As part of our Heritage Month coverage, this morning we get to understand the story of the Maqoma chiefdom. We speak to Ncedisa Maqoma who is speaking on behalf of Zukiswa Kona who is heir to the Maqoma chiefdom, but because of her gender, there has been resistance purely based on the fact that she’s a woman

Earlier this month the family was celebrating 149 years of his passing. Even though the issue of the chiefdom is in the courts, the current government has been honouring him. One of the recent honours bestowed on him is the renaming of a regiment of the SANDF after him. Ncedisa now joins us on the line to talk to us about the history and the issue around the high contestation of the chiefdom….

Guest: Ncedisa Maqoma – Daughter of the late Chief Lent Maqoma of the amaJinqi tribe in the old Transkei