A TikTok video of SAPS officers singing igwijo is a show of unity went viral. Peeps were split as some loved the vocal performance while others criticised SAPS.

These wars culminated in the murder of King Sandile, the Xhosa king, in 1878—an act that marked the final destruction of Xhosa independence. Add to this the Cattle Killing of 1856–1857, a national ...

Language family that includes Swahili – BANTU This one might throw non-linguists. Swahili, Zulu, and Xhosa are all Bantu languages spoken widely across Africa. A tough clue if you’re not familiar with ...

That's because Tapi Tapi is no ordinary ice cream cafe. With a firm focus on rehabilitating the collective self-esteem of African people by sharing folk traditions, rituals and cultures through ...

In the hands of Abel Selaocoe, the cello transforms into something more than an instrument—it becomes a conduit for deep cultural dialogue, a bridge between history and the present, Africa and the ...

If Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has his way, most of South Africa's 11,000,000 Bantu (native blacks) one day will live in their own Bantustans—eight big isolated reserves in regions ...

In reality, Bantu-speaking peoples had been migrating into southern Africa for approximately 1,000 years before the Dutch arrived at the Cape in 1652. During the Boers’ inland movement into regions ...

8. Xhosa (South Africa) The Xhosa people are a Bantu ethnic group native to South Africa. They are the second-largest ethnic group in South Africa and have produced many prominent figures in politics ...

The famous Lovedale Press, started 200 years ago to publish books in Xhosa, is bankrupt. The press, in Edikeni in the Eastern Cape, published the first Xhosa Bible and the works of many celebrated ...