For most African societies in South Africa, the hallmarks of the nineteenth century were difficulty, conflict, dislocation, reorganisation and finally subjugation. The appearance of the Griqua north ...

In the heart of a Cape cheesewood tree that had fallen among the stone walling of a forgotten civilisation is the story of one of the worst catastrophes ever to hit South Africa. This disaster ...

Hundreds of thousands of people - possibly even a million or more - across southern Africa died from starvation and war during the 'crushing', the Difaqane or Mfecane, of 1816-17. One of the main ...