Let’s talk about that history: The Bantu migrations reshaped this land, just as the Mfecane/Difaqane scattered, conquered, and displaced. Key players—Dingiswayo, Shaka Zulu, Zwide kaLanga, ...

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.

History tells us that — until recently — genocide was rarely a political end in itself, even in the fiercest African warfare of Mfecane or Difaqane.

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 ...

It’s been that way around here since Difaqane days. What Jozi food is Before 1818, the Joburg-to-be area had plenty of communities eating home food, farming, herding, even smelting.

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 ...