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Nguni cattle are known for their fertility and resistance to diseases, [1] being the favourite and most beloved breed amongst the local Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa (South Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Angola). They are characterised by their multicoloured skin, which can present many different patterns, but ...
Animal husbandry in South Africa has a long history which greatly predates European colonization. [1] [2] [3] Nguni people who migrated to the area brought cattle with them and Khoisan people had been raising indigenous varieties of sheep for thousands of years. European settlers introduced new varieties of livestock, many of which have become ...
European powers were seeking trade routes and railways, as well as more colonies. Germany officially claimed their stake in a South African colony in 1884, calling it German South West Africa until it was taken over in 1915. The first German colonists arrived in 1892, and conflict with the indigenous Herero and Nama people began.
The Nguni people are a linguistic cultural group of Bantu cattle herders who migrated from central Africa into Southern Africa, made up of ethnic groups formed from iron age and proto-agrarians, with offshoots in neighboring colonially-created countries in Southern Africa.
The term primarily refers to the type of dispersed homestead characteristic of the Nguni-speaking peoples of southern Africa.Although from the period of colonisation, European South Africans and historians commonly referred to the entire settlement as a kraal [nb 1], ethnographers [who?] have long recognised that its proper referent is the animal pen area within a homestead.
Pages in category "Cattle breeds originating in South Africa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Nguni cattle; S. Sanga cattle; T. Tulim
It docked in Cape Town to load feed for the cattle, the SPCA said. South Africa's Democratic Alliance political party, which governs Cape Town, also condemned the transport of live cattle.
The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swati. The appellation "Nguni" derives from the Nguni cattle type. Ngoni (see below) is an older, or a shifted, variant.