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Upon crossing mountains and rivers in South Africa, these farm-working agro-pastoralists brought their cattle and goats with them and absorbed the weaker San groups in the region. Xhosa oral history also mentions a historical settlement called 'Eluhlangeni' believed to have been in East Africa in which the Ngunis lived in for some time before continuing with their migration. The Xhosa people are descendants of Nguni people who migrated from North Africa to Africa's Great Lakes Region, eventually settling in Southern Africa. Īn illustration of a group of Xhosa people by Thomas Baines, illustrated in 1848 Origins This community is based on a diaspora that moved up from the Cape in South Africa upon the setting up of Rhodesia with Cecil Rhodes. There is a small but significant Xhosa ( Mfengu) community in Zimbabwe, and their language, isiXhosa, is recognised as a national language.

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Many Xhosa live in Cape Town ( eKapa in Xhosa), East London ( eMonti), and Port Elizabeth ( e-Bhayi).Īs of 2003, the majority of Xhosa speakers, approximately 5.3 million, lived in the Eastern Cape, followed by the Western Cape (approximately 2 million), Gauteng (671,045), the Free State (246,192), KwaZulu-Natal (219,826), North West (214,461), Mpumalanga (46,553), the Northern Cape (51,228), and Limpopo (14,225). The pre-1994 apartheid system of Bantustans suspended the Xhosa South African citizenship, but assigned them to have self-governing 'homelands' (native reserves), namely Transkei and Ciskei, now both a part of the Eastern Cape Province where most Xhosa remain. Presently, approximately eight million Xhosa people are distributed across the country, and the Xhosa language is South Africa's second-most-populous home language, after isiZulu, which Xhosa is closely related to. They are the second largest ethnic group in Southern Africa and are native speakers of the IsiXhosa language. The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people, sometimes referred to as the AbeNguni ( / ˈ k ɔː s ə, ˈ k oʊ s ə/ Xhosa pronunciation: ( listen)) are a Nguni ethnic group whose traditional homeland is primarily the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. Traditional African religions, Christianity

Xhosa (many also speak Zulu, English, and/or Afrikaans)

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