Old map of the Eastern Cape, showing Thembuland (highlighted)
Country
South Africa
Elevation
600 m (2,000 ft)
Thembuland, Afrikaans: Temboeland, is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu, one of the states of the Xhosa nation.[1]
It was formerly also known as "Tamboekieland" or "Tambookieland". The area of Thembuland proper includes present-day Mthatha, Mqanduli, Ngcobo, Mjanyana, Dutywa and Willowvale as well as their surroundings.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tembu" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 577.
Thembuland, Afrikaans: Temboeland, is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu...
people during the reign of Ngxeko/Nxekwa, who united clans living in Thembuland into a single political entity, owing allegiance to the Thembu royal family...
also given the title of the chief of Mvezo by his relative, the king of Thembuland, as a further marker of the family's eminence. After being lost in the...
Western-style institution that was the largest school for black Africans in Thembuland. Made to socialise with other students on an equal basis, he claimed that...
May 2010) was a South African clan leader and ruler as king of Western Thembuland. He was the son of Mthethuvumile Matanzima and grandson of the former...
Rev. Soga, during the year that Madzikane was killed, Ncapayi entered Thembuland to avenge the death. The Thembus under King Ngubengcuka made an ineffectual...
now the magisterial district of Lady Frere. It is part of the Western Thembuland traditional kingdom. Natives Land Act, 1913 Land reform in South Africa...
to Butterworth, in Thembuland. The village of Cofimvaba was probably established in 1877 when the magisterial seat for Thembuland, (which had originally...
Mathanzima's grandson, King Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, ruler of Western Thembuland of Eastern Cape, died on 22 May 2010. "Mbeki hails 'ruthless' Matanzima...
chieftain of Mvezo under the authority of his relative the paramount chief of Thembuland, currently King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo. Spencer: the comital branch of...
"Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal". The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid...
p. 444) After many vicissitudes, the AmaBhaca Nation moved down into Thembuland where they attached the amaTshatshu and AmaGcina AbaThembu Kingdom, causing...
insult for someone of his stature so he sent his Right Hand Son Cebo to Thembuland to demand more cattle. When Cebo arrived at Mdandala's homestead to demand...
for someone of his stature, so that he sent his Right Hand son Cebo to Thembuland to demand more cattle. When Cebo arrived at Mdandala's homestead to demand...
magistrate to the Qwathi chief, Dalasile, and settled at Engcobo, in Thembuland. He married Alice Sarah Walker in 1883 and they had three sons and four...
instrumental in bringing a new formal schooling system to his region of Thembuland, fought and died in the rebellion of 1880–81, against the British and...
led by Madzikane. After many vicissitudes, the Bhaca moved down into Thembuland where they attacked the Right Hand House amaTshatshu, causing them to...
The Qwati and some of the Thembu clans launched their own revolts in Thembuland. While Basuto incitement did play a role, the causes of those rebellions...
Eventually there was agreement that she would be betrothed to Ngangelizwe of Thembuland as he was a Chief who was interested in Christianity. The marriage was...
was born on 30 March 1936 in Gubenxa, a remote village in the Ngcobo (Thembuland), Cape Province, Union of South Africa. The Mafeje isiduko (clan name)...
Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima (c. 1970–2010), traditional leader in Western Thembuland. George Matanzima (1918–2000), Prime Minister of Transkei from 1979 to...
rise to position of Councillor and his influence then expanded across Thembuland and further. He was a giant in physical stature and he was famous for...
with the official army of the Xhosa Kingdom and succeeded in seizing Thembuland. King Sarhili then set up his Great Place at Hohita, the capital of Xhosaland...
the 1929 general election, Bunting campaigned as the CPSA candidate for Thembuland, Transkei. Despite the large number of black voters in this constituency...
politician. (b. 1940) 22 May – Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, ruler of Western Thembuland. (b. c. 1970) 19 June – Nico Smith, activist and theologian. (b. 1929)...
1881. The medal and the Transkei Clasp were awarded for operations in Thembuland and Griqualand East, where the native Xhosa populations were particularly...
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