South African Culture, Customs And Practices Writ Large: Re-Morphed Cultural Renaissance Against Dysfunctional Existence

Mapunbwe Hill, whose material culture and customs and traditions within South African African Historiography should be grouped with the South African Negroid spectrum of peoples.

When Zulu women get married, they cover their bodies completely to let other know that she has a husband

A Mosotho man wearing his hat(Modianyewo), and also wearing a goat or cow skin(most times they wear a blanket because Lesotho on the top of the mountains is a cold place

Basotho women dressed in their Sotho cultural dresses, along with embroidery on their dresses and beads in their hands and necks

The Tsonga/Venda people who share an ancestry with the Nguni and Shangaan people, doing their dance in one of their cultural events

Xhosa Women in their traditional garb and smoking their pipes. The elegant beadwork on their pipes keeps the pipestems cool enough to handle

Xhosa woman wearing traditional Xhosa cloth of long skirts, embroidered with horizontal stripes and placed at varying intervals

Swazi people can be seen often clad in their traditional cloths "aMahiya", colorful beads and head decoration

Young Ndebele men have just finished their initiation stint wherein they were interned for two months and learning the responsibilities of a man

Shangaan Musha: Mambuaulela Makhubela & his Shangaan Drums Dancers performing in Park Station, South Africa

A Shangaan man sitting next to her hud and wearing his hair the traditionally Shangaan way, and a cloth and beads

Xhosa . This is called "Ithumbu" Xhosa Bead Blanket Pin or Cloak Pin- This beaded pin is referred to as a "Love Letter", is large and is considered a bead panel

Shangaan- Tsonga or North Sotho(Bapedi) mostly used for ceremonial and customary occasions by healers/Dingaka/Sangomas

Pedi Apron which is worn as front panels called "Gabi". These aprons are mede from leather, plant fiber and glass beads

Bottleslke this one are not curios, because they have specific usages. Its colors are popular with the Shangaan, the Pedis, and Tsongas and are popular to these clans