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ArticleXhosa
… Nguni (the Zulu-speaking peoples), the Southern Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and … the eleventh century. Language,…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed … due to colonial expansion which in turn…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… became known as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and … a systematic conquest of the Tembus,…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… when Khoi and San servants left the farms and joined the Xhosa in a rebellion against colonial rule, commonly known as … a buffer zone to prevent conflict…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 5: Colonial expansion in South Africa after 1750
… that were living there. We focus on the Khoikhoi, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Zulus and the Boers. We explore …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… the precipitation of the destruction of the precolonial Xhosa nation and their society. As a backdrop to this … event, it is critical to hold an…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to … of the Eastern…
The National Anthem
… The words of the first stanza were originally written in Xhosa as a hymn. Seven additional stanzas in Xhoza were later … the apartheid years. The first…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… Xhoza women smoking their pipes Image source The Xhosa tribes came from Central Africa and settled in the … about 500mm of rain during the summer growing…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The … needed land for their families and their…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… groups: namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana … (13.5%), Ndebele (2.1%), Sepedi/Northern…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… who had deserted the area due to attacks by the Khoi and Xhosa return. May, A peace settlement is reached between the … 700 men of the Cape Regiment drive an…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Town Journal argued in 1838, for example, that the Xhosa had been “the usurpers of the whole of the territory … and violence". The British were convinced…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… of their rule, colonial forces were at work fragmenting Xhosa society for the purposes of acquiring land and making … Firstly, we get a degree of…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… clans that were the ancestors of the Nguni (today's Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele peoples) and Tswana-Sotho language … chieftaincies. The result was the…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… and defend the eastern frontier against the neighbouring Xhosa people, and to provide a boost to the English-speaking … came into conflict with, first, the…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… rule without a fight. When Gaika became chief of the Xhosa nation, unrest and tension on the eastern frontier … determined to maintain white domination over…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… groups; namely Nguni people which consisted of: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi, Sotho people which consisted of … Province and Gauteng Province. The second…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… first at the expense of the Khoikhoi and San , but later Xhosa land was taken as well. The Xhosa encountered eastward-moving White pioneers or ‘Trek … of…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… white residential areas. The Homelands were: Transkei -- Xhosa (given "independence" in 26 October, 1976) Ciskei -- Xhosa (given "independence" in 4 December…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… The newspaper was published in English, SeSotho, Zulu, Xhosa and SeTswana in order to attract wide readership and … Cleopas Kunene was the editor responsible…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… expanded along a frontier at the expense of the Khoikhoi, Xhosa, and other indigenous peoples, a process similar to the … came into conflict with, first, the…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… began to produce their first publications, initially in Xhosa, such as an elementary spelling book, some hymns, and a … main literary task was the…
ArticlePondoland
… is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. Pondoland area is situated on the …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… indistinguishable from the eight frontier war. 1857 The Xhosa cattle killing The catastrophe that befell the Xhosa following the decimation of their…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… or Fanakalo. Fanakalo is ‘the correct spelling in Zulu or Xhosa orthography’]. [1] In this essay, several factors about … mining operation can include…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… their control to the east, they also fought with the local Xhosa inhabitants. There were nine wars between the government and the Xhosa, called the frontier …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
… arrived in what we call the Eastern Cape - home to the Xhosa people. Conflict between the Trekboers, the British and …
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… languages mixed. That's why some Bantu languages, like Xhosa, have clicks similar to the Khoikhoi and San languages … the east coast of South Africa and are…