- The
amaMfengu (in the
Xhosa language Mfengu,
plural amafengu) are a
group of
Xhosa clans whose ancestors were
refugees that fled from the
Mfecane in the...
- out
between amaFengu and
amaGcaleka guests. This
escalated into a shoot-out
which eventually gave rise to Ngcayechibi's War. Many
Fengu people were citizens...
-
Motswana family in Boksburg. His father,
Zachariah Zelilo Tutu, was from the
amaFengu branch of
Xhosa and grew up in Gcuwa,
Eastern Cape. At home, the couple...
- the fore-front of the
great "Bantu Migration" from
further north. The
Fengu people,
whose name
means "Wanderers",
arrived in the area in the
early 1800s...
-
involved several groups of
mixed "Burgher forces",
comprising mainly Khoi,
Fengu and Boer Commandos, who were
recruited locally to
fight on the colonial...
- or
joined Shaka, but some
merged with the
amaNgwane.
Still others joined a
coalition of refugees, the
Fengu, who
settled on the
eastern frontier of the...
- har****ed the
Fengu in attendance.
Later in the same day,
Gcaleka attacked a Cape
Colony police outpost,
which was
manned predominantly by a
Fengu ethnic police...
- Wars and was
given to
colony settlers (west of the Fish River) and the
Fengu people (between the Fish and
Keiskamma rivers) by the
colonial government...
- the
Ciskei Bantustan, a
political rivalry between the
Rharhabe and the
Fengu-who had
traditionally been
better educated and
tended to hold
salaried positions-arose...
- had nine
wives including Nohuthe,
Nondwe of the
abaThembu and Bayo of the
amaGwali. His
first heir died in 1853 at the age of 12 and the next in line was...
