6/28/2023 0 Comments The Dead Will Arise by J.B. Peires![]() ![]() Brief accounts then follow of the main southern Nguni peoples (the Xhosa, Thembu, Mfengu and Mpondo) and of the northern Nguni and their offshoots (the Zulu, Swazi, Ngoni and Ndebele). The chiefdoms are handled regionally, mainly in terms of the Sotho-Nguni cultural divide, with the Sotho-Tswana element considered first - the Tswana chiefdoms of the Kalahari borderlands, the Pedi and groups with which they came into contact in the northern and eastern Transvaal, and the southern Sotho. In this chapter an attempt is made to set out the main characteristics of African political communities in southern Africa as they existed in the mid-nineteenth century, after the Mfecane and before their incorporation into the white political systems. ![]()
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