Xhosa people, the Glossary
The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people are a Bantu ethnic group native to South Africa.[1]
Table of Contents
133 relations: Africa, African Great Lakes, African National Congress, Afrikaans, Agglutination, Albertina Sisulu, Aloe, Amasi, Apartheid, Assegai, Bantu languages, Bantu peoples, Bantustan, Beef, Bhaca people, Bhele, Black Panther (film), Cape Town, Carmen, Cecil Rhodes, Chicken as food, Chiefdom, Christianity in Africa, Circumcision, Ciskei, Citron melon, Colony of Natal, ǀXam language, Desmond Tutu, Dowry, East London, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Edinburgh University Press, English language, Enoch Sontonga, Ethnologue, Famine, Female genital mutilation, Fengu people, Films and Publications Act, 1996, Free range, Free State (province), Gauteng, Georges Bizet, Govan Mbeki, Government of South Africa, Gqeberha, Griqua people, HIV, Hlubi people, ... Expand index (83 more) »
- Ethnic groups in South Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African Great Lakes
The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu; Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
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African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Agglutination
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.
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Albertina Sisulu
Albertina Sisulu OMSG (Nontsikelelo Thethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
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Aloe
Aloe (also written Aloë) is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants.
Amasi
Amasi (in Ndebele, Zulu and Xhosa), emasi (in Swazi), maas (in Afrikaans), or mafi (in Sesotho), is a thick curdled sour fermented milk product that is sometimes compared to cottage cheese or plain yogurt but has a much stronger flavor.
Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
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Assegai
An assegai or assagai is a polearm used for throwing, usually a light spear or javelin made up of a wooden handle with an iron tip.
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
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Bantustan
A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland) was a territory that the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of apartheid.
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (Bos taurus).
Bhaca people
The Bhaca people, or amaBhaca, are an Nguni ethnic group in South Africa. Xhosa people and Bhaca people are ethnic groups in South Africa.
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Bhele
Bhele people (or AmaBhele) are an African ethnic Nguni nation.
Black Panther (film)
Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
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Carmen
Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 185326 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
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Chicken as food
Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.
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Chiefdom
A chiefdom is a political organization of people represented or governed by a chief.
Christianity in Africa
Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians.
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Circumcision
Circumcision is a procedure that removes the foreskin from the human penis.
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Ciskei
Ciskei (meaning on this side of the river Kei), officially the Republic of Ciskei (iRiphabliki yeCiskei), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa.
Citron melon
The citron melon (Citrullus caffer), also called Citrullus lanatus var.
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Colony of Natal
The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa.
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ǀXam language
ǀXam (pronounced, in English as) is an extinct language (or possibly cluster of languages) from South Africa formerly spoken by the ǀXam-ka ǃʼē people.
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Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
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Dowry
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
East London, South Africa
East London (eMonti; Oos-Londen) is a city on the southeastern coast of South Africa, in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province.
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Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Kapa; Oos-Kaap) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Enoch Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (– 18 April 1905) was a South African composer, who is best known for writing the Xhosa hymn "", which, in abbreviated version, has been sung as the first half of the national anthem of South Africa since 1994.
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Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
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Fengu people
The amaMfengu (in the Xhosa language Mfengu, plural amafengu) were a group of Xhosa clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in the early-mid 19th century to seek land and protection from the Xhosa.
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Films and Publications Act, 1996
The Films and Publications Act, 1996 is an act of the South African Parliament.
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Free range
Free range denotes a method of farming husbandry where the animals, for at least part of the day, can roam freely outdoors, rather than being confined in an enclosure for 24 hours each day.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Gauteng
Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.
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Govan Mbeki
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki (9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001) was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961.
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Government of South Africa
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system.
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Gqeberha
Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Griqua people
The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous formerly Xiri-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
Hlubi people
The Hlubi people or AmaHlubi are an AmaMbo ethnic group native to Southern Africa, with the majority of population found in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
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House of Dlamini
The House of Dlamini is the royal house of the Kingdom of Eswatini.
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Inqawe
Inqawe is the Xhosa term for the traditional smoking pipe used among the Xhosa people.
