Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather ...

JOHANNESBURG - An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body's spirit. The state funeral for Nelson Mandela on Sunday will ...

Zulu warriors dance to honour South Africa’s late President Nelson Mandela on a hill above the graveyard within the Mandela family’s property in the village of Qunu where he was buried Sunday. [PHOTO: ...

Pretoria, South Africa: Thousands of mourners yesterday braved the morning chill and afternoon heat as they lined up for hours to view Nelson Mandela’s body. The remains of the late Mandela still lie ...

The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

John Trengove's hard-edged but beautifully wrought study of clashing Xhosa models of masculinity will be an eye-opener to outsiders — and some South Africans too. Ever more generously represented on ...

South African cultural traditions collided head on with modern sensibilities recently when a choirmaster in the Eastern Cape region had teenage schoolgirls give a seminude traditional performance that ...

When South African trumpet virtuoso Lwanda Gogwana released his second album Uhadi Synth (Lwanda Gogwana Music Group, 2016) last year, he reinforced his position not only as one of South Africa's ...

Initiation, or ulwaluko in Xhosa tradition, marks the transition from boyhood to manhood. Boys leave home for several weeks ...

SOUTH AFRICA’S official submission to the Oscars this year was a story of Xhosa youth “going to the mountain” to become men. The film, set at a traditional initiation school in the remote Eastern Cape ...