Boreholes in Tzaneen have run dry, and 42 have been vandalised as villagers cry out for help during a drought. Mayor Pule Shayi says R45-million has been set aside to fix boreholes, but locals want ...

The Modjadji royal family members perform rainmaking rituals every October to plead with their ancestors for rain.

The Modjadji Traditional Council has suspended all male initiation schools to focus on Queen Masalanabo’s upcoming coronation.

The Balobedu residents in Modjadji outside Tzaneen in Limpopo have reacted with mixed feelings to the suspension of the initiation school ...

6 Kings and 6 Queens explores the intense contest for the Modjadji Rain Queen’s throne in the Balobedu Kingdom, a matriarchal monarchy led by women for over 200 years.

[WATCH] The only daughter of the late Balobedu queen Makobo Modjadji the sixth is ready to defend her right to ascend the throne. Chief Counsel Dr. Mathole Motshekga confirms that coronation ...

At the time, Queen Masalanabo Modjadji was a minor at 10 years old and could not legally ascend the throne. As a result, since the time of the recognition of the Queenship, His Royal Highness, Prince ...

These bouts of illness devastated the queen. “The queen is almost overpowered with some secret terror,” wrote Francis Burney, one of Charlotte’s attendants, in 1788.

Yet rather than intersperse the three periods, “The Queen of My Dreams” treats the earlier eras as extended flashbacks — an awkward structural choice. The fragmentation often seems to blunt ...