The Ndebele in history
… has also been applied to the North Ndebele, originally a Venda-speaking group who settled in the Pietersburg area and … practice of polygamy may, in most cases, be explained in terms of a levirate, a social practice, used to ensure the … instigated by the Boers in 1864; the war against the Venda, the Boer retreat from the Zoutpansberg and the …