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- The Thembu (Xhosa: AbaThembu) are Xhosa people who lived in the Thembu Kingdom. AbaThembu likely settled in their present-day region in the Eastern Cape...
- Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa, Mandela was born into the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. He studied law at the University of...
- Ngubengcuka of the Thembu nation of Southern African Xhosas. Be that as it may, he was - and his fellow members of the Mandela branch of the Thembus' ruling royal...
- involved himself in Thembu and Transkei politics. Made paramount chief of the "Emigrant Thembus", a breakaway and sub-group to the Thembus, Mathanzima's support...
- Transkei region. Like other separate Xhosa-speaking kingdoms such as Aba-Thembu and Ama-Mpondo, they speak Xhosa and are at times[citation needed][clarification...
- king of the abaThembu people of South Africa since the late 1980s to present day. Dalindyebo is the son of the previous king of the AbaThembu King Sabata...
- English, Afrikaans Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups Pedi people, Tswana people and Lozi people, San people, Phuthi people, Thembu people...
- overlooked them, the strikers (among the main organisers was a 42-year-old, Thembu-origin Nelson Mandela) carried out their threats. The government countered...
- Religion Christianity, Zulu religion Related ethnic groups Xhosa, Swazi, Hlubi, Thembu people, Southern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele and Ngoni, San people...
- Linares and Duquende often incorporate overtones. [citation needed] Some Thembu Xhosa women of South Africa have a low, rhythmic style of throat-singing...