Isidudu
Isidudu is a soft porridge made from ground corn known as mealie meal.
Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.
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Khoekhoe
Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ ''KOY-koy'') (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa.
Khoisan
Khoisan, or Khoe-Sān, is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen").
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.
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Lamb and mutton
Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.
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Languages of Zimbabwe
Many languages are spoken, or historically have been spoken, in Zimbabwe. Since the adoption of its 2013 Constitution, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, namely Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by over 70% of the population, and Ndebele, spoken by roughly 20%.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa.
List of fermented milk products
Fermented milk products or fermented dairy products, also known as cultured dairy foods, cultured dairy products, or cultured milk products, are dairy foods that have been made by fermenting milk with lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, and Leuconostoc.
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List of Xhosa chiefs
The Xhosa nation has two independent kingships, with the Gcaleka Xhosa, being the senior branch as the Great House of King Phalo kaTshiwo and the Rharhabe Xhosa, the junior branch as the Right Hand House of King Phalo kaTshiwo.
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List of Xhosa kings
The Xhosa are a nation from southern Africa.
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List of Xhosa people
This is a list of notable Xhosa people.
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Lobolo
Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, Shona and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi and Setswana, lovola in Xitsonga, and mamalo in Tshivenda), sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his family, undertakes to give to the head of a prospective wife's family in gratitude of letting the husband marry their daughter and for the brides family for raising her.
Mageu
Mageu (Setswana spelling), Mahewu (Shona/Chewa/Nyanja spelling), Mahleu (Sesotho spelling), Magau (xau-Namibia) (Khoikhoi spelling), Madleke (Tsonga spelling), Mabundu (Tshivenda spelling), maHewu, amaRhewu (Xhosa spelling) or amaHewu (Zulu and Northern Ndebele spelling) is a traditional Southern African non-alcoholic drink among many of the Chewa/Nyanja, Shona, Ndebele, Nama Khoikhoi and Damara people, Sotho people, Tswana people and Nguni people made from fermented mealie pap.
Mfecane
The Mfecane, also known by the Sesotho names Difaqane or Lifaqane (all meaning "crushing," "scattering," "forced dispersal," or "forced migration"), was a historical period of heightened military conflict and migration associated with state formation and expansion in Southern Africa.
Mielie meal
Mielie meal, also known as mealie meal or maize meal, is a relatively coarse flour (much coarser than cornflour or cornstarch) made from maize or mealies in Southern Africa.
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Military history of South Africa
The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time.
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Milk
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
Millennialism
Millennialism or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent) is a belief which is held by some religious denominations.
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Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
Mpondo people
The Mpondo People, or simply Ama-Mpondo, is a kingdom in what is now the Eastern Cape.
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Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Mutual intelligibility
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
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National anthem of South Africa
The national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining extracts of the 19th century Xhosa hymn "label" ("God Bless Africa") and the Afrikaans song that was used as the South African national anthem during the apartheid era, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" ("The Voice of South Africa"), with new English lyrics.
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nguni people
The Nguni people are a linguistic cultural group of Bantu cattle herders who migrated from central Africa into Southern Africa, made up of ethnic groups formed from hunter-gatherer pygmy and proto-agrarians, with offshoots in neighboring colonially-created countries in Southern Africa.
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Nguni shield
A Nguni shield is a traditional, pointed oval-shaped, ox or cowhide shield which is used by various ethnic groups among the Nguni people of southern Africa.
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Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
"" is a Christian hymn originally composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg.
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North West (South African province)
North West (Bokone Bophirima; Noord-Wes) is a province of South Africa.
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Northern Cape
The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone; Mntla-Koloni) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.
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Northern Ndebele people
The Northern Ndebele people are a Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa.
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Oliver Tambo
Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (27 October 191724 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician and activist who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
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Ostrich egg
The egg of the ostrich (genus Struthio) is the largest of any living bird (being exceeded in size by those of the extinct elephant bird genus Aepyornis).
