The Xhosa traditional attire, called umbhaco, is made of heavy materials with colourful patterns and intricate beadwork.

The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather than hide from them. Laduma Ngxokolo founded MaXhosa Africa in 2010, basing ...

Dr Latozi Madosini Mpahleni, one of the last practising guardians of traditional Xhosa cultural music, has died. The 79-year-old died after a lengthy illness. A statement from her her family reads as ...

Three Xhosa residents proudly shared their way of life and what it means to them this Heritage Month. Lumka Bhetumani explained her culture is all about respect. “Life was somewhat different in the ...

Through MaXhosa Africa, Laduma Ngxokolo is redefining South African luxury fashion with Xhosa-inspired designs.

The world is a mosaic of cultures, given an increasingly homogenous form through the lens of social media. So if you are what you wear, and what you wear is mostly shaped by Western standards, how do ...

JOHANNESBURG — An ox is slaughtered, the deceased is wrapped in a lion skin and a family elder keeps talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson ...

Zulu warriors dance to honour South Africa’s late President Nelson Mandela on a hill above the graveyard within the Mandela family’s property in the village of Qunu where he was buried Sunday. [PHOTO: ...

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SOUTH AFRICA’S official submission to the Oscars this year was a story of Xhosa youth “going to the mountain” to become men. The film, set at a traditional initiation school in the remote Eastern Cape ...