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Vha-Venda
Total population
~2.5 million
Regions with significant populations
South Africa
[1][2]
Zimbabwe
[3]
Languages
Tshi-Venda
Religion
Christianity, Traditional African religion
Related ethnic groups
Makua people, Shona people, Sotho-Tswana peoples, and Kalanga people
Venda
Person
MuVenda
People
VhaVenda
Language
TshiVenda/Lu-venda
Country
Venda
The Venḓa (VhaVenḓa or Vhangona) are a Bantu people native to Southern Africa living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border. The Venda language arose from interactions with Sotho-Tswana and Kalanga initiates during the 15th century in Zimbabwe.[4]
The history of the Venda starts from the Kingdom of Mapungubwe (9th Century) where King Shiriyadenga was
the first king of Venda and Mapungubwe.[5] The Mapungubwe Kingdom stretched from the Soutpansberg in
the south, across the Limpopo River to the Matopos in the north. The Kingdom declined from 1240, and
power moved north to the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom. The first Venda settlement in the Soutpansberg was that of the legendary chief Thoho-ya-Ndou (Head of the
Elephant). His royal kraal was called D’zata; its remains have been declared a National Monument. The Mapungubwe Collection is a
museum collection of artefacts found at the archaeological site and is housed in the Mapungubwe Museum in Pretoria. Venda people share ancestry with Lobedu people and Kalanga people. They are also related to Sotho-Tswana peoples Sotho-Tswana and Shona groups. All these tribes were under the Venda kingdom.
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^Huffman, Thomas N.; Woodborne, Stephan (August 2021). "Implications of new AMS dates for the Khami Period in the Mapungubwe Landscape". South African Journal of Science. 117 (7–8): 1–5. doi:10.17159/sajs.2021/9438. ISSN 0038-2353.
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