Below the fighting grounds, where Venda men in Tshifudi, South Africa, have long sparred and bled, boys congregate on a riverside. During seasonal rains the river flows swiftly but now in December, at ...

On a dusty field on the edge of Tshifudi village, men and boys gather to take part in a violent tradition going back nearly 200 years. The menfolk of the Venda tribes in the northern province of ...

POLOKWANE – He was one of the fighters who competed at the recent Phalaphala FM Royal Gardens Heritage Festival and King Toni Mphephu Ramabulana Fun Walk. During these festivities, Musangwe, a form of ...

Musangwe boxers are expected to exchange heavy blows during the annual Tshifudi Musangwe Tournament starting this Saturday. LIMPOPO – Musangwe Tournament, the bare-knuckled traditional boxing popular ...

It’s a cloudy but very hot Saturday afternoon at Tshifudi village ­outside Thohoyandou, about 200km northeast of Polokwane in Limpopo’s Vhembe district. More than 50 cars line up on the verge of the ...

A documentary maker has gone to court to stop a sacred vhaVenda custom from being broadcast on television in a format that depicts African people as backward. David Phume‚ the owner of Penthouse Media ...

Musangwe fighting is a nearly 200-year old fighting tradition of South Africa’s Venda tribe.