“The first of its kind”, said Officer Commanding Area Military Health Unit Lt-Col Yoliswa Senokwanyane, describing the meeting of state and tradition in honouring the late AmaXhosa king Zwelonke ...

Public conversations on the tradition of ulwaluko are usually centred on male oriented norms for circumcision. It israre to hear the conversation geared towards what ulwaluko actually means to black ...

Each year sees young men dying in the Eastern Cape during their initiation ceremony, but recent success stories from Matatiele village show this doesn’t have to be the case. During the past season, it ...

The Ndebele kingdom's king Makhosonke Mabena has hit out at the government for neglecting traditional leaders, saying some even died as paupers due to neglect. “The mere fact that King Sigcawu ...