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Ntsikana's first contact with Christianity coincided with his customary Xhosa initiation in 1800. In 1799, Johannes van der Kemp, a missionary of the London Missionary Society, arrived among the western amaXhosa and was permitted to set up his camp near to Ngqika’s Great Place. Van der Kemp soon became an attraction both for the king and his ...
Xhosa (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə / KAW-sə or / ˈ k oʊ s ə / ⓘ KOH-sə, [5] [6] [7] Xhosa: [ᵏǁʰôːsa] ⓘ), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. [8]
Some historians argue that this early absorption into the wage economy is the ultimate origin of the long history of trade union membership and political leadership among Xhosa people. [ citation needed ] That history manifests itself today in high degrees of Xhosa representation in the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC), South ...
The Xhosa often called the "Red Blanket People," are Bantu people living in south-east South Africa and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country. Both the Ndebele of Zimbabwe and the Ngoni migrated northward out of South Africa in the early 19th century, during a politically tumultuous era that ...
uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English. It is often used as a reference to the divine being in the context of the Christian faith in Xhosa-speaking communities in South Africa. The term is often used to refer to the supreme deity in Christian theology.
Thembu was known as /Xam bu !e, /Xam and Embo people which makes /Xam bu !e in Xhosa it's Thembu, the O became U for bu. [4]. AbaThembu derives from /Xam ka !ue the meaning of /Xam is an Oryx or Antelope.
The amaMfengu (in the Xhosa language Mfengu, plural amafengu) are a group of Xhosa clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in the early-mid 19th century to seek land and protection from the Xhosa. These refugees were assimilated into the Xhosa nation and were officially recognized by the then king, Hintsa. [1]
Qamata is the most prominent God among the Xhosa people of South-Eastern Africa. Qamata is believed to be the creator of the heavens and earth. Qamata is the supreme and omnipresent God. In the spiritual or ancestral realm live those ancestors who ceased to be in the physical realm and are guardians of humans living on earth.