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A Nguni cattle herd of the Makhathini ecotype. The Nguni is a cattle breed indigenous to Southern Africa.A hybrid of different Indian and later European cattle breeds, they were introduced by pastoralist tribes ancestral to modern Nguni people to Southern Africa during their migration from the North of the continent.
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.
Nguni cattle roaming and resting on a beach, South Africa. Essentially they consumed meat (primarily from Nguni cattle , Nguni sheep ( Zulu sheep , Pedi sheep , Swazi sheep), pigs/boars and wild game hunts), vegetables, fruits, cattle and sheep milk, water, and grain beer on occasion.
Nguni may refer to: Nguni languages; Nguni cattle; Nguni people; Nguni sheep, which divide into the Zulu, Pedi, and Swazi types; Nguni stick-fighting; Nguni shield;
Such settlements are characteristic of Nguni-speaking peoples. A house within a homestead is known as an indlu , plural tindlu ( Swati ) or izindlu ( Xhosa and Zulu ). Wikimedia Commons has media related to umuZi .
The opening line describes nguni cattle as an indigenous breed but then says the breed is a hyrbid of indigenous and Indian cattle. Is this still indigenous? Brooksmith's 16:17, 17 February 2014 (UTC) Nguni cattle were always described as Bos indicus.
A Nguni shield is a traditional, pointed oval-shaped, ox or cowhide shield which is used by various ethnic groups among the Nguni people of southern Africa. Currently it is used by diviners or for ceremonial and symbolic purposes, [ 1 ] and many are produced for the tourist market. [ 2 ]
Nguni (especially Zulu) The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi , Mozambique , Tanzania , Zimbabwe , and Zambia . The Ngoni trace their origins to the Nguni and Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa .