolution amongst the Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa, the memory of which is still alive today.

N> Parsons, 'Prelude to the Difaqane in the Interior of Southern Africa, c.1600-1820', in C. Hamilton (ed.), Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History (Johannesburg, ...

Secondly, the notion of mfecane/difaqane, which is used to explain how the Ndebele and the Ngoni got “exiled” from their imaginary homeland, masks the impact of European expansion and its ...

Secondly, the notion of mfecane/difaqane, which is used to explain how the Ndebele and the Ngoni got ‘exiled’ from their imaginary ‘homeland’, masks the impact of European expansion and its brutality ...

This is linked, somehow, to the Mfecane or Difaqane war period, which scattered and indigenous groups throughout southern Africa. In a local twist on Romeo and Juliet, the drama plays off around a ...

The only time change has occurred in South Africa is in response to global events such as World War II. The country is once again facing such an event — Covid-19 — and will have to react ...

The only time change has taken place, it is in response to global events such as World War II. This government faces the changes that the Covid-19 pandemic will bring ...

Each of these eras had its massacres — just one example committed by each ruling elite are: the Difaqane/Mfecane (1820s), the Rand Rebellion (1922), Sharpeville (1960) and Marikana (2012). Each of ...

Analysis - 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 ...