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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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a child and adolescent in South Africa and being connected to the royal Thembu dynasty. His Xhosa birth name was Rolihlahla, which is loosely translated...
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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...
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2007, he was chosen as successor. Nelson Mandela had given up the right of Thembu leader nearly 70 years prior to fight white rule in South Africa. As the...
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English, Afrikaans Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups Pedi people, Tswana people and Lozi people, San people, Phuthi people, Thembu people...
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province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu. It was formerly also known as "Tamboekieland" or "Tambookieland". The area...
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ruling dynasty of the Thembu people; as a result, their leader has traditionally had a hereditary claim to both membership of the Thembu king's privy council...
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