A southern African tribe with tantalizing claims to an ancient Jewish heritage, the Lemba dispatched Parfitt on a journey of discovery that would take him halfway across Africa and into a remote ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

But now, visitors to the land are discovering that there is more than just the majestic animals in Pilanesberg. There’s its majestic people too. This is the homeland of the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela. THE ...

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