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Xhosa |
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XhosaPeople living primarily in East Cape province, South Africa. They form part of the southern Nguni group of Bantu-speaking peoples. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the series of conflicts called the Cape Frontier Wars engaged the Xhosa against the European settlers. Eventually the Xhosa were defeated and their territory annexed. Between 1959 and 1961 the Xhosa inhabited the nonindependent black states of Transkei and Ciskei created by the white South African government. In the 1960s many Xhosa became migrant labourers. Today they number some 7.8 million. |
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| In addition to details of his arrest and imprisonment, return to power, and second marriage, the text relates the influence of Mohandas Gandhi, Xhosa tribe members, Winnie Mandela, and Steven Biko. Mbatha uses this process of remembering from 1880 forward to cover critical aspects of South African history, including colonialism, Christianity (his parents were kholwa/Christian), Nongqawuse's prophecy and Xhosa Suicide, the Anglo-Zulu war, apartheid (ubandlululo), Sharpeville, pass laws, and the TRC hearings. For their part, Zuma's supporters see a political plot to derail his presidential bid--a conspiracy against Zuma, an ethnic Zulu, hatched by the supporters of Mbeki, an ethnic Xhosa, and by the intellectual elite of the ANC. |
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