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… She was keen on the children becoming proficient in Xhosa before receiving their Scottish education. On arrival …

… for his songs were written in a witty combination of Xhosa and English. As a jazz musician his most notable work …

… sought to restrict the University of Fort Hare to Xhosa speaking Africans and was to bring the university under …

… of the inquest people exclaimed “ kukudlala oku” which, in Xhosa, means “this is just a waste of time”, giving a clue as …

… apartheid’s early years, died suddenly. The family’s Xhosa domestic worker, Rosalina, stepped in not just to help …

… Dogter van die Zoeloe (The Daughter of the Zulu), the Xhosa text Lahliwe (Thrown Away), his short stories Matsiliso …

… in a dairy. He returned home to undergo traditional Xhosa initiation rites, returning to Johannesburg in 1929 … and was secretary of the Orlando Brotherly Society, a Xhosa cultural and mutual aid group. In 1940, Sisulu was …

… known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed … due to colonial expansion which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land and cattle among … posts and signal towers. Resistance from particularly the Xhosa was a cohesive one; other Xhosa ethnic groups …

… Ndebele , San , Lovedu, Zulu , Swazi, the Basotho and the Xhosa peoples. These were exhibited in Pretoria , …

… became known as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and … a systematic conquest of the Tembus, Pondos, Fingoes and Xhosa communities in what came to be known as the Transkei … invasion formed part of what came to be known as the Nine Xhosa Wars or Frontier Wars that spanned a hundred year …

… claiming that the Ndebele (a reference to the Zulu and Xhosa) were retarding the movement’s progress. As expected, … in Gauteng”¦ These complaints are from Zulu-speakers and Xhosa-speakers who are residents of the Transvaal. A call was …

… the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from hostile Xhosa and given to Thembu collaborators. Foremost among these …

… classes in Crossroads, she not only learnt to speak Xhosa fluently but also had first-hand experience of the …

… that were living there. We focus on the Khoikhoi, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Zulus and the Boers. We explore …

… when Khoi and San servants left the farms and joined the Xhosa in a rebellion against colonial rule, commonly known as … a buffer zone to prevent conflict between the British and Xhosa. Hence the inhabitants of the Kat River settlement were … However as a result of wars between the British and Xhosa in the settlement, by the 1840s the hard labour of the …

… the precipitation of the destruction of the precolonial Xhosa nation and their society. As a backdrop to this … event, it is critical to hold an understanding of Xhosa society prior to the influence that white colonialists had exerted on Xhosa institutions through their calculated actions …

… he started a paper, Indaba Zasemonti (East London News), a Xhosa-English weekly in which he lashed out at the injustices …

… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to … of the Eastern Cape Province. Today, the large majority of Xhosa people remain in the Eastern Cape Province. Many Xhosa …

… The words of the first stanza were originally written in Xhosa as a hymn. Seven additional stanzas in Xhoza were later … the apartheid years. The first stanza is generally sung in Xhosa or Zulu followed by the Sesotho version. Apparently …

… Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa initiation, which is referred to as ulwaluko. Two of … out, in conjunction with their roles as caregivers and Xhosa men, Xolani is challenged by the behaviour and taunts …

… Xhoza women smoking their pipes Image source The Xhosa tribes came from Central Africa and settled in the … about 500mm of rain during the summer growing season. The Xhosa loved drinking sour milk and sorghum beer. Millet is …

… was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The … needed land for their families and their livestock. The Xhosa believed that land was for the use of all the people. … also communal grazing land for everyone's livestock. The Xhosa's most precious possession was their cattle. Cattle …

… groups: namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana … (13.5%), Ndebele (2.1%), Sepedi/Northern Sotho (9.1%), Xhosa (16%), Venda (2.4%), Tswana (8%), Southern Sotho … such as antelope, birds and small animals. The traditional Xhosa menu is called “umngqusho”, which is made with samp …

… who had deserted the area due to attacks by the Khoi and Xhosa return. May, A peace settlement is reached between the … 700 men of the Cape Regiment drive an estimated 20 000 Xhosa people, men, women and children over the Fish River … establish 27 military garrisons along the River to prevent Xhosa people from returning and station more British troops …

… Town Journal argued in 1838, for example, that the Xhosa had been “the usurpers of the whole of the territory … and violence". The British were convinced that the Xhosa had only recently entered into the region and had taken … so the British had the right to take it by force from the Xhosa. The British based this belief on two observations they …