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 […]
history science
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 […]
history science
Inzalo y’langa at Mpumalanga, South Africa Come springtime, its harvest time. Plants blossom, people celebrate and embrace the sun after a very cold season. At my home we prepare traditional beer, we slaughter a goat or a sheep and we have our own traditional ritual […]
history introspection science
“Negroes should be more determined today than they have ever been, because the mighty forces of the world are operating against the non-organized groups of people, who are not ambitious enough to protect their own interests.” Marcus Garvey
economics history politics
“Yize sithi bamele izizwe zabo, kodwa okukhulu kakhulu bamele iSouth Africa”, said Dr Nomcebo Mthembu at the Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg in a ceremony presenting the Kings and Queens representing 12 cultural groups of South Africa; Pedi, Zulu, Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Thembu, Mpondo, Khoi San, […]
art
In any culture, spirituality is immanently tied with the modus vivendi of the people who embody the respective culture.
introspection opinion
Meditative is always our current state of mind, we are constantly evaluating our thoughts as we search for ideas that make us happy. We are no longer born into a life, we are born into story. We spend our lives looking for an accepted fairy […]
introspection opinion
Anything can be created from absolutely nothing and it all starts with having a vision of what you want to do.
introspection opinion
