Lemba people have long held that they are Jews by descent. In the 1990s and early 2000s scientists set out to determine whether this could be genetically substantiated.

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Many of the Lemba in Zimbabwe are Christians, while some are Muslims. Professor Tudor Parfitt of the University of London has spent 20 years researching the Lemba, and lived with them for six months.

From the period 1995-2000, the Lemba scion was also employed as a temporary lecturer by North West University while in 2001-2004 was engaged as a tutor in KwaZulu Natal University.

In official circles, the Lady of Lemba is a 36cm high limestone figurine, dating to the Chalcolithic period or some 3,500 BC. She is described as “a naked, pregnant woman with short ...

Professor Seremane said on Sunday this year's Lemba conference in Venda focused on the theme: "blood determines one's race, not the tongue". Seremane stressed that the tribe's oral history about ...

Lemba people did not orient themselves towards Israel. Instead they interpreted their genetic studies as proof that Jews were African and that Lemba people were, therefore, indigenous African Jews .

Lemba people did not orient themselves towards Israel. Instead they interpreted their genetic studies as proof that Jews were African and that Lemba people were, therefore, indigenous African Jews .

A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in this place. This isn’t Israel. It is Mapungubwe Hill, ...

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