"Unmarried males wear lion skins, cloths and bead ornaments. Married men wear lion skin and ... "Our language is a mixture of Zimbabwe languages, Venda, Zulu and Tsonga," Innocent Mashele says. "Most ...

I also do beads for weddings, and Venda, Tsonga, Ndebele ... Her wish is to one day open up her own bead factory, so she can create more jobs. “Opening a retail shop is another milestone ...

“Indololwane” (elbow in isiZulu) is probably a word you have never had to think about but, for Tsonga and Venda people, to know it and be able to say it can mean a safe walk home instead of ...

Defaced road signs, on which Venda village names are concealed under black spray paint and replaced with Tsonga ones in white paint, are a new sight around Bungeni village near Vuwani in Limpopo - ...

This dress provides an alternative to formal Western attire. Distinctive Tsonga beadwork features coloured geometric shapes on a white ground. The nxanga, a beaded belt associated with female ...

"They range from a traditional Tsonga fertility figure, to a modern bead cellphone rendered in beadwork." Iziko Museums of South Africa is proud of the seven-year collaboration to select ...

In another essay scholar Anitra Nettleton examines the beadwork produced by Tsonga-speaking women in Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

The presenter of the programme is Nndededzeni Ramushwana who was part of the first team of journalists to launch news in Venda. She is a journalism graduate from the then Technikon Northern Gauteng.