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A homestead (Xhosa: umzi) in southern Africa is a cluster of several houses, typically occupied by a single extended family and often with an attached kraal. Such settlements are characteristic of Nguni-speaking peoples. A house within a homestead is known as an indlu, plural tindlu or izindlu (Xhosa and Zulu).
The R409 is a Regional Route in South Africa.Its northern terminus is the R61 between Cofimvaba and Ngcobo.It heads south-east to Tsomo where it meets with the eastern terminus of the R352.
These were sometimes more than 75 m (246 ft) in length but generally around 5 to 7 m (16 to 23 ft) wide. Scholars believe walls were made of sharpened and fire-hardened poles (up to 1,000 saplings for a 50 m (160 ft) house) driven close together into the ground. Strips of bark were woven horizontally through the lines of poles to form more or ...
The town is predominantly Black and Xhosa-speaking.According to the 2001 South African census, the "main place" of Butterworth had a population of 45,900. Of these, 45,142 (98.4%) were recorded as "Black", 345 (0.8%) as "Coloured", 213 (0.5%) as "Indian or Asian" and 200 (0.4%) as White.
Luxury real estate was hot, hot, hot in 2024. As reported by luxury-lifestyle magazine Robb Report, the year's most expensive real estate deal was a $210 million California estate while the 10th ...
The preference of hogan construction and use is still very popular among the Navajos, although the use of it as a home shelter dwindled through the 1900s, due mainly to the requirement by many Navajos to acquire homes built through government and lender funding – which largely ignored the hogan and traditional styles – in preference for HUD-standardized construction.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Billy Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979. Paris Hilton watched her Malibu beach mansion burn down on live TV. The list of celebrities who ...
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