Anathi Ntozini and Hlonelwa Ngqangweni look at how gay Xhosa men experience traditional initiation. Ntozini and Ngqangweni argue that initiation does not accommodate gay men. In their work ...

This goes double for the Xhosa men that live in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Males between the ages of 18 and 20 undergo an initiation, whereby the don traditional robes and paint their faces in ...

Famous Xhosa people: Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Desmond Tutu and Brenda Fassie. Traditional attire: Young girls will be draped with ochre-coloured blankets; a tribal elder will walk past wrapped ...

As a chief from the Xhosa ethnic group ... cattle are slaughtered by a designated person who uses a traditional spear of the home or clan. If the cow, ox or bull that is slaughtered makes a ...

Three Xhosa residents proudly shared their way of ... they might get sick and do they prefer going to traditional healers instead of hospitals. Another traditional belief according to her is ...

Discussing Archie's name, Dewhurst also told BAZAAR.com, "The name Ntsika means pillar of strength and is a traditional South African Xhosa name picked by the local township gogos (grandmothers).