uMabhengwane23 years ago, give or take a year, my father and brother and I are standing in the dust of KwaDukuza, watching the masses of humanity stream in to the inkundla. We merit some curious looks, and some interested comments, but for the most part everyone else is too busy sorting out their own imvunulo […]
This is a moon with three names – uMandulo, uMpande & iSokanqangi. andula – the herald, the harbinger, the rituals to bring about fertility, the kites wheeling like whirlwinds in the sky. this name was adopted after the accession of uMpande to the throne, as an isihlonipho. Before Cetshwayo’s father, youngest son of uSenzangakhona, acceded […]
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