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

united the Thembu kingdom before it was subjected to British colonial rule. He was the proverbial author and finisher of the modern kingdom that it eventually...

Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo (1928–1986) was the ruler of the Thembu Kingdom. He was the son of Jongilizwe Sampu Dalindyebo. His rule was marked by conflict...

AD) Kingdom of Mthwakazi/Ndebele (1840–1895 AD) (Northern Ndebele people) Mafwe Chiefdom (pre 1851 AD–?/present) (NSM in Namibia) Thembu Kingdom (pre–1885...

Ciskei and Transkei region. Like other separate Xhosa-speaking kingdoms such as Aba-Thembu and Ama-Mpondo, they speak Xhosa and are at times[citation...

Madiba. His patrilineal great-grandfather, Ngubengcuka, was ruler of the Thembu Kingdom in the Transkeian Territories of South Africa's modern Eastern Cape...

buffer-zone, in response to reported tensions between Mpondo and neighbouring Thembu groups, and in 1875 a magistrate's office was opened. The first magistrate...

and AmaGcina AbaThembu Kingdom, causing the amaTshatshu to flee to Prince Maqoma for safety. The Paramouncy (AmaXhosa Kingdom), AbaThembu and AmaMpondomise...

African President Nelson Mandela, who belonged to a cadet branch of the Thembu dynasty which reigns as paramount chiefs in the Transkei. She wed Sobhuza's...

province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu. It was formerly also known as "Tamboekieland" or "Tambookieland". The area...