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THE TRUE HISTORY OF NGUNI PEOPLE

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Bantu peoples (Ba-Ntu meaning people of Ntu) was fouded by Ntu a break away tribe of the great Nubian Empire also believed to be the true israelites from the bible are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.

History has it that the indigenous people of the south (of Africa) originated from the north in the forests along the Nile river in Egypt. According to oral historian Senzo “Maswidi” Mkhanyiseni Mbatha as far as he knows the first black person that we hear of is ‘Ntu’, the ancestor of all African people. The plural noun ‘abantu’ is a result of Ntu’s name being used in plural form to categorise his descendants.

Ntu was a descendant of Yeye of Godongwana, descendant of Hhamu of Ishmael otherwise known as Abraham who had fathered him to his slave Hagayi. Ntu and his offspring then spread towards the centre of Africa, towards countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and others. By this time they were already led by Mnguni the descendant of Gumede, who was a descendant of Qwabe who also descended from Lufenulwenja of Ntu. Through further movement they then separated into amaNguni and abeSuthu. On penetrating the South of Africa, abeSuthu divided into three groups i.e. abeSuthu of Mshweshwe, amaPedi and amaTswana.

AmaNguni divided into five groups, i.e. amaNguni, amaMbo, amaNtungwa Nguni, amaLala Nguni, amaDebe Nguni and amaThonga. All these were the descendants of the sons of Mnguni. A development of a new group of amaSwazi emerged from amaMbo. Under amaNtungwa a group of amaZulu emerged. Under amaDebe then emerged amaBhaca while amaThonga remained a separate group. AmaLala then gave birth to the Mthwethwa kinship group. The amaNtungwa Nguni were led by Luzimane of Mnguni when they came from these central African countries. They now inhabit areas like Babanango, Nkandla, Msinga, etc. Meanwhile amaMbo and the other groups moved along the coast towards the Bombo, Swazini, Ngwavuma, etc.

contrary to what is put out in the public about bantu people the is a false narrative that the bantu people imigrated to the south most of Africa the same time as early European colonisers.

this narrative is proven false by both evident remains and Archaeological finds all over Southern African sites,this Archaeology finds are both the same as such found all over other bantu ancient lands and date back as early as 857 bc.

The khoisan are believed to be the only true natives to Southern africa is both false and lacks evidence to back it up

The history of the Bantu-speaking peoples from South Africa has in the past been misunderstood due to the deliberate spreading of false narratives such as The Empty Land Myth.[3] First published by W.A. Holden in the 1860s, this doctrine claims that South Africa had mostly been an unsettled region and that Bantu-speaking peoples had begun to migrate southwards from present day Zimbabwe at the same time as the Europeans had begun to migrate northwards from the Cape settlement, despite there being no historical or archaeological evidence to support this theory.

The theory itself had been circulating in the colony for a long time propagated by European colonists, myths of empty and vacant land were common currency by the mid 1840s. 

The history of the Nguni people is captured in their oral tradition. They were a group of people who migrated from Egypt to the Great Lakes region of sub-equatorial Central/East Africa. They then followed the eastern part of southern Africa in their southward bound. About 2,000 years ago they entered what is now South Africa. Another larger wave of migration followed around 1400 AD. This migration happened about a 100 years before the Europeans rounded the Cape of Good Hope.

As they start to settle the Southern Africa, the Nguni people split off into the different group known today – the Swazi in the north, the Zulu towards the east and the Xhosa in the south.

Owing to the fact that these people had a common origin, their languages and cultures show marked similarities. At some point along their southward journey, they came in contact with San hunters Khoikhoi herders, which they conquered and absorbed the women and children into their tribes. From Khoikhoi and San, they inherit the “click” sounds that characterise their languages today.

Nguni tribes where formed after the great mnguni king Son of Ntu sought to avoid fighting for the throne and decided lands are to be shared and formed chiefdoms which led to each son getting a chief status Tshawe(Xhosa)(Nkosinkulu(Zulu),Ndwandwe(Ndebele),Ngwane(Swazi) .

as the current Zulu has more recorded history we will focus more on them

  1. Zulu people (/zuːluː/; Zulu: amaZulu) are an Nguni ethnic group in Southern Africa. The Zulu people are the largest ethnic group and nation in South Africa with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

list of Zulu Kings

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