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The history of the Ndebele people begin with the Bantu Migrations southwards from the Great Lakes region of East Africa. Bantu speaking peoples moved across the Limpopo river into modern day South Africa and over time assimilated and conquered the indigenous San people in the North Eastern regions of South Africa.
KwaMhlanga is a town in the Nkangala district municipality of the Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th century. Kwamhlanga now consists of Kwamhlanga, Mandela, Phola, Sun City, Lithuli, Jordan, Mountain View, eMpumelelweni Village, Kingspark Village, and Tweefontein.
Northern Ndebele spoken in Zimbabwe and Southern Ndebele (or Transvaal Ndebele) spoken in South Africa are separate but related languages with some degree of mutual intelligibility, although the former is more closely related to Zulu. Southern Ndebele, while maintaining its Nguni roots, has been influenced by the Sotho languages. [1]
Nyabêla's ancestors probably moved from the southeast coast of Africa to the Highveld in the sixteenth or seventeenth century and settled near the later Pretoria. These people were later called the Ndebele of Transvaal. Nowadays we call them the Ndebele of South Africa. One of their chiefs, Ndzundza, moved to the Steelpoort Valley in Mpumalanga.
Ndebele People of Southern Africa or amaNdebele may refer to: Northern Ndebele people , an ethnic group native to South Africa and Zimbabwe Southern Ndebele people , an ethnic group native to South Africa found mostly in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), was a former and the first democratically elected president of South Africa, a Thembu (Xhosa ethnicity), one of the Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa. The year 1994 saw the first democratic election in South Africa, the majority of the population, Black South Africans, participating in political national ...
In the national population register the ones with Ndebele surnames will be counted among the Ndebeles. Beside the Tsonga speaking in South Africa, they are also a population of that speaks predominantly Zulu, however among the Zulu tribe it is well known that there is a great population of the Tonga people among them.
KwaNdebele 1981–1994 Flag Coat of arms Location of KwaNdebele (red) within South Africa (yellow). Status Bantustan Capital KwaMhlanga Common languages Southern Ndebele Northern Ndebele Sepedi History • Self-government 1 April 1981 • Re-integrated into South Africa 27 April 1994 Area 1980 1,970 km 2 (760 sq mi) Population • 1980 156,380 • 1991 404,246 Currency South African rand ...