The Nguni is a cattle breed indigenous to Southern Africa. A hybrid of different Indian and later European cattle breeds, they were introduced by pastoralist tribes ancestral to modern Nguni people to Southern Africa during their migration from the North of the continent. Nguni cattle are dairy and beef cattle.
The cattle breed is medium-sized and adapted to grazing on the highveld.
The Nguni is a cattle breed indigenous to Southern Africa. A hybrid of different Indian and later European cattle breeds, they were introduced by pastoralist...
the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Hlubi, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swati. The appellation "Nguni" derives from the Ngunicattle type. Ngoni (see...
complement at their dancing ceremonies. True Nguni shields are made of raw cattle hide, as the esteemed Sanga-Ngunicattle lend distinction to the shields, which...
2-3x (or 25%) more resistant than Ngunicattle.[citation needed] And F1 N'Dama × Nguni 16.5% is better than pure Nguni. While in Kenya research conducted...
Nguni may refer to: Nguni languages NgunicattleNguni people Nguni sheep, which divide into the Zulu, Pedi, and Swazi types Nguni stick-fighting Nguni...
The Nguni people are a linguistic cultural group that migrated to South Africa, made up of Bantu ethnic groups from central Africa, with offshoots in...
between production and product traits in subpopulations of Bonsmara and Ngunicattle". South African Journal of Animal Science. 31 (3): 181–194. doi:10.4314/sajas...
that time, in the 17th century, the Khoekhoen maintained large herds of Ngunicattle in the Cape region.[according to whom?] [citation needed]. They mostly...
could barely accommodate the long horns of his small herd of prized Ngunicattle, as they were led in by hand, in single file. The principal guardian...
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or almost mature cattle...
tending livestock. Cattle terminology in use among many Bantu pastoralist groups testifies that Bantu herders originally acquired cattle from Cushitic pastoralists...
breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. Cattle breeds...
in KwaZulu-Natal revered the Ngunicattle. By 1824, Shaka Zulu's royal cattle pen contained 7,000 pure white Ngunicattle. Similarly, when the original...
such as the Irish Moiled, the Blanco Orejinegro [es], the Berrenda, the Nguni and the Texas Longhorn. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007)...
beside the San people, who were hunter-gathers. The Khoikhoi had a lot of Ngunicattle and small livestock which they grazed around the Cape. The region was...
(/ˈzuːluː/; Zulu: amaZulu) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni. The Zulu people are the largest ethnic group and nation in South Africa...
centuries, the Nguni peoples are thought to have lived in scattered patrilineal chiefdoms, cultivating cereal crops such as millet and raising cattle. The current...
has recently been relegated to ceremonial use. Cowhide was used to make Nguni shields and the traditional skirt called the isidwaba. Men wore a calfskin...
inspired by the Xhosa and Zulu people of South Africa, who use the hide of Ngunicattle in their shields. Akers collaborated with American fashion designer Natalia...
work is primarily concerned with the breeding of indigenous Nkone or 'Nguni' cattle. These animals which originally came from Eswatini and Zululand were...
established the Cape Colony in 1652.: 101 Afrikaners share coancestry with the Nguni and Drakensberger breeds. They most likely diverged 655–960 years ago. Anecdotal...
Three powerful chiefdoms emerged in the series of wars that engulfed the Nguni states. The first was the Ndwandwe confederacy under Zwide, the second was...
do not occur in standard Shona. Ndau has a wealth of Nguni words as a result of the Gaza Nguni occupation of their ancestral land in the 19th century...
project devised to award cattle to poor farmers. Specifically, it was alleged that Matshoge had awarded herself 51 Ngunicattle, worth about R1-million...
of speciality being cattle. In 1997 she was awarded her PhD, her doctoral thesis was 'A Descriptive Study of the Sanga-NguniCattle of the Zulu People'...
Africa, and South Africa's Mpumalanga province. EmaSwati are part of the Nguni-language speaking peoples whose origins can be traced through archaeology...
history which greatly predates European colonization. Nguni people who migrated to the area brought cattle with them and Khoisan people had been raising indigenous...
Boer cattle remained. Among those surviving was a herd bred by one Cornelis Uys in the latter nineteenth century from Afrikander, Basuto, Nguni and Vaderlander...
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