Venda people
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1500 CE to 2057 CE
The Venda (Vhavhenda or Vhavgona) are a Southern African people living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border.
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The powerful Tswana-speaking kingdom in the southern Highveld known as the Rolong had split, ...
...giving rise to the Tlhaping (BaTlhaping) and the Taung.
The Taung are named for a legendary military leader (Tau) among the Rolong.
The Taung are named for a legendary military leader (Tau) among the Rolong.
Several groups of Bantu-speaking immigrants from the north, known for their skill in smelting iron and in metalworking, had occupied the mountains along the Limpopo River.
This heterogeneous population has coalesced into a number of chiefdoms, known as the Venda, or VaVenda.
The Xhosa and white settlers first encounter one another around Somerset East in the early eighteenth century.
The Xhosa and related groups are the westernmost of the Nguni-speaking societies between the southern Highveld and the coast.
Well established by the time of the Dutch arrival in the mid-seventeenth century, the Xhosa occupy much of eastern South Africa from around the Port Elizabeth area to lands inhabited by Zulu-speakers south of the modern city of Durban.
Rivalries among Xhosa chiefs are common, however, and their society will be weakened by repeated clashes with Europeans, especially over land between the Sundays River and the Great Fish River.
Well established by the time of the Dutch arrival in the mid-seventeenth century, the Xhosa occupy much of eastern South Africa from around the Port Elizabeth area to lands inhabited by Zulu-speakers south of the modern city of Durban.
Rivalries among Xhosa chiefs are common, however, and their society will be weakened by repeated clashes with Europeans, especially over land between the Sundays River and the Great Fish River.
The Griqua, most of whom speak Dutch as their first language and had adopted Christianity, are one of several Khoisan-European populations in the interior in the eighteenth century.
A unique Griqua culture emerges, based on hunting, herding, and trade with both Africans and Europeans along the Orange River.
Afrikaner trekboers migrating outwards from Cape Town in the late eighteenth century had come into conflict with Xhosa pastoralists around the Great Fish River region of the Eastern Cape.
The Xhosas, after more than twenty years of intermittent conflict, are forced east by British colonial forces in the Fourth Xhosa War from 1811 to 1812.
The Xhosas, after more than twenty years of intermittent conflict, are forced east by British colonial forces in the Fourth Xhosa War from 1811 to 1812.
The Venda people come under the control of the Transvaal in 1898.