The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...

Not to be divisive in these times of xenophobia and the Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki camps, but there is a popular belief that, much like Afrikaners, Zulu and Xhosa folk can’t be bothered to engage ...

South Africa’s powerful Xhosa and Zulu nations sealed an important union as Nelson Mandela’s great-grandnephew and King Goodwill Zwelithini’s daughter wed. The marriage ceremony of Tembu Chief Nfundo ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

Xhosa and Zulu nominals have restricted distributions when lacking an outer class prefix known as the augment. We argue that in negative contexts augmentless ([−A]) nominals bear negative concord ...

Big Xhosa was filled with gratitude after performing with Big Zulu. The pair previewed a song they worked on and will be dropping soon. The event took place at Carnival City in Johannesburg during the ...

The new Xhosa/Zulu reservoir has come to another halt. Tsakane- The metro has responded to our media inquiry about the latest delay of the completion of the Xhosa/Zulu reservoir. Senior media manager ...

South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves engaged in ethnic ...

Jochen S. Arndt received funding from the Social Sciences Research Council, American Historical Association, and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. The beautiful thing about ...

South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves engaged in ethnic ...