The colonisation of Africa and the subsequent apartheid regime that is entrenched in our south African history is partly to blame for the lack of knowledge around African healing, traditions and practices. In 2017, we are still faced with the misconception of what ‘muti’ is and what it is used…
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Serapeng Sa Basadi is a Co-Operative of women that is involve with and promotes food production by employing indigenous farming methods of inter-crop planting (companion planting). Their indigenous methods of farming are advantageous in that with inter-cropping they have no need for artificial pesticides as with the relevant know-how one…
Itumeleng Pooe of Megatong Nursery is contributing his vast knowledge on beekeeping that will be made available to the community through the newly founded Green Business College. This piece is a continuation from an earlier feature from Megatong; he expands from where he last left off plus people can now…
Indigenous metallurgists made metal objects through the forging of cold and hot lumps of metal into shapes – a process known as smithing. In another process metallurgists’ poured molten metal into pre-made shaped moulds, or patterns, to make objects. Gold, copper, bronze and tin were shaped into ingots, beads and…
Green Gold Ore in Rock Modern mines and mining processing industries, in the majority, are located in the same or similar places to where pre-colonial ones used to be. The modern copper mines in Phalaborwa and Musina in South Africa, the copperbelt of Zambia, the Ashante goldfields of Ghana, and…