It’s not too late for today’s leaders to draw inspiration from Mapungubwe, which, back then, penetrated global markets.
Posts tagged as “Mapungubwe”
Echoes of Mapungubwe – reimagining an epic civilisation
The SA National Parks recently hosted the annual Mapungubwe Lecture series at the Mapungubwe National Park in Limpopo. Celebrated artist and cultural activist Azah Mphago…
Land – ‘waiting for the older generation to die’
It is more like the government is applying an attritional theory of war against its own people, deliberately waiting out for the older generation to thin out of positions and die, leaving out the care free born-frees who are easily bought with modern day trappings of fast cars, posh houses, Abu Dhabi and Dubai trips, rented yachts and fat bank accounts.
Secrets in the Kruger soil hold key to a past before Mapungubwe
archaeologists say they have been finding some of the earliest evidence for sustained trade with the Indian Ocean world at the site “and some of the artefacts that we are finding predate Mapungubwe by about 400 years...”
Thulamela, why, oh why did its people leave?
The tragedy with history is that it offers so much yet still so little in answers to understanding the past. It’s a never ending process…
There is just no resisting the Kruger
In search of ruins, Lucas Ledwaba is bowled over by the beauty of baobabs and rugged landscape of the northern Kruger National Park.





