Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left Neo Magagula, Ntando Zondi, Senzo Radebe and Sibonile Ngubane in the forthcoming South African TV series Shaka iLembe.

(The Conversation) — The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced Shaka’s long-lasting fame abroad. (The Conversation) — ...

Shaka Zulu is one of the most famous figures in South African history, even though not much is actually known about him. The subject of a hit 1980s TV show and of many books, Shaka is reframed by each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A street sign in Durban, South Africa, named for the merchant who helped forge Shaka Zulu's fame abroad. Adam Rovner Gales tore at ...

Gales tore at the Mary's sails, and surf crashed across the brig's deck. Seventeen-year-old Nathaniel Isaacs tied himself to a railing to avoid being washed overboard. The Mary's rudder soon ...