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Phuthi people
The Phuthi people, (ebaPhuthi or BaPhuthi) are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group that form part of the Basotho Kingdom.
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Placental expulsion
Placental expulsion (also called afterbirth) occurs when the placenta comes out of the birth canal after childbirth.
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Qamata
Qamata is the most prominent God among the Xhosa people of South-Eastern Africa.
Raymond Mhlaba
Raymond Mphakamisi Mhlaba OMSG (12 February 1920 – 20 February 2005) was an anti-apartheid activist, Communist and leader of the African National Congress (ANC) also as well the first premier of the Eastern Cape.
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Rhodes University
Rhodes University (Rhodes Universiteit) is a public research university located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
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Ritual purification
Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.
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SABC
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public.
Samp
Samp is a food made from dried corn kernels that have been pounded and chopped until broken, but not as finely ground as mealie-meal or mielie rice.
Sap
Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant.
Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.
Sorrel
Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), also called common sorrel or garden sorrel, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Polygonaceae.
Sotho language
Sotho Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Southern Ndebele people
AmaNdebele are an ethnic group native to South Africa who speak isiNdebele.
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Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
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Swazi people
The Swazi or Swati (Swati: Emaswati, singular Liswati) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, inhabiting Eswatini, a sovereign kingdom in Southern Africa, and South Africa's Mpumalanga province.
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Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).
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The Click Song
Qongqothwane is a traditional song of the Xhosa people of South Africa.
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Thembu Kingdom
The Thembu (AbaThembu) are Xhosa people who lived in the Thembu Kingdom.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Transkei
Transkei (meaning the area beyond the river Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei (iRiphabliki yeTranskei), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994.
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha is a 2005 South African operatic film directed and produced by Mark Dornford-May.
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Ubuntu philosophy
Ubuntu (meaning humanity in Bantu) describes a set of closely related African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness of individuals with their surrounding societal and physical worlds.
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Ukuthwalwa
Ukuthwala is the South African term for bride kidnapping, the practice of a man abducting a young girl and forcing her into marriage, often with the consent of her parents.
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Ulwaluko
Ulwaluko, traditional circumcision and initiation from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people, and is commonly practised throughout South Africa.
Umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta.
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Umngqusho
Umngqusho is a South African dish based on samp and sugar beans, usually served with hard body chicken which is called umleqwa in isiXhosa.
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Umqombothi
Umqombothi, is a South African traditional beer made from maize (corn), maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water.
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University of Fort Hare
The University of Fort Hare (Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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UThixo
uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English.
Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
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Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
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Walter Sisulu University
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) is a university of technology and science located in Mthatha, East London (Buffalo City), Butterworth and Komani (Queenstown) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which came into existence on 1 July 2005 as a result of a merger between Border Technikon, Eastern Cape Technikon and the University of Transkei.
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Western Cape
The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, convicted kidnapper, politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela.
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Xhosa clan names
Iziduko (pl.) in Xhosa are family names that are considered more important than surnames among Xhosa people.
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Xhosa language
Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Xhosa language newspapers
This article focuses on the history of 19th century Xhosa language newspapers in South Africa.
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Xhosa literature
Xhosa literature is the spoken and written literature of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa.
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Xhosa Wars
The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars or the Kaffir Wars) were a series of nine wars (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa Kingdom and the British Empire as well as Trekboers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
Zulu language
Zulu, or IsiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa.
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Zulu people
Zulu people (amaZulu) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni.
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7th century
The 7th century is the period from 601 through 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
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See also
Ethnic groups in South Africa
- Bantu peoples of South Africa
- Bhaca people
- Coloureds
- Ethnic groups in South Africa
- Ethnic groups in South Africa by municipality
- Honorary whites
- Nigerians in South Africa
- Poko people
- Somalis in South Africa
- White South Africans
- Xhosa people
- Zimbabweans in South Africa
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_people
Also known as AmaXhosa, Amagqirha, History of the Xhosa people, Mpondomise, Rhadebe, Xhosa cuisine, Xhosa folklore, Xhosa peoples, Xhosa traditional foods, Xhosa tribes, Xhosas.
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