The local population in Zimbabwe prior to the arrival of the Gaza Nguni are said to have come primarily from Mbire, near contemporary Hwedza.
this trip was a watershed moment to them as this was where they conceived the new name for the band, as train is translated as Stimela in Nguni languages.
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The Balete people, traditionally called the Bamalete, or baMalete, are a Southern African Tswana people of Nguni descent.
As the southern groups of Bantu speakers migrated southwards two main groups emerged, the Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Swazi), who occupied the eastern coastal plains, and the Sotho–Tswana who lived on the interior plateau.
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The Nguni use the Beehive house, a circular structure out of long poles, which is covered with grass.
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South Africa's Bantu speaking communities are roughly "divided" into four main groups: Nguni, Sotho–Tswana, Vhavenda and Shangana Tsonga, with the Nguni representing the largest group.
Two groups, the Jere under Zwangendaba and the Ndwandwe (both later known as Nguni) under Soshangane, swept through Mozambique.
Although the war lasted until 1864, and the capital of the kingdom was moved from the valley of the Limpopo River to Mossurize, north of the river Save, in the current Mozambican province of Manica, Mzila was gradually mastering the art of controlling the Nguni and its vassals.
The term primarily refers to the type of dispersed homestead characteristic of the Nguni-speaking peoples of southern Africa.
Other commonalities included a style skin cloaks called dikobo, dense and close village settlements larger than those of 'Nguni' peoples, and a tradition of building in stone in less grassy or wooded regions.