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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.
The Northern Ndebele people (/ ˌ ɛ n d ə ˈ b ɛ l i,-ˈ b iː l i,-l eɪ /; EN-də-BE(E)L-ee, -ay; Northern Ndebele: amaNdebele) are a Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Significant populations of native speakers of the Northern Ndebele language (siNdebele) are found in Zimbabwe and as amaZulu in South Africa .
isiNdebele dictionary, 1910. Northern Ndebele (English: / ə n d ə ˈ b eɪ l eɪ /), also called Ndebele, isiNdebele saseNyakatho, [citation needed] Zimbabwean Ndebele, [2] [4] Sindebele or North Ndebele, [5] [6] associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages.
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
The Southern Ndebele noun consists of two essential parts, the prefix and the stem. Using the prefixes, nouns can be grouped into noun classes, which are numbered consecutively, to ease comparison with other Bantu languages. The following table gives an overview of Southern Ndebele noun classes, arranged according to singular-plural pairs.
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 ...
Mthwakazi is the traditional name of the proto-Ndebele people and Ndebele kingdom and is located in between Sanyati river and Limpopo River in the area of today's Zimbabwe. [2] [3] Mthwakazi is widely used to refer to inhabitants of Matebeleland Province in Zimbabwe. [4]
The following is a list of Southern Ndebele people This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .