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This article focuses on the history of 19th century Xhosa language newspapers in South Africa.

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Xhosa language newspapers

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focuses on the history of 19th century Xhosa language newspapers in South Africa. The first Nguni language newspapers in South Africa were founded in the...

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Xhosa language

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Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately...

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Xhosa people

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in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language. Presently, over nine million Xhosa-speaking people are distributed across Southern Africa...

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List of Xhosa people

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the TBVC states List of Zulu people Xhosa clan names Xhosa language Xhosa language newspapers Xhosa people Xhosa Wars Ntantal, Phyllis. "John Knox Bokwe"...

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Xhosa calendar

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following is a list of timekeeping terminology in the isiXhosa language. The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names...

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List of newspapers in South Africa

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List of South African media Xhosa language newspapers South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF) Online newspapers published in South Africa South...

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Languages of Zimbabwe

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Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by only 42% of the population...

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Walter Rubusana

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Rubusana (21 March 1858 – 19 April 1936) was the co-founder of the Xhosa language newspaper publication, Izwi Labantu, funded by Cecil John Rhodes, and the...

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Fengu people

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The amaMfengu (in the Xhosa language Mfengu, plural amafengu) were a group of Xhosa clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in...

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Qonce

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union player was born here John Tengo Jabavu, founder of the first Xhosa-language newspaper in South Africa Griffiths Mxenge, anti-Apartheid activist Victoria...

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Thembu Kingdom

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The Thembu (Xhosa: AbaThembu) are Xhosa people who were living in the Thembu Kingdom. According to Xhosa oral tradition, the Thembu migrated along the...

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Zulu language

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Zimbabwe, where the Northern Ndebele language (isiNdebele) is closely related to Zulu. Xhosa, the predominant language in the Eastern Cape, is often considered...

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Languages of Africa

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neighbouring Bantu languages (notably Xhosa and Zulu) have clicks as well, but these were adopted from Khoisan languages. The Khoisan languages are also tonal...

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List of destroyed heritage

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peoples of the Cape, a major dictionary of the isiXhosa language, copies of historic Xhosa language newspapers, papers by Ray Alexander Simons, and archives...

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List of official languages

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Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu) Aja-Gbe: Benin (a national language along with Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe...

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John Tengo Jabavu

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School to become the editor of the institution's Xhosa-language journal, Isigidimi samaXhosa ("The Xhosa Messenger"). By the early 1880s Jabavu had become...

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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

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regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20th century. Mqhayi was born in the village of Gqumahashe...

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Archibald Campbell Jordan

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career with the publication of poetry in the newspaper Imvo Zabantsundu. He also started work on his classic Xhosa novel, Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (1940), later...

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History of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870

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1879. The wars were fought between the European colonists and the native Xhosa who, defending their land, fought against European rule. The Cape Colony...

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List of official languages by country and territory

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or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...

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Eastern Cape

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tribe that recognised the Xhosa Kingdom as Paramouncy became Xhosa, practiced Xhosa culture and used isiXhosa as their main language. Some of the tribes that...

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Bantu peoples of South Africa

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colonialists and the Bantu language speakers in Southern Africa. Firstly, as the Boers moved north inland from the Cape they encountered Xhosa, Basotho, and Tswana...

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Dutch language

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Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu using South African speech databases" (PDF), Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 23 (4): 459–474...

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Bantu peoples

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g. Xhosa umntu "person" abantu "people", Zulu umuntu "person", abantu "people"). There is no native term for the people who speak Bantu languages because...

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Imbongi

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An imbongi (plural iimbongi), or a Xhosa Praise Poet, is a member of the Xhosa community who performs ceremonial activities at important events. An imbongi...

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Afrikaans

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declares Afrikaans to be an official language of the province alongside English and Xhosa. The Afrikaans-language general-interest family magazine Huisgenoot...

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UThixo

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uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English. It is often used as a reference to the divine being in the context of the Christian...

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