- The ama
Mfengu (in the
Xhosa language Mfengu,
plural amafengu) are a
group of
Xhosa clans whose ancestors were
refugees that fled from the
Mfecane in the...
- and
Limpopo (14,225).
There is a
small but
significant Xhosa-speaking (
Mfengu)
community in Zimbabwe, and
their language, isiXhosa, is
recognised as an...
- (South
African Ndebele)
Xhosa Zulu Note: **** (2009) also
lists S401 Old
Mfengu†. The
following aspects of
Nguni languages are typical: A 5-vowel system...
-
Dadoo Blade Nzimande Sechaba "Charles"
Setsubi Rob
Davies George Mashamba Mfengu Makhalima Brian Bunting Kay
Moonsamy John
Nkadimeng Esther B****l Charles...
-
included the Soshangane, Zwangendaba, Ndebele, Hlubi, Ngwane, Baca,
Zotsho and
Mfengu. A
number of
tribes fled to the
lands of King Faku of the
amaMpondo kingdom...
-
fragments from
tribes such as amaBomvana, amaVundle, amaMpondomise, and ama
Mfengu to
build his kingdom.
Nxekwa begot Hlanga by a
Mpondo woman of the Mqiha...
- to
break out,
particularly between the
Mfengu, the
Thembu and the
Gcaleka Xhosa. In 1877,
fighting between Mfengu and
Gcaleka tribesmen broke out at a festival...
- Muni****lity in the
Eastern Cape
province of
South Africa. In 1865, a
number of
Mfengu clans were
resettled in the area
around Nqamakwe. As
refugees from the Mfacane...
-
abandoning their outposts. The only
successful resistance was from the
local Mfengu people, who
defended their villages from the far
larger Xhosa forces. On...
- Cape,
South Africa. It was
inhabited primarily by the
Xhosa people of the
Mfengu clans, and was
located in the south-west
portion of the "Transkei" region...
