Entries (RSS) Tracks in a Mountain Range – Exploring the History of the uKhahlamba-Drankensburg
AOM Since the arrival of literate European settlers in what is now KwaZulu-Natal in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, numerous stories about the Drankensberg region have made their way into prints. But for every story which happens to have been written down, there are many that have not, and which are therefore unavailableto us in our aim to wanting to establish a modern-day understanding of the history of the Drankensberg .This applies especially to the stories told by the unlettered San hunter-gatherers and their forebears during the several thousand years for which they inhabited these mountains, and by the isiNtu-speaking black farmer who have lived in the neigbouring uplands forthe pastthousand years or so. |
