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Title: | The Ndebele Kingdom South of the Limpopo River |
Author: | Lye, William F. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 87-104 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Transvaal South Africa |
Subjects: | Ndebele (South Africa) history traditional polities Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/180297 |
Abstract: | The Transvaal period of the Ndebele kingdom has been strangely neglected, but this period has relevance to the development of a distinctive Ndebele polity. Accounts of travellers who visited Mzilikazi prior to his expulsion from South Africa by the Boers in 1837, e.g. the Rev. Robert Moffat, Dr. Andrew Smith - supplemented by the traditional history of the Ndebele, especially that preserved by Malida ka Mabuya, have provided material for this study which attempts to reconstruct the major events relating to the establishment of the Ndebele on the South African high veld to 1837, and to analyse the nature of the society which Mzilikazi organized up to that time. Parts of the article: Ndebele migrations to 1837 - The Ndebele political and military system - External relations of the Ndebele. Notes, figure. |