This is a story of a hippo, a Kosi Bay fisherman and a buffalo thorn tree. It’s also about the erasure of these kinds of stories, and the people who animate them. Jerry Mngomezulu, now 68, was but a ...

A Thonga community on South Africa’s northeast coast is the custodian of a centuries-old fishing custom and its ecological knowledge with a light touch on migrating juvenile fishes. These fishers have ...

“That’s my house, there’s the hut where we speak to the ancestors, and that’s my father’s house next door.” Sthembiso Mdletshe is the son of the Mabibi community Induna, on the other side of the ...

Durban - “Clear The Mind” read the first of several carved signs as we descended the tree-lined track. A timely reminder after our long torturous drive, which included speed bumps galore after ...

Thonga: Bengali for paper bag, “used for grocery and other everyday shopping”. If this definition is being usurped by the thonga’s plastic brethren in Calcutta, London can now hold the eco-friendly ...

Same image published twice in 1898, then later in 1913. See #s 2166/1, 2221/1 & 1816/1. Note how attribution shifts from 'Ba-Ronga' to 'Thonga' ...