REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip up the Nhamunda River in Brazil The Nhamunda is thought to be the home of the legendary Indian tribe that consisted only of women & children - the Amazons The first Europeans to travel the length of the Amazon River maintained that they had been attacked by female warriors An account of the engagement appears in the chronicles of the Dominican friar Gaspar de Carvajal 1541 with the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana & about 60 countrymen Scholars have placed the engagement on the left bank of the Amazon most likely in the delta of the Nhamunda-But how much of the story is true Writer tells about various scholars & explorers who have delved into the legend The myths about tribal women are very ancient In classical Greek mythology the Amazons were formidable warriors Tells about the differences between the Greek Amazons & those of the Amazon Basin the Belgian ethnomusicologist Benoit Quersin Writer handled the logistics & Quersin the audiovisual end of the expedition They picked up legends & artifacts but no definite facts about the tribe of women living without husbands Near the end of the trip a villager told a story told by his father about the Amazon women who lived on the "serra" & did not like men The men in this village were descendants of the men who had been left behind by the Amazon women View Article While driving along the N4 Highway in the direction of the mall a motorist was hit by a car changing lanes On April 17 Mr Enoch Nhamunda was travelling in his red Audi A3 heading towards Highveld Mall when the accident happened he had been overtaken by a green Chevrolet bakkie which then immediately tried to change lane in order to get onto the off-ramp “The Chev was in the fast lane trying to turn onto the off-ramp near the police station that was when he collided with my car,” said Nhamunda Both drivers were reported to have sustained only minor injuries in the accident “The driver of the Chev said he would get back to me about the damages and the repairs to my car but hasn’t since the incident Police have since opened a case of reckless and or negligent driving regarding the accident which took place at the off-ramp https://www.citizen.co.za/witbank-news/91690/horrific-accident-claims-19-lives-emalahleni/ https://www.citizen.co.za/witbank-news/90919/accidents-n4-claims-two/