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PondolandRegion, Eastern Cape province, southern Republic of South Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It was settled at the end of the 16th century by the Pondo (Mpondo), a Bantu-speaking people. It was annexed to Cape Colony in 1894. It occupies a narrow strip from the coast to the interior plateaus in the west. The interior is rich cattle country with fertile farmlands. Pondoland an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In South Africa, members of Indlavini youth associations in 1930s Pondoland wore wide flapping bell bottom trousers to distinguish themselves from Christian converts who tended to wear pants with narrow legs. It is clear, though, that the people who settled in colonial Natal, particularly to the southwest, close to Pondoland, created beadwork that was markedly different from that in the Zulu kingdom. Qumbu was defined as a Mpondomise district, and so the magistrate "accordingly took steps to remove the Pondomise from Pondoland into my District," and vice versa. |
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