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Ancestral Voices Bilingual Titles: Available Now!
For the first time in South Africa’s history mother tongue speakers of our official indigenous languages can learn about all aspects of their culture and history, in their mother tongue, as told and recorded by their ancestors in the 1930s and 1950s. These writings...
Preserving South Africa’s Heritage: Where are we now?
Ancestral VoicesAmazwi ooKhokho / Mantšu a Bagologolo / Marito a Vakokwana / Mantswe a Baholoholo / Maipfi a Vhomakhulukuku / Amazwi oKhokho / Mantswe a BagologoloThe most important Heritage preservation project currently underway in South Africa.In partnership...
The Ancestral Voices Project
We have described Ancestral Voices as the largest and most important heritage project of its kind currently underway in South Africa. How can this claim be justified?Until now most of South Africa’s history, seen from the perspective of indigenous language mother...
Ancestral Voices – The Largest Heritage Project of its Kind in South Africa
891 Indigenous Language Writings by 187 Authors These documents, written between 1930 and 1950 by mother tongue speakers of our indigenous languages are an entirely unique way of finding out about the past. At the time they were written, isiNdebele and Siswati were...
Heritage Month Readathon – Our Story: Siege of Mafeking
Heritage Month Readathon Our Story: Siege of Mafeking This siege took place at the beginning of what was then known as the Anglo-Boer war. For a long time it was considered a ‘white man’s war’, but was not, because it affected everyone who lived in South Africa,...
Ancestral Voices – Press Release 04 September 2020: Updated 12th October
891 Ancestral Writings in Indigenous Languages discovered by Heritage Publishers The Ancestral Voices project and campaign is a partnership between South African Heritage Publishers and the Special Collections Unit of the Department of Library Services, University of...
Ancestral Voices – Press Release 04 September 2020: Updated 15th September
891 Ancestral Writings in Indigenous Languages discovered by Heritage PublishersThis heritage campaign, in partnership with the Special Collections Unit of the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, and with unwavering support from City Press, is of...
Ancestral Voices – Rare Writings from our Forebears
SA Heritage Publishers, in cooperation with the University of Pretoria, has come across rare writings in seven of SA’s indigenous languages. The writings cover history, divination, traditional medicine, agriculture, and village and hut construction. Their translation...
Ancestral Voices – The Story of Bertie Ncaphayi
SA Heritage Publishers, in cooperation with the University of Pretoria, has come across rare writings in seven of SA’s indigenous languages. The writings cover history, divination, traditional medicine, agriculture, and village and hut construction. Their translation...
Ancestral Voices: South Africa Media Statement – 31st August 2020
At the start of Heritage Month 2020, South African Heritage Publishers, in co-operation with the University of Pretoria, are thrilled to make the following announcement about writings we came across during our research to identify historical events to be included in...
SA Heritage Publishers is proud to announce the publication of extracts from eleven new titles in partnership with City Press
Badimo ba hao u ba hopole kamehlaRemember your ancestors alwaysOn seeking advice from the respected sage Kgoshi Mohlommi, Kgoshi Moshoeshoe asked what he should do to become a respected leader of his people. The above statement was the last – and the South African...
200th Anniversary of key events
The next few years will see the 200th anniversary of several key events in our country’s past. The murder of Dingiswayo by Zwide ka Langa, the rapid response of Shaka, supported by Mzilikazi ka Mashobane’s Khumalo, in leading the Mthethwa army against the AmaNdwandwe...