Traditional African villages rarely had perimeter walls. Emergency Villages had walls, watchtowers, trenches and spiked barriers though. Rounded huts symmetrically saw strong winds being ...

Free State Department of Human Settlements has promised to help the 75-year-old from Naledi village in Qwaqwa get a house ...

Ever wondered why traditional African huts were round and not any other shape, say, oblong? At the height of the State of Emergency, the colonial government not only created ‘Emergency Villages ...