I read with great interest the Daily Maverick article dated 6 June by Dr JJ Klaas and felt the need to make my personal observations with regards to the Cattle Killing of 1856-1857, based on my ...

A story of a young orphan girl and a catastrophic historic calamity… At the centre of this disturbing, ruinous tale is a young orphan girl whose intriguing spiritual prophecy “captures” her community, ...

DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille has come under fire for comparing lockdown consequences to the Xhosa cattle-killing movement which took place in 1856 in the Eastern Cape. In her criticism ...

I don’t know much about global warming, but I do know a little something about the dangers of precipitous action, especially when its advocates appear to be caught up in something akin to religious ...

Johannesburg — WHILE the vocabulary of our politics has degenerated to the imagery of animals - Congress of South African Trade Unions leader Zwelinzima Vavi recently used the term "hyenas" to ...

Nongqawuse’s millennial prophecy was that the Xhosa nation must burn all livestock and crops as sacrifice so that the mighty Xhosa ancestral spirits will rise concealed by the strength of a mighty ...

Among the many stand out performances at the festival is Standard Bank Young Artist 2021 award winner Thando Doni’s play, ‘Ngqawuse’, about the prophet Nongqawuse, whose prophecies led to the Xhosa ...

On 30 May, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe is back in court, fighting against the people of the Eastern Cape. If Mantashe has his way, he will override their objections to ...

Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe says opposition to Shell’s seismic survey off the Wild Coast is another "Nongqawuse moment" for the province. Speaking in his capacity as ANC chairperson, ...