It was very painful to go through,” one previous participant said of the traditional ceremony that designates the transition ...

Cultures are not static objects that once formed, remain intact forever. The very cultures practised today as if they are ...

This year’s circumcision ceremony where men between the ages of 16 and 26 undergo agonising ritual ceremony has ended in South Africa, with 39 deaths recorded and dozens others had their male organs ...

The 2025 summer Ulwaluko initiation ritual among the Xhosa people ended tragically with 39 boys dead. Illegal initiation ...

South Africans were amazed by a Pakistani national who spoke isiXhosa fluently. The man from Mthatha had clearly adapted to ...

African Shirts comments on another film from South Africa…U-Carmen eKhayelitsha which is a ” Xhosa language film based on Bizet's opera Carmen, and it won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film ...

Although the NMD HU Clear Aqua was inspired by the Xhosa culture, one of the largest tribes in South Africa, it will not be sold in the country, and South Africans are not happy.

In “A Young South Africa,” (at the NOW Gallery in London until November 19), work from six photographers and creatives document the diversity of style, talent and thriving subcultures among ...

Extent 1 Negatives (photographic) ( (silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.) 1 Photographic print ( (contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.) 1 Photographic print ( (dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.) Date 1947 ...