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The earlier Xhosa Wars did not quell British-Xhosa tension in the Cape's eastern border at the Keiskamma River. Insecurity persisted because the Xhosa remained expelled from territory (especially the so-called "Ceded Territories") that was then settled by Europeans and other African peoples.
Ciskei (/ s ə s ˈ k aɪ, s ɪ s-,-ˈ k eɪ / səss-KY, siss-, - KAY, meaning on this side of [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Ciskei (Xhosa: iRiphabliki yeCiskei), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa.
The Xhosa culture has a traditional dress code informed by the individuals social standing portraying different stages of life. The 'red blanket people' (Xhosa people) have a custom of wearing red blankets dyed with red ochre, the intensity of the colour varying from tribe to tribe.
Smaller groups include Afrikaans, Sotho, and Xhosa speaking people. English is spoken primarily as a second language. Most of the population belong to Christian denominations. (Figures according to Census 2001 released in July 2003).
King Phalo was the last absolute ruler over a united Xhosa Kingdom, which is now split between the amaGcaleka and the amaRharhabe Xhosa branches. [2] According to Xhosa tradition, King Phalo had intended to marry two royal brides from two different kingdoms for whom he had paid lobola. However, one day he was caught by surprised when both ...
The Xhosa people had held out against colonial invaders for more than a century, longer than any other Southern African anti-colonial resistance. [1] With the Apartheid government's policy of re-tribalisation, and the creation of the Ciskei Bantustan, a political rivalry between the Rharhabe and the Fengu-who had traditionally been better educated and tended to hold salaried positions-arose.
"Galekaland" on a map of the Transkei Cape frontier 1875-1890. The Gcaleka House is the Great house of the Xhosa Kingdom in what is now the Eastern Cape.Its royal palace is in the former Transkei and its counterpart in the former Ciskei is the Rharhabe, which is the right hand house of Phalo.
Nongqawuse was born in 1841 near the Gxarha River in independent Xhosaland but close to the border of the recently established colony of British Kaffraria in Eastern Cape South Africa. [1] She was Xhosa. [2] Little is known of Nongqawuse's parents, as they died when she was young.