B. Peires, The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1982, x, 281, pp., plates, figures, maps, $ 27.50 cloth, $ 10.95 paper.Journal of Asian and African Studies. 1986...
Around 1.8 million people lived there in the late 1980s, and it was thought that Tswana people comprised 70% of that population. Other Sotho people, Xhosa, Zulu, and Shangaan, comprised the remaining 25%. In other parts of South Africa, there were another 1.5 million Tswana. ...
The people in ancient South Africa lived in extended families of less than one hundred and villages of between 500 and 1000 people. These made them live in small chiefdoms with leaders who settled disputes among themselves. The people of ancient South Africa were San, Xhosa, Zulu, Venda, Kala...
is the first of its kind on the history of the Ngqushwa region, part of the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape. It covers the history of the Xhosa from pre-colonial days up to 1994 and has many photos, paintings and images of the people, the Xhosa and the towns of Peddie and H...
One view of the dialects is that they resulted from differing missionary education policies in the nineteenth century. Sindebele is a click language of the Nguni group of Bantu languages; other members of this language group are Zulu and Xhosa, which are spoken mainly in South Africa; siSwati...
Sesotho was one of the first African languages to develop a written form and it has an extensive literature. English is the second official language, dating back to 1868 when Lesotho was placed under the British for protection against South African aggression. Zulu and Xhosa are spoken by a ...
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo, where his father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa (c. 1880-1928), served as chief. His mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s four wi...
In South Africa, for instance, all our advertising had to appear in not one, but three languages – English, Zulu and Xhosa. In the UK, we needed to replace ’s blue tin with plastic packaging when we realized that British people associated the aluminum tins with shoe polish. In cold co...
The capital city today, Gaborone, was built on a village site in the southeastern corner of the country at independence, near the borders of several of the Tswana polities that dominated the country. Demography. Botswana's population has grown from 600,000 people in 1971 to an estimated 1...
In the patriarchal clan system established by the West Zhou Dynasty,"family name and clan name"reflected the blood connection and noble or humble status of the people.That is to say"marriage depends on family names and social status depends on clan names".The whole system was replaced by